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A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Keep up the good work Theroadislong (talk) 10:40, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

wtf

y do u keep deleting my edits tf Horsesuckle (talk) 02:59, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

I've responded to your inquiry on your talk page. Thank you. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 03:03, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Vandalism Incident

Thank you very much for updating me. I hope to retire this as soon as it is all over; I had created it solely for the purpose of correcting the vandalism, and am frustrated by said warnings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThatThat92 (talk • contribs) 00:53, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

No problem! The system worked in this case as it was intended - that other person was blocked by an administrator, who investigated the situation and determined that they were the ones to be held responsible. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 00:59, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much for all your help. I will be retiring this account now, but I appreciate all that you have done to help. Feel free to delete this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThatThat92 (talk • contribs) 00:55, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

You're welcome. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 00:58, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for the help! ThatThat92 (talk) 00:57, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the compliment! Beauty School Dropout (talk) 01:00, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Rollback

I have granted the "rollbacker" permission to your account. After a review of some of your contributions, I believe you can be trusted to use rollback for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, contact me and I will remove it. Good luck and thanks. – Gilliam (talk) 02:02, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! Yes, I truly am enjoying my Wikipedia experience and would be pleased to learn the rollback lingo and software (if there is any to install or use.) Thanks! Beauty School Dropout (talk) 02:04, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Many rollbackers use WP:HUGGLE or Wikipedia:STiki but personally I prefer to use the older User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool. You can enable WP:TWINKLE in your Preferences under Gadgets, which allows you to choose from many semi-automated different vandalism warnings to post on vandals' talk pages. Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions, and I'll do my best to answer.– Gilliam (talk) 02:14, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello Beauty School Dropout, thanks for removing your warnings on that IP editor, however I'd like to remind you that rollback is really only for obvious vandalism. Please keep that in mind in the future. Thanks! Happy editing!--Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 03:10, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Absolutely! And I genuinely appreciate your input because I am brand-new at this Wikipedia rollback experience. I am totally open and receptive to any level of analysis or evaluation of my Wikipedia actions. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 03:17, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Any time! Thanks for the Barnstar . Also its nice to see another ASL savvy wikipedian. --Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 03:49, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Franceska Mann edit

Hi, I saw my Franceska Mann edit was reverted, and am asking why that was done. Different accounts indeed place the incident in different locations, with Ber Mark's Scrolls of Auschwitz as an example of a source placing it at the selection ramp instead of the gas chamber, while this survivor's testimony places the incident at a work area of Auschwitz, albeit I find that version to be definitely not the truth what happened, given how it seemed Schillinger was the only Nazi casualty, and among the few established details were that Emmerich also sustained crippling leg injuries that day. 108.49.193.44 (talk) 04:23, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

My suggestion would be to start a discussion on the article's talk page [] and get input from other Wikipedia editors. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 04:26, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Pending changes reviewer granted

Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.

See also:

• Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes, the guideline on reviewing
• Wikipedia:Pending changes, the summary of the use of pending changes
• Wikipedia:Protection policy#Pending changes protection, the policy determining which pages can be given pending changes protection by administrators.
  

Alex Shih (talk) 09:27, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! Beauty School Dropout (talk) 09:28, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

And when you have just a bit more experience with that, please read WP:NPR then WP:NPP and consider applying for New Page Reviewer. There's a lot to learn and remember though, but if you need any help, don't hesitate to ask. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:15, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you!

A barnstar for you!

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	Schlong day will be here in just 45 short days. Do you have your tux and your escort lined up? Seriously, this has been going on for about a year now, I'm glad someone else is reverting this time and and I hope they don't cone after you like they did me. best of luck. Perhaps, John from Idegon (talk) 03:48, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Andrew Cuomo - Thanks

Thanks for helping out with reverting repeated vandalism to the Andrew Cuomo article. I have reported the IP. It is obvious he will not stop until blocked - again. I hope an administrator acts soon because it is especially bad for the project to have such repeated vandalism to a biography of a living person. Donner60 (talk) 04:43, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 04:44, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

BARNSTAR!!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		This is for your valuable efforts for countering Vandalism and protecting Wikipedia from it's threats. I appreciate your effort. You are a defender of Wikipedia. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 10:33, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! Beauty School Dropout (talk) 14:58, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Imam Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim al Ghazi

Hi,

There seems to be a user(s) who keeps vandalising the ethnicity section of Imam Ahmed Gurey, the last paragraph refers to traditions of his Hawiye lineage which is sourced and referenced correctly but the said user(s) keep changing this to "Marehan". This is nothing but to mislead historical opinion on an important character in Somali history, can i ask if you can request to have the page protected as they are vandalizing the page daily now. I have tried to request the page be protected but possibly due to a lack of show of enough false editing (which there is now). Abshir55 (talk) 01:58, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

I made the request on your behalf. Thank you! Beauty School Dropout (talk) 02:04, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #710

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #709.

Discussions

• The mass editing policy Request for Comments has a number of open questions looking for votes and comments to shape the mass-editing policy.

Events

• Upcoming events:
• A Scholia hackathon is ongoing this week, focused on completing the transition of Scholia to QLever as the SPARQL backend for its Wikidata queries.
• Data and Technology Week 2025 from 19th of December 2025 to 22 of December 2025, organized by Wikimedia Indonesia‎ (Q13098516). Consisted of a Wikidata Workshop, a Wikifunction Introductory Seminar and Geodatathon. This event is in Indonesian.
  • (English) WM Malaysia / 2025 SEA Games Datathon - 20.12.2025, 1200 ~ 1400 UTC. Register to contribute to items about athletes competing in South East Asian Games 2025 (Q25041680)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (French) Facebook post: ArkéoTopia: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (CTHS) to begin integrating Wikidata
• Papers:
  • Open Data Practices of Art Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment - second paper of the Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse collection. By Dişli et al., (2025).
  • VIAF Governance Concerns about the Refurbished VIAF Web and API Interfaces by Stefano Bargioni (2025): a detailed account of the technical and governance issues experienced by VIAF in 2025 and its impact on its many external reusers, including Wikidata
• Videos:
  • (Italian) Wikidata and Wikibase for research: Camillo Pellizzari gives an overview of Wikidata, the data model, potential as scientific research subject and tool, then a Wikibase intro and its uses beyond Wikidata, with example instance: Hypotheseis; slides on Commons
  • Feminist Structured data: A Conversation with Art+Feminism and Whose Knowledge?: How feminist values can reshape structured data on Wikidata to address gaps, representation, and opportunities for collaboration across communities.
  • Community Hours: Art+Feminism community in Armenia: Former regional A+F ambassador, Arminé Aghayan-Flisch, tells us of her experiences growing the A+F Armenian community through GLAM, Wikidata and Wikipedia.
  • (Spanish) PADEP 2025: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Dr. Luis Álvarez Azcárraga teaches the course: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Open Databases for Social, Artistic, and Cultural Studies
  • See something, change something Webinar: @58:10, a presentation on the Wikidata agent plug-in for ArchivesSpace is given.
  • Wikibase Live Session / November 27: First demo presented of federation of values from Wikidata to Wikibases.

Tool of the week

• Broomstick - Broomstick is a tool to uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Congratulations to Govdirectory, the winner of the FSF's Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
• wikibase-cli got support for claim reconciliation. This is typically useful to add a claim unless it already exists.
• The Wikimedia Research Fund is open for funding applications for research projects around the Wikimedia Projects, including Wikidata.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: has grammatical number (grammatical number used in this language)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Cabinet minutes of the German Government ID, neodb.social ID, Flemish Community Masterpieces List item ID, Medicin.dk medical condition ID, ‎Mapillary username, ‎Sector.sk game ID, ‎My Abandonware theme ID, ‎Encyclopedia of Shinto ID, ‎Blu-Ray.com film ID, ‎Japanese Law Translation ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID, Getty Collections Archival Component ID, CRA program account number, FC Barcelona player ID, Qalamos person ID, ‎KISTI conference ID
• New External identifier property proposals to review: survivalhorrors.com ID, Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID, GamesIndustry.biz game ID, WhatsOnStage Stage Names ID, Adventure Game Hotspot game ID, identifiant Netflix titre, 4gamer.net game ID, Fragrantica perfumer ID, PC Guru game ID, British Newspaper Archive publication ID, GOG tag ID, Open Food Facts brand ID, Games for Change directory ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • All ports in Wikidata, sorted by the total number of statements
  • Queer and LGBT Literature that have won Literary Awards (source)
  • Bubble chart with numbers shown in the bubbles: Memory of the World inscriptions from Arab states
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject P244 maintenance - For coordination and improvement of Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAP) via Library of Congress authority ID
  • WikiProject Museum of Glass (Q2894440) - improving the visibility of visiting artists to the University of Washington Information School
• WikiProject Highlights: Egezort's efforts in Mereology: removing/migrating part of statements in Recipe relationships
• Newest database reports: 34 Bots operating without a Bot flag
• Showcase Items: Fort George (Q1426707) - 18th-century fortress built in the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745
• Showcase Lexemes: mesa (L31222) - Spanish noun (ˈme.sa) meaning "table (furniture)", "mesa (flat-topped hill)", or "served table for dining"

Development

• Edit summaries: We made changes that will improve the automatic edit summaries of edits made using the wbeditentity API endpoint. Tools that use this endpoint to edit statements will, in some cases, now have more accurate edit summaries; this also affects how such edits are summarized in edit groups. (phab:T411247)
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are collecting feedback from the first wikis who got the new and improved Databox module.
• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are making remaining changes for the first roll-out as a beta-feature.
  • We are working on showing constraint violations. (phab:T411602, phab:T400676)
• GraphQL: We are working on making it possible to query for Items by Property/value pair (phab:T403576)
• REST API: We are improving error messages for requests that failed due to an IP block (phab:T404727)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Germany
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2025-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit.

Updates for technical contributors

• To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Special:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the externallinks table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 17 December 2025

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Wikidata weekly summary #711

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #710.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Vitaly Zdanevich
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Title markup bot - Task(s): There is a variety of HTML markup found in , violating various constraints on the property. The following task description is for a bot that can start the required cleanup process. I would like to request permission to implement the functionality outlined here as a first iteration, on the understanding that it will be extended and refined to cover more cases. It will operate within the limitation that it will only modify values, add qualifiers and update labels to keep them in-line with altered titles.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos:
  • Wikidata 13th Anniversary in the Tyap Wikimedians User Group
  • Remapping the Down Survey - By OSM for History Buffs
  • Open Data DEx Demo #1 - This week's topic: Astronomy in WikiData!

Tool of the week

• Timetrail - is a website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland jobs:
  • Director of Engineering (all genders)
  • Senior Data Analyst (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Japanese court rank (Japanese court rank of a person or a shrine)
  • ‎value of this mathematical characteristic (non-numeric value of this characteristic applied to this mathematical object)
• Newest External identifiers: Taking Stock ID, Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID, The Advocate tag ID, ‎Game Font Library ID, IMI person ID, ‎Metacritic video game genre ID, Banrep Cultural ID, FCC ID Database company slug, EDBO institution code, ‎GamesIndustry.biz game ID, ‎PC Guru game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • common organism (organisms known by a common name of a biological taxon)
  • part (exact number denoting the part of a creative work or edition)
  • heir apparent (person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Parfumo perfume ID, Parfumo perfumer ID, Parfumo perfumes ID, Parfumo fragrance notes ID, BoomerShooterDB game ID, identifiant Rappels d'une production théâtrale, Parfinity notes ID, Vandal game ID, Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID, GBIF ID, MetroidvaniaDB game ID, Games.cz game ID, Basenotes perfume brand ID, Basenotes perfume people ID, Basenotes perfume ID, CICAP Encyclopedia ID, Zelda Wiki ID, Yaba Sanshiro ID, identificador Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Finnish railway station code, Fight-A-Base game ID, Sketchfab model ID, Sketchfab channel ID, Sketchfab user ID, DVIDS Video ID, DeVuego game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Number of riots per country (source)
  • Country having the most female politicians (source)
• WikiProject Highlights: Niryhpr's efforts in organising the page User:Niryhpr/WikiProject_Ports (part of WikiProject Indonesia/Geodatathon)
• Newest database reports: Language statistics for Items
• Showcase Items: Mansa Musa - 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire
• Showcase Lexemes: ਮਰਨ (L689064) - Punjabi verb (mərəɳ) meaning "to die (cease living)", "to wither or spoil", or "to give up (lose hope/energy)"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We added an indicator showing which Properties are not yet supported when creating new statements in mobile editing (T412719)
  • We continued working on showing constraint violations on mobile (T411602, T411608)
  • We are working on musical notation statements on mobile (T407247)
  • We are improving error handling for incorrectly filled and unfilled fields in mobile editing (T408928)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2025-52

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material.
• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
• View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected.

Updates for technical contributors

• Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute data-mw="interface" to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with data-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with other data-mw attributes, which are generated by Parsoid.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Meetings and events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.

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The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 10

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2025 1 October — 30 November

Volume 3 — Issue 10
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News On 13 November, the ESCAPADE spacecraft SIMPLEx-4A (Blue) and SIMPLEx-4B (Gold) were launched on board a New Glenn rocket. They will orbit Earth at its L2 point until the Mars transfer window opens in late 2026. On the second flight of New Glenn, the first stage, "Never Tell Me the Odds," landed on the drone ship Jacklyn on 13 November. This made New Glenn the first orbital-class booster capable of landing propulsively not manufactured by SpaceX. As a result of damage caused by space debris, China's Shenzhou 20 was rendered unusable for returning its crew back to Earth. The crew instead returned on board the Shenzhou 21 craft on 14 November, with Shenzhou 22 being launched uncrewed on 25 November to serve as a return vessel for the crew of Shenzhou 21. On 27 November, Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31, the only launch site used by Russia to reach the ISS, was significantly damaged during the launch of Soyuz MS-28.
Featured Content The image "NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars" was promoted to Featured Media status on 23 October. It was nominated by WhatADrag07.
Article of the month Zond 6 Zond 6 was a formal member of the Soviet Zond program, and an unpiloted version of the Soyuz 7K-L1 crewed Moon-flyby spacecraft. It was launched on a lunar flyby mission on November 10, 1968, from a parent satellite (68-101B) in Earth parking orbit. The spacecraft carried a biological payload of turtles, flies, and bacteria. It also carried scientific probes including cosmic ray, micrometeoroid detectors, and photographic equipment. The mission was a precursor to a crewed circumlunar flight which the Soviets hoped could occur in December 1968, thus beating the American Apollo 8. However, after rounding the Moon on November 14, Zond 6 crashed on its return to Earth, due to a parachute failure when the parachute was detached from the capsule too early.	Image of the month Explosion on the Cygnus CRS Orb-3 On 28 October, 2014, Cygnus Orb-3 was launched at 22:22:38 UTC. 15 seconds after liftoff, one of the launch vehicle's AJ26 (modified NK-33s) ruptured, resulting in the craft falling. The mission was scrubbed eight seconds later at 22:23:01 UTC. The subsequent investigation found that the liquid oxygen turbopump exploded, severing nearby propellant lines. This resulted in a fire that damaged various engine components. The cause of the LOX turbopump's failure remains unknown.
Members New Members: Hal Nordmann (1 October) R-Beepy (3 November) Number of active members: 217. Total number of members: 444. October–November Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Long March 8A — 9 Guowang (16 Oct. at 01:33:00) (success) H3-24W — HTV-X1, various cubeSats (26 Oct. at 00:00:15) (success) Long March 2F/G — Shenzhou 21 (31 Oct. at 15:44:00) (success) LVM3 — GSAT-7R (2 Nov. at 11:56:00) (success) New Glenn — ESCAPADE Blue and Gold (13 Nov. at 20:55:01) (success) Atlas V 551 — Viasat 3 EMEA (14 Nov. at 03:04:00) (success) Soyuz-2.1a — Soyuz MS-28 (27 Nov. at 09:27:57) (successful launch; spaceport damaged)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 30 November 2025. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 28 15 8 58 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 27 33 57 2 131 B 16 77 196 234 5 528 C 45 170 606 834 1 56 1,712 Start 15 134 1,025 2,690 480 4,344 Stub 5 196 1,981 278 2,460 List 11 119 108 236 1 42 517 Category 1,280 1,280 Disambig 48 48 File 262 262 Portal 55 55 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 43 143 1,246 1,434 Template 532 532 NA 2 2 Other 1 31 32 Assessed 107 565 2,229 6,188 3,691 863 13,643 Unassessed 9 118 127 Total 107 565 2,229 6,197 3,691 981 13,770 Monthly Changes Since September 2025, there are one more high-importance, three more mid-importance, 56 more low-importance, eleven more eight NA-importance, and 42 more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 113 more articles. There are also eight more B-class articles, 43 more C-class articles, 28 more Start-class articles, 25 more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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Wikidata weekly summary #712

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #711.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Ppolar bear - RfP scheduled to end after 3 January 2026 13:40 (UTC)
  • QubeCubeBot - Task/s: Continue import of Swedish Parliament documents inline with the modeling work in Wikidata:WikiProject Sweden/Swedish Riksdag documents.
  • AinaliBot 3 - Task/s: Continue import of Swedish Parliament documents inline with the modeling work in Wikidata:WikiProject Sweden/Swedish Riksdag documents.

Events

• This month's Scholia hackathon has moved Scholia closer to its planned switch to a QLever backend. Beta testers can assist by exploring the interim QLever-backed Scholia instance and reporting any issues.
• Upcoming events:
  • SWAT4HCLS 2026. Amsterdam, March 23-26, with a "Wikidata in healthcare and life sciences" session and Prof. Hannah Bast as one of the keynotes

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos:
  • (Indonesian) Introduction to Wikifunctions presented by NikolasKHF (Niko). In this session, Niko introduced Wikifunctions project, how to edit a function, how to add an implementation and test, and demonstrated them. This is the first Wikifunctions training in Indonesian. Slides are available on Commons.
  • (Indonesian) Wikidata for Academician presented by Wikimedia Indonesia's Data and Technology team. They introduced Wikimedia Indonesia, and then explained Wikidata, its underlying concepts and a glance to its history, how to add statements and references, how to query with Wikidata Query Services, Wikidata and its potential in research fields, Wikiprojects and Wikidata:For development resources. Slides are available on Commons.

Tool of the week

• WD-NearbyItems : browse Wikidata Items nearby
• Quizicle is a daily quiz/puzzle game that's not really a quiz and not really a puzzle. Deduce the answer from crossword-style clues with hot/cold feedback.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • random page URL (link to random page or item on website)
  • specimen classifier (person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
  • collection date (date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
  • land degradation (amount of land that is degraded by an object, mainly for infrastructure projects)
  • Hong Kong fire alarm level (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
  • page offset (difference between external page number printed on the work (P304) and the actual page in digital file (P7668))
  • logical implication (axiom or conjecture that this axiom or conjecture implies)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎survivalhorrors.com ID, ‎VGChartz ID, ‎Adventure Game Hotspot game ID, ‎BoomerShooterDB game ID, ‎Vandal game ID, GoFundMe fundraising ID, Adult Film Database director ID, S1 No.1 Style actress ID, ‎MetroidvaniaDB game ID, EAGER game ID, EAGER developer ID, ‎Games.cz game ID, ‎4gamer.net game ID, ‎GOG tag ID, ‎Yaba Sanshiro ID, ‎Games for Change directory ID, DLSite work ID, ‎DLSite person ID, ‎DLSite doujin circle ID, ‎Fight-A-Base game ID, ‎DeVuego game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review: Erdős Problem number (Erdős Problem number)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: PixelatedArcade genre ID, BRAHMS identifier, LegiStorm person ID, Game Boy Database game ID, NHK Archives Program ID, Wendingen object ID, Wendingen person ID, RetroCollect games ID, FIP.IT basketball player ID, Lenta.ru person ID, Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Polish version)., Télérama film ID., Bercail ID, Panoramax picture ID, InterSportStats athlete ID, Before I Play game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Showcase Lexemes: turn (L3568) - English verb (tɜːrn) meaning "to rotate", "to change direction", or "to transform"

Development

• No development happened in the past week as the team are on holidays. Happy new year everyone!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Czech Republic
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #713

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #712.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Morne06 - RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2026 20:35 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Ppolar bear - general consensus is to reapply after gaining more experience.
• New request for comments: Notability policy reform: first drafted in 2013, Wikidata has grown vastly since the original Notability policy was created. This first-round discussion is intended to collect ideas, comments, and reflections on how to improve the Notability Policy for what Wikidata currently is and will become.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #84 January 12 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026: a two-day event that will take place from 13 to 14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Apply for a grant and join the event.
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 14th January 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Rescuing Scholia #2: getting closer
  • African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA)
  • Wikontic: Ontology-Aware KG Pipeline - this article introduces Wikontic, a pipeline that builds knowledge graphs from text by enforcing Wikidata's ontological rules and merging duplicate entities.
• Papers:
  • Using Wikidata’s Ontology in Practice: A Neuro-Symbolic, Community-Centred Workflow for Integrating and Reusing Humanities Datasets - This article introduces an ontology-first, community-driven workflow that aligns humanities datasets with Wikidata to address data silos and gender inequities, offering reusable modelling patterns, SPARQL-based analysis, and a neuro-symbolic AI framework that reduces bias and supports reproducible, ontology-backed knowledge graph practices. By Velilla & Ferran-Ferrer (2025).
  • A Semantic Wiki for Language Learning: The Case of the Baoulé Language - The BAOULE-WIKI project introduces a semantic wiki and homograph-detection model to preserve and teach the endangered Baoulé language, achieving high accuracy while paving the way for broader digital preservation of African languages through community collaboration and integration with knowledge bases like Wikidata and DBpedia. By Kra et al., (2026).
  • Transforming the Digital Landscape: Towards a Medieval Knowledge Graph - Digitization has transformed medieval studies by expanding access and enabling new research methods, with future progress hinging on Linked Open Data, shareable identifiers, and collaborative knowledge graphs to truly democratize and enrich scholarship. By Burrows, (2026).
  • Towards a Linked Open Index: Reconciling Museum Records to Wikidata for Index of American Design Constituents - The Index of American Design project’s reconciliation of thousands of records with Wikidata reveals both challenges and strategies for improving data alignment, while a linked Power BI tool supports ongoing monitoring of quality, access, and representation in humanities research. By Foster et al., (2026).
  • The “Dizionario Degli Scrittori Italiani Contemporanei Pseudonimi” in Wikidata. Pseudonymous Authors in Wikidata: Dataset and Queries - The dataset from the MA thesis structures biographical data on 19th–20th century pseudonymous Italian authors in Wikidata, including corpus items, SPARQL queries, and analysis documents, and is reusable for further research or case studies. By De Monaco, (2025).

Tool of the week

• Broomstick is a tool by Wikicollabs it uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.
• Explore your Wikimedia activity year in review with Wiki Year in Review
• Wikilokal (Android version): explore the world within a 3 km radius by Affandy Murad

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New project: Dissemination of polymer science through Wikipedia and Wikidata (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Q33438))

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • crowdfunding target (target goal of this crowdfunding campaign)
  • free height (vertical distance from the floor level to the lowest obstruction in the ceiling of an indoor or outdoor space)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎PixelatedArcade genre ID, ‎Game Boy Database game ID, ‎RetroCollect games ID, MyWaifuList work ID, Nonbinary Wiki ID, Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID, DVIDS video ID, FIP.IT basketball player ID, Card Player ID, Télérama film ID, Boosty author ID, ‎Before I Play game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Fungal Names taxon ID (ID number in the [[:w:Fungal Names]] database.)
  • Braille transcription (transcription in Braille)
  • Braille represents (graphene or phone that the Braille cell represents)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: CNVD-ID, Trismegistos editor ID, woordenlijst lemma ID, European Vehicle Number, CourtListener person ID, Norwegian railway station code, Australian National Kennel Council ID, Museo del Marchio Italiano ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Schema examples: (E498) district electoral division: Schema to describe an electoral division (small political division of Ireland).
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project IrishForges: Describing forges and forge buildings of Ireland using Wikidata, Wikimedia and other sources.
  • Project Ireland: A hub for all Ireland-related Wikidata activities including cross-Wikiproject tasks.
  • Project Historic Irish Placenames: focusing on County Kilkenny, connect historic placenames with their modern counterparts or create new items for "lost places".
  • Svenska psalmodikon: A sub-project for the psalmodikon (Q3354977), a stringed-instrument popular in Sweden.
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiPojects as decentralized governance - this sub-page of the Limits of Wikidata project proposes WikiProjects become caretakers of collections or subgraphs of relevant items.
• Showcase Items: Venezuela (Q717) - country in South America
• Showcase Lexemes: размах (L155644) - Russian noun (rɐzˈmax) meaning "amplitude (of a swing)", "physical span or width", or "scale/scope (of an activity)"

Development

• No development happened in the past week as the team are just returning from the holidays.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2025).

Administrator changes

• Epicgenius
• Left guide
• LEvalyn
• MPGuy2824
• The4lines
• Yue

Fathoms Below

• BaronLarf
• Firefly
• kelapstick
• Opabinia regalis
• Pbsouthwood
• Sethant
• UtherSRG
• Whouk

CheckUser changes

• Giraffer
• HouseBlaster
• SilverLocust

• Liz
• Worm That Turned
• Z1720

Oversight changes

• Asilvering
• Giraffer
• Girth Summit
• Guerillero
• HouseBlaster
• Izno
• SilverLocust

• Liz
• Worm That Turned
• Z1720

Guideline and policy news

• All general sanctions imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE) as a result of a recent RfC.
• Due to the result of a recent RFC, the administrator recall process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election, whichever is later.
• Changes to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy's disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE for more information.

Arbitration

• Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Asilvering, Girth Summit, Guerillero, HJ Mitchell, HouseBlaster, Izno, Sdrqaz, SilverLocust.
• The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been suspended.

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Wikidata weekly summary #714

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #713.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: AmeisenBot 3 - Task/s: Adding descriptions (and possibly labels and aliases as well) to items based on their statements.
• New CheckUser requests: Saroj (RfP scheduled to end at 25 January 2026 09:31 UTC)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 14th January 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • WMF Wikidata Platform team is launching a new office hours series starting January 27th, 2026 and continuing on the first Tuesday of each month. The scope of this series is be limited to Blazegraph migration support for the entirety of 2026. Participants are encouraged to register in advance for each session and may optionally add a brief description of their migration-related questions to the shared Etherpad to help guide preparation. See Blazegraph Migration office hour page for more details

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Wikidata at 13: Fante Wikimedians Joins the Celebration
• Papers: Structuring the Sights and Stories of Pausanias with Wikidata - The Digital Periegesis project leverages Wikidata and linked open data tools to annotate, disambiguate, and connect Pausanias’s complex 2nd‑century text, enhancing accessibility, interoperability, and scholarly engagement with Greece’s historical and mythological landscape. By Kiesling et al., (2025)
• Videos: (Papiamento) Wikipedia on Aruba | Episode 8: How to add a new topic (item) to Wikidata

Tool of the week

• Knowledge Train A game to create a train of knowledge with the power of Wikidata - User:Athulvis

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile statement editing is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata. Enable the Beta feature in your preferences settings, head to Wikidata Sandbox (Q4115189) (in mobile view) to test it and share your feedback here: Mobile editing of statements.
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team has published its January 2026 newsletter. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. To have new issues of the WDP monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: common organism (organisms known by this common name)
• Newest External identifiers: Boosty author ID, ‎Before I Play game ID, ‎Korea Heritage Service Heritage Portal ID, ‎KaraokeTexty.cz artist ID, ‎KaraokeTexty.cz song ID, ‎Showlabs ID, DEUMM Online ID, Slekt og Data cemetery ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia ID, EZB library ID, topic of Dictionary of Canadian biography identifier, Cover Art Archive image, ‎X broadcast ID, Theaterencyclopedie ID, Maitron biography ID (new version), ‎Scilit organization ID, Fragrantica perfume ID, Fragrantica perfume brand ID, izoh.uz word ID, ‎Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID, Fragrantica perfume notes ID, Fragrantica perfumer ID, Parfumo perfume brand ID, Parfumo perfumer ID, Parfumo perfume ID, Parfumo fragrance notes ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Artistagraph ID (Identifies the Artistagraph for an artistIdentifier for creative works on Artistagraph, a platform for documenting and discovering artist information and creative work connections)
  • number of tunnel tubes (Number of parallel tubes in a tunnel.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:: Mapillary sequence ID, People's Graphic Design Archive creator ID, Uni24k indentifier, Brussels BeStAddress municipality ID, Brussels BeStAddress street name ID, Brussels BeStAddress address ID, Wikifunctions object, MAX username, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ID, The Retro Web company ID, Schulnummer Berlin, KCI article ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Timeline of coup d'états
  • All towns named Versailles
• Showcase Items: mojito - traditional Cuban highball cocktail

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We have released the first version of mobile statement editing as a beta feature (see details above). In addition we are improving it further and are adding missing functionality to get it ready for a full release. This includes adding editing support for additional data types such as date and musical notation.
• Blazegraph replacement: The Wikidata platform team is continuing their evaluation of alternative backends for the Wikidata Query Service.
• Graph QL: We are continuing to work on the prototype to get it ready for wider testing and are waiting on a security review.
• Dumps: We fixed an issue where the "latest" symlinks to data dumps weren't working correctly.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are investigating how to further reduce the number of unnecessary changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes coming from Wikidata. The work on this is also helping reduce the size of the recent changes database table, which is especially important on larger Wikipedias. In addition we are continuing to improve the Databox module to make it easier for smaller Wikipedias to get Wikidata-powered infoboxes.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Kazakhstan
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.

Updates for editors

• As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists project, the display of EditWatchlist will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish.
• The Global Watchlist is a MediaWiki extension that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs.
• View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13.

Updates for technical contributors

• The VisualEditor citation tool and Reference Previews now support "map" as a reference type.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki/MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 15 January 2026

• News and notes: Wikipedia's 25th anniversary is here!
  Where does the time go?

• Special report: Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call
  The internet is booming. We are not.

• Serendipity: The WMF wants to buy you books!
  Really! A major triumph.

• WikiProject report: Time for a health check: the Vital Signs 2026 campaign
  The campaign to get all of our top-importance medical articles up to B-class or above.

• In the media: Fake Acting President Trump and a Wikipedia infobox
  D.J.T. assumes a new position.

• Community view: The inbox behind Wikipedia
  What the Volunteer Response Team actually does!

• Recent research: Art museums on Wikidata; comparing three comparisons of Grokipedia and Wikipedia
  And other research.

• Traffic report: Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight
  A world in white gets underway.

• Comix: Oh come on man.
  Really?

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The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 11

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2025 1 — 31 December

Volume 3 — Issue 11
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News The International Space Station's eight compartments were fully occupied for the first time on 1 December, with the rebirthing of Cygnus NG-23 to Unity. On 3 December, China's Zhuque-3 made the first non-American attempt at landing a booster. The booster failed to land following a landing-burn anomaly. A second attempt on the 23rd, this time using the new Long March 2A launch vehicle, also failed. On 6 December, contact with NASA's MAVEN Mars orbiter was lost. The last received telemetry was from the 4th, with the fragmented transmission of the 6th suggesting that the craft was rotating in an unintended way, and possibly having changed orbit. As of 16 January 2026, the mission has not yet been officially ended, although reestablishing communications with MAVEN is considered highly improbable.
Featured Content The article "Gordon Cooper" was promoted to Featured Article status on 9 December. It was nominated by Hawkeye7.
Article of the month PROCYON PROCYON (Proximate Object Close flyby with Optical Navigation) was an asteroid flyby space probe that was launched together with Hayabusa2 on 3 December 2014 13:22:04 (JST). It was developed by University of Tokyo and JAXA. It was a small (70 kg, approx. 60 cm cube), low cost (¥500 million) spacecraft. It was intended to flyby the asteroid (185851) 2000 DP107 in 2016, but the plan was abandoned due to the malfunction of the ion thruster.	Image of the month STS-116 spacewalk STS-116 was the 33rd mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Launched in the late evening of 6 December, the main aims of the mission were the installation of one of the International Space Station's Integrated Truss Structure segments, rewiring of the power system, and personnel exchange. Also known as ISS-12A.1, STS-116 was the first mission to include a Swedish astronaut, Christer Fuglesang. It returned to Earth in the evening of 22 December. This image, of the first of three EVA sessions, was taken on the fourth day of the mission. Flight engineer Robert Curbeam is on the left, opposite mission specialist 3 Christer Fuglesang. The image was taken over New Zealand; the South Island is visible on the left, while the southern portion of the North Island, mostly consisting of the Wairarapa region, is visible in the top-right.
Members New Members: none Number of active members: 218. Total number of members: 445. December Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See the complete list here. Zhuque-3 — no payload (3 Dec. at 04:00) (success) HANBIT-NANO — various (22 Dec. at 12:45) (launch failure) Long March 12A — mass simulator (23 Dec. at 02:00:00) (success) LVM3 — BlueBird-6 (24 Dec. at 03:25:30) (success) Soyuz-2.1b (1st stage), Fregat-M (2nd stage) — various (28 Dec. at 13:18:05) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 December 2025. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 29 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 33 57 2 130 B 16 78 195 234 5 528 C 45 169 609 847 1 57 1,728 Start 15 134 1,024 2,698 493 4,364 Stub 5 196 1,988 282 2,471 List 11 119 109 238 1 43 521 Category 1,281 1,281 Disambig 48 48 File 262 262 Portal 55 55 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 43 141 1,246 1,432 Template 532 532 NA 2 2 Other 32 32 Assessed 107 565 2,230 6,216 3,693 882 13,693 Unassessed 10 119 129 Total 107 565 2,230 6,226 3,693 1,001 13,822 Monthly Changes Since November 2025, there are one more mid-importance, 29 more low-importance, two more NA-importance, and 20 more unknown-importance class articles, for a total of 52 more articles. There are also one more FA-class articles, one less GA-class articles, ten more C-class articles, 20 more Start-class articles, eleven more Stub-class articles, and four more lists.
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Wikidata weekly summary #715

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #714.

Discussions

• Closed request for comments: Deprecate P642? - Consensus to deprecate was reached.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikifying Te Tiriti 10-workshop series, attendees will learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and create Wikidata items, to increase the visibility of people and their projects working in Te Tiriti and anti-racism areas. Further information can be found on the WikiProject page / Workshop timetable. Register to attend.
  • Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 in Uganda - contribute to the project by expanding or creating Wikidata Items connected to the project categories, such as Ugandan folklore, food, music, dances, traditional clothing, and more.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The London School of Economics and Political Science have employed a Wikimedian in Residence
  • Wikimedia Indonesia held Data and Technology Week 2025 in last December 2025, organized introductory workshops on Wikidata and Wikifunctions. Read key takeaways and participants' discussion at Diff.
  • Wikidata Days 2025 Journey in Africa: Building Knowledge, Languages and Communities
  • Wikidata Botswana 2025: Celebrating 13 Years (And We Really Showed Up!)
• Papers:
  • A new monographic number of JLIS.it has been published regarding the OPAC SBN (the biggest collective library catalogue in Italy, with more than 7 thousands of libraries participating; about its collaboration with Wikidata, see the Wikidata coordination page); it contains 3 papers focusing on the use of Wikidata for authority control (all in Italian, with abstract in English):
    • Wikidata and SBN: An Assessment of Two Years of Work (2023–2025): an overview Wikidata-SBN of the collaboration in 2023-2025, focusing on the methods of reconciliation
    • Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN: a description of the procedure to extract data from Wikidata items matches with SBN authority records and adapt these data to be copied into non-individualised SBN authority records
    • NaMo, utility for populating missing date fields in authority records: a description of an utility to keep an authority file up-to-date finding missing death dates through Wikidata
  • Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN - A collaboration between Wikimedia Italy and ICCU is enriching incomplete SBN authority records using Wikidata identifiers, enhancing catalogue accuracy and accessibility as entries continue to grow. By Ravelli, (2026).

Tool of the week

• Puzzles By Nathan is a game that arrange words so each connects to the next

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editing for RTL languages: The Wikimedia Deutschland team is seeking users of right-to-left (RTL) scripts, including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu, to help test and improve the mobile statement editing experience. If you edit in an RTL language and would like to join user interviews or deeper testing, sign up here.
• (French) Gendered place names in the public space of French-speaking Switzerland

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: Parfinity notes ID, ‎Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID, Basenotes perfume brand ID, Basenotes perfume people ID, Basenotes perfume ID, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ID, MAX username
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • location collected (geographic location where a specimen or sample was collected in the field)
  • Category for music in this language (link to category item that contains music in this language)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID, CriticDB IDs, MPA certificate number, WorldFootball.net person ID (new), The Session tune ID, Parfumo fragrance note ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Timeline of elected germanic Roman emperors
  • Universities without a P625 (coordinate location) - Source
• Schema examples: film director (E24)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Rijksmonumenten Unmerge list - list of items with more than one P359 (Rijksmonumenten ID).
  • Stanford Libraries added an event: Love Data Week 2026
• Newest database reports: Entities without a Label - this list is dynamically created, search by language code and entity type: Item or Property.
• Showcase Items: FIFA (Q253414) - international governing body of association football
• Showcase Lexemes: charge (L3922) - English verb (tʃɑːrdʒ) meaning "to supply with energy", "to rush forward", or "to have responsibility for"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We continued work on supporting more datatypes for editing, specifically date, musical notation and monolingual text.
  • We worked on displaying constraint violation indicators.
  • You can try out the current state by enabling it in the beta features section of your preferences.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate options for further reducing the amount of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist on the other wikis to reduce the size of the database tables.
• Dumps: We finished our research on dumps, especially looking into different ways to define subsets. We will publish the report with results by end of February.
• Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is continuing the evaluation of potential replacements for Blazegraph.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The tray shown on Special:Diff in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered.
• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now automatically determines the text direction (ensuring correct display of sites with unusual domain names) and shows detailed descriptions for log actions. Later this week, a new permanent link for page creations and CSS classes for each entry element will be added.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed.

Updates for technical contributors

• As mentioned in the October 2025 deprecation announcement, MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin sunsetting all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API the week of January 26. Changes are expected to roll out to all wikis on or before January 30th. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found, compared, and tested using the REST Sandbox. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in Phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
• Interactive reference documentation for the Wikimedia REST API has moved. Requests to API docs previously hosted through RESTBase (e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/) are now redirected to the REST Sandbox.
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team (WDP) has published its January 2026 newsletter. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. As a reminder, you can subscribe to the WDP newsletter!
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there!

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Wikidata weekly summary #716

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #715.

Events

• Upcoming events:

• Reminder: Blazegraph Migration Office Hours: The WMF Wikidata Platform team is kicking off its monthly Blazegraph migeration office hours tomorrow, 27th January, 16:00 UTC. These sessions focus exclusively on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). See the office hours page for details and future sessions.
• Art+Feminism online hands-on training session: Intro to Wikidata + Archives. January 29, 15:00 UTC (16:00 CET). Alan Ang (WMDE) and d:User:Epìdosis host this workshop on collective editing and how Wikidata connects with archives. More info and Zoom registration @ Art+Feminism.org
• OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #85 February 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
• Mapping Africa: Visualizing Knowledge and Communities - 28.01.2026, 16:00 UTC. Episode #54 of the WikiAfrica Hour explores the power of maps and geospatial data.

• General Registration is Open! 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon - May 1-3, 2026

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Wikidata replaces the CLARIN Concept Registry in the Component Registry
• Papers:
  • Analysis and Generation of Wikidata Descriptions Focusing on Bangla Language - A rule-based Grammatical Framework resource grammar for Bangla generates accurate, consistent Wikidata descriptions across diverse entities, achieving over 99% coverage and enhancing low-resource language content in multilingual knowledge bases. By Mohammad, (2025).
• Videos:
  • Fact-Checking with Wikidata by Philippe Saadé - a recording of the workshop hosted by DataTalks.Club in collaboration with User:Philippe Saadé
  • Wikimedia and Biodiversity Data: A Mutualistic Relationship in the Open Knowledge Ecosystem
  • Collaborative Cultural Heritage Geodata, session 2 of SunoikisisDC's Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage. Discusses how Wikidata is used and contributes data to the field of spatial and geographic technologies.
  • Wikimedia projects & smell-related content: WMUK Sandbox Session - User:Lajmmoore describes how to add and model sensory experiences such as smell, to Wikidata.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Property Creation Helper is a tool by ArthurPSmith. The tool takes a property proposal page and translates it into a QuickStatements batch (and then a second one for the examples) that a property creator can use to quickly create a new property.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland 2026 first quarter development plan has been published: Wikidata:Linked Open Data development plan.
• Job opening: The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Platform Backend Migration Specialist (contract position) to support backend migration work on the Wikidata Query Service. This role focuses on technical work related to the migration away from Blazegraph. If you're interested in the role or want to learn more, see the full job description and application details.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • translates from (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from)
  • translates into (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works and texts into)
• Newest External identifiers: MAX username, CriticDB game ID, ‎Finnish railway station code, Sketchfab model ID, Sketchfab channel ID, Sketchfab user ID, BRAHMS identifier, LegiStorm person ID, NHK Archives program ID, Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Polish version), Bercail ID, ‎InterSportStats athlete ID, ‎Erdős Problem number, Trismegistos editor ID, ‎woordenlijst lemma ID, ‎European Vehicle Number, CourtListener person ID, Australian National Kennel Council ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review: incompatible type (instances of this type or of its subclasses cannot be instances of that type nor of its subclasses)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: KaraokeTexty.cz album ID, Biographical encyclopedia of Maros County-ID, ShotOnWhat film ID, Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 ID, CardCow.com publisher ID, Stockholms SL Realtidsinformation identificator, Lost Pubs Project ID, Handball Base ID, Handballnews.pl person ID, SFDb förlaga-ID, RITVA company ID, RITVA corporate body ID, TC Infos network identifier, French Trade Mark Number

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Wikidata Items with a frequency (hertz) within human-hearing range (source)
• Schema examples: WikiProject Schemas: A tutorial - to create a simple ShEx schema and apply it to a set of Wikidata items.
• Newest WikiProjects: No Longer at the Margins - 2026 Hackathon
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Bahamas - list of buildings in Nassau
• Newest database reports: Entities missing a description - choose a language and entity type (Item or Property) and generate a list of entities that have no description.
• Showcase Items: Mount Kilimanjaro - mountain massif in Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania
• Showcase Lexemes: мундштук (L130056) - Russian noun (mʊnʂˈtuk) meaning "mouthpiece (of a musical instrument)", "mouthpiece (of a pipe/cigar holder)", or "a horse's bit"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We started working on supporting editing of monolingual text statements
  • We continued working on supporting editing of geocoordinate and quantity statements
  • We are fixing display issues with date statements
  • We continued work on showing constraint violations
• GraphQL:
  • The security review was finished, removing a blocker to deploying GraphQL support to Wikidata
  • We added pagination to querying items by statement properties or values
  • We are extending the labels of linked entities functionality to also let you get the descriptions of the Items linked in a statement
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate options for further reducing the amount of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist on the other wikis to reduce the size of the database tables.
• Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is continuing the evaluation of potential replacements for Blazegraph.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus countries: Albania and Kosovo
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on proposed future of the Product and Technology Advisory Council until 28 February.
• All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the Account Security project.
• Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page.
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of.

Updates for technical contributors

• A new AbuseFilter variable, account_type, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the createaccount and autocreateaccount actions. As part of this change, the variable accountname has been renamed to account_name, and accountname is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable.
• Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to upload.wikimedia.org/… will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Books & Bytes – Issue 72

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Issue 72, November–December 2025

• Renewed partnerships
• Spotlight: Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science

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Wikidata weekly summary #717

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #716.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Sapper-bot 2 - Task: Monthly updates of the Dead Sea level and the "lowest point" property for Israel, Jordan, and Asia.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: LiteraryWorksMetaDataUploadBot - Task: Upload metadata for literary works from research project. (Approved)
• Other: Proposal to configure the Newcomer Dashboard for Wikidata

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Call for Sessions: Wikimania 2026 is Coming to Paris! The submission form will remain open until March 1. Results will be published in May.
  • Who's hiding behind museum collections? - A Wikidata Edit-a-thon by WiNoDa Knowledge Lab (February 24th, 1:00pm-4:30pm CET). This online Edit-a-thon will focus on the many collectors that contributed to the Arachnida and Miryapoda collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Join us to uncover the unspoken human networks that shaped the history of science! Register here: http://winoda.de/en/event/wikidata-edit-a-thon/

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Strengthening the Latin American public domain with Wikidata
• Thesis: Hebeis, Maximilian (2026): Entity Matching for Person Records in Authority Files, Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Master thesis in computer science: "a case study into applying learningbased entity matching to person records from two large authority databases, namely the German national Integrated Authority File (GND) and the crowd-sourced open knowledge base Wikidata")
• Papers: Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD): Wikidata across the humanities: datasets, methodologies, reuse, https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/wikidata_across_the_humanities (new papers have been published during the last week; see a list at d:Q136325279#P527)
• Videos:
  • Africa Wiki Women 1st Newbies Community Meetup - held an orientation for new members on editing Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Commons, to help bridge knowledge gaps of African women on Wiki platforms.
  • Mapping Africa: Visualizing Knowledge and Communities - explores how African communities use maps and geospatial data to enhance Wikidata, improve Wikimedia articles, and make local knowledge more visible globally.

Tool of the week

• Wdlist : Create and manage a personal list of Wikidata items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland Job vacancy - Architect of Storage Solutions - (freelance contract / 4-6 weeks)
• You can now nominate your favorite Wikidata research award for 2025. Call for Nominations now open until February 15, 2026.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name ID, Lenta.ru person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • value type of this mathematical property (type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects)
  • Gifu Prefectural Shrine Association ranking (One of the three rankings given by the Gifu Prefectural Shrine Association)
  • instances must not have (instances of this class or of its subclasses must not have given property or statement)
  • African Scientists Directory ID (identifier for a scientist in the African Scientists Directory)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Center for Jewish History person ID, LINCS ID, Artdoc.Media film ID, Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 practice ID, Walloon-French dictionary ID, Russian Register of Film Distribution Certificates ID, Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID, Identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Woordenboek van Nieuwe Woorden ID, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal ID, Woordcombinaties ID, Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands ID, Database of the Southern Dutch Dialects concept ID, GiveSendGo ID, CrowdRepublic project ID, European Dictionary Portal ID, Gravestone Project Cemetery ID, Uzbek-Russian dictionary ID, Ruwiki ID, Swedish National Archives ID, GDUNO ID, JMRC person id, Catalunya Romànica ID, Mercantile Navy List ID, Igromania author ID, Danmarks Kirker, Medvik ID, Obálky knih ID, National Theatre in Prague artist ID, National Theatre in Prague performance ID, Alpine Linux Wiki article, Microsoft Store developer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Item with a Wikipedia page in lang. X but not Y (source) - modify the wd: QID and the schema:isPartOf for your own purposes.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Chess - Rubinstein-Memorial list
  • WikiProject Units of Measurement
  • Wikiproject Medicine - List of Italian Doctors
  • WikiProject Evanion Collection
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject every Politician / Canada - all Commons lists were updated.
• Newest database reports: Variety of reports for deletion candidates

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are making progress with identifying additional ways in which we can reduce the number of irrelevant changes from Wikidata showing up in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co.
  • We are discussing with pilot Wikipedias about turning on showing Wikidata changes by default in watchlist and recent changes (moving it from opt-in to opt-out)
• GraphQL: We are putting the last touches on a GraphQL endpoint for Wikidata. We are planning to get it live later this month for feedback.
• LDF endpoint: We are planning to decommission the endpoint in preparation for the migration away from Blazegraph on the 18th of February (phab:T415696)
• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are almost done with adding support for editing statements with quantity and monolingual text datatype and finished support for mathematical expression statements. We started support for editing coordinate statements.
  • We are continuing the work on showing constraint violations.
• Wikibase Ecosystem: We are in the process of setting up a demo system for ontology federation (i.e. using Wikidata Items as values in statements on another Wikibase instance)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The "Page information" feature, which gives validating information about a page (example), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed.
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only.
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Weekly highlight

• Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.

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Wikidata weekly summary #718

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #717.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Numishare Blog: Improving searchability using Natural language Processing + Wikidata - How NLP-based search improvements for numismatic collections for the American Numismatic Society. Python NLP tools and Wikidata add a semantic layer that links equivalent terms (e.g. “serpent” and “snake”) to improve discovery across coin databases such as OCRE and MANTIS. Author: Ethan Gruber.
• Videos:
  • Art+Feminism Conversations / Intro to Wikidata + Archives: Led by User:Epìdosis and User:Alan Ang (WMDE), this recording covers tools that support collaborative Wikidata editing, and includes with brief updates on mobile editing, Wikibase software, and work at the intersection of AI and Wikidata. Find more info and tools covered on Meta:Art+Feminism
  • Custom Upload Funnel Creation on Wikimedia Commons: Wiki Loves Africa 2026 - User:Kambai Akau and the Tyap User Group demonstrate how to contribute to the Wiki Loves Africa 2026 contest, incl. how to add a Wikidata Infobox to your contributions, and how to create Wikidata Items if they are missing.
  • (Papiamento) Add a different language Label to a Wikidata Item Wikipedia Above Aruba|Ep. 9 - it's not always obvious how to add labels, descriptions and aliases of different languages to Wikidata items, this short video demonstrates how.
  • Hands-on Exercise: Data Cleaning & Preparation with OpenRefine - Daniel Garjio guides through exercises to cluster and merge duplicate values, standardise formats, reconcile data with external authority sources such as Wikidata.
  • (Spanish) Mapeo colaborativo, plataformas libres y autonomía local, part of the Conference on Climate Justice, Indigenous Voices, and Wikimedia Platforms (2024) - speaker: Túllio Morais Franca shows how to integrate mapping tools suchas OpenStreetMap and Mapillary with Wikidata, Commons and Wikipedia.

Tool of the week

• Wiki Clarity Tool: Clarity Tool is a lightweight web application built to empower editors across Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. It helps contributors identify missing information in articles and suggests structured data from Wikidata to fill those gaps.

• Name Suggestion Index : Submit a Brand - A tool that links Wikidata brand items to the Name Suggestion Index project on OpenStreetMap.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editors can now edit String and External ID datatypes directly in the mobile view. To help improve this new interface, Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for volunteers for UX testing sessions. Participants will be compensated for their time. Sign up here (greatquestion) and learn more on the project page: Mobile editing of statements

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎braille transcription (transcription in Braille)
  • location collected (geographic location where a specimen or sample was collected in the field)
• Newest External identifiers: Rappels theatrical production ID, Berlin School ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Siège occupé ({{TranslateThis | fr = siège occupé par une personne au sein d'une académie ou autre société à ''numerus clausus'' }})
  • Standard Number (A standard serial number)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: MusicaPopular.cl ID, JMRC person id (en), Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography ID, CAMEO page ID, TeamNL athlete ID (new), World Flora Online Plant List, radeberger-stadtgeschichte.de Objekt Identifikator, Master Ideographs Seeker Character ID, Flohic ID, Oricon News person ID, radiko person ID, Xcity actress ID, TV Drama Database Program ID, Van Dale Rijmwoordenboek sentences ID, Van Dale Rijmwoordenboek word ID, BISMaL taxon ID, Vlaams Woordenboek ID, Kotobank Japanese ID, Nişanyan Adlar ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Items with two or more Olympedia people ID (source) - find duplicate external identifier.
  • Music roll releases with recordings of works performed by composer (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject progressive Metal
  • Wikiproject Basque Cultural heritage and GLAM
• Newest database reports: 'Template' items with only one sitelink - per Wikidata:Notability, "If a link is a template, the item must contain at least two such sitelinks..."
• Showcase Items: It Was Just an Accident (Q133866932) - a 2025 thriller film, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
• Showcase Lexemes:

Development

• Dumps: We published the report from our research into the user experience with Wikidata's dumps.
• Mobile editing: We are finalizing the support for quantity, monolingual text, mathematical expression and musical notation statements as well as a first version for coordinate statements.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We have continued our investigation into existing Lua modules in order to find more ways in which we can reduce unwanted entries from Wikidata in Recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We found a number of options that we are looking into now. (phab:T416822, phab:T416825, phab:T416826, phab:T416827)
• Wikidata Vector embedding: We added German to the embedding (next to English, French and Arabic)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-07

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.
• A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. Learn more.
• When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes.
• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata and testwikidata. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages.
• The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function {{#isbn}} available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so.
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Jju (w:kaj:)
  • a Wikipedia in Nawat (w:ppl:)
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• A new global user group has been created: Local bots. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026 will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2026).

Administrator changes

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• Crisco 1492

• Deepfriedokra
• Hbdragon88
• Karl Dickman
• Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

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Arbitration

• Due to the result of a recent motion, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor's Arab-Israeli conflict topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.

Miscellaneous

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Wikidata weekly summary #719

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #718.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Sjö - RfP scheduled to end after 17 February 2026 10:02 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: SEEKCommonsBot - Task: Synchronize Wikidata records created by the SEEKCommons project with OpenAlex
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • AmeisenBot 3 - Task: Adding descriptions (and possibly labels and aliases as well) to items based on their statements. Request closed as approved.
  • Che-W-bot - Request withdrawn.

Events

• Upcoming events: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 17 February, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, February 17 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikiproject P244 maintenance uses SPARQL queries to identify and resolve two types of constraint violations in Wikidata: instances of Wikidata items with more than one LCNAF identifier and instances of the same LCNAF identifier existing on more than one Wikidata item. The February 17th session will walk participants through how to resolve the former issue, while the March 3rd session will focus on the latter. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/LCNAF_Duplicate_Detection_P244_Maintenance

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wiki for Botanists, why thematic engagement matters: WMNZ/Aotearoa on how sustained outreach with botanists via Wikidata workshops, edit-a-thons, and conferences is improving plant-related knowledge on the Wikimedia projects and building strong collaborative relationships with scientific communities.
  • Tech News Week 7 / Global Watchlists extension: now supports multiple Wikibase instance (i.e. Wikidata + Test Wikidata) and fixes right-to-left (RTL) text directionality issues.
  • The Spark of Linked Data and Libraries: OCLC Passage Project White Paper Translation Report
• Papers: Federating Open Knowledge through Wikibase: the case of the Finno-Ugric data sharing space: Antal et al. (2026) present a community-driven, federated prototype to link multilingual cultural heritage data, open ontologies and preserve local epistemologies.
• Videos:
  • How to Unlock Knowledge Graph Data for LLMs with AI Retrieval - User:Philippe Saade (WMDE), AI/ML Project Manager talks to Chad Jennings of Beyond the Blueprints (IBM Product Hub) on making Wikidata more accessible for AI developers, replacing SPARQL-heavy workflows with vector search and hybrid retrieval.
  • (French) Créer une carte uMap à partir de données géolocalisées extraites de Wikidata - video presentation of 2026 Digital Encounters "Mapping territorial data in uMap"
  • Africa Wiki Women 2026 On Wiki Skills Mentorship Program - Introduction to Wikidata
  • Africa Wiki Women 2026 On Wiki Skills Mentorship Program - Major and Minor edits on Wikidata
  • EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-01-28) - participants discuss progress on the early adopter phase, incl. how to categorise and track contributions, what statistics to measure and progress on MCO application profiles (persons + corporate bodies)

Tool of the week

• Queer Memory multilingual web app that explores global queer history through live Wikidata timelines, places, rights, culture, and activism. Currently available in English, French, and Spanish.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Etherpad cleanup, save your pads now. All pads after 1st March 2026 willbe deleted so if you need any of your pads, please make a local backup.
• The Wikibase REST API search endpoints are now available on v1 and considered stable! It's important to note that the older v0, which has been live on Wikidata since July 2025, will remain available for a two month transition period until mid-April 2026. We encourage all users to migrate to the new v1 endpoints during this time to ensure that their applications can continue to work seamlessly.
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team has published its February 2026 newsletter. It includes result of an initial evaluation of open-source triple store candidates as part of the migration away from Blazegraph, the next Blazegraph migration office hour, and more. To have new issues of the WDP monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: category for music in this language (link to category item that contains music in this language)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎DOAB book ID, ‎qamus.inoor.ir root ID, ‎The Session tune ID, Parfumo fragrance note ID, ‎KaraokeTexty.cz album ID, Biographical encyclopedia of Maros County, Alpine Linux Wiki article, ‎Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 person ID, Igromania author ID, French Trade Mark Number, ‎Bane NOR location code, ‎CardCow.com publisher ID, ‎Lost Pubs Project ID, Handball Base ID, Handballnews.pl person ID, Center for Jewish History person ID, African Scientists Directory ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Number of translations (Number of translations)
  • Panoramax instance URL (the Panoramax instance of/about the subject)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID, Bach digital person ID, Bach digital work ID, YList ID, identificativo Antenati, Pesistulokset.fi player ID, Liiga.fi player ID, Letterboxd producer ID, Topplista artist ID, Apple Music Classical work ID, Fragplace brands ID, Fragplace fragrances ID, Fragplace notes ID, Fragplace perfumers ID, Sport Express person ID, ciss.org sportsperson ID (deaf sport)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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• Newest WikiProjects: Learned Societies
• WikiProject Highlights: a discussion regarding how to standardise the data model of the membership of learned societies
• Showcase Items: Super Moscato Show (Q3324704) - French radio program and audio podcast
• Showcase Lexemes: collection (L3941) - English noun (kəˈlɛkʃən) meaning "a group of gathered items", "money gathered for charity/church", or "the act of acquiring"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are putting finishing touches on editing support for external ID, URL, monolingual text, quantities and coordinate statements.
  • We worked on visually highlighting preferred and deprecated statements on the mobile site similar to how it is done on desktop.
  • We worked on showing more than one constraint violation when a statement violates multiple constraints.
• Ontology Federation: We continued working allowing other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata Items in their statements (and later from other Wikibase instances). You can see a demo video of the current development state at ontology federation demo.
• GraphQL: We worked on documentation to get get the GraphQL endpoint ready for a first release.
• Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team published their report of the evaluation of Blazegraph alternatives. You can read it at File:WDQS Triple Store Evaluation - Benchmark Results Report.pdf.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The SRE Team will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's Etherpad instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice.

Updates for editors

• The Information Retrieval team will be launching an Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March. Read more on Diff blog.
• The Reader Growth team will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
• Previously, site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add #siteNotice { display: none; } to MediaWiki:Minerva.css.
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue on Special:RecentChanges has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected.

Updates for technical contributors

• New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 17 February 2026

• In the media: Global powers see Wikipedia as fundamental target for manipulation
  Attempted Wikipedia shenanigans apparent from Epstein, AI, various governments.

• News and notes: Discussions open for the next WMF Annual Plan
  Plus, WikiFlix going places, steady progress on older FAs and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• Serendipity: Maintenance crews continue to slog through Wikipedia's oldest Featured Articles
  Hundreds of old FAs have been triaged since project began, but thousands remain — and they need reviewers.

• Disinformation report: Epstein's obsessions
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Wikidata weekly summary #720

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #719.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Jan Myšák - RfP scheduled to end after 28 February 2026 11:11 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Sjö - Closed as successful, congratulations User:Sjö.
• New request for comments: Notability policy reform: Round 2, where policy is suggested based on round 1 discussions.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Apply Now: Scholarships for the Language Diversity Conference 2026 - scholarship application deadline: 13 March 2026 / Conference dates: 2 - 4 October 2026 in Accra, Ghana.
  • Office Hour: Notability Policy - February 26th 2026 at 5PM UTC (your timezone).
  • (Catalan) They were not witches, they were women from Andorra - a Wikimarathon for Witches edit-a-thon to make biographies of Andorran women accused of witchcraft more visible on Wikidata and Wikipedia. Sign-up on Meta: 09:30 – 12:30 UTC, 7 March 2026.
• Ongoing: International Mother Language Day 2026 Datathon - February 21, 2026 – March 3, 2026

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Stack Overflow: Even GenAI uses Wikipedia (+Wikidata) as a source - transcript of the podcast audio between Ryan Donovan and Philippe Saade, on the Wikidata Embedding Project and vectorizing 30 million entities for semantic search.
  • Diff Blog: Revitalizing UK History, Series 2: Expanding Multilingual Access on Wikidata - Josef Anthony describes the projects efforts in documenting underrepresented UK historical figures in multiple languages.
  • Diff blog: Into the Spotlight: Sharing Archival Objects through Wikimedia Commons by User:LadyRabbit. Experience documenting Ellen Winstone, a historical figure, non-notability on Wikipedia doesn't mean they are not worth documenting. Wikidata and Commons can help.
• Papers: The Wikidata Query Logs Dataset (WDQL) - presenting a dataset of 200,000 question-query pairs intended to help train Natural Language questions into SPARQL. By S. Walter, H. Bast (2026).
• Videos: 3rd Wikidata Training of the On Wiki Skill Mentorship Program by Africa Wiki Women. Dives deeper into the core data modelling concepts, Wikidata-speciifc terminology and practical editing tips for beginners. Led by User:King ChristLike

Tool of the week

• Dagbanli dictionary - a monolingual Dagbanli dictionary built using Wikidata lexemes, with 20000 native audio recordings as usage examples pulled from Mozilla Common Voice. This means when you look up a word, you can hear it spoken in example sentences. See this in action here: suɣulo

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimania:2026 - The call for submissions for the program is open until March 1, 2026.
• OpenSanctions: As the CIA closes The World Factbook, we’re opening our global map of political power - introduces EveryPolitician.org, a global database of 690,000+ political office-holders across the globe. PoliLoom, GovDirectory, a dedicated WikiProject and the Wikidata community are helping make structured data on politicians transparent. Learn how you can contribute.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: annual greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by this entity in a year)
• Newest External identifiers: RFI topic ID, ‎Delfi.lv theme ID, SFDb original ID, Artdoc.Media film ID, ‎Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 practice ID, ‎Walloon-French dictionary ID, Bolivia INE code, Russian Register of Film Distribution Certificates ID, ‎Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek ID, ‎Woordenboek van Nieuwe Woorden ID, ‎Woordcombinaties ID, ‎Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands ID, Uzbek-Russian dictionary ID, ‎JMRC person id (he), Catalunya Romànica ID, ‎IEC 61355 identifier, Yandex Object Answer id, Michaelis Portuguese-English Modern Dictionary ID, Michaelis English-Portuguese Modern Dictionary ID, Uni24k indentifier, The Retro Web company ID, Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID, ‎Gravestone Project Cemetery ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • CWSAC classification ()
  • IBAN countries (The country which the bank with this property may create accounts in. For example "MyBank" can create bank accounts in "France" with the prefix "FR". Some banks have a single country they may create accounts in and other have many.)
  • Kloekecode (identifier for locations in the Netherlands, Flanders, French Flanders, and north-western Germany)
  • ICAO 24-bit aircraft address (Unique 24-bit ICAO aircraft address assigned to an individual aircraft’s Mode S transponder, expressed as a six-character hexadecimal code and used in ADS-B and air traffic surveillance systems.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Faulhaber-Edition ID, OldRacingCars.com drivers ID, ID Prix de Lausanne, Spellingwijzer Onze Taal ID, Uitleenwoordenbank ID, EpiMedDat ID, REVENCYT code, X Games athlete ID (new), Pinkhof ID, Scheikunde ID, JWS II ID, Buitenlandse aardrijkskundige namen in het Nederlands ID, PeeringDB Facility ID, DBNL place ID, DBNL country ID, DBNL titel ID, Movist person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Property table for a set of Wikidata items (the Memory of the World International Register)
  • People with PolSys ID (P1980), and with or without Norwegian historical register of persons ID (P4574) - (source)
• Schema examples: federally recognized tribe (E502): required and optional properties for items representing federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Ski - The goal of WikiProject Ski is to improve items about athletes, events and results from the different skiiing and snowboarding disciplines.
  • Nonprofit Orgs: South Africa - aims to add financial data to the biggest nonprofits
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Ontology: List of Ontology Pages
  • Sociotechnology: Resources
  • Chantiers MNBAQ
  • India: International Mother Language Day 2026 Datathon
• Showcase Lexemes: чурка (L179567) - Russian noun (ˈtɕurkə) meaning "a wooden block or stump", "a short piece of wood used in games", or "an offensive term for a person"чурка (L179567) - Russian noun (ˈtɕurkə) meaning "a wooden block or stump", "a short piece of wood used in games", or "an offensive term for a person"

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are preparing to reach out to editors about improving specific templates that are written in a way that creates a lot of unnecessary entries in Recent Changes and Watchlists.
• Mobile statement editing: We are getting close to having editing support for all datatypes. We are currently still working on the support for globe coordinates. We also added support for showing constraint violations on qualifiers and references.
• Data quality: We are doing technical investigations about how to make constraint violations available for querying again.
• GraphQL: We are getting ready to make GraphQL available on Wikidata later this week.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Spain
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Reference Check has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.

Updates for editors

• The InterwikiSorting extension, which allowed for the sorting of interwiki links, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code.
• Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened.
• The Reader Experience team is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in MediaWiki:skin-theme-description and MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag to indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta.
• The improved Activity tab which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug that prevented DiscussionTools from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a new hook, ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2026).

Administrator changes

• Brendanconway
• Calmer Waters
• Hut 8.5
• Joe Roe
• VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
• A request for comment is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 in favour of handling such redirects through RfD.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
• Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
• The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2026 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09, AmandaNP, Barras, Count Count, M7, SHB2000, Teles and VIGNERON.
• An Unreferenced articles backlog drive is taking place in March 2026 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Wikidata weekly summary #721

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #720.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Jan Myšák: Closed as successful, congratulations to Wikidata's newest admin!
• New request for comments: Notability Policy - Round 2: we are still requesting your input on the new Notablity policy. Including whether to elevate the self-promotion essay to a policy.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 3 March, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, March 3 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikiproject P244 maintenance uses SPARQL queries to identify and resolve two types of constraint violations in Wikidata: instances of Wikidata items with more than one LCNAF identifier and instances of the same LCNAF identifier existing on more than one Wikidata item. The February 17th session walked participants through how to resolve the former issue, while the March 3rd session will focus on the latter. This session will be more discussion-focused, since instances where two LCNAF identifier have the same Wikidata item can be difficult to resolve because of Wikidata’s innate quirks. Maybe your ideas will become the official best practice! Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/LCNAF_Duplicate_Detection_P244_Maintenance
  • Bring-Your-Own-Data-Lab, on 24.04.2026, the HERMES Data Competence centre hosts an online BYODL. Dr. Katrin Moeller and Dr. Olaf Simons will share how to enrich your own personal data with standard data and the Wikibase FactGrid. Click the link for registration and more information.
  • Wikidata Workshop w/ Wikipedia Riba Aruba + University of Aruba Research Center (UARC), March 2, 12 - 2pm GMT-4. Click here to register.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The Museo del Prado and Wikimedia Spain consolidate Wikidata as the connector axis of digital cultural heritage - gathering of the second edition of Connected Heritage: Wikidata in the GLAM Ecosystem
  • (Dutch) Wikipielen: an informal mini-hackathon for the GLAM sector, Olaf Janssen (WM coordinator at National Library of Netherlands) on the 10th edition of this micro-hackathon for people in cultural and heritage sector interested in Wikidata, Wikibase, SPARQL, OpenRefine and other technical skills.
  • Boundary Issues—Michal Migurski on representing disputed boundaries using Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
• Papers:
  • From Websites to Wikidata: Digitising Scotland’s Stories by Ross et al. (2026)
  • Entity Linking with Wikidata: A Systematic Literature Review
  • A Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction from Art-historical Image Descriptions by Schneider et al. (2026)., introduces FRAME for extracting art-historical entities and relationships from texts, enabling automatic linking of artworks, artists, and related metadata via Wikidata.
  • Review of Ethics in Linked Data by Rebecca Fried.
• Videos:
  • (Swedish) Fotbollsspelare Wikipedia / Wikidata - using QuickStatements to add P54 (member of sports team) to football players
  • Jukun Wikipedia Outreach, day 2 took attendees through adding interwiki links, Wikidata essentials and adding Databox templates to Jukun Wiki articles.
  • Set-up Tutorial: Language Preferences and Gadgets on Wikidata, the International [Digital] Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) takes us through enabling gadgets and setting your preferred languages (Babel).

Tool of the week

• Maps Of the World / Stadiums - explore the stadiums of the world (at least the ones with Wikidata Items), mapped by SPARQL.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: SignWriting transcription (representation in SignWriting)
• Newest External identifiers: Microsoft Store developer ID, Apple Music Classical work ID, ‎SIK-ISEA group ID, ‎CHZZK streamer ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review::
  • Objectif plumes (Database managed by the General Service for Literature and Books, a department of the Cultural Administration of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (basically the Ministry of Culture for the French-speaking part of Belgium). The database currently includes entries on books by more than 8.000 Belgian writers.)
  • usual forename (A name usually derived from a given name used to address a person in everyday life.)
    • apportionment diagram (image that displays the representation of seats won by party in an election to an assembly)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: LibriVox reader ID, All Skies Encyclopaedia ID, KCUE academy ID, Catálogo de autoridades da BUSC, ISSN-H, Hong Kong Cinema title ID, NPPM ID, Parlement.com ID, Kokugakuin University god name database ID, Czech National Register of Health Service Providers ID, Génération Nintendo game ID developer ID, Génération Nintendo game ID publisher ID, wikiru.jp wiki ID, Tribuna.com football players ID, SnokaDB, abadis.ir Persian word ID, AIK soccer player ID, BOIShistory

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Works in Scottish museums by female artists, lacking an English Wikipedia article (source)
  • Graph of Moominworld
• Showcase Items: Zanzibar Islands (Q1774) - semi-autonomous part of Tanzania
• Showcase Lexemes: snap (L14515) - English verb (snæp) meaning "to break suddenly", "to lose control emotionally", or "to take a photograph"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We worked on removing the constraint violations indicator from a statement after an edit that fixed it.
  • We are fixing bugs uncovered in testing, such as phab:T218477, phab:T418104, phab:T417861 and phab:T417647.
• GraphQL: We are getting ready to launch the first version later this week, including preparing the documentation for how to use it.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Wikipedia 25 Birthday mode is now live on Betawi, Breton, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Gorontalo, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Madurese, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese Wikipedias! This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. Communities can choose to turn Birthday mode on by getting consensus from their community and asking an admin to enable the feature and customize it via community configuration on the local wiki.

Updates for editors

• Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to Swedish Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia and a couple of other wikis. You can try the feature on these projects or on testwiki and betawiki. Learnings from the first pilot wiki German Wikipedia have been published in a report. Reach out to the Wikimedia Deutschland team if you are interested in becoming a pilot wiki.
• Paste Check will become available at all Wikipedias this week. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation. Paste Check tags all edits where it is shown for potential review. Local administrators can configure various aspects of the feature via Special:EditChecks. Research across 22 wikis found that Paste Check resulted in an 18% decrease in relative reverted-edits compared to the control group. Translators can help to localize this and related features.
• The Reader Experience team will be standardizing the user menu in the top right for all mobile users so that it is closer to the desktop experience. Currently this user menu is only visible to users with Advanced Mobile Controls (AMC) turned on. The only change is that a couple buttons previously in the left-side menu will move to the top right for users who do not have AMC turned on. This change is expected to go out March 9 and seeks to improve the user interface.
• Starting in the week of March 2, the emails sent out when an email address was added, removed, or changed for an account will switch to a substantially nicer and clearer HTML email from the prior plaintext one.
• Notifications are currently limited to 2,000 historic entries per user, and extend back to 2013 when the feature was released. This is going to be changed to only store Notifications from the last 5 years, but up to 10,000 of them. This will help with long-term infrastructure health and help to prevent more recent notifications from disappearing too soon.
• The Global Watchlist which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page continues to see improvements. The latest update improves label usage experience. The extension now allows activating the language fallback system for Wikidata items without labels in the viewed language, and showing those labels in the user’s preferred Wikidata language if no uselang= URL parameter is provided.
• The Wikipedia Android team has started a beta test of hybrid search on Greek Wikipedia. Hybrid search capabilities can handle both semantic and keyword queries enabling readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily.
• For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March. Members of these groups will be unable to disable last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the second half of March, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. This applies to: CentralNotice administrators, checkusers, interface administrators, suppressors, Wikidata staff, Wikifunctions staff, WMF Office IT and WMF Trust & Safety. Nothing will change for other users. See the linked task for deployment schedule.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue preventing users from creating an instance in Wikibase.cloud has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• To help ensure fair use of infrastructure, over the next month the Wikimedia Foundation will implement global API rate limits across our APIs. In early March, stricter limits will be applied to unidentified requests from outside Toolforge/WMCS and API requests that are made from web browsers. In April, higher limits will be applied to identified traffic. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
• The Wikidata Query Service Linked Data Fragment (LDF) endpoint will be decommissioned in February. This endpoint served limited traffic, which was successfully migrated to other data access methods that were better suited to support existing use cases. The hardware used to support the LDF endpoint will be reallocated to support the ongoing backend migration efforts.
• The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, improving platform sustainability and making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. Parsoid is now the default parser on 488 WMF wikis (268 Wikipedias), now covering more than 10% of all Wikipedia page views.
• The process and criteria for requesting exceptional access to the high volume feed of the Wikimedia Enterprise APIs (at no cost for mission-aligned usecases), have now been published. This is to provide more thorough and clearer documentation for users.
• Tech Blog, the blog dedicated to the Wikimedia technical community will be migrating to Diff, the community news and event blog. The migration should be complete in April 2026, after which new posts will be accepted for publishing. Readers will be able to access posts – old and new – on the landing page at https://diff.wikimedia.org/techblog.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 1

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	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 31 January

Volume 4 — Issue 1
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News NASA called off a planned spacewalk of SpaceX Crew-11 on 8 January, and later cancelled the mission outright, after one of the crewmembers, Mike Fincke, was reported to have a medical complication. This was the first time that this occurred in US history. On 11 January, the Pandora spacecraft was successfully launched. Pandora is designed to study the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets, with the intention of identifying targets for future observation.
Article of the month Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer (EXCEDE) is a proposed space telescope for NASA's Explorer program to observe circumstellar protoplanetary and debris discs and study planet formation around nearby (within 100 parsecs) stars of spectral classes M to B. Had it been selected for development, it was proposed to launch in 2019. The spacecraft concept proposed to use a 70 centimeter diameter telescope-mounted coronagraph called PIAA (Phase Induced Amplitude Apodized Coronagraph) to suppress starlight in order to be able to detect fainter radiation of circumstellar dust. Characterizing constitution of such disks would provide clues for planetary formation (mostly in habitable zones), while already existing exoplanets can be detected through their interaction with dust disk. The project's Principal Investigator is Glenn Schneider.	Image of the month Wernher von Braun with the Rocketdyne F-1 engines Pictured here are two titans of spaceflight history: Dr. Wernher von Braun, one of the main figures of the early American space program and designer of both the Saturn V and V-2 rockets, and five (four visible) Rocketdyne F-1 engines, used on the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle. Dr. von Braun's career is noted for a great number of achievements in human spaceflight, including the Apollo mission which successfully put human beings on the moon; nevertheless, it is burdened with the shadow of his activities in the Nazi Party, especially concerning his work on the V-2. The engines behind him, in addition to being immense, have the honor of being the only engines used to get humans to the moon, as of the time of writing. Developed in the late 1950s, the 8,400 kilograms (18,500 lb) engines are still the most powerful single combustion chamber liquid-propellant rocket ever made.
Members New Members: GiftedIceCream (24 January) Number of active members: 219. Total number of members: 446. January Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a complete list here. Falcon 9 Block 5 — various, including Pandora (11 Jan. at 13:44:50) (success) PSLV-DL — various, including EOS-N1 and THEOS-2A (12 Jan. at 04:48:30) (launch failure) Ceres-2 — various (17 Jan. at 04:05) (launch failure)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 January 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 59 2 133 B 16 77 196 236 6 531 C 44 170 607 860 1 58 1,740 Start 15 134 1,026 2,701 499 4,375 Stub 5 195 1,986 296 2,482 List 11 119 110 239 1 44 524 Category 1,282 1,282 Disambig 48 48 File 275 275 Portal 55 55 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 43 143 1,248 1,436 Template 534 534 NA 2 2 Other 34 34 Assessed 105 566 2,232 6,237 3,713 905 13,758 Unassessed 1 8 127 136 Total 105 567 2,232 6,245 3,713 1,032 13,894 Monthly Changes Since December 2025, there are two fewer top-importance, two more high-importance, two more mid-importance, 19 more low-importance, 20 more NA-importance, and 31 more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 72 new articles. There are also three more GA-class, three more B-class, twelve more C-class, eleven more Start-class, and eleven more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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Wikidata weekly summary 722

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #721.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 8 - Task: Remove Wikipedia import references from statements where the referenced article has since been deleted.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The 6th Wikidata Workshop has been announced for ISWC 2026. If you are interested in joining the wWorkshop for the scientific Wikidata community, contact: 6th-wikidata-workshop@googlegroups.com
  • Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - April 22, 2026, 13:00 - 14:30, at the University of Central Florida.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Diff blog: Becoming a Trainer Assistant at Wikilatih Wikidata BRIN: A Journey of Sharing Knowledge by Affandy Murad
  • Diff blog: Why Dagbanli Needs a Dictionary (And How We Built One with Wikidata) - by User:Masssly
• Papers: Scholia 2026: Compliance with SPARQL 1.1, to be presented at SWAT4HCLS 2026
• Videos:
  • (Swedish) Mix'n'Match IFKDB / Mix'n'Match DIF Historia - Magnus Sälgö
  • (Spanish) Introducción a Wikidata, Dinah M. W.Fraites and Dr. Claudia De Souza give a comprehensive tour and introduciotn of Wikidata for the Centro para la Excelencia Académica
  • Accessibility and Gen AI - Ep 15 w/ Denny Vrandečić (Head of Special Projects at Wikimedia Foundation) - a conversation about Abstract Wikipedia, the relationship between Wikimedia, Wikipedia and other Projects and how the Foundation will adopt and adapt to emergent technologies such as LLM's.
  • Epigraphic Object Encoding - Session 7 of the SunoikisisDC Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage. Experiences encoding epigraphic data into Wikidata starts at 58:27.
  • (Arabic) Arabic Wikidata Days 2025: Adding Wikidata to include Arabic Content (example: Hijri Calendar), Saeed Hubaishan presents a practical example of adapting Wikibase to enable adding new data types that haven't previously been modelled, such as dates in the Hijri Calendar.
  • Wikimania 2025 - Unpopular Opinions: Bold Lightning Talks to Shake Up Wikimedia: Moving Categories to Wikidata ((Ad Huikeshoven)) / Introducing Wiki AI (Sam Klein)
  • Unlocking Government Data for Wikidata: Stories, Impacts & Open Dialogue from Wikimania 2025. Panelists: Butch Bustria, James M. Heilman (Doc James), Jan Ainali, Vanj Padilla, Wisdom Ferrer, Seddon explore how the reuse of public domain & government datasets enriches Wikidata & bolsters public engagement with Wikimedia projects.Slides

Tool of the week

• Data2Go : An iOS app for browsing and editing Wikidata with a mobile-first UI. It combines fast search, rich item detail views, statement editing, map previews, media galleries, and account-based write access to Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata now has a GraphQL API! Read more about it and try it out or sign up for the usability tests.
• The WMF is in the process of rolling out new global API rate limits. This will also affect Wikidata. For more details see mw:Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ICAO 24-bit aircraft address, BISMaL taxon ID, Xcity actress ID, All Skies Encyclopaedia ID, Power Thesaurus ID, Kvinnehistorie.no persons ID, Mastercaller player ID, dartn.de player ID, darts1.de player ID, pdpa.co.uk player ID, ‎People's Graphic Design Archive creator ID, HKCinema film ID, Medvik ID, Obálky knih ID, MusicaPopular.cl ID, CAMEO page ID, ciss.org sportsperson ID (deaf sport)
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • maximum vehicle length (maximum authorized length for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • Peer-review propertiy for journals or publications ({{TranslateThis | de = <!-- Beschreibung auf Deutsch --> <!-- | xx = Beschreibungen in anderen Sprachen --> }}Scholarly journals or publications should have a property "peer review process" indicating which peer review process (if any) is applied for the publication.)
  • maximum vehicle width (maximum authorized width for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • maximum vehicle weight (maximum authorized weight (tonnage / gross vehicle weight) for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (load limit))
  • regional conservation status (conservation status of species in national or regional Red List publications that follow the IUCN red list criteria)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: LINE official account ID, Kulturbase.no ID, CROWCASS file number, Integbio Database Catalog ID, norsk fangeregister historie ID, Census of Italian Architecture since 1945, TMDB award ID, SocioMap ID, AVefi ID, NSK new ID, Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Property count of characters in Tolkien's Universe (source)
  • Data about Norwegians in captivity during WWII (using Norwegian prisoner register person ID (P8269) + others (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Beer
• Showcase Items: Melbourne Airport (Q733738) - international airport serving Melbourne, Australia
• Showcase Lexemes: sampaa (L1154759) - Dagbanli noun that translates to a hut within a compound to provide shelter for people during the warm season.

Development

• GraphQL: We have released the first version of this new API. You can read more about it and try it out.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We have worked with editors to improve some highly-used modules that access Wikidata in a suboptimal way. They have been adjusted to lead to less unneeded change notification in people's watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
• Mobile statement editing: We fixed an issue where certain Properties were not accessible in the new mobile UI. We are also working on fixing a bug with saving musical notation statements. We are continuing the work on supporting editing of geocoordinates.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus: agencies for the environment and nature conservation.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-11

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
• Last week, all wikis had 2 hours of read-only time, and extended unavailability for user-scripts and gadgets. This was due to a security incident which has since been resolved. Work is ongoing to prevent re-occurrences. For current information please see the post on the Stewards' noticeboard (translations).

Updates for editors

• Users facing multiple blocks on mobile will now see the reasons for each block separately, instead of a generic message. This helps them understand why they are blocked and what steps they can take to resolve the issue. For example, users affected for using common VPNs (such as iCloud Private Relay) will receive clearer guidance on what they need to do to start editing again.
• Later this week, Suggestion Mode will become available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines. The feature is locally configurable, and can also be locally expanded with custom Suggestions. Current settings can be seen at Special:EditChecks and there are instructions for how administrators can customize the links to point to local guidelines. The feature is connected to Edit check which suggests improvements while someone is writing new content. In the future, the Editing team plans to evaluate the feature's impact with newcomers through a controlled experiment.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where the cursor became misaligned during the use of CodeMirror’s syntax highlighting, which makes wikitext and code easier to read, has now been fixed. This problem specifically affected users who defined a font rule in a custom stylesheet while creating a new topic with DiscussionTools.

Updates for technical contributors

• API rate limiting update: To help ensure fair use of infrastructure, global API rate limits will be applied this week to requests without a compliant User-Agent that originate from outside Toolforge/WMCS and to unauthenticated requests made from web browsers. Higher limits will be applied to identified traffic in April. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
• The new GraphQL API has been released. The API was developed as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), to improve developer experience and foster adaptability, and efficient data access. Try it out and give feedback. You can also sign up for usability tests.
• The PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group continued improvements to Video2Commons in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads. Read this update to learn more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The Article Guidance team invites experienced Wikipedia editors from selected pilot wikis and interested contributors from other Wikipedias to fill out this questionnaire which is available in English, Arabic, Bengali, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, and Turkish. Your answers will help the team customize guidance for less experienced editors and help them learn community policies and practices while creating an article. Learn more on the project page.

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The Signpost: 10 March 2026

• Interview: Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO
  Part 2.

• News and notes: Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki
  Dormant worm awakes; a sketchy archiving site struck; ether burns.

• Special report: What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?
  A horrifying exploit took place, which could have had catastrophic and far-reaching consequences if used maliciously; instead, it seems to have happened by accident and was used for childish vandalism. How did this happen, and what did the script actually do?

• In the media: Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware
  As well as controversy over LLM translations.

• Recent research: To wiki, perchance to groki
  Comparisons continue.

• Obituary: Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet
  Rest in peace.

• Opinion: Interface administrators and trusting trust
  Potential attacks are the logical consequence of giving a group of users unlimited control over JavaScript.

• Technology report: English Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content
  After the archive site launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started, with consensus to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times.

• Op-ed: Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?
  The answer is slop.

• Essay: The pursuit of a button click
  Volunteering for Wikipedia has its rewards. The thank-button, for example.

• In focus: Short descriptions: One year later
  A discussion of the challenge set forth to the Wikipedia community one year ago!

• WikiProject report: Unreferenced articles backlog drive
  Unreferenced articles in English Wikipedia - help us in the backlog drive!

• Community view: Speaking of planning ...
  The WMF planning process is underway.

• Traffic report: Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds
  Death and the Winter Olympics.

• Crossword: "It will never happen"
  Want to take a break?

• Comix: BRIEn't
  Or is it.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 73

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 73, January–February 2026

• Four new partnerships
• User survey thanks

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Wikidata weekly summary #723

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #722.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) project - The ALMEDA project’s key outcome is a linked, open, and searchable metadata repository—built from extensive cataloguing of previously uncatalogued materials and enriched through a user-friendly interface launching in 2025, designed to support ongoing growth beyond the project’s initial five-year funding.
  • https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/13/structuring-dagbanli-on-wikidata-lexemes-senses-and-the-digraph-challenge/
• Papers: Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy - This study develops a refined taxonomy of Wikidata qualifiers—based on their semantics, frequency, and diversity—to help contributors select appropriate qualifiers, improve querying and inference, and enhance knowledge graph design, ultimately offering a structured framework that covers the most important qualifiers and supports better recommendation systems. By Falquet & Aljalbout (2026).
• Videos: LIVE Wikidata editing #118 at the Open Data Day - Wikipedia Weekly Network:
  • Introduction to editing Wikidata on mobile - Art + Feminism in Wikimedia Botswana
  • Queer women in the Arts (English): A panel discussion and Wikidata workshop
• Podcasts: Wikipediapodden interviews Lydia Pintscher about the ongoing Wikidata notability reform (also available on Commons)
• Notebooks: Who gets a biography on French-language Wikipedia? A country-by-country portrait of biographical coverage for people born between 1950 and 2000.

Tool of the week

• Wdquery : GraphQL-powered Wikidata item advanced search.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• https://casier-politique.fr
• Fornland—aggregates over a million cultural heritage sites from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland into one interface, combining Wikidata and other sources .
• m:Coolest Tool Award
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team has published its March 2026 newsletter. To have new issues of the WDP monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!
• Reminder that the 4 week grace period for switching to the v1 route for the Wikibase REST API search endpoints will end this week. The v0 route will be turned off and hence will no longer function.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • river regime (predominant pattern of annual changes to a stream's discharge at a particular period)
  • seat occupied (seat held by a person within an academy or other society)
• Newest External identifiers: Génération Nintendo publisher ID, KCI article ID, ‎LINCS ID, radeberger-stadtgeschichte.de Object Identificator, Flohic ID, ‎Vlaams Woordenboek ID, ‎Bach digital person ID, ‎Bach digital work ID, Identificativo Antenati, ‎Liiga.fi player ID, ‎Pesistulokset.fi player ID, ‎Letterboxd producer ID, Fragplace brands ID, Fragplace fragrances ID, Fragplace notes ID, Fragplace perfumers ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • population pyramid (Age pyramid image for demography articles)
  • StatsF1 ID (Link to a Formula 1 specific database)
  • maximum vehicle height (maximum authorized height for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (regulatory limit from signage))
  • Bibliografi.dk (Bibliografi.dk)
  • PeerTube instance URL (the PeerTube instance of/about the subject)
  • Central Registration Number (Indonesia) (primary service registration number assigned to a member of the Indonesian Armed Forces or Indonesian National Police)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Digital Public Good, LUBW-RIPS-Wasserkraftanlage-ID, Identifiant QueenBallers.com d'une joueuse, Foto Atlas taxonomy ID, Brewver beer ID, Göteborgsalliansen, Consumer Rights Wiki article ID, Royal Air Force service number, Identifiant d'une personne dans le Bianco, Tajik-Russian Dictionary word ID, AmericanAristocracy person ID, AmericanAristocracy house ID, Shinmei database ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Showcase Items: Patrice Lumumba (Q161672) - Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • If you have not tried it yet, now is an excellent time to turn it on in the beta features section of your preferences, test it and give feedback.
  • We have added support for editing globe coordinate statements
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to work on the issue of too many Wikidata in recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We are currently prototyping a way to only consider changes that actually have an impact on the article (phab:T419823). We also finished the work on an emergency switch to turn off sending changes for qualifiers and references to Wikipedia and co in case of major database disruptions (phab:T412956).
• Ontology federation: We are working towards getting the code for ontology federation (in its first version of using Wikidata Items as values on other Wikibase instances) ready for wider testing.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Bangladesh
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-12

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ beta feature, also known as CodeMirror 6, has been used for wikitext syntax highlighting since November 2024. It will be promoted out of beta by May 2026 in order to bring improvements and new features to all editors who use the standard syntax highlighter. If you have any questions or concerns about promoting the feature out of beta, please share.
• Some changes to local user groups are performed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and logged there only. Now, interwiki rights changes will be logged both on Meta-Wiki and the wiki of the target user to make it easier to access a full record of user's rights changes on a local wiki. Past log entries for such changes will be backfilled in the coming weeks.
• On wikis using Flagged Revisions, the number of pending changes shown on Special:PendingChanges previously counted pages which were no longer pending review, because they have been removed from the system without being reviewed, e.g. due to being deleted, moved to a different namespace, or due to wiki configuration changes. The count will be correct now. On some wikis the number shown will be much smaller than before. There should be no change to the list of pages itself.
• Wikifunctions composition language has been rewritten, resulting in a new version of the language. This change aims to increase service stability by reducing the orchestrator's memory consumption. This rewrite also enables substantial latency reduction, code simplification, and better abstractions, which will open the door to later feature additions. Read more about the changes.
• Users can now sort search results alphabetically by page title. The update gives an additional option to finding pages more easily and quickly. Previously, results could be sorted by Edit date, Creation date, or Relevance. To use the new option, open 'Advanced Search' on the search results page and select 'Alphabetically' under 'Sorting Order'.
• View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug that prevented UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons from importing files from Flickr has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• A new special page, Special:LintTemplateErrors, has been created to list transcluded pages that are flagged as containing lint errors to help users discover them easily. The list is sorted by the number of transclusions with errors. For example: Special:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color.
• Users of the ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ beta feature have been using CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages, for some time now. Along with promoting CodeMirror 6 out of beta, the plan is to replace CodeEditor as the standard editor for these content models by May 2026. Feedback or concerns are welcome.
• The CodeMirror JavaScript modules will soon be upgraded to CodeMirror 6. Leading up to the upgrade, loading the ext.CodeMirror or ext.CodeMirror.lib modules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of the ext.CodeMirror.switch hook was also deprecated in March 2025. Contributors can now make their scripts or gadgets compatible with CodeMirror 6. See the migration guide for more information.
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team is expanding coverage of REST API module definitions to include extension APIs. REST API modules are groups of related endpoints that can be independently managed and versioned. Modules now exist for GrowthExperiments and Wikifunctions APIs. As we migrate extension APIs to this structure, documentation will move out of the main MediaWiki OpenAPI spec and REST Sandbox view, and will instead be accessible via module-specific options in the dropdown on the REST Sandbox (i.e., Special:RestSandbox, available on all wiki projects).
• The Scribunto extension provides different pieces of information about the wiki where the module is being used via the mw.site library. Starting last week, the library also provides a way of accessing the wiki ID that can be used to facilitate cross-wiki module maintenance.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The 2026 Coolest Tool Award celebrating outstanding community tools, is now open for nominations! Nominate your favorite tool using the nomination survey form by 23 March 2026. For more information on privacy and data handling, please see the survey privacy statement.

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Wikidata weekly summary #724

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #723.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • AraBot - Tasks: Adding Aragonese sitelinks and updating articles on Aragonese Wikipedia with Wikidata's data.
  • InventaireBot - Task: Make automated edits generated by the inventaire.io (Q32193244) server and manual edits on behalf of users without a Wikidata account.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: DelintBot - Task: Fix lint errors on pages across all namespaces where Wikitext can be written (namespaces not managed by Wikibase).
• New request for comments: archive.today - due to a RfC and policy on enwiki, this discussion needs your input on whether Wikidata will continue listing archive.today links.
• Ongoing request for comments: Notability policy reform is looking for input about remaining questions around marginalized knowledge and external identifiers

Events

• Upcoming events: (German) Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen, YouTube livestream – 28 March 2026 (UTC+1): presentations by Lisa Dieckmann at 12.30 - 12.50 (“Bilder verknüpfen – prometheus, Normdaten und Wikidata”), Lucy Patterson & Lukas Fuchsgruber at 16.30 - 16.45 (“Kritische Arbeit mit Sammlungsdaten auf Wikidata”), and Max Kristen at 17.30 - 17.45 (“usefulQueries: Unkompliziert Kunstgeschichte in Wikidata erkunden”).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Structuring Dagbanli on Wikidata: Lexemes, Senses, and the Digraph Challenge by Masssly and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
  • Open Knowledge Graphs: A Search Engine for Ontologies, Controlled Vocabularies, and Semantic Web Tools, by Steve Hedden
  • (German) Erinnerungskultur zum Mitmachen: eine digitale Landkarte zum Gestapoterror in Niedersachsen by Gabriele Fahrenkrog
• Papers: Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy presents an analysis of Wikidata qualifiers, focusing on semantics and usage, in order to develop a taxonomy to help in selecting appropriate qualifiers, querying the knowledge graph, and making logical inferences. By Gilles Falquet and Sahar Aljalbout (2026).
• Videos:
  • Creating a Wikidata item for a Historic Building - OpenStreetMap for History Buffs gives a practical example of creating a Wikidata Item for a historic Irish building, but you can adapt it for other historical or archeological sites.
  • Introduction to Wikidata (Creating items, Statements & References) - Africa Wiki Women continue their introductory series with trainer, Blessing Timothy.
  • (French) Introduction à Wikidata is also provided by Africa Wiki Women.
  • Simple steps to edit Wikidata Episode 1(WAMP) - User:Dsp13 of the Wiki Afrodemics Project covers a variety of topics to help new editors make meaningful contributions to Wikidata.
  • (French) Introduction à la modification de Wikidata sur mobile - Art+Feminism in partnership with WM Botswana provide a training session for mobile editing (with a focus on women artists, feminist movements and underrepresented cultural contributions).
  • Queer Women in the Arts: Art+Feminism teamed up with WikiLGBT+ (Event page) for a panel discussion and Wikidata training centering on Queer Women in the Arts, in honour of International Women's Day. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
  • Wikidata tools: Pet Scan - User:Epìdosis introduces this handy tool that allows you to query and generate lists of Wikipedia pages or Wikidata items based on defined criteria such as Categories, Properties, Templates, and others.
  • Introduction to Wikidata & Property Dashboard - Essential Wikidata Tools: Automating Your Workflow workshop given 13 March 2026. Hosted by Alan Ang, Camillo Pellizari, Pru Mitchell, and Taufik Rosman for the ESEAP community.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Property Creation Helper takes a property proposal page and translates it into a QuickStatements batch (and then a second one for the examples) that a property creator can use to quickly create a new property. By ArthurPSmith

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• GraphQL API ongoing feedback: If you haven’t tried it yet, you can still explore it as a developer-friendly alternative to select WDQS features. Please Share your feedback on the project page, or sign up for deeper usability testing.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • mass number (total number of baryons in an atomic nucleus)
  • soil acidity preference (soil acidity preference of a plant species or lichen)
  • Diepkloof (Place in Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • paid-up capital (portion of a company’s issued share capital that has been paid by shareholders)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:: Shinmei database ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Baden-Württemberg, Central Registration Number (Police), NIP 9-digit, MeetStadium ID, indexxx.com performer ID, BGAFD actress ID, Shellers From the Past ID, معرف منشور في قاعدة بيانات معرفة, London Book Trades ID, KCI journal ID, KCI publisher ID, PeerJ person ID, BIORAB–FRANKFURT ID, BIORAB–WEIMAR, BIORAB-KAISERREICH, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID, Wikiparfum perfumer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject LAGL (Linked Ancient and Greek Latin) has been established to develop guidelines for adding statements for ancient authors.
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject IDEA: Oral Histories - International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) added a subpage for resources, guidelines and progress for adding oral history Items and Statements.
• Showcase Items: Ngondo (Q3339328) - worship of water oracles and associated cultural traditions among the Sawa

Development

• Infrastructure sustainability: We started working with a contractor to look at Wikidata's data storage to find opportunities for improving it.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing the work on a prototype to compare a wiki page before and after it has been parsed to see if this is a feasible way to reduce the number of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist that do not affect the article (phab:T419823)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-13

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys. This is a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. With this change, all users who opt for passwordless login will find it easier, faster, and more secure to log in to their accounts using any device. The new passkey login option currently appears as an autofill suggestion in the username field. An additional "Log in with passkey" button will soon be available for users who have already registered a passkey. This update will improve security and user experience. The screen recording demonstrates the passwordless login process step by step.
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.

Updates for editors

• Wikimedia site users can now export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool. This will ensure that users retain their important notifications and avoid them being lost based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced.
• Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to Special:PersonalDashboard. This is an early version of an experience that introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.
• The Special:Block now has two minor interface changes. Administrators can now easily perform indefinite blocks through a dedicated radio button in the expiry section. Also, choosing an indefinite expiry provides a different set of common reasons to select from, which can be changed at: MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown.
• Mobile editors at several wikis can now see an improved logged-out edit warning, thanks to the recent updates from the Growth team. These changes released last week are part of ongoing efforts and tests to enhance account creation experience on mobile and then increase participation.
• View all 36 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug that prevented mobile web users from seeing the block information when affected by multiple blocks has been fixed. They can now see messages of all the blocks currently affecting them when they access Wikipedia.

Updates for technical contributors

• Images built using Toolforge will soon get the upgraded buildpacks version, bringing support for newer language versions and other upstream improvements and fixes. If you use Toolforge Build Service, review the recent cloud-announce email and update your build configuration as necessary to ensure your tools are compatible.

• The API Portal documentation wiki will shut down in June 2026. API keys created on the API Portal will continue to work normally. api.wikimedia.org endpoints will be deprecated gradually starting in July 2026. Documentation on the API Portal is moving to mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• WMDE Technical Wishes is considering improvements to automatically generated reference names in VisualEditor. Please check out the proposed solutions and participate in the request for comment.

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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 2

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 28 February

Volume 4 — Issue 2
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News The first crewed spaceflight of 2026, SpaceX Crew-12, was launched on the 13th. Four astronauts were flown to the ISS in an atypical indirect handover that was caused by the early return of Crew-11 due to a medical emergency. On the 14th, the ESA lost contact with PROBA-3, a dual-probe technological demonstration mission for chronographic high-precision formation flying. Specifically, the Chronograph Spacecraft lost orientation and drifted away from the Occulter.
Article of the month Parking orbit A parking orbit is a temporary orbit used during the launch of a spacecraft. A launch vehicle follows a trajectory to the parking orbit, then coasts for a while, then engines fire again to enter the final desired trajectory. An alternative trajectory that is used on some missions is direct injection, where the rocket fires continuously (except during staging) until its fuel is exhausted, ending with the payload on the final trajectory. This technique was first used by the Soviet Venera 1 mission to Venus in 1961.	Image of the month Space Shuttle Endeavour prior to rendezvous with the International Space Station Part of a series of photographs, this image depicts the Space Shuttle Endeavour prior to rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station as part of STS-130 in 2010. It was taken from the station by a member of Expedition 22 when the ISS was 183 nautical miles above the South Pacific, off the coast of southern Chile. Earth is in the bottom-left; the orange part of the atmosphere is the troposphere, the white band in the middle is the stratosphere, and the blue section is the mesosphere.
Members New Members: none Number of active members: 219. Total number of members: 446. February Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Proton-M/DM-03 — Elektro–L №5, Jam-e-Jam 1 (12 Feb. at 08:52:15) (success) Vulcan Centaur VC4S — GSSAP-7/-8, USA-584 (12 Feb. at 09:22:00) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 28 February 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 59 2 133 B 16 77 196 238 7 534 C 44 170 609 868 1 61 1,753 Start 15 134 1,026 2,713 503 4,391 Stub 5 194 1,976 297 2,472 List 11 119 111 242 1 44 528 Category 1,284 1,284 Disambig 48 48 File 274 274 Portal 55 55 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 43 141 1,248 1,434 Template 533 533 NA 2 2 Other 1 37 38 Assessed 105 566 2,234 6,251 3,716 914 13,786 Unassessed 1 9 128 138 Total 105 567 2,234 6,260 3,716 1,042 13,924 Monthly Changes Since January 2026, there are two more mid-importance, fifteen more low-importance, three more NA-importance, and ten more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 30 new articles. There are also three more B-class, thirteen more C-class, sixteen more Start-class, and ten fewer Stub-class articles, and four more lists.
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Wikidata weekly summary #725

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #724.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Thetalentone - Tasks: Adding and updating references, qualifiers, publication dates, and provenance on my own personal and company items (Q138324775 and Q138324581) to improve entity confidence for Google Knowledge Graph. Small batches only, no edits to unrelated items.
  • Dušan Kreheľ - Task: Sitelinks existing and newly created municipality pages on hrwiki and Wikidata.
• New request for comments: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Mass-editing policy has a new proposal incorporating feedback and is awaiting votes.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 08th April 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit takes place until 20:00 CET, 30 May 2026.
  • "Wikidata in der Sammlungserschließung" (free online event in German on how GLAM institutions can use Wikidata, 20 April 2026, 10-11:30 CET, organized by Research and Competence Centre Digitalisation Berlin (Q51845259). More info and registration here.
  • Wikidata Ontology Course: The second offering of the Wikidata ontology course will be given in May and June 2026, with sessions 1-3 pm EDT (UTC-4) on Thursdays. The Wikidata ontology provides structure and organization for the rest of Wikidata and is thus fundamental to Wikidata. The course starts with the basic notions underlying the Wikidata ontology and goes on to cover querying using SPARQL, inference, constraints, advanced ontology notions, problems with the ontology, and other ontology-related aspects of Wikidata. Participants in the course are expected to complete weekly exercise sets and a project. More information on the course can be found at WikiProject Ontology/Ontology Course. To register for this offering fill in and submit the Google form.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wikidata contains many gaps in its political data. We’ve built a tool to change that (PoliLoom)
  • From a summer school idea to an ESWC paper: Teaching AI to “repair” Wikidata
• Papers:
  • Did AI Crawlers Kill SPARQL Federation?, including Wikidata examples
  • Gender and intersectional bias in featured biographies on the front page of the Italian edition of Wikipedia, 2014–2024 Open Access - Wikidata featured heavily in the design and methodology. By Rovira et al., (2026).
• Videos:
  • Adding architectural data to a Wikidata item for a Historic Building from OpenStreetMap for History Buffs.
  • Live Wikidata Editing #119 - Ainali and Abbe98 are back to edit Wikidata and explain their thinking along the way.
  • (Spanish) Wikidata and the public domain - Tools for bulk editing in Wikidata: Mix n Match and QuickStatements, last class of a 9-part series provided by Jorge Gemetto.
  • (German) Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen, day 2, digital/local collection loves wiki.
  • (German) Von OpenStreetMap zu semantisch vernetzten Wissensgraphen FOSSGIS 2026 Conference.
  • Using Wikibase as an Integration Platform with Matthew Ong. Originally given at the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin, 19 November 2024.

Tool of the week

• WikiVisage - Train a machine learning model to detect depicted subjects in Wikimedia Commons images and assist with adding the P180 (depicts) property.
• Yesterdays - A web platform for cataloging and georeferencing historical images of Richmond, Virginia. It uses Wikidata items to help organize the georeferenced images.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editing user testing: join the participant panel: Wikimedia Deutschland is planning new user tests for the mobile editing experience (including more data types as a beta feature) in late April–early May. Participants of all experience levels are welcome, and users of right‑to‑left scripts are especially encouraged to sign up. Register here. Participants will be compensated for their time.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Digital Public Good ID (identifier of a digital public good in the Digital Public Goods Registry)
  • apportionment diagram (image that displays the representation of seats won by party in an election to an assembly)
  • peer-review process for scholarly journals or publications (''(without English description)'')
• Newest External identifiers: ‎X Games athlete ID (new), AIK soccer player ID, ‎Uitleenwoordenbank ID, abadis.ir word ID, ‎AmericanAristocracy house ID, ‎AmericanAristocracy person ID, British Newspaper Archive publication ID, ‎Buitenlandse aardrijkskundige namen in het Nederlands ID, Landskrona BoIS player ID, Library of the University of Santiago de Compostela authority ID, ‎DBNL place ID, Faulhaber edition ID, Foto Atlas taxonomy ID, ‎Integbio Database Catalog ID, ‎KCUE academy ID, ‎LibriVox reader ID, ‎Manga-DB person ID, ‎Manga-DB magazine ID, ‎Manga-DB publisher ID, Digital Public Goods Registry, NSK ID, Tribuna.com football players ID, Sport Express person ID, ‎Open Food Facts brand ID, ‎RITVA company ID, OldRacingCars.com drivers ID, ‎Spellingwijzer Onze Taal ID, ‎EpiMedDat ID, ‎Pinkhof ID, ‎Scheikunde ID, ‎Movist person ID, ‎ISSN-H, Names, Persons, and Groups of People of the Middle Ages ID, ‎Parlement.com object ID, wikiru.jp wiki ID, BGAFD actress ID, IFK Norrköping player, ‎LINE official account ID, Norwegian war prisoner histories ID, ‎indexxx.com performer ID, SetesdalWiki ID, ‎Shellers From the Past ID, ‎SocioMap ID, Publication ID in e-Marefa database
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • civil service position level (classification level of a civilian public service position within a government administrative hierarchy)
  • Usenet newsgroup (Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
  • predicted winning party (the party predicted to win an election, according to some source)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Numen ID, member of the Azorean assembly ID, identifiant Rappels d'une personne, Identifiant dans la base de noms France Archives, Anarâš aavis topic ID, Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID, MangaBaka manga ID, JVID performer ID, PlayStation Trophies achievement ID, BERON lexeme ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Hogback - Hogbacks are a type of gravestone marker used in 10th - 12th Century Northern England.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • University of Otago/Books of Mana
  • Schnütgen Museum Collection/Sum of all paintings
  • Govdirectory/United Nations
  • Nonprofit Organisations
• Newest database reports: Humans with the same date of birth year (P569) and date of death year (P570).
• Showcase Items: Australia (Q275180) - 2008 film by Baz Luhrmann
• Showcase Lexemes: viɛla - Dagbanli adjective (of quality that is pleasing to human senses).

Development

• Wikibase GraphQL: We added support for a number of additional datatypes and started working on the functionality for querying Items by the external ID statement values or site links.
• Mobile editing of statements: We spent time testing the current state and fixing remaining issues we found.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Mongolia
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Beta version of Abstract Wikipedia a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was launched last week. The project allows communities to build Wikipedia articles in their native language, which can be readily accessed by other users in their own languages. The wiki is powered by instructions from Wikifunctions and also based on structured content from Wikidata. Read more.

Updates for editors

• The Growth team is running an A/B test to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. Currently when logged-out mobile users begin editing, they see a jarring warning message that can feel abrupt and discouraging. This also presents temporary account editing as the default rather than encouraging account creation. The test is running on ten Wikipedias, including Arabic, French, Spanish and German. Read more.
• The Wikimedia Apps team is inviting feedback on how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps. The discussion focuses on improving how users access editing tools when they tap "Edit". This is part of a broader effort to convert readers who develop an interest in editing, to access a more user-friendly pathway to start contributing.
• View all 45 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where citation fetching from the large newspaper archive Newspapers.com was no longer working, due to a block in Citoid requests, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:23, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors/Membership/News/2025 Annual Report

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The Signpost: 31 March 2026

• News and notes: Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down
  All languages to be shut down in May; first AI agent blocked; new name for AfD?

• In the media: AI ban, newspapers disrupt archiving; and antisemitism complaints
  Perennial challenges with AI, demographic representation, and attacks from people buying media influence.

• Community view: Videos from WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC
  In attendees' own words.

• Disinformation report: Cleaning up after Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Nygard, and Mohamed Al-Fayed
  Countering the edits of the rich and dangerous.

• WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC review
  About the conference series, and this conference particularly.

• Obituary: Dr. Subas Chandra Rout
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: Call in the dogs of war, soldier of fortune
  Though of course the picture needs to be Chuck Norris...

• Gallery: Canadian Rangers participate in Operation Enduring Encyclopedia
  Analogies between how Wikipedia works and how Canada works.

• Comix: n00bsitting
  ...!

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2026).

Administrator changes

• ARandomName123

• Biblioworm
• Causa sui
• Djsasso
• Espresso Addict
• Fenix down
• Firefangledfeathers
• GeneralNotability
• NawlinWiki
• Northamerica1000
• Smalljim

Checkuser changes

Giraffer

Oversight changes

Kj cheetham

Giraffer

Guideline and policy news

• The content of Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models has been updated following a request for comment. It now prohibits using LLMs to generate content, with exceptions for translation and copy-editing.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the GSCASTE extended-confirmed restriction in the Indian military history case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy has been amended accordingly.
• The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been closed.
• The arbitration case Maghreb has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.

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Tech News: 2026-15

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The CampaignEvents extension now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in the documentation.
• The new watchlist labels feature (announced in Tech News 2026-07) is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the 'watchstar' (or watch link, for skins that don't have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist. In all three places it is a new field following the expiry field.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where talk pages on mobile with Parsoid are unusable after empty section headers, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The sub-referencing feature, which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to more wikis later this year. Wikis using the Reference Tooltips gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js as shown here) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected.
• All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions. Read more.
• The Action API has had several formats for requested output. One of them, format=php, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the JSON format. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots.
• The Special:NamespaceInfo page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #726

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #725.

Discussions

• Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Oversight: EPIC (2) (RfP scheduled to end at 9 April 2026 12:35 UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • ChooseLocal - Task/s: Read-only harvest of Wikidata entities (businesses, banks, etc.) by country, for use in a Canadia-centric local business directory.
  • JigildikBot - Task/s: Sitelink Management: Connecting newly created articles on kaa.wiki to their corresponding Wikidata items using Pywikibot. Label and Description Updates: Adding or updating Karakalpak (kaa) labels and descriptions for various items (especially geographical and biographical items) using OpenRefine.
  • JJPMaster (bot) - Task/s: Automatically add sitelinks for Abstract Wikipedia articles
  • TracklisterBot - Task/s: Adding missing external identifiers to Wikidata items for music artists, sourced from Tracklister (Q138905706), a music database that aggregates data from 20+ platforms. Properties: Discogs artist ID (P1953), Spotify artist ID (P1902), SoundCloud ID (P3040), Bandcamp ID (P3283), Beatport artist ID (P5765), Deezer artist ID (P2722), Last.fm ID (P3192), AllMusic artist ID (P1728), Apple Music artist ID (P2850), Tidal artist ID (P11853). Each claim includes a reference with stated in: Tracklister + reference URL pointing to the artist's page on tracklist.live.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dušan Kreheľ (bot) (approved)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 08th April 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Blazegraph Migration Office Hours: Blazegraph migeration office hours April edition is today, 7th January, 16:00 UTC. These sessions focus exclusively on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). See the office hour page for details and future sessions.
  • digiS Workshop: Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung - 20 April 2026, 10.00 CEST (08:00 UTC), this online workshop (held in German) will practice Wikidata skills across SPARQL, OpenRefine and QuickStatements with a focus on using Wikidata for GLAM Institutions. To register, visit the link.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wikidata graphs for data visualisation of endangered horse breeds in Wikipedia By Tsaag Valren
  • Does country of birth have an effect on the probability to have a biography in French-language Wikipedia? (Le pays de naissance a-t-il un effet sur les chances d'avoir une biographie sur Wikipédia ?), published in RAW-Regards sur l'actualité de Wikimedia in Wikipedia in French.
  • (German) Wikidata ist ein teil von Wikimedia Enterprise - an update from Wikimedia Germany on Wikidata's inclusion with Wikimedia Enterprise.
  • (German) How to edit nearby: Notizen für regionale Open GLAM-Labore und offene Daten by Jens Bemme.
  • Building the Dagbanli Dictionary’s Audio Pipeline: OGG, iOS, and Transcoding, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
• Papers:
  • OntoKG: Ontology-Oriented Knowledge Graph Construction with Intrinsic-Relational Routing by Li et al., (2026), includes a case study of cleaning and resolving entity labels and descriptions from a 100 million entity dump.
  • ENEIDE: A High Quality Silver Standard Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Historical Italian by Santinia et al., (2026), the ENEIDE dataset links over 2000 historical documents to 8,000+ Wikidata entities.
  • CADEL: A Corpus of Administrative Web Documents for Japanese Entity Linking by Higashiyama et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • Using content from Wikidata in your apps, lightning talk by Jan Ainali
  • 2025: OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Collaboration: Taiwan Case
  • 2025: The Ugandan Geo Quests: Mapping Libraries and Museums into the Knowledge Commons
  • Using Wikidata for data enrichment in museums
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 1: What is Wikidata & Why Does It Matter?
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 2: Wikidata Building Blocks
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 3: Create an Account & Your First Edits
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 4: First Edits: Adding References
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 5: Creating a New Item

Tool of the week

• An AI chat interface to Wikidata by Santhosh Thottingal is a tool that gives answers to almost everything on Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editing user testing: Wikimedia Deutschland is planning new user tests for the mobile editing experience (including more data types as a beta feature) in late April–early May. Participants of all experience levels are welcome, and users of right‑to‑left scripts are especially encouraged to sign up. Register here. Participants will be compensated for their time.
• Wikidata's data is now also available via Wikimedia Enterprise APIs. (Wikimedia Enterprise blog post, WMDE announcement)
• Wikidata embedding: The vectors of the embedding are now also published.
• (Job vacancy) Engineering Manager, Wikidata Platform (WMF)
• (Job vacancy in Indonesian) Wikimedia Indonesia: Data and Technology Apprenticeship Vacancy, April-June 2026 - apply by April 10. Duties include recording Wikidata editing tutorial videos, prepare datathons and training materials and events.
• Research workshop on content verifiability in Wikidata: Researchers from King's College London (in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation) invite Wikidata contributors of all experience levels to a 2‑hour online workshop. Participants receive £90 compensation. Research details and registration.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • regional conservation status (conservation status of species in national or regional Red List publications that follow the IUCN red list criteria)
  • ‎PeerTube instance URL (the PeerTube instance of/about the subject)
• Newest External identifiers: PeerJ person ID, ‎RITVA corporate body ID, ‎Royal Air Force service number, LUBW-RIPS hydroelectric power station-ID, Biorab-Frankfurt ID, ‎Minfin company ID for banks, Wikiparfum perfumer ID, Cultural heritage ID in Baden-Württemberg, MangaBaka manga ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Wikimedia Commons content descriptor (Wikimedia Commons content descriptor which applies to this media file)
  • energy density (amount of energy extractable from a substance (e.g. in a combustion engine) per unit of volume or of mass)
  • main page URL (link to main page or item on website)
  • Bayerische Naturdenkmal-ID (identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt)
  • election result (map that displays the result of this election)
  • meta-category for (topic or class of items covered by the lowest categories in this meta-category's hierarchy)
  • Cast (Cast)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID, lit.link ID, WikiKids page ID, KuLaDig ID, Wikiparfum brand ID, Turkey district ID, Turkey province ID, OSDev, Giant Bomb Wiki ID, Myrotvorets ID, Fraktionsprotokolle.de-ID, KISTI article ID, Irish State Administration Database Unit ID, Hessische Parlamentarismusgeschichte Abgeordneten-ID, ocremix.org game ID, Tube8 ID, YourPorn ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Wikispecies pages linked to Wikidata items via a specific property (example given: Family Name (Q101352)) - (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Salon de Paris - a list of annual temporary exhibitions usually held in the Salon Carré of the Louvre Palace.
  • Mesocosms - about modelling research infrastructure, processes and outcomes involving use of mesocosm (Q138857216) (experimental system to examine the natural environment under controlled conditions).
  • Archive WikiProject for Wikimedia Indonesia February 2025 Datahon
• WikiProject Highlights: Govdirectory: Eswatini
• Newest database reports: Badged Items without Claims - this report lists items that have received a badge (such as Good / Featured Article) but have 0 statements.
• Showcase Items: Académie Julian (Q337480) - former art school in Paris, France
• Showcase Lexemes: kurugu (L724819) - Dagbanli noun that translate to English as metal, harem trousers, hour or coin.

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate how to reduce the number of irrelevant changes showing up in Recent changes and Watchlist by seeing if we can compare the articles before and after the Wikidata change and detect a change in the article (phab:T419823)
• GraphQL: You can now do lookups using itemByExternalId and itemBySitelink
• Mobile statement editing: We worked on fixing remaining bugs (phab:T420585 , phab:T420028, phab:T419586)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Eswatini
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2026 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2025 coordinator election, incumbents Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and Wikieditor662 was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). December 2025 Blitz: 16 of the 31 editors who signed up for the December 2025 Copy Editing Blitz edited 116,064 words in 47 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. January Drive: 35 of the 55 editors who signed up for the January Backlog Elimination Drive edited 498,397 words in 183 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. February Blitz: 19 of the 23 editors who signed up for the February Copy Editing Blitz edited 83,969 words in 43 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. March Drive: 28 of the 48 editors who signed up for the March Backlog Elimination Drive edited 210,064 words in 87 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. April Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 12 to 18 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 09:10, 10 April 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 81 copyediting requests since 1 January 2026. The backlog of articles needing copyediting stands at 1,794 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wikieditor662. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Wikidata weekly summary #727

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #726.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: ZI Jony (2) - RfP scheduled to end after 17 April 2026 13:09 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Nirmos Bot 3 - Task(s): Turn one or more consecutive hard (non-breaking) spaces into one regular space in Swedish descriptions.
  • Alex NB OT - Task(s): Correction of incorrectly specified links to population data sources containing wikitext artifacts with categories, which leads to incorrect categorization of articles.
  • Alex NB OT 2 - Task(s): Extract KCI article ID from P953 and add it to P14184.
  • ReNeuralAgent - Task(s): (1) add descriptions, (2) Latvian labels/descriptions, (3) 'retrieved from' and 'source URL' to unreferenced Statements, (4) missing aliases from external Identifier sources, (5) Geo coordinates, (6) external identifiers, (7) Population numbers, (8) remove 'dead sitelinks', (9) constraint violations.
• Open request for comment: Mass-editing policy is still open and requires your input.

Events

• Past: Missed the second quarter Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session transcript here: 2026-04-08 (Q2 2026)
• Current: (Spanish) Public Domain in Latin America 2026 - 1st edition of the campaign to improve public domain data for Latin America is running until 15 June.
• Upcoming events:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 14 April, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). QuickStatements is one of the most widely used tools in Wikidata, enabling users to upload and edit large volumes of structured data efficiently. Originally developed by Magnus Manske, the tool has become essential for institutions, researchers, and volunteers working with open data. The new QuickStatements 3.0, developed by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, introduces a modernized interface, improved performance, and new features shaped by community input, making it easier than ever to contribute high-quality data to the Wikimedia ecosystem. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/QuickStatements3
  • Art+Feminism is hosting a Community Hours session on April 17 to introduce their new Wikidata modules — don’t miss it!
  • digiS Workshop „Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung“ am 20.04. - (German), registration closes 16.04, takes place online (10:00 – 11:30 CEST), room link after registration.
  • Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - Wednesday, April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida.
  • Visibility of Communities in Nigeria 2.0: 17.04 - 25.04, (please register on the link). Help enrich Wikidata with cultural preservation, tourism and inclusive development data for items on South Nigerian communities.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (Spanish) Connecting: Basque documentary heritage on Wikipedia and Wikidata - a program to make Basque heritage data more visible, with events scheduled through April - June.
• Videos:
  • Live Wikidata Editing #120 with Jan Ainali and Abbe98
  • Can AI Replace Wikipedia? Jonathan Fraine & Raja Amelung Explain Why It Cannot - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan and Raja discuss why human knowledge and contribution to Wikipedia and Wikidata will always be important.
  • Interfacing with Wikidata for fun and profit - Yaron Koren
  • Introduction to Lexicographical data - By Chinonso Chidi
  • WMUK Wikidata Training (1/2) - Why & how to add data to Wikidata - a beginner-friendly introduction to Wikidata editing hosted by Dr. Martin Poulter.
  • WMUK Wikidata training (2/2) - Make your first Wikidata query using SPARQL - How to query Wikidata's vast store of knowledge using SPARQL.
  • Wikidata and personal pronouns (P6553) by Clair Kronk and Crystal Yragui - part of the Queering Wikipedia Conference (2025)
  • (Spanish) Queering the public domain using Wikidata and Wikipedia - with User:Hiperterminal.
  • (Spanish) Taller de OpenRefine por David Ramírez-Ordóñez (User:Hiperterminal) - a workshop on OpenRefine with a geder perspective.
  • Introducing lgbtDB: A Collaborative Queer Resource and Pilot Data Area by Clair Kronk.

Tool of the week

• HumansMap - a connection-visualiser and explorer app for 3 million notable humans, all data sourced from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for tool builders: EntitySchemas listening tour: The Wikidata team wants your feedback on EntitySchemas to improve data quality and discoverability. Share your experiences, pain points, and needs via the project talk page or this short Google form (including option for a 30-min video call).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ConLang Code Registry code (3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3)
  • ‎official roster page (URL of a team's official page about this player)
  • ‎value type of this mathematical property (type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects)
  • ‎Usenet newsgroup (Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
  • hardware is incompatible with (significant elements with which a computer hardware or electronic device is incompatible and which indicates a significant property of this hardware.)
  • Peh-oe-ji (writing system for Taiwanese Hokkien (Q36778) or other Southern Min (Q36495) language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
  • ‎heir apparent (person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
  • thumbtime (time for video thumbnail in seconds)
• Newest External identifiers: Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), ‎BERON lexeme ID, ‎Brussels BeStAddress street ID, ‎Brussels BeStAddress address ID, ‎Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID, Anarâš aavis topic ID, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID, TMDB award ID, Open Library Collection, ‎Ohio University ArchiveSpace subject ID, VAi Archiefhub agent ID, ‎PBA.com player ID, ‎IRIS UNIL author ID, IPRESS ID, GEMI Number, ‎StandardsMap ID, ‎Japanese Location Database ID, ‎IRDI, ‎Wendingen object ID, ‎Wendingen person ID, Oricon News ID, ‎JMRC person id (en), Rappels person ID, KCI journal ID, KCI publisher ID, BIORAB-Kaiserreich ID, BIORAB–WEIMAR ID, ‎Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID, Göteborgsalliansen player ID, ‎Fungal Names taxon ID, ‎Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID, ‎Brewver beer ID, Central Registration Number (Indonesian police), ‎UEA catalogue ID, ‎lit.link ID, kulturbase.no ID, KuLaDig-ID, Topplista artist ID, TV Drama Database program ID, ‎Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID, ‎Swedish National Archives ID, Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID, ‎PeeringDB facility ID, ‎Nişanyan Adlar ID, National Theatre in Prague performance ID, National Theatre in Prague artist ID, ‎JVID performer ID, CICAP Encyclopedia ID, ‎MJ character glyph name, member of the Azorean parliament ID, Master Ideographs Seeker character ID, ‎London Book Trades ID, ‎Kloekecode, ID Prix de Lausanne, ‎GDUNO ID, ‎fotbolltransfers.com ID, Foot Résultats player ID, ‎Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography ID, ‎DBNL country ID, ‎CROWCASS file number, ‎European Dictionary Portal ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType)
  • OpenType language system tag (identifier for a language (system) in OpenType)
  • tattoos (anatomical location of a tattoo that this person or character have)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: organization in cooperation with ISO ID, EDAM Ontology ID, FISH Evidence Thesaurus Identifier, FISH Thesaurus of Monument Types ID, ScriptSource script ID, ScriptSource language code, Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Max username, BE-monumen ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • List of sitelinked small items to a single Wiki (source) - example wiki: Maori Wikipedia
  • People who have herbarium specimens in Herbarium Dresdense (on a timeline) (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Collectors affiliated with the Herbarium Dresdense (DR)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/QuickStatements3 - don't forget to add yourself to the participants section if you plan to attend the 14.04 Zoom call.
  • Temples in Roman Britain/Data Model subpage was added.
  • Library and Information Science added subpages: Librarians dashboard, Indexers dashboard
• Newest database reports: Short Pages - A list of pages (mostly Items) that are very small, often appear completely blank. A review to judge whether they are suitable for deletion, victims of vandalism or require merging or expanding may be appropriate.
• Showcase Items: Baldur's gate II: Shadows of Amn - an isometric CRPG created with the Infinity engine, adapting the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition ruleset.
• Showcase Lexemes: spegnere (Italian verb) to turn off, switch off, extinguish.

Development

• The Wikibase Reuse Team is working on ensuring language fallback works on the GraphQL labels of linked entities functionality and improving the technical infrastructure behind wbsearchentities.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: is working on introducing metrics that help observe the impact of Recent Change related work. Work continues on improving the Diff (T419244, T419823)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: United Nations
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-16

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Experienced editors are invited to test the Article guidance feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available. Also, after reviewing the outlines, please provide feedback on the project talk page. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video explaining the feature.

Updates for editors

• On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel page to create new pages with custom content models, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights for the status of your wiki.
• The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting later this week, Edit filter managers who have the ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors.
• Tools and bots that access the Notifications API (action=query&meta=notifications) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications.
• Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia).
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• After two years of development, ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽, also known as CodeMirror 6, is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other benefits to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer Bhsd who developed many of the new features, including code folding, autocompletion, and linting.
• A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design. Download the latest version and explore the update.

Updates for editors

• Reading lists is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias.
• An experiment which explores extending Page Previews to mobile web will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps. Read more about this experiment and others.
• On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't confirmed their email addresses can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it. Learn more.
• View all 15 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• As part of the promotion of CodeMirror from a beta feature, all users will use CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages.
• The mirrors.wikimedia.org service for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute. You can read more.
• The image and oldimage table will be removed from wikireplicas. If your tools or queries access image or oldimage directly, please update them to use the file and filerevision table before 28 May.
• Following the recent implementation of global API rate limits on unidentified traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue efforts to ensure fair use of infrastructure by applying global limits to identified API traffic beginning the last week of April. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits and Frequently Asked Questions.
• The Attribution API is now available as a beta. The API fetches information for crediting Wikimedia articles and media files wherever they are used. Reference documentation is available through the REST Sandbox special page available on all Wikimedia wikis (such as the REST sandbox on English Wikipedia). Share your feedback on the project talk page.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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Wikidata weekly summary #728

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #727.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Yamato Shiya - RfP scheduled to end after 26 April 2026 11:10 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: ZI Jony 2 - Closed as successful

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #88 May 11 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Wikidata turns 14 this October, and it’s time to start thinking about birthday celebrations🥳. See the various ways in which you can participate.
  • Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida and requires registration (see link).
  • University of Central Illinois - How does data power Wikipedia and Wikidata? Discover how your data skills can make an impact. Join the two onsite sessions (April 21, follow the link for registration details). Module 1 - GLAM Wiki and the Wikimedia Ecosystem: Commons and Structured Data: 0930 - 1130 CDT - An overview of GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). Module 2 - Wikidata: Editing, Querying, Citations and GIS Applications, 1300 - 1500 CDT

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Women in Photography – Wikidata Workshop with LightBox Photo Library - to address the underrepresentation of women photographers in the Wikimedia Projects, this workshop brought tech reporters, librarians, researchers and photography enthusiasts to understand how Wikidata can unlock data silos and connect different projects (in the Wikiverse and external) to make data on women photographers more searchable.
  • Her Heritage Wiki Challenge: Art+Feminism in Ghana Month
  • No Signal? No Problem: Building the Dagbanli Dictionary for Offline Use, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
• Papers: Optimising university web visibility: strategies using Wikidata identifiers and statements in Webometrics rankings By Backory et al., (2026), this study analyses Webometrics rankings of universities, applying clustering algorithms (K-means, hierarchical clustering, fuzzy C-means, GMM, and DBSCAN) to identify which identifiers and statements the top-ranked institutions have in common on their Wikidata entities.
• Videos:
  • OKI Internship 2026 - Wikidata & Screening Test Preparation - Part of the Open Knowledge Initiative, hosted by Ankit V & Kasyap P.
  • Charted Roots - Genealogy and worldbuilding in Obsidian - includes an example of linking to Wikidata to quickly add location data to your visualised family history.

Tool of the week

• Depictor by Hay Kranen is a tool that add structured data statements to Wikimedia Commons using a game-like interface

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• What is Wikidata? - Library Carpentry is part of The Carpentries, a registered non-profit teaching foundational coding and data science skills. They recently updated their introductory course to Wikidata and knowledge graph concepts.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎ocremix.org game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • especially (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, but applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
  • independent of theory (theory that proves neither this proposition nor its negation)
  • EPBC conservation status (the conservation status from the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 assigned by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water)
  • part of discography (discography that this musical release is a part of)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Thai Government Agency GFMIS Code, Conlang Database ID, Plataforma Acácia, Observatório Terras Quilombolas, LMTA folkloro archyvo ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Rheinland-Pfalz, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID, Код Вестра, 19star performer ID, EM-DAT disaster number, ColBase ID, BIOSOP ID, BIOKAND ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Depthness of subway stations in meters (by Bouzinac)
• Newest database reports: Children of unborn parents, this list shows the child entity's birth date predates the parent entity's birth date: good candidates to check if the birth and relationship statements need correcting.
• Showcase Items: Haïlé Sélassié Ier - Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
• Showcase Lexemes: slide (L9704) - English noun (slaɪd) meaning "a photographic transparency", "a playground or gym apparatus", or "a mass movement of earth or snow"

Development

• The Wikibase Reuse team continued their work on ensuring language fallback works for labels of linked entities in GraphQL and on refactoring wbsearchentities
• The Wikidata team worked on explored how to reduce load for low data users T400325, fixed some bugs on the new mobile editing on Items T418110, T414454 and improved some error messages T417797, T412145

• In the WIT team, engineering continued working on the LilDiffCheck prototype

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: South Korea
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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The Signpost: 21 April 2026

• News and notes: Six Serbian Wikipedia editors banned following controversy about political bias
  Plus, new bans for AI-generated content in place, a new drop in active admins, pranks on pranks, May admin election, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• In the media: Could Wikipedia be involved in Massachusetts' proposed social media ban for minors?
  Another regulate-the-internet attempt casts a wide net.

• Gallery: March equinox
  The progression of seasons in March.

• Traffic report: Time to change my galaxy in case, we outta space!
  What catches the reader's eye? Death and film, per usual, and a loop around the moon per unusual.

• Comix: Of skirts and articles
  When significant coverage is only skin deep.

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Wikidata weekly summary #729

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #728.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Yamato Shiya - Congratulations to our newest Admin!
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Chamiln17@FineWiki - Task/s: Read-only Wikidata entity cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.

Events

• Upcoming events: Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session — 28 April 2026 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. This session covers QuickStatements 3.0, the updated batch-editing tool for Wikidata, redeveloped by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, featuring a modern interface and improved performance. Watch the previous session recording: on youtube. More details: QuickStatements3

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The Gballi Browser: Designing for the Dagbanli Alphabet, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
  • Building Visibility for African Women on Wikimedia: The EmpowerHer Fellowship by Andikan Efiok Eduok.
• Papers:
  • Call for Edits Nearby: Open Archives Metadata from Saxony by J. Bemme & M. Munke (2026), latest paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data series.
  • (Deutsch) [PDF] Art History Loves Wiki 2026 | digital/local.collection loves wiki - report from ArtHist.net on the recent 3rd edition of the conference, held at the Museum Schnütgen, Köln, from 27 – 29 March.
• Videos:
  • Live Wikidata Editing, #121 with Jan Ainali and Abbe98.
  • (Español) Build with Wikimedia open data: APIs, SPARQL and visualization with Carla Toro Fernández, Director Technology WM Chile.
  • Every Airport Ever Built (1909-2024) - an animated map showing where and when airports were built. Powered by Wikidata and OurAirports.
  • (Catalan) Barcelona Free Software: How to use Wikidata to make public domain digital works visible?, User:Hiperterminal presents Paulina, discusses the work done in digitising collections and how to make public domain works visible.
• Notebooks: Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography? by User:PAC2

Tools of the week

• The Human History Atlas (WikiTime), a browser-based atlas that uses Wikidata and Wikipedia-sourced data to construct timelines and allows exploration of significant historical events.
• Wikilympians, a real-time list of all 153,412 known Olympic competitors with Wikidata and Wikipedia coverage statistics

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikibase Suite 7.0 and Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.0.0 have been launched! It brings Wikibase closer to feature parity with Wikidata. Here's what's in the latest release:
  • Echo Extension: User activity alerts and notifications.
  • Discussion Tools Extension: Set of tools to enhance discussion pages.
  • Temporary Accounts: The support for temporary accounts without IP address exposure has been added. It will, however, remain disabled by default, in line with Wikibase Cloud.
  • Grouped External Identifiers (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310898): External identifiers are now grouped on entity pages for better readability.
  • “Mul” (multi-language) support: Adds support for multi-language values.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • perspective (point of view for an image of an object, for example an anatomical structure (ventral, dorsal, frontal))
  • Bavarian natural monuments ID (identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt)
  • ‎audio version of text (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).)
  • ‎motive (verified reasoning behind an action)
  • ‎award category or rank ((qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎BE-monumen ID, Team Norway athlete ID, ‎Kantonsspital St.Gallen author ID, ‎Consumer Rights Wiki article ID, Central Registration Number (Indonesia Military), ‎Conlang Database ID, EM-DAT disaster number, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID, ‎EDAM Ontology ID, ‎Turkey province ID, Kvinnehistorie.no topic ID, CNVD-ID, GiveSendGo fundraising ID, radiko person ID, Wikiparfum brand ID, ‎Turkey district ID, OSDev article ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • different from property (This property is to be distinguished from the other property)
  • SELL rating (classification in the Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs rating system)
  • time expansion (factor by which a recording's duration has been extended or compressed relative to the original real-time event, without pitch correction; values greater than 1 indicate time expansion (e.g. 10 = ten times longer than real life, pitch lowered tenfold); values less than 1 indicate time compression (e.g. 0.1 = ten times shorter, pitch raised tenfold); 1 = real-time)
  • Parental Advisory System rating (content rating for coin-operated video games)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: CINEFOX film ID (reproposal), CINEFOX parson ID (reproposal), VK video ID, Brew TV, CycleBase cyclist ID (new), Royal Australian Air Force service number, Files of the Reich Chancellery ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: List of treaties/truces in the time by Bouzinac
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Occupations for enriching items occupation (P106), occupation (Q12737077) with data verified from official national occupation classification systems.
• Newest database reports: Without Claims by Site - this report will list how many Wikidata Items have 0 Statements, with a linked Wiki Article/page. Click reports/all items for a per wiki list, and consider expanding.
• Showcase Items: Okazaki fragments - short DNA sequences synthesized discontinuously during DNA replication
• Showcase Lexemes: transfer (L29733) - English noun/verb (ˈtræns.fɜːr) meaning "to move from one place to another", "a sports team member moving to another team", or "a ticket allowing continuation of a journey"

Development

• Query Service: It is now possible to download query results in Wikidata Query Service that include coordinates as KML & GPX (GeoJSON has been available since last year). Text from the first column in the results is used as the value for naming POIs. Thanks again to Atom.oil.2 for the patch. (phab:T414376)
• The Wikidata team continued working on a prototype to make WikiProjects more visible (phab:T420907) and made the new Wikidata mobile UI use auto-resizing text areas instead of single-line text inputs, in order to make longer values easier to edit (phab:T414420)
• The Wikidata Integrations team now has a working prototype of LilDiffCheck, injecting wikidata changes into recent changes only if there was a change on the wikipedia html (phab:T421390)
• Language fallback will be available this week on the labels of linked entities functionality in GraphQL (phab:T413655)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus: field of work
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• There is a change in how new users are autoconfirmed that will improve anti-vandalism protection. Currently, users who have had an account for a few days and made a few edits are automatically added to the Autoconfirmed users group. This configuration tends to be exploited by some vandals, who create accounts and start to use them only after some time. To mitigate this, the configuration will be updated next week so that – for the purpose of becoming autoconfirmed – the account age will be counted from their first edit, instead of registration date. The numeric value of the age threshold will remain the same. This change will be deployed only to wikis which require at least one edit as part of the autoconfirmation conditions.
• All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the "automatically enable most beta features" option in their preference can now use the reading lists beta feature to save articles for later reading. This helps organize reading interests in one place for convenient access.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where infobox images have huge padding in Firefox, has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• As a reminder, the global API rate limits will be applied this week to identified API traffic. This is to help ensure fair use of infrastructure. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, including the actual rate limits, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits and Frequently Asked Questions.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 3

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 31 March

Volume 4 — Issue 3
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News On 22 March, Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 was used for the first time since being damaged in November 2025. Progress MS-33, a resupply mission to the ISS, was launched from the site following substantial repairs. ESA launched the first two satellites in the Celeste constellation on 28 March. They were launched aboard a Electron launch vehicle, marking the first time ESA has used the vehicle. China's Qingzhou cargo spacecraft was tested for the first time on 30 March. Launched on the maiden flight of the Kinetica 2, the prototype performed a number of tests in coordination with another satellite.
Article of the month OTV-2 OTV-2 (also known as USA-226) was the first flight of the second Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane. It was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on 5 March 2011, and landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base on 16 June 2012. It operated in low Earth orbit. Its USA-226 mission designation is part of the USA series. The spaceplane was operated by Air Force Space Command, which has not revealed the specific identity of the payload for the first flight. The Air Force stated only that the spacecraft would "demonstrate various experiments and allow satellite sensors, subsystems, components, and associated technology to be transported into space and back."	Image of the month STS-1 This section is an excerpt from STS-1.[edit] STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981, and returned on April 14, 1981, 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 37 times. Columbia carried a crew of two—commander John W. Young and pilot Robert L. Crippen. It was the first American crewed space flight since the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in 1975. STS-1 was also the maiden test flight of a new American spacecraft to carry a crew, though it was preceded by atmospheric testing (ALT) of the orbiter and ground testing of the Space Shuttle system. The launch occurred on the 20th anniversary of Vostok 1, the first human spaceflight, performed by Yuri Gagarin for the USSR. This was a coincidence rather than a celebration of the anniversary; a technical problem had prevented STS-1 from launching two days earlier, as was planned.
Members New Members: Swedmark111 (26 March) Number of active members: 220. Total number of members: 447. March Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Alpha Block 1 — ICOR SV (11 Mar. at 00:50:00) (success) Soyuz-2.1a — Progress MS-33 (22 Mar. at 11:59:51) (success) Rocket Lab Electron — Celeste IOD-1/-2 (28 Mar. at 09:14:00) (success) Kinetica 2 — New March 01/02, TS 01 (30 Mar. at 11:00:00) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 March 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 59 3 134 B 16 77 196 239 7 535 C 44 170 609 875 1 68 1,767 Start 15 134 1,026 2,724 511 4,410 Stub 5 194 1,974 298 2,471 List 11 119 111 244 1 45 531 Category 1,285 1,285 Disambig 48 48 File 274 274 Portal 55 55 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 43 142 1,250 1,437 Template 533 533 NA 2 2 Other 45 45 Assessed 105 566 2,234 6,270 3,727 932 13,834 Unassessed 1 6 121 128 Total 105 567 2,234 6,276 3,727 1,053 13,962 Monthly Changes Since February 2026, there are 16 more Low-importance, eleven more NA-importance, and eleven more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 38 new articles. There are also one more GA-class, one more B-class, 14 more C-class, 19 more Start-class, one fewer Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2026).

Administrator changes

• Deepfriedokra

• EvanProdromou
• Wouterstomp

Interface administrator changes

L235

Chaotic Enby

CheckUser changes

• TheresNoTime
• Versageek

Oversight changes

Moneytrees

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055).
• The autoconfirmed user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484).

Arbitration

• The arbitration case SchroCat has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
• Per a recent motion, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
• Per a recent motion, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
• The arbitration case Maghreb has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The May 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ends May 5.
• The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions close on May 10.
• A new noticeboard for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions.

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Wikidata weekly summary #730

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #729.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Chamiln17@FineWiki - Task: This bot performs a read-only cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.
• Other: better tools to support constraints implied by properties like disjoint union of

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 (online, June 19 to 21). A community gathering focused on making WikiProjects more useful, visible, and alive. Propose a session (deadline for proposals: May 26, 2026) or register now.
  • Language Diversity Conference - Call for Submissions ends 15 May 2026.
  • Wikidata Community Summit 2026 @ COSCUP - Call for Proposals ends May 9, 2026.
  • LIC Photo Walking Tour + Wikipedia & Wikidata Workshop - May 16, 12:30 - 16:00 EDT (UTC-4). A historical walking tour of Long Island City, New York, concluding with a Wiki-skills workshop at LaGuardia. Registration on the event link.
• Ongoing: COORDINATE ME 2026 - a Wikidata competition for geolocatable content has just started and ends 31 May 2026. Visit the link for details on how to participate.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Visualised Blog metadata through SPARQL queries - ChristianMahnke blog.
  • Mozilla Common Voice Meets Wikidata (How the Dagbanli Dictionary Got Audio Usage Examples)
  • Wiki Loves Mother Tongue 2026 in the Igbo Community
  • EduWiki Workshop Highlights Practical Uses of Wikimedia Commons in Education
  • Recap: Wiki for Human Rights, LGBTIQ+ Nigeria, February and March Training
  • The new Art+Feminism’s Wikidata Modules are here!
• Videos:
  • Panel on Wikidata and public domain in Colombia (Spanish): on April 24th, the National Library of Colombia, The Cultural Network of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia, Wikimedia Colombia and Fundación Conector discussed about digital heritage and Wikidata, its challenges and opportunities for collaboration.
  • Wikibase - an introduction by Jason Evans (Open Data Manager, National Library of Wales). Produced by the Wikimedian in Residence channel, University of Edinburgh.
  • A uMap based on Wikidata - a use-case of Holy Wells located in Ireland, associated with female Saints, powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
  • Wikifunctions in practice: Reusable Logic for Wikimedia - Presentation given by Toby Hudson (User:99of9) at the Wikiconference Australia 2026.
  • Mentor Me! Session 3A - This in-person and hands-on session is provided by the Wikimedia Tyap User Group, and continues in the following sessions: Mentor Me! Session 3B and Mentor Me! Session 3C. Led by Gwakhap D. Anthony, it will cover how to document languages with Wikidata lexemes.
• Africa Wiki Women:
  • Linking images from Commons to Wikidata and Wikipedia - how images are used across the Projects with examples documenting African Women.
  • Newbies Monthly Meetup for Africa Wiki Women - further training and introductory skills for Wikidata and how it interacts with the other Wikimedia Projects.
  • EditHer Africa Contest (April) - a beginner-friendly hands-on Wikidata item creation guide and launch of the monthly contest, with a focus on African Women in Works and Leadership.

Tool of the week

• OpenHistory – interactive historical atlas of 21k+ Wikidata-sourced historical events, polities, and territories on a timeline+map. SPARQL-driven pipeline, MIT/CC BY-SA. (GitHub)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WikiTrivia - the webgame about putting historical events in the correct order recently got a huge update, thanks to creator Tom Watson.
• Wikimedia API's / Rate limits - new rate limits are being added for all Wikimedia projects, to ensure sustainable use to the REST an ACTION API's. If you operate a bot and it has recently started producing an error message for producing too many API requests, please consult the linked MediaWiki page and amend your bot as needed.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: ‎meta-category for (topic or class of items covered by the lowest categories in this meta-category's hierarchy)
• Newest External identifiers: KISTI article ID, FISH Monument Types Thesaurus ID, FISH Evidence Thesaurus ID, Organization in cooperation with ISO ID, ScriptSource script code, ‎ScriptSource language code, Tube8 performer ID, Bundestag Group Minutes ID, Westra code, Myrotvorets ID, ‎Irish State Administration Database Unit ID, Hessische Parlamentarismusgeschichte Abgeordneten-ID, YouPorn performer ID, ‎GFMIS Agency Code, ‎Royal Australian Air Force service number, ‎Plataforma Acácia ID, ‎Observatório Terras Quilombolas ID, BIOSOP ID, BIOKAND ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • (found) liable of (tort or civil wrong a person or organization was found liable of)
  • DMCA takedown policy URL (DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown policy or submitting page of this hosting site or UGC (User Generated Content) distributor)
  • 18 U.S.C. § 2257 policy URL (age requirement documentation URL statement of this website or company)
  • monolingual text name properties ((with an associated language code) name by which a subject is recorded in a database, mentioned as a contributor of a work, or is referred to in a particular context)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Gidrologicheskaya Izuchennost Code, QBWiki article ID, Dijital İstanbul ID, NaPTAN stop area code, Identifiant Cairn d'un éditeur, Darwin Correspondence person ID, ACM Digital Library institution ID, SensCritique person ID, National Archives of Japan Digital Archive ID, VGs drapsoversikt ID, Semanticscience Integrated Ontology ID, Senkyo.com, Objectif plumes author pages, Maoyan personage ID, critify.de publication ID, BookNotification author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Script style of manuscript Qur'ans
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Early Modern Silesia
  • Tango
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Ontology has gathered a list of potential projects for the second offering of the Wikidata Ontology course, and has published a subpage to discuss the future of Ontology Classes and Properties.
• Newest database reports: Unmarked Supercentenarians - this list displays humans who do not have a claim supercentenarian (Q1200828) (or alleged supercentenarian (Q106991708)), but the difference between their Date of Birth and Date of Death is greater than 110 years.
• Showcase Items: Raiders of the Lost Ark - a 1981 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, and John Rhys-Davies.
• Showcase Lexemes: gje (L2205) - Norwegian verb (jeː) meaning "to give", "to perform/hold", or "to diminish in strength"

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We continued fixing issues uncovered in testing
• WikiProjects: We are working on adding links to the sidebar of Items to lead people to the respective WikiProjects for that Item. This way we hope to help people more easily find data modelling documentation as well as other editors interested in the same topic.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Article guidance team invites experienced editors of pilot Wikipedias—Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Turkish, Simple English, Spanish, and French—to help translate and adapt sample outlines. These outlines will guide editors in creating clear, well-structured, and policy-compliant articles when using the feature once it is launched in May 2026. Simple instructions on how to translate and adapt the outlines are available.

Updates for editors

• The Product and Technology Advisory Council has published draft recommendations on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the recommendation until May 8th on the talk page.
• The number of available thumbnail size preferences in MediaWiki is being reduced to three standardized options—Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px), as part of ongoing efforts to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. As a result, existing preferences will be mapped to the nearest new size (for example, smaller selections like 120px or 150px will render at 180px, while larger ones like 300px or 360px will render at 400px). The preferences interface will soon be updated to reflect these changes, and users who wish to opt out or provide feedback can do so.
• From now on, even when a permission expires automatically, users will receive an Echo notification similar to the standard notification for permission changes. There is a difference between this and Global reminder bot in that the latter reminds users a week before the rights are due to expire, so that they can renew the rights.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the problem where the ULS language selector in Special:Translate would scroll vertically when it shouldn't, has been resolved. Previously, when users opened the "Translate to English" dropdown and typed certain inputs, the dialog would scroll vertically by a few pixels even when there was enough space to display all results. The dropdown no longer shifts unnecessarily when filtering languages.
• The Global Watchlist, which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page, continues to improve. For example, watchlists for Wikibase sites such as Wikidata now support EntitySchema elements for better tracking. The Live Updates mode now refreshes the special page every 60 seconds to comply with the updated global API rate limits for improved real-time responsiveness. Additionally, a directionality bug that displayed links as "changes 3" instead of "3 changes" in mixed-direction lists has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The second phase of global API rate limits has been rolled out to reduce the impact of AI crawlers and ensure fair, sustainable access to Wikimedia resources, prioritising human and mission-aligned traffic. Limits have been shifted from per-hour to per-minute, producing smoother traffic patterns and more predictable API load. Community users are not expected to be affected, and no action is required. Early indications show some User-Agent-based requestors are adjusting behaviour, and around 64% of automated API traffic has been identified. Monitoring continues, and Wikimedia Enterprise remains available for commercial support.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #731

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-11. Missed the previous one? See issue #730.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: AAU Research NLP Bot 1 - Task(s): Querying Wikidata for entities and relations and paths between them. From 1-hop until 3-hops.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: MarisDreshmanisBot (formerly ReNeuralAgent Bot) has been approved after a community intervention, see the discussion here.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 will take place between 19 - 21 June.
    WikiProjects are crucial to improving data quality and onboarding newcomers to specific areas of Wikidata. This event is the place for all editors to discover WikiProjects, find ones to join, learn about their modelling practices and how to improve the content and tools of your favourite WikiProjects. Register here to get any news or updates about this new Wikidata X Days event. The Call for Proposals is open! If you have an idea for a session, please submit it here by 26 May.
  • Wikidata Live Editing, 11 May
  • AI Bridges Symposium is taking place at Senate House, University of London across 28 and 29 May. (Free) Registration for this on-site event closes 21 May. The event will begin with introductions to Wikidata, Wikibase, connecting AI with Wikidata and follow on day 2 bringing the full ecosystem together for dialogue, debate, and collaborative action.
• Ongoing: Coordinate Me 2026 - edit items with a P625 (coordinate location) from the focus countries and be in the running for a prize. Ends 31 May 2026.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Building Wikimedia tools in Northern Nigeria: launch of Arewa TechCom through the Arewa Wikimedia Hackathon 2026
  • Editing wikibase.world (a MediaWiki site), with Jules (an AI agent) by Addshore.
  • Libraries as AI Infrastructure: The African Edition - reflections on overlooked African contributions to linked data and AI infrastructure, highlighting Wikibase-powered projects African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) and Nigeria’s Semantic Name Authority Recognition (SNAR). By Stuart Michael Edelenbos
  • Tabakalera promotes open access to cultural knowledge by linking their medialab catalogue to Wikidata
  • The Stoa: a Review for Digital Classics - report on Linked Pasts 11 - Epigraphic Data in Wikidata, from Ontology to Practice
  • Technical tinkering for CommonsDB at the WM Hackathon by Ainali.
  • Ezra Brand - Introducing a New Index of Biblical, Talmudic, and Medieval Jewish Figures - Wikidata helps index and categorise Jewish figures into distinct periods.
  • (Deutsch) ArtHist: New Art-Historical Resource on the Web and TIB Blog: Embossed story – the Meistersiegel-Wiki is online are both articles about the new Meistersiegel Wikibase instance.
• Papers: Volume 12,2 of Digital Classics Online contains many papers regarding the use Wikidata and Wikibase in the field of Classics:
  • Hypotheseis, a Database of Named Entities Surrounding Greek Rhetorical Exercises by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
  • Altinum: a Wikidata Project for Digital Epigraphy and Prosopography by Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini
  • The NIKAW Project: An Infrastructure of Texts, Entities and Language Models to Study the Circulation of Knowledge in the Ancient World by Margherita Fantoli
• Videos:
  • OpenDataDEx - Exploring Supreme Court Rulings in Wikidata, for The Knowledge Commons project. Try it out for yourself: Open Data Explorer
  • Wikidata: Introduction and Basics - an introductory session provided by WMUG Uganda.
  • (Arabic) Introduction to Wikidata hosted by Michel Bakhni for the channel: Wikimedia group for those interested in Islamic civilization
• Presentations:
  • (Deutsch) Wikidata in Museums, Archives and Libraries
  • White Paper (PDF) - Wikidata Days and Wikicite (2025) - Open bibliographic metadata in practice, what was learned in Bern and what libraries and the community can do next.

Tool of the week

• Open Data DEx Explorer - "an interactive graph visualizer of semantic Open Data. Relationships are discovered heuristically and a graph structure created in real time, allowing navigation and insight into raw data without building formal ontologies."Read more on The Knowledge Commons blog, by Michelle Tomlyn.
• GapMap.Wiki - explore knowledge gaps between different language Wikipedia's. GapMap identifies Wikipedia articles that exist in many languages but missing from the target, helping editors prioritize which articles to translate or create. No AI is used, just comparing publicly available databases.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editors can now edit all datatypes directly in the mobile view. To help improve this new interface, Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for volunteers (especially editors from Right-to-left languages) for UX testing sessions. Participants will be compensated for their time. Sign up here (greatquestion) and learn more on the project page: Mobile editing of statements

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎energy density (amount of energy extractable from a substance (e.g. in a combustion engine) per unit of volume or of mass)
  • ‎Parental Advisory System rating (content rating for coin-operated video games)
• Newest External identifierss: Cyprus company ID, ‎DBNL title ID, ShotOnWhat film ID, ‎Shinmei database ID, ‎ColBase ID, Lubimyczytać version/edition ID, Files of the Reich Chancellery ID, ‎Darwin Correspondence person ID, ‎Gidrologicheskaya Izuchennost Code, ‎Brew TV movie ID, National Archives of Japan Digital Archive ID, PlayStation Trophies trophy ID, Tax Identification Number (Spain), ‎19star actor ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review: concentration camp prisoner number (registration or prisoner number assigned to a person in camps operated under Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1945)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: ID für Kulturdenkmale in Lübeck, Datenbank-ID für Kulturdenkmale in Lübeck, Prime Video URL ID, Prime Video GTI, Portable Antiquities Scheme record ID, Identifiant d'un(e) éditeurice dans le DEF19 2.0, Apple TV parson ID, CINEMATODAY film ID, Verfassungsblog author ID, Blätter author ID, EGAFD film ID, Museum of Canadian Music artist ID, Museum of Canadian Music work ID, BGAFD film ID, Movielens ID, Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon ID, parliament.scot member ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Astronauts members of Space Missions
  • All Horses in Wikidata
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Horse Racing : On topics relating to horse racing.
  • Project William & May Law School EMCO - to create and enhance entities for persons and corporate bodies related to the law school, for use in the library's metadata and archival work.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project GovDirectory: How to use QuickStatements 3.0 to add data to GovDir
  • Ontology Course: Projects Offering 2 - Modelling Dictionary Usage Labels in Wikidata, Roots and Rhythms: Modelling music as cultural heritage.
• Showcase Items: Catch Me If You Can - a 2002 film by Steven Spielberg starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. A dramatic re-telling of the life and exploits of serial confidence man Frank Abegnale Jr., ironically the events of the film were later found to be mostly fabricated.

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We are continuing to improve the UX and fix issues uncovered in testing
• Making WikiProjects more visible: We are working on adding links to the sidebar menu of Items to make it easier for people to find the WikiProject(s) associated with an Item, find like-minded people and learn about data modelling conventions etc in that particular area
• Query Service: The service is being hit quite heavily and the Wikidata Platform team is working on blocking scrapers and misbehaving tools
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing our experiment to further reduce the amount of Wikidata changes that show up on Recent changes and Watchlist but don't actually change the article. Specifically we are looking at checking if there is any difference in the rendered article before and after the change coming from Wikidata

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus: public universities
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Community Tech has published new guidance explaining how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The documentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals by clarifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond vote counts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact on the community when determining which wishes move forward.

Updates for editors

• The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles or selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking back to the original article to help expand readership and article discovery. The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of readers on Arabic, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to better understand reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin the week of May 18 and run for four weeks.
• The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the 25-day reading challenge into Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encouraging users to complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen. The challenge officially begins May 11.
• View all 17 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax highlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being turned on, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The ResourceLoader module mediawiki.ui.input, deprecated since September 2023, will be removed this week. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Beauty School Dropout,

New Page Review queue November 2025 - May 2026

Backlog update

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

2024 and 2025 NPP Awards

JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

January–February backlog drive

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

May backlog drive

An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026.

PageTriage

An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket if you're interested in following along.

Reminders:

• You can access live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord.
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Wikidata weekly summary #732

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #731.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • PatsaBot 1 - Task/s: Add sitelink from Template:Taxonomy/* on thwiki to same entry from enwiki and update Thai description from generic template format to "แม่แบบอนุกรมวิธาน" (taxonomy template).
  • MarisDreshmanisBot 2 - Task/s: Create occupation Q-items and add native-language labels on existing occupation Q-items from 33 state-issued national occupation classifiers (165 national registries, 154 countries, ~30,000 new Q-items, ~120,000 native labels across 53 languages).
  • ias-kbase - Task/s: Read-only bulk entity lookups for an internal knowledge graph project. Fetches labels, claims, and sitelinks from Wikidata and intro-paragraph extracts from English Wikipedia. No writes.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Reminder: Propose a session for WikiProject Days 2026. Your proposal can be just one or two sentences. Suggestions include topics on how to use WikiProjects to connect with others and improve data modelling, how to revive a neglected WikiProject, and what makes a good WikiProject. Propose a session now. Deadline Sunday May 24.
  • Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting the 2026 Data Visualization Competition from 10th to 31st May 2026. We welcome visualization and essay submissions from Indonesian participants on various topics ranging from Indonesian history to biological diversity.
  • The three-hundred online Wikidata meetup in Swedish, May 24
  • Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond, a workshop on-site at the Digital Humanities Lab (C2003), University Hamburg, 27 May, 14:15 – 15:45 CEST. Registration (via link).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Easy way to add images to Wikipedia & Wikidata items, with WikiShootMe and Mapillary
• Papers:
  • Wikidata and authority files: reconciliation and cooperation procedures by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo: an overview of the interactions between Wikidata and library authority files and of the usage of Wikibase by library authority files up to July 2025
  • Institutional practices in gender recording: an analysis of National Libraries by Novaes de Mendonça, and Ana Carolina Simionato Arakaki: contains references to Wikidata and its interconnection with library authority files
  • Modellizzazione delle conoscenze: Thesaurus Nuovo soggettario e Wikidata, due strumenti a confronto by Elena Cencetti, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo and Elisabetta Viti (in Italian): a detailed comparison of Wikidata and the Nuovo soggettario Thesaurus as knowledge organization systems, with a case study regarding the reconciliation with Wikidata of a group of terms of the Nuovo soggettario Thesaurus regarding photography
• Videos:
  • Curating shared knowledge about artifacts on Wikidata with Till Grallert, it explores how the Jarāʾid project used Wikidata to build a multilingual, open knowledge graph of pre-1930 Arabic periodicals.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #122 with User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what they are doing and why they do it.
  • Every Major Oil and Gas Pipeline in History Mapped - a visualisation utilising Wikidata, OpenStreetmap, Wikipedia and Global Energy Monitor.
• Presentations
  • La fabrique collective des histoires queer dans les communs numériques. Presentation by John Samuel and panel, 2e Rencontres du Reseau Jeune Recherche LGBTQI+, Université Lyon 1, 12 May 2026

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Property Explorer is a tool by user Steven Liu. The tool is used for exploring Wikidata properties
• securitybaseline use Wikidata to get the domain names for institutions

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• MapRoulette Challenge (Chile): Improve heritage-related items around Santiago, Chile, linking them to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
• The Wikidata Platform team has published its backend replacement recommendation and accompanying technical architecture for the migration of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from Blazegraph. Feedback is invited until May 25th 2026, especially on potential gaps and impacts on advanced use cases. Wikidata community members and WDQS users are also encouraged to help identify high-impact tools and workflows that may need attention on this page. Feedback can be shared on the Migration talk page or during the next office hour. See the WDP team newsletter for more details

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • contains cadastral area (cadastral area that is wholly or partly contained by a municipality)
  • algebraic closure (‎algebraic closure of the field)
  • real closure (real closure of the formally real field)
  • eusocial caste (specialized type of an eusocial animal)
  • Wikimedia Commons content descriptor (Wikimedia Commons content descriptor which applies to this media file)
  • ‎time expansion (factor by which a recording's duration has been extended or compressed relative to the original real-time event, without pitch correction.)
  • ‎SELL rating (French video game content rating (1999–2003))
  • age requirement documentation URL (URL for a website's statement of compliance with U.S. legal record-keeping requirements related to visual depictions of actual sexually explicit conduct)
  • maximum vehicle length (maximum authorized length for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • maximum vehicle width (maximum authorized width for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • maximum vehicle weight (maximum authorized weight (tonnage / gross vehicle weight) for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (load limit))
  • maximum vehicle height (maximum authorized height for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (regulatory limit from signage))
  • ‎independent of theory (theory that proves neither this proposition nor its negation)
  • ‎gender-neutral form of label (form of name or title with no assumption of gender)
  • subject named as (monolingual text) (with an associated language code) name by which a subject is recorded in a database, mentioned as a contributor of a work, or is referred to in a particular context)
  • alternative name (monolingual text) (with an associated language code) qualifier for alternative name(s), given for a subject in a database entry, or preserved in references (even these are no longer the preferred name)
  • ‎CWSAC classification (Level of military significance for American Civil War battles as defined by the 1993 Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) report.)
  • DMCA takedown policy URL (DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown policy or submitting page of this hosting site or UGC (User Generated Content) distributor)
  • election result map (map that displays the result of this election)
  • ‎paid-up capital (portion of a company’s issued share capital that has been paid by shareholders)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎19star actor ID, ACM Digital Library institution ID, Stockholm public transport stop ID, Go2Senkyo.com politician ID, SensCritique person ID, Census of Italian Architecture since 1945, CINEFOX film ID, ‎CINEFOX person ID, Cultural heritage Database-ID in Lübeck, Dijital İstanbul cultural property ID, VG homicide ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme record ID, ‎EGAFD film ID, Cairn.info publisher ID, ‎BGAFD film ID, ‎Apple TV person ID, Blätter author ID, ‎critify.de publication ID, Semanticscience Integrated Ontology ID, Prime Video ID, Objectif plumes author ID, ‎Museum of Canadian Music artist ID, ‎Museum of Canadian Music work ID, Lübeck Culturul heritage ID, Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural heritage ID, DEF19 2.0 publisher ID, MovieLens movie ID, Verfassungsblog author ID, QueenBallers player ID, NaPTAN stop area code, CycleBase cyclist ID (new), ‎Book Notification author ID, ‎Prime Video GTI, ‎parliament.scot member ID, Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon ID, Goodreads genre ID, ‎Giant Bomb Wiki ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to reviews:
  • contributed to narrative universe (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
  • Grokipedia page title (page title used in a Grokipedia article URL)
  • especially (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, but applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
  • Common Vulnerability Scoring System score (Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score)
  • Depicts taxon (depicts taxon)
  • Still taken from the film (Still taken from the film)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: StaphBase ID, Geohashing wiki page, identifiant d'un fonds au catalogue collectif de France, Oireachtas bill ID, Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number, European System of Accounts ID (Germany), Identifiant d'un éditeur sur OpenEdition, Natalie ID, AV CHANNEL actress ID, Mineral Resources Data System deposit ID, Wikimedia Phabricator project, AWA artist ID, Rakuten Music artist, recochoku artist ID, identifiant AnnuSéries d'une série télévisée

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Library of Congress occupations by Label and Lccn no. (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Malaysia / Wiki x K-pop 2026 Datathon
  • Project Occupations / Roadmap
  • Project LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group / SummerCoworking
• Newest database reports: Children born after Mothers death date

Development

• Tighter connection of the Wikibase Ecosystem: We've been working on making it possible to use Wikidata Items (and later from other Wikibase instances) as values in statements on other Wikibase instances. You can now try it out on a demo system or set up your own test instance to give it a try. More details in the announcement.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are continuing the work on showing less irrelevant changes on recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co by trying to determine if an edit from Wikidata actually changed the rendered article or not
• Mobile statement editing:
  • We worked on reducing the load for users with limited data
  • We are continuing to fix issues uncovered in testing
• Making Wikiprojects more visible: We are getting ready for testing of the prototype. We'll be adding links to the respective Wikirojects on Item pages in the tools menu to make it easier for people to find the corresponding Wikiprojects. This is based on statements already on the Item such as specific external IDs.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. The feedback period will be open until May 22. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.

Updates for editors

• An experiment to show Reading Lists to logged-out readers on mobile web will launch on May 18 across German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu Wikipedias, and will run for one month. The effort supports broader goals of helping readers save and organize articles for later reading, while encouraging habits that could lead to future Wikipedia contributions.
• To support a bookmark button in the Reading List beta feature, the "Tools > Action" menu has been updated to display icons, including the watch star indicator that helps editors identify temporarily watched articles. The icons now also match those used on mobile, improving consistency across platforms. The change is currently limited to the actions menu and mainly affects editors with privileged user rights.
• Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure the impact that Suggestion Mode has on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. The experiment will also evaluate the feature's impact on editor retention, and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue in the Wikipedia Android app where images could sometimes fail to load after opening a recommended reading list notification, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Wikidata Platform team has published its backend replacement recommendation and accompanying technical architecture for the migration of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from Blazegraph. Feedback is invited until May 25th 2026, especially on potential gaps and impacts on advanced use cases. Wikidata community members and WDQS users are also encouraged to help identify high-impact tools and workflows that may need attention on this page. Feedback can be shared on the Migration talk page or during the next office hour. See the WDP team newsletter for more details.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• On English, French, Japanese, and a few other Wikipedias, there was a trial of hCaptcha, a third-party bot detection service. The trial showed that hCaptcha effectively detects and deters some bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards signals to look into. Because the results were positive, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis over the next few weeks. See the hCaptcha project page for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections. Learn more.
• The latest Community Tech update is now available, with progress across several Community Wishlist initiatives, including Reading Lists expansion from the mobile app to the website, new language support for "Who Wrote That" and the Personal Dashboard, improvements to 3D rendering and Charts, and upcoming work on talk page sorting, audio playback, and editing workflows. The update also shares current priorities, wishlist status trends, and opportunities for community feedback on future focus areas and the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026–2027 Annual Plan. Read the full newsletter for details.

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The Signpost: 22 May 2026

• News and notes: Offline: Osama Khalid still in prison
  He has been imprisoned since 2020 for his Wikipedia edits. A fresh campaign is calling for his release.

• In the media: Indonesian editors, you shall return!
  And lawspam, may you be away.

• Disinformation report: Who is a typical paid editor? Who are their typical clients?
  Remember the golden rule!

• Recent research: WikiLambda the Ultimate
  Does Abstract Wikipedia help fight "One ring to rule them all" solutions for knowledge access - or does it implement one itself?

• Traffic report: This is where I'll be, so heavenly, so come and dance with me Michael!
  A real off the wall thriller, invincible, can't beat it, or is it dangerous and just bad?

• Forum: WikiAnnotate: help us build a dataset of article quality evaluations
  A research project to build better automated article assessment tools.

• In focus: Demystifying the 2026-27 Annual Plan
  A guide to WMF's Tech Annual Plan for the next year.

• Opinion: Wikipedia isn't a battleground. So why does it feel like one?
  Do we really have to fight?

• Serendipity: Wikinews: Into the Wikiverse
  The early suggestions for what the wiki could have been.

• Special report: Wikimedia Foundation closes Wikinews after 21 years
  Displaces 700 active editors among 31 language editions.

• Community view: Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness
  Which topics are dropping, and is the pattern the same everywhere?

• Gallery: Earth Day and Mother's Day
  Earth Day was on 22 April, and Mother's Day was on 10 May (in the US and many other countries).

• Comix: Brother, can you spare a page?
  What would you say?

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Wikidata weekly summary #733

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-25. Missed the previous one? See issue #732.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Skolkoll-bot 1 - Task(s): Adding Skolverket identifiers and source URLs to Swedish school items

Events

• Upcoming events: Wikicafé May Edition: De Wikidata à Wikipédia abstraite : promesses et illusions du savoir structuré (From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: Promises and Illusions of Structured Knowledge), Presentation by Jsamwrites, May 26, 2026 at 13:00 video link, organized by DMontagne en résidence.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers: Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini, Pietro Ortimini, and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Wikibase and Wikidata for Greek and Latin Epigraphy: Modelling, Analysing, and Making Reusable Linked Open Data
• Videos: Monica Berti and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Wikidata Queries for Greek and Latin Philology (SunoikisisDC, Summer 2026); slides on Commons + video on Youtube; for more information, cf. the WikiProjects Antiquity/Pauly-Wissowa and LAGL

Tool of the week

• LexeMap - is a lexeme coverage mapper that audits Wikidata lexeme data across languages. It runs live SPARQL queries against Wikidata and cross-references against Wiktionary to identify gaps in lexicographical data.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Starting May 28, 2026, the Special:EntityData page will no longer support the PHP‑serialized format (e.g .php URLs). Affected requests will return HTTP errors. Please switch to a stable format like JSON (example: Q42.json). The change is already active on test and beta wikis. (full announcement)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎SIK-ISEA document ID, identifiant d'un fonds au catalogue collectif de France, ‎StaphBase ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • PCBS Locality code (Locality Code of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics)
  • nameplate image (image of a name-plate or similar identifying plate of the subject)
  • photographer (photographer)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant Bibliothèques patrimoniales de Paris, CUEAnexo, Enciclopedia Católica Wikitólica ID, Adult Film Database film series ID, Adult Film Database studio ID, Satker ID, Inaproc Instance ID, British Libray catalogue ID, Swedish-Danish Dictionary ID, Roller-results.com skater ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: People born at the sea (source)

• Newest database reports: List of items with links to Wiktionary main space.
• Showcase Items: Boeing(Q66)

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We continued working on reducing the page size to make it easier on mobile data plans
  • We are improving how error messages are shown
• Making WikiProjects more visible: We are continuing the work on getting it ready for a first rollout.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session. The updated experience is designed to encourage account creation more clearly, while still allowing users to edit with temporary accounts. Results from the experiment showed a significant increase in account creation, with a 27% relative lift among users shown the updated message. As expected, as more people funnel into account creation, temporary accounts decreased by a relative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics.

Updates for editors

• For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Members of these groups will be unable to disable the last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the next few weeks, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. Notably, this applies to bureaucrats. See the linked tasks for deployment schedules.
• WMDE Technical Wishes will run an A/B test on 10 wikis, testing potential improvements for Reference Previews. The experiment will run for ~2 weeks at the end of May / beginning of June and will affect 10% of desktop readers on the participating wikis.
• After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an Image Browsing beta feature for all Wikipedias on mobile on May 25. This means that anyone who has all beta features on by default will start to see this feature, and others can check the box to turn it on in their preferences. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article's images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article's carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, three dimensional STL files were being rendered incorrectly by the media viewer 3D extension which is now fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The legacy CSS classes tleft and tright have been replaced with floatleft and floatright as the former do not work consistently across all MediaWiki platforms, notably mobile web and mobile apps. Projects relying on these classes are encouraged to review related usage and plan for migration. Please note that floatleft and floatright may also be deprecated in future, although there are currently no plans to do so. Read more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 4

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 30 April

Volume 4 — Issue 4
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the moon since Apollo 17, was launched on 1 April. During the lunar flyby, it became the furthest spaceflight in human history on the 6th. Integrity, the re-entry vehicle, splashed down southwest of San Diego on the 11th. On 8 April, the first satellites of the Celeste (LEO-PNT) constellation began broadcasting navigation signals for the first time.
Featured Content The image "STS-133 Space Shuttle Discovery after undocking" was promoted to Featured Media status on 30 April. It was nominated by Moonreach.
Article of the month Gallaudet Eleven The Gallaudet Eleven were a group of eleven deaf men recruited in the late 1950s and 1960s to participate in a joint research program led by NASA and the U.S. Naval School of Aviation Medicine (later changed to Aerospace Medical Association) to study the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body. They were selected for participation in the study because damage they had sustained to the vestibular systems of their inner ears had granted them immunity to motion sickness, making them uniquely resilient to certain physical studies that would have made other test subjects nauseous.	Image of the month Clayton Anderson under weightlessness A demonstration of weightlessness by astronaut Clayton Anderson, particularly its effect on liquids. The water's surface tension keeps it in a sphere, which here results in the light reflecting off of Anderson being refracted in such a way that it appears upside-down. It is only upside-down relative to Anderson, as there is no "up" or "down" in a weightless environment beyond convention.
Members New Members: DevonHalDraedle (10 April) SpooklesMan (11 April) Kr0ndstat (15 April) JerryAkpan5001 (15 April) ParanormalCaramel (16 April) Nicknme (21 April) AZenit3 (30 April) Number of active members: 225. Total number of members: 454. April Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list . Space Launch System Block 1 — various, including Artemis II (1 Apr. at 22:35:12) (success) Tianlong-3 — unknown (3 Apr. at 04:17:00) (launch failure) New Glenn — BlueBird 7 (19 Apr. at 11:25:00) (launch failure) Falcon 9 Block 5 — USA-585 (21 Apr. 06:53:00) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 30 April 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 58 3 133 B 16 78 196 242 8 540 C 44 170 613 894 1 78 1,800 Start 15 133 1,023 2,727 510 4,408 Stub 5 193 1,973 323 2,494 List 11 119 111 244 1 48 534 Category 1,280 1,280 Disambig 47 47 File 277 277 Portal 55 55 Project 108 108 Redirect 2 42 145 1,259 1,448 Template 533 533 NA 1 1 Other 1 45 46 Assessed 105 566 2,233 6,297 3,731 970 13,902 Unassessed 1 7 110 118 Total 105 567 2,233 6,304 3,731 1,080 14,020 Monthly Changes Since March 2026, there are one fewer Mid-importance, 28 more Low-importance, four more NA-importance, and 27 more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 58 new articles. There are also one fewer GA-class, five more B-class, 33 more C-class, two fewer Start-class, 23 more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2026).

Administrator changes

• Asukite
• Bobby Cohn
• Bonadea
• Ca
• Drm310
• Reconrabbit
• Sammi Brie

• Tamzin
• TonyBallioni

• Ezhiki
• Queen of Hearts

Bureaucrat changes

• WereSpielChequers

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the "persistent usage of large language models" has been included as a common reason for a block.

Technical news

• Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats: Bureaucrats without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119, T423120)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case SchroCat has been closed.
• The arbitration case Michael Jackson has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election closes on 1 June.

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Wikidata weekly summary #734

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #733.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 13 - Task/s:
  • Per Project Chat, replace "estauxunidense" in Asturian descriptions with "d'Estaos Xuníos". Example manual edits here and here.
  • Also adds a default label, per d:Help:Default values for labels and aliases#When should I use default values for labels and aliases? and remove redundant labels in the simplest cases.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Temporaer Haus: OpenDataMonday, today, 1 June, 19:30 - 22:00 CEST, Augsburger Str. 23-25, 89231 Neu-Ulm.
  • WikiKult Netzwerktreffen 2026: “Wikidata in Kulturerbeinstitutionen”, 11-12th June, Wikimedia Deutschland. German-speaking event for people working with Wikidata in the cultural heritage sector. Open to experienced contributors and newcomers alike.
  • Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey, 11 June 17:00 - 18:00 CEST, online (English with German translation) – Keynote by Jason Evans.
  • (Deutsch) Workshop // Wikibases, Knowledge Graphs und Wikidata, Tue 14 July, 10:00 - 13:00 CEST. Participation is for project members, Zentral Institut staff, and interested guests, on-site at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte. See link for registration details.
  • Doing Migration History with Digital Methods: Beyond a Database - Wikibase as Research Infrastructure for Migration Prosopography Summer University at the German Historical Institute Paris, 8, rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris, 23 June 16:00 CEST.
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 - preparing the Program - watch this space next week for the first edition of the Event Program or register to be notified of updates.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Behind the QIDs by User:Niryhpr
  • Improving the interconnection between Wikidata and the CERL Thesaurus by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, also presented (in Italian) in Videos.
  • Digitally mapping the Philippines’ historical markers by Eugene Alvin Villar.
• Papers:
  • A data-driven analysis of automotive model evolution and technological lineage using Wikidata and Python network visualization by P. Trunova (2026).
  • (Italiano) De Catulo a Wikidata by Nusch et al. (2026).
• Videos:
  • Adding lifting stones to Wikidata - OSM for History Buffs
  • (O'zbekcha) Participate in the Interlingual Relations Marathon and win! - Oʻzbekcha Vikipediyadagi (ukwiki) has over 12,000 articles missing a sitelink...time to change that.
  • (Italiano) Wikidata and Library Catalogs: Building and Enabling a Digital Resources Network by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
• Presentations:
  • De Wikidata à Wikipédia abstraite : promesses et illusions du savoir structuré (From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: Promises and Illusions of Structured Knowledge), Presentation by Jsamwrites, May 26, 2026, Wikicafé May Edition, organized by DMontagne en résidence. (video)
  • DARIAH-EU WG DHwiki - A first year of activity by D. Lindemann and G. Candela (2026).

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Recent Changes API: This API lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• On 31 May, item Q140000000 ("Maxx", about a cinema in Delmenhorst, Germany) was created.
• Feedback wanted: To support improving Wikidata integration on the Programs & Events Dashboard, the EduWiki Hub invites Wikidata organizers, trainers, and contributors to share suggestions on metrics, tracking features, and workflows you would like to see in the dashboard. In addition, try out the new Advanced Search share your thoughts on the Dashboard talk page. (full announcement)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • found liable for (tort or civil wrong a person or organization was found liable of)
  • ‎PCBS Locality code (Locality Code of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics)
• Newest External identifiers: AV CHANNEL actress ID, AWA artist ID, CUE/Anexo, ‎Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number, Catholic Encyclopedia Wikitólica ID, European System of Accounts ID (Germany), OpenEdition Publisher ID, ‎Mineral Resources Data System deposit ID, ‎Natalie ID, ‎Oireachtas bill ID, Rakuten Music artist ID, recochoku artist ID, ‎Adult Film Database film series ID, ‎Adult Film Database studio ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • category's topic is member of the class (qualifier for use with {{p|14387}} and {{P|4224}} to describe certain sets of categories)
  • applicable Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: School ID of the Department of Education, Philippines, Beeld en Geluid series identifier, DAM artist ID, DAM song ID, Joysound artist ID, Joysound song ID, K-MIB performer ID, DUGA actress ID, Chilean Museums Registry ID, Sokmil actress ID, Filmmakers Person ID, Model Mayhem ID, OCHA Place Code, Sri Lanka NGO Secretariat Registration Number, Sri Lanka Company Registration Number, AV CHANNEL director ID, DUGA director ID, AllMyLinks ID, AV CHANNEL maker ID, thegamerdex.com game ID, MyDirtyHobby ID, Fontaines de Belgique ID, Wikiparfum fragrance ID, Canadian Trademark Registration Number, DMM director ID, Pantheon.World ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
• Newest WikiProjects: Project Sri Lanka for editors who would like to focus on adding materials for Sri Lanka (Q854).
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Govdirectory added Cape Verde subpage
  • Project P244 maintenance progress - a manually-updated progress tracker, is there a way to automate it?
• Newest database reports: Identified duplicates - this list shows items that most likely need merging but cannot due to conflicting sitelinks.
• Showcase Items: Q140000000: Wikidata's 140 Millionth Item

Development

• Mobile editing of statements:
  • We fixed how we handle statements with deleted Properties (phab:T402619)
  • We improved the behaviour when using the browser's back button (phab:T414454)
  • We continued working on improving the way error responses are shown (phab:T423613)
  • We addressed issues found in testing
• Improving the visibility of WikiProjects: We added support for finding the associated WikiProject of an Item based on statements on the Item
• GraphQL:
  • We are working on expanding the data available through search. Specifically we are including all Item data in search result nodes (phab:T427389) and extending the query by Item and Property value to return all Item data (phab:T416885)
  • We are improving the documentation.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Nigeria
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Reader Experience team is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.
• The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.
• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Books & Bytes – Issue 74

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 74, March–April 2026

• New partnership: Swissdox
• User survey results

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Wikidata weekly summary #735

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #734.

Discussions

• RfC: Mass editing policy: The community is currently voting on a proposed policy to regulate mass edits on Wikidata. More input is needed to reach a broad consensus. Please review the proposal and join the discussion/vote on the RFC page.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 - see the first version of the program! The online event takes place during the weekend of June 19 - 21. Register for updates and access links.
  • Mezi bajty 0 - meetup of the Czech Wikidata community in Prague and online, 10th June 17:00 - 19:00 CEST (in Czech, Slovak, English)
  • GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei) SPARQL Workshop|, 17th July 17:00 - 19:30 CEST (in German) - workshop from the German National Library on use of their SPARQL-endpoint for the GND (Gemeinsamer Normdatei) national authority file for wikidata users and wikipedians.
  • (Deutsch) Workshop: Make Research Software Findable using the Software Marketplace Wikidata - August 18, 14:00 – 16:00 Uhr (CEST), Zoom-link on registration.
  • Blazegraph Migration Office Hour (June session) will take place on Tuesday, 9 June 2026 (Tomorrow) at 16:00 UTC. This office hour is focused on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of WDQS. Whether you have questions, need clarification, or want to discuss how your use case may be affected. You can register for the session via the event page. In preparation, add questions, feedback, or migration-related support needs to this etherpad.
• Ongoing: Wiki Loves Pride 2026 (Meta) is ongoing and now has a dedicated Wikidata subpage: Event: Wiki Loves Pride 2026.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • (日本語/Japanese) [Practice drill: SPARQL basics to make and learn - Let's master Wikidata Query Service by Shoku_pan_65. Page offers AI translations.
  • Behind the <P812: academic major> Property by rtnf.
  • Adding Visual Context to the Dagbanli Dictionary: How the University of Ghana HCI Lab Dataset Powered our Sentence Matching System. Diff post by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan.
• Papers:
  • Volume 16, Issue 5 of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out! - includes 7 papers on Wikidata topics.
  • Rosetta Statements: simplifying FAIR knowledge graph construction with a user-centred approach - Vogt et al., (2026)
  • (Русский/Russian) Automated Analysis and Visualization of Geographic Data on Global Volcanoes Based on the Wikidata Semantic Graph - by Мария Паландер (2026).
  • Speaker Mining: FAIR Data on Public Broadcasts for Question Answering by Wittenborg et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • (Español) Wikidata for Climate Change, Wikipedia for Sustainable Futures by Daniel Canedo, a workshop on using Wikidata to record linked open data from extreme weather events.
  • (Svenska) Merge Wikidata samma som by Magnus Sälgö. What to do when you find duplicate Wikidata Items pointing at the same location on OpenStreetMap.
  • (Español) EntreWikis - Hacerwiki: Progress of Free Knowledge Projects in Colombia - Colombian Art in Open Data: training and infrastructure on Wikidata
  • (Français) Wikidata for research and teaching by Pascal Martinolli. Introduces Wikidata basics, SPARQL, practical examples of data visualisation, enriching research data and exploring the opportunities and limitations of linked open personal data.
  • (Français) Literature review: FAIR data sharing | FAIR Data Spring 2026 - Presentation slides, given by Adélie Ranville on their experiences organizing and sharing data using Zenodo, DOI, Zotero, Wikidata, and OpenRefine.
  • (Deutsch) Building a shared knowledge infrastructure: a federated wikibase for video and podcasts hosted by Tim @BorgNetzWerk.

Tool of the week

• AutoSuggestSitelink: New features available. See the update post on Project Chat

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The WMF Wikidata pltaform team monthly newsletter (June edition) is out
• Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's occupation articles
• Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's articles about fields of knowledge

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes::
  • trailer of (works that this trailer video represents)
  • ‎EPBC conservation status (the conservation status from the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 assigned by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎Joysound artist ID, ‎Joysound song ID, DUGA performer ID, Sri Lanka Company Registration Number, Wikimedia Phabricator project PHID, ‎Indonesian government work unit ID (satker ID), ‎DAM artist ID, ‎British Library catalogue ID, ‎OCHA Place Code, Philippines ‎School ID, ‎Swedish-Danish Dictionary ID, Filmmakers actor ID, Chilean Museums Registry ID, Sri Lanka NGO Secretariat Registration Number, Beeld & Geluid series ID, ‎INAPROC instance ID (Indonesia), DUGA director ID, AV CHANNEL maker ID, AV CHANNEL director ID, AllMyLinks ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • applicable Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • IAU member ID (new) (ID of members in the [https://www.iau.org/IAU/Default.aspx International Astronomical Union (IAU)].)
  • height above ground level (a property intended to indicate the height of any objects from the ground)
  • Storm intensity classification (category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585))
  • service status (the operational status of something like ship or building)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: PTS News Network topic ID, OTOTOY ID, identifiant EU sanctions tracker, OpenParlData ID, Catholica.cz ID, KSW person ID, KSW organization ID, KSW place ID, Myludo ID, Identifiant dans La Basa, PurplePort ID, Sokmil idol ID, Hancinema company ID, LinkMe ID, Netmath Glossary ID, Sokmil director ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Table of civic tech organizations with details (source)
  • Timeline of legalisation of same-sex marriage (source)
• Schema examples: Nazareth Padilla Montero (Q139959656) has been added as a showcase example of human (E10)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Civic Tech - for anyone developing datasets about civic resources in cities, and discuss best practices for Wikidata collaboration in civic tech.
  • Project AI Cleanup - for reporting, monitoring and combatting edits and contributions from LLM and AI sources.
  • Project: Whos who in marine taxonomy? - inititated by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), this project will document and enrich entities of the persons who have described marine species.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project LGBT added an Abstract Wikipedia subpage.
  • Project Roads added a subpage for Greece National roads with highly-visual tables.
  • Wiki x K-Pop datathon 2.0 - there is still some work to do to reach the goal on modelling the album: BABYMONSTER.
• Newest database reports: Deleted Wikidata entities that are connected to Commons files structured data (SDC)
• Showcase Lexemes: kafuni - Dagbanli noun that translate to "fan" in English

Development

• The team was involved in workshops last week so there are no updates.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content.

Updates for editors

• The refreshed Explore Feed, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: Community and For You. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the For You tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.
• The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements.
• Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips, which may require updates to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the cite-tracking-category-ref-details tracking category as a hidden category using __HIDDENCAT__ (or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848.
• The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.
• The user interface icon library will be updated later this week or next week. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.
• The Universal Language Selector (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page.
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The function signature for mw.util.addPortletLink() has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of: mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page'); use mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses of addPortletLink() and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement.
• Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 5

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 31 May

Volume 4 — Issue 5
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News On 15 May, NASA's Psyche flew 4,500 kilometres (2,800 mi) above the surface of Mars while performing a gravity assist. SMILE was launched on 19 May. A joint mission of ESA and CAS, SMILE aims to study the effects of solar wind on Earth's magnetosphere. On 22 May, Starship flight test 12 was performed. This was the first use of both the Block 3 and Starbase's second launch pad. The ICARUS Initiative launched the first of its ICARUS 2.0 constellation's satellites on 3 May. The satellite, named RAVEN, was constructed by EnduroSat, and is built to track animal migrations.
Article of the month Polyus (spacecraft) Polyus on the Energia rocket The Polyus spacecraft (Russian: Полюс, pole), also known as Polus, Skif-DM, GRAU index 17F19DM, was a prototype Soviet orbital weapons platform designed to destroy Strategic Defense Initiative satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser. It had a Functional Cargo Block derived from a TKS spacecraft to control its orbit and it could launch test targets to demonstrate the fire control system.	Image of the month Integrated Truss Structure of the ISS This graphic is an exploded view of the Integrated Truss Structure, the long segment that has the ISS' distinctive solar panels. The first piece, Z1, was installed in October 2000, while the most recent addition, S6, being installed in October 2007; the current configuration of the ITS dates to June 2023. In addition to providing electricity via the solar panels, the ITS is the location of energy storage, with battery assemblies on the P4/6 and S4/6 segments. These each consist of 24 lithium-ion batteries, for a total of 96 batteries.
Members New Members: ThePrehistoricBlob12345 (19 May) RockyKT (21 May) A Random Hylian (21 May) Analemnas (26 May) The Boat Boy (31 May) Doeze (31 May) Number of active members: 230. Total number of members: 460. May Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Zhuque-2E — Dingzhihua Shiyan Zaihe (14 May at 03:00:00) (success) Vega C — SMILE	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 May 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 58 3 133 B 17 78 197 245 8 545 C 42 171 617 904 1 76 1,811 Start 15 133 1,025 2,731 510 4,414 Stub 5 192 1,975 340 2,512 List 11 117 112 244 1 50 535 Category 1,281 1,281 Disambig 47 47 File 276 276 Portal 55 55 Project 108 108 Redirect 2 43 144 1,258 1,447 Template 534 534 NA 1 1 Other 1 47 48 Assessed 104 565 2,241 6,315 3,733 987 13,945 Unassessed 6 113 119 Total 104 565 2,241 6,321 3,733 1,100 14,064 Monthly Changes Since April 2026, there are one fewer Top-importance, two fewer High-importance, eight more Mid-importance, 17 more Low-importance, two more NA-importance, and twenty more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 44 new articles. There are also five more B-class, eleven more C-class, six more Start-class, 18 more Stub-class articles, and one more list.
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Guild of Copy Editors – June 2026 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2026 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2026 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Election news: Nominations for the mid-year coordinator election ends at 23:59 on 15 June. Voting will last from 00:00 on 16 June to 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced on the election page. April Blitz: 18 of the 21 editors who signed up for the April 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 122,993 words in 56 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. May Drive: 34 of the 66 editors who signed up for the May 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited 543,972 words in 211 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. June Blitz: Our June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz will start on 14 June and finish on 30 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 22:40, 11 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 132 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 1,691 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Wikidata weekly summary #736

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #735.

Discussions

• Request for comments: The discussion about reforming Wikidata's notability policy is ongoing. There is now a new proposal waiting for your feedback.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiLoves Pride 2026 - six fortnightly editing sessions to add, expand and translate LGBTQ+ content on the Wikimedia projects.
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 is taking place this coming weekend, 19-21 June. Check out the daily program...(click UTC for your local timezone)
    • Day 1 / Friday, 19.06, 17:00 UTC - 20:00 UTC
    • Day 2 / Saturday, 20.06, 10:00 UTC - 18:00 UTC
    • Day 3 / Sunday, 21.06, 14:00 UTC - 18:00 UTC
  • Click here -> Register <- for access links to the event.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Preserving Pride, Across Languages : From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: A New Way to Think About Knowledge
  • Visibility of Communities in Nigeria on Wikidata 2.0: Expanding Digital Representation for Nigerian Communities
  • The Year’s First Quarter with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group - Expanding partnerships and contributions to Wikidata, Wikipedia and other sister projects.
  • Introducing the Wiki Afrodemics Mentorship Project Cohort 1 - A pan-african and guided multilingual training on Wikipedia editing, Wikidata contribution, and resource mobilisation.
  • Amplifying Women’s Stories and Indigenous Knowledge: Feminism and Folklore 2026 in the Igbo Community - Improving the representation of women and cultural heritage in Igbo language on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiquote.
  • A Reflection on What I Learned at My First International Women’s Day Celebration - Celebrating and documenting women activists and politicians on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • Three Tools that bring digital botany within reach (spoiler: One of them is Wikidata) - article available in DE, ES, FR, JA, PT and ZH-CN.
• Papers: Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata by Grallert et al., (2026). As digital humanities tools proliferate, this paper argues that Wikidata can help connect the research landscape by documenting, citing and connecting tool registries.
• Videos:
  • OSM / Lifting Stones in Wikidata - a video tutorial on mapping lifting stones on OpenStreetMap, using two examples from County Kilkenny, Ireland.
  • Mapping Every Wonder on Earth - animated visualisation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites recorded in Wikidata.
  • 2025: Tales of Discovery - Museums and Heritage channel mentions how Wikidata is being used as a bridge between several sites and projects for 3D modelling ships, wrecks and other artifacts from maritime history.
  • Mentor Me! Session 6 with Jinoy Tom Jacob, who will show us how to use OpenRefine to batch edit Wikidata and the Commons.

Tool of the week

• BisikBekasi : Community-curated knowledge base where local data items are integrated with Wikidata items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Newcomer Dashboard will be deployed to Wikidata pending on-wiki configuration by Admins. The dashboard aims to provide guidance, helpful links, and mentorship opportunities for new editors.
• Guido Gezelle on Wikidata: networking in map - this project created 5 visualisations produced from Wikidata on the poet Guido Gezelle.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • print matrix state (in printmaking, a stage of development of the relief matrix after a permanent modification)
  • body modification (deliberate altering of the human anatomy for non-medical reasons that this person or fictional character has undergone)
• Newest External identifiers: Roller-results.com skater ID, Wikiparfum fragrance ID, EU sanctions tracker subject ID, Maoyan celebrity ID, CINEMATODAY film ID, DMM director ID, Model Mayhem ID, ‎DAM song ID, OpenParlData ID, ‎IAU member ID, PurplePort ID, LinkMe ID

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Vistonline (Agenzia italiana di visti consolari e legalizzazione documenti, con sede a Roma)
  • Natural science/Taxon footprint (Taxon footprint)
  • Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number (Unique identification number assigned to a school by the Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka, used in the annual school census and official examinations (G.C.E. O/L, A/L))
  • sport title (link to sport title (like master of sports or yokodzuna), besides chess and martial arts titles)
  • dual notion in category theory (dual notion in category theory)
  • penalty shootout kicked by (Indicates the person who took an individual penalty kick during a penalty shoot-out.)
  • Finnish educational institution ID (Five-digit identification number for Finnish educational institutes assigned by Statistics Finland.)

• New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant d'une personne sur ZicTrad, Skeivopedia ID, Artistas Visuales Chilenos ID, Mathlib declaration ID, FES digital collections person ID, BBC Bitesize topic ID, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), Sceneweb artwork ID, Sceneweb production ID, regjeringen.no government ID, regjeringen.no ministry ID, regjeringen.no politician ID, Maoyan film ID, Identifiant livres-cinema.info d'un auteur, National Operator Code (UK)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Wiki x K-pop 2026: Datathon 3.0 a.k.a the ICONIC BY MISTAKE EDITING party.
  • Ontology Course 2 / GLAM Authority Entity Ontology in Wikidata
• Newest database reports: Thanks Log - who's thanking who and on what.
• Showcase Items: 2026 FIFA World Cup (Q5020214) - in the United States, Mexico and Canada in 2026
• Showcase Lexemes: alikaali (L720932) - Dagbanli noun (derived from ha <--ar) which can mean soothsayer, judge or Muslim scholar

Development

• Ontology federation: The development team is looking for people to give feedback on the new feature that allows editors on other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as statement values. (more details)
• GraphQL:
  • We extended the searchItems field so that developers can now get all Item data immediately from the search results (phab:T416885)
  • We are working on the ability to get only best ranked statements (phab:T428138)
• MCP: The Wikidata MCP has been extended. You can now also use an MCP for other Wikibase instances. (more details)
• Wikibase Cloud: We are looking into making it possible to log into Wikibase Cloud instances with your Wikidata account to make it easier for Wikimedians to contribute on Cloud instances.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are planning the migration of the entity usage table to a new database cluster to handle increased usage of Wikidata's data across the Wikimedia projects.
  • We are continuing our work to decrease the number of irrelevant changes coming from Wikidata that show up in Wikipedia's recent changes and watchlist. Specifically we are evaluating a prototype that looks at the rendered article before and after the change and determines if anything actually changed in the article before adding an entry to recent changes and watchlist.
• Mobile editing of statements:
  • We are improving support for RTL languages.(phab:T360854, phab:T427655, phab:T427658, phab:T427661, phab:T428246)
  • We started fixing multiple UI layout and spacing issues, including mandatory fields, value fields, snak types, references, and add-statement button usability (phab:T428766, phab:T428761, phab:T428759, phab:T428450)
  • We are improving the server-side rendering (phab:T409827)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Reader Growth team has launched an Image Browsing beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use class=notpageimage excluding it from thumbnail previews, or class=noviewer excluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word __NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page.
• Wikitables can now be sorted in descending order on the first click by adding data-sort-order="desc" to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged.

Updates for editors

• The Article guidance feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
• Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account with the block duration they want.
• View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
• The roll out of global API rate limits is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.
• The API Portal wiki will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server.
• The Latin American Wikimedia Conference will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).
• Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page and register there. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.

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The Signpost: 21 June 2026

• From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism
  Pointing the way to your contribution to The Signpost!

• News and notes: Community Tech development team disbanded
  And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.

• Disinformation report: PR for the people?
  Or, "PR using PR for PR"?

• Recent research: Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
  And other new research publications.

• In the media: Who won a 14th century battle and who won the 2026 Iran war?
  Media take issue with portrayals of recent and medieval history on Wikipedia. Plus a team supporting Wikipedians gets dissolved, and a few other things.

• Community view: Putting the Wish into the Wishlist
  A history of the Wikimedia community's request process to Foundation developers.

• In focus: A global standard for Neutral Point of View
  Wikipedians are commenting on a proposed global standard for neutral point of view.

• On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth
  Nice things around the world.

• Op-ed: Breathe, Don’t Panic, there is a different story about Wikimedia + AI futures
  We can build a strategy about AI that doesn't just center on readers; there are still plenty of humans to write the encyclopedia and work on diverse global knowledge.

• Opinion: Wikimedia Foundation staff develop union and Wikimedia user community reacts
  Why should editors support the Wiki Workers United union drive? Lessons the Wikimedia movement can learn from other labor struggles.

• Technology report: Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts
  WMF disbands Community Tech, sparking community backlash over the future of the Wishlist and concerns about unionization.

• Traffic report: 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
  Horror movies and Michael Jackson dominate theaters in the lead-up to the World Cup.

• WikiConference report: Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026
  Outreach staff of Wikimedia chapters host a global discussion.

• Comix: Take your turn
  In a maze of twisty little edits, all alike.

• Humour: Group of banned T-shirt makers comes out of hiding to sell new Wikipedia-themed merchandise
  It ain't WikiProject United Nations, but you will find some PUNs.

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Wikidata weekly summary #736

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #736.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Ziv - RfP scheduled to end after 24 June 2026 19:26 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Nabbot 1 - Task: Adding Turkish descriptions for scientific articles

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The Wikimania 2026 program has been revealed, go bookmark your favourite sessions.
  • Physical Training; Improving Health Articles in Africa - 21 June, 10:00, University of Ibadan.
  • The WikiIndaba Call for Proposals ends June 30th - don't forget to submit your Wikidata-sessions.
  • Sessions of the WikiProjects Days 2026 event will shortly be available on Commons: Presentations / Videos

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • WikiTiddler; Tiddlywiki as a live Wikidata frontend - if you run a TiddlyWiki instance, you can now run queries to the Wikidata Query Service and convert the results to Tiddlers.
  • TIB: What do we mean when we talk about AI and open knowledge? - Lozana Rossenova details their experiences at the AI+Bridges Symposium.
• Papers:
  • How to use Wikibase for Mixed-Methods Research, a book published by F. Bailo, E. Booth, and J. Williams
  • Wikimedia as a Platform for Evidence Synthesis: Quantifying Bias and Literature Coverage in Crowd-Sourced Knowledge Graphs by D. Mietchen, and J. Dearborn, (2026).
  • From Wikidata to Smart Tourism: A Reproducible Pipeline Based on AI and Fuzzy Logic for Interpretable Multi-Category Classification of Points of Interest - This paper develops a reproducible pipeline that converts Wikidata POIs into an interpretable tourism taxonomy, enabling multi-category classification and personalized smart tourism applications. By Kontogianni et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • Name Suggestion Index Explained: How OpenStreetMap Standardizes Brands
  • EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-06-04)
  • Using the Duplicity and WD Fist Tools to edit Wikidata
  • Unlocking Data through Semantic Linking, presented at ENDORSE 2025 by Thora Hagen. Experiences using 19th-century German encyclopedias, demonstrating how semantic enrichment via Wikidata can reveal fascinating patterns.
  • (Deutsch) From your pocket to the knowledge graph: SquirrelBase is a Wikibase instance that functions as a semantic metadata and reference platform. Make 3D smartphone captures of cultural assets, artworks, and ephemeral structures FAIR.

Tool of the week

• MotusArtium : Wikidata GraphQL showcase application for exploring and understanding art movements (alpha version). GraphQL queries used
• As seen during WikiProjects Days 2026 - Classification.js, visualise parent classes and identify incorrections, detect superclass tree loops. To use, click Activate and copy the two lines into your Common.js page.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Reminder: Try Ontology Federation to import Items from Wikidata to your Wikibase instance. Share your feedback in the linked survey. (full announcement)
• A session at WikiProjects Days 2026 was devoted to general-purpose tools for WikiProjects. A new page under the main Wikidata tools page was created with a list and description of these tools. Take a look at Wikidata:Tools/WikiProjects and add any missing tools.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • meteorological intensity classification (category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585))
  • perfumer (person who created a perfume)
  • ‎dual notion (category theory) (dual of the concept in category theory)
• External identifiers: catholica.cz ID, ‎Skeivopedia ID, Mathlib Declaration ID, Annuséries series ID, FES digital collections person ID, ‎BBC Bitesize topic ID, Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), OTOTOY artist ID, livres-cinema.info author ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
  • Gmedia rating (video games) (Video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system ({{Q|Q28717438}}))
• External identifiers: altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, some properties for category theory, Farzonagon ID, TV Guide film ID, Letterboxd Writer ID, d Hits artist ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, Fantia ID, 17LIVE ID, CFLapedia player ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, U-NEXT Parson ID, U-NEXT Video ID, H-NEXT Parson ID, ABEMA Video ID, FOD Parson ID, LRT topic ID, FOD Video ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, belarusenc.by ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Writing Systems Technical Resources script code, Répertoire des films classés film ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID, Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, Kanal Architecture entry ID, Web The Television Parson ID, Web The Television Work ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Showcase Items: ship (Q11446) - large buoyant watercraft

Development

• We enabled links to WikiProjects in the sidebar and added links to WikiProjects Music, Medicine, Datasets, sum of all paintings, and elections (T422935, T422935)
• We added a floating “add statement” button that makes it easier to add statements without looking through the existing statements (T417641, T428450).
• We’re working on making sure that users can tell when statements exist before they add new ones (T424009).
• We made some layout fixes to wbui2025 / MEX (T428766, T428761, T428759, T427658, T428853).
• We refactored error handling (T423613).
• We’re refactoring the server-side rendering so we don’t need separate .less style files (T409827).
• We’re working on the interaction between scrollable values and indicator icons (T425974).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.

Updates for editors

• The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
• Sub-referencing is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan for the next deployment steps.
• Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the skipcaptcha right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. The skipcaptcha right will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis.
• Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox.
• The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community.

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Tech News: 2026-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• As part of the Account Creation Experiments, the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July.
• After a successful experiment, logged-in users who did not confirm their email address when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the Account Security project.
• An update to Search is refining how the -prefix: behaves when used to exclude results. Previously, using -prefix: with negation could unintentionally broaden search results by adding the namespaces included in the search scope, leading to confusing behavior for users expecting a straightforward exclusion filter. With the update, -prefix: will now strictly exclude matching page titles as intended and may display a warning if the relevant namespace has not been explicitly selected. The behavior of prefix: without negation however remains unchanged.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where reviewers using the Page Curation toolbar were not automatically subscribed to talk page discussions they started has now been fixed. Reviewers will now receive notifications when someone replies to those discussions.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the user-agent policy. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. This is a follow up to the announcement made in the 2026/25 issue of Tech News.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #738

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #737.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • TopDevsBot - Task/s: Create new items for software-development, design, and consulting companies from source data: topdevs.ai
  • SonalBot - Task/s: Reference Gardener (archive dead reference links) + Welcome Bot (welcome new users)
• New request for comments: WM Commons: Policy update for AI content - this RfC will seek opinions on the use and allowance of AI-generated and modified content. This can have downstream impacts on Wikidata.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • 2026 Chiayi Streetview Workshop July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Tâi-uân tôo-su-sik, Chiayi, Taiwan.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #90 July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Lobid Blog: NWBibBot – Making a regional bibliography visible in Wikipedia with help from Wikidata
  • Tech News (WMDE) Knowledge wants to be found - We interview Tim Wittenborg about the WissKomm Wiki, from the Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology in TIB Hannover.
  • Bridging Open Knowledge And Digital Rights: Reflections From DRIF 2026 And The Wikimedia Community
• Papers: MathModDB: A Database for Mathematical Models - The Mathematical Models Database (MathModDB), deployed on the MaRDI Portal within Germany’s National Research Data Infrastructure, provides researchers with a curated knowledge graph that organizes scattered mathematical models, formulas, and assumptions, connects to related tools like MathAlgoDB and MaRDMO, and demonstrates practical use through cases such as plasma physics modeling. By Fiedler et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 - recordings now on Commons, if you missed the event or want to recap what was discussed, individual session recordings are now available from the Event program.
  • Jason Evans: Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey

Tool of the week

• Altilunium Panoply : A lightweight Wikibase alternative for creating collaborative knowledge bases, written as a single PHP file with no dependencies.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July. A Q&A clinic will be held on 1 July at 15:00 UTC (join here).
• Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship, Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎Taiwan Central News Agency news topic ID, ‎Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, ‎Sceneweb artwork ID, ‎Sceneweb production ID, Fantia ID, Finnish educational institution ID, ‎altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, TV Guide film ID, FOD person ID, LRT topic ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • subdiscipline of (less specific academic discipline)
  • has garden (Object is a {{Q|1107656}} related to this {{Q|16222597}})
  • ranking by (issuer of a ranking)
  • linguistic group (group of people who share the same language, regardless of their ancestry or ethnicity)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pure Adult actress ID, Taiwan Central News Agency News tag id, Pure Adult studio ID, Natural science/GBIF taxon ID, Digitaler Portraitindex person ID, torial ID, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, Samtrafiken-vehicle-id, Sundsvall Municipality opendata ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, KBS News topic ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur Autoroc, La Grange ID, Rakuten Books author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Roles and contributions of ? in Fictional Universes and Media franchises (source)
• Schema examples: it's World Cup time so here's 2 soccer/football-related EntitySchemas.
  • E404:Swedish Soccer Player and E183:Chilean Women's Football Players
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Logic
  • WikiProject Roots and Rhythms
• WikiProject Highlights: GovDirectory has opened a Madagascar page.
• Showcase Items: Lionel Messi - 6 World Cups, scoring in the last 7 consecutive matches.

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are continuing to evaluate the prototype for reducing the number of unnecessary edits from Wikidata that show up in watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co. The approach is to look at the diff of the rendered article before and after the change from Wikidata is made. If there is no difference then the change is probably not relevant for that article. We are collecting a sample to further understand how it performs.
  • To continue to address Wikidata's scaling issues, we are planning the migration of entity usage tables to the X1 cluster.
• Mobile editing of statements:
  • We implemented more feedback from testing of the new mobile front-end. Specifically we worked on making it clearer when a statements already exist that the editor is trying to add to the Item.
  • Additionally, we made minor improvements to the look and feel of the mobile front-end.
• REST API:
  • REST search routes now take apihighlimits right into account (phab:T428032)
  • We are starting to work on Lexeme support (phab:T429572, phab:T429332)
• GraphQL:
  • We added support for requesting “best statements” for a given Property (phab:T428138)
  • We are working on adding support for negation in Property value pair filters (phab:T429580)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Poland
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2026).

Administrator changes

• Chipmunkdavis
• TechnoSquirrel69

• Mlaffs
• SpuriousQ
• Lectonar
• Dennis Brown
• Hog Farm

CheckUser changes

• Giraffer
• TonyBallioni

• Dbeef
• EdJohnston

Oversight changes

• Giraffer
• TonyBallioni

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Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified.
• A request for comment proposes an addendum for the Real name section of the Username policy.

Technical news

• The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created for any users to use to find an IP range. (phab:T268429)
• The "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts can be replaced with a preferred block duration stated on MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account. (phab:T427125)

Arbitration

• Following a series of motions, changes to the contentious topics procedure to restructure awareness have been implemented.
• The arbitration case Michael Jackson has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
• 10 candidates have been appointed to the U4C.

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Tech News: 2026-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain.

Updates for technical contributors

• In preparation for Celebrate Women campaign planned for March 2027, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Content Enablement team has launched a 22-question survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ (anyone who identifies as a woman) across Wikimedia projects. The survey takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 20 July 2026. The questions are also available on-wiki for review in advance.
• The Score extension now supports rendering music scores as SVG images in addition to PNG, addressing a long-standing feature request and resolving historical image quality issues. Both formats are now provided to clients, with PNG in the src attribute and SVG in the srcset attribute.
• The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. It was enabled on French Wikipedia, bringing total progress to covering 78.9% of Wikipedia page views. Rollout to English Wikipedia desktop will progress through this week.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap blog post is now live. It highlights the projects, sessions, and social activities from this year’s event, and shares initial plans for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon.

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Wikidata weekly summary #739

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #738.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship:
  • 1Veertje - Closed as Successful
  • Ziv - Closed as Successful
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • gov-wikidata-match 1 - Task/s: Link existing GOV (historical gazetteer) building-like objects to existing Wikidata building-like objects.
  • AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task/s: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to Wikidata items about people, only where the OpenLibrary author and the Wikidata person have been confirmed to be the same individual, with a source on every statement.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • JigildikBot - Approved
  • SonalBot - Approved
  • ias-kbase - Approved

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The Wikidata Platform (WDP) monthly office hour takes place tomorrow, 7th July at 16:00 UTC. These office hours are focus on the Blazegraph migration work, and the team is inviting all community members to join the discussion. Register via the event page
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST (in your timezone), 08th July 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Sandbox sessions: Wikidata Reference Validator Tool - improving Wikidata references - Aug 15, 17:00 - 18:00 UTC.
  • Wiki Education + AASLH: Documenting America with Wikidata, a collaboration between Wiki Education and the American Association for State and Local History is offering six hour-long meetings held weekly to introduce attendees to Wikidata and improve content for Wikidata and Wikipedia on American history. Registration ends: July 17, 23:59 Pacific Time (PT)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (fr) Le point sur la diversité de genre dans les articles in *Regards sur l'actualité du mouvement Wikimedia*
• Papers:
  • Spatiotemporal-Heuristic A* Search for Pruning - Historical Influence and Succession Paths in Wikidata - Paper, by Michael James Liman (2026).
  • Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models - Paper by Chepurova et al., (2026).
• Videos: (Español) Introduction to Wikidata - Dr. Claudia De Souza and Prof. Dinah Wilson Fraites introduce Wikidata with Spanish-slides.

Tool of the week

• Zelph: Offers powerful analysis capabilities for the complete Wikidata knowledge graph while remaining adaptable for any semantic domain.
• World Cup Heights: An interactive data‑viz app that shows the heights of FIFA World Cup players, arranged so you can quickly compare teams, positions, and overall height distributions.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July.
• The Wikidata Platform team has published the 8th issue of its monthly newsletter. This edition includes updates on the migration of WDQS backend away from Blazegraph, including a transition into the next phase Initial Implementation (pilot) phase following completion of the installation phase. This update also include some Documentation on Query Rewrites the team will like the Wikidata community and all WDQS users to help review and leave feedbacks. see WDP monthly newsletter for more details

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • prisoner number (number or identifier assigned to a prisoner, to be used as a qualifier for P2632 (place of detention))
  • photographer (person who took this photograph)
  • ‎Gmedia rating (video games) (video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system)
  • visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
  • garden (garden of this subject)
  • objects (category theory) (the precise objects of the category (category theory))
  • morphisms (the precise morphisms of the category (category theory))
  • terminal object (the precise terminal object of the category (category theory))
  • initial object (the precise initial object of the category (category theory))
  • products (category theory) (the precise products of the category (category theory))
  • coproducts (category theory) (the precise coproducts of the category (category theory))
  • isomorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • monomorphisms (the precise monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • epimorphisms (the precise epimorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • regular monomorphisms (the precise regular monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • regular epimorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • left adjoint (the left adjoint of the functor)
  • enriched over (the base monoidal category, bicategory, etc. of the enriched category)
  • monoidal category operation (the “tensor product” bifunctor of the monoidal category)
  • 2-morphisms (the precise 2-morphisms of the 2-category)
  • taxon footprint (image of a footprint of this taxon)
• Newest External identifiers: Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, ‎Taiwan Central News Agency news tag ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, Web The Television work ID, Web The Television person ID, U-NEXT person ID, U-NEXT video ID, Sokmil director ID, Sokmil idol ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Répertoire des films classés film ID, ‎regjeringen.no ministry ID, ‎regjeringen.no politician ID, Objectif plumes work ID, National Operator Code (UK), ‎Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Myludo game ID, MyDirtyHobby ID, Maoyan film ID, ‎Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Letterboxd writer ID, KSW organization ID, KSW person ID, KSW place ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, ‎Artistas Visuales Chilenos propertyvalue ID, ‎Canadian Trademark Registration Number, occitanica.eu ID, Hancinema company ID, ZicTrad person ID, H-NEXT Person ID, FOD video ID, Farzonagon ID, d Hits artist ID, ABEMA video ID, 17LIVE ID, ‎regjeringen.no government ID, Pure Adult actress ID, Pure Adult studio ID, ‎GBIF taxon ID, Digital portrait index person (GND) ID, torial username, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, CatDat category ID, CatDat functor ID, CatDat category property ID, CatDat functor property ID, ‎Samtrafiken-vehicle ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Olyrix artist ID, AutorÒc 16-18 author ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review::
  • dielectric strenght (maximum electric field a material can withstand before electrical breakdown occurs)
  • about page URL (URL to the official about page)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Rakuten Books author ID, Rakuten TV adult Person ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, Le GRoG ID, NHK On Demand Program ID, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, GCD character ID, Identificador de agente econômico na ANCINE, 1SCREEN Program ID, Architectenregister-id, LUDAP ID, TakaWiki ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID, BiDünyaFilm film ID, CNUC code, Steady username, NHK ONE Program ID, SongLyrics.com song ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, ClayArena shooter profile ID, Open Collective ID, Anobii author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

• The development team are at an offsite retreat this week.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: France
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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The Signpost: 13 July 2026

• News and notes: An exclusive club
  Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger gets a community ban for canvassing.

• In the media: Battle for a soul – who won?
  Commissars, winners and losers, blocks or bans, a Wiki red card, social engineering on wikis, and Swift action!

• Opinion: We need to innovate with Wikimedia decision-making
  Rules we can actually read, trust and change!

• Recent research: LLMs and NPOV, 20 years of user blocks, Esperanto and Volapük Wikipedias
  And other research findings.

• News from Diff: How to host Wikicurious in your own community
  The Wikicurious team shares their approach to Wiki-event organizing.

• Community view: CUNY Newmark Wikimedian-in-Residence Quarterly Brief – April to June 2026
  Quarterly update on the activities of the City University of New York's Wikimedian-in-Residence, Richard Knipel.

• Special report: Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act – for now
  A possible future recategorization by the UK Government remains an existential threat to Wikipedia.

• On the bright side: Fatherhood, weather, and diplomacy
  Father's Day, Canada Day, and the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence.

• Op-ed: A Layup Easy Proposal for Wikimedia at 25: Spend 25% of Donations on the Community
  If strategy priority 1.1 is supporting the community, can we not increase the support to the community? Increasing grantmaking to 25% of the budget would be a move toward equality in the movement.

• Traffic report: The grass was greener, the light was brighter
  We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of World Cup.

• Comix: schnozzed
  on lollerskates.

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Tech News: 2026-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Revise Tone helps newcomers identify passages in Wikipedia articles that may contain non-encyclopedic language and encourages them to consider revising the tone. The feature was A/B tested on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias, where newcomer task completion rates increased by 38.7% compared to the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis, configurable via Community Configuration. The plan is to release Revise Tone to more wikis.
• The community configuration that allows automatic removal of inactive mentors based on configurable criteria will be enabled on Thursday 16, on some wikis to keep mentor lists up to date. Mentors are experienced contributors who opt in to help new users on-wiki through the Growth Features. Administrators can now prepare the settings via Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship; they will take effect starting Thursday.
• View all 38 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some users of the Wikipedia Android app were logged out immediately after signing in, preventing them from staying logged in and editing pages, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Editing a page via user scripts or gadgets was causing watchlist labels that the user had assigned to that page to reset. This has now been fixed.
• To work around a Safari bug (see phab:T425211), on Parsoid-enabled wikis, wikilink hrefs now use absolute urls instead of protocol-relative urls. REST API output remains unchanged and continue to use protocol-relative urls. Gadgets, user scripts, bots, and CSS might need to be adapted if they relied on the presence of protocol-relative urls in wikilink hrefs.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The Wikimedia Foundation’s Experiment Platform Team has published a blog post reflecting on its first year of structured experimentation. It highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes. Read more.

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Wikidata weekly summary #740

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #739.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: GA Kevin - RfP scheduled to end after 14 July 2026 18:40 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Nabbot 2 - Task: Translating English descriptions to Turkish using a predefined dictionary mapping.
  • AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to items about people, where the OpenLibrary author and Wikidata person are the same individual, when every statement is sourced.
  • EquipboardBot - Task: Add Equipboard artist ID (P6912) to Wikidata items for musicians, sourced from Equipboard's own database of public artist identifiers.
• Call for Participation in Improving Constraints
  • Just about any aspect of constraints is in scope, from rewriting existing bots to expanding the power of property constraints to adding new kinds of constraint. If you are interested, sign up in WikiProject Property Constraints/improving.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimania 2026 is fast approaching. Taking place 21 - 25 July in Paris, France. Can't attend? Register for a ticket to the virtual event and watch sessions online.
  • Interested in Wikibase Ontology Federation? Join the July 14 call, see the Cleaning Task Force page for more details.
• Previous events:
  • The 3rd Quarter Wikidata + Wikibase office hour was held. The transcript is available to read:
    Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2026 07 08

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Behind Better Data: Inside Wikidata’s First WikiProjects Days
  • Africa Wiki Challenge 2026 in the Ghanaian Pidgin Community: Documenting “Water for Life” Through Wikimedia Projects
  • Reflecting on progress and planning ahead: Dagbani Wikimedians User Group holds its last quarter team meeting
  • EduWiki Workshop: Combining PETScan and Generative AI for Smarter Wikipedia Editing
  • Why Computational Historians need Wikidata - a substack article by Jim Clifford
• Papers
  • A Demonstration of WikiRAG: An Evidence-based Link Prediction for Wikidata with Retrieval Augmented Generation - WikiRAG is an interactive framework that combines automated link prediction with retrieval‑augmented generation and human validation to reliably complete knowledge graphs like Wikidata by generating candidate links, retrieving supporting evidence, and enabling users to confirm and export validated triples. By Sabu, et al., (2026)
• Videos
  • Using Open Refine by Wikimedia Australia, Paul Duchesne presents "Using OpenRefine" during WikiCon Australia 2026, (National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra).
  • Let’s Get Mappy - making maps on Wikimedia platforms by Wikimedia Australia, Alex Lum presents how location (pushpin) maps, locator maps, and interactive "slippy" local maps end up on Wikipedia, and how infoboxes, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap works together to generate them
  • (繁體中文/zh-TW) Tutorial on Editing Temple Data for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons - recording of a workshop (July 5) on Tutorial on Editing Temple Data for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, held by Wikimedia Taiwan Community and OSM Taiwan.
  • Open data tools for cultural heritage 2nd session in the workshop series “Open Data to Strengthen Online Cultural Heritage,” held March 24, 2026, and organized by the National Library of Uruguay (BNU), Wikimedians of Uruguay, Datysoc, and Data Uruguay.
  • GLAMs and Citizen Science Encouraging and Enabling Participation - Siobhan Leachman presents "citizen science workflows" (BHL, iNaturalist, Bionomia, Wikidata) to show how GLAM's can empower citizen scientists to reuse their collections.

Tool of the week

• rudof can be used as a command line tool or can be embedded as a library using cargo. It can be used to validate RDF data represented with different syntaxes like Turtle, NTriples, to name a few. As well as RDF data available through SPARQL endpoints like Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A Project Chat discussion on the new Mentorship features. Self-enrollment has been enabled with the following requirements - account age: 365 days, edits: 500.
• There is also a proposal to add an advisory message to new accounts that create multiple items.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Rakuten TV adult person ID, KBS News topic ID, Rakuten Books author ID, PTS News Network topic ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, ‎La Grange person ID, ‎Fontaines de Belgique ID, NHK On Demand program ID, 1SCREEN program ID, LUDAP ID, Bianco keyword ID, Architectenregister ID, ‎ClayArena shooter profile ID, ‎Sundsvall Municipality opendata beach ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • relocated from (Object is the original or former {{Q|17334923}} of the permanently relocated {{Q|16222597}})
    • OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType)
    • transforms from (this fictional or mythical entity transforms from that form)
    • Korean Classification of Administrative Districts (code assigned to an administrative district of South Korea in the Korean Classification of Administrative Districts)
  • External identifiers: Anobii book ID, Google Maps Place ID, Viberate Artist ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage style ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage designer ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, Deltarune Wiki article ID, INAPP OA author ID, CNR-IRIS ID, AnimeOshi anime ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal Artist ID, CIDIM Artist ID, Operabook Artist ID, Mizan al-Arab poet ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, OpenStreetMap data item ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, A World Made by Travel person ID, Scent Base notes ID, radio.net IDs, Scent Base perfumer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Items only connected to Telugu Wikipedia (source) - change the language code 'te' to make it work with any other Wikipedia
• Schema examples: French historic monument (E269) - With Wikimania taking place in the French Capital, you can use this entity schema if you feel inspired to or expand items on French monuments.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - a Chinese-animated television franchise.
  • (Français) Project Orthodox Christianity
  • Project SUNY Libraries EMCO
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Govdirectory Poland added several new subpages detailing coverage and progress on State, Local Agencies and Marshall's Offices.
  • Project Property Constraints added a subpage: Improving - a call for participation, as a result of discussions during WikiProjects Days 2026.
• Newest database reports: Most sitelinked Items (with statements)

Development

• Blazegraph migration: We are continuing to prepare the Query UI, Query Builder, constraint checks, etc for the migration to QLever (phab:T425618)
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are investigating some Lua modules to find ones responsible for a lot of unnecessary entries in Watchlist and Recent changes on Wikipedia and co (phab:T429366)
• GraphQL: Added support for negation in property value pair filters (phab:T429580)
• REST API: We are working on the first pieces of support for Lexemes: retrieving a full Lexeme (phab:T429332)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Books & Bytes – Issue 75

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Wikidata weekly summary 741

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #740.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • RupumpedBot - Task/s: When an Item on a Kenyan river has a Swahili label but no English version, this bot will derive an English label and description.
  • William Avery Bot 14 - Task/s: Change values of url properties in mainspace that link to http://web.archive.org/ to use the https protocol (requested at Bot requests#Make HTTPS for Wayback Machine recurrent)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimania is about to begin. Whether you're attending on-site or virtually, plan your sessions so you don't miss any.
    • Full program / Wikidata-only program
    • Get your virtual ticket
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #91 Aug 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Force11 webinar: Metadata for all with Wikidata will look at three novel applications, WikiCite, the Trans Music Achive and the Pratt Institute. Held online August 26, 13-14:00 UTC. Please register for the access link.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Calling Wikifunctions for der, die, das
  • How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata
  • Altilunium Panoply v26.7.19 : In this latest release, the external Wikidata connection logic has undergone a major architectural overhaul to improve internal trace mapping.
• Videos:
  • (Svenska) Strategic inclusion of library data on Wikidata - first recorded at Digikult 2019, with Alicia Fagerving.
  • (Français) I’ll explain how Wikidata works! (Livestream recording), User:Lyokoï will introduce Wikidata and its concepts and the fundamentals of editing.
  • (繁體中文/zh-TW) Wikivoyage Guidelines for editing Temple information
  • How to use Wikibase for Mixed Methods Research, with Francesco Bailo. Recorded at SICSS Melbourne 2026 (Summer Institute in Computational Social Science).
• Games: Webwoven - a new game has surfaced, powered by Wikidata. Race from start to finish in as few connections as possible. Already includes Leaderboards, daily challenges and multiplayer. Sure to be a hit at future Wikidata events.

Tool of the week

• wikivibes is a tool by Magnus Magnus that play public domain music from Commons, tracked by Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Jobs:
  • (Interim) Engineering Manager - Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects - Hybrid
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform - Remote
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform - Remote

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
    • ‎about page URL (URL to the official about page)
  • External identifiers: Western Orthodox Wiki ID, Steady publication ID, ‎Open Collective ID, ‎Guide du Rôliste Galactique ID, CNUC code, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, CNR-IRIS author ID, Anobii Book ID, Anobii author ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, TakaWiki numeric page ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal artist ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • autoptic examination (time of last direct examination of the inscribed object)
    • Tabular data series (A tabular data series in Commons that models the given concept)
    • data series (A data series about the given topic.)
    • incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
    • former operator (entity, company, military service, or organisation which is notable for previously operated the item, aircraft, vehicle, or other equipment)
    • número de la plaza (square number)
  • External identifiers: PISAI ID, Ko-fi page ID, Scent Base brand ID, Etsy shop name, Overcast podcast ID, Grillplatser.nu ID, Criticker Film ID, HAND ID, Open Language Archives Community language code, identifiant Ciel d'oc d'une publication, ODiD ID, Generic/Numero de Registre Tributari, UntitledDb People ID, MissEvan drama ID, MissEvan sound ID, MissEvan ID, MissEvan voice actor ID, Fmfenxiang FM ID, Fmfenxiang sound ID, Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

• Wikidata Query Service: We are working on adapting the Query Service UI to get it ready for the move to QLever
• Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing to fix small issues found in testing
• Lexemes: We are continuing the work on adding support for Lexemes to the REST API
• Sustainability:
  • We are preparing the migration of some database tables on the client wikis that track the usage of Wikidata's data in articles on Wikipedia and co
  • We are further investigating how many changes from Wikidata that currently get sent to Wikipedia and co don't actually lead to a change in the article to be able to reduce these cases further

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Reader Experience team has incorporated community feedback around the placement of watchstar and watchlist buttons for the Reading Lists beta feature, which would allow for saving articles for later reading – a wishlist item to bring the functionality to web. Editors are invited to enable the beta feature to test it out and share their thoughts.
• Suggestion Mode offers edit suggestions within the VisualEditor for improving Wikipedia articles. All suggestions are community-configurable. The TextMatch feature is a way for volunteers to create custom local suggestions. The feature searches in articles for strings of text, and now includes support for regular expressions. This gives volunteers greater precision and flexibility over the kinds of local suggestions they can create. Note: Suggestions can be targeted based on the edit count of the person editing as well as other aspects of the page. You can find examples from other communities for inspiration, including TextMatches that detect: typos, grammar-errors, potential advertisements, clichés, incorrect dash or hyphen usage, non-specific time keywords, outdated names, and more. Any feedback is appreciated.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the SVG Translate tool could use an outdated version of a file, causing existing translations to be overwritten when new ones were uploaded, has now been fixed. Overall, in the last quarter from April – June 2026 about 337 community tasks were resolved by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Updates for technical contributors

• On Parsoid-enabled wikis, Parsoid now renders a maximum of 1,250 images per page. A new tracking category, "media-limit-reached", will be soon made available to identify pages where this limit is reached, making it easier to find content whose media output may have been restricted during rendering. See phab:T430854 for more information and to provide feedback.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #742

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #741.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • AuntuBot - Task/s: Per the approved bot request at commons:Commons:Bots/Requests/AuntuBot, I am in the process of uploading approximately 50,000 issues of the Bangladesh Gazette to Wikimedia Commons. We need to a parent Wikidata item for each specific issue/volume to import and organize these files on Bengali Wikisource. Note that AuntuBot has already been granted a bot flag on Wikimedia Commons for the file uploads.
  • Rebot 2 - Task/s: We recently created the new property perspective (P14345) (Wikidata:Property proposal/anatomical view). With Rebot, I plan to move:
• About 570 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a property
• About 1400 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a qualifier of image (P18)
  • Rebot 3 - Task/s: Import 1389 instances of taxon author citation (P6507) from this Catalan Wikipedia list, compiled by bot from the articles.
  • Rebot 4 - Task/s: The task consists in changing these 1072 items. It has to change creator (P170) to the new property photographer (P14574). Also there are 1000+ items in which the property should be used as a qualifier.
  • Openpep - Task/s: Maintenance of Politically Exposed Person (PEP) data on Wikidata for Thai government officials. Specifically:
• Creating new Wikidata items for Thai politicians not yet in the database
• Adding P39 (position held) claims with proper qualifiers (P580 start time, P582 end time, P2937 legislative term for legislators, P1365/P1366 replaces/replaced by, P1545 series ordinal)
• Adding P102 (member of political party) with date qualifiers
• Adding P569 (date of birth), P106 (occupation), P21 (sex or gender), P19 (place of birth), P1559 (name in native language)
• Setting and correcting labels, descriptions, and aliases
• Removing incorrect claims and deduplicating
• Adding social media profiles (P2003 Instagram, P2013 Facebook, P11705 Facebook numeric ID)
  • DutchFixer - Task/s: Reformat Dutch verb forms that are listed as past tense (Q1994301), participle (Q814722) to simply use past participle (Q12717679)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Vladimir Terentyev used the set of names for every dish from Wikidata -- labels and aliases in every language -- along with restaurant data from OpenStreetMap to develop a world map of dish names, attempting to answer the research question: "Where does plov end and biryani begin, and who really draws these borders?"
  • Giving Open Source Hardware a Place on Wikidata
  • Simplified entry of complex data into Wikibase
  • Grateful and Growing: Reflecting on My Wiki Afrodemics Fellowship, Pilot Cohort
• Papers: DivinWD: Exploring the Diversity of Scientific Publications in Wikidata - DivinWD is a large open-source dataset of over 23 million triples and 1.2 million scholarly articles (2010–2024), integrating Wikidata with five bibliographic sources and gender data to enable transparent diversity analyses in science while documenting biases and infrastructural limitations. By Saletti et. al., (2026)

Tool of the week

• OWL Places, the Wikidata-OpenStreetMap matching tool, can now add OpenStreetMap IDs to Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.1.0 and other upgrades

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • dielectric strength (electric field strength that causes electrical breakdown of an insulating material under specified test conditions)
    • still taken from the audiovisual work (image comes from the given audiovisual work)
  • External identifiers: Operabook artist ID, ‎MPA certificate number, ‎Deltarune Wiki article ID, A World Made by Travel person ID, UntitledDb person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Fediverse app (Fediverse platform of the instance or address)
    • Fediverse instance URL (Ferdiverse instance of/about the subject)
    • reference amount (Amount of the food that contains a particular quantity of a nutrient.)
    • Qidian Book ID ()
  • External identifiers: Garance item ID, Kinorating, IGN producer, Fediverse address, Music & Opera artist ID, LFL player ID, Soccer365.net tournament ID, kicker.de coach ID, BeSoccer team ID, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID, SofaScore tournament ID, Foot Mercato club ID, Lithuanian movie register ID, Foot Mercato referee ID, BeSoccer referee ID, Kicker.de referee ID, Soccer365.net referee ID, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID, Soccer365.net stadium ID, MFL player ID, Okko movie ID, RIA Novosti organization ID, OpenParliamentTV person ID, OpenParliamentTV organization ID, OpenParliamentTV term ID, Camping.se ID, classicalive artist ID, Chess Games tournament ID, Chess.com tournament ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, Flemish educational institution number, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, Lulu spotlight ID, RPGnet Index ID, EU Treaties and Agreements database ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

• The team were at Wikimania this past week so not much development happened.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Content Translation now supports dark mode, fulfilling a Community Wishlist request. This brings the tool in line with the accessibility features available in the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins, helping reduce visual fatigue for users translating content.
• DiscussionTools' source mode and the 2017 wikitext editor will now offer autocomplete for links ([[), templates ({{), HTML and parser tags (<), and magic words (__), making it quicker and easier to insert links, templates, and other wiki markup while editing.
• The Readers Growth team has concluded its experiment with mobile page previews and will not roll out the feature. Page Previews are a pop-up bottom sheet that appears when readers tap a blue link, showing a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and an option to open the article. The experiment showed flat retention and negative indicator metrics, suggesting that mobile web readers preferred navigating directly to linked articles rather than using page previews.
• The Reader Experience team has seen encouraging early results from the Reading Lists feature, with 93% of participating users reporting that it was useful. Reading Lists help active readers save articles for future reading and support their learning goals on Wikimedia projects. The team plans further improvements before expanding the feature to more users.
• The Explore Feed Refresh initiative was tested with new and casual Wikipedia app readers. The refreshed feed helps readers discover new and relevant content. After a 10.5% increase in engagement with the feed, Wikimedia Apps team has decided to scale the Home Feed redesign to iOS with the learnings from the Android release applied.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where subject names in the Article Guidance feature were displayed with incorrect capitalization on French Wikipedia, has now been fixed. Subject names will now follow the correct capitalization rules for the language.

Updates for technical contributors

• After running several Account Creation Experiments to improve registration completion rates, a new version of the username field on Create Account has been rolled out. It includes a popover summarizing the username policy to provide clearer guidance during account creation. As part of this change, the messages createacct-helpusername and createacct-username-help that several communities have configured will no longer be used. If communities want to customize the guidance shown in the new popover, they can instead edit the following messages: createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet1, createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet2, and createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet3.
• Later this week, the CodeMirror syntax highlighter will offer themes. The themes can be picked from a dropdown menu in the full CodeMirror preferences dialog. For wikitext, available themes are default, colorblind-friendly (previously the colorblind preference option on Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing) and no-highlighting. For code languages (i.e., CSS/JavaScript/JSON/Vue/Lua), there are several themes available. These same themes will eventually be available for wikitext, too.
• From now on, wikis can restrict editing in the "User" namespace to only the page owner and certain user groups. Read the configuration documentation to learn more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 6

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 30 June

Volume 4 — Issue 6
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News On 7 June, Tianwen-2 performed a successful orbital insertion around 469219 Kamoʻoalewa; this is the first mission to the quasi-satellite SMILE, the joint heliophysics mission between the ESA and CAS, achieved its final orbital position on 20 June.
Article of the month Expedition 24 A last-quarter crescent moon above Earth's horizon is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member. Expedition 24 was the 24th long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 24 initially had two planned spacewalks, one Russian and one American Extra-vehicular Activity (EVA). The U.S. EVA was re-planned and a second U.S. EVA was added.	Image of the month NASA spacecraft comparison This graphic, created c. 1964, compares the relative sizes of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft (right, bottom-to-top). Each successive craft is larger and has a greater crew capacity than the previous; additionally, while the Mercury and Gemini craft are fairly similar, the Apollo craft (actually two craft, the Apollo command and service module and Apollo Lunar Module) is substantially different: the reentry module is more conical, and has a much large thruster. These changes, and the lunar lander, are present because Apollo was the first crewed missions to the moon, with the changes necessary to ensure that the crew could return to Earth alive. A similar pattern can be found in the comparison of the launch vehicles on the left: while the Mercury (Atlas-D) and Gemini (Titan II) vehicles are similar in size, differing primarily in height, the Apollo vehicle, the Saturn V, is significantly larger, both for the need to transport the CSM and LEM, but also in order to get to the Moon in the first place.
Members New Members: LonghairSpaceHistoryGuy (8 June) Jake11223344 (23 June) DragonPowerZ (23 June) Number of active members: 232. Total number of members: 463. June Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list Here. Long March 12B — 2 Qianfan satellites (1 Jun. at 08:40:00) (success) H3-30S — various (12 Jun. at 00:53:59) (success) Long March 3B/E — Shijian-31 (16 Jun. at 09:45:00) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 30 June 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 62 3 137 B 18 78 200 246 10 552 C 41 171 617 906 1 80 1,816 Start 15 133 1,024 2,734 513 4,419 Stub 5 192 1,974 338 2,509 List 11 117 112 246 1 50 537 Category 1,283 1,283 Disambig 47 47 File 276 276 Portal 54 54 Project 108 108 Redirect 2 42 144 1,259 1,447 Template 534 534 Other 1 36 37 Assessed 104 565 2,242 6,326 3,723 994 13,954 Unassessed 7 112 119 Total 104 565 2,242 6,333 3,723 1,106 14,073 Monthly Changes Since May 2026, there are one more Mid-importance, 12 more Low-importance, ten fewer NA-importance, and six more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of nine new articles. There are also four more GA-class, seven more B-class, five more C-class, five more Start-class, three more Stub-class articles, and two more lists.
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The Signpost: 2 August 2026

• In the media: Union drive, most prolific editor make headlines
  AI's impact on Wikipedia, World Cup editing, and encyclopedia's place in public life.

• News and notes: Foundation rejects voluntary recognition of union, proposed board eligibility rules sharply restrict candidates
  Further: harassment allegations at Wikimania, and new RfC for Abstract Wikipedia.

• WikiConference: "Kurier, Signpost, wikipress: You can be a Wikimedia journalist" - Wikimania presentation by User:Noé Recap
  A recap of Noé Gasparini's Wikimania 2026 presentation on the variety of wikipress outlets.

• In focus: Is Larry Sanger the co-founder of Wikipedia?
  A look over the years.

• Arbitration report: Think, and not just about content
  ArbCom continues business.

• News from Diff: Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2026!
  Wikimedians of the Year 2026 announced at Wikimania 2026 - Paris.

• On the bright side: The beautiful game
  2026 Men's FIFA World Cup, Wikimania music, and wikipress.

• Traffic report: Odyssey and Oyarzabal
  To take you in the sun to (Ithaca), to show you the World Cup, it's the time of the season for editing!

• Comix: Well-spotted
  You dasherdly—dash–dash−dash-dash!

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Tech News: 2026-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Reader Experience team has developed a patch demo that wraps the page toolbar onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, which can occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
• The Reader Experience team is planning to launch Reading Lists, a Community Wishlist item, which is currently available to try in beta, as a full feature in September. Before then, volunteer translator help is needed for string translations into a number of languages. The feature supports reading and learning goals on Wikipedia.
• Next week, the table of contents on Wikimedia Commons file pages will be improved by consolidating the file page table of contents with the page table of contents. This will make it easier to understand a file page’s structure, navigate to specific sections, and share links to individual sections.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some TIFF images failed to load after clicking their thumbnail, causing a broken image to be displayed instead of the full-size image, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The variable and function selector in AbuseFilter has been updated to support search and autocomplete. It will allow filter maintainers to find the desired variable or function more quickly.
• The MJPEG and VP8 formats are removed from the video player. The MP4 format (MPEG-4 Part 2) is added instead, which provides higher quality videos to older iPhone devices. It may take a few weeks to retroactively update all existing videos. The default format for modern devices stays the same (VP9/WebM).
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:44, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #743

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #742.

Discussions

• INAPerson 1 - Task/s: Create Wikidata pages entries for mostly French journalists, using INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) catalogue as reference.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimedia & Research conference in the CEE region: programme coming in August, registration open - follow link for registration instructions, (onsite) open until August 26, (online) open until at least October 5. Event takes place Katowice, Poland, October 9-10, 2026.
  • Workshop: Wikidata for Open Innovation - DCMI 226. Held on August 3 by Kalliopi Mathios, participants will get hands-on experience of Wikidata for use in Libraries, Industry and Communities.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers:
  • the proceedings of the conference Wikidata and Research (cf. Meta page), held in Florence (Italy) on June 5-6, 2025, have been published on July 2026 and are available in CC-BY 4.0 license: Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences; 32 papers, 25 in English and 7 in Italian, deal with the usage of Wikidata and other Wikibase instances in different fields of academic research
  • Detecting Knowledge Inconsistencies Across Text, Tables, and Knowledge Graphs by Wei et al., (2026). This paper introduces Kontrast: a tool for comparing Wikidata's statements against Wikipedia tables (and text) to find conflicting information or inconsistencies and missing data.
• Videos: LIVE Wikidata Editing #123 with hosts User:Ainali and User:Abbe98

Tool of the week

• Leximap: Create a colour-coded map of Lexemes from a Wikisource page's text, roll-over individual words to discover more about the lemma
• Filmmap: a free interactive map of filming locations built from Wikidata. Search the title to see where it’s shot or a place to see what was made there
• Cradle-gadget – A new user script embeds the Cradle form editor into Wikidata item pages, enabling schema-based editing with ShEx.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Job vacancy: (Remote) Software Engineer for the Wikidata Platform team.
• Wikibase Cloud has a new hosting policy (pilot version)
• Subster - a timeline-based Wikidata-powered game that plays songs from your own music collection and asks you to rank it against other songs in your hand. Like a digital, cardless version of Hitster. Requires a subsonic-compatible music server to connect to.
• Uyen developed a tool in which you can visualize and inspect content gaps and shared content between different Wikipedia editions, as well as topic distributions: https://wiki-gap-finder.toolforge.org/ Check it out and give them feedback.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • tabular data series (A tabular data series in Commons that models the given concept)
    • infobox chronology (indicate the place of an item in an Infobox chronology, as seen on the Wikipedias.)
    • ‎OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType, without trailing spaces)
    • ‎Fediverse app (Fediverse platform of the instance or address)
    • ‎Fediverse instance URL (Ferdiverse instance of/about the subject)
  • External identifiers: Viberate artist ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage style ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage designer ID, radio.net station ID, radio.net podcast ID, Sokmil AV performer ID, Scent Base brand ID, Scent Base notes ID, Scent Base perfumers ID, PISAI ID, CIDIM Artist ID, Etsy shop name, ‎Open Language Archives Community language code, ‎OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID, Ko-fi page ID, KinoRating ID, ‎Korean Classification of Administrative Districts, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID, SofaScore tournament ID, RIA Novosti organization ID, MFL player ID, ‎MissEvan username, Soccer365.net referee ID, Soccer365.net stadium ID, Soccer365.net tournament ID, ‎IGN producer ID, kicker.de coach ID, Kicker.de referee ID, Lithuanian movie register ID, LFL player ID, BeSoccer referee ID, BeSoccer team ID, OpenParliamentTV organization ID, OpenParliamentTV person ID, OpenParliamentTV term ID, Foot Mercato referee ID, Foot Mercato club ID, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID, Chess Games tournament ID, Chess.com tournament ID, ‎Camping.se ID, Garance item ID, ‎OpenType language system tag, Okko movie ID, ‎Grillplatser.nu ID, Número de Registre Tributari, ‎MissEvan sound ID, ‎MissEvan drama ID, ‎Flemish educational institution number, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID, RPGnet Index ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • ENS name (Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain associated with a person or entity)
    • Inventaire régional du patrimoine en Wallonie ID ()
    • member of musical group (member of musical group)
    • name type (type of noun or name the sense is)
  • External identifiers: CINE21 Program ID, Rakuten TV adult maker ID, DMM maker ID, sukumizu.tv actress ID, GAS actress ID, Paradise TV Parson ID, syukou-club(X-DIABLO) actress ID, Brazilian Fauna Taxonomic Catalogue ID, CINE21 company ID, STAPI Book ID, STAPI Comics ID, STAPI Episode ID, STAPI Performer ID, Qidian Author ID, Medieval Unicode Font Initiative ID, Apple Maps place id, Filmycast person ID, EORI, GBIF Specimen (occurrence), d anime store Parson ID, d anime store work ID, Crank-in! Parson ID, Crank-in! drama ID, Crank-in! animation ID, Crank-in! movie ID, Elite Prospects team ID, r-hockey.ru team ID, Elite Prospects stadium ID, izohli.uz word ID, Dubbinfo ID, DBNL chamber of rhetoric ID, BLS Code, JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia article ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Retrieve all Belgian writers without an article on French Wikipedia (source)
• Schema examples: Swedish barbecue areas (E408)
• Newest WikiProjects: Project Occitan
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Broadcasting - after 10 years of inactivity, the project has been revived with a flurry of activity . Of particular interest is the change in broadcasting scope from primarily airwave to internet transmission.
  • Wiki x K-pop 2026 • Editing Party - Japan Week Datathon
• Newest database reports: Wikidata Terminator - find items that lack Label, description or sitelink.
• Showcase Items: Oman (Q842) - state in western Asia
• Showcase Lexemes: cheche (L648863)

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We reviewed samples of Wikidata-related entries in Recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co in order to see which additional changes we can remove because they don't change the article.
  • We are preparing for the migration of the entity usage table to the extension database cluster to address database scalability issues (phab:T424133)
• Wikidata Query Service: We are continuing to adapt the Query Service UI and the Quality Constraints extension for the upcoming move from Blazegraph to QLever.
• REST API: We are continuing to add support for Lexemes, specifically retrieving a full Lexeme (GET) (phab:T429332)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Seychelles
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
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Wikidata weekly summary #744

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #743.

Discussions

• The order of properties on Wikidata is governed by MediaWiki/Wikibase-SortedProperties. We propose moving (P2559) Wikidata usage instructions to the top, so important guidance is more visible and less likely to be overlooked. To comment on this change, please visit MediaWiki_talk#prominently displaying (P2559).
• Closed request for comments: 19 RfC's were closed recently, too many to list here. Please see the RfC page for more information.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • (Deutsch) nfdi4 / Workshop: Make Research Software Findable using the Software Marketplace Wikidata, 18.08.2026, 14:00–16:00 CEST (register for Zoom-link)
  • Improving Wikidata References: The hands-on session will explore how to identify and improve broken references on Wikidata , 15.08.2026, 17:00–18:00 WAT (UTC+1).
• Looking ahead: (Deutsch) Freie Universitat / Tidy data version control - Wikidata in research: 22.10.2026, 09:00 - 16:00 CEST.
• Previous events: August 04 - Blazegraph Migration office hour - see the Etherpad notes for questions and answers.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • gdottv / The Weekly Edge article: demonstrating the Wikidata Query Logs (WDQL) Dataset talks about a paper released in February this year, (Wikidata Query Logs Dataset)
  • LinkedIn - User:Orthodoc10 describes their experience mapping and modelling knee replacement surgical practices into Wikidata
  • Wikisignals.org: Helping Editors Evaluate Reference Reliability
  • Zero-budget programs you could start tommorrow - Lessons from Wikimania Paris]
  • OpenSpeaks Tools Update: Subtitler, Tome, and Bento Go Stable — Meet Media Dashboard
  • [[Diffblog:a-look-at-a-2026-wikimania-hackathon-project-wikidata-bias-detector|A look at a 2026 Wikimania Hackathon Project – Wikidata Bias Detector]
  • nlnet Foundation / Inventaire Split - a short article on this standalone Wikidata-federated Bibliographic database.
  • Maltese national Book Council and WM Malta renew partnerhship: Wikidata to support and feed Maltese Wikipedia.
  • [Diffblog:wikisignals-org-helping-editors-evaluate-reference-reliability|Wikisignals.org: Helping Editors Evaluate Reference Reliability] - the project aims to add to news-related organisation entities to help feed Wikipedia infoboxes with structured data.
• Videos:
  • India's Software Stories: A Hands-on Workshop with Software Heritage, Commons and Wikidata - a Wikimania Lightning talk with Mathilde Fichen and Pavan Santhosh. (Session page)
  • The Art of Editing Wikidata (Africa Wiki Women) - Guest host David Palfrey will share valuable insights and help newcomers uncover the mysteries of editing Wikidata, this session is in collaboration with Art+Feminism.
  • (no audio) Tutorial: Add Geoshape to Wikimedia Commons and connect it to its Wikidata Item - Anne Chen gives a visual demonstration of the steps provided in this google doc, found on the WikiProject IDEA page.
  • LIVE Wikidata Editing #124 is streaming today, 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC)!
  • (Bahasa Indonesian) Wikimedia Indonesia have released 4 short videos on editing practices, querying, basic structure and data quality of Wikidata.
  • (Deutsch) ZB MED LAB | The Carpentries - aimed at researchers and professionals who work with data, a series of tutorials and workshops to teach you Wikidata, Python, R, OpenRefine and more.

Tool of the week

• Cradle-gadget is a tool by User:DanielyepezgarcesThis is an interactive, schema-based form editor that works directly within Wikidata item pages. It allows users to check, view, add, modify, or delete claims in a modern sidebar drawer or a dedicated special page, aligned with the Wikimedia design guidelines. This is the easiest way to exploit the benefits of Wikidata entity schemas, powered by ShEx.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The 2026 OpenRefine User Survey is now open. (Note that a link to a feature-prioritization survey is provided at the end of the Google Form so don't miss that if you want to influence what should get more focus.)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • particularly (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, when the statement applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
    • ‎incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
  • External identifiers: CINE21 TV program ID, GCD character ID, ODiD ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, NHK ONE program ID, CINE21 company ID, ‎Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID, ‎Fmfenxiang sound ID, Elite Prospects team ID, Elite Prospects stadium ID, r-hockey.ru team ID, Classicalive artist ID, Apple Maps place id, ‎HAND ID, Brazilian Fauna Taxonomic Catalogue ID, ‎Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, ‎MissEvan voice actor ID, Music & Opera artist ID, Dubbinfo ID, GAS actress ID, ‎EU Treaties and Agreements database ID, syukou-club(X-DIABLO) actress ID, sukumizu.tv model ID, Paradise TV Person ID, Regional heritage of Wallonia ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • filing unit code
    • has Member (has member)
    • introduced to (region outside the natural range of a taxon into which it was introduced through direct or indirect human activity)
  • External identifiers: Lift-World lift ID, Schiffsdatenliste ID, marketswiki, National Palace Museum Digital Archive ID, Information Commissioner's Office registration reference, Registry of Type Design ID, Ariana Museum ID, Emulation General Wiki article ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal immovable object ID, Sofia monuments register ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal museum ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal movable object ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal stone carving ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal protection zone ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal wall painting ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal documentation record ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage Portal movable object ID, RIdIM ID, Weibo ID, Weibo username

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Ten longest State of the Union adress in the USA
• Schema examples: object with inscription - schema for objects with inscriptions (Q1640824)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Brigham Young University Library
  • Project Perth Women on Wikipedia
  • Project UC Riverside Library Jay Kay Klein Photographs
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Ontology added a Metaclasses page
• Newest database reports: Sitelink statistics by User:Pasleim.

Development

• Sustainability: We continued the work on migrating usage tracking on Wikipedia and co to the extension database cluster (phab:T424185)
• Watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co: We finished our review of a sample of Wikidata edits sent to Wikidata and co in order to better understand which remaining ones are not useful. It will soon be published on Commons.
• Query Service: We continued the work on preparing the Query Service UI for the migration from Blazegraph to QLever and will move to Query Builder and Quality Constraints next

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Seychelles
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2026).

Administrator changes

• MCE89
• Staraction

• Danaman5

CheckUser changes

• dbeef

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the 30-day requirement for extended-confirmed status now begins after an account's first edit instead of its registration (T431060).

Technical news

• Inactive editors can now be removed as mentors at Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship automatically.
• The Suggested Edits' Revise Tone feature is now enabled. It encourages editors to identify and revise non-neutral language in articles.

Miscellaneous

• The Unreferenced articles August 2026 backlog drive is underway. Help to add references to 47,000 articles.
• The Articles for creation August 2026 backlog drive is under way. Help to review 4,500+ drafts.

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Tech News: 2026-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• A new ChartWizard is now available on Wikimedia Commons for users interested in creating charts from their own data. The wizard makes the Chart extension more beginner-friendly by allowing editors to create charts, such as bar and pie charts, without needing to use JSON. Users can still switch to the JSON editor if they prefer. Feedback on the new tool is welcome on the wish talk page.
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Wikipedia iOS app’s Picture of the Day widget displayed the same image every day instead of updating daily, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Math formula SVG images will soon be generated in the browser instead of on the server. MathML continues to be generated on the server and renders in the browser without JavaScript. Wikibooks will see this change on 12 August, Wikisource on 19 August and Wikipedia from 20-27 August. You can try this by selecting "MathML with SVG image (client side MathJax rendering)" in your preferences. This change is part of deprecating RESTBase and deprecating Mathoid.
• Category pages will soon support sorting entries by the time they are added to a category. This will make it easier to find recently or long-standing categorized pages. It will also improve workflows for maintenance categories such as deletion backlogs and other time-based review tasks. You can use cldsort=timestamp URL argument in category view to sort the entries.
• Gadgets and user scripts on Wikimedia wikis may now use ES2018 features and ES2019 features in JavaScript code. Previously, the platform only allowed up to ES2017. MediaWiki validates the source code to protect functionality from syntax errors and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #745

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #744.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiLoves Pride / Australia, 15 August, drop-in online for a collaborative editing session on LGBT+ representation on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons.
  • Drop-in and Wikidata, 27 August, WM Australia also hold a drop-in Wikidata ediitng sesison.
  • Open Heritage - Wikidata Islamic Civilization Contest from September 1 - 30, 2026. Register for news.
    • A Wikidata training webinar will be held August 25.
• Looking ahead: Hands-on workshop: Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond - Digital Humanities Lab, 12.11.2026, 14:15-15:45 CEST.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Introductory lesson on Wikidata at the Programming Historian
  • Making open knowledge Gen-AI-ready by IBM
  • How to describe a place on Earth using text? Part 1: Wikidata by Noé Flandre
• Papers: Cultural information bubbles: A new approach for automatic ethical evaluation of digital artwork collections based on Wikidata by M. Zhitomirsky-Geffet and S. Minster, (2026).

Tool of the week

• This tool lets you edit the rank of multiple statements at once.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WM Australia is funding partner projects for 2026 - 2027, for Australian organisations or individuals who want to build projects for open and free knowledge, including Wikidata.
• Job Vacancies: (Interim) Engineering Manager / Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
• Survey: What content would you like to see on the Wikidata Social media channels? - only want to hear about Wikidata events or news, would like to see more use-cases of Wikidata, or perhaps you'd like more beginner or advanced Wikidata tutorials? Let us know in this short survey.
• We are setting up to apply for recognition of a new Wikimedia user group, Wikimedians for Data Organization and Quality. The group's goal will be to improve the organization and quality of data, particularly structured data, in Wikimedia projects. You can see more details in the group's home page and, if you wish, you can contribute to the discussion in its talk page. We invite you to be a part of this proposed user group by adding your Wikimedia signature to the Interested Parties section of the group's page.
  Ege Atacan Doğan and Peter Patel-Schneider

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • located at a height (a property intended to indicate the height of any objects from the ground)
    • contributed to narrative universe (narrative universe that a person contributed to)
    • ‎name type (type of noun or name the sense is)
    • introduced to (region outside the natural range of a taxon into which it was introduced through direct or indirect human activity)
  • External identifiers: d anime store Work ID, d anime store Person ID, Crank-in! drama ID, Crank-in! animation ID, Crank-in! person ID, ‎STAPI Book ID, ‎STAPI Episode ID, ‎STAPI Performer ID, ‎Qidian Author ID, Crank-in! movie ID, ‎DBNL chamber of rhetoric ID, ‎Criticker Film ID, Lulu spotlight ID, German Maritime Museum Ship ID, Rakuten TV adult maker ID, izohli.uz word ID, Ciel d'oc publication ID, Lift-World lift ID, ‎STAPI Comics ID, Qidian Book ID, National Palace Museum Digital Archive ID, DMM maker ID, Registry of Type Design ID, ‎Fediverse address, Information Commissioner's Office registration reference, ‎WorldFootball.net ID (new), Sofia monuments register ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal immovable object ID, Ariana Museum ID, RIdIM ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • school of martial arts (school or style of martial arts this person studied)
    • has official Italian government website (tems that the item has an official website operated by or belonging to the Government of Italy)
    • Infraestructuras de Portugal ID (station code Infraestruturas de Portugal)
  • External identifiers: Silloria perfumer ID, Silloria notes ID, Beer Advocate beer style ID, BBFC release ID, Identifier for a person in norwegian polar history, Filmová databáze seriál ID, Serbo-Croatian Literary Language entry ID, dbv member slug, idw member ID, Sky programme ID, immaterieelerfgoed.be ID, Geoshape Repository ID, FIBA.basketball event ID, SEASLUG.WORLD species ID, Silloria brands ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du COMDT, Identifiant d'un(e) ou plusieurs musicien(ne)s sur Paraulas en òc, Identifiant d'un(e) ou plusieurs musicien(ne)s sur Trobasons, Kinolights Parson ID, Kinolights Work ID, Identifiant d'un ouvrage dans le catalogue du CREDD'O, parliament.uk constituency ID, Europeans In East Africa ID, Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke ID, Judoresults judoka ID, Silloria perfumes ID, Scent Base perfumes ID, IMCDB work ID, identificador de sardana de somarxiu.cat, Xcity maker ID, CrashPad Series performer ID, PinkLabel.TV performer ID, Seiyu Grand Prix Person ID, animehack Person ID, animehack Program ID, animehack movie ID, XBIZ.com topic ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • roughly ~4.000 massacres reported in Wikidata
  • Passports cover that have at least 4 languages
  • Landkreis Reutlingen Items missing a picture, displayed on a map (source)
  • Radio stations in Virginia, USA, plotted on a map (source)
• Schema examples: (E528) Space Telescope, instrument in outer space for observing distant space objects
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Côte d'Ivoire
  • Project Indonesia: Hari Domain Public International Datathon 2026
  • Project Immigration and Visas
  • Project University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill EMC0
• Newest database reports: Recent deaths (this report can help for updating Wikipedia articles

Development

• Query Service: We started preparing the constraint checks for the migration from Blazegraph to QLever.
• Page load times: We looked into unnecessarily loaded modules related to the Wikidata Bridge to see if we can remove them and speed up page load times.
• Wikipedia and co:
  • We worked with English Wikipedia to optimize the CiteQ module code to generate less usage tracking for "Anonymous".
  • We checked a variety of Mediawiki areas where Parsoid deprecation may lead to breakages.*
• Sustainability: We are planning to migrate the usage tracking data to the X1 extension cluster. We are checking which queries involving entity usage will need re-writing or updating.
• REST API: We finished adding support for getting a full Lexeme and started work on creating Lexemes.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Seychelles
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Worklist feature for the Event Registration tool is now live on all Wikimedia wikis. With Worklist, event organizers can add the articles their event will focus on directly to the event page. The Worklist also powers Event Pathways which notifies other editors of the upcoming or ongoing event when they edit an article featured in the event's Worklist. This is the minimum viable version (MVP), and feedback is welcome. Organizers are encouraged to try the feature. A hands-on Worklist Setup Workshop will take place on 18 August at 16:00 UTC and 19 August at 11:00 UTC.

Updates for editors

• Special:ShortPages displays short pages by their size, but in many cases it gets filled with disambiguations and soft redirects, making it harder to find the short articles themselves. Starting this weekend, you will be able to choose not to include an article in the special page by adding the magic word __EXPECTSHORTPAGE__.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Bole (w:bol:)
• Starting the week of August 17, the page toolbar will wrap onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This is a fully merged patch from the Reader Experience team which aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, that may occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
• View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, uploading large files to Wikimedia Commons has become more stable and less prone to failure following some fixes related to the “Could not acquire lock” upload error.

Updates for technical contributors

• Debian Bullseye will reach the end of its Long Term Support on 31 August 2026. Some Cloud VPS projects still have instances running Debian Bullseye. Maintainers of those projects are encouraged to migrate to Debian Bookworm or Debian Trixie. A migration guide is available to help with the process, and users may also want to consider whether their workload is better suited to Toolforge. If you need help or cannot complete the migration by 31 August, please contact the Cloud VPS admins as soon as possible. Read more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 24 August 2026

• News and notes: Union process progresses, unanswered questions about Littler Mendelson remain
  And Raju Narisetti leaves WMF board after nine years.

• In the media: Wikipedia editors save Sam Altman's life
  Can AI do that? Meanwhile, Ruwiki gives porn the shaft, and has Grokipedia ghosted?

• Recent research: Women in blue? Wikipedia's gender gap reverses in some areas
  And other new research findings.

• Discussion report: Again and Again
  The community comes to consensus.

• Traffic report: Look out, here comes the Spider-Man!
  Plus The Odyssey and varied topics caught in his web.

• Humour: Her tastes, her Wikimania, her upcoming tour... Baby Globe reveals everything
  A short (parody) interview with Baby Globe via the French wikipress outlet, Regards sur l’Actualité du mouvement Wikimédia (RAW).

• On the bright side: The great outdoors
  Blue Angels, Indigenous Peoples' Day, and the Perseids meteor shower.

• Opinion: Are we embarrassed yet?
  One editor wants to find out more about a Department of Justice investigation of Wikipedia and its editors.

• Special report: Paris Syndrome: Labor Strife, AI Anxiety, and a Leadership Test at Wikimania 2026
  Notes from a delightful Wikimania and the ugly week that followed.

• Comix: WP:FAOWN
  "Explaining civilly" probably should go both ways...

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Wikidata weekly summary #746

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #745.

Events

• Upcoming events: Wikidata Lab XLVIII: Outreach Dashboard, August 27, at 15:30 UTC. Come see and discuss new Wikidata functionalities of the Outreach Dashboard!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Finishing Outreachy with Wikidata support for Wikiscore by ACorrea WMB and AnaMRRuiz
• Papers: Climate Knowledge Graph (ClimateKG) - A partnership project to make a knowledge graph of the 10,000 page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report.

Tool of the week

• Lex-Olympia — A new tool for improving Wikidata Lexemes. Try it out and share your feedback with the developer and community.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Research study: AI tools for content verifiability on Wikidata. Researchers from King's College London are inviting Wikidata editors (especially those working on health or GLAM/cultural heritage content) to participate in a two-stage study (1-hour interview + 2-hour workshop) exploring how AI tools can support content verifiability. Participants receive compensation via Love2Shop vouchers. Sign up here (Qualtrics form).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: ‎BBFC release ID, Silloria brands ID, Silloria notes ID, Silloria perfumer ID, Kinolights person ID, Kinolights work ID, ‎BeerAdvocate beer style ID, ‎immaterieelerfgoed.be ID, idw member ID, Geoshape Repository municipality ID, Filmová databáze seriál ID, FIBA.basketball event ID, dbv member slug, Silloria perfumes ID, SEASLUG.WORLD species ID, parliament.uk constituency ID, ‎Judoresults judoka ID, ‎Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke ID, IMCDB work ID, Norwegian polarhistory ID, CREDD'O catalog ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • substance control status (control regime a substance is placed under in a jurisdiction or by an international treaty — schedule, class, or explicitly uncontrolled; qualify with "applies to jurisdiction" (P1001) and start/end time)
    • Bibcode access status (Indicator of the access statement for a document on Bibcode)
  • External identifiers: wowKorea Parson ID, wowKorea Work ID, TOWER RECORDS ONLINE artist ID, Antarctic Protected Areas database ID, WikiPepper pepper ID, Inventory Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands ID, NAKED(X-DIABLO) actress ID, Weibo ID, Umamusume Wiki article ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du CREDD'O, Georgian NAPR identification number, Companyinfo.ge corporation ID, T&F NCAAdb athlete ID, UkrBIN ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture record identifier

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:Railway stations map in the two Koreas

Development

• REST API: We are continuing the work on making it possible to create a Lexeme and will then move on to adding statements to Lexemes.
• GraphQL: We are working on moving the Item search from cirrussearch to mariadb to be able to add more functionality.
• Newcomer homepage: We are updating the text to move it away from some Wikipedia-specific phrases (e.g. articles)
• Mobile editing: We worked on not showing edit links on old revisions and diffs since those can not be edited.
• Page load times: We continued looking into unnecessarily loaded modules related to the Wikidata Bridge to see if we can remove them and speed up page load times.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Special:CreateAccount page has been simplified as part of ongoing work to modernize the account creation experience. The panel showing project statistics no longer appears next to the form on desktop and mobile web. Multiple account creation experiments show that a simpler form helps newcomers complete registration.
• In order to improve page performance, images now load when they are viewed. This means images lower down an article will not load if a reader never scrolls to that part of the page, which may affect some image-related metrics.

• View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where image thumbnails in Abstract Wikipedia could fail to display after the corresponding file was moved on Wikimedia Commons, has now been fixed. Thumbnails will now update correctly when files are moved.

Updates for technical contributors

• User Info card is a feature that helps patrollers see information about user accounts. So far, it has been available only in places such as page history, logs and recent changes. Now, it's possible to place it in the page content as well, using the {{#uic:}} parser function. It can be particularly useful in templates like {{Userlinks}} (or their specialized variants), as it will make it easier to see the context about a user on various noticeboard pages. The card will be displayed only to users who have it enabled in their preferences.
• Due to user security and privacy risks, we have disabled access to Special:MyPage URLs when specifically using action=raw. If you are impacted by this, consider whether you can use an alternative approach. Special:MyPage URLs can still be accessed and used without action=raw. Specified user page URLs (e.g. User:Myusername) can still be used with action=raw.
• Due to an update, the thumbnailing software has been improved. This includes upgrading librsvg to 2.60 and ImageMagick to 7, as well as resolving a number of long-standing thumbnailing bugs like rendering errors.

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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New pages patrol September 2026 Backlog drive

September 2026 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
On 1 September 2026, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin at a particularly important time for NPP. The backlog has now passed 30,000 unreviewed articles, a level that has been described in current NPP discussions as exceptionally high and potentially difficult to overcome through normal reviewing alone. Backlog drives are one of the few measures that have historically produced a noticeable reduction in the backlog, so the participation of as many active patrollers as possible will matter this month. If you can review during September, please make articles your priority. Every article that is reviewed is a meaningful reduction in the backlog. With the queue at its current size, even a relatively small increase in the number of articles each patroller reviews can add up to a substantial difference over the course of the month. This is a hybrid drive, so redirect reviewing is still included. Redirects can be a useful way for newer patrollers to get comfortable with NPP and can help people build up to reviewing articles. However, the main goal of this drive is to tackle the article backlog, and experienced patrollers are particularly encouraged to spend as much of their available reviewing time on articles as they can. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Each article review will earn 1 point, while each redirect review will earn 0.2 points. Streak awards will be given out based on consistently hitting point thresholds for each week of the drive. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. If you have been thinking about doing more NPP, this is an especially good month to jump in. Whether you can review a few pages or hundreds, every review helps. And if you are already an active patroller, please consider whether you can put in some additional time during September to help bring the backlog back under control. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 7

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 31 July

Volume 4 — Issue 7
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News On the 2 and 5 July, Tianwen-2 imaged 469219 Kamoʻoalewa and Hayabusa2 imaged 98943 Torifune, respectively. While the latter was a flyby, Tianwen-2 rendezvoused with Kamoʻoalewa on 4 July following orbital insertion at ~20 kilometres (12 mi); it is planned to return samples from the Apollo asteroid. The Swift boost mission was launched on 3 July. This was the final launch of the Pegasus XL, and consequently the end of air-launch-to-orbit worldwide as of the time of writing. China became the second country to achieve the recovery of a booster with the maiden flight of the Long March 10B on 10 July. On 18 July, Vikram-1 was successfully launched, carrying multiple objects to LEO; built and launched by Skyroot Aerospace, it is India's first commercial rocket.
Article of the month Night Glider mode The ISS in 2001 showing solar panels. Night Glider mode (or "XVV Night Glider mode") is one of the procedures for orienting the solar arrays on the International Space Station. Normally the photovoltaic solar arrays of the space station track the sun. However, one of the main causes of orbital decay on the space station is that the area of the solar arrays, brushing against the thin residual atmosphere at orbital altitude, results in a small amount of aerodynamic drag. The drag can be lowered by orienting the solar arrays in "sun slicer" mode, where they fly edge-on to the orbital direction, rather than tracking the sun, however, this orientation reduces the power produced. The "night glider" mode is a hybrid orientation, where the solar arrays track the sun during the period when the space station is illuminated, are rotated edge-on to the orbital direction when it enters in the Earth's shadow, and then are returned to their tracking position when the station re-enters sunlight. This reduces the average drag on the station's solar arrays by about 30 percent, with no reduction in power.	Image of the month Buzz Aldrin and Apollo 11 Lunar Lander Taken by Neil Armstrong, this image shows Buzz Aldrin removing the passive seismometer, part of the Passive Seismic Experiment Package (PSEP), from the lander. Like all experimental instruments, the PSEP was stored in the lander's Scientific Equipment (SEQ) bay; on Apollo 11, it was stored along with the Laser Ranging Retroreflector (LRRR). Initially, NASA planned a full array of experiments for all Apollo missions, but the uncertainty of the first lunar landing led to only these two experiments being conducted. This first package was called the Early Apollo Surface Experiments Package (EASEP); later missions carried the full Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP).
Members New Members: Leaf.Sheap (2 July) KyloRen2017 (6 July) ToadalChaos (22 July) Number of active members: 206. Total number of members: 466. July Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Pegasus XL — Swift boost mission (3 Jul. at 04:24:00) (success Long March 10B — Hulianwang Jishu Shiyan (10 Jul. at 04:15:00) (success) Vikram-1 — SCOPE, SOLARAS S3 (18 Jul. at 06:35:30) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 July 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 62 3 137 B 18 79 202 247 10 556 C 42 173 617 914 1 88 1,835 Start 14 133 1,024 2,742 517 4,430 Stub 5 192 1,971 339 2,507 List 11 117 110 248 1 50 537 Category 1,291 1,291 Disambig 47 47 File 276 276 Portal 54 54 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 44 147 1,257 1,450 Template 535 535 Other 1 43 44 Assessed 104 568 2,244 6,345 3,738 1,007 14,006 Unassessed 4 109 113 Total 104 568 2,244 6,349 3,738 1,116 14,119 Monthly Changes Since June 2026, there are three more High-importance, two more Mid-importance, thirteen more Low-importance, five more NA-importance, and ten more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 46 new articles. There are also four more B-class, nineteen more C-class, eleven more Start-class, and two more Stub-class articles.
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Wikidata weekly summary #747

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-31. Missed the previous one? See issue #746.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • INAPerson 1 - Task/s: Create Wikidata pages entries for mostly French journalists, using INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) catalogue as reference.
  • DifoolBot 9 - Task/s: (1) Fix VIAF cluster ID (P214) statements deprecated for conflation (Q14946528) once VIAF has split the cluster. (2) Deprecate VIAF ID values that VIAF has since redirected or abandoned, and add the redirect target if it is not already on another Wikidata item.
  • Openpep - Task/s: Maintenance of Politically Exposed Person (PEP) data on Wikidata for Thai government officials.
  • DutchFixer - Task/s: Reformat Dutch verb forms that are listed as past tense (Q1994301), participle (Q814722) to simply use past participle (Q12717679)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • DL2204bot 4 - Closed as Approved
  • Yirbot - Closed as Approved
  • RupumpedBot - Closed as Approved
• Survey: The OpenRefine 2026 User Survey is open.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikidataCon 2027 will be hosted in Istanbul, Türkiye from 29 to 31 October 2027, in partnership with the Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group. The dates mark Wikidata's 15th birthday. More details to follow.
  • Wikidata Query Service Days, October 17-23: The next online event by Wikimedia Deutschland will be about the migration from Blazegraph to QLever. Learn what's changing, try the new system, and get help rewriting your queries. Register now!
  • Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session – 1 September 2026: Adélie Ranville will present how Wikidata can support literature reviews. Event page — 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #92 Sep. 7 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
• Looking ahead: Wikidata Day in New York City 2026 - hosted by the Pratt Institute School of Information on October 30, 19:00 - 23:00 CEST.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Beyond Wikipedia: A Technical Workshop Introducing Moroccan Teachers to Wikidata and the Wikimedia Technical Ecosystem
  • Wiki OTO 2026: A new collaboration to make African women more visible
  • Six Months of Building Leaders, Bridging Knowledge Gaps, and Strengthening Community by Africa Wiki Women
  • Wikidata as a PID Hub for Research Entities: QIDs Alongside ORCID, ROR, and ISNI - by CASRAI, a community-maintained open vocabulary for research administration project.
• Videos:
  • Wikidata Lab XLVIII: Outreach Dashboard, WM Brasil and EduWiki present Wikidata functionalities on the dashboard, including some new things coming.
  • WikiTree How-To: BEE Extension for Wikidata - WikiTree is a family-tree generator and now includes a Wikidata-powered extension that will help surface notables for inclusion.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #125
  • Wikidata plug-in for ArchivesSpace

Tool of the week

• Timetrail is a tool by Nahom Araya it visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations. Enter an Item ID/Name and select a supported property from the dropdown list to fetch a timetrail.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikimedia Deutschland software development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the third quarter (Q3).
• The Wikidata development team is proposing a redesign of Special:NewItem with a warning banner and conflict-of-interest checkbox to reduce the increase in promotional editing. We need your feedback on the wording and designs. Head over to Wikidata:Reducing promotional editing and share your thoughts on the talk page by 15 September.
• Due to an increase of non-notable item creation, and their subsequent request for deletion (and undeletion), a new page has been created. Requests for new items exists for those who are unsure if their item idea is notable enough, or have a conflict of interest. The Wikidata Community can help by reviewing requests and offering advice.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • substance control status (control regime a substance is placed under in a jurisdiction or by an international treaty — schedule, class, or explicitly uncontrolled; qualify with "applies to jurisdiction" (P1001) and start/end time)
  • External identifiers: animehack program ID, animehack movie ID, animehack person ID, Xcity maker ID, XBIZ.com topic ID, WikiPepper pepper ID, Seiyu Grand Prix person ID, PinkLabel.TV performer ID, ‎Antarctic Protected Areas database ID, Infraestructuras de Portugal ID, ‎Umamusume Wiki article ID, Tower Records Online artist ID, ‎Inventory Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands ID, SOMARXIU.CAT sardana ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Texas Legislators: Past & Present ID (identifier for a legislator on the Legislative Reference Library of Texas website)
    • file page start and file page end (indicate a page number of a pdf file, if multiple pages is involved)
    • Clubhouse (A proposal to denote the buildings occupied by members clubs. This can be useful when the clubs change clubhouse or merge or cease to exist.)
    • LPF rating (film and media rating in Malaysia by the Film Censorship Board)
    • phonetic synthesis method (phonetic synthesis method used to process the recorded voice from a human source to build a voice bank)
  • External identifiers: Identifiant dans le Mémorial du clergé (1914-1918), sgpbusiness.com ID, Redalyc author ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage glossary ID, Brussels Inventory of Natural Heritage taxon ID, Inventory of Movable Heritage designer ID, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage object type ID, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage material ID, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage technique ID, Lunarstorm person ID, World Athletics competition ID, Archive in Baden-Württemberg ID, Arcinsys Niedersachsen/Bremen ID, Arcinsys Hessen ID, Sharjah Dictionary word ID, GenWiki, Stereo Ve Mono release ID, Kudos author ID, Stiftungsarchive ID, Archivportal Thüringen ID, findbuch.net subdomain, Onderwijstermen Taalunie ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology function ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology process ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology quality ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology role ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology result ID, Identifiant de l'annuaire Drag France, Statistics Finland Concept Database ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Items with a P275 value (copyright licence) - (source)
  • English adverbs missing a P5238 (combines lexemes) value - (source)
• Schema examples: English adverb (E311)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Organized Labour, a companion Project to Wikipedia's WikiProject, it is established to expand articles and items, properties and ontologies for collective bargaining/organised labour and trade union practices.
  • Project Chublets Software
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Ontology added subpages for CC0, DOLCE and BFO Class order.
• Newest database reports: Deaths at Wikipedia - This report collects items missing a P570 (date of death) but they do feature in a Wikipedia 'Recent Deaths' article.

Development

• Query Service: We have continued adapting the Constraints system for the migration from Blazegraph to QLever.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects:
  • We are investigating how to treat watchlist and recent changes entries from Wikidata that are about adding, changing or removing a sitelink. These seem to be category of Wikidata changes not everyone is interested in and a candidate for filtering.
  • We looked into how to make the process of adding Wikidata support for a newly created Wikimedia projects less manual for the team and did a proof of concept for automating some of the database operations.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Tunisia
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-36

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• A new format for the Community Wishlist is open for feedback. You can read the proposed ideas on Meta. This new process plans to improve how wishes are triaged, voted on, and prioritized in a way that is transparent and balanced across project families and language editions. This consultation is open for two weeks.

Updates for editors

• The latest release of the Wikipedia Android app includes updates to the Saved feature, bringing the app’s saving experience closer to iOS and Web. The update redesigns the Saved tab with an “All articles” view, removes the default “Saved” reading list, renames reading lists to “Collections,” and modernizes the article-saving experience.
• The Reading Lists feature was enabled for all logged-in users on Bengali, Chinese, Czech and Vietnamese Wikipedias on August 25, after several months as a beta feature. Reading Lists will be available to all logged-in users on Arabic, French and Indonesian Wikipedias on September 1, followed by English Wikipedia on September 14, and all other Wikipedia wikis on September 28.
• At the end of the month, some logged-out readers on Bengali, Czech, Persian, English, and Polish Wikipedias using the Minerva skin on mobile will see an updated navigation bar in an A/B test. The test will compare the current navigation bar with a new version designed to make it easier to find information more quickly. The goal is to determine whether these changes encourage readers to return more often. This experiment will not change the experience for logged-in readers and/or editors.
• Editors who maintain redirects, templates, and categories used on redirect pages now have improved ways for finding and curating redirects. Previously, redirects pages could not be searched. Two new search keywords, onlyredirects: and withredirects:, now allow redirects to be searched directly and can be combined with existing keywords such as incategory:, intitle:, and insource:.
• The ISBN lookup tools for generating citations were recently not working because of external service problems. Developers are working on solutions.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where searching for pages by category using deepcat could return no results or unrelated results has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The domain of URLs for thumbnails is changing from upload.wikimedia.org to thumb.wikimedia.org. The old URLs will continue to work for the foreseeable future but MediaWiki will advertise the new domain instead. URLs to other types of media such as original files, videos and transcodes will still be served from upload.wikimedia.org.
• The Wikimedia Math API is now deprecated. These endpoints will be fully sunset by the end of September 2026. Developers who call these endpoints should transition to alternative math rendering solutions, such as the native MathML or MathJax. Third-party MediaWiki installations that utilize the Math extension for formula rendering are required to upgrade to v1.43+ to avoid disruption of service.

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Read more about TextMatch in a Diff post titled, Custom edit suggestions for every wiki: How communities are shaping Suggestion Mode with TextMatch.

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Wikidata weekly summary #748

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #747.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • HsfBot - Task/s: Mostly add missing Indonesian Wikipedia sitelinks to Wikidata items for taxonomy templates created by HsfBot on idwiki.
  • CrossrefIDsBot - Task/s: Adding Crossref ID, DOI, Print ISSN, and Online ISSN from Crossref dataset where they are missing in Wikidata.
  • CatmapperBot - Task/s: Add SocioMap ID statements for reviewed SocioMap category mappings, and provisionally add exact match URLs for reviewed ArchaMap category mappings until Wikidata approves an ArchaMap-specific identifier property.
  • BenchfolkBot - Task/s: Add or correct sourced statements on existing items after explicit human approval.
• New request for comments:
  • Class Q1048835 as a not valid value-type constraint - To remove an incorrect value for value-type constraint (Q21510865) for P27 (country of citizenship)
  • Project chat: What images are appropriate for P18? - a lengthy discussion about quality control and what is acceptable for a P18 (image) value.

Events

• Upcoming events: Open Workshop: Connecting Basque heritage authors (Persons and entities) in Wikipedia and Wikidata - 22 September - 09:00 - 11:30 CEST.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: What Does a Wikidata-Powered Abstract Wikipedia Article Look Like? (Links: Substack and Medium)
• Papers: Bemme, J., & Winkler, A. (2026). Mehr Edits wagen? Virtuelle Ausstellungen erschließen mit Wikidata und Commons. LIBREAS. Library Ideas, (48). https://doi.org/10.18452/37905 / https://libreas.eu/ausgabe48/bemme/

Tool of the week

• Tabernacle is a tool by User: Magnus Manske it generates a table of Wikidata items and statements. Allows for quick addition of some types via WiDaR.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The 10th issue of the Wikidata Platform Newsletter is out. Also remember to join the next Blazegraph Migration Office Hour, that will take place Tuesday, 8th September 2026 at 16:00 UTC
• The Castle Map - every Castle, Fortress and Palace recorded on Wikidata, on a map.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: CREDDO author ID, ‎World Athletics competition ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture record identifier, T&F NCAAdb athlete ID, COMDT author ID, Clergy Memorial (1914-1918) ID, ‎Texas Legislators: Past & Present ID, Stiftungsarchive ID, Redalyc author ID, Kudos author ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Pokémon Ability (Pokémon Ability assigned to this Pokémon species or form in games of the Pokémon series)
    • Collective bargaining coverage (Percentage of workers covered by collective agreement coverage. This is distinct from union membership rate, because non-union members can also be covered, for example France has 7% union density but 98% collective bargaining coverage.)
    • encompasses (specific entity this placeholder item may represent when the exact one is unknown)
    • marionetteist (Person who manipulates a marionette in real time to create the illusion of life.)
    • has expression of concern ((article) has an expression of concern (expression of concern notice))
  • External identifiers: Common Core Ontologies concept ID, AbeBooks author ID, DEHIO digital Deutschland Bauwerk ID, VocaDB tag ID, CCLI song ID, LIDO concept ID, The Telegraph topic ID, BLL-Ontology concept ID, GOLD linguistic concept ID, ISBNdb author ID, BookWyrm author ID, BookWyrm book ID, China Railway station telegraph code, Darija.io ID, Vietnamese Administrative Unit Codes, Officials of Nazi Reich Ministries ID, Fandom.com universe page, KennisWest ID, identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du Centre Delavouët, Phenotype and Trait Ontology ID, National Governors’ Association ID, Numista engraver or designer ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID (new schema)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: UNESCO Heritage sites 100km or less from the centre of the Meditrranean Sea (source)
• Schema examples: spaceport (E213): schema for spaceport (Q194188) locations, used to launch and receive spacecraft.
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Medicine / Knee Arthroplasty - a comprehensive subpage to model the techniques and procedures for knee-related surgery.
• Newest database reports: Same Humans/List by Occupations - this report presents possible human duplicates by comparing name and birth/death dates. They can be reviewed and flagged for merging and/or deletion.

Development

• Sustainability:
  • We are looking into improvements to caching for Property labels (phab:T434204)
  • We are continuing to prepare the move of the entity_usage table to the extension database cluster. Moving the tables is tentatively scheduled to begin after 24. September. (phab:T427472)
• Newcomer homepage: We are working on making the Newcomer Homepage show labels for Items instead of just the ID (phab:T429345)
• Wikidata changes in Watchlist and Recent changes of Wikipedia and co: We are deciding how filtering will look for hiding language link changes on wikis where the sitelink has not changed (phab:T435904)
• REST API: We are continuing to expand the support for Lexemes in the API, specifically creating a Lexeme, adding a statement to a Lexeme and adding a Form to a Lexeme

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Tunisia
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-37

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Add a Link has been upgraded for English Wikipedia users with improved detection of links that have different capitalization. This will help reduce ambiguous suggestions caused by differences in capitalization in article titles, including articles about cultural goods. A second phase of improvements is planned, which will also prepare the feature for release in other languages.
• The Article guidance feature will be enabled by default for junior editors on Simple English and Turkish Wikipedia starting 10 September 2026 following an experiment. Junior editors with 0 to 99 edits will automatically see the feature when they click a red link or use the "Madde oluşturto" option on Turkish Wikipedia to create a new article. The change is intended to help junior editors create higher-quality articles that meet each Wikipedia’s standards. Additional improvements will continue based on the experiment results and community feedback.
• The Pageviews Analysis tool which allows users to compare pageviews across multiple pages, turns 10 years old this year and several new features have been added. They include WikiNav which provides insights into how readers of Wikipedia explore the content, editing stats in Siteviews, the ability to lookup articles belonging to a WikiProject, and support for dark mode.
• A visually simplified Minerva navigation bar is being tested for logged-out readers using mobile web on the Bengali, Czech, English, Farsi, and Polish Wikipedias. The experiment aims to determine whether simplifying the navigation improves reader retention. The test will run from August 31 to September 28, and no action is required from users.
• WMDE Technical Wishes is working on improving auto-generated reference names in VisualEditor. Editors will only notice a slight change starting this week. When adding automatic reference names the numbering will start at :1 instead of :0. Read more on the project page.
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 23. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where Parsoid could mishandle nested nowiki tags, causing content to be lost and displaying unwanted text has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Interface administrators can configure gadgets from MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. The definition format has been updated and no longer requires the ResourceLoader option, as gadgets are always loaded through ResourceLoader. This simplifies gadget configuration by removing an option that is no longer necessary, making gadget definitions easier for administrators.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:42, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors – September 2026 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors – September 2026 Newsletter Hello, and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed TNM101 to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as lead coordinator, and Miniapolis, Mox Eden and GoldRomean return as coordinators. We said goodbye to Wikieditor662 and thank them for their service. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Reviewing system: The Guild is adopting a new system of scoring copy edit reviews. A point will be given for each review, and barnstars for reviewing will be awarded. These changes will take effect from this month's drive, and we encourage experienced copy editors to sign up for reviewing. For more details, see here. June 2026 blitz: 18 of the 20 editors who signed up for the June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 69,606 words comprising 30 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. July 2026 drive: 30 of the 44 editors who signed up for the July 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited a total of 531,346 words comprising 252 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. August 2026 Blitz: 13 of the 16 editors who signed up for the August 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 192,712 words comprising 64 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. September 2026 Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 23:47, 13 September 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 207 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,511 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Tech News: 2026-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Future Audiences team has started a discussion on English Wikipedia about a proposed new experiment to show a temporary notice about the new Google Preferred Sources feature to Wikipedia readers coming from Google. The experiment is to test whether this notice makes visitors come back to Wikipedia more often. Preferred Sources feature lets users choose websites they trust so Google can highlight content from those sources more prominently in Search and AI experiences. We are interested in testing this on other languages that Google supports and would welcome assistance with starting conversations on other wikis. If interested, please reach out to Future Audiences on the talk page.

Updates for editors

• The chat platform Discord is releasing a new self-service framework that websites can use to specify how their links should look when shared on Discord. The Future Audiences team is planning to start using this new framework to improve how Wikipedia links look when shared on Discord, giving better attribution and credit to contributors. The link appearance and behavior won't change in the first phase of this project as we want to first collect some baseline data to assess the impact of future changes. However, if community members who are active on Discord spot any issues, they can reach out on Phabricator or Metawiki.
• The Reader Growth team will be running an experiment to test whether compacting article lead sections on mobiles with the addition of a "read more" button improves reader retention. The test will begin on September 17 on Arabic, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and will run for four weeks.
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 23. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming week.
• View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where Wikistats for Wikipedias was returning an HTTP 500 error and could not be reached, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikimedia Commons links tables need to update their code to connect to the new x4 database cluster. The links tables have been moved from the s4 cluster to x4, and will no longer receive updates on s4. The page and redirect tables remain available on both clusters. A wiki replica for the x4 cluster will be set up afterwards. The change is being made because the s4 cluster has grown too large to operate efficiently. You can read more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 15:28, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #749

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #748.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Chrisahn
  • Amitie 10g

Both RfPs are scheduled to end after 17 September 2026 21:56 (UTC)

• New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 15 - Task/s: Automatically update Wikidata:Administrators by language, as requested at Wikidata:Bot requests#Request to automatically update Wikidata:Administrators by language (2026-08-04)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: CrossrefIDsBot - Closed as Approved
• New request for comments: Should class political territorial entity (Q1048835) as a valid value-type constraint (Q21510865) be removed from country of citizenship (P27) ?

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #93 Oct. 5 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Adélie Ranville demonstrates useful tools around bibliographic data and citations in Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiversity, including Zotero, Cita, and Tabernacle.::Event page: WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Project Series/Wikidata for literature review
• Wikidata's 14th Birthday is approaching! Join us October 29 for a Birthday call.
  • Register to receive updates and news
  • Run a local event or find events to join near you.
  • Join the Birthday Call and see what Presents and Messages will be shared.
• WikiCon (Regensburg) 2026 - the conference dedicated to the German-speaking Wikipedia and sister projects communities, is taking place from 18 - 20 September. The sessions involving Wikidata: Wikidata - 9 Years later, Enter sources in Wikidata, Easily explore Wikidata (UsefulQueries), and WikiProject Stolpersteine goes Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Medium: How I inferred the family relationships of nearly 1 million people, from Wikidata
  • (Deutsch) Wikidata in Museen, Archiven und Bibliotheken (PDF)
• Videos:
  • Live Wikidata Editing #126
  • (Español) Workshop: Digital Humanities Methodologies Applied to Research
  • Sep 2026 Community Call: International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) & Wikimedia - can IIIF be integrated with Wikimedia platforms, or as a Wikibase instance?
  • 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign Launch 2026 using Wikidata

Tool of the week

• Lex-Olympia is a tool by User: Luca.favorido it is an open, gamified challenge platform for exploring Wikidata lexemes, born as a successor to the now-unmaintained Lexeme Challenge tool. Players test their language knowledge by matching audio, hyphenations, and concepts to lexemes, competing via scores and a weekly leaderboard.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WM Turkic languages user group (instagram post): official co-hosts of WikidataCon 2027; Istanbul, Türkiye, in collaboration with Üsküdar University.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • phonetic synthesis method (phonetic synthesis method used to process the recorded voice from a human source to build a voice bank)
    • ‎LPF rating (film and media rating in Malaysia by the Film Censorship Board)
    • ‎Collective bargaining coverage (Percentage of workers covered by collective agreement coverage. This is distinct from union membership rate, because non-union members can also be covered, for example France has 7% union density but 98% collective bargaining coverage.)
    • has Pokémon Ability (Pokémon Ability assigned to this Pokémon species or form in games of the Pokémon series)
  • External identifiers: ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology function ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology process ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology quality ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology result ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology role ID, Arcinsys Hessen ID, Arcinsys Niedersachsen/Bremen ID, Archivportal Thüringen ID, Baden-Württemberg archives ID, BookWyrm author ID, BookWyrm book ID, VocaDB tag ID, Statistics Finland Concept Database ID, sgpbusiness.com ID, ‎LIDO concept ID, ‎Common Core Ontologies concept ID, GenWiki article ID, findbuch ID, Darija.io ID, ‎China Railway telegraph code, ‎Sharjah Dictionary word ID, CCLI song ID, ‎DEHIO digital Deutschland Bauwerk ID, Vietnamese administrative unit code, UkrBIN ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • stylized representation (stylized visual representation of the subject)
    • Former country (Historical country that was in force at the time of this event/object or in the past)
    • North Dakota Legislative Assembly biography ID (identifier for a biography at the North Dakota Legislative Assembly)
    • Wyoming Legislator Database ID (identifier for a biography in the Wyoming Legislator Database)
    • European Legislation Identifier (EU legislation identifier for documents published by the EU, its member states and other (non-EU) countries)
    • Visa requirement (Requirement for a non-citizen to enter a country)
  • External identifiers: FilmBaze people ID, EHRI Institution ID, Climate Policy Radar Topics, SEASLUG.WORLD taxon ID, Verenigingsloket vCode, StoryGraph book ID, China Railway Pinyin code, ZFIN person ID, BallotReady person ID, National Film Archive of Japan ID, Baza osób polskich ID, Mycelium entity ID, identifiant DDH, Alberta Legislative Assembly member ID, Homeostasis imbalance process ontology, Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga (DBBL) Spieler ID, Digital Momijiyama Bunko ID, Kunaicho Shoryobu Shuzo Kanseki Shuran ID, Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts ID, Siwar entry ID, ISDCF studio identifier, ISDCF facility identifier

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Tram stops per network map
• Schema examples: adminstrative district in Turkey (E133)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Medicine/Knee Arthroplasty maintains structured data for knee replacement on Wikidata, covering the procedure tree and the taxonomy of surgical techniques, with a literature layer of referenced scholarly articles.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • WikiProject LGBT / Duga
  • Project Victims of National Socialism / Data model

Development

• Query Service migration: We are adapting more of the example queries for QLever
• Mobile editing: We are making minor adjustments in preparation for the rollout for everyone
• Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
  • We are continuing to automate the connection of Wikidata to newly-created wikis, and replace the sites table with a Sitematrix lookup, which is more efficient (phab:T431093)
  • We are continuing the research into how best to handle changes for language link updates in Recent changes and Watchlist, which are mostly considered not relevant for editors

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Tunisia
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2026).

Administrator changes

Dclemens1971

• Lectonar

• Bucketsofg
• Keenan Pepper
• The Wordsmith
• Caknuck

Oversight changes

• Richwales

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criteria G15 has been renamed from "LLM-generated pages without human review" to "Unambiguously LLM-generated pages" and has an additional sign of detection added to it following a RfC.

Miscellaneous

• The September 2026 New Pages Patrol backlog drive is ongoing. Help tackle the 30,000+ article backlog!
• This week's article for improvement will be added to the Main Page to try converting readers into editors following a RfC.

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The Signpost: 16 September 2026

• News and notes: The Balance of Power
  Wikimedia employees unionize, officer departs, The Signpost gains sister on Wiktionary

• In the media: Shocking photos may be changed on Wikipedia
  The image gallery anyone can edit.

• Disinformation report: Have UN Secretary-General candidates manipulated Wikipedia?
  Speaking diplomatically, not all of them.

• Recent research: Google's AI overviews may have reduced search engine referrals to English Wikipedia by 5%
  And other research findings.

• WikiConference report: The backwater symbiosis – reflections from Wiki Conference India 2026
  The fourth iteration of Wiki Conference India.

• Traffic report: Heaven let your light shine down
  The recently deceased dominate while still leaving room for some entertainment.

• Serendipity: Wikipedia Family Mosh Pit
  A poem by Mollystarkdean.

• Obituary: Passing of Gobonobo, community leader advocating for women and minorities
  Promoter of cultural knowledge and organizer of global cooperation.

• On the bright side: Fantasy video games, hopeful science fiction, and the change of seasons
  The Legend of Zelda, Star Trek, and Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.

• Comix: The Adventure of the Unknown Corpse
  An elementary case for fiction's greatest detective.

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Wikidata weekly summary #750

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #749.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Kvazimodo

RfP is scheduled to end after 26 September 2026 08:42 (UTC)

• Closed request for adminship: Chrisahn - voting has been closed.
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • BenchfolkBot - Task/s: Add or correct sourced statements on existing items after explicit human approval.
  • CatmapperBot - Task/s: Add SocioMap ID statements for reviewed SocioMap category mappings, and provisionally add exact match URLs for reviewed ArchaMap category mappings until Wikidata approves an ArchaMap-specific identifier property.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: HsfBot - Closed as Approved
• New request for comments: Add properties to the Deletion policy - following a Project Chat discussion, suggestions for an amendment to the policy are being discussed and your feedback is welcome.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Open Knowledge Wikimedia Research in the CEE Region, online participation to the Conference is still open, register here: 09 - 10 October.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers:
  • WiCleanData: Guaranteeing the Type Consistency of Wikidata by Taxonomy Refinement and Constraint Enforcement by Peng et al., (2026).
  • The Wikibase Ecosystem in Digital Humanities and GLAM by Lindemann et al., (2026).
• Videos: (Swedish) The SAT trail in OSM and Wikidata by Magnus Sälgö.

Tool of the week

• Concept cloud - Shows language labels for Wikipedia links from a Wikidata item, and allows label editing.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Job vacancy: Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • Wyoming Legislator Database ID (identifier for a biography in the Wyoming Legislator Database)
    • ‎has expression of concern ((article) has an expression of concern (expression of concern notice))
  • External identifiers: National Governors’ Association ID, Numista engraver or designer ID, ‎Phenotype and Trait Ontology ID, ‎ZFIN person ID, Association Service Desk vCode, Nazi Reich Ministries ID, ‎North Dakota Legislative Assembly biography ID, KennisWest ID, ‎GOLD linguistic concept ID, ‎Alberta Legislative Assembly member ID, EHRI Institution ID, ‎Encyclopedia of Alabama ID (new schema), National Film Archive of Japan ID, ‎Homeostasis imbalance process ontology, DDH ID, Economic Operators Registration and Identification number, wowKorea work ID, wowKorea Person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • illustrator (character) (artist who illustrated the character)
    • contribution URL (URL of a page explaining how to participate in or contribute to a project or organization)
    • Holy See cardinal biography ID (identifier for a cardinal's biography at the website of the Holy See)
    • Atomic radius, covalent radius and van der Waals radius (measured or calculated radius of an atom of a chemical element)
  • External identifiers: Register of British Slave Traders person ID, Tric Trac, PsychonautWiki article ID, Hitchwiki article ID, Raras disease ID, Heritage Overlay Number, Techniques de l'Ingénieur author ID, nbsearch, Indian Film History film ID, Indian Film History person ID, VideoGamesCritic game ID, identificador Eldoblatge d'actor original, identificador Eldoblatge d'actor de doblatge

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Schema examples: (E206) Stolperstein: Stumbling blocks, commemorative plaques set into the ground for victims of Nazism.
• Newest WikiProjects: (Traditional Chinese) Project Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Ontology: Course Offering 3
• Newest database reports: Categories (to merge) - this list generated by User:Ivan A. Krestinin suggests potential duplicate categories.

Development

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Tunisia
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Books & Bytes – Issue 76

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 76, July–August 2026

• New partnership: The Chronicle of Higher Education
• New Partnership Manager joins the team
• Spotlight: TWL page on Meta

Read the full newsletter

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Tech News: 2026-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 23 September 2026 at 14:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.

Updates for editors

• The Growth team tested a new post-edit notice designed to encourage Temporary Account holders to register for a permanent account. The new notice replaced multiple dialogs and a simultaneous welcome notification with a single message highlighting the benefits of creating an account. The experiment increased permanent account creation from 1.94% to 3.66%, an 87% relative increase. The change will now be released to all wikis.
• For Wikipedia editors using the "Suggestion mode" Beta Feature, there is a new opt-in user preference for showing "experimental" edit checks and suggestions. These types are listed at Special:EditChecks, and are intended for early developer-testing and for gathering feedback from experienced users. Administrators can change the configuration details for each suggestion as usual. Administrators can also use this feature to help test their community's ideas for locally created checks and suggestions. Experimental types will have a more distinct visual style later this week. Feedback is welcome.
• The CEE Technical Village Pump has been launched as a space for technical discussions and collaboration among Wikimedia communities in Central and Eastern Europe.
• A new tool, Starter Kit, is now available for new and small language Wikipedia communities. It brings together guided tasks, tools, and resources to help communities get started, monitor their progress, and collaborate with the broader Wikimedia community. Starter Kit is hosted on Wikimedia Toolforge and is designed for Wikipedias with fewer than 50,000 articles. Learn more about how Starter Kit works and how communities have been using it in this Diff blog post.
• The Reader Growth team is launching a retest of the image carousel experiment. The retest will use three new versions of the design, updated based on community feedback. The team will assess results and determine with communities whether or not to proceed with the feature. The experiment will begin the week of September 28 and will run on Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English, Farsi, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
• After successful rollouts to Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias, the Reading Lists feature from the Reader Experience team will be available to all logged-in users on all Wikipedia wikis starting September 28.
• View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the mentor status script repeatedly updated mentors’ status even when nothing had changed, creating unnecessary Recent Changes entries, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The abusefilters list query API, used to retrieve specific details about active or historical abuse filters configured on a wiki, has been updated to support the formatversion=2 configuration parameter, thereby leading to breaking changes to the API response. All users who maintain user-scripts or other code need to check if they use the abusefilters list query API, and respond to any breaking changes.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Users of default skins on desktop and mobile web (Vector 2022 and Minerva respectively) will now be informed if the search suggestions displayed as they type into Search come from page redirects. Previously, users could get confused when the top search suggestions did not match exactly what they had typed. The new redirect notice clarifies that these suggestions are not random, but related to the search. The suggested pages may be redirects to the most relevant destination articles being searched for.
• Logged-out Wikipedia users on mobile web will begin to see a bookmark button for saving articles to their reading lists instead of the current Watchstar button. When clicked, the bookmark button prompts users to log in or create an account to save an article for later. An earlier experiment found that the bookmark icon was four times more likely than the Watchstar button to encourage logged-out users to create an account. This change is part of efforts to encourage more readers to become account holders and use features that help them save and return to content.
• An experiment will begin on September 29 on Spanish, Arabic, English, and French Wikipedias to simplify the experience users encounter immediately after account creation. The test will explore whether removing friction from the current Welcome Survey helps new users understand what to do next more easily. The experiment will run through the end of October.

• The Product and Technology Advisory Council has put out a call for the community to suggest topics that it should consider and discuss with the Wikimedia Foundation. Editors and technical contributors are invited to add topics to the council's talk page.
• Later this week, it will be possible for communities to configure Edit Checks and Suggestions so that they are shown within additional namespaces, such as a Draft: namespace. Feedback is welcome.
• A bug in the Global Watchlist is causing the page to fail to load for users that have unseen changes on Wikimedia Commons. Developers are working on a fix. Until then, affected users can follow the workarounds described in the relevant help section.
• New magic words {{CATEGORYSORT:TIMESTAMP}} and {{CATEGORYSORT:RTIMESTAMP}} are now available for use. They are able to change the default sorting of categories to be based on timestamp of categorization.
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where Wikistats for Wikipedias was not reachable has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The datacenter switchover, scheduled on September 23, has been postponed. The equinox exercise revealed capacity issues, preventing the switch of all services to the other datacenter. The process has been paused, prioritizing investigating that issue, to ensure that we continue to be able to serve our users reliably. A new exercise will be scheduled. Meanwhile, all traffic and edits continue to work as usual.
• On September 23, a power loss briefly affected all wikis, creating intermittent issues on both reading and editing modes. This also affected Gerrit. This is unrelated to the datacenter switchover postponement.
• Produnto has been deployed to mediawiki.org and some Indic language wikis. We want to hear your feedback on this experimental product. Produnto allows users to use Lua modules hosted in Wikimedia's GitLab. It simplifies the sharing of Lua code between wikis. Instead of copying each individual Lua module from one wiki to another, users will be able to easily share packages across all wikis.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• A Cross-wiki code collaboration workshop will be held online on October 2 at 12:30 UTC, bringing together South Asian technical contributors to learn about Produnto and begin piloting it on Hindi, Punjabi, Odia, Telugu, and Malayalam Wikipedias. Produnto is a package manager for deploying Lua modules hosted on GitLab to Wikimedia wikis, and was recently deployed on some pilot wikis.

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Happy First Edit Day!

Wishing Beauty School Dropout a very happy first edit day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Eh-st-h☆r^{Did that}_{Said what?} 04:05, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #751

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #750.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • MamouriBot, Task/s: Add census demographics — population, male population, female population, and no. of households — to existing Iranian settlement items identified by Iran statistics ID (P1010), from the Statistical Center of Iran censuses of 1385 (2006) and 1395 (2016).

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The program for the Wikidata Query Service Days (October 17-23) is now published, covering the migration from Blazegraph to QLever with sessions for editors, reusers, and tool builders; see the event page for details and schedule.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • From University Research to Free Knowledge: Academics Discover Wikimedia by User:Osps7
  • WM Enterprise: Wikidata Bulk snapshots
  • Wiki OTO 2026: Wiki Loves Women and Africa Wiki Women join forces!
  • Making African Restitution Efforts More Visible
• Papers: CodeGraph: Open-Taxonomy Knowledge Graph for Source Code with Wikidata Grounding by Pennino et al., (2026).
• Videos:
  • When the Old Constraints Disappear: Work and Creativity in the Age of AI (Wikipedia->Wikidata->Wikifunctions->Abstract Wikipedia), John Samuel, Mindstone AI Meetup, September 22, 2026, Lyon, France (Video, Slides)
  • AI BRIDGES Open Forum meeting - September 2026

Tool of the week

• HumansMap Gallery - The site offers various type of visualizations, and offers the possibility to navigate through connections between people and organizations, based on your interests, powered by Wikidata.
• 📚 Wikidata Book Itemizer It is a simple tool to catalog books on Wikidata! Creating work and edition items manually on Wikidata with proper metadata and multilingual labels can often be tedious and error-prone. Wikidata Book Itemizer automates this entire process with a simple form!

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland is researching how to improve interoperability between Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud, and Wikibase Suite. If you've worked with data imports or staging, or even if you haven't, your input would be valuable. The survey takes 5 to 10 minutes and is anonymous. More information on the background of the questions: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Mass-editing policy#Context

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts ID, ‎Siwar entry ID, Kunaicho Shoryobu Shuzo Kanseki Shuran ID, ‎Emulation General Wiki article ID, Digital Momijiyama Bunko ID, Raras disease ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Writers at Risk database ID (Identifier in the PEN America Writers at Risk database, cataloging writers threatened, imprisoned, and jailed worldwide)
  • External identifiers: Ohio Entity Number, NZPCN legacy ID, Žmonės.lt topic ID, Jersey HER Reference, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le Maitron, Google Search profile handle, Leipziger Biographie ID, LEO-BW person ID, Biopsa ID, Isle of Man Registered Building No., Waymark code, Identifiant dans OrthodoxWiki en français, WE League player ID, WE League manager ID, Delfi.lt topic ID, Lrytas.lt topic ID, Baidu Baike article

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Latin American Cinema / Films with an English or Portuguese Wikipedia page, but not Spanish
• Schema examples: (E422) 'Golden age of illustration' book from the Maastricht University Library collection.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Schlaraffia - for enriching items about the German-language fraternity Schlaraffia (Q1305789) and its international and local associations.
  • Project Tamil Nadu dedicated to creating and improving Wikidata content related to Tamil Nadu (Q1445) and Tamil (Q5885).
• WikiProject Highlights: Project PCC EMCO Wikidata CoP added a subpage for listing Properties normally associated with Corporate bodies.

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with UX fixes. This is primarily visual polish and consistency as well as fixing bugs related to RTL display.
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We are finishing the support for creating Lexemes and the statements on them.
  • We are continuing working on support for adding Forms to a Lexeme.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are going to stop sending language link changes to the first few wikis. An initial deployment to group1 wikis is now planned for Monday, 05.10.2026. (Click group1 on this Toolforge page to see which Wikis are included.) This will help reduce noise in Watchlists and Recent changes and help reduce the size of the database table holding recent changes on these wikis.
  • Connecting a newly created Wiki to Wikidata is a manual task, we are automating that and optimising the SitesTable at the same time, making a 'single source of truth' that all wikis point to, rather than a table per Wiki that are all clones of each other.
  • We are experimenting with raising the entity usage limit on wikis. If this is feasible, we can reduce the amount of bundled changes. This would reduce the quantity of Wikidata-triggered Recent Changes rows being created.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: The Gambia
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Belated First Edit Day Wishes!

Hey, Beauty School Dropout. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! ☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | sandbox) 05:11, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 8

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 31 August

Volume 4 — Issue 8
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News On 19 August, NASA scrubbed the Swift Rescue Mission after the spacecraft, LINK, suffered technical issues. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was successfully launched on 30 August. NGRST's primary missions are to study dark energy and exoplanets. In late August, NASA's Pandora telescope was fully commissioned, beginning its mission of studying the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets.
Article of the month James Woodward (physicist) James F. Woodward (1941 – August 9, 2025) was an American physicist who was professor emeritus of history and an adjunct professor of physics at California State University, Fullerton. He is best known for a physics hypothesis that he proposed in 1990, later expanded, that predicts several physical effects that he refers to as 'Mach effects'. Woodward claimed the effect could be used as a reactionless drive for space travel.	Image of the month Test inflation of PAGEOS, a balloon satellite The Passive Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite (PAGEOS) was the first dedicated geodetic surveying satellite. PAGEOS was the culmination of a series of balloon satellites that started in 1960 with Project Echo. These satellites were commissioned following the launch of Sputnik 1, as the United States was eager to catch up to the Soviet Union during the Space Race. Construction of PAGEOS was undertaken by the Gilmore Schjeldahl#Schjeldahl Company, founded by the same man who invented the sickness bag. This image shows a test inflation of the 30 m (100 ft), 57 kg (125 lb) satellite performed on 5 August, 1965.
Members New Members: none Number of active members: 206. Total number of members: 466. August Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Zhuque-3 — Honghu-03 (18 Aug. at 23:35) (success) Falcon Heavy — Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (30 Aug. at 11:26:00) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 August 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 36 62 3 139 B 18 79 200 246 11 554 C 42 173 617 918 2 86 1,838 Start 14 134 1,024 2,748 531 4,451 Stub 4 192 1,972 345 2,513 List 11 117 111 250 1 50 540 Category 1,302 1,302 Disambig 47 47 File 276 276 Portal 54 54 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 44 152 1,262 1,460 Template 536 536 Other 1 35 36 Assessed 104 568 2,245 6,362 3,748 1,026 14,053 Unassessed 2 110 112 Total 104 568 2,245 6,364 3,748 1,136 14,165 Monthly Changes Since July 2026, there are one more Mid-importance, 15 more Low-importance, ten more NA-importance, and twenty more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 46 new articles. There are also two more B-class, three more C-class, 21 more Start-class, six more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2026).

Administrator changes

• Cleared as filed
• Dante Alighieri
• Doug Weller
• Gentgeen
• Vacant0

Oversight changes

• Doug Weller
• ToBeFree

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the good article criteria have been amended to add accessibility requirements.
• Following an RfC, late signatures added to administrator recall petitions after 720 hours from opening are reverted or struck and do not count towards the threshold, even if the petition has not yet been formally closed.
• The post-May 2026 administrator elections RfCs concluded with consensus for election monitors to curate blatantly inappropriate questions after posting, and to remove or merge true duplicates, clearly marking merged questions. Calls for candidates will include advisory guidance that users with less than one year’s experience or 5,000 edits generally lack a realistic chance of success.

Technical news

• Interface administrators no longer need to specify the ResourceLoader option in the definitions for gadgets on MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition as gadgets are always loaded through ResourceLoader. (T298199)
• The list=abusefilters API module now supports formatversion=2 and includes breaking changes to its responses. In particular, the actions property is now a JSON array rather than a string, regardless of the format version. Maintainers of user scripts and other code using this module should check compatibility and update their code as needed. (T435828)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Gun control 2 has been closed.

Obituaries

• Doug Weller passed away on 30 September 2026. Doug Weller began editing Wikipedia in 2006 and became an administrator in 2008, making nearly 275,000 edits over two decades. He served on the Arbitration Committee from 2015 through 2018 and was also a longtime CheckUser and Oversighter.

Miscellaneous

• The October 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from September 29 to October 19. The call for candidates ends October 5.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2026 Arbitration Committee elections is opened and closes on 8 October.
• The Good Article Nominations backlog drive has begun and is scheduled to end on November 3.

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Wikidata weekly summary #752

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-10-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #751.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • SaadBot - Task/s: A read-only (no edits) entity lookups for an academic research project building a relation triplet extraction (RTE) dataset from web text.
  • OKA bot - Tasks: Improve Wikidata items using authoritative open datasets, e.g., national mapping data and reference works: add sources, fill gaps, create missing items and report conflicts from the Swisstopo dataset and its subsets.
  • FoxfindingBot - Task/s: Passively enrich existing Wikidata games with gog.com metadata
  • Wahl.de Bot - Task/s: Keep mandate data of German parliamentary members current. Edits to end date (P582), successor/replaced by (P1366), start time (P580), parliamentary term (P2937)retrieved and sourced from official sources.
• New request for comments: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Split needed from Q4167836: Split Wikimedia category (Q4167836) into two items, because one is for MediaWiki non-main namespace (Q35252665) and the other is for Wikimedia project page (Q14204246)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • On October 9 ends up the early-bird registration with its reduced fees for MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2026, November 11-13, at Jožef Stefan Institute (Q5918873). The program is already set up!
  • Wikidata's 14th birthday (Q139103554) in Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2026, 24 Oct 2026.
  • (Deutsch) Wikidata Writing Workshop, takes place Saturday, 31 October, 10:00 to 13:00 CEST at the Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, Obere Vorstadt 6, 5000 Aarau.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • (Deutsch) Domus – an open data project on the history of houses - Wikidata and FactGrid Wikibase combine to help build a map visualiser.
  • WikiNusantara 2026: a second chance in Makassar
  • N-RICH: a new Wikimedia Project to explore Wikidata as a connective layer for UK cultural heritage infrastructure
• Videos:
  • (Short) Schomburg Center’s 2026 Wikidata Edit-a-thon during the New York Black and African Literature Festival
  • RLUK DSF | Linked data and the research library - explores how libraries are engaging with linked data (including Wikidata) and what this means for metadata creation, management, and discovery.
  • Wikidata 14th Birthday Celebration stream with Africa Wiki Women.
  • AI BRIDGES Open Forum meeting, the September 2026 meeting, showcasing updates from the DARIAH’s DHWiki working group on Wikibase.
  • Exploring networks of artists and scientists with the Wikidata Query Service.
  • (Spanish) What does Wikidata contribute to open library data? with Elena Sánchez Nogales.
• LD4 Conference streams:
  • Sessions 1 / Building more complete and linked GLAM datasets: The Smithsonian’s (In)Visible Women’s Project
  • Sessions 2, incl.
    • EMCO: Entity management for everyone
    • Using Wikidata to identify duplicates in the Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF)
    • From Wikidata to Our Collection Management System: Automating GIS Import for Cultural Heritage Data
  • Sessions 4 including Finding where to contribute on Wikidata with Dustpan and Broomstick. Wikidata is mentioned throughout the stream.
  • Sessions 5 / Reduced Fuzziness in Semantic Kompakkt 3D Object Viewer through Extensive Data Modelling in Wikibase
  • Sessions 9 / Using Wikidata to Improve the Visibility of African Women in Open Knowledge
  • Sessions 10 / From Sounds to Solidarity: Jazz, Student Protests, and Wikidata
  • Wikidata Affinity Group: Working with Corporate Bodies for EMCO

Tool of the week

• Mergers & Acquisitions: A Wikidata Merge Assistant, a new web app that surfaces possible duplicate items from Wikidata and provides a simple interface for evaluating the candidate pairs and merging them together or marking them as different.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • disjoint with (instances of this type cannot be simultaneously instances of that type)
    • ‎contribution URL (URL of a page explaining how to participate in or contribute to a project or organization)
    • atomic radius (measured or calculated radius of an atom of a chemical element)
    • covalent radius (radius of an atom of a chemical element when covalently bonded)
    • Van der Waals radius (radius of an imaginary hard sphere representing the distance of closest approach for a non-bonded atom)
  • External identifiers: Tric Trac game ID, Techniques de l'Ingénieur author ID, Stereo Ve Mono release ID, ‎Sky programme ID, ‎Sky series ID, Scent Base perfumes ID, ‎Register of British Slave Traders person ID, ‎Onderwijstermen Taalunie ID, ‎NZPCN legacy ID, Biopsa ID, ‎Writers at Risk database ID, LEO-BW person (GND) ID, Leipziger Biographie ID, Jersey HER Reference, Isle of Man Registered Building No., ‎Holy See cardinal biography ID, ‎Google Search profile handle, Filmbaze people ID, ‎China Railway Pinyin code, belarusenc.by ID, ‎BLL-Ontology concept ID, ‎IFWiki article, Brussels ‎Inventory of Movable Heritage designer ID, Eldoblatge original actor ID, Eldoblatge original dub actor ID, Drag France directory ID, OrthodoxWiki ID (French), Le Maitron author ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage glossary ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage material ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage object type ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage technique ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Natural Heritage taxon ID, ‎WE League manager ID, ‎WE League player ID, ‎ArchaMap ID, Womens German Basketball Bundesliga Player ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • has language or spelling variant (the (multilingual) label of the linked item is a a language, spelling or etymological variation of the label of this item)
    • school of martial arts (school or style of martial arts this person studied)
  • External identifiers: YouSaid person ID, Demko ID, Niconico Pedia article ID, Scholastica scholar ID, Hannah Arendt edition person ID, AbeBooks author ID (2), Identifiant dans Calames, identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du Centre Delavouët

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Schema examples: ICH item(E379) - schema for a Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage item in the international lists or national inventories.
• Newest WikiProjects: EastEnders (TV series) - a project for the BBC soap opera.
• Newest database reports: The EntitySchema Directory

Development

• REST API: Continuing the work on adding support for lexicographical data, specifically creating a statement, Form and Sense on a Lexeme
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into raising the entity usage limit. We are setting up monitoring to see how much it can reduce the amount of Recent Changes entries triggered from Wikidata.
• Mobile editing of statements: We continued addressing the remaining UX issues, including RTL and Kartographer issues
• hCaptcha: We are planning the support for it to Wikibase-specific pages like Special:New Item

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Tanzania
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The process for this year’s Community Wishlist has been published, incorporating community feedback. The wish submission process will end on November 8. This year, a working group (open for volunteering) that includes community members familiar with the technical aspect of our wikis alongside Wikimedia Foundation staff, will take care of the triage process. The triage is expected to be completed by late November. Votes for wishes will start in January.

Updates for editors

• Editors using the visual editor will now see a warning when they paste text that is likely to have initially been copied from one of five external generative AI chatbots into Wikipedia. This feature is known as LLM Paste Check. It is a type of Edit Check that is community configurable. The check looks for markers in the copied HTML and is not using content watermark detection. Edits will also be tagged so that patrollers can review them more closely. The feature helps newcomers add content that respects Wikipedia’s policies and makes it easier for experienced editors to identify problematic edits. Communities with local policies about LLM usage can adjust the wording and policy that is linked. The team apologizes that this was rolled out without a delay for translations.
• Editors can now easily access the web visual editor directly from the iOS and Android apps. When opening the editor, users will be given a choice between visual editing and source editing. If they choose visual editing, they will be sent to a mobile web window in their phone's browser. After completing their edit, a banner will give them the option to return to the app. This enables readers to make quick contributions while casually reading.
• Users of the Wikipedia Android and iOS apps will now see a one-time account creation prompt after they have used the app for two consecutive weeks. This prompt explains the benefits of having an account. It is intended to help more casual readers become logged-in users who return to the apps regularly.
• Editors on group1 wikis, including Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource, will no longer see notifications on Recent Changes and Watchlist when a link to another language version of a page is added, removed, or changed in its Wikidata item. This change will begin on October 5 at 07:00 UTC as a two-week trial to reduce high-volume, low-value notifications and make important changes easier to identify. Editors who rely on these notifications can read more on the project page and share feedback or concerns on the talk page.
• View all 36 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where mentors who removed themselves from the mentorship program could still have mentees assigned to them and receive questions, has now been fixed. Mentees will now be reassigned when a mentor leaves the program.

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikimedia Brasil has published its Development Best Practices Framework (ABPD). It is a guide for staff, contractors and volunteers building technical tools and projects. It covers the project lifecycle, security, accessibility, personal data protection and responsible AI use, and explains how movement-wide guidelines were adapted to a local context. They encourage other affiliates to reuse it and adapt it. Read more in the Diff post.
• A new, canonical base URL for Wikimedia APIs will soon be introduced. The new canonical route follows a {projectName}/api/ pattern and will act as an alternative path for current REST APIs (for example: {projectName}/w/rest.php/). Both versions will be callable for all existing APIs, but the new structure will be the preferred path for newly created API modules. This change will be non-breaking for most users. The existing pathways will remain available for all existing endpoint requests. However, some endpoints may return URLs following the new pattern in response bodies. Changes will be available on test wiki first, with the rollout expected to cover all wikis by the end of October.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki.

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