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Your draft article, Draft:John M. Kingsbury

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Your draft article, Draft:Michel Dion

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Your draft article, Draft:Sarah Price (horticulturalist)

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Your draft article, Draft:The High Lonesome Sound

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Concern regarding Draft:Jade Castrinos

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Wikidata weekly summary #715

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #714.

Discussions

• Closed request for comments: Deprecate P642? - Consensus to deprecate was reached.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikifying Te Tiriti 10-workshop series, attendees will learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and create Wikidata items, to increase the visibility of people and their projects working in Te Tiriti and anti-racism areas. Further information can be found on the WikiProject page / Workshop timetable. Register to attend.
  • Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 in Uganda - contribute to the project by expanding or creating Wikidata Items connected to the project categories, such as Ugandan folklore, food, music, dances, traditional clothing, and more.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The London School of Economics and Political Science have employed a Wikimedian in Residence
  • Wikimedia Indonesia held Data and Technology Week 2025 in last December 2025, organized introductory workshops on Wikidata and Wikifunctions. Read key takeaways and participants' discussion at Diff.
  • Wikidata Days 2025 Journey in Africa: Building Knowledge, Languages and Communities
  • Wikidata Botswana 2025: Celebrating 13 Years (And We Really Showed Up!)
• Papers:
  • A new monographic number of JLIS.it has been published regarding the OPAC SBN (the biggest collective library catalogue in Italy, with more than 7 thousands of libraries participating; about its collaboration with Wikidata, see the Wikidata coordination page); it contains 3 papers focusing on the use of Wikidata for authority control (all in Italian, with abstract in English):
    • Wikidata and SBN: An Assessment of Two Years of Work (2023–2025): an overview Wikidata-SBN of the collaboration in 2023-2025, focusing on the methods of reconciliation
    • Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN: a description of the procedure to extract data from Wikidata items matches with SBN authority records and adapt these data to be copied into non-individualised SBN authority records
    • NaMo, utility for populating missing date fields in authority records: a description of an utility to keep an authority file up-to-date finding missing death dates through Wikidata
  • Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN - A collaboration between Wikimedia Italy and ICCU is enriching incomplete SBN authority records using Wikidata identifiers, enhancing catalogue accuracy and accessibility as entries continue to grow. By Ravelli, (2026).

Tool of the week

• Puzzles By Nathan is a game that arrange words so each connects to the next

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editing for RTL languages: The Wikimedia Deutschland team is seeking users of right-to-left (RTL) scripts, including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu, to help test and improve the mobile statement editing experience. If you edit in an RTL language and would like to join user interviews or deeper testing, sign up here.
• (French) Gendered place names in the public space of French-speaking Switzerland

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: Parfinity notes ID, ‎Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID, Basenotes perfume brand ID, Basenotes perfume people ID, Basenotes perfume ID, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ID, MAX username
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • location collected (geographic location where a specimen or sample was collected in the field)
  • Category for music in this language (link to category item that contains music in this language)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID, CriticDB IDs, MPA certificate number, WorldFootball.net person ID (new), The Session tune ID, Parfumo fragrance note ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Timeline of elected germanic Roman emperors
  • Universities without a P625 (coordinate location) - Source
• Schema examples: film director (E24)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Rijksmonumenten Unmerge list - list of items with more than one P359 (Rijksmonumenten ID).
  • Stanford Libraries added an event: Love Data Week 2026
• Newest database reports: Entities without a Label - this list is dynamically created, search by language code and entity type: Item or Property.
• Showcase Items: FIFA (Q253414) - international governing body of association football
• Showcase Lexemes: charge (L3922) - English verb (tʃɑːrdʒ) meaning "to supply with energy", "to rush forward", or "to have responsibility for"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We continued work on supporting more datatypes for editing, specifically date, musical notation and monolingual text.
  • We worked on displaying constraint violation indicators.
  • You can try out the current state by enabling it in the beta features section of your preferences.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate options for further reducing the amount of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist on the other wikis to reduce the size of the database tables.
• Dumps: We finished our research on dumps, especially looking into different ways to define subsets. We will publish the report with results by end of February.
• Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is continuing the evaluation of potential replacements for Blazegraph.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-04

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 tray shown on Special:Diff in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered.
• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now automatically determines the text direction (ensuring correct display of sites with unusual domain names) and shows detailed descriptions for log actions. Later this week, a new permanent link for page creations and CSS classes for each entry element will be added.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed.

Updates for technical contributors

• As mentioned in the October 2025 deprecation announcement, MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin sunsetting all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API the week of January 26. Changes are expected to roll out to all wikis on or before January 30th. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found, compared, and tested using the REST Sandbox. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in Phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
• Interactive reference documentation for the Wikimedia REST API has moved. Requests to API docs previously hosted through RESTBase (e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/) are now redirected to the REST Sandbox.
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team (WDP) has published its January 2026 newsletter. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. As a reminder, you can subscribe to the WDP newsletter!
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there!

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Concern regarding Draft:Stephanandra incisa

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Thriley. Thank you for your work on Alexander Ryazanov (air defense designer). Another editor, Mariamnei, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thank you for your work on this article. Please establish notability as per WP:BIO. Thanks and have a great day!

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Mariamnei (talk) 08:33, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

DYK for Dwarkesh Patel

On 21 January 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dwarkesh Patel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that The Economist said in 2025 that Dwarkesh Patel "rose from nowhere to become Silicon Valley's favourite podcaster"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dwarkesh Patel. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Dwarkesh Patel), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Lily Geismer

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Your draft article, Draft:Cora Ginsburg

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Concern regarding Draft:Winnie Greco

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ITN recognition for Valentino (fashion designer)

On 21 January 2026, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Valentino (fashion designer), which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 19:25, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Edward Arrigoni moved to draftspace

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Your draft article, Draft:Vandelux

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Concern regarding Draft:Les Goudes

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Your draft article, Draft:Valor Equity Partners

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ITN recognition for Walter Steding

On 23 January 2026, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Walter Steding, which you created and nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. —Bagumba (talk) 23:52, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Tenacious Award

Women in Red (Draft award?)

This could have been a draft barnstar that I submitted for approval..... but I don't enjoy seeing my work put on hold. I'm so impressed that you persevere and some of your articles make it. (You do know that AFC is voluntary?). However you got my attention again by including me in your DYK nomination. Well done. I've added Sinead to the Women in Red list of daily women of note, you taught me to appreciate Sinead... I'm impressed. Thank you. Victuallers (talk) 11:03, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:With the 8th Pick?

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Concern regarding Draft:Laura June Kirsch

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Your draft article, Draft:Bruce Balick

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Concern regarding Draft:Uncle Ollie's Penthouse

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Concern regarding Draft:Liz Simons

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Concern regarding Draft:Jane McManus

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Concern regarding Draft:Snow Xue Gao

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Concern regarding Draft:Alias Error

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Wikidata weekly summary #716

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #715.

Events

• Upcoming events:

• Reminder: Blazegraph Migration Office Hours: The WMF Wikidata Platform team is kicking off its monthly Blazegraph migeration office hours tomorrow, 27th January, 16:00 UTC. These sessions focus exclusively on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). See the office hours page for details and future sessions.
• Art+Feminism online hands-on training session: Intro to Wikidata + Archives. January 29, 15:00 UTC (16:00 CET). Alan Ang (WMDE) and d:User:Epìdosis host this workshop on collective editing and how Wikidata connects with archives. More info and Zoom registration @ Art+Feminism.org
• OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #85 February 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
• Mapping Africa: Visualizing Knowledge and Communities - 28.01.2026, 16:00 UTC. Episode #54 of the WikiAfrica Hour explores the power of maps and geospatial data.

• General Registration is Open! 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon - May 1-3, 2026

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Wikidata replaces the CLARIN Concept Registry in the Component Registry
• Papers:
  • Analysis and Generation of Wikidata Descriptions Focusing on Bangla Language - A rule-based Grammatical Framework resource grammar for Bangla generates accurate, consistent Wikidata descriptions across diverse entities, achieving over 99% coverage and enhancing low-resource language content in multilingual knowledge bases. By Mohammad, (2025).
• Videos:
  • Fact-Checking with Wikidata by Philippe Saadé - a recording of the workshop hosted by DataTalks.Club in collaboration with User:Philippe Saadé
  • Wikimedia and Biodiversity Data: A Mutualistic Relationship in the Open Knowledge Ecosystem
  • Collaborative Cultural Heritage Geodata, session 2 of SunoikisisDC's Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage. Discusses how Wikidata is used and contributes data to the field of spatial and geographic technologies.
  • Wikimedia projects & smell-related content: WMUK Sandbox Session - User:Lajmmoore describes how to add and model sensory experiences such as smell, to Wikidata.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Property Creation Helper is a tool by ArthurPSmith. The tool 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.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland 2026 first quarter development plan has been published: Wikidata:Linked Open Data development plan.
• Job opening: The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Platform Backend Migration Specialist (contract position) to support backend migration work on the Wikidata Query Service. This role focuses on technical work related to the migration away from Blazegraph. If you're interested in the role or want to learn more, see the full job description and application details.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • translates from (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from)
  • translates into (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works and texts into)
• Newest External identifiers: MAX username, CriticDB game ID, ‎Finnish railway station code, Sketchfab model ID, Sketchfab channel ID, Sketchfab user ID, BRAHMS identifier, LegiStorm person ID, NHK Archives program ID, Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Polish version), Bercail ID, ‎InterSportStats athlete ID, ‎Erdős Problem number, Trismegistos editor ID, ‎woordenlijst lemma ID, ‎European Vehicle Number, CourtListener person ID, Australian National Kennel Council ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review: incompatible type (instances of this type or of its subclasses cannot be instances of that type nor of its subclasses)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: KaraokeTexty.cz album ID, Biographical encyclopedia of Maros County-ID, ShotOnWhat film ID, Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 ID, CardCow.com publisher ID, Stockholms SL Realtidsinformation identificator, Lost Pubs Project ID, Handball Base ID, Handballnews.pl person ID, SFDb förlaga-ID, RITVA company ID, RITVA corporate body ID, TC Infos network identifier, French Trade Mark Number

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Wikidata Items with a frequency (hertz) within human-hearing range (source)
• Schema examples: WikiProject Schemas: A tutorial - to create a simple ShEx schema and apply it to a set of Wikidata items.
• Newest WikiProjects: No Longer at the Margins - 2026 Hackathon
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Bahamas - list of buildings in Nassau
• Newest database reports: Entities missing a description - choose a language and entity type (Item or Property) and generate a list of entities that have no description.
• Showcase Items: Mount Kilimanjaro - mountain massif in Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania
• Showcase Lexemes: мундштук (L130056) - Russian noun (mʊnʂˈtuk) meaning "mouthpiece (of a musical instrument)", "mouthpiece (of a pipe/cigar holder)", or "a horse's bit"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We started working on supporting editing of monolingual text statements
  • We continued working on supporting editing of geocoordinate and quantity statements
  • We are fixing display issues with date statements
  • We continued work on showing constraint violations
• GraphQL:
  • The security review was finished, removing a blocker to deploying GraphQL support to Wikidata
  • We added pagination to querying items by statement properties or values
  • We are extending the labels of linked entities functionality to also let you get the descriptions of the Items linked in a statement
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate options for further reducing the amount of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist on the other wikis to reduce the size of the database tables.
• Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is continuing the evaluation of potential replacements for Blazegraph.

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 countries: Albania and Kosovo
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2026-05

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

• Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on proposed future of the Product and Technology Advisory Council until 28 February.
• All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the Account Security project.
• Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page.
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of.

Updates for technical contributors

• A new AbuseFilter variable, account_type, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the createaccount and autocreateaccount actions. As part of this change, the variable accountname has been renamed to account_name, and accountname is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable.
• Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to upload.wikimedia.org/… will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Concern regarding Draft:Kate Riley (writer)

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This Month in Education: January 2026

This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 1 • January 2026

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In This Issue

• Strengthening Wikimedia Education and Digital Literacy in 2026
• Dzongkha Wikipedia Education Program in Bhutan
• Wikipedia Education Program – Train The Trainer in Nepal
• Wikipedia 25 celebration in the Igbo Wiki Fan Club Alvan and IMSU
• CBSUA boosts Open Knowledge and Local Culture through expanded Wiki Education Program
• WikiChallenge African Schools: Young voices, real impact, and continued (reasonable) growth
• Updates on Auckland Museum Summer Student Programme
• Stronger and bolder Wikiforhumanrights 2025 in Anambra Network
• Official Opening of IFAK Secondary School Wiki Club: Engaging Youth in Learning Through Open Knowledge
• Greetings from the Jeronim de Rada WikiClub in Elbasan, Albania, for Christmas 2025
• Great and productive final activities of 2025 Wikimedia MKD education programme
• Envisioning an Open Future together – WikiForAll
• A look back: reviewing the main education activities in Brazil in 2025
• A 147-Year-Old Institution Celebrates 25 Years of Wikipedia: St Aloysius University and the Spirit of Open Knowledge
• Celebrating 25 years of free knowledge! The '25x25' Project reaches the classrooms of Córdoba, Argentina
• The collaborative efforts of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora for the dissemination of free knowledge on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 29 January 2026

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2025
  Everybody had a hard year, everybody had a good time.

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• News from Diff: Solving puzzles together
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Books & Bytes – Issue 72

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 72, November–December 2025

• Renewed partnerships
• Spotlight: Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science

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Speedy deletion of Draft:Deborah Novak

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ITN recognition for John H. Beyer

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DYK for Emily Sutton

On 31 January 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Emily Sutton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Emily Sutton illustrated an abridged children's edition of Shakespeare's First Folio with "red-cheeked gentlemen, sword-wielding warriors and ladies in striking attire"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Emily Sutton. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Emily Sutton), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

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DYK for John A. Jakle

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Nomination of Amanda Askell for deletion

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Women in Red February 2026

Women in Red | February 2026, Vol 12, Issue 2, Nos 358, 359, 361, 362, 363 Online events: New: Alphabet run: countries starting with B | Black Women | Works by women: theatre, opera, music Continuing: #1day1woman ( year-long initiative) | Sports (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities Join Wikipedia:26 for '26 and create or substantially improve twenty-six Wikipedia articles during the year 2026, at least one for each letter of the English alphabet. Tip of the month: Our redlists are a great resource, but not every redlinked subject is notable. Be sure to research before starting a new article. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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Proposed deletion of Helen Andrews

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