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SodiumBot (botop|talk|contribs) 01:30, 4 October 2026 (UTC)

Pls review

WP: Articlesize... Specifically WP:SIZERULE

• Preferences → Gadgets → Browsing → Prosesize: add a toolbox link to show the size of and number of words in a page (direct link), and then save. It will show up as "Page size" in the tools menu.

Thank you. Moxy🍁 01:02, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I was already aware of the guideline. FaviFake (talk) 19:26, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:57, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

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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18:49, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

Your ping

FaviFake, I reiterate: Do not ping me in edit summaries. If you want to talk to me, do it on my talk page so that I can respond. On the merits, I repeat again: I close AfDs using the standard scripts, not manually. If you think steps other than those provided for by these scripts need to be taken, please amend these scripts. Sandstein 06:05, 6 October 2026 (UTC)

(And I reiterate: when I use dummy edits, I generally do not want to talk with you and I don't want you to respond.) Regarding the scripts, I have been trying to update XFDcloser for literally 6 months (just look here and here, for example), and it is not as easy as you would think when there is just 1 active maintainer that is busy with IRL stuff. I very rarely ask closers to close an AfD a specific way, but when I do it's precisely because I know these scripts are woefully outdated and would not be sufficient for the discussion. FaviFake (talk) 14:24, 6 October 2026 (UTC)

Potential RfD discussion

I had just thought, is there a specific venue for me to retarget a redirect, or should I use RfD then in the nomination mention that this is a retarget request? Theeverywhereperson talk here ^{In solidarity!} 16:17, 7 October 2026 (UTC)