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March 2026

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Haxhi Zeka University when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 13:51, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

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Hi, BindiS.

First off, apologies for the fact we're meeting in a somewhat chaotic set of circumstances! I'm one of the editors who has been volunteering to try and clean up the copyright issues left from the Wikiproject Australia editathon (whilst quietly cursing the existence URAA under my breath -- oh, why did we have to agree to it?)

Slightly more seriously, I note that User:Bahudhara has been pinging you in relation to this, and states that he created the page User:Bahudhara/Draft:2026 CCI mass content deletion - cleanup after consulting with you, in your role as Executive Officer of Wikimedia Australia.

Given you were apparently consulted about the creation of this page and, presumably, the language, and it's been so openly connected to the Wikimedia Australia chapter, I just wanted to touch base with you and express a few concerns about the way that page is being used to demean or insult editors.

Firstly, I find singling out a new, somewhat experienced editor, by name (and linking to their userpage), instead of going to that editor's talkpage, guiding them through the process, and offering assistance, to be somewhat bitey. Especially with the page opening with such strong implications of Wikimedia Australia involvement, I worry it can create a bit of a chilling effect - I'd have hated to have my newbie mistakes dragged up in front of affiliate, without members of the affiliate even reaching out to me! I actually find it quite disturbing, that neither you nor Bahudhara, seem to have seen fit to actually communicate with the editor in question., so disturbing, in fact, that I find it impossible to believe that this wasn't an oversight?

Secondly -- I feel as though I have to be the one accidentally leaving in half sentences, half the time! I do this to try and WP:PRESERVE content written by other editors, and then trim it out later, so it doesn't get eaten by the revdel. I certainly don't claim to be perfect at this, however -- but, again, I can't find any evidence that anybody has brought it up with either myself of the editors in question? Nobody is perfect, and it seems almost cruel to announce you'll be bringing up typographical errors or simple mistakes from editors, especially newer ones, as evidence of the the revision deletion process being, and I quote, a mess, again, without touching base with the editors in question, to let them know that they're making a mistake. I know that's not something everybody values on the internet, but I do my best, when mistakes are made in good faith, to talk with the editors, letting know how they can improve, or, at the very least, let them know they're being talked about. I'd have hoped that a Wikimedia chapter would extend the same courtesy to our volunteers.

Thirdly, on the Australian Wikipedians' noticeboard, I note the language is getting a little heated: references to "madness", among other things, feel a bit demeaning. Revision deletion is something that's hard to learn, but implying that editors who request it in good faith, even when their request ends up being erroneous, are somehow behaving as though they were mentally ill? Even though mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, casual comments like this, meant as insults, can alienate members of our community who struggle with those issues. I can't blame you for sitting out the conversation, but you and Wikimedia Australia were mentioned in that conversation, and, with the private communication, it does give the appearance that you, or Wikimedia Australia, approves of such language -- or, at the least, will not speak against it. I know Wikimedia Australia values contributors, even those with mental illness or disabilities, however, as it reflected on the website: Wikimedia Australia is dedicated to providing a welcoming experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, appearance, race, religion, or preferred free license (and not limited to those aspects). We do not tolerate harassment of event participants. and Wikimedia Australia is committed to growing safe, supportive and inclusive spaces (offline and online) and through its communications and other policies

Finally, the page also has some factual issues. Take, for instance:

A notification was placed on the Australian Wikipedians' notice board on 13 March 2026, at the end of the deletion process.

I actually notified Wikiproject Australia at the end of November, around the time that cleanup started, on the advice of Doug Butler. The notification I gave more recently was really only about one specific article, marked as high importance -- and, rather unfortunately, we aren't "at the end of the deletion process". There's still about 500 articles to check, I believe. And less every day!

Given that you'll be bringing this up to Wikimedia Australia, apparently, I do hope you'll keep this comment in mind. Hopefully whatever you bring up at Wikicon will lack such language, especially if it names single editors or gives the impression that you are making a call for action against them.

Many thanks, and I hope you're having a wonderful Monday in Australia! I live in Alaska, so I know your weather is almost certainly better than ours.

GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 08:06, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi GreenLipstickLesbian,

Thank you for raising these concerns, I appreciate it. Apologies for the delayed response as our small WMAU team is currently completely focused on preparations for WikiCon Canberra in 2 weeks, so apologies for not getting across this faster.

To clarify, while I had discussed with Bahudara the need for a project to address the CCI mass deletion, I did not review the page or endorse the specific language used. I agree that some of the tone (both on that page and in related discussions) should be moderated, and I’ll follow this up directly.

As you would know WMAU is not involved in editorial decision-making on Wikipedia, but we do strongly value and promote respectful and constructive engagement between editors. I agree that direct, supportive communication, particularly with newer contributors, is very important and I’ll reinforce that approach.

In relation to notification, while there may have been some earlier communication, from our perspective and that of several editors, the scale and urgency of the issue were not clearly understood until much more recently. Obviously I can't speak for all Australian Wikimedians but potentially the timing of the November notice went 'under the radar' (end of year busy period, start of Summer holidays, etc) and now editors are trying to catch up. This has made what is already a complex cleanup significantly more difficult, particularly in the absence of a clear, consolidated list of affected articles to work from.

Thank you also for sharing your perspective and additional context as it’s helpful in understanding how this has unfolded.

I appreciate the work you’re doing on what is clearly a complex cleanup effort.

Thanks BindiS (talk) 02:59, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Women in Red – April 2026

Women in Red | April 2026, Vol 12, Issue 4, Nos 358, 359, 367, 368, 369 Online events: New: Countries starting with D, E and F | Women's Works: Written works | Cascading Women Continuing (year-long initiatives): #1day1woman | Sports Announcements from other communities: CEE women Tip of the month: When creating a new article, take a moment to ensure any notable woman is redlinked. Someone might be inspired to create an article for her. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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A BIG thank you for participating in WikiCon 2026 Canberra!

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This kookaburra is an homage to our lovely hosts at the (Australian) National Film and Sound Archive and are to thank you for coming along, learning alongside each other and helping make the event what it was. We hope the kookaburra brightens your day!

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April 2026

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Ossona when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 15:42, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Women in Red – May 2026

Women in Red | May 2026, Vol 12, Issue 5, Nos 358, 359, 370, 371, 372 Online events: New: Countries starting with G and H | Women's scientific works | Religion and Spirituality Continuing (year-long initiatives): #1day1woman | Sports Announcements from other communities: Contest: Destubathon of the Americas Tip of the month: Struggling to find scientific works to write about? Start with review articles or textbooks, which may highlight influential studies, theories or methods by women. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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Women in Red - June 2026

Women in Red | June 2026, Vol 12, Issue 6, Nos 358, 359, 373, 374, 375 Online events: New: LGBTQ+ women | Alphabet run: Countries starting with I, J, K and L Article improvement campaign: Orphaned women Continuing (year-long initiatives): #1day1woman | Sports Announcements, tips, participation... Announcements from other communities: Eiffel women Tip of the month: Consider contributing to two of our monthly events at once, and improve coverage of LGBTQ+ women by de-orphaning their articles. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram & Pinterest

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on May 8. Please help translate.

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• 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.
• Digital Public Goods: The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).
• Better bot detection: A trial of hCaptcha on several Wikipedias, including English, French, and Japanese, showed it can effectively detect and deter bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards signals to look into. Based on these results, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis. See the project page for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

Example of the Attribution Framework recommendations.

• A better way to give credit: The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.
• Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge: The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.
• Account security: The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.
• Incident reporting form: The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.
• Encouraging account creation: Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.
• Wikimedia Android App: The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: Community, featuring refreshed Explore content, and For You, with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The For You feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.
• Better discovery of images: The Image Browsing beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. 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.
• Reading Lists feature: The Foundation 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 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.

A design mockup of what the share card looks like.

• Testing Suggestion Mode: Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
• Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references: References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.
• Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia: 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. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.
• Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20, 21, 22, 23 include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• Tech blog moved to Diff: The migration of the Techblog to Diff is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.
• What’s new in the Wikipedia Library: Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library.
• New course on WikiLearn: A free self-paced online course, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.
• Wiki Mentor Africa: The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.
• Let's Connect Learning Clinic: If you missed it, you can now watch the recording of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.
• Community Conferences: Registration for WikiConference North America and Queering Wiki Conference is now opened. Call for Speakers for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Sharing the Form 990s: The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights on Form 990 for the Foundation and Form 990 for the Endowment on Meta-Wiki.
• Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.
• Structured Contents: How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia to Markdown with Python.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board selection process: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC, and share your ideas on the talk page.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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