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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.

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:
  • Diff blog: Becoming a Trainer Assistant at Wikilatih Wikidata BRIN: A Journey of Sharing Knowledge by Affandy Murad
  • Diff blog: Why Dagbanli Needs a Dictionary (And How We Built One with Wikidata) - by User:Masssly
• 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:
  • Property count of characters in Tolkien's Universe (source)
  • Data about Norwegians in captivity during WWII (using Norwegian prisoner register person ID (P8269) + others (source)
• 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!

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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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Concern regarding Draft:William Barry Owen

Hello, Thriley. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:William Barry Owen, a page you created, has not been edited in at least five months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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The Signpost: 10 March 2026

• Interview: Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO
  Part 2.

• News and notes: Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki
  Dormant worm awakes; a sketchy archiving site struck; ether burns.

• Special report: What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?
  A horrifying exploit took place, which could have had catastrophic and far-reaching consequences if used maliciously; instead, it seems to have happened by accident and was used for childish vandalism. How did this happen, and what did the script actually do?

• In the media: Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware
  As well as controversy over LLM translations.

• Recent research: To wiki, perchance to groki
  Comparisons continue.

• Obituary: Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet
  Rest in peace.

• Opinion: Interface administrators and trusting trust
  Potential attacks are the logical consequence of giving a group of users unlimited control over JavaScript.

• Technology report: English Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content
  After the archive site launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started, with consensus to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times.

• Op-ed: Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?
  The answer is slop.

• Essay: The pursuit of a button click
  Volunteering for Wikipedia has its rewards. The thank-button, for example.

• In focus: Short descriptions: One year later
  A discussion of the challenge set forth to the Wikipedia community one year ago!

• WikiProject report: Unreferenced articles backlog drive
  Unreferenced articles in English Wikipedia - help us in the backlog drive!

• Community view: Speaking of planning ...
  The WMF planning process is underway.

• Traffic report: Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds
  Death and the Winter Olympics.

• Crossword: "It will never happen"
  Want to take a break?

• Comix: BRIEn't
  Or is it.

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Standalone articles for yearly golf majors

Please read the first bullet of WP:WHYN. Accordingly, (sourced) content relating to these tournaments needs to be added to justify standalone articles. Otherwise, the redirects should be restored until such content can be written (all the information presently in these articles is available in the parent articles). Regards. _wjemather^{please leave a message...} 14:57, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Re-Election (film)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 15:08, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Enzo Paci

Hello, Thriley. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Enzo Paci".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:32, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Thriley. Thank you for your work on Martyn Butler. 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 fix the bare URLs and establish notability as per WP:BIO. Thanks and have a great day!

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Mariamnei}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Mariamnei (talk) 07:54, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 73

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Issue 73, January–February 2026

• Four new partnerships
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Miss Nelson is Missing has been published

Miss Nelson is Missing, which you started as a draft, has been published after I expanded it a bit. Perhaps the Netflix film version should have its own article once it is released. DowntownUgarit (talk) 19:47, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Great work! I truly appreciate your edits. Thriley (talk) 19:54, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2026

This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue II, February 2026 Headlines From the team: GLAM in 2026 is calling to action! Belgium report: A photo safari through Wiki Loves Fashion & a rescue mission with Mission Gourmande! Czech Republic report: National Library overview of 2025 Italy report: Cultural Heritage and Memory: 2026 GLAM Call and Executed Renaissance Edit-a-thon New Zealand report: Farewelling the Auckland Museum Summer Students and an update on the NZBSI WiR Poland report: Wikipedia in Cultural Marketing at Crash Mondays Warsaw Serbia report: February in Wikimedia Serbia Spain report: Wikidata in the GLAM context II Switzerland report: Neocomensia, SAPA, Atelier Winterthur, GLAM-on-Tour Disentis UK report: New content in African and Asian languages Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members Memory of the World report: Focus on Indigenous issues Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Thriley. Thank you for your work on Angelika Saleh. 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 add more sources and establish notability as per WP:BIO. Please also fix the bare URL. Thanks and have a wonderful day!

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Mariamnei (talk) 07:50, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Casa della Farnesina

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DYK for John H. Beyer

On 14 March 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John H. Beyer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that John H. Beyer co-founded an architectural firm in 1968 that opposed large-scale urban redevelopment, inspired partly by the book The Death and Life of Great American Cities? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John H. Beyer. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, John H. Beyer), 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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Concern regarding Draft:Poor Kids

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DYK for Annie Stainer

On 15 March 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Annie Stainer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Annie Stainer "would appear to fly, by delicately and continuously undulating her arms as if they were remarkable wings" during her solo shows? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Annie Stainer. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Annie Stainer), 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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Nomination of Kim Vo for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kim Vo is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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BhikhariInformer (talk) 05:56, 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.

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!

· Previous issue · JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:35, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Victoria MacKenzie-Childs

On 16 March 2026, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Victoria MacKenzie-Childs, 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.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:26, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

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.CodeMirror or ext.CodeMirror.lib modules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of the ext.CodeMirror.switch hook 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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Your draft article, Draft:Hop Louie

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Nomination of Disappearance of James Gracey for deletion

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Concerns regarding notability and orphan status of Peachy Keenan

I noticed this article has remained an orphan stub since its creation and currently lacks the depth of independent, secondary sourcing required by WP:GNG or WP:AUTHOR. While the subject has a 2023 book release, the coverage appears to be largely routine or from partisan outlets. Before I take this to AfD, are there any major mainstream profiles or critical reviews (New York Times, Atlantic, etc.) that could be added to justify keeping this? Otherwise, it feels like it doesn't meet the bar for the mainspace. Mergle (talk) 23:49, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

I think the four sources listed in the article that aren't book reviews from conservative publications establish that she is a prominent member of the "right-wing natalist" movement. This Washington Post article does some analysis: . I make a lot of biographic articles and have a solid understanding of notability. The Post article and the other three plus the book reviews demonstrate notability to me. It just needs to be expanded beyond the stub that it is, but I don't really have an interest in this subject matter right now. Thriley (talk) 03:28, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Peachy Keenan

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Alessandro Cortese de Bosis

Thanks for your contributions to Alessandro Cortese de Bosis. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and these sources should be compatible with the requirements of WP:GNG and WP:SIGCOV(national level, secondary, reliable). I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while. Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Boynamedsue (talk) 17:55, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Spring music

story · music · places

on Bach's birthday, a story about my joy -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:34, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Agape Community

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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.

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!

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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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MediaWiki message delivery 16:49, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Aaron Renn

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Your draft article, Draft:Martha Stewart Living (TV series)

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ITN recognition for Nicholas Brendon

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Your draft article, Draft:Joe O'Donnell

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Your draft article, Draft:Charles Renfro

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ITN recognition for Tracy Kidder

On 26 March 2026, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tracy Kidder, 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. Left guide (talk) 08:35, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

DYK for Laurie Triefeldt

On 26 March 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Laurie Triefeldt, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Laurie Triefeldt taught herself to use a computer program to create World of Wonder to fill the gap between text and illustration? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Laurie Triefeldt. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Laurie Triefeldt), 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.

HurricaneZeta^C 12:02, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Michael Forsythe

The article Michael Forsythe has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not meet WP:BIO and found little reliable secondary sources showing notability of the person.

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I deprodded the article. A google search quickly finds enough book reviews for his two books to meet WP:NAUTHOR, even without going to the WP:Library. One of his books already had an article linking to reviews for that book. Even if he wasn't personally notable, the article wouldn't be appropriate for deletion, but for redirection to the book article. However, he has a second book as well with multiple reviews. Jahaza (talk) 19:26, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your expansion. Surprised his notability was questioned. I'm noticing many editors are having trouble discerning notability these days. Thriley (talk) 18:06, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Question from Ari 1600 (14:38, 28 March 2026)

how am I supposed to find and edit things --Ari 1600 (talk) 14:38, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello! Welcome to Wikipedia! Do you have any particular interests? Many editors find joy in working in areas they already know well outside of Wikipedia. Thriley (talk) 18:08, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

weather

I like weather and geography thr most Ari 1600 (talk) 18:43, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Those are two fascinating subject areas. I recommend you introduce yourself on the talk pages of WikiProject Geography and WikiProject Weather. Explain what specifically you are interested in and hopefully some editors in those subject areas can show you some articles where help is needed. Best, Thriley (talk) 18:47, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

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Women in Red – April 2026

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Question from Snailofsorts (20:33, 29 March 2026)

Hi there! I had a question about how talk pages are used to suggest edits. I have a part of an article that looks irrelevant or opinionated, and I would like to make the case to delete it. Would I write a message on the talk page? Or would there be another way to ask for feedback? --Snailofsorts (talk) 20:33, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

Question from Javaidiqbal274 (10:22, 30 March 2026)

"Hi, I have created a draft article in my sandbox on English Wikipedia. Could you please review it and let me know if any improvements are needed before I submit it for publication? Thank you!" --Javaidiqbal274 (talk) 10:22, 30 March 2026 (UTC)