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March Madness 2020
G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team
The Signpost: 1 March 2020
- From the editor: The ball is in your court
How to stop abusive commercial editing.
- News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
Falling behind Chinese websites.
- Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
A statistical insight into the English Wikipedia's very own online community newsletter.
- In the media: Mapping IP editors, Smithsonian open-access, and coronavirus disinformation
We're all over the map this month.
- Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?
Wikimedia or Wikipedia?
- Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed
Arbitration Committee and the "blue wall of silence".
- By the numbers: How many actions by administrators does it take to clean up spam?
Numbers for vandalism and sockpuppeting included at no additional charge!
- Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman
No more "Hidden Figures", let's work to make women visible on Wikipedia!
- In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019
Covering Wikipedia for another five years!
- Recent research: Wikipedia generates $50 billion/year consumer surplus in the US alone
And other new research results
- From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?
How long has Wikipedia been for sale? When will it stop?
- Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark
Kobe sets another record.
- Gallery: Feel the love
Renewing our vows.
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.
- Op-Ed: What I learned as Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator
Getting across the Wikipedia experience to the press.
- Opinion: Wikipedia is another country
Or: how to best bite a newbie.
- Humour: The Wilhelm scream
WikiWorld is back.
Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
must not
undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather thanshould not
. - A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.
- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
Technical news
- Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
- The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.
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Problems
- Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug.
Changes later this week
- If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for.
- When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security.
- On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar).
Future changes
- The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback.
- There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPagewas used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list.
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00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Closure of Ninja
Can you please expand your closing statement at Talk:Ninja_(video_game_player)#Requested_move_12_January_2020 to explain how you found no consensus for the original proposal? In particular, please clarify whether you just counted !votes or whether you weighed the arguments, and, if the latter, summarize your understanding of the arguments supporting and opposing the proposal, and how you weighed them and why. Or, you can revert your close and allow someone else to evaluate the arguments accordingly. Thanks! --В²C ☎ 00:40, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Born2cycle: Gladly. I'll draft an expanded rationale up now. OhKayeSierra (talk) 00:45, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Born2cycle:
Done. OhKayeSierra (talk) 02:07, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- First, congratulations on your page movership. That should make closing RMs less of a pain (though, sometimes it's easier to pawn off the actual moves and associated corrections on someone else, so it's kind of a mixed blessing)!
- So, thanks for explaining your close decision. Now I can see that you seem to have missed that there was no policy basis for the Oppose position, while Support had strong policy basis. Let's review how RM closers are supposed to determine consensus, per WP:RM/CI#Determining consensus:
Consensus is determined not just by considering the preferences of the participants in a given discussion, but also by evaluating their arguments, assigning due weight accordingly, and giving due consideration to the relevant consensus of the Wikipedia community in general as reflected in applicable policy, guidelines and naming conventions.
- So while I agree the participants did prefer keeping the current title, their arguments were, frankly, totally lame. Consider:
- Although oppose cited NCVG, you acknowledge NCVG is agnostic about the two choices. Just because someone cites policy does not mean their argument is supported by that policy. In this case it obviously did not.
- You characterized the disagreement as "between whether WP:CONCISE should apply vs. WP:PRECISE", apparently without recognizing that PRECISE applies to the entire title, not to the disambiguator alone. That is, the proposed title, Ninja (gamer), meets PRECISE ("titles should unambiguously define the topical scope of the article, but should be no more precise than that") just as well as the current longer title. Since there is no other Ninja that is a "gamer", Ninja (gamer) "unambiguously define[s] the topical scope of the article". It doesn't matter that "gamer" is "vague" in determining whether the title meets WP:PRECISE, and this was explained (by yours truly) at length. If anything, the longer title violates PRECISE because it is "more precise than that".
- As to the "too informal" point, there is no policy basis for that position either, not to mention that wide use of "gamer" in reliable sources annihilated that argument anyway.
- But there can be no question, and none was cited in the discussion, about which title is preferred by WP:CONCISE, a key WP:CRITERIA listed at the WP:AT policy page, establishing the Support argument as grounded firmly in policy.
- In short, the Oppose side was based entirely on WP:JDLI, while Support was firmly based in policy. I know it's hard to find against the obvious preference of participants, but when their arguments are as lame as they were in this case, I really think you have to. Otherwise, we're just encouraging weak JDLI arguments in future RM discussions. I urge you to reconsider your decision accordingly. Thanks again. --В²C ☎ 19:08, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Born2cycle: Thank you for sharing your input on this. While I do concur that there were a few baseless opposes for reasons that crossed into WP:JDLI territory, I also found that they were in the minority, and the majority couldn't fully hash out whether WP:CONCISE or WP:PRECISE prevailed. Even if I were to discount the JDLI opposes, I think that my rationale would still be the same and I still would've thought that there wasn't a consensus to move the pages. As I stated in my final paragraph, I encourage all interested editors to start an RfC to determine the proper naming conventions moving forward, as I firmly believe that mass RM's like this one shouldn't dictate the current consensus on naming in any way and needs to involve the broader editing community. And, of course, if you still disagree with my close, you're more than welcome to take it to WP:MR to ask uninvolved editors to determine if my close should be endorsed or overturned. OhKayeSierra (talk) 19:33, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- I will add that this was the most difficult close I've done to date. OhKayeSierra (talk) 19:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- I will consider going to WP:MR because I think we really need to discourage taking positions in discussions based entirely on JDLI, as I believe the Opposers did on this one (though not intentionally). However, I respect your decision and understand why you went the way you did; many if not most RM closers would probably have done the same (unfortunately, in my view). Regarding the RFC suggestion, that's good, but please don't dismiss the value of examining these broader issues in narrow RMs like this one. I've addressed this on my FAQ, here: User:Born2cycle/FAQ#Change_guideline_first. --В²C ☎ 19:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Born2cycle: Thank you for sharing your input on this. While I do concur that there were a few baseless opposes for reasons that crossed into WP:JDLI territory, I also found that they were in the minority, and the majority couldn't fully hash out whether WP:CONCISE or WP:PRECISE prevailed. Even if I were to discount the JDLI opposes, I think that my rationale would still be the same and I still would've thought that there wasn't a consensus to move the pages. As I stated in my final paragraph, I encourage all interested editors to start an RfC to determine the proper naming conventions moving forward, as I firmly believe that mass RM's like this one shouldn't dictate the current consensus on naming in any way and needs to involve the broader editing community. And, of course, if you still disagree with my close, you're more than welcome to take it to WP:MR to ask uninvolved editors to determine if my close should be endorsed or overturned. OhKayeSierra (talk) 19:33, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Born2cycle:
Page mover granted
Hello, OhKayeSierra. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.
Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.
Useful links:
- Wikipedia:Requested moves
- Category:Articles to be moved, for article renaming requests awaiting action.
If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! ~Swarm~ {sting} 07:15, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a new search word called
articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
- The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year.
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17:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLXVII, March 2020
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use
action=changecontentmodelto specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).
Future changes
- If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface.
- You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.
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21:15, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
GOCE March newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors March 2020 Newsletter
  Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here. March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now! Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
- There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.
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17:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Thinking of you
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... with best wishes for well-being for you and your daughter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:05, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Thank you so much for the well-wishes, and likewise! Unfortunately, I found out today that someone I'm close to tested positive for COVID-19 (we actually found out about it from the local health department), so I and my spouse are both self-quarantining as a precaution. So far, Clara, User:Mistbreeze, and I are all fine (thankfully). Unfortunately, it also means there's most likely going to be a lot more doctor's visits in my future!
OhKayeSierra (talk) 07:37, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
- Good to here that you are all fine, hoping it may stay so, - and self-quarantine is more or less what we all have to live in Germany these days. I received a nice caricature, showing a man, a women and a dog in meditating lotus position, saying: "You can't go outside? Go inside ;) - I received it from one of the students of Willigis Jäger I know. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:27, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
- Clara, what a great name, thinking of Clara Schumann! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:29, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 March 2020
- From the editors: The bad and the good
Getting ready for anything.
- News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
Wheel war on Tatar Wikipedia.
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
An interview with members of the COVID Project.
- Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
Wikipedia presents solid widely-consulted information on COVID-19 and related topics.
- In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
COVID-19, Zika, edit-a-thons, and macrons.
- Discussion report: Rethinking draft space
Plus: geonotices, reliable sources, and job titles.
- Arbitration report: Unfinished business
A new case, a case returns from limbo, and an RfC being prepared.
- In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"
The twists and turns of Epstein’s portrayal on Wikipedia.
- Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
Individually and in organized groups, Wikimedians stand up and make a difference.
- Recent research: Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia
New research publications on "the fear of being erased" and other topics.
- From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
Five years ago with a different crisis.
- Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world
Going to movies and sport stadiums is history, and readers turn to Wikipedia for crucial medical information and updates.
- Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia
Images from the Whose Knowlege? campaign.
- News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time
The WMF responds.
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).
Future changes
- The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed.
- There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback.
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17:26, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.
Technical news
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Miscellaneous
- The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March Newsletter
This is our fourth newsletter, covering March 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3 and 11.
Becoming a User Group
- Wikimedians for Sustainable Development are recognized as a Wikimedia user Group [5]
In the news
- Wikipedia is flooded with information — but it has a blind spot (SDG 11) [1]
New WikiProjects
- Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19 (SDG 3) [9]
- (Arabic) ويكيبيديا:مشروع ويكي طب/فريق عمل كوفيد-19 (SDG 3) [10]
- (Czech) Wikipedie:WikiProjekt SARS-CoV-2 (SDG 3) [11]
- (English) Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19 (SDG 3) [12]
Academic studies
- Uneven Coverage of Natural Disasters in Wikipedia: the Case of Floods (SDG 11) [2]
Events
- The COVID-19 pandemic halts all in-person events funded through the Wikimedia Foundation (SDG 3) [6]
- Which lead to a renewed interest in remote events (SDG 17) [8]
Information from the Wikimedia Foundation
- COVID-19 (SDG 3) [20]
The Sustainable Development Goals
- The United Nations adopt changes to the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (SDG-all) [7]
New Wikidata properties
- GreatSchools ID (SDG 4) [4]
- food energy (SDG 1) [14]
- number of recoveries (SDG 3) [15]
- number of clinical tests (SDG 3) [16]
New Wikidata example queries
- Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation (SDG 3) [3]
- World map of hospitals (SDG 3) [13]
- Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks (SDG 3) [17]
- COVID-19 case statistics for India (SDG 3):
- State-level map [18]
- State-level line graph [19]
Links
- [1] https://grist.org/justice/wikipedia-is-flooded-with-information-but-it-has-a-blind-spot/
- [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08810.pdf
- [3] https://w.wiki/J8S
- [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7948
- [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development
- [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/COVID-19_Notice
- [7] http://sdg.iisd.org/news/un-statistical-commission-adopts-36-changes-to-sdg-indicators/
- [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation
- [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19
- [10] https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B9_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%B7%D8%A8/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82_%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF-19
- [11] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_SARS-CoV-2
- [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19
- [13] https://w.wiki/JnC
- [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7971
- [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8010
- [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8011
- [17] https://w.wiki/KqP
- [18] https://w.wiki/KzH
- [19] https://w.wiki/KtX
- [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).
Future changes
- MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user
Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.
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19:03, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
US politicians known to have anti-Chinese views
Thanks for removing that entire section, which would have been my preference as well. my own contribution there was just to balance out what seemed to be a POV-based Republican-bashing section, but it is much better to just remove the whole thing. "yikes" is right. JungerMan Chips Ahoy! (talk) 17:43, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
- @JungerMan Chips Ahoy!: Yeah, when I read it, it smacked of undue libel and a needless hatchet job that didn't really add anything of value to the article. OhKayeSierra (talk) 20:30, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Happy Easter
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or: the resurrection of loving-kindness - and thank you for the quote above. Hope you and yours are well? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:56, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Thank you for the well wishes, and I hope you had a lovely Easter as well. By a miracle, I'm somehow the only one infected with COVID (most likely got it from volunteering to handle the grocery shopping and errands so that my husband didn't have to), so I've spent my time quarantined in the basement, to avoid getting Clara and Mistbreeze sick. Aside from a bit of a nasty cough and a fever, I'd say that I'm relatively ok, all things considered. I've spent far too much time getting rest throughout the day.
OhKayeSierra (talk) 04:09, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
- Thinking of you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:09, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLXVIII, April 2020
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use the
articletopicsearch word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. - You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery.
- You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
- When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty.
- There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog.
Problems
- There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).
Future changes
- Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed.
- The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
- For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated
<source>tag, as well as the use of the deprecatedencloseparameter, will add tracking categories.
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15:31, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.
Recent changes
- The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills.
- Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed.
div#contentis now.mw-body.div.portalis now.portal.div#footeris now#footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011.
- The font in the diffs will change.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).
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18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 April 2020
- News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs pitches in.
- In the media: Coronavirus, again and again
Plus the importance of language.
- Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit
The Wikimedia community discusses modifying or hiding the sidebar on the left of every page.
- Featured content: Featured content returns
Movies, roads, awards and more.
- Arbitration report: Two difficult cases
Even our best editors sometimes disagree.
- Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night
Coronavirus, coronavirus, and Joe Exotic.
- Gallery: Roy is doing fine and sending more photos
A coronavirus cruise can't stop Roy!
- Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
And other new research results.
- Essay: Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing
And it could get worse!
- By the numbers: Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic
What COVID-19 data are available from the WMF?
- Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together
In an increasingly factious world, Wikipedia's approach to collaboration and trust-building point to a brighter future.
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.
- Interview: Health and RfA's: An interview with Guy Macon
A Wikipedia editor reflects on his recent RfA and the health issues that became part of it.
- In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia
How to better integrate articles across language editions.
- WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors
An interview with members of the WP:GOCE
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April Newsletter
This is our fifth newsletter, covering April 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15..
News
- GLAM Newsletter Special report on COVID-19 (SDG 3) [1]
- Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus (SDG 3) [7]
- Video: Wikidata Lab XXII - Wikiprojeto COVID-19 (SDG 3) [20]
- How Wikipedia is Covering the Coronavirus Pandemic (SDG 3) [21]
- Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic (SDG 3) [23]
- Using CC Licenses and Tools to Share and Preserve Cultural Heritage in the Face of Climate Change (SDG 11) [25]
- Video: Mapping against COVID-19 (SDG 3) [26]
- Student-created immunology content on Wikipedia receiving a lot of attention this month (SDG 3) [34]
- How Wikipedia shows disability matters (SDG 10) [35]
Tools
- COVID-19 dashboard (SDG 3) [2]
- COVID-19 dashboard for Tunisia (SDG 3) [22]
In the news
- Why Wikipedia Is Immune to Coronavirus (SDG 3) [3]
Research
- Why and how medical schools, peer-reviewed journals, and research funders should promote Wikipedia editing (SDG 3) [4]
- A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (SDG 3) [5]
- Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies (SDG 3) [6]
New Wikidata properties
- FHF establishment ID (SDG 3) [8]
- FHF hospital group ID (SDG 3) [9]
- Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID (SDG 3) [10]
- Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code (SDG 9) [24]
- Forest Stewardship Council License Code (SDG 9) [27]
- Psocodea Species File ID (SDG 15) [28]
- Swedish Glaciers ID (SDG 13) [29]
New Wikidata query examples
- Infectious diseases and their number of cases (SDG 3) [11]
- The longest river that feeds into another river (SDG 6 & 14) [30]
- Longest rivers that do not feed into a sea or ocean (SDG 6 & 14) [31]
- Recently published works on COVID-19 (SDG 3) [32]
- Welsh hospitals, health centres, doctors surgeries and temporary Covid19 hospitals (SDG 3) [33]
New Wikidata schema examples
- pandemic (E184) (SDG 3) [12]
- hospital (E187) (SDG 3) [13]
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188) (SDG 3) [14]
- clinical trial (E189) (SDG 3) [15]
- Lockdown (E190) (SDG 3) [16]
- lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191) (SDG 3) [17]
- virus taxon (E192) (SDG 3) [18]
- contact tracing app (E195) (SDG 3) [19]
Links
- [1] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2020/Contents/Special_story
- [2] https://sites.google.com/view/covid19-dashboard/
- [3] https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-why-wikipedia-is-immune-to-coronavirus-1.8751147
- [4] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075079.2020.1749796?journalCode=cshe20
- [5] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.026336v1
- [6] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.03181.pdf
- [7] https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2020/04/wikidata-and-bibliography-of-life-in.html
- [8] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8077
- [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8078
- [10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8082
- [11] https://w.wiki/Mo2
- [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E184
- [13] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E187
- [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E188
- [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E189
- [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E190
- [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E191
- [18] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E192
- [19] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E195
- [20] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX3eLxpEuwc
- [21] https://thewikipedian.net/2020/04/15/how-wikipedia-is-covering-the-coronavirus-pandemic/
- [22] http://www.fss.rnu.tn/fra/s3465/pages/819/DataEngineeringSemantics-Identification-de-la-structure-de-recherche
- [23] https://medium.com/@diegosaeztrumper/open-data-and-covid-19-wikipedia-as-an-informational-resource-during-the-pandemic-dcca6a23e826
- [24] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8118
- [25] https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/26/cc-licenses-tools-share-and-preserve-cultural-heritage-in-the-face-of-climate-change/
- [26] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbKfPamNyUs
- [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8128
- [28] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8145
- [29] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8133
- [30] https://w.wiki/P9n
- [31] https://w.wiki/P9p
- [32] https://w.wiki/Ng8
- [33] https://w.wiki/Ncf
- [34] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/04/28/student-created-immunology-content-on-wikipedia-receiving-a-lot-of-attention-this-month/
- [35] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/04/27/how-wikipedia-shows-disability-matters/
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
- Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
- A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
- A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.
Technical news
- The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
- Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.
Miscellaneous
- A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
- Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
Changes later this week
- You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).
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16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr.
Problems
- Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
- Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).
Future changes
- JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via
mw.config.exists()ormw.user.tokens.exists(). You can useexists()orget()to check one at a time instead.
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20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLXIX, May 2020
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May
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Thank you for article improvements in May! - DYK our list of people for whose life I'm thankful enough to improve their articles? - I have a FAC open, one of Monteverdi's exceptional works, in memory of Brian who passed me his collected sources. - How are you, and yours? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:39, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis.
Problems
- There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them.
- Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
Changes later this week
- The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files.
- Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects
div#p-personal,div#p-navigation,div#p-interaction,div#p-tb,div#p-lang,div#p-namespaces,div#p-variantsanddiv#footer. They will have to removediv. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. - Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects
#p-variants,#p-namespaces,#p-personal,#p-viewsand#p-cactions. They can no longer use> ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.
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17:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).
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14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Page moves
Thanks for your work at WP:RMTR! I simply wanted to bring to your attention that you removed four listings in this edit, but only performed three sets of moves. Did you mean to reject the move of Chinese in New York City? Should the move of Chinese in New York City be re-proposed as an RM, or can the move be actioned after linking to the diff of the original proposal as seems standard for RMTRs? It seems uncontroversial, as the related article is located at Chinese people. I note that articles with similar titles exist, such as Chinese people in Korea, Chinese people in Myanmar, and Chinese people in Germany, but some related topics are distinct enough to warrant unique titles, see Chinese diaspora in France, Chinese immigration to Sydney. Vycl1994 (talk) 06:50, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Vycl1994: Thanks for bringing that to my attention! That was a mistake on my part. I’ll handle the move request shortly. OhKayeSierra (talk) 09:16, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- Anddd... Done. OhKayeSierra (talk) 09:20, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- Anddd...
Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
Administrator changes
CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
- The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.
Arbitration
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May Newsletter
This is our sixth newsletter, covering May 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 5, 15 and 16.
Meetings
- Next meeting for Wikimedians for Sustainable Development is Sunday, 7 June 18.00-19.00 UTC (SDG-all) [17]
News
- Wikimedia and COVID-19: April overview (SDG 3) [1]
- Extract Knowledge from Wikidata to Wikipedia articles related to Coronavirus (SDG 3) [8]
- How Wikipedia became a trusted source for COVID-19 information (SDG 3) [15]
- Future Historians Will Rely on Wikipedia’s COVID-19 Coverage (SDG 3) [16]
- Students document workplace health risks on Wikipedia amidst global pandemic (SDG 3) [18]
New Wikidata properties
- COVIDWHO ID (SDG 3) [2]
- DGHS facility code (SDG 3) [3]
- DPVweb ID (SDG 15) [4]
- RPPS ID (SDG 3) [5]
- hardiness of plant (SDG 15) [9]
- hardiness zone (SDG 15) [10]
- voting system (SDG 16) [11]
- DPE school code (SDG 4) [12]
New Wikidata query examples
- Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize (SDG 16) [6]
- Map of geolocated Argentine libraries (SDG 4) [7]
- Map of hospitals (blue) and health centers (green) of Argentina (SDG 3) [13]
- Map of National parks in Sweden (SDG 15) [14]
- Universities ranked by PageRank on English Wikipedia (SDG 4) [19]
New Wiki projects
- Wikidata:WikiProject Schools (SDG 4) [20]
- Swedish Wikipedia: Projekt HBTQI (SDG 5) [21]
Links
- [1] https://wikimedia.se/2020/05/04/wikimedia-and-covid-19-april-overview/
- [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8150
- [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8162
- [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8164
- [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8170
- [6] https://w.wiki/Pra
- [7] https://w.wiki/PCY
- [8] https://medium.com/@jinoytommanjaly/extract-knowledge-from-wikidata-to-wikipedia-articles-of-coronavirus-e5cfd46c93cb
- [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8193
- [10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8194
- [11] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8196
- [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8186
- [13] https://w.wiki/QP6
- [14] https://w.wiki/R6v
- [15] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42n6igyp-Fk
- [16] https://slate.com/technology/2020/05/wikipedia-coronavirus-information-future-historians.html
- [17] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
- [18] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/05/28/students-document-workplace-health-risks-on-wikipedia-amidst-global-pandemic/
- [19] https://w.wiki/RAp
- [20] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Schools
- [21] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projekt_HBTQI
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos.
Problems
- There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May.
- The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed.
Changes later this week
- You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).
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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
GOCE June newsletter
| Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC. Current events
Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests. Drive and blitz reports
March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news
Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020. Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting.
- Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them.
<b/>is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work.area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbrcan be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect<references />or<ref />. - There is a banner called
WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions onMediaWiki:Sitenoticeso that editors know to test and style for mobile too.
Changes later this week
- You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).
Future changes
- A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected.
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21:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLXX, June 2020
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Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.
- Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
@. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months. - New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
- New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
- Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.
Problems
- There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed.
- Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).
Future changes
- Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help.
- The selectors
.menuand.vectorMenuwill no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts..menushould be replaced byul..vectorMenushould be replaced by.vector-menu.
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21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
A belated welcome!
Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, OhKayeSierra! I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may still benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
If you don't already know, you should sign your posts on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) to insert your username and the date.
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Sm8900 (talk) 20:34, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
- Hi! I happened to notice some of your recent comments, and your listing at WP:Teahouse. If I am not mistaken, it seems like you have not been welcomed here yet. hard to believe!! anyway, if I am mistaken, please forgive my error. thanks for all your great work here, either way! cheers!! --Sm8900 (talk) 20:36, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Sm8900: Haha, thanks for the warm welcome! Much appreciated! I still can't believe I've been with the project for over two years now! Definitely wish I had more time for content creation than I have had lately, but... y'know, time constraints with being a mom now, grad school and whatnot. OhKayeSierra (talk) 22:38, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Sm8900: Haha, thanks for the warm welcome! Much appreciated! I still can't believe I've been with the project for over two years now! Definitely wish I had more time for content creation than I have had lately, but... y'know, time constraints with being a mom now, grad school and whatnot.
- Hi! I happened to notice some of your recent comments, and your listing at WP:Teahouse. If I am not mistaken, it seems like you have not been welcomed here yet. hard to believe!! anyway, if I am mistaken, please forgive my error. thanks for all your great work here, either way! cheers!!
June
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Vespro della Beata Vergine |
Thank you for improving articles in June. I can proudly present a FA, quite a gift after a year without, and a FL is in the making, comments welcome. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:56, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Sorry, just noticed the message today. Congratulations on the FA and FL! OhKayeSierra (talk) 01:02, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you, - that's in memory of Brian. - Now in memory of a friend who died, - sad list growing, - it was her husband whose death started it, - my wake-up call to write their article. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:29, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed.
- Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors.
.vectorTabsshould be replaced with.vector-menu-tabsto fix this.
Changes later this week
- The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).
Future changes
- A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected.
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18:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now.
- Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).
Future changes
- The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID
searchGoButtonfor the go button. This issearchButtonfor Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change tosearchButtonin Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to usesearchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.
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16:31, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
recruiting for a research project
Hi OhKayeSierra,
I hope this finds you well. I’m a graduate student researcher undertaking a study on how women learn to participate in Wikipedia and factors that enable them to persist as contributors. I’m currently seeking individuals who self-identify as women and actively participate in Wikipedia authorship, and you seem to fit this criteria. I'm asking potential participants to sit down with me for an hour long Zoom, Skype, or phone call. Would you be interested in interviewing for this project? Thank you for considering. Feel-flourish (talk) 16:35, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Feel-flourish: Wow. Thank you for considering me for your research project. Unfortunately, I'm more or less semi-retired at the moment and don't think that I would be an ideal candidate for your study. After having a daughter earlier in the year and adjusting to motherhood while simultaneously trying to juggle my course load towards earning my M.A. in English, my editing on the project has been sporadic at best since approximately last year. Also, have you tried reaching out with a message on the Village Pump or the Administrator's noticeboard? They're both well-watched pages on the project, and I'm sure you'd get the attention of other editors that might be interested in assisting you with your research. OhKayeSierra (talk) 18:09, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
- @OhKayeSierra: I understand and very much appreciate your response. Your life sounds incredibly busy right now. Congrats on your new daughter! Best of luck with your MA coursework and thank you so much for the leads. Take care! Feel-flourish (talk) 18:43, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.
Technical news
- Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community. - The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles
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- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June Newsletter
This is our seventh newsletter, covering June 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 16 and 17.
Meetings
- Upcoming: 5 July, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting (SDG 17) [12]
- Upcoming: 18 July, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting (SDG 17) [12]
- Past: 7 June, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting (SDG 17) [13]
News
- Webinar: COVID-19 and human rights: How to share the facts on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [1]
- Vad menas egentligen med öppenhet? (Swedish) (SDG 4) [2]
- How Wikipedia Has Responded to the George Floyd Protests (SDG 10) [3]
- 50 000 kvinnor på svenskspråkiga Wikipedia! (Swedish) (SDG 5) [4]
Videos
- COVID & health topics on Wikidata (SDG 3) [9]
New Wikidata properties
- curriculum topics (SDG 4) [5]
- ISCO-08 occupation code (SDG 8) [6]
- FEMA number (SDG 2) [7]
- Democracy Index (SDG 16) [10]
New Wikidata query examples
- Species of birds (SDG 15) [8]
- Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (SDG 3) [11]
Links
- [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kktZtDFhRho
- [2] https://wikimedia.se/2020/06/08/vad-menas-egentligen-med-oppenhet/
- [3] https://thewikipedian.net/2020/06/25/how-wikipedia-has-respondedto-the-george-floyd-protests/
- [4] https://wikimedia.se/2020/06/26/50-000-kvinnor-pa-svensksprakiga-wikipedia/
- [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8263
- [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8283
- [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8266
- [8] https://w.wiki/TAt
- [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwQ93BlDGAM
- [10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8328
- [11] https://egonw.github.io/SARS-CoV-2-Queries/
- [12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
- [13] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20200607
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Editing news 2020 #3
Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:
- The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
- More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
- Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
- The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
- Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
- On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
- In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).
Future changes
- Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more.
- The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
- Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.
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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLXXI, July 2020
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The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 11:45, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks.
Problems
- Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week.
Changes later this week
- Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using
<translate nowrap></translate>on the source page. - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).
Future changes
- Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers.
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16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.
Problems
- There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution.
- Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events.
- Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a
Printable versionlink. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway.
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19:11, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Thank you in July
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Thank you for improving articles in July! Now a FTN is open. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:47, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
2020 Open Championship
Hi, you just closed this move discussion as "no consensus" without any explanation. Please could you elaborate? Given 3 "supports", 1 "oppose" and 2 "comments" (the last one not directly related to the move itself, but seemingly seeing consensus for the move), and the arguments that were put forward, it seems like consensus clearly supported the move to me. Regards. wjematherplease leave a message... 07:55, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
@Wjemather: Done I left a note with my rationale on the RM. OhKayeSierra (talk) 08:11, 27 July 2020 (UTC)- @Wjemather: After reconsidering my initial impression on the RM's consensus, I decided that it would be better to self-revert my closure and relist the RM. I hope that this is an acceptable solution. OhKayeSierra (talk) 08:26, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks. When I proposed the move, I thought it could possibly fail due to being considered "too soon". I would normally have preferred to leave it for a while, but was mostly trying to avoid creation of a duplicative 2021 Open Championship article by one of our friends with a crystal ball (which happened anyway). wjematherplease leave a message... 08:34, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Wjemather: After reconsidering my initial impression on the RM's consensus, I decided that it would be better to self-revert my closure and relist the RM. I hope that this is an acceptable solution. OhKayeSierra (talk) 08:26, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this.
- The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
- On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.
Problems
- The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week.
- Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed.
- Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).
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13:53, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
Administrator changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
- Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
- Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
- There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - July Newsletter
This is our seventh newsletter, covering June 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 15 and 16.
Meetings
- Upcoming: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting August 2 (SDG all) [19]
- Upcoming: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting August 16 (SDG all) [20]
- Past: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting July 5 (SDG all) [18]
News
- Another Wikipedian is cultivated (SDG 3) [1]
- Wikijournal of Medicine to be indexed in SCOPUS (SDG 3) [2]
- How Wikipedia Became a Battleground for Racial Justice (SDG 10) [3]
- Sask. doctor keeps COVID-19 Wikipedia info accurate with encyclopedic dedication (SDG 3) [4]
- We stand for racial justice (SDG 10) [10]
- Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism (SDG 10) [15]
- WikiProject Black Lives Matter (SDG 10) [16]
- The Power of Knowledge: A Look at the AfroCROWD Juneteenth Conference on Civil Rights (SDG 10) [24]
- #WikiHerStory: a month-long initiative to amplify gender equity work on Wikimedia projects (SDG 5) [25]
- How the internet will change our coronavirus memories (SDG 3) [26]
- How volunteers created Wikipedia’s world-beating Covid-19 coverage (SDG 3) [30]
- COVIWD - A Covid-19 Wikidata dashboard (SDG 3) [31]
Research
- COVID-19 research in Wikipedia (SDG 3) [11]
- A Quantitative Portrait of Wikipedia's High-Tempo Collaborations during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic (SDG 3) [12]
- COVID-19 mobility restrictions increased interest in health and entertainment topics on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [13]
- A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (SDG 3) [14]
Videos
- Wikimedia Research: Medical knowledge on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [23]
- More black stories need to be told -- and more black contributors need to tell them! (SDG 10) [29]
New WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Lives Matter (SDG 10) [17]
Featured content
- Alpine newt (SDG 15) [5]
- Dementia with Lewy bodies (SDG 3) [6]
- Secretarybird (SDG 15) [7]
- List of procyonids (SDG 15) [8]
- List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire (SDG 15) [8]
New Wikidata properties
- thefreedictionary medical term ID (SDG 3) [21]
- Naturvårdsverket Anordningar OBJECTID (SDG 15) [22]
- public transport stop (SDG 11) [27]
- energy consumption per transaction (SDG 7) [28]
- BTI Governance Index (SDG 16) [32]
- BTI Status Index (SDG 16) [32]
- distribution map of taxon (SDG 15) [34]
- Queensland Biota ID (SDG 15) [35]
- Australian Weed ID (SDG 15) [36]
Links
- [1] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/07/01/another-wikipedian-is-cultivated/
- [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/News_and_notes
- [3] https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/wikipedia-george-floyd-neutrality.html
- [4] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-doctor-keeps-covid-19-wikipedia-info-accurate-with-encyclopedic-dedication-1.5619970
- [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_newt
- [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_with_Lewy_bodies
- [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretarybird
- [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_procyonids
- [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sites_of_Special_Scientific_Interest_in_Berkshire
- [10] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/06/03/we-stand-for-racial-justice/
- [11] https://doi.org/10.1101%2F2020.05.10.087643
- [12] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.08899.pdf
- [13] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08505
- [14] https://doi.org/10.1101%2F2020.04.05.026336
- [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/In_focus
- [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/WikiProject_report
- [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Black_Lives_Matter
- [18] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20200705
- [19] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
- [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
- [21] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8401
- [22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8409
- [23] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIV26lWrD9c
- [24] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/the-power-of-knowledge-a-look-at-the-afrocrowd-juneteenth-conference-on-civil-rights/
- [25] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/wikiherstory-a-month-long-initiative-to-amplify-gender-equity-work-on-wikimedia-projects/
- [26] https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/covid19-memory-history
- [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8453
- [28] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8461
- [29] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVCViux--xw
- [30] https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/16-07-2020/how-volunteers-created-wikipedias-world-beating-covid-19-coverage/
- [31] https://www.coviwd.org/
- [32] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8476
- [33] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8477
- [34] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8485
- [35] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8468
- [36] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8469
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Notice of ANI that mentions you in passing
Greetings, FYI I filed a request at WP:ANI titled "CIR-based community-imposed site ban re: RTG". In providing a basis for my request I mentioned you and your prior dealings with this editor. Your input at ANI is optional, i.e., invited but not specifically requested. Thanks for reading. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 13:02, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- @NewsAndEventsGuy: Thanks for the heads-up. It's unfortunate that RTG didn't take my advice to avoid editing with a battleground mentality, but not unexpected. I'm currently reading through the ANI thread to get myself up to speed on the issues since then. OhKayeSierra (talk) 19:48, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #427
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Wiki13
- Events
- Upcoming: Search Platform Office Hours—August 5th, 2020. This event will be an occasion to talk about the Query Service.
- Upcoming: Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #15, August 8 Facebook, YouTube
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #24, August 9
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata track at the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries:
- (30 July) Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics (by User:Gamaliel)
- (30 July) Advanced Wikidata Tools and Concepts: More Than Just P's and Q's (by User:Mahir256)
- (30 July) Developing a Wikidata Project (by User:Will (Wiki Ed))
- (31 July) VanderBot: Using a Python script to create and update researcher items in Wikidata (by User:Baskaufs)
- (31 July) No bricks without clay: outcomes from the Stanford Wikidata Working Group (by User:Arcadialib)
- (31 July) LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour: Adding References to Wikidata (by User:Chicagohil)
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14 Facebook YouTube
- Video: Lexemes in Wikidata - structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube
- Video: Wikidata presentation (in Turkish), YouTube
- Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English - Nice article giving some context about why it matters to have Lexemes in Wikidata in many different languages
- Wikidata track at the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries:
- Tool of the week
- SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: height of center of mass, road number formatter, Vietnamese middle name, heraldic attitude, traffic sign template image
- External identifiers: Tree of Public Interest ID, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, South Africa EMIS code, Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD resource ID, Gateway to Research organisation ID, SÚKL code, Science Fiction Awards Database author ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey)
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: certified as, number of stages, convergence rate, step count, Alternative form, view, version type for works, advertisement copy
- External identifiers: LibraryThing series identifier, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, TOPCMB ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID, SAT-matrikulo, Signal number, BHF author ID, BHF magazine ID, SPLC Group ID, SPLC Individual ID, Open Civic Data Division Identifiers, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Presence compositrices ID of work
- Query examples:
- Properties and the number of constraint definition statements on them - there are quite a few with 0 constraint definitions
- a graph of MPs and parties in the Swedish Parliament and with whom they worked together with to create motions 2018 SPOILER: >95% is just with people in the same party
- Wealthiest queer people on Wikidata (Source)
- Bubble chart showing the winners of the FA Cup (Source)
- Map of parks in Oslo missing images on Wikidata (Source)
- Commons queries:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
- Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions).
- REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now.
- Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks.
- Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.
- The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period.
- Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed.
- There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it.
- A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed.
Changes later this week
- The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed.
- Users'
global.jsandglobal.csspages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. - In the MonoBook skin, the
searchGoButtonidentifier is nowsearchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27. - Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses
counterto prevent large archives was changed. - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).
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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLXXII, August 2020
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact.
Problems
- The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
RM procedure question
Greetings, re 'global wawrming', As you may have seen, I am proposing an article move, but to a different target than the opening RM request. What is the prefered manner to offer an alternative idea, but in a way that facilitates discussion and not-voting? Thanks for format suggestions (if any). NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 22:23, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
- @NewsAndEventsGuy: I took a crack at editing the formatting to include a discussion section (basically incorporating the text from the RM survey format at Template:Requested move/talk). Here's the diff. I hope that will help with moving the RM more towards a discussion as other editors notice the relist. OhKayeSierra (talk) 22:53, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
- I just realized that I didn't really answer your question. I think that the way that you've handled the RM so far has been the ideal approach for your proposal. Unfortunately, this is a contentious topic in and of itself, so naturally, judging consensus has been difficult, to put it mildly. I dare say it has even bordered on WP:NOGOODOPTIONS territory. If I were to close it right now, I would probably err on no consensus and encourage an RM to be reopened. I'm hoping that the relist will help attract more editors to the RM to get a clearer consensus on what the title should be. OhKayeSierra (talk) 23:04, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for paying attention; I've been deep in the climate pages for years, and compiled much of the history of article name/scope debates for pages
- Global warming (title/scope status quo unchanged since pre WP:ARBCC) and
- (former) 'Climate change' (title/scope tweaked over the past year for first time since split with Global warming)... scope is the same but title went to 'climate change (general concept) and then changed again to the current Climate variability and change
- I expect the GW RM may succeed this time around, especially if real life gives me time and mental powers to finish the advocacy for the atlernative so it can sink or swim. If I can't get around to it, I'll get out of the way before the relisting is up. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:24, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for paying attention; I've been deep in the climate pages for years, and compiled much of the history of article name/scope debates for pages
- I just realized that I didn't really answer your question. I think that the way that you've handled the RM so far has been the ideal approach for your proposal. Unfortunately, this is a contentious topic in and of itself, so naturally, judging consensus has been difficult, to put it mildly. I dare say it has even bordered on WP:NOGOODOPTIONS territory. If I were to close it right now, I would probably err on no consensus and encourage an RM to be reopened. I'm hoping that the relist will help attract more editors to the RM to get a clearer consensus on what the title should be. OhKayeSierra (talk) 23:04, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an
undotag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. - The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message.
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20:41, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).
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17:59, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #4
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Reply tool
The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.
- More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
- Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
- Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")
The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).
The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.
New requirements for user signatures
- The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
- Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.
Next: New discussion tool
Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:06, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
- A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors
must
orshould
use the articles for creation process. - A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.
Arbitration
- A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
- An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - August Newsletter
This is our ninth newsletter, covering August 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 17.
Meetings
- Upcoming: Online meeting - 2020-09-06 (SDG all) [1]
- Upcoming: Online meeting - 2020-09-20 (SDG all) [1]
- Past: Online meeting - 2020-08-02 (SDG all) [2]
Activities
- Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' celebrated its first published translation: 'Réchauffement climatique en Afrique', a French translation of the English Wikipedia article 'Climate change in Africa' by User:J. N. Squire in French (SDGs 4, 13) [20]
- Past: World Water Week ISA campaign (SDG 6) [21]
- Past: Editathon about Covid-19 in Swedish (SDG 3) [22]
- Past: Editathon about water in Swedish (SDG 6) [23]
News
- Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it. (SDG 3) [12]
- Adding biographies of female oceanographers (SDG 14) [13]
- Wiki Education participants improve COVID-19 local response articles (SDG 3) [14]
- Wikimedia Policy Brief - COVID-19 - How Wikipedia helps us through uncertain times (SDG 3) [15]
- Personal perspective on the forming of the user group (SDG all) [19]
Research
- Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [3]
- Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online. (SDGs 4, 13, 17) [16] [17]
Videos
- Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective (SDGs 4, 13, 17) [18]
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing about water #17 (SDG 6) [24], [25]
Featured content
- Vermilion flycatcher (SDG 15) [4]
- Canada lynx (SDG 15) [5]
- Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian (SDG 11) [6]
- Leeches (SDG 15) [7]
- Gigantorhynchus (SDG 15) [8]
- List of World Heritage Sites in Iceland (SDG 11) [9]
- Ursidae (SDG 15) [10]
- Mephitidae (SDG 15) [11]
- Orangutan (SDG 15) [32]
- Horseshoe bat (SDG 15) [33]
- Hurricane Willa (SDG 11) [34]
- List of World Heritage Sites in Lithuania (SDG 11) [35]
New Wikidata properties
- extinction date (SDG 15) [26]
- Monumentbrowser ID (SDG 11) [27]
- Nasjonalt skoleregister ID (SDG 4) [28]
- American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID (SDG 11) [29]
- Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures (SDG 11) [31]
New Wikidata query examples
- Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc) annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (SDG 3) [30]
Links
- [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
- [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20200802
- [3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-020-09750-0
- [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_flycatcher
- [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_lynx
- [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Dorian
- [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech
- [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantorhynchus
- [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Iceland
- [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursidae
- [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephitidae
- [12] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/07/wikipedia-covid-coronavirus
- [13] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/08/06/adding-biographies-of-female-oceanographers/
- [14] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/08/04/wiki-education-participants-improve-covid-19-local-response-articles/
- [15] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Policy_Brief_-_COVID-19_-_How_Wikipedia_helps_us_through_uncertain_times.pdf
- [16] Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
- [17] Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266
- [18] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntI6hmT-rRc
- [19] https://wikimedia.se/2020/08/19/wikimedians-for-sustainable-development/
- [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
- [21] https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/77
- [22] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik-e-meet/6_augusti_2020
- [23] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik-e-meet_27_augusti
- [24] https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2744955582456268/
- [25] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDxz652CgwY
- [26] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8556
- [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8543
- [28] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8545
- [29] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8540
- [30] https://w.wiki/a5X
- [31] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8521
- [32] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan
- [33] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_bat
- [34] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Willa
- [35] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Lithuania
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Wikidata weekly summary #432
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Rob Fernandez (Wikimedia District of Columbia) on Listeria, a tool that uses SPARQL queries to define a list, and provides a bot that will update a wiki page containing that list if the results of that SPARQL query change, all based on Wikidata, 08 September. Agenda
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 8 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19 Facebook, YouTube, September 10
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #29, September 13
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Semantic Wikibase has been released by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18, workflows for SPARQL queries and QuickStatements Facebook, YouTube
- OpenRefine 3.4 was released
- How can I get data on all the dams in the world? Use Wikidata. By Addshore
- Wikidata Training Workshop 2, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
- Video: How to use QuickStatements - a tool to bulk upload data onto Wikidata. By Dr Sara Thomas
- Tool of the week
wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/WD_percentUsageDashboardis a dashboard that measures Wikidata's usage and coverage on Wikimedia Foundation projects.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: LSG local body code, NYARC Discovery ID, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, ICP artist ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Firefox add-on ID, NHK Archives Portal person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, InciWeb ID, YUAG ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, FIPRESCI person ID, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: applies to form or aspect, blocked on the territory of, Liturgical category, Flickr image URL, turning radius, number of reboots, financials URL, SI base units, rank insignia2
- External identifiers: Syro-Malabar Church Parish ID, Database of Umgebinde houses in Bohemian Switzerland ID, Re-Member ID, DIL ID, Naver Vibe Artist ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust person ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, VA facility ID, Hikr Waypoint ID, tvmaze ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Danish educational institution number, Past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, photoLondon ID, uta-net.com song ID, Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
- Query examples:
- Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial
- A table of the 100 highest fees charged for using various kinds of facilities, normalized to United States dollars - OSM/Wikidata query
- Youngest age of UK MPs leaving office since 1900 (Source)
- Longest time UK MPs lived after leaving office since 1900 (Source)
- British cabinet members with past military service (Source)
- Earliest written record of 10 largest Czech cities (Source)
- Churches dedicated to Czech patron St. Wenceslas (blue) and Moravian patrons St. Cyril and Methodeus (orange) (Source)
- German municipality names ending with -in, -ing, -heim (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Added Wikidata support to Japanese Wikivoyage. phab:T261451
- Investigating the nature of our training outliers to improve the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item.
- Working on error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an item. phab:T260869
- Completed various investigations to make an informed decision on the output format of WikibaseManifest files (automated configuration detection for toolbuilders) phab:T261285
- Completed various bug fixes and wrap-up tasks to conclude the major engineering work on the Federated Properties project
- More work on Item Quality Scoring and Federated Properties
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- 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!
Administrators' newsletter – March 2026
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2026).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
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!
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2026 Newsletter
This is our fifty second newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 4, 5, 10, 13, 15, 16 and 17.
- User group news
- A proposal for a climate and sustainability meetup at Wikimania has been submitted. Keep your fingers crossed it gets accepted!
- Other news
- Metabase, a project to create a movement-wide knowledgebase for activities and initiatives, now has the property relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator and all the Sustainable Development Goals, Targets and Indicators. This makes it possible to make sure that your projects and initiative that supports these are marked as doing so and also find previous efforts related to them.
- Wiki for Botanists: Why thematic engagement matters (SDG 15)
- Influence of Seasonal and Eco-climatic Factors on Butterfly Diversity: Insights from Wiki Loves Butterfly (SDG 15)
- African Women in Climate Action: A Continued Editing Journey through the EditHer Africa Contest 2026 (SDG 5 & 13)
- Events
- March is Women's History Month and also has the Internaltional Women's day, so there are plenty of related events. Check out Special:AllEvents to find some near you. (SDG 5)
- Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 (SDG 16)
- International Mother Language Day 2026 Datathon (SDG 4, 10 &17)
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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.
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:
- 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!
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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destroyer
how did you even seen my update to the destroyer Wikipedia page I'm pretty sure no one has updated that page in a while. Thecook122 (talk) 20:48, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
- @Thecook122: Great question! I use a program called Huggle that allows me to patrol recent changes in real time. Any vandalism edits I come across can be automatically reverted with the push of a button, while good edits allow me to quickly welcome new users and move on to the next edit. That's how I found your edit to the page. OhKayeSierra (talk) 21:03, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
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Hello, OhKayeSierra. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:
- You must not share IP address data with someone who does not have the same access permissions unless disclosure is permissible as per guidelines listed at Foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy.
- Access must not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).
It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:
- When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
- Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
- Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with one or more IP addresses (using the CIDR notation format).
Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! — rsjaffe 🗣️ 15:14, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
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.
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:
- 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:
- 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!
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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March music
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Nice to see you editing! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:13, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: It's great to be back! OhKayeSierra (talk) 23:39, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
- I love to hear that! - Of the four topics I helped to bring to the main page, I'm most proud of a woman's work, so made it my story. As it happens, last year's story OTD was about the woman. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:32, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
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.
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!
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.CodeMirrororext.CodeMirror.libmodules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of theext.CodeMirror.switchhook 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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The Bugle: Issue 239, March 2026
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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.
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!
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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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.
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:
- 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:
- 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!
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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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March 2026 Newsletter
This is our fifty third newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 15.
- User group news
- There is now a user box template on Wikimedia Commons that you can use to show that you are participant of the user group. There were already user boxes on Meta, Wikidata, English and Swedish Wikipedia. If your home wiki uses user boxes but lacks one, feel free to copy any of these to it.
- Other news
- “Cinematic intensity”: The winners of Wiki Loves Earth 2025 (SDG 15)
- Scientists should join collaborative online editing communities for biodiversity (SDG 15)
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2026
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2026).
Administrator changes
Checkuser changes
Oversight changes
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.
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.
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, . 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!
Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter
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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.
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!
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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The Bugle: Issue 240, April 2026
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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.orgservice 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
imageandoldimagetable will be removed from wikireplicas. If your tools or queries accessimageoroldimagedirectly, please update them to use thefileandfilerevisiontable 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.
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!
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.
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!
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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Administrators' newsletter – May 2026
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2026).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
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.
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.
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:
- 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!
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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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2026 Newsletter
This is our fifty fourth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 2, 5, 6, 7, 13 and 15.
- News
- From Lens to Knowledge: Citizen Science through Wiki Loves Butterfly (SDG 15)
- Wikidata type specimen data model (SDG 15)
- Edit-a-thon "Women Botanists" and “Plants Around Us: Veles” workshop (SDG 5 & 15)
- Events
- Ongoing: 100 Days 100 Edits (SDG 13)
- Ongoing: Wiki for Sustainable Futures 2026 (SDG 2, 6 & 7)
- May 9-10: Bird photography trip in south Sweden (SDG 15)
- May 30: Editathon about biodiversity in Stockholm (SDG 15)
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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.
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.
- WikiProjects Days 2026 will take place between 19 - 21 June.
- 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:
- 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!
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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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.
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:
- 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!
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 Bugle: Issue 241, May 2026
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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.
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:EntityDatapage will no longer support the PHP‑serialized format (e.g.phpURLs). 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!
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
tleftandtrighthave been replaced withfloatleftandfloatrightas 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 thatfloatleftandfloatrightmay 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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Administrators' newsletter – June 2026
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2026).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
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.
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.
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!
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May 2026 Newsletter
This is our fifty fifth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 2, 6, 7, 13 and 15.
- News
- Wikimedia Projects and the Climate Crisis: How Wiki for Sustainable Futures 2026 Is Being BuiltWikimedia Projects and the Climate Crisis: How Wiki for Sustainable Futures 2026 Is Being Built (SDG 2 & 6 & 7 & 13)
- Earth Day, Every Day: Preserving Biodiversity on Wikipedia (SDG 15)
- Launch of the Arabic Environmental Contest 2026: an ambitious initiative to enrich environmental content (SDG 2 & 6 & 7)
- From the field to the free web (SDG 15)
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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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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.
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:
- 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!
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');usemw.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 ofaddPortletLink()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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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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