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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4NnI_sXZpw GOAT Bones231012 (talk) 15:38, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi Cass. Sorry about all this, not least as Truthseeker is clearly a sockpuppet. Thanks for everything you have done and please, please continue to do it. All the sanctimonious editors who have criticised you wouldn't last five minutes editing in your space. If you leave, we'll be up shit creek without a paddle. NEDOCHAN (talk) 09:04, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

NEDOCHAN, I know that you are trying to be supportive of a friend here. I also consider Cassiopeia a friend, since we worked together at CVUA, and would also hope that they do not stop editing over this affair. Sometimes being a good friend to someone is not necessarily the same thing as telling them that they are right, and everyone else is wrong. I would encourage you to read User:Barkeep49/Friends don't let friends get sanctioned, which discusses situations like this. Sometimes being a good friend to someone means taking them to one side and letting them know that what they're doing isn't appropriate. You complain about 'sanctimonious editors' who apparently wouldn't last five minutes editing MMA articles (I don't know how you come to that conclusion by the way, I don't know how familiar you with what I do but I assure you that a lot of the abuse I deal with in my 'wiki day job' at SPI is not a barrel of laughs), but those editors are simply telling it how it is. None of us - not me, not you, not Cass - are permitted to make up our own rules because we find things difficult. I can't ignore elements of the CU policy because I am dealing with a particularly problematic LTA; similarly, Wikiproject MMA members cannot ignore the consensus at RSN regarding Sherdog, and the sourcing requirements of the BLP policy, because you find it convenient to standardize on a particular source to reduce the number of disagreements about sourcing. That's just how it is, all those 'sanctimonious editors' are correct, and for as long as experienced editors in this subject area spread misinformation about our sourcing policies, unfortunate blocks like this one will continue to be necessary. Girth Summit _(blether) 14:24, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Unless I'm missing something, Girth, I think I'm allowed to write what I want on Cass's page (unless it's abusive or a personal attack). I stand by my opinion and I heartily reject your own as regards the necessity of the block. If Cass leaves, all hell will break loose on MMA pages, and I'm far more worried about that than anything you or any other editor or admin has to say. NEDOCHAN (talk) 16:35, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

I have not said that you are not allowed to say what you like on Cass's page. I think that I am allowed to do the same, even if that means disagreeing with you.

As I said, I hope that Cass has not decided to leave the project; I keenly hope that they continue to edit. I also hope that they do not repeat the actions that led to the block, and I would be very willing to support them in understanding how to avoid a recurrence in the future. I have seen several very good patrollers lose sight of the rules we have to abide by over time, get blocked, and walk away in frustration - I hope that will not happen in this case. This is what I'm trying (and apparently failing) to get across to you: I do not want you, or Cass, or any good faith contributor to be blocked, but admins will not stand by and watch someone edit war to include dubiously sourced content on a BLP. I'm not trying to threaten you - I'm trying to warmly encourage you, and Cass, and everyone else with an interest in the subject area to continue editing, but to do so in a manner that complies with the relevant policies. You can ignore that if you want, but you have just seen what ignoring it leads to. Girth Summit _(blether) 17:06, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Question MF Boxing / Profesional boxing

Hi Cassiopeia,

I have been in a discusion about the page of Anthony Taylor (fighter) about the boxing record and Misfits Boxing bouts.

According to boxrec it is its own category making his record quite complicated. For MF Pro while Sherdog lists them as Exhibition Boxing.

These are 2 very good record holders of boxing matches and according to Wikipedia:WikiProject Boxing/MOSGuidelines its best to follow boxrec.

One of the accounts that reverted my edit has been banned MoonknightPP34 i have opened dialoge with user GhaziTwaissi but now its been reversed again by a brand new account named MasterChief280.

Is there a proper way i can discus this. Am i in the right or wrong?

A lot of people take wikipedia as truth and i have been noticing that people confuse MF Boxing with pro boxing. Its boxing with custom rules because most of them dont have a boxing history. Just very few matches are actually sanctioned by a commision thats able to and all of this is listed inside Boxrec. Panini03 (talk) 10:23, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Panini03 Good day. I believe you meant Tapology rather than Sherdog in your previous link. On Wikipedia, MMA fighters’ records are sourced from Sherdog, while boxing records are based on Boxrec. It is appropriate to start a discussion about the subject on the article’s talk page to avoid violating the three-revert rule (WP:3RR), which can result in being banned from editing. Sometimes, editors are new and may not understand established norms, or they may fail to provide reliable sources for their edits, often relying solely on personal opinions instead of verifiable references. Regards. Cassiopeia talk 08:31, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

In this case im the new one. But i just notice the error but a lot of influencer boxing pages maintain it. Generarly these are managed by the same people i think.

I have opened a conversation on the talk page of KSI and also opened a talk with someone who reverted my edit. I will try to get my point across and if i reach a agreement i wanna change it on other influencer boxers pages as well. If i dont i wont do this of course. Is there anyway i could get more attention on this talk page?

i also think user:MasterChief280 is a sockpuppet of User:MoonknightPP34 since their editing history is similar.

I did get reverted 3 times by now but 1 of my reverted edits was a sockpuppet and one more revert of what i think is another sockpuppet of the same user.

Is there any way where i can report this. Lil Tjay discography and the Anthony Taylor (fighter) are 2 pages i find examples on.

Thank you for the help Panini03 (talk) 09:19, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Panini03

Three things:

I am not sure how active or current WikiProject Boxing is compared to WikiProject MMA, but you can always ask experienced Wikipedia editors for help or clarification.

2. On Wikipedia, verification with independent, reliable sources is a core policy. If in doubt, refer to this crucial guideline.

3. I did a quick check on the two editors you mentioned and found that they have edited some similar pages. Editor YeetaSkeeta is a sockpuppet of Moonknight PP34, among others; you can review their contribution log and talk pages for context. To report sockpuppetry, use Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations and follow the instructions. For example, see the case: here. Regards. Cassiopeia talk 09:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Panini03 Please use the "vertical" format and NOT horizontal format for the infobox. Cassiopeia talk 09:57, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Sorry i corrected the infobox.

I will check out both WikiProject Boxing and MMA i have used the Boxing page as extra argumentation for the change in records already but never asked them for help.

I always try to follow rule 2 to the best and wont change anything unless i can prove it to be different.

I will report the sockpuppet to the page.

Thank you for your help Panini03 (talk) 11:50, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Panini03 Good day. Good day. I just wanted to let you know that WikiProject Boxing can be another place to go if you need help with boxing-related questions. Of course, I’ll be happy to assist you anytime you need help. I understand you successfully reported the editor to SPI. I believe they may return as a sock and edit the same pages in a similar style, so please keep an eye on those familiar pages. Thank you very much for your help and contributions. Stay safe and all the best. Cassiopeia talk 00:37, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Hey Cassipeia,

I have asked them for help but yet to get a response. I did help them out with a dispute about Naoya Inoue. Hopefully i wil get some help for them otherwise i might ask somewhere else.

Now the discusion is just at a stand still i got a Opposed by 3 people but 2 of those seem very untrusted and the 1 that is doesnt respond anymore. Most of the time he refers that it was discused last year as well but it seems people noting out that its not a pro boxing match and him saying its more understandable for the general public.

I think User:GhaziTwaissi might be using sock puppets as well in KSI Archive of last year he says "to not confused the general public" and on the new talk i opened i got voted out by 2 inactive accounts saying its confusing for the general public.

I dont actually have evidence outside this or anything to build a case on so i won't report it.

But User:YeetaSkeeta and User:AliM7mdd who also are known sockpuppet users have a big history of using sockpuppets as well in the KSI talk page. They all seem to be involved around Youtube boxing articles.

A couple people have said they should fix the records but these accounts generally seem to block it.

Im considering changing the record i a few days and just see the outcome.

Thank you for the advice and help. I have been keeping watch at the articles, im fairly new to wikipedia so i dont try to edit too much and just maintain the few pages i have been working on or help out with updating information. Have a good day! Panini03 (talk) 13:20, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Panini03 Thank you for helping. Take care. Cassiopeia talk 23:22, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

The issue has been resolved and we reached a agreement thanks to your help and advice. Thank you. Panini03 (talk) 14:08, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

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Hello, I hope you are doing well. I have a question about editing on wikipedia. I would like to get more experience but do not know where to start. What are some basic edits I can start with and that can give me more freedom in editing in wikipedia. Thank you in advance for your help. Best, Olympe --Yabastarecordsolympe (talk) 16:11, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Question from Zakkgamesontwitch on Vladimir Nikolaevich Platonov (14:30, 23 October 2025)

How do I create a Citation --Zakkgamesontwitch (talk) 14:30, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

If your in visual editing mode you can click on cite and it wil generate most for you automaticly. After this you can click on the citation and either edit it in visual mode or in source. Panini03 (talk) 13:37, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Question from Zypheur (01:31, 24 October 2025)

I can put some info in live? --Zypheur (talk) 01:31, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

What do you mean? Panini03 (talk) 13:38, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #703

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Hello, I would like guidance to navigate page creation as often I get other users categorising my edits as "Machine Generated" when I write my contributions myself. --HistoryInContext (talk) 16:43, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

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Question from Shadowfax33

Hello, I would like to know how to edit a category page like this one Category:United States Air Force personnel of the Vietnam War. Shadowfax33 (talk) 08:01, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Shadowfax33: If you mean to add or remove article from the category, you do that on the individual articles. Pick one of the article in that category and look at the last section of the article. There is also a tool called HotCat for modifying the categories an article is in without mucking about with the article's source directly. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:03, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Question from Mrasgharali on Arbab Ghulam Rahim (18:39, 29 October 2025)

ThgbgWvuec --Mrasgharali (talk) 18:39, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Women in Red - November 2025

Women in Red | November 2025, Vol 11, Issue 11, Nos. 326, 327, 353, 354 Recognized as the most active topic-based WikiProject by human changes. Online events: New: Alphabet run: U, V, W | Asian women Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Women in Red's Asian women event is part of the global Wikipedia Asian Month 2025 campaign. You are welcome to add your contributions to both event pages. Tip of the Month: Verifiability is increasingly important as AI evolves. You should ensure that every statement made is adequately sourced. There should be no less than three independent reliable sources for each biography, including at least one source for each paragraph. Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via various tools: previously, Humaniki tool; currently, QLever. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 20,473 articles created in the past year. 21 Oct 2024, 19.963% of biographies on EN-WP were about women (2,030,245 biographies; 405,305 women) 28 Oct 2025: 20.23% of biographies on EN-WP were about women (2,094,677 biographies; 423,778 women) Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help wanted! Want to apply your skills or learn new ones? Help us plan monthly events, design event logos, come up with a tip-of-the-month, and/or provide any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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Wikidata weekly summary #704

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #703.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Samoasambia
• New requests for permissions/Bot: langCodesBot - Task(s): Python script to automate the cleanup of deprecated language codes (e.g., kr) from Wikidata items. Delete or move labels, descriptions, and aliases based on comparisons with fallback and related languages. The script uses the Pywikibot framework to process each item and logs cases it skips due to data inconsistencies or ambiguity to a CSV file for manual review.
• New request for comments: Exhibition models by Hexatekin - This proposal focuses on standardizing models for art exhibitions. There is not a consistent data model used for art exhibitions that factors in parent-child relationships for traveling exhibitions, show series, or biennials, despite these being important and common types of events in international art history.

Events

• Past:
  • Happy Birthday, Wikidata 🎉! We celebrated Wikidata’s 13th birthday with a community call to unveil presents and play games. Check out the replay of the event and the cool gifts people made: Wikidata:Thirteenth Birthday/Presents & messages
  • WikidataCon: You can catch up on the recordings and slides in the program
  • Wikidata Workshop at ISWC: You can catch up on the published papers on the website.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Building an Internet for Everyone: Wikidata Recognized as a Digital Public Good
  • Enriching Wikidata with AuthorityBox. An interview with Stefano Bargioni
    • examples of AuthorityBox can be seen in PUSC catalogue, URBE catalogue (code), Keratsini-Drapetsona catalogue; cf. also Stefano Bargioni, From Authority Enrichment to AuthorityBox. Applying RDA in a Koha environment (2020)
  • Exploring Nairobi and Building a Global Network: The Inspiring Wikimania@20 Experience
  • Supercharging Cultural Institution Collections with Wikidata
• Videos:
  • Por qué el conocimiento libre importa más que nunca | Gustavo Candela | Jornadas Anuales 2025
  • Wikidata Ontology Course | A NotebookLM Deep Dive
  • Odia Wikimedians User Group Celebration of the 13th Wikidata Birthday
  • Como utilizar o OpenRefine para cadastrar artigos científicos na Wikidata? - WikiTutoriais #05
  • Supercharging Cultural Institution Collections with Wikidata [October 2025]
  • ¿Cómo es la ontología de Wikidata?
  • Wikidata @13 celebration by the Tyap Wikimedians

Tool of the week The Wikidata Reference Validator by User:JosefAnthony helps check and replace broken or outdated references — keeping Wikidata’s knowledge verifiable and trustworthy. It checks whether external references are still accessible or offline, so we can ensure that every statement on Wikidata shows how we know what we know.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance
• Wikimedia chapters are providing scholarships for Wikimania 2026. Apply here if you're interested: Wikipedia:Förderung/Wikimania/English

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎Newegg item ID, ‎Hardcore Gaming 101 game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Luminous flux (Numerical value of the luminous flux emitted by a lighting device or light source, measured in lumens)
  • anatomical structure in view (the anatomical structure in view in the photo, e.g. head, wing, habitus (body))
  • anatomical view (view of an anatomical structure, e.g. ventral, dorsal, frontal)
  • collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field)
  • Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: BG IISDA org ID, BG NACID person ID, GCatholic former diocese ID, Grokipedia ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland ID, Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID, Davis Cup player ID 2025, Eiga.com drama ID, AntCat ID, Last Address ID, Disney+ browse ID, Japanese Film Database ID, Japan Location Database ID, Fight.ru fighters ID, IMI person id

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of ~12.000 western European tram stops among their respective networks
  • Count of Wikipedia articles about UNESCO Memory of the World inscriptions
• Showcase Items: perestroïka (Q167634) - political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform
• Showcase Lexemes:baseline (L46097) - English noun (ˈbeɪslaɪn) meaning "a starting point for comparison", "a benchmark in budgeting", or "a reference line in typography or surveying"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work on qualifiers and reference editing
• GraphQL: We are continuing the work on making labels of linked entities available in GraphQL (phab:T404692)
• Dumps: We are continuing to look into improvements for the dump process

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: 2025-45

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

• Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start).
• For users with "Automatically subscribe to topics" enabled in their preferences, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "Add topic" or "Reply" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time.
• Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files.
• Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments.
• Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish!
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query.

Updates for technical contributors

• Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means /s/ URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML class="title-shortlink". The /s/ URLs will keep working.
• On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces and SRE Service Operations teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
• MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post.

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Question from Rokigv000 (09:32, 4 November 2025)

Add me lirim beshiri football player kf gostivar 23.04.1992 --Rokigv000 (talk) 09:32, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Question from 1kingonelife123422 (15:34, 4 November 2025)

question... how do i make the native speakers on the side bar in the icelandic language 390,000 instead of 330,000 --1kingonelife123422 (talk) 15:34, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

If you edit in source you will find "| speakers = {sigfig|328,740|2}" it around the top surounded by the other values of the info box.

But please do add a source because the current number does seem sourced. Panini03 (talk) 07:55, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Question from DERMOT RYAN (00:06, 6 November 2025)

The KINSALE HISTORY SOCIETY PUBLISHES A JOURNAL ANNUALY 400 COPIES. WE WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE YOUR ARTICLE ON THE SIEGE AND BATTLE OF KINSALE. IS THIS ALLOWED OR IS THERE A FEE?

DERMOT RYAN --DERMOT RYAN (talk) 00:06, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Welcome, @DERMOT RYAN. Cassiopeia hasn't edited in a few days. To answer your question, at the end of every article on Wikipedia is the licensing: Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. The license states that you can use the content (as-is or adapting it) as long as you attribute it to Wikipedia and link to the CCA-SA4.0 license. There is no fee. Hope that helps! Schazjmd (talk) 14:01, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Question from Junior Zambo on ISIS/Draw (07:01, 6 November 2025)

Bonjour comment faire pour dessiner des molécules --Junior Zambo (talk) 07:01, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Question from Paulluk (18:16, 7 November 2025)

hello..how do i add a photo --Paulluk (talk) 18:16, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Marked as away

I have marked you as "away" in the mentorship interface since you haven't edited in a while and unanswered mentee questions are being archived. If you return to active editing feel free to mark yourself as active via Special:MentorDashboard. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 05:49, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 November 2025

• News and notes: Temporary accounts go live and WMF board member self-suspends
  ArbCom elections draw close, and Wikimania '27 in Santiago.

• Community view: Six Wikipedians' thoughts on Grokipedia, and the humanity of it all
  It ain't a five course meal, according to one of our interviewees.

• Wikicup report: BeanieFan11, WikiCup victor of 2025, covers the results
  Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

• In the media: Jimbo's book, an argument about genocide, and a train of shame
  Wikipedia's new rival, political controversy in Italy and other Wiki-reports.

• Recent research: Taking stock of the 2024–2025 research grants
  $400,000 USD in total funding: what did we get?

• Opinion: With Grokipedia, top-down control of knowledge is new again
  Does it shed any light on particular topics that are better suited to LLM-generation than others?

• Obituary: Struway
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: The documentaried, the disowned, the deceased, Diwali and the Dodgers
  You know your man is working hard, he's worth a deuce.

• Comix: Head of steam
  'Sblood!

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Question from MzEstella (13:29, 8 November 2025)

Hello. Please i need guidance on how to create a Wikipedia page for my craft. I am a fashion designer. My name is Estella Ogbonna

Thanks --MzEstella (talk) 13:29, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

What do you wanna know. Cassiopedia has been inactive but im tryna help as much as i can. Panini03 (talk) 10:42, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Question from Illia2 (17:07, 8 November 2025)

Note: Illia2's mentor Qwerfjkl is away.

Hello,how do I make an infobox? --Illia2 (talk) 17:07, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Here you can find a lot of information and templates of info boxes Wikipedia:List of infoboxes.

Just copy a template add it into the top of the source.

I recommend looking at some other pages who use info boxes as well for example. Panini03 (talk) 10:41, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #705

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #704.

Discussions

• Other: Draft policy for temporary account IP viewers. What requirements should be set for this user right?

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Introducing the Unicode Inflection Library Technical Preview Release : The Unicode Inflection Library leverages comprehensive lexicons from Wikidata to support standardized, multilingual grammatical transformations for global software applications.
• Videos:
  • Art+Feminism Celebrates Wikidata!
  • Day 5_Using WikiData with Spyral Notebook and Project Presentation
  • Wikidata and Wikipedia training for Art+Feminism 2025 in Uganda
  • What are Wikidata WikiProjects, and why should you join one? Watch this great explainer from the #LevelingUpDays2024 to see how these communities work together! Then, find your project: Wikidata:WikiProjects

Tool of the week

• User:Difool/WikidataCleanup.js: gadget allowing to do, in one click, a wide series of cleanups in an item: normalize labels, descriptions, and aliases (double spaces, certain Unicode characters), remove weak references, remove weakly referenced dates when they have lower precision than a strongly referenced date and downgrade unnecessary preferred ranks; about the general issue of redundancies in Wikidata, you can check WikiProject Redundancy
• Ghanasupremecases is a webapp that dynamically pulls and displays over 2,000 Supreme Court of Ghana cases from Wikidata, allowing users to access case details linked directly to Wikidata items. The goal is to make African legal data more open, structured, and discoverable, and to demonstrate how Wikidata can serve as a foundation for national-level legal archive

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Temporary accounts rollout: Starting November 12, the community will see logged‑out edits handled through temporary accounts instead of IPs, prompting tool and bot checks.
• Help shape the future WikidatCon! If you attended WikidataCon 2025, please take 10 minutes to share your feedback in this anonymous GDPR-compliant survey (sslsurvey)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • operating humidity (humidity at which a device operates)
  • collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field)
  • Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.)
• Newest External identifiers: CACI company ID, AEK Football player ID, Sultanlar Ligi player ID, BeWeb historical or artistic asset ID, SofaScore sports team ID, FootballFakts.ru football match ID, Kicker sports match ID, BDFutbol match ID, Foot Mercato / Fichajes / Fussball Transfers player ID, ‎Disney+ browse ID, ‎Filmarks ID, Memorial Book of Social Democracy-ID, NLAI ID, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain ID, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts ID, Antique Chinese and Japanese Porcelain Dictionary and Glossary of Terms entry, Filmfriend movie ID, Hesse School ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Dance entry ID, Saxony School ID, NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature periodical identifier, NZ Charities Register Number, IFES Election Guide ID, Arte de la Argentina ID, Democratic Memory Bank ID, Kicker competition ID, Soccer365.net team ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • time of deposition (date or point in time when an archaeological object or assemblage was buried, hidden, lost, or otherwise deposited.)
  • readiness (readiness)
  • greenhouse gases emissions (amount of greenhouse effect emited by a given company or industry sector)
  • neuter form of label (neuter form of name or title)
  • current season ({{TranslateThis | an identifier for the team's current season <!-- | xx = descriptions in other languages --> }})
  • flag carrier of (country of which the airline is the flag carrier)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: BFXC authority ID, BWB-nummer, Schulnummer Brandenburg, Encyclopedia of Shinto ID, Power Thesaurus ID, WDSF person ID, Blu-Ray.com film ID, Japanese Law Translation ID, USGS Publication ID, Afrikaregisteret ID, National cultural monument of Czechia ID, Admirable Façades styles ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID, Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID, TikTok User ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Map of all places related to persons with layers by property of the place (source)
• WikiProject Highlights: Passionate about highlighting women's achievements? WikiProject Women is dedicated to creating and improving data about women worldwide. Help close the gender gap in knowledge! #WikidataWikiProjects
• Showcase Items: Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (Q1136251) - cultural landscape in South Africa
• Showcase Lexemes: fold (L4479) - English verb (foʊld) meaning "to bend over on itself", "to mix ingredients gently", or "to fail or give in"

Development The development team were involved in roadmap planning meetings so not much happened in the past 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: Paraguay
• 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: 2025-46

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• Starting November 12, users will see a change in the appearance of talk pages on some Wikipedias. Almost all wikis have received this design change; English Wikipedia will get these changes later. You can read more on Diff. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in "Show discussion activity".
• MediaWiki can now display a page indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request.
• Using the "Show preview" or "Show changes" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content.
• Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed.
• The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
• The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new Toolforge standards committee members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.
• The JWT issuer field in OAuth 2 access tokens for SUL wikis has been changed to https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work.
• The JWT subject field in OAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from <user id> to mw:<identity type>:<user id>, where <identity type> is typically CentralAuth: (for SUL wikis) or local:<wiki id> (for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and the sessionJwt cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work.
• MediaWiki's block messages (blockedtext, blockedtext-partial, autoblockedtext, systemblockedtext, blockedtext-tempuser, autoblockedtext-tempuser) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page $9 or emailing other users $10.
• A REL1_45 branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change.
• The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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