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The Signpost: 1 December 2025
edit- News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!
Admin and ArbCom elections upcoming, BoT elects two new members, task force advises to close Wikinews and keep Wikispore, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- In the media: Wales walk-off, antisemitism, supernatural powers, feminism turmoil, saints, and sex
Plus mammoth mummy sex-change operation completed!
- Recent research: At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?
And other recent publications about contradictions and retractions.
- Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
At work on Wikipedia whitewashing. How much should they be paid?
- Traffic report: It's a family affair
Even in these times there is something to be thankful for!
- Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust
Jimmy Wales and Dan Gardner write a book inspired by Wikipedia. What's in it?
- From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."
The twists and turns of Epstein’s portrayal on Wikipedia.
- Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan
A conversation about being the mascot of Wikipedia.
- Opinion: AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
Using ChatGPT to fact-check a month's worth of Today's featured articles.
- Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025
A recap of the latest convention of the Italian Wiki-community, held in Catania from 7–9 November.
- Comix: Madness
It could happen to anyone.
"Germna invasion of Russia" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Germna invasion of Russia has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 1 § Germna invasion of Russia until a consensus is reached. DrKay (talk) 10:14, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - November 2025 Newsletter
edit- User group news
- 11 December: User group call
- As are ending the year and will be wrapping up on the current annual plan we are doing a few sprints. If every member of the user group makes just one contribution, we will finish these easily and have a great resource for the entire community. Please check out these and see if you can help out:
- Videos with translatable subtitles
- Help by identifying which videos need translation
- Charts
- Help by identifying charts that should be used in SDG topics
- Videos with translatable subtitles
- Other news
- Wikimedia Project from South America Selected by the UNESCO Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change Fund (SDG 13)
- Northern Argentine Wikimedians recognized in regional OpenStreetMap Contest (SDG 15)
- Garbo gräver fram siffror på utsläpp av koldioxid news in Swedish about carbon emissions data being added to the company infoboxes (SDG 13)
- Der Klimabericht und die Wikipedia Teil 3: Wissenschaftskommunikation (SDG 13)
- Events
- SheSaid campaign on Wikiquote. From 1 September until 31 December 2025. (SDG 5)
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Wikidata weekly summary #708
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week leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #707.
Discussions
- A Project Chat discussion (here) on mul / fallback language for Labels, Descriptions and Aliases has continued on Help Talk: Default values for labels and aliases
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Mark your calendars
- Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map
February 2 & April 20 (German) / June 2 (French), 2026. Workshops are on-site and online, registration mandatory (closes January 20). - Citizen Technology Community Gathering and Taiwan Translation Launch of Linked Open Data Documents December 7 Time: 13:30-16:50 UTC+8 at West District (Q707524) Xi Project
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #83 December 8 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
- Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map
- Mark your calendars
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Papers: Benchmarking SPARQL Engines on Wikidata Queries - Four open-source SPARQL engines were benchmarked on Wikidata, with QLever fastest, Blazegraph slower, and all showing SPARQL standard deviations. By Peter F. Patel-Schneider (2025).
- Videos:
- Records in Contexts (RiC) Wikibase Working Session - Regine Heberlein of the (SAA) Description Section Steering Committee hosts a workshop on Wikibase implementation of the Records in Context Conceptual Model (RiC-CM).
- Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate - Follow along as WMDE's Lukas Werkmeister expands Items of Berlin Stoelpersteine.
- Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature - by Dr Thneed
Tool of the week
- Prix Littéraires lists French-speaking literary prizes and their recipients, also computing statistics (see also WikiProject)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Nov 27: The Wikibase Community User Group met for a Wikibase Live Session and to discuss the Federated Values demonstration.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: Federal Taxpayer Registry ID, WDSF athlete ID, TikTok numeric user ID, USGS Publication ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- concurring opinion by (judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court agreeing with the majority's final decision but providing different or additional reasons)
- 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).)
- Hong Kong fire alarm level (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
- overnight stays (number of tourists that stay overnight at a place)
- specimen determiner (person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
- collection date (the date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
- position holder name string (name of person holding a position)
- Crowdfunding target (target goal of this Crowdfunding campaign)
- image sensor format (shape and size of a digital camera's image sensor)
- random page URL (link to random page on website)
- translates from (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Twitter broadcast ID, Petal Maps Place ID, MJ character glyph name, Mastercaller player ID, dartn.de player ID, darts1.de player ID, pdpa.co.uk player ID, Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID, Theaterencyclopedie-identificatiecode, Buy Me a Coffee username, GoFundMe ID, Identifiant Maitron d'une biographie (nouvelle version), Michaelis Portuguese-English properties, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name slug, FCC ID Database company ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Objects bearing the handwriting of Moses Maimonides (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Uzbekistan, Natural History Specimen Data Model
- Newest database reports: Popular Items without Claims - these are the most-connected or linked Items that do not have any Statements.
- Showcase Items: The Walt Disney Company (Q7414) - American multinational mass media company
- Showcase Lexemes: Showcase Lexemes: девочка (L103836) - Russian noun (dʲɪˈvot͡ɕkə) meaning "female child", "affectionate address to a woman", or "female organism"
Development
- Mobile editing of statements:
- We have added editing support for more data types (entity IDs, geographical shapes and tabular data).
- It is now available as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org. You can enable it here.
- Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are rolling out improvements to the Databox Lua module to a number of Wikipedias to make it easier to have out-of-the-box Wikidata-powered infoboxes
- Ontology federation: We are making progress with making it possible to use Wikidata Item's as statement values in other Wikibase instances
- GraphQL: We are continuing the work on the prototype, focusing on getting data from a batch of Items
- Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is working on benchmarking of different replacement options for Blazegraph, the software powering the Wikidata Query Service
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: Togo
- 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: 2025-49
editLatest 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 Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
- The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator.
- Add a link will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF).
View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed. - Two new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Toki Pona (
w:tok:) - a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin (
q:pcm:)
- a Wikipedia in Toki Pona (
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.
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Category:Lost BBC episodes has been nominated for splitting
editCategory:Lost BBC episodes has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:46, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Blind Faith (novel
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A tag has been placed on Blind Faith (novel requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a recently created redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer, or other unlikely search term.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 03:12, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
"Refernce desk" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Refernce desk has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 4 § Refernce desk until a consensus is reached. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 03:21, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
"Carl Guttenberg's" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Carl Guttenberg's has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 4 § Carl Guttenberg's until a consensus is reached. DrKay (talk) 08:50, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
"Catherine Sinclair's" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Catherine Sinclair's has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 4 § Catherine Sinclair's until a consensus is reached. DrKay (talk) 08:50, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #709
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week leading up to 2025-12-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #708.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Well, Well, Bot! - Task/s: Database imports, maintenance.
- RijksBot - Task/s: Adding Rijksmuseum IDs (P13234) to Wikidata items based on a CSV mapping of QIDs to Rijksmuseum URIs.
- CostamiriBot - Task/s: Chess related tasks such as monthly updates to the elo rating of chess players.
- New draft: Wikidata:External identifiers/Obsolescence (opinions are welcome in its talk page)
Events
- Upcoming events:
- How to view #25N with Wikidata? - a community hour with Wikimedia Chile, 21:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter)
- Fact-Checking with Wikidata Workshop - January 20, 2026, 16:30 ~ 18:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter) - WMDE's Philippe Saadé will show hands-on methods using the Wikidata MCP to retrieve, filter and classify Wikidata statements with semantic search, reranker LLM and NLI models, registration required.
- (Portuguese) Meeting Point Editatona II - Warm your hands modeling festival on Wikidata: December 10, 2025, 15:00 - 19:00 UTC+1, Porto, Portugal.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 9 December, 2025: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. Sessions will be held on October 14, November 25, and December 9, 2025 at our regular time of 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/PersonalPronouns
- Past Events: Digital Humanities Hub: Documenting epigraphic data, Wikidata ontology practice - December 2 & 3, 2025, both 14:00 ~ 15:30 UTC.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Lafia
- Papers:
- Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models - Chepurova et al., (2025)
- Victims of Posterity. Identifying Gaps on 19th-Century French Art History with Wikidata - first paper in the Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse collection by the Journal of Open Humanities Data. Authored by Claire Dupin de Beyssat.
- Videos: GB Claude Code AI Agent: Fully Autonomous Wikidata Query & Visualization (Zero Human Intervention)
- (Taiwanese Mandarin) Wikidata Taiwan translation project on "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" (as published by the OCLC)
Tool of the week
- Wikiguessr Game Is a Wikidata game it guess the location from Image from anywhere around the world by User: Ranjithsiji
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Remembering Amos Bairoch, co-contributor to Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Semantic Web of data and consulted often for TiagoLubiana's CellosaurusBot.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- GBFS feed URL (URL of a GBFS feed for the bicycle-sharing system)
- code of conduct URL (URL of a resource that contains the Code of Conduct of a project or organization)
- Newest External identifiers: BFXC authority ID, Out tag ID, GayCities ID, Fight.ru fighters ID, Personality Database group ID, Codes for the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China, Macanese company ID, MovieID film ID, Teen Vogue tag ID, CRT Database model ID, PriceRunner product ID, BWB number, Brandenburg School ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- fragrance gender (category for which a fragrance is marketed)
- perfumer (person who created a perfume)
- Discharge regime (The '''[[:en:Discharge regime|discharge regime]]''' can be Glacial, Nival or Pluvial. It can be a combination of 2 : Nivo-pluvial, Pluvio-nival, Nivo-glacial, etc. Be specific (e.g. pluvial tropical, meridional, etc.). Or be complex)
- minimal pair of (lexeme that differ from this one in only one phonological element)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Cookpad Recipe ID, Sector.sk game ID, Card Player ID, Fragrantica perfume ID, Fragrantica perfume brand ID, My Abandonware theme ID, Identificador Banrep Cultural, izoh.uz word ID, VGChartz game ID, Metacritic video game genre ID, Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID, Taking Stock ID, Game Font Library ID, Fragrantica perfume notes ID, EAGER game ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Turkmenistan
- Showcase Items: Goosebumps - 2015 film directed by Rob Letterman
- Showcase Lexemes: course (L3958) - English noun (kɔːrs) meaning "direction of movement", "program of study", or "part of a meal"
Development
- Mobile statement editing:
- It's now possible to edit existing references (phab:T405236)
- We fixed a number of issues such as a problem when adding the first statements to an item (phab:T409069)
- We started work on showing constraint violation indicators (phab:T400676)
- We're working on showing errors in the edit form (phab:T408928)
- We're improving the edit summaries (phab:T411247)
- Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We continued working on improvements to the Databox Lua module and template
- GraphQL: We continued working on the first version of GraphQL support
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: Togo
- 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: 2025-50
editLatest 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
- Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.
Updates for editors
- Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
- Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
- Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
- Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
- The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
- A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications.
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting this week, users of the "⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience.
- Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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"Tyre rating" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Tyre rating has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 8 § Tyre rating until a consensus is reached. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 20:16, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
"Template:LAng" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Template:LAng has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 13 § Template:LAng until a consensus is reached. Duckmather (talk) 06:10, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
"Template:ENgvarB" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Template:ENgvarB has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 13 § Template:ENgvarB until a consensus is reached. Duckmather (talk) 06:12, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
Cite tweet template
editHello Rich, I may have misread your edit summary, but it looks like this might be a good place to use the Cite tweet template Template:Cite tweet. I find it very easy to use, I only use the 3 required parameters, but maybe the expanded parameters could be good for some things too. Mikewem (talk) 19:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks, I have made the change. Feel free to tweak. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 19:55, 14 December 2025 (UTC).
- For the record, I am in awe of the depth of your contributions to the project. Thank you for the work. Mikewem (talk) 20:01, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you, I believe I may be blushing slightly. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 20:13, 14 December 2025 (UTC).
- Thank you, I believe I may be blushing slightly. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 20:13, 14 December 2025 (UTC).
- For the record, I am in awe of the depth of your contributions to the project. Thank you for the work. Mikewem (talk) 20:01, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #710
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week leading up to 2025-12-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #709.
Discussions
- The mass editing policy Request for Comments has a number of open questions looking for votes and comments to shape the mass-editing policy.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- A Scholia hackathon is ongoing this week, focused on completing the transition of Scholia to QLever as the SPARQL backend for its Wikidata queries.
- Data and Technology Week 2025 from 19th of December 2025 to 22 of December 2025, organized by Wikimedia Indonesia (Q13098516). Consisted of a Wikidata Workshop, a Wikifunction Introductory Seminar and Geodatathon. This event is in Indonesian.
- (English) WM Malaysia / 2025 SEA Games Datathon - 20.12.2025, 1200 ~ 1400 UTC. Register to contribute to items about athletes competing in South East Asian Games 2025 (Q25041680)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: (French) Facebook post: ArkéoTopia: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (CTHS) to begin integrating Wikidata
- Papers:
- Open Data Practices of Art Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment - second paper of the Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse collection. By Dişli et al., (2025).
- VIAF Governance Concerns about the Refurbished VIAF Web and API Interfaces by Stefano Bargioni (2025): a detailed account of the technical and governance issues experienced by VIAF in 2025 and its impact on its many external reusers, including Wikidata
- Videos:
- (Italian) Wikidata and Wikibase for research: Camillo Pellizzari gives an overview of Wikidata, the data model, potential as scientific research subject and tool, then a Wikibase intro and its uses beyond Wikidata, with example instance: Hypotheseis; slides on Commons
- Feminist Structured data: A Conversation with Art+Feminism and Whose Knowledge?: How feminist values can reshape structured data on Wikidata to address gaps, representation, and opportunities for collaboration across communities.
- Community Hours: Art+Feminism community in Armenia: Former regional A+F ambassador, Arminé Aghayan-Flisch, tells us of her experiences growing the A+F Armenian community through GLAM, Wikidata and Wikipedia.
- (Spanish) PADEP 2025: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Dr. Luis Álvarez Azcárraga teaches the course: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Open Databases for Social, Artistic, and Cultural Studies
- See something, change something Webinar: @58:10, a presentation on the Wikidata agent plug-in for ArchivesSpace is given.
- Wikibase Live Session / November 27: First demo presented of federation of values from Wikidata to Wikibases.
Tool of the week
- Broomstick - Broomstick is a tool to uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Congratulations to Govdirectory, the winner of the FSF's Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
- wikibase-cli got support for claim reconciliation. This is typically useful to add a claim unless it already exists.
- The Wikimedia Research Fund is open for funding applications for research projects around the Wikimedia Projects, including Wikidata.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes: has grammatical number (grammatical number used in this language)
- Newest External identifiers: NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Cabinet minutes of the German Government ID, neodb.social ID, Flemish Community Masterpieces List item ID, Medicin.dk medical condition ID, Mapillary username, Sector.sk game ID, My Abandonware theme ID, Encyclopedia of Shinto ID, Blu-Ray.com film ID, Japanese Law Translation ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID, Getty Collections Archival Component ID, CRA program account number, FC Barcelona player ID, Qalamos person ID, KISTI conference ID
- New External identifier property proposals to review: survivalhorrors.com ID, Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID, GamesIndustry.biz game ID, WhatsOnStage Stage Names ID, Adventure Game Hotspot game ID, identifiant Netflix titre, 4gamer.net game ID, Fragrantica perfumer ID, PC Guru game ID, British Newspaper Archive publication ID, GOG tag ID, Open Food Facts brand ID, Games for Change directory ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject P244 maintenance - For coordination and improvement of Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAP) via Library of Congress authority ID
- WikiProject Museum of Glass (Q2894440) - improving the visibility of visiting artists to the University of Washington Information School
- WikiProject Highlights: Egezort's efforts in Mereology: removing/migrating part of statements in Recipe relationships
- Newest database reports: 34 Bots operating without a Bot flag
- Showcase Items: Fort George (Q1426707) - 18th-century fortress built in the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745
- Showcase Lexemes: mesa (L31222) - Spanish noun (ˈme.sa) meaning "table (furniture)", "mesa (flat-topped hill)", or "served table for dining"
Development
- Edit summaries: We made changes that will improve the automatic edit summaries of edits made using the wbeditentity API endpoint. Tools that use this endpoint to edit statements will, in some cases, now have more accurate edit summaries; this also affects how such edits are summarized in edit groups. (phab:T411247)
- Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are collecting feedback from the first wikis who got the new and improved Databox module.
- Mobile statement editing:
- We are making remaining changes for the first roll-out as a beta-feature.
- We are working on showing constraint violations. (phab:T411602, phab:T400676)
- GraphQL: We are working on making it possible to query for Items by Property/value pair (phab:T403576)
- REST API: We are improving error messages for requests that failed due to an IP block (phab:T404727)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Germany
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
"Cardigan, Cardigan" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Cardigan, Cardigan has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 15 § Cardigan, Cardigan until a consensus is reached. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 05:29, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- This is beginning to seem a little personal. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 16:12, 15 December 2025 (UTC).
Tech News: 2025-51
editLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit.
Updates for technical contributors
- To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Special:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the
externallinkstable on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Speedy deletion nomination of Germna
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A tag has been placed on Germna requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a recently created redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer, or other unlikely search term.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. DrKay (talk) 13:45, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
Please do not create anymore redirects with typos until the discussion is completed. Editors should not continue a series of edits that is being discussed or contested. DrKay (talk) 13:47, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
- If you had been paying attention, you would know that this is a plausible typo. Please restore it, and try to AGF. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:20, 4 December 2025 (UTC).
- Belittlement ("if you had been paying attention") is in breach of Wikipedia:Civility#Identifying incivility point 1d, as is unjustly implying bad faith (point 1c). DrKay (talk) 22:13, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
- I think that's a bit of a stretch, don't you? All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:29, 8 December 2025 (UTC).
- I think that's a bit of a stretch, don't you? All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:29, 8 December 2025 (UTC).
- Belittlement ("if you had been paying attention") is in breach of Wikipedia:Civility#Identifying incivility point 1d, as is unjustly implying bad faith (point 1c). DrKay (talk) 22:13, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
- It's interesting that had this existed, your argument in the RfD your refer to would have failed. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 19:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC).
The redirect History of Child Sexual Abuse as a Social Problem has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 17 § History of Child Sexual Abuse as a Social Problem until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 00:13, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 December 2025
edit- Interview: Part 1: Bernadette Meehan
Say hello to the new WMF CEO.
- News and notes: We're gonna have a party!
And a new WMF CEO!
- In the media: The "bigg" bosses: Robertsky and the Pope
Pay up, big guys!
- Traffic report: Death and stranger things
And going for the FIFA prize!
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
Something old and something new!
- Obituary: Michal Lewi (Iwelam) and Alan R. King (A R King)
Rest in peace.
- Concept: List of xxtreme sports (redirected from Electrojousting)
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"Dodgerblue" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Dodgerblue has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 18 § Dodgerblue until a consensus is reached. Oreocooke (talk) 23:26, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
Photo substitute
editA big thanks for finding a new photo of Reiner's son. I'm sure I'm not the only one who found it unnerving in the present circumstances ProfessorKaiFlai (talk) 01:09, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
Season's Greetings!
edit| Season's Greetings | ||
| Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! The Dream of Saint Joseph (1640s) by Philippe de Champaigne is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod (talk) 17:36, 19 December 2025 (UTC) |
"Kurdistan Presidency Council" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Kurdistan Presidency Council has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 20 § Kurdistan Presidency Council until a consensus is reached. GuesanLoyalist (talk) 02:05, 20 December 2025 (UTC)
Seasons greetings!
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Wishing you and yours a fantastic Christmas (or holiday season for those who don’t celebrate) and all the best for 2026. 🎄 ❄️☃️ Here’s to a collaborative, constructive year ahead — with good faith, good edits, and just enough discussion to get things done! (and here's Sir Nils Olav inspecting his troops... one of my favourite POTDs) Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 15:12, 21 December 2025 (UTC) |
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Wikidata weekly summary #711
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week leading up to 2025-12-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #710.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Vitaly Zdanevich
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Title markup bot - Task(s): There is a variety of HTML markup found in , violating various constraints on the property. The following task description is for a bot that can start the required cleanup process. I would like to request permission to implement the functionality outlined here as a first iteration, on the understanding that it will be extended and refined to cover more cases. It will operate within the limitation that it will only modify values, add qualifiers and update labels to keep them in-line with altered titles.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos:
Tool of the week
- Timetrail - is a website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland jobs:
- Director of Engineering (all genders)
- Senior Data Analyst (all genders)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- Japanese court rank (Japanese court rank of a person or a shrine)
- value of this mathematical characteristic (non-numeric value of this characteristic applied to this mathematical object)
- Newest External identifiers: Taking Stock ID, Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID, The Advocate tag ID, Game Font Library ID, IMI person ID, Metacritic video game genre ID, Banrep Cultural ID, FCC ID Database company slug, EDBO institution code, GamesIndustry.biz game ID, PC Guru game ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- common organism (organisms known by a common name of a biological taxon)
- part (exact number denoting the part of a creative work or edition)
- heir apparent (person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Parfumo perfume ID, Parfumo perfumer ID, Parfumo perfumes ID, Parfumo fragrance notes ID, BoomerShooterDB game ID, identifiant Rappels d'une production théâtrale, Parfinity notes ID, Vandal game ID, Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID, GBIF ID, MetroidvaniaDB game ID, Games.cz game ID, Basenotes perfume brand ID, Basenotes perfume people ID, Basenotes perfume ID, CICAP Encyclopedia ID, Zelda Wiki ID, Yaba Sanshiro ID, identificador Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Finnish railway station code, Fight-A-Base game ID, Sketchfab model ID, Sketchfab channel ID, Sketchfab user ID, DVIDS Video ID, DeVuego game ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights: Niryhpr's efforts in organising the page User:Niryhpr/WikiProject_Ports (part of WikiProject Indonesia/Geodatathon)
- Newest database reports: Language statistics for Items
- Showcase Items: Mansa Musa - 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire
- Showcase Lexemes: ਮਰਨ (L689064) - Punjabi verb (mərəɳ) meaning "to die (cease living)", "to wither or spoil", or "to give up (lose hope/energy)"
Development
- Mobile statement editing:
- We added an indicator showing which Properties are not yet supported when creating new statements in mobile editing (T412719)
- We continued working on showing constraint violations on mobile (T411602, T411608)
- We are working on musical notation statements on mobile (T407247)
- We are improving error handling for incorrectly filled and unfilled fields in mobile editing (T408928)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2025-52
editLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material.
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected.
Updates for technical contributors
- Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute
data-mw="interface"to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced withdata-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with otherdata-mwattributes, which are generated by Parsoid.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Meetings and events
- The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.
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Happy holidays
edit| Hi Rich Farmbrough/Archive Season's Greetings and all the best for 2026 | ||
| Wherever you are and whatever you believe in (or don't), reach out for peace on this little planet of ours! HAPPY HOLIDAYS 🥳 Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:59, 23 December 2025 (UTC) |
Wikidata weekly summary #712
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week leading up to 2025-12-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #711.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Ppolar bear - RfP scheduled to end after 3 January 2026 13:40 (UTC)
- QubeCubeBot - Task/s: Continue import of Swedish Parliament documents inline with the modeling work in Wikidata:WikiProject Sweden/Swedish Riksdag documents.
- AinaliBot 3 - Task/s: Continue import of Swedish Parliament documents inline with the modeling work in Wikidata:WikiProject Sweden/Swedish Riksdag documents.
Events
- This month's Scholia hackathon has moved Scholia closer to its planned switch to a QLever backend. Beta testers can assist by exploring the interim QLever-backed Scholia instance and reporting any issues.
- Upcoming events:
- SWAT4HCLS 2026. Amsterdam, March 23-26, with a "Wikidata in healthcare and life sciences" session and Prof. Hannah Bast as one of the keynotes
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos:
- (Indonesian) Introduction to Wikifunctions presented by NikolasKHF (Niko). In this session, Niko introduced Wikifunctions project, how to edit a function, how to add an implementation and test, and demonstrated them. This is the first Wikifunctions training in Indonesian. Slides are available on Commons.
- (Indonesian) Wikidata for Academician presented by Wikimedia Indonesia's Data and Technology team. They introduced Wikimedia Indonesia, and then explained Wikidata, its underlying concepts and a glance to its history, how to add statements and references, how to query with Wikidata Query Services, Wikidata and its potential in research fields, Wikiprojects and Wikidata:For development resources. Slides are available on Commons.
Tool of the week
- WD-NearbyItems : browse Wikidata Items nearby
- Quizicle is a daily quiz/puzzle game that's not really a quiz and not really a puzzle. Deduce the answer from crossword-style clues with hot/cold feedback.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- random page URL (link to random page or item on website)
- specimen classifier (person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
- collection date (date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
- land degradation (amount of land that is degraded by an object, mainly for infrastructure projects)
- Hong Kong fire alarm level (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
- page offset (difference between external page number printed on the work (P304) and the actual page in digital file (P7668))
- logical implication (axiom or conjecture that this axiom or conjecture implies)
- Newest External identifiers: survivalhorrors.com ID, VGChartz ID, Adventure Game Hotspot game ID, BoomerShooterDB game ID, Vandal game ID, GoFundMe fundraising ID, Adult Film Database director ID, S1 No.1 Style actress ID, MetroidvaniaDB game ID, EAGER game ID, EAGER developer ID, Games.cz game ID, 4gamer.net game ID, GOG tag ID, Yaba Sanshiro ID, Games for Change directory ID, DLSite work ID, DLSite person ID, DLSite doujin circle ID, Fight-A-Base game ID, DeVuego game ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review: Erdős Problem number (Erdős Problem number)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: PixelatedArcade genre ID, BRAHMS identifier, LegiStorm person ID, Game Boy Database game ID, NHK Archives Program ID, Wendingen object ID, Wendingen person ID, RetroCollect games ID, FIP.IT basketball player ID, Lenta.ru person ID, Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Polish version)., Télérama film ID., Bercail ID, Panoramax picture ID, InterSportStats athlete ID, Before I Play game ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Showcase Lexemes: turn (L3568) - English verb (tɜːrn) meaning "to rotate", "to change direction", or "to transform"
Development
- No development happened in the past week as the team are on holidays. Happy new year everyone!
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Czech Republic
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Obstructing consensus at XfDs
editReally, can you please cut this out: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6? It's quite disruptive. If I wanted to be a wikilawyer, I could argue that {{annual readership}} has no display and thus reverting my edit is cosmetic; that violates your restrictions. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 04:27, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- Leave my user page alone, please. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:48, 30 December 2025 (UTC).
- I'm happy with your latest edits; as long as you are not populating error pages like Special:WantedTemplates or Special:WantedCategories. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:50, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- Both the template and the categories are, indeed, wanted. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:52, 30 December 2025 (UTC).
- Both the template and the categories are, indeed, wanted. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:52, 30 December 2025 (UTC).
- I'm happy with your latest edits; as long as you are not populating error pages like Special:WantedTemplates or Special:WantedCategories. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:50, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- What makes the category deletions particularly obnoxious is that they treat dead or retired Wikipedians as non-Wikipedians. There was a compromise method of dealing with these types of categories in the past, but I can't find where it's documented at the moment. It looks pretty much as if some editors just want to delete as many categories, templates and redirects as they can. The fact that they enjoy doing this does not make it right. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 22:58, 30 December 2025 (UTC).
- Rich, I actually agree with you that policing userspace categories is a waste of time but consider whether it's the hill you want to die on. It seems a particularly trivial thing to get blocked over, and I know you have more to contribute to the encyclopaedia. No reader will ever care about an argument over some categories on a user page (I doubt most readers know what categories or user pages are). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:29, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- Nobody is dying on any hill. I'm too busy trying to upload images of defibrillators to Commons. But thanks. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 23:55, 30 December 2025 (UTC).
- Nobody is dying on any hill. I'm too busy trying to upload images of defibrillators to Commons. But thanks. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 23:55, 30 December 2025 (UTC).
- Rich, I actually agree with you that policing userspace categories is a waste of time but consider whether it's the hill you want to die on. It seems a particularly trivial thing to get blocked over, and I know you have more to contribute to the encyclopaedia. No reader will ever care about an argument over some categories on a user page (I doubt most readers know what categories or user pages are). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:29, 30 December 2025 (UTC)