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Wikidata weekly summary #708

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wikidata 13th celebration in the Philippines
  • Wikidata 13th Birthday: Taiwan special event recap (part 3)
  • WikidataCon 2025: A conversation with Danny Benjafield
  • Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group
  • Africa Wiki Women Celebrates Wikidata’s 13th Birthday
• 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.
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Tech News: 2025-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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• 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.
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• 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. [1]
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Featured host

I see you are active at the Teahouse, so I put you in as a featured host (see Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host/Featured/10). Feel free to customize the picture to your liking. Interstellarity (talk) 15:39, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Interstellarity Thank you! I have added an image. Polygnotus (talk) 15:54, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Translated

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you translated text from nl:Graf met de handjes to Grave with the Hands. While you are welcome to translate Wikipedia content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing requires that you provide attribution to the contributor(s) of the original article. When translating from a foreign-language Wikipedia article, this is supplied at a minimum in an edit summary on the page where you add translated content, identifying it as a translation and linking it to the source page. Sample wording for this is given here. If you forgot, or were not aware of this requirement, attribution must be given retroactively, for example:

NOTE: Content in the edit of 01:25, January 25, 2023 was translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Exact name of French article]]; see its history for attribution.

Retroactive attribution may be added using a dummy edit; see Repairing insufficient attribution. It is good practice, especially if translation is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{translated page}} template on the talk page of the destination article. If you have added translated content previously which was not attributed at the time it was added, you must add attribution retrospectively, even if it was a long time ago. You can read more about author attribution and the reasons for it at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 07:20, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenLipstickLesbian I started the article, but as far as I can remember I didn't actually use the Dutch article. I don't see Wikipedia as a reliable source so I am more likely to just use the sources themselves. I can add a null edit tho if you like. Polygnotus (talk) 07:23, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's no need, I did that for you.

Meaning no disrespect to your memory (mine's rubbish), I'd find it hard to believe that you didn't draw from the Dutch article: compare this revision[4] with [5], and if you'd like a particular example them look at the paragraphs:

The cemetery Nabij Kapel in ’t Zand, colloquially known as "Oude Kerkhof" (the 'Old Cemetery'), originally served as a Jewish burial ground. By the late 18th century, it was expanded to accommodate other residents of Roermond. Architect Pierre Cuypers undertook a redesign of the cemetery in 1858, creating separate sections for Catholic and Protestant burials, divided by a wall.

(from the former)

and

The cemetery "Nabij de Kapel in 't Zand," popularly known as the "Oude Kerkhof," was originally a Jewish cemetery. At the end of the 18th century, it was expanded to include burial space for other residents of Roermond. Architect Pierre Cuypers redesigned the cemetery in 1858. Among other things, a Catholic and a Reformed section were established, separated by a wall.

(from the latter)

GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 07:28, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenLipstickLesbian Thanks. It is certainly possible, but I can't really give a definitive answer so I go with a politicians "can't confirm or deny".

It is also possible this comes from the same source. I probably still have the backup in cold storage somewhere, so I could probably look it up if you want, but I do not remember so far back. Polygnotus (talk) 07:33, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Never believe anything until it's been officially denied", that's my motto!

Possible, but I hope not. I translate articles from other Wikipedias sometimes (though not for a while - Lee Dong-hwan (diplomat) is my last, I believe). It's fine. You have to check and source everything, but it's free content so you can pretty much do what you like with it. Unless your same source happens to be public domain, learning that you both took closely from a 3rd party source would be very scary. GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 07:40, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenLipstickLesbian My wife wins every discussion because she just sounds so confident and I have no clue if what she is claiming (but you said...) is true or not so I just fold in every debate. If she wanted to she could take advantage of my terrible memory so I just have to hope she doesn't. Polygnotus (talk) 07:52, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #709

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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:
  • Birthplace of French Heads of State
  • Films starring Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hughes, available on YouTube
• 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!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2025).

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Tech News: 2025-50

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

• 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. [6]
• 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. [7]
• 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. [8]

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" 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. [9]
• 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. [10]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DuplicateReferences false-positive

Gregory Retallack https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995Pbio...21..393W — GreenC 18:16, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Claude vs Gemini

Thanks for the info. I haven't tried Gemini, will do so soon. Do you think Claude is better? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 15:31, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Piotrus Less bad. I strongly prefer Claude. Polygnotus (talk) 15:40, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, I would gladly take the key if you have working ones to share. Best email me at my name at gmail. TIA. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:03, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Piotrus Take what you received by email and add this to it -7Iw3jtUTRRTeDG5ktvNPczCD6w-uEXo1QAA and then you have a working Claude key. Autoreload is disabled and you got a couple bucks. Polygnotus (talk) 01:17, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Any estimate what is the cost of a single article run? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:57, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Piotrus 2 or 3 USD cents maybe? Depends a bit on the length of the article. You can do about 160 articles with what is left in the account I think. Polygnotus (talk) 10:57, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 23

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on November 21. This will be the final bulletin for 2025 and we'll be back in late January 2026 with the next issue. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
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• CEO appointment: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed Bernadette Meehan as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. She will be meeting communities around the puzzle globe when she officially joins on January 20, 2026.
• Wikipedia's 25th birthday party: Join the virtual celebration for games, prizes, musical performances, volunteer spotlights, data visualization, surprise guests and more. January 15 at 16:00 UTC. Register on Meta.
• Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees: Join the next Conversation with the Trustees on December 11 at 17:30 UTC.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Wishathon: 15 patches were written and 5 merged, as part of a Wishathon for the Community Wishlist. One wish from the community was completed ("Preview page with this template" should not work with pages that do not transclude the template), and three more now have a clearer path forward.
• Activity Tab on Mobile App: The Wikipedia iOS app is running an experiment that replaces the History tab with a redesigned Activity tab. This new tab surfaces personalized insights about reading, editing, and donations — all stored locally on your device for privacy. The goal is to see whether the new experience increases engagement and retention among logged-in readers.
• Wikipedia Year in Review in Apps: The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 is now available for the iOS and Android apps. This year introduces new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs.
• Add a Link: A feature that suggests links to be added to articles based on a prediction model, Add a link, has been deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias. 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.
• Abstract Wikipedia: The second round of voting on the name of Abstract Wikipedia concluded with Abstract Wikipedia as the top-voted name with 100 votes, followed by Wikigenerator with 91 votes. The name for the wiki project will now remain Abstract Wikipedia.
• Anti-vandalism tool: Automoderator, now has the option to choose between two machine learning models to power the software on wikis using the tool.
• Tools to support newcomers: Newcomers failing to add a citation to support added content has been one of the most common mistakes on Wikipedia. Reference Check, a tool that prompts them to add a citation before publishing an edit, has gone live for an A/B test on English Wikipedia.
• Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 48 and week 49 include the Foundation working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful, and informative; and two new wikis being created: a Wikipedia in Toki Pona and a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin.
• Infrastructure: Unifying our mobile and desktop domains achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
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• Audit Report: Key takeaways from the Foundation’s audit report for fiscal year 2024-2025.
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Pilot deviation

Hello. About 16 days ago, you reached out to me saying that you wanted me to "take a look for errors and omissions" in Pilot deviation. And you later said, "I find it difficult writing about a topic I am no expert in." which, I think, casually means that you're calling me an expert in that subject of article.... no? So I was just curious as to why you reached out to me and how you knew I basically existed since we never interacted before. I'm not saying that "Why in the world did you reach out to me?", I'm just saying, "Huh, I'm curious why you reached out to me, very interesting". No offense given here, just purely curiosity. Thank you. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 19:35, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, yes, we technically did interact before. I use your duplicate ref detector script and it's really great and helpful. Thank you for that. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 19:36, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ivebeenhacked Hi! Hm, I don't really remember and I don't store my browser history that long. Possibly because you were listed on WikiProject Aviation and I liked your username? I am not sure. Polygnotus (talk) 22:55, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I understand. I was just being curious. Thank you. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 22:58, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #710

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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!

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• Query examples:
  • All ports in Wikidata, sorted by the total number of statements
  • Queer and LGBT Literature that have won Literary Awards (source)
  • Bubble chart with numbers shown in the bubbles: Memory of the World inscriptions from Arab states
• 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!

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Tech News: 2025-51

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

• 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. [11]

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 externallinks table 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. [12]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:01, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Test

This is a test. PolygnotusTest (talk) 21:11, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is also a test. PolygnotusTest (talk) 12:17, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Passwords

I'm curious about your comment "The kind of people who need help when they forget their password should use Bitwarden not KeePass. And most people who use KeePass should probably use KeePassXC". Why do you think Bitwarden and KeePassXC are better than Keepass? And p.s. I don’t use any browser plugins for passwords; Keepass can do autotype and of course copy/paste is easy enough. David10244 (talk) 04:15, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@David10244 Relevant Teahouse link.

• The KeePassXC website explains why KeePassXC is better than KeePass (They may or may not be a bit biased. Possibly.) and mentions one of the problems with KeePass. It also explains why KeePassXC is better than KeePassX.
• I think that most KeePass users don't need help when they lost their password (being relatively nerdy and more educated on the topic, on average, in my estimation), and Bitwarden is more userfriendly for a wider range of people.

Polygnotus (talk) 04:49, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Polygnotus I'm a bit late, but thanks for the info. The supposed disadvantage that KeePass only works on Windows, and requires the .NET runtime, is not a disadvantage to me -- because I also only work in Windows, and I write code that uses .NET. 🙂 I don't use any KP plugins, and I have not considered KeePassX.

But I am now experimenting with KeePassXC, based on your comment. I think it looks slightly better than KeePass -- although not by a huge margin. I haven't decided whether to switch yet.

(Your link labeled "problems" goes to the FAQ page. The FAQ page doesn't really explain why KPXC is better than KP except for that one cross-platform thing. The other Q&A's apply to KP and KPXC both, or apply to all password managers... And yeah, I am nerdy enough to not need something that might be great for a wider audience. But now I understand what you meant by "the kind of people...")

I appreciate you taking the time to answer. I'll keep experimenting with KPXC and see how it goes! Thanks. David10244 (talk) 05:37, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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About Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-12-17/Interview

If you want the section hatted, please hat it. Don't just undo me without actually hatting things. I've made the a similar request to PresN on their user talk as well. Right now both of you are reverting me, which means both of yall's extended bickering is on the page in a format that negatively affects the actual discussion of the topics. Soni (talk) 05:42, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Soni Yeah I saw you hatted it but that was undone unfortunately. Generally speaking I prefer hatting over cutting and pasting because hatting ensures the timeline is still easy to follow. Often but not always it is best if someone uninvolved does the hatting. I did make a script for that at some point but it is far from production ready:

User:Polygnotus/Scripts/Timeline.js

It shows a slider under the section headers. If you click it and move your mouse to the left and right you can travel through time. It only appears on talkpages when there are 10 or more messages in a discussion. This can be helpful when many people participate in a multi-threaded discussion. Polygnotus (talk) 05:48, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A Very Merry Christmas to you!

Hello there. 'Tis the season again, believe it or not, the years pass so quickly now! Your contributions to Wikipedia in 2025 are greatly appreciated! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas, and here's to a happy and productive 2026! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:12, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dr. Blofeld Thank you! Merry Christmas to you and yours and various others. Polygnotus (talk) 10:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your archives

Hello, Polygnotus! Not here to get on your case or anything, just curious: is there a reason your last twenty or so archive pages have only one topic each? Or is it perhaps an incorrect bot-instructions configuration? (As a manual archiver myself, I have little idea how those work.)—Odysseus1479 21:31, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Odysseus1479 Yeah its because I messed up with some script or bot setting and then instead of dealing with it I just shrugged and ignored it. Polygnotus (talk) 21:36, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 07:03, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #711

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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:
  • Wikidata 13th Anniversary in the Tyap Wikimedians User Group
  • Remapping the Down Survey - By OSM for History Buffs
  • Open Data DEx Demo #1 - This week's topic: Astronomy in WikiData!

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:
  • Number of riots per country (source)
  • Country having the most female politicians (source)
• 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!

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Tech News: 2025-52

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

• 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. [13]
• 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. [14]

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 with data-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with other data-mw attributes, which are generated by Parsoid. [15]
• 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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Yo Ho Ho!

ϢereSpielChequers is wishing a foaming mug of Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec25}} to your friends' talk pages.

@WereSpielChequers Thank you! Merry Christmas and happy holidays and all that! I recommend picking a handful of holidays and celebrating them all at the same time! Polygnotus (talk) 03:07, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please add classes to SectionLinks script

I tried SectionLinks but uninstalled it because the icons were too big. Adding a class would let users customize to their preference. How about, |class="sect-link", |class="sect-link-perm", and |class="sect-link-oldid", or you pick. Also, I don't know if there is a way to offer options in a script, but I'd rather have the icons after the section name (and also superscripted and small, but I can do that with the classes). Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 02:57, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot Good idea, thanks!  Done Merry Christmas and happy holidays! Polygnotus (talk) 03:05, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot Please test User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js and let me know what you think.

I don't know if there is a way to offer options in a script Kinda sorta, it can store settings in localStorage. Not ideal but better than nothing. Polygnotus (talk) 03:28, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also I think you can db-g7 User:Mathglot/Foo.js at this point. Polygnotus (talk) 04:17, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Working on it; not doing what I expected; not seeing any icons (with ...2) but maybe something's up with my css. With the main script, I get the icons for H2 headers, but not H3, or H4. Currently installed is SectionLinks2.js; test bed at User:Mathglot/sandbox7. Feel free to add more tests there, or copy to jump-start your own. May not get back to it tonight, not sure yet. Mathglot (talk) 04:38, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot I should probably add h2/h3/h4 as a setting. Snævar's comment here led to Quarry 100236 and then I posted the output and Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts to Claude and it spit out:

• Position 143: User:Quarl/util.js - 161 total users, 16 active users, inactive for 7,256 days (~19.9 years)
• Position 212: User:Topaz/comm.js - 101 total users, 1 active user, inactive for 7,276 days (~19.9 years)

It isn't correct, but its worth further investigation.

I have to do some things but will probably return to this soonish.

Note that the last line of User:Mathglot/common.js contains a typo.

Compare:

importScript( 'User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js // assisting testing...

importScript('User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js'); // assisting testing...

Your common.js also imports User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/generatedoi.js which won't work since that url is a 404.

Polygnotus (talk) 04:49, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note to self look at [16] test here User:Polygnotus/tmp/testsectionlinks

Oh, thanks for the tips! If I'm not around later, I'll be back tomorrow. Happy holidays! Mathglot (talk) 05:45, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ran into a more serious problem that is a dealbreaker for me, though perhaps not for others. I use script User:BrandonXLF/ShowRevisionID which adds revision ids to history and contrib pages. This is like a killer app for me, and I depend on it. The SectionLinks script somehow interacts with it, so that when both are installed, ShowRevisionID stops working. Not sure what is going on, or which one should be changed, but maybe you could look into it. If the locus of the problem is in his script, Brandon is around, but not a lot, and if you feel like forking his script instead of waiting and adjusting it so it plays nice with SectionLinks, I'll install both; otherwise, I'll just keep his, as I can't do without it, now. (Sort of like mobile phones, that none of us knew we needed until we had one.) Anyway, happy Holiday, and talk when you get back! Mathglot (talk) 01:38, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot The SectionLinks script does not and cannot interfere with the ShowRevisionID script.

The reason you experienced problems is because part of the last line of User:Mathglot/common.js is missing.

Remove the last line and use this instead:

importScript('User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js]]

Polygnotus (talk) 07:53, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Season's Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2026!

Hello Polygnotus, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2026. Happy editing, Abishe (talk) 16:32, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply] Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 16:32, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Merry Christmas! Polygnotus (talk) 07:53, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #712

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:12, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Exomoon "massive" in phrase "signature, massive" is not promotional Chronos.Zx (talk) 04:50, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have login problem by PAWS?

Hi, Polygnotus. I see you uses the tool PAWS. I cann't login to https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/ since last Saturday. I reported that at [17], but I cann't still login. I have not access to Phabricator to see of somebody is working about it or not. But my first question is maybe I'm the solely who have problem to login. I ask you, can you login to https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/ nowadays? If you have too problem, do you know somebody who can help us? Thank you and sorry for my English. Leonprimer (talk) 19:28, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Leonprimer Hello! There was a problem, see T413510. It is fixed now. Polygnotus (talk) 15:13, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy New Year, Polygnotus!

Happy New Year!

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Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Thank you! Happy new year! Polygnotus (talk) 18:59, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #713

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #712.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Morne06 - RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2026 20:35 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Ppolar bear - general consensus is to reapply after gaining more experience.
• New request for comments: Notability policy reform: first drafted in 2013, Wikidata has grown vastly since the original Notability policy was created. This first-round discussion is intended to collect ideas, comments, and reflections on how to improve the Notability Policy for what Wikidata currently is and will become.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #84 January 12 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026: a two-day event that will take place from 13 to 14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Apply for a grant and join the event.
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 14th January 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Rescuing Scholia #2: getting closer
  • African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA)
  • Wikontic: Ontology-Aware KG Pipeline - this article introduces Wikontic, a pipeline that builds knowledge graphs from text by enforcing Wikidata's ontological rules and merging duplicate entities.
• Papers:
  • Using Wikidata’s Ontology in Practice: A Neuro-Symbolic, Community-Centred Workflow for Integrating and Reusing Humanities Datasets - This article introduces an ontology-first, community-driven workflow that aligns humanities datasets with Wikidata to address data silos and gender inequities, offering reusable modelling patterns, SPARQL-based analysis, and a neuro-symbolic AI framework that reduces bias and supports reproducible, ontology-backed knowledge graph practices. By Velilla & Ferran-Ferrer (2025).
  • A Semantic Wiki for Language Learning: The Case of the Baoulé Language - The BAOULE-WIKI project introduces a semantic wiki and homograph-detection model to preserve and teach the endangered Baoulé language, achieving high accuracy while paving the way for broader digital preservation of African languages through community collaboration and integration with knowledge bases like Wikidata and DBpedia. By Kra et al., (2026).
  • Transforming the Digital Landscape: Towards a Medieval Knowledge Graph - Digitization has transformed medieval studies by expanding access and enabling new research methods, with future progress hinging on Linked Open Data, shareable identifiers, and collaborative knowledge graphs to truly democratize and enrich scholarship. By Burrows, (2026).
  • Towards a Linked Open Index: Reconciling Museum Records to Wikidata for Index of American Design Constituents - The Index of American Design project’s reconciliation of thousands of records with Wikidata reveals both challenges and strategies for improving data alignment, while a linked Power BI tool supports ongoing monitoring of quality, access, and representation in humanities research. By Foster et al., (2026).
  • The “Dizionario Degli Scrittori Italiani Contemporanei Pseudonimi” in Wikidata. Pseudonymous Authors in Wikidata: Dataset and Queries - The dataset from the MA thesis structures biographical data on 19th–20th century pseudonymous Italian authors in Wikidata, including corpus items, SPARQL queries, and analysis documents, and is reusable for further research or case studies. By De Monaco, (2025).

Tool of the week

• Broomstick is a tool by Wikicollabs it uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.
• Explore your Wikimedia activity year in review with Wiki Year in Review
• Wikilokal (Android version): explore the world within a 3 km radius by Affandy Murad

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New project: Dissemination of polymer science through Wikipedia and Wikidata (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Q33438))

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • crowdfunding target (target goal of this crowdfunding campaign)
  • free height (vertical distance from the floor level to the lowest obstruction in the ceiling of an indoor or outdoor space)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎PixelatedArcade genre ID, ‎Game Boy Database game ID, ‎RetroCollect games ID, MyWaifuList work ID, Nonbinary Wiki ID, Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID, DVIDS video ID, FIP.IT basketball player ID, Card Player ID, Télérama film ID, Boosty author ID, ‎Before I Play game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Fungal Names taxon ID (ID number in the [[:w:Fungal Names]] database.)
  • Braille transcription (transcription in Braille)
  • Braille represents (graphene or phone that the Braille cell represents)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: CNVD-ID, Trismegistos editor ID, woordenlijst lemma ID, European Vehicle Number, CourtListener person ID, Norwegian railway station code, Australian National Kennel Council ID, Museo del Marchio Italiano ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Schema examples: (E498) district electoral division: Schema to describe an electoral division (small political division of Ireland).
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project IrishForges: Describing forges and forge buildings of Ireland using Wikidata, Wikimedia and other sources.
  • Project Ireland: A hub for all Ireland-related Wikidata activities including cross-Wikiproject tasks.
  • Project Historic Irish Placenames: focusing on County Kilkenny, connect historic placenames with their modern counterparts or create new items for "lost places".
  • Svenska psalmodikon: A sub-project for the psalmodikon (Q3354977), a stringed-instrument popular in Sweden.
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiPojects as decentralized governance - this sub-page of the Limits of Wikidata project proposes WikiProjects become caretakers of collections or subgraphs of relevant items.
• Showcase Items: Venezuela (Q717) - country in South America
• Showcase Lexemes: размах (L155644) - Russian noun (rɐzˈmax) meaning "amplitude (of a swing)", "physical span or width", or "scale/scope (of an activity)"

Development

• No development happened in the past week as the team are just returning from the holidays.

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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:21, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Rock_wren "leading" in phrase "leading up to" is not promotional(cool script btw) monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 20:01, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Close to 40k edits in 3 years... Wow! This barnstar is to appreciate that and more. Keep it going! Volten001 ^☎ 05:08, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Happy new year! Polygnotus (talk) 22:39, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – January 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2025).

Administrator changes

• Epicgenius
• Left guide
• LEvalyn
• MPGuy2824
• The4lines
• Yue

Fathoms Below

• BaronLarf
• Firefly
• kelapstick
• Opabinia regalis
• Pbsouthwood
• Sethant
• UtherSRG
• Whouk

CheckUser changes

• Giraffer
• HouseBlaster
• SilverLocust

• Liz
• Worm That Turned
• Z1720

Oversight changes

• Asilvering
• Giraffer
• Girth Summit
• Guerillero
• HouseBlaster
• Izno
• SilverLocust

• Liz
• Worm That Turned
• Z1720

Guideline and policy news

• All general sanctions imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE) as a result of a recent RfC.
• Due to the result of a recent RFC, the administrator recall process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election, whichever is later.
• Changes to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy's disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE for more information.

Arbitration

• Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Asilvering, Girth Summit, Guerillero, HJ Mitchell, HouseBlaster, Izno, Sdrqaz, SilverLocust.
• The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been suspended.

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Wikidata weekly summary #714

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #713.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: AmeisenBot 3 - Task/s: Adding descriptions (and possibly labels and aliases as well) to items based on their statements.
• New CheckUser requests: Saroj (RfP scheduled to end at 25 January 2026 09:31 UTC)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 14th January 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • WMF Wikidata Platform team is launching a new office hours series starting January 27th, 2026 and continuing on the first Tuesday of each month. The scope of this series is be limited to Blazegraph migration support for the entirety of 2026. Participants are encouraged to register in advance for each session and may optionally add a brief description of their migration-related questions to the shared Etherpad to help guide preparation. See Blazegraph Migration office hour page for more details

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Wikidata at 13: Fante Wikimedians Joins the Celebration
• Papers: Structuring the Sights and Stories of Pausanias with Wikidata - The Digital Periegesis project leverages Wikidata and linked open data tools to annotate, disambiguate, and connect Pausanias’s complex 2nd‑century text, enhancing accessibility, interoperability, and scholarly engagement with Greece’s historical and mythological landscape. By Kiesling et al., (2025)
• Videos: (Papiamento) Wikipedia on Aruba | Episode 8: How to add a new topic (item) to Wikidata

Tool of the week

• Knowledge Train A game to create a train of knowledge with the power of Wikidata - User:Athulvis

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile statement editing is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata. Enable the Beta feature in your preferences settings, head to Wikidata Sandbox (Q4115189) (in mobile view) to test it and share your feedback here: Mobile editing of statements.
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team 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. To have new issues of the WDP monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: common organism (organisms known by this common name)
• Newest External identifiers: Boosty author ID, ‎Before I Play game ID, ‎Korea Heritage Service Heritage Portal ID, ‎KaraokeTexty.cz artist ID, ‎KaraokeTexty.cz song ID, ‎Showlabs ID, DEUMM Online ID, Slekt og Data cemetery ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia ID, EZB library ID, topic of Dictionary of Canadian biography identifier, Cover Art Archive image, ‎X broadcast ID, Theaterencyclopedie ID, Maitron biography ID (new version), ‎Scilit organization ID, Fragrantica perfume ID, Fragrantica perfume brand ID, izoh.uz word ID, ‎Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID, Fragrantica perfume notes ID, Fragrantica perfumer ID, Parfumo perfume brand ID, Parfumo perfumer ID, Parfumo perfume ID, Parfumo fragrance notes ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Artistagraph ID (Identifies the Artistagraph for an artistIdentifier for creative works on Artistagraph, a platform for documenting and discovering artist information and creative work connections)
  • number of tunnel tubes (Number of parallel tubes in a tunnel.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:: Mapillary sequence ID, People's Graphic Design Archive creator ID, Uni24k indentifier, Brussels BeStAddress municipality ID, Brussels BeStAddress street name ID, Brussels BeStAddress address ID, Wikifunctions object, MAX username, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ID, The Retro Web company ID, Schulnummer Berlin, KCI article ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Timeline of coup d'états
  • All towns named Versailles
• Showcase Items: mojito - traditional Cuban highball cocktail

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We have released the first version of mobile statement editing as a beta feature (see details above). In addition we are improving it further and are adding missing functionality to get it ready for a full release. This includes adding editing support for additional data types such as date and musical notation.
• Blazegraph replacement: The Wikidata platform team is continuing their evaluation of alternative backends for the Wikidata Query Service.
• Graph QL: We are continuing to work on the prototype to get it ready for wider testing and are waiting on a security review.
• Dumps: We fixed an issue where the "latest" symlinks to data dumps weren't working correctly.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are investigating how to further reduce the number of unnecessary changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes coming from Wikidata. The work on this is also helping reduce the size of the recent changes database table, which is especially important on larger Wikipedias. In addition we are continuing to improve the Databox module to make it easier for smaller Wikipedias to get Wikidata-powered infoboxes.

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: Kazakhstan
• 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: 2026-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.

Updates for editors

• As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists project, the display of EditWatchlist will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish. [18]
• The Global Watchlist is a MediaWiki extension that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs. [19][20][21][22]
• View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13. [23]

Updates for technical contributors

• The VisualEditor citation tool and Reference Previews now support "map" as a reference type. [24]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki/MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:31, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

"Relevance"?

At one time this set up the later development of Dee Dee trying to blame some of Gypsy's purported issues on that accident. I'll have to look through older versions of the article. Daniel Case (talk) 07:08, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, unreliable source allthatsinteresting says: Then, when Gypsy Rose was around eight years old, she fell off of her grandfather’s motorcycle. Dee Dee took her to the hospital, where she was treated for a minor abrasion to her knee. But Dee Dee was unconvinced that her daughter was healed. She believed that Gypsy Rose would need several surgeries if she ever hoped to walk again. Until then, Dee Dee decided, Gypsy Rose would remain in a wheelchair as to not aggravate her knee further. Polygnotus (talk) 07:31, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Daniel Case Ah here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOQcOQ4Mk_I&list=PL2h7Wy4Xi82iPibi7LEZNErOBJavQ3Zqh&index=2 Polygnotus (talk) 07:35, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 1

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on December 5. Please help translate.

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Highlights

• Wikipedia turns 25: Time to start the party! Join the virtual celebration featuring musical performances, games, and more on January 15 at 16:00 UTC. and The party will be live interpreted into Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Join the celebration

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Annual planning: Key questions for the Wikimedia movement to shape the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026-2027 annual goals. Join the discussion on-wiki.
• Hackathon:
  • Apply to join the Northwestern Europe 2026 Hackathon from March 13-14 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Application will close mid-January 2026 or earlier based on event capacity.
  • General Registration for the 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon is now open! The hackathon will take place in Milan, Italy from May 1 - 3, 2026. Event details can be found here and registration will remain open until March 30th or until event capacity is reached.
• Semantic search: Wikimedia Foundation is working on making it easier to find the information readers want.
• Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 50, week 51, and week 52 include that now edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details which will help oversighters to prevent doxxing.
• Wikifunctions: The first Wikifunctions Volunteers' Corner of the next year will take place on February 9.
• Blazegraph Migration: To support the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), we are hosting regular calls starting on January 27. Wikidata users and tool maintainers are are invited to join, ask questions, and share migration-related concerns.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events · The Wikipedia Library

• Upcoming Conferences: Announcing the six Wikimedia conferences funded for 2026 in the first round.
• Wikimania 2026: A glimpse on what the team is currently working on to prepare for Wikimania 2026 in Paris.
• Public Policy: Explore the resources available for public policy advocacy work, including explainers that describe key policy positions, guides on how to build a campaign or write a policy brief, and examples of open letters submitted to governments.
• Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
• Public-Interest content: The Project Gayatri content expansion program brought 7,656 new articles on Indonesian Wikipedia.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: The research showcase will return on January 22 at 17:30 UTC with the theme "Celebrating 25 Years of Wikipedia and the Research Behind It".
• Wikimedia Research Report: The Wikimedia Foundation has published its 13th bi-annual Research Report, highlighting the work completed during the first six months of this fiscal year.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Past issues of the bulletin for progress on the annual plan

• Wikimedia Enterprise: Read the full annual wrap-up of 2025 of Wikimedia Enterprise and how the year marked a fundamental shift in open knowledge.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board of Trustees: Wikimedia Foundation welcomes two new Board Trustees Bobby Shabangu and Michał Buczyński.
• Affcom News: Read the year-end issue of AffCom News (July-December 2025), the newsletter that distributes relevant news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters ·Milestones ·

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Happy 25th Anniversary of Wikipedia!!

Feel free to read my story at User:Interstellarity/My Story and join in for some Wikipedia-related fun. I hope you like it. Interstellarity (talk) 22:10, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 15 January 2026

• News and notes: Wikipedia's 25th anniversary is here!
  Where does the time go?

• Special report: Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call
  The internet is booming. We are not.

• Serendipity: The WMF wants to buy you books!
  Really! A major triumph.

• WikiProject report: Time for a health check: the Vital Signs 2026 campaign
  The campaign to get all of our top-importance medical articles up to B-class or above.

• In the media: Fake Acting President Trump and a Wikipedia infobox
  D.J.T. assumes a new position.

• Community view: The inbox behind Wikipedia
  What the Volunteer Response Team actually does!

• Recent research: Art museums on Wikidata; comparing three comparisons of Grokipedia and Wikipedia
  And other research.

• Traffic report: Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight
  A world in white gets underway.

• Comix: Oh come on man.
  Really?

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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. [25]
• 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. [26][27][28][29]
• 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. [30]

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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Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Stephanie_S._Watowich "outstanding" in phrase "Award for Outstanding" is not promotional pHLOGISTON eNTHUSIAST (tALK pAGE) 14:42, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

FlyingDog "a record" in phrase "a record label" is not promotional pHLOGISTON eNTHUSIAST (tALK pAGE) 14:23, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DuplicateReferences false-positive

Valentino (fashion designer) https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/08/archives/its-more-dazzle-for-the-new-valentino.html Esprit15d • talk • contribs 14:36, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Editor of the Week

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Rafaelthegreat submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Polygnotus to be Editor of the Week for their amazing scripts and teahouse work. This user has made many wonderful scripts (like the AI Proofreader which I use and is very helpful) that help out very well. He even helped someone create a script! We should all thank them for their incredible knowledge of scripting and code (look at their user page!) And when Editor Oshwah was not online, this user skillfully responded to tricky questions at Oshwah's talk page. They even respond to questions at WP:TEA! This nomination was seconded by Bunnypranav, TechnoSquirrel69 and LuniZunie

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

{{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}

Tireless Contributor

Polygnotus

Editor of the Week for the week beginning January 25, 2026

Nominated to be Editor of the Week for their amazing scripts and Teahouse work. Polygnotus has made many wonderful scripts such as the AI Proofreader which many editors use as a helpful tools in article creation. He has even helped an editor create a script! Their incredible knowledge of scripting and code is second to none. And when Editor Oshwah was off-line for an extended period, Polygnotus skillfully responded to tricky questions at Oshwah's talk page.

Recognized for

creating numerous scripts

Submit a nomination

Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 15:39, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! That is very nice to hear! Wikipedia can feel like shouting into the void sometimes so its nice when someone notices. Thanks again, Polygnotus (talk) 02:00, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! Very well deserved =) – LuniZunie_(talk) 19:45, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank god I didn't waste those 17 months writing my acceptance speech! Polygnotus (talk) 20:07, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

talk page comment conventions

A (now-inactive) user created User:IndentBot, which fixed inconsistencies in wikitext list markup, but they stopped running the bot, possibly because many users get cranky when the bot makes an imperfect edit, or when they disagree with its edit. (It used to save me from making lots of edits to improve accessibility in discussion threads.) For this particular situation, since only the arbitration clerks and arbitrators can copy edit the comment in question, a script would help only if they wanted to use it.

I have a custom stylesheet (see User:Isaacl/style/discussion-threads) that adds a vertical bar to the left of lists used within discussion threads and alternates between two different colours for the background of each level of nested list. With this stylesheet, it's easy to spot changes in list style type, as the vertical bar will be interrupted. isaacl (talk) 23:25, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Surrey_County_Cricket_Club "historic" in phrase "historic county" (also "historic counties") is not promotional (the countries of the British Isles have historic counties and England has ceremonial counties.)
PS: The phrase "historic offences" appears quite a lot too, to literally mean offences that were committed long ago but where a perpetrator is now held to account. There may be similar ones like "historic crimes". Komonzia (talk) 02:53, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Germanwings_Flight_9525 "expert" in phrase "expert support" is not promotional birdn4t0r (talk) 06:15, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Germanwings_Flight_9525 "exceptional" in phrase "exceptional cases" is not promotional birdn4t0r (talk) 06:17, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Getting_Killed "a record" in phrase "a record label" is not promotional. Also include the phrase "a record producer" Cattos^💭 16:43, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos

... for maintaining your cool with this PITA. It's hard to know what the dumbest aspect of his argumentation is:

• Is it that he still, at this late date, thinks that the size of the wikisource (not not images, templates, and Wikimedia-added gadgetry and administrative debris) is the main determinant of load time?
• Or is it that he actually appealed to some nobody's blog [31], wherein the nobody (citing some other nobody's blog) actually informs us that if tabs, empty lines, and comments were removed from his university's homepage "from the start of the year to 25 October 2020, we could have saved 2.2GB of bandwidth ... and reduce our carbon footprint"? 2.2GB! Imagine! (And the carbon footprint just has to be intentional self-parody.) I don't know what's stupider -- being the guy who says such a thing and puts his name on it, or being the guy who cites the guy who says such a thing.
• Or perhaps you have your own favorite.

He poses as some kind of technical expert, but it's clear he's just a script kiddie. I always suspected it, but when he wrote that my talk "is still lagging real hard and I still couldn't type a medium-sized word without the edit page going unresponsive for like 10 seconds" [32] it became certain that he was either not using section edits, or was using that stupid Reply tool, or had some kind of syntax highlighter or other stuff installed -- or all three -- and that he either doesn't understand the significance of those, or does but expects others to cater to his personal preferences (which he's now explicitly said). Congrats for forcing that out into the open.

The parallels to the insane proposal for an "Article Breakup Committee" of long ago [33] ...

I am interested in starting a small "long article" breakup committee ... First, an editor tries to establish consensus: the issue is brought up on the talk page, and it is suggested that the regulars break up the article into subtopics, with short summary paragraphs (w/ main article attachments) ... so that the main page gets below a certain limit. Second, if plan #1 stifles out in argument and indecision to act, for a number of consecutive weeks, than an breakup arbitration committee notice is placed on the talk page, putting an ultimatum deadline, such that either the regulars break up the page to below a certain limit by that date or an external breakup committee, enforced by a team of administrators, will do so.

... are really striking. That guy called anything over 100K a "super long page", which even 20 years ago was stupid. And like our friend today, he didn't seem to understand about templates, images, and so on, but was certain of the righteousness of his cause.

Anyway, thanks for doing what I probably could not have done without losing my cool, which is make it clear to all what the true source of his trouble is. Hopefully it's finally dawning on him what a fool he's made of himself. EEng 18:29, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@EEng The best bit is obviously do you pretend to know better than me how my device works in response to Guy Macon.

I have the filenames of c:Category:Large images so I can make browsers struggle with less than 75KB of wikicode. Polygnotus (talk) 20:24, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

While I share most or all of the above opinions, I prefer to avoid getting into a fight, and don't need to be pinged. I believe I made my position on supposedly overly long wikitext perfectly clear in this comment:[34]

And yes, I probably do know better than he does how his device works.

Speaking of large images, I may have created the smallest image on Wikipedia that actually shows the user something useful: [35] --Guy Macon (talk) 00:34, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Guy Macon One time I discovered codegolf.stackexchange.com and https://www.dwitter.net/ and then I somehow lost about two weeks of my life. Polygnotus (talk) 11:11, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Stop closing discussions while involved

This is the second time in two days [36] [37]. You are in violation of WP:INVOLVED/WP:BADNAC because you extensively commented against my proposal and made public your opinion about how this discussion is a waste of time. You were told so the first time. You ignored me regardless. You provide no rationale whatsoever.
This is not how requests for comment are held, and as an experienced user, you must know this. Also, to preempt your argument, The snowball clause may not always be appropriate if a particular outcome is merely "likely" or "quite likely", and there is a genuine and reasoned basis for disagreement. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 20:01, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Szmenderowiecki You are "in violation of" [sic] WP:BADRFC, WP:BADGER, WP:DROPTHESTICK, WP:WIKILAWYER and various other uppercase shortcuts. Wikilawyering doesn't work with experienced users (especially not those who made WikiTextExpander).

Do you really think re-opening that discussion is going to somehow lead to the result you want? Do you not see how closing it is in your advantage? Can you not predict the future? Extrapolate from the data points you have. You are 66 edits deep in that discussion and there is just one person who was working towards a solution. Polygnotus (talk) 20:20, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Balls deep

To the first paragraph: Wikilawyering is providing tortured reading of policy to fit your argument. You were given the literal reading of WP:INVOLVED - you are party to the discussion, you don't get to close it. It can't be clearer than that. And you were balls deep in that discussion as well, with 40 edits.
To the second paragraph: at least half of the edit count could have been avoided on VPI if people cared to read its contents. While reading some of the other arguments, I could not escape parallels with debates over the attire of the sexual assault victim on the night she went to the nightclub. The one person who actually worked towards something is to be commended for spending time thinking about alternatives and proposed at least something. This is constructive debate. Most other editors flat out refused to help. It's their right but also they don't get to say that the discussion was not productive. You shut this all down.
Just because the original proposal wasn't going to pass doesn't mean that search for solution could not be happening.
Guy Macon I know what WP:INVOLVED stands for, it has been long accepted practice that non-admin users closing discussions assume admin responsibilities and accountability, even while not using admin tools, because closures are generally the domain of administrators. That's WP:NACINV. It was a shorthand. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 20:59, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Szmenderowiecki Can you do me a favour and never make Godwinian-like comparisons to debates over the attire of the sexual assault victims again? It makes you look really bad, and I am sure that is not your intention. Thanks. You are comparing people to rape apologists for disagreeing with you. I have seen people blocked for less. Fun fact: Mike Godwin worked at the WMF.

Just because the original proposal wasn't going to pass doesn't mean that search for solution could not be happening. I started the "search for solution". And now you have a Phab ticket authored by Quiddity. No one else was searching for a solution.

Thanks to me you literally have the best result you could've hoped to achieve from that discussion: an actual WMF nerd who can actually do something to fix the problem.

Closing that discussion is saving your ass from yet more pile-ons; Wikipedians are herd animals. So instead of complaining about it you should thank me for that as well.

Subscribe to the Phabricator ticket over at T416247. Polygnotus (talk) 09:36, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Szmenderowiecki You are "in violation of" posting a purposely misleading user warning to this page. Try actually reading WP:INVOLVED. Polygnotus is not an administrator and closing a discussion is not a use of administrator tools. Please don't pick random policies and accuse people of violating them when they clearly do not apply.

Polygnotus, per WP:NACINV you should have posted a call for close instead of closing the discussion yourself. Please don't do that. --Guy Macon (talk) 20:59, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have a draft essay arguing the opposite point in Sublime Text, which has equal weight. Polygnotus (talk) 09:54, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

1RR violation

You violated WP:1RR on 2025 Capital Jewish Museum shooting with this edit. Please self-revert. Longhornsg (talk) 04:57, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Also, explain your edit summary you can't link these things per NPOV in response to an accurate sourcing of an RS (that you admit is an RS). Longhornsg (talk) 04:58, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I replied over at Talk:2025 Capital Jewish Museum shooting#NPOV. Polygnotus (talk) 05:21, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #717

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #716.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Sapper-bot 2 - Task: Monthly updates of the Dead Sea level and the "lowest point" property for Israel, Jordan, and Asia.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: LiteraryWorksMetaDataUploadBot - Task: Upload metadata for literary works from research project. (Approved)
• Other: Proposal to configure the Newcomer Dashboard for Wikidata

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Call for Sessions: Wikimania 2026 is Coming to Paris! The submission form will remain open until March 1. Results will be published in May.
  • Who's hiding behind museum collections? - A Wikidata Edit-a-thon by WiNoDa Knowledge Lab (February 24th, 1:00pm-4:30pm CET). This online Edit-a-thon will focus on the many collectors that contributed to the Arachnida and Miryapoda collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Join us to uncover the unspoken human networks that shaped the history of science! Register here: http://winoda.de/en/event/wikidata-edit-a-thon/

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Strengthening the Latin American public domain with Wikidata
• Thesis: Hebeis, Maximilian (2026): Entity Matching for Person Records in Authority Files, Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Master thesis in computer science: "a case study into applying learningbased entity matching to person records from two large authority databases, namely the German national Integrated Authority File (GND) and the crowd-sourced open knowledge base Wikidata")
• Papers: Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD): Wikidata across the humanities: datasets, methodologies, reuse, https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/wikidata_across_the_humanities (new papers have been published during the last week; see a list at d:Q136325279#P527)
• Videos:
  • Africa Wiki Women 1st Newbies Community Meetup - held an orientation for new members on editing Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Commons, to help bridge knowledge gaps of African women on Wiki platforms.
  • Mapping Africa: Visualizing Knowledge and Communities - explores how African communities use maps and geospatial data to enhance Wikidata, improve Wikimedia articles, and make local knowledge more visible globally.

Tool of the week

• Wdlist : Create and manage a personal list of Wikidata items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland Job vacancy - Architect of Storage Solutions - (freelance contract / 4-6 weeks)
• You can now nominate your favorite Wikidata research award for 2025. Call for Nominations now open until February 15, 2026.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name ID, Lenta.ru person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • value type of this mathematical property (type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects)
  • Gifu Prefectural Shrine Association ranking (One of the three rankings given by the Gifu Prefectural Shrine Association)
  • instances must not have (instances of this class or of its subclasses must not have given property or statement)
  • African Scientists Directory ID (identifier for a scientist in the African Scientists Directory)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Center for Jewish History person ID, LINCS ID, Artdoc.Media film ID, Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 practice ID, Walloon-French dictionary ID, Russian Register of Film Distribution Certificates ID, Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID, Identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Woordenboek van Nieuwe Woorden ID, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal ID, Woordcombinaties ID, Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands ID, Database of the Southern Dutch Dialects concept ID, GiveSendGo ID, CrowdRepublic project ID, European Dictionary Portal ID, Gravestone Project Cemetery ID, Uzbek-Russian dictionary ID, Ruwiki ID, Swedish National Archives ID, GDUNO ID, JMRC person id, Catalunya Romànica ID, Mercantile Navy List ID, Igromania author ID, Danmarks Kirker, Medvik ID, Obálky knih ID, National Theatre in Prague artist ID, National Theatre in Prague performance ID, Alpine Linux Wiki article, Microsoft Store developer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Item with a Wikipedia page in lang. X but not Y (source) - modify the wd: QID and the schema:isPartOf for your own purposes.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Chess - Rubinstein-Memorial list
  • WikiProject Units of Measurement
  • Wikiproject Medicine - List of Italian Doctors
  • WikiProject Evanion Collection
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject every Politician / Canada - all Commons lists were updated.
• Newest database reports: Variety of reports for deletion candidates

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are making progress with identifying additional ways in which we can reduce the number of irrelevant changes from Wikidata showing up in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co.
  • We are discussing with pilot Wikipedias about turning on showing Wikidata changes by default in watchlist and recent changes (moving it from opt-in to opt-out)
• GraphQL: We are putting the last touches on a GraphQL endpoint for Wikidata. We are planning to get it live later this month for feedback.
• LDF endpoint: We are planning to decommission the endpoint in preparation for the migration away from Blazegraph on the 18th of February (phab:T415696)
• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are almost done with adding support for editing statements with quantity and monolingual text datatype and finished support for mathematical expression statements. We started support for editing coordinate statements.
  • We are continuing the work on showing constraint violations.
• Wikibase Ecosystem: We are in the process of setting up a demo system for ontology federation (i.e. using Wikidata Items as values in statements on another Wikibase instance)

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: 2026-06

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 "Page information" feature, which gives validating information about a page (example), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed. [38]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed. [39]

Updates for technical contributors

• There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only. [40]
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Weekly highlight

• Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:41, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 2

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on Jan 10. Please help translate.

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Highlights
Let's Talk continues

• Annual planning: The Annual Plan is the Wikimedia Foundation’s description of what we hope to achieve in the coming year. This is a time of urgency and focus for the Wikimedia projects and we invite you to shape this plan together with us.
• Year 2 of PTAC: As it reached its first year, Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) shared a retrospective and proposed future improvements.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Account security: All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA), providing a simple and secure way to log in.
• Wikifunctions: An overview of the quarterly plan (January–March) and how it connects to the broader goals for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions.
• Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 03, 04 and 05 include unregistered contributors on blocked IPs can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account.
• Collaborative contributions: Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a learning session to share new releases around collaborative contributions and discuss future project ideas.
• Structured task: The Revise Tone Structured Task is now live in A/B testing on pilot wikis: English, Arabic, Portuguese, and French Wikipedia. It helps new editors improve promotional language in existing articles through a quiz style onboarding experience and a guided in article suggestion.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
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• Policy: The Global Advocacy team shared a report from digital policy organization InternetLab about the intersection between the open knowledge movement and public interest journalism.
• Global Resource Distribution Committee: Refreshed Funding Principles are ready for review.

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Sub-referencing: Update

Sub-referencing example

Greetings from WMDE Technical Wishes! In September 2025 we deployed sub-referencing to German Wikipedia to make re-using references with different details easier. Thanks for piloting and helping to improve the feature!

We recently published our insights and next steps in our report. Some highlights:

• Over 6,000 Wikipedia articles use the new feature, with a total of over 15,000 sub-references created to date.
• There are both experienced editors in featured articles (e.g. de:Explosion des Oppauer Stickstoffwerkes) and relatively inexperienced VisualEditor users (e.g. in de:Schmerzhafte Muttergottes (Guido Cagnacci)) using the feature. The majority of all sub-references (approx. 90%) are created in wikitext, yet over 300 editors have used the function in VisualEditor alone.
• Workarounds like <ref name="Miller" /><sup>p. 44</sup> (in the reader view ^{[1] p. 44}) have been replaced entirely by sub-referencing, which means that the complete reference information – including the page number – is now visible in both the reference list and in Reference Previews.
• Sub-referencing is used with lots of different citation details – predominantly page numbers, but also details such as chapters, paragraphs, quotes or video / audio timestamps.

What has happened since September?

• We ensured that re-used sub-references actually appear as re-used in the reader view and in VisualEditor.
• We've made some cosmetic changes to the reference list: Initially, multi-line sub-references (e.g. quotations) were not displayed ideally, and two-digit sub-reference numbers were not indented correctly.
• In VisualEditor, we have provided a feature to choose whether changes to re-used sub-references should affect all uses of the same sub-reference or only the one currently edited.

What's next?

• We will deploy sub-referencing to additional pilot wikis next week: Polish Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipdia and seven smaller wikis (phab:T414094). All of these projects have been notified in advance.
• We are working on technical adjustments to make sub-referencing usable in all wikis that use variants of the {{Reflist}} template.
• We are continuing to address community feedback: Among other things, we are currently exploring various ideas for visually improving reference lists with lots sub-references (e.g. de:Liste der Straßen in Bad Honnef#Einzelnachweise und Anmerkungen).
• In addition to sub-referencing, we are looking at other reference-related improvements: We are considering general improvements to Reference Previews or solving issues with automatically created reference names in VisualEditor – there will be announcements and community consultations on this in the near future.

More information about sub-referencing on our project page, more about our learnings and next steps in our report. All the best from WMDE Technical Wishes!

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Wikidata weekly summary #718

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #717.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Numishare Blog: Improving searchability using Natural language Processing + Wikidata - How NLP-based search improvements for numismatic collections for the American Numismatic Society. Python NLP tools and Wikidata add a semantic layer that links equivalent terms (e.g. “serpent” and “snake”) to improve discovery across coin databases such as OCRE and MANTIS. Author: Ethan Gruber.
• Videos:
  • Art+Feminism Conversations / Intro to Wikidata + Archives: Led by User:Epìdosis and User:Alan Ang (WMDE), this recording covers tools that support collaborative Wikidata editing, and includes with brief updates on mobile editing, Wikibase software, and work at the intersection of AI and Wikidata. Find more info and tools covered on Meta:Art+Feminism
  • Custom Upload Funnel Creation on Wikimedia Commons: Wiki Loves Africa 2026 - User:Kambai Akau and the Tyap User Group demonstrate how to contribute to the Wiki Loves Africa 2026 contest, incl. how to add a Wikidata Infobox to your contributions, and how to create Wikidata Items if they are missing.
  • (Papiamento) Add a different language Label to a Wikidata Item Wikipedia Above Aruba|Ep. 9 - it's not always obvious how to add labels, descriptions and aliases of different languages to Wikidata items, this short video demonstrates how.
  • Hands-on Exercise: Data Cleaning & Preparation with OpenRefine - Daniel Garjio guides through exercises to cluster and merge duplicate values, standardise formats, reconcile data with external authority sources such as Wikidata.
  • (Spanish) Mapeo colaborativo, plataformas libres y autonomía local, part of the Conference on Climate Justice, Indigenous Voices, and Wikimedia Platforms (2024) - speaker: Túllio Morais Franca shows how to integrate mapping tools suchas OpenStreetMap and Mapillary with Wikidata, Commons and Wikipedia.

Tool of the week

• Wiki Clarity Tool: Clarity Tool is a lightweight web application built to empower editors across Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. It helps contributors identify missing information in articles and suggests structured data from Wikidata to fill those gaps.

• Name Suggestion Index : Submit a Brand - A tool that links Wikidata brand items to the Name Suggestion Index project on OpenStreetMap.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editors can now edit String and External ID datatypes directly in the mobile view. To help improve this new interface, Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for volunteers for UX testing sessions. Participants will be compensated for their time. Sign up here (greatquestion) and learn more on the project page: Mobile editing of statements

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎braille transcription (transcription in Braille)
  • location collected (geographic location where a specimen or sample was collected in the field)
• Newest External identifiers: Rappels theatrical production ID, Berlin School ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Siège occupé ({{TranslateThis | fr = siège occupé par une personne au sein d'une académie ou autre société à ''numerus clausus'' }})
  • Standard Number (A standard serial number)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: MusicaPopular.cl ID, JMRC person id (en), Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography ID, CAMEO page ID, TeamNL athlete ID (new), World Flora Online Plant List, radeberger-stadtgeschichte.de Objekt Identifikator, Master Ideographs Seeker Character ID, Flohic ID, Oricon News person ID, radiko person ID, Xcity actress ID, TV Drama Database Program ID, Van Dale Rijmwoordenboek sentences ID, Van Dale Rijmwoordenboek word ID, BISMaL taxon ID, Vlaams Woordenboek ID, Kotobank Japanese ID, Nişanyan Adlar ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Items with two or more Olympedia people ID (source) - find duplicate external identifier.
  • Music roll releases with recordings of works performed by composer (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject progressive Metal
  • Wikiproject Basque Cultural heritage and GLAM
• Newest database reports: 'Template' items with only one sitelink - per Wikidata:Notability, "If a link is a template, the item must contain at least two such sitelinks..."
• Showcase Items: It Was Just an Accident (Q133866932) - a 2025 thriller film, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
• Showcase Lexemes:

Development

• Dumps: We published the report from our research into the user experience with Wikidata's dumps.
• Mobile editing: We are finalizing the support for quantity, monolingual text, mathematical expression and musical notation statements as well as a first version for coordinate statements.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We have continued our investigation into existing Lua modules in order to find more ways in which we can reduce unwanted entries from Wikidata in Recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We found a number of options that we are looking into now. (phab:T416822, phab:T416825, phab:T416826, phab:T416827)
• Wikidata Vector embedding: We added German to the embedding (next to English, French and Arabic)

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: 2026-07

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

• Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.
• A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. Learn more. [41]
• When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes. [42]
• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata and testwikidata. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages. [43][44]
• The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function {{#isbn}} available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so. [45]
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Jju (w:kaj:) [46]
  • a Wikipedia in Nawat (w:ppl:) [47]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• A new global user group has been created: Local bots. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has. [48]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026 will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend. [49]

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2026).

Administrator changes

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Arbitration

• Due to the result of a recent motion, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor's Arab-Israeli conflict topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2026 Steward elections started on 06 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC) and will end on 27 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process for current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.

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ai;dr

I saw that post, immediately thought we needed a Wikipedia template/redirect for it, and found you'd beat me to it. Is there a suitable equivalent for the {{end}}? Then it could be added to the table in the template doc. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 05:12, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@ClaudineChionh Ha I had just db-g7'ed em for exactly that problem. But perhaps you are more creative than I am? Polygnotus (talk) 05:14, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) How about {{drai}} or perhaps {{dr;ai}}? Somewhat echoes the beep-boop scheme.—Odysseus1479 07:19, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Odysseus1479 Thanks, that works.  Done Polygnotus (talk) 17:32, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

"Complicated situation…"

I am duly impressed by your psychic powers!   Maproom (talk) 17:54, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #719

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #718.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Sjö - RfP scheduled to end after 17 February 2026 10:02 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: SEEKCommonsBot - Task: Synchronize Wikidata records created by the SEEKCommons project with OpenAlex
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • AmeisenBot 3 - Task: Adding descriptions (and possibly labels and aliases as well) to items based on their statements. Request closed as approved.
  • Che-W-bot - Request withdrawn.

Events

• Upcoming events: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 17 February, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, February 17 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikiproject P244 maintenance uses SPARQL queries to identify and resolve two types of constraint violations in Wikidata: instances of Wikidata items with more than one LCNAF identifier and instances of the same LCNAF identifier existing on more than one Wikidata item. The February 17th session will walk participants through how to resolve the former issue, while the March 3rd session will focus on the latter. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/LCNAF_Duplicate_Detection_P244_Maintenance

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wiki for Botanists, why thematic engagement matters: WMNZ/Aotearoa on how sustained outreach with botanists via Wikidata workshops, edit-a-thons, and conferences is improving plant-related knowledge on the Wikimedia projects and building strong collaborative relationships with scientific communities.
  • Tech News Week 7 / Global Watchlists extension: now supports multiple Wikibase instance (i.e. Wikidata + Test Wikidata) and fixes right-to-left (RTL) text directionality issues.
  • The Spark of Linked Data and Libraries: OCLC Passage Project White Paper Translation Report
• Papers: Federating Open Knowledge through Wikibase: the case of the Finno-Ugric data sharing space: Antal et al. (2026) present a community-driven, federated prototype to link multilingual cultural heritage data, open ontologies and preserve local epistemologies.
• Videos:
  • How to Unlock Knowledge Graph Data for LLMs with AI Retrieval - User:Philippe Saade (WMDE), AI/ML Project Manager talks to Chad Jennings of Beyond the Blueprints (IBM Product Hub) on making Wikidata more accessible for AI developers, replacing SPARQL-heavy workflows with vector search and hybrid retrieval.
  • (French) Créer une carte uMap à partir de données géolocalisées extraites de Wikidata - video presentation of 2026 Digital Encounters "Mapping territorial data in uMap"
  • Africa Wiki Women 2026 On Wiki Skills Mentorship Program - Introduction to Wikidata
  • Africa Wiki Women 2026 On Wiki Skills Mentorship Program - Major and Minor edits on Wikidata
  • EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-01-28) - participants discuss progress on the early adopter phase, incl. how to categorise and track contributions, what statistics to measure and progress on MCO application profiles (persons + corporate bodies)

Tool of the week

• Queer Memory multilingual web app that explores global queer history through live Wikidata timelines, places, rights, culture, and activism. Currently available in English, French, and Spanish.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Etherpad cleanup, save your pads now. All pads after 1st March 2026 willbe deleted so if you need any of your pads, please make a local backup.
• The Wikibase REST API search endpoints are now available on v1 and considered stable! It's important to note that the older v0, which has been live on Wikidata since July 2025, will remain available for a two month transition period until mid-April 2026. We encourage all users to migrate to the new v1 endpoints during this time to ensure that their applications can continue to work seamlessly.
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team has published its February 2026 newsletter. It includes result of an initial evaluation of open-source triple store candidates as part of the migration away from Blazegraph, the next Blazegraph migration office hour, and more. To have new issues of the WDP monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: category for music in this language (link to category item that contains music in this language)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎DOAB book ID, ‎qamus.inoor.ir root ID, ‎The Session tune ID, Parfumo fragrance note ID, ‎KaraokeTexty.cz album ID, Biographical encyclopedia of Maros County, Alpine Linux Wiki article, ‎Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 person ID, Igromania author ID, French Trade Mark Number, ‎Bane NOR location code, ‎CardCow.com publisher ID, ‎Lost Pubs Project ID, Handball Base ID, Handballnews.pl person ID, Center for Jewish History person ID, African Scientists Directory ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Number of translations (Number of translations)
  • Panoramax instance URL (the Panoramax instance of/about the subject)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID, Bach digital person ID, Bach digital work ID, YList ID, identificativo Antenati, Pesistulokset.fi player ID, Liiga.fi player ID, Letterboxd producer ID, Topplista artist ID, Apple Music Classical work ID, Fragplace brands ID, Fragplace fragrances ID, Fragplace notes ID, Fragplace perfumers ID, Sport Express person ID, ciss.org sportsperson ID (deaf sport)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects: Learned Societies
• WikiProject Highlights: a discussion regarding how to standardise the data model of the membership of learned societies
• Showcase Items: Super Moscato Show (Q3324704) - French radio program and audio podcast
• Showcase Lexemes: collection (L3941) - English noun (kəˈlɛkʃən) meaning "a group of gathered items", "money gathered for charity/church", or "the act of acquiring"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are putting finishing touches on editing support for external ID, URL, monolingual text, quantities and coordinate statements.
  • We worked on visually highlighting preferred and deprecated statements on the mobile site similar to how it is done on desktop.
  • We worked on showing more than one constraint violation when a statement violates multiple constraints.
• Ontology Federation: We continued working allowing other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata Items in their statements (and later from other Wikibase instances). You can see a demo video of the current development state at ontology federation demo.
• GraphQL: We worked on documentation to get get the GraphQL endpoint ready for a first release.
• Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team published their report of the evaluation of Blazegraph alternatives. You can read it at File:WDQS Triple Store Evaluation - Benchmark Results Report.pdf.

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: 2026-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The SRE Team will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's Etherpad instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice. [50]

Updates for editors

• The Information Retrieval team will be launching an Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March. Read more on Diff blog. [51]
• The Reader Growth team will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
• Previously, site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add #siteNotice { display: none; } to MediaWiki:Minerva.css. [52][53]
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue on Special:RecentChanges has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected. [54]

Updates for technical contributors

• New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more. [55]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 17 February 2026

• In the media: Global powers see Wikipedia as fundamental target for manipulation
  Attempted Wikipedia shenanigans apparent from Epstein, AI, various governments.

• News and notes: Discussions open for the next WMF Annual Plan
  Plus, WikiFlix going places, steady progress on older FAs and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• Serendipity: Maintenance crews continue to slog through Wikipedia's oldest Featured Articles
  Hundreds of old FAs have been triaged since project began, but thousands remain — and they need reviewers.

• Disinformation report: Epstein's obsessions
  The sex offender's attempts to whitewash Wikipedia run deeper than we first thought.

• Technology report: Wikidata Graph Split and how we address major challenges
  A personal perspective on a major update to the Wikimedia social machine.

• Traffic report: Deaths, killings, films, and the Olympics
  I'll have the usual!

• Opinion: Incoming Incurables
  A poem for Wikipedia Day 2026.

• Crossword: Pop quiz
  Sharpen your pencil. How well do you really know Wikipedia?

• Comix: herculean
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 3

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on January 30. Please help translate.

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Highlights

• Wikipedia Library: Wikipedia Library gained new content partnerships, restored access to the British Newspaper Archive, and added an Arabic language academic resource with more than 7 million records.
• Gender gap: The Celebrate Women 2026 campaign will run from March 1–31 to advance the achievements of the women’s rights and gender equity movement globally.
• Annual Planning: The Annual Plan is the Wikimedia Foundation’s description of what we hope to achieve in the coming year. We invite you to shape this plan together with us. Between now and the end of June 2026, we will have continuous conversations about how global trends may shape our future, how we can experiment, adapt and respond together.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Patrolling improvements: A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming.
• Wikifunctions: How Abstract Wikipedia articles can be integrated into Wikipedia language editions to enable Wikipedians to write an abstract article once and have it available in many languages.
• Suggestion Mode: A new Beta Feature for the VisualEditor, Suggestion Mode, is now available on English Wikipedia for experienced editors. This features proactively suggests actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, such as "add citation", "improve tone", or "fix an ambiguous link".
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:26, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Moqui_Lookout_Cabin "historic" in phrase "Historic Lookout" is not promotional pHLOGISTON eNTHUSIAST (tALK pAGE) 19:21, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Planning help pages for AI workflows

I'm contacting the members of WikiProject AI Tools because there is a related discussion about creating help pages on using such tools on Wikipedia. You are invited. It's at Wikipedia talk:Help Project#Planning help for AI workflows. See you there!    — The Transhumanist   14:13, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

AI RfC analysis

You mentioned a Claude analysis of RfC’s. I’d love to learn more.

Look at this answer… ChatGPT knows you!

Prompt: Have there been previous conversations about whether RFCBEFORE is mandatory.

Yes — there have been actual discussions on Wikipedia’s talk pages about whether RFCBEFORE should be considered mandatory before starting a Request for Comment (RfC), and those discussions are visible in archived talk pages. Here’s a summary of what editors have been debating:

🗣️ Talk page discussion on

Talk:Requests for comment

On the Wikipedia talk page for Requests for Comment, editors debated recent changes to the wording of the guidance around RFCBEFORE (the guideline that recommends having a prior discussion before initiating an RfC). This section of the talk page (archived) became the focal point:

• One editor (WAID) had edited the Requests for Comment guidance to include a clarification that “RFCBEFORE good advice, but it’s not required.” Another editor, Polygnotus, reverted that change because they felt it was functionally creating a new rule and could be misused to shut down RfCs.  
• Some editors argued that RFCBEFORE should be mandatory — in other words, editors should always try to discuss an issue on talk pages before tagging it as an RfC, and failing to do so could be a reason to close an RfC. Others pointed out that the existing wording uses “should,” which technically means optional in Wikipedia policy language.  
• Several editors supported the traditional approach — that prior discussion is strong advice but not an absolute requirement — and that an RfC can be opened even if pre-RFC discussion hasn’t happened in every case.  
• A few comments pointed out that making RFCBEFORE “mandatory” (a hard rule) could encourage procedural debates instead of substantive discussions on the topic itself.  

📌 Key takeaway from the talk page

The consensus on that talk page was not that RFCBEFORE is strictly mandatory. Instead:

• Most editors treated RFCBEFORE as a strong recommendation — something you ought to do first — but not a hard requirement that automatically invalidates an RfC if not followed.  
• Some editors explicitly opposed granting it mandatory status and expressed concern about procedural rigidity.  

If you want, I can pull a link to the exact archived section where this debate happens so you can read the full thread yourself. Dw31415 (talk) 02:40, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Dw31415 Just messing about a bit with Sonnet 4.6. If you don't have a Claude API key gimme a shout and I'll make one for you if you wanna test it. Polygnotus (talk) 04:59, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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package org.example; import javax.xml.stream.*; import java.io.*; import java.net.*; import java.net.http.*; import java.nio.file.*; import java.time.*; import java.util.*; import java.util.stream.*; /** * Fetches the full revision history of a Wikipedia page via the MediaWiki API, * computes diffs with sentence-aware context snippets, chunks smartly by token * budget, asks Claude to identify the most important changes per chunk, then * synthesizes a summary at the top. * * Usage: * java WikiAnalyze "Page title" [output.md] [--lang=en] [--token-budget=8000] * [--gap-days=180] [--min-diff=2] * * Required env vars: * CLAUDE_API_KEY for analysis * WIKI_USER_AGENT e.g. "MyTool/1.0 ([e-mail])" * * To skip fetching and analyze an existing XML export instead: * java WikiAnalyze --from-xml=export.xml [output.md] [--token-budget=...] ... */ public class Main { // --- Config defaults --- static final int[] BACKOFF_SECONDS = {30, 60, 180}; static final String API_URL = "https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages"; static final String CLAUDE_MODEL = "claude-sonnet-4-6"; static final int TOKEN_BUDGET = 8_000; static final int GAP_DAYS = 180; static final int MIN_DIFF_LINES = 2; static final int MAX_DIFF_LINES = 300; /** * Maximum characters of surrounding context to include per change block. * If a sentence boundary (. A) is within SNAP_WINDOW chars of this limit, * the snippet is extended or contracted to that boundary instead of hard-cutting. */ static final int CTX_CHAR_LIMIT = 280; static final int SNAP_WINDOW = 60; // --- Data --- record Revision(String id, String parentId, String timestamp, String contributor, String comment, String diffText, int linesAdded, int linesRemoved) { String diffUrl() { return "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=" + id + "&oldid=" + (parentId != null ? parentId : "0"); } } record FetchResult(String title, List<String[]> revisions) {} // ========================================================================= // Entry point // ========================================================================= public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { if (args.length < 1) { die("Usage: java WikiAnalyze \"Page title\" [output.md] [--lang=en]\n" + " [--token-budget=N] [--gap-days=N] [--min-diff=N]\n" + " [--since=YYYY-MM-DD] [--until=YYYY-MM-DD] [--last-days=N] [--last=N]\n" + " java WikiAnalyze --from-xml=file.xml [output.md] [--token-budget=N] ..."); } String apiKey = require("CLAUDE_API_KEY"); String userAgent = System.getenv("WIKI_USER_AGENT"); // Override for local testing — remove in production userAgent = "MyTool/1.0 ([e-mail])"; String fromXml = null; String pageTitle = null; String outputPath = null; String lang = "en"; int tokenBudget = TOKEN_BUDGET; int gapDays = GAP_DAYS; int minDiff = MIN_DIFF_LINES; String since = null; String until = null; int lastDays = -1; int lastN = -1; for (String a : args) { if (a.startsWith("--from-xml=")) fromXml = a.substring(11); else if (a.startsWith("--lang=")) lang = a.substring(7); else if (a.startsWith("--token-budget=")) tokenBudget = Integer.parseInt(a.substring(15)); else if (a.startsWith("--gap-days=")) gapDays = Integer.parseInt(a.substring(11)); else if (a.startsWith("--min-diff=")) minDiff = Integer.parseInt(a.substring(11)); else if (a.startsWith("--since=")) since = a.substring(7); else if (a.startsWith("--until=")) until = a.substring(7); else if (a.startsWith("--last-days=")) lastDays = Integer.parseInt(a.substring(12)); else if (a.startsWith("--last=")) lastN = Integer.parseInt(a.substring(7)); else if (a.startsWith("--")) die("Unknown option: " + a); else if (pageTitle == null && fromXml == null) pageTitle = a; else if (outputPath == null) outputPath = a; } if (fromXml == null && (pageTitle == null || pageTitle.isBlank())) die("Page title is required unless --from-xml is specified."); // --- Step 1: get revisions --- List<String[]> rawRevisions; String resolvedTitle; if (fromXml != null) { System.out.println("Reading XML: " + fromXml); FetchResult result = readXml(fromXml); resolvedTitle = result.title(); rawRevisions = result.revisions(); } else { if (userAgent == null || userAgent.isBlank()) die("WIKI_USER_AGENT not set. Example: \"MyTool/1.0 ([e-mail])\""); if (lastDays > 0) since = Instant.now().minus(Duration.ofDays(lastDays)) .toString().substring(0, 10); System.out.printf("Fetching: \"%s\" from %s.wikipedia.org%n", pageTitle, lang); if (since != null || until != null || lastN > 0) System.out.printf(" Filter: since=%s until=%s lastN=%d%n", since, until, lastN); FetchResult result = fetchRevisions(pageTitle, lang, userAgent, since, until, lastN); resolvedTitle = result.title(); rawRevisions = result.revisions(); } System.out.printf("Page: \"%s\" | %d revisions fetched%n", resolvedTitle, rawRevisions.size()); // --- Step 2: compute diffs --- List<Revision> revisions = computeDiffs(rawRevisions, minDiff); System.out.printf("After min-diff filter (%d lines): %d revisions%n", minDiff, revisions.size()); // --- Step 3: chunk --- final int tokenBudgetF = tokenBudget; final int gapDaysF = gapDays; List<List<Revision>> chunks = smartChunk(revisions, tokenBudgetF, gapDaysF); System.out.printf("Split into %d chunks (budget=%d tokens, gap=%d days)%n", chunks.size(), tokenBudget, gapDays); // --- Step 4: analyze each chunk --- List<String> chunkResults = new ArrayList<>(); for (int i = 0; i < chunks.size(); i++) { List<Revision> chunk = chunks.get(i); System.out.printf(" Chunk %d/%d: %d revisions (%s – %s)...%n", i + 1, chunks.size(), chunk.size(), chunk.get(0).timestamp(), chunk.get(chunk.size()-1).timestamp()); chunkResults.add(analyzeChunk(chunk, resolvedTitle, i + 1, chunks.size(), apiKey)); } // --- Step 5: synthesize summary --- System.out.println("Synthesizing final summary..."); String summary = synthesize(resolvedTitle, chunkResults, revisions, apiKey); // --- Step 6: write output --- if (outputPath == null) outputPath = resolvedTitle.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]", "_") + "_analysis.md"; writeOutput(outputPath, resolvedTitle, revisions, summary, chunkResults); System.out.println("Done → " + outputPath); } // ========================================================================= // Fetch via MediaWiki API // ========================================================================= static FetchResult fetchRevisions(String title, String lang, String userAgent, String since, String until, int lastN) throws Exception { String apiBase = "https://" + lang + ".wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; HttpClient http = HttpClient.newBuilder() .connectTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(30)) .followRedirects(HttpClient.Redirect.NORMAL) .build(); List<String[]> all = new ArrayList<>(); String continueToken = null; String resolvedTitle = title; int batch = 0; boolean reverseMode = lastN > 0; String rvdir = reverseMode ? "older" : "newer"; int batchLimit = (lastN > 0 && lastN < 500) ? lastN : 500; int emptyBatches = 0; do { StringBuilder url = new StringBuilder(apiBase) .append("?action=query&prop=revisions") .append("&titles=").append(URLEncoder.encode(title, "UTF-8")) .append("&rvprop=ids%7Ctimestamp%7Cuser%7Ccomment%7Ccontent") .append("&rvlimit=").append(batchLimit) .append("&rvdir=").append(rvdir) .append("&rvslots=main&format=json"); if (since != null) url.append("&rvstart=").append(URLEncoder.encode(since + "T00:00:00Z", "UTF-8")); if (until != null) url.append("&rvend=").append(URLEncoder.encode(until + "T23:59:59Z", "UTF-8")); if (continueToken != null) url.append("&rvcontinue=").append(URLEncoder.encode(continueToken, "UTF-8")); System.out.printf(" Batch %d: %d revisions so far...%n", ++batch, all.size()); HttpRequest req = HttpRequest.newBuilder() .uri(URI.create(url.toString())) .header("User-Agent", userAgent) .timeout(Duration.ofSeconds(120)) .build(); HttpResponse<String> resp = http.send(req, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString()); String json = resp.body(); if (json == null || json.isBlank()) die("Empty response from API (network blocked?)"); if (resp.statusCode() != 200) die("HTTP " + resp.statusCode() + ": " + json.substring(0, Math.min(300, json.length()))); if (json.contains("\"missing\"")) die("Page not found. Check title spelling and --lang."); if (json.contains("\"error\"")) die("API error: " + extractStr(json, "\"info\":")); String norm = extractStr(json, "\"to\":"); if (norm != null) resolvedTitle = norm; String prevToken = continueToken; continueToken = extractStr(json, "\"rvcontinue\":"); int prevSize = all.size(); int revsStart = json.indexOf("\"revisions\":"); if (revsStart >= 0) { int pos = json.indexOf('[', revsStart) + 1; int depth = 0, objStart = -1; for (int i = pos; i < json.length(); i++) { char c = json.charAt(i); if (c == '{') { if (depth++ == 0) objStart = i; } else if (c == '}') { if (--depth == 0 && objStart >= 0) { String[] rev = parseRevObj(json.substring(objStart, i + 1)); if (rev != null) all.add(rev); objStart = -1; }} else if (c == ']' && depth == 0) break; } } if (all.size() == prevSize) { emptyBatches++; if (emptyBatches >= 10) { System.err.printf("Warning: %d consecutive empty batches at token %s — stopping.%n", emptyBatches, continueToken); break; } } else { emptyBatches = 0; } if (lastN > 0 && all.size() >= lastN) { all = all.subList(0, lastN); break; } if (continueToken != null) Thread.sleep(500); } while (continueToken != null); if (reverseMode) Collections.reverse(all); return new FetchResult(resolvedTitle, all); } static String[] parseRevObj(String obj) { String id = extractNum(obj, "\"revid\":"); String parentId = extractNum(obj, "\"parentid\":"); String ts = extractStr(obj, "\"timestamp\":"); String user = extractStr(obj, "\"user\":"); String comment = extractStr(obj, "\"comment\":"); String content = extractStr(obj, "\"*\":"); if (id == null || ts == null) return null; return new String[]{ id, parentId, ts, user, comment  != null ? comment  : "", content  != null ? content  : "" }; } // ========================================================================= // Read from existing XML export // ========================================================================= static FetchResult readXml(String path) throws Exception { XMLInputFactory fac = XMLInputFactory.newInstance(); fac.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.IS_SUPPORTING_EXTERNAL_ENTITIES, false); fac.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.SUPPORT_DTD, false); String[] pageTitle = {null}; List<String[]> all = new ArrayList<>(); String[] cur = new String[6]; boolean[] inRev = {false}; boolean[] inSite = {false}; boolean[] inCont = {false}; String[] el = {null}; try (InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(path), 65536)) { XMLStreamReader r = fac.createXMLStreamReader(in); while (r.hasNext()) { int ev = r.next(); switch (ev) { case XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT -> { el[0] = r.getLocalName(); if ("siteinfo" .equals(el[0])) inSite[0] = true; if ("revision" .equals(el[0])) { inRev[0] = true; Arrays.fill(cur, null); } if ("contributor" .equals(el[0])) inCont[0] = true; } case XMLStreamConstants.END_ELEMENT -> { String n = r.getLocalName(); el[0] = null; if ("siteinfo" .equals(n)) inSite[0] = false; if ("contributor" .equals(n)) inCont[0] = false; if ("revision" .equals(n) && inRev[0]) { inRev[0] = false; all.add(new String[]{ cur[0], cur[1], cur[2], cur[3], cur[4] != null ? cur[4] : "", cur[5] != null ? cur[5] : "" }); } } case XMLStreamConstants.CHARACTERS -> { if (inSite[0] || el[0] == null) break; String v = r.getText(); if (v.isBlank()) break; if (!inRev[0]) { if ("title".equals(el[0])) pageTitle[0] = cat(pageTitle[0], v); } else if (inCont[0]) { if ("username".equals(el[0])) cur[3] = cat(cur[3], v); } else switch (el[0]) { case "id" -> cur[0] = cat(cur[0], v); case "parentid" -> cur[1] = cat(cur[1], v); case "timestamp" -> cur[2] = cat(cur[2], v); case "comment" -> cur[4] = cat(cur[4], v); case "text" -> cur[5] = cat(cur[5], v); } } } } } catch (XMLStreamException e) { System.err.println("Warning: XML truncated – " + e.getMessage()); } return new FetchResult(pageTitle[0] != null ? pageTitle[0] : "Unknown", all); } // ========================================================================= // Diff computation // ========================================================================= static List<Revision> computeDiffs(List<String[]> raw, int minDiff) { List<Revision> result = new ArrayList<>(); String prevText = ""; for (String[] r : raw) { String curText = r[5]; String diffText = diff(prevText, curText); int[] counts = diffCounts(diffText); if (counts[0] + counts[1] >= minDiff) { result.add(new Revision(r[0], r[1], r[2], r[3], r[4], truncateDiff(diffText), counts[0], counts[1])); } prevText = curText; } return result; } static String diff(String oldText, String newText) { String[] a = oldText.split("\n", -1); String[] b = newText.split("\n", -1); if (a.length > 600 || b.length > 600) return setDiff(a, b); return lcsDiff(a, b); } // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- // LCS diff with sentence-boundary-aware context snippets // // For each block of consecutive changed lines (+/-), we include a short // snippet of the surrounding unchanged text. The snippet snaps to the // nearest sentence boundary (period/!/? followed by a space and a capital // letter) within SNAP_WINDOW chars of the CTX_CHAR_LIMIT cut-point. // If no boundary is found, the snippet is hard-cut at CTX_CHAR_LIMIT. // ------------------------------------------------------------------------- static String lcsDiff(String[] a, String[] b) { int m = a.length, n = b.length; int[][] dp = new int[m + 1][n + 1]; for (int i = m - 1; i >= 0; i--) for (int j = n - 1; j >= 0; j--) dp[i][j] = a[i].equals(b[j]) ? dp[i+1][j+1] + 1  : Math.max(dp[i+1][j], dp[i][j+1]); // Build flat op list: type 0=context, 1=add, 2=remove record Op(int type, String line) {} List<Op> ops = new ArrayList<>(); { int i = 0, j = 0; while (i < m || j < n) { if (i < m && j < n && a[i].equals(b[j])) ops.add(new Op(0, a[i++])); // Note: j++ happens below via fall-through // Java records in blocks — inline the logic: else if (j < n && (i >= m || dp[i][j + 1] >= dp[i + 1][j])) { ops.add(new Op(1, b[j++])); continue; } else { ops.add(new Op(2, a[i++])); continue; } j++; // for the context match above } } int size = ops.size(); // Mark which ops are changes (not context) boolean[] isChange = new boolean[size]; for (int k = 0; k < size; k++) isChange[k] = ops.get(k).type() != 0; StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); int k = 0; while (k < size) { if (!isChange[k]) { k++; continue; } // Collect the full change block int changeStart = k; while (k < size && isChange[k]) k++; int changeEnd = k; // exclusive // --- Before-context: walk backwards from changeStart --- // Collect up to (CTX_CHAR_LIMIT + SNAP_WINDOW) chars so snippetBefore // has enough material to find a sentence boundary. StringBuilder beforeBuf = new StringBuilder(); for (int x = changeStart - 1; x >= 0 && !isChange[x]; x--) { String line = ops.get(x).line().trim(); if (!line.isBlank()) { beforeBuf.insert(0, line + " "); if (beforeBuf.length() > CTX_CHAR_LIMIT + SNAP_WINDOW) break; } } // --- After-context: walk forwards from changeEnd --- StringBuilder afterBuf = new StringBuilder(); for (int x = changeEnd; x < size && !isChange[x]; x++) { String line = ops.get(x).line().trim(); if (!line.isBlank()) { afterBuf.append(line).append(' '); if (afterBuf.length() > CTX_CHAR_LIMIT + SNAP_WINDOW) break; } } // Emit before snippet String beforeText = beforeBuf.toString().trim(); if (!beforeText.isBlank()) sb.append(" ").append(snippetBefore(beforeText)).append('\n'); // Emit the change lines for (int x = changeStart; x < changeEnd; x++) { Op op = ops.get(x); String line = op.line().trim(); if (!line.isBlank()) sb.append(op.type() == 1 ? "+ " : "- ").append(line).append('\n'); } // Emit after snippet String afterText = afterBuf.toString().trim(); if (!afterText.isBlank()) sb.append(" ").append(snippetAfter(afterText)).append('\n'); sb.append('\n'); } return sb.isEmpty() ? "(whitespace only)\n" : sb.toString(); } /** * Returns a suffix of {@code text} ending just before the change. * Tries to start at a sentence boundary (after ". A") near the * CTX_CHAR_LIMIT cut-point. Falls back to a hard cut with "…". */ static String snippetBefore(String text) { if (text.length() <= CTX_CHAR_LIMIT) return text; int target = text.length() - CTX_CHAR_LIMIT; int best = -1; int lo = Math.max(0, target - SNAP_WINDOW); int hi = Math.min(text.length() - 3, target + SNAP_WINDOW); for (int i = lo; i <= hi; i++) { if (isSentenceEnd(text, i) && i + 2 < text.length() && text.charAt(i + 1) == ' ' && Character.isUpperCase(text.charAt(i + 2))) { // Sentence boundary: new sentence starts at i+2. // Pick the boundary closest to target (prefer >= target). if (best < 0 || Math.abs((i + 2) - target) < Math.abs(best - target) || (best < target && i + 2 >= target)) best = i + 2; } } int start = best >= 0 ? best : target; return "…" + text.substring(start).trim(); } /** * Returns a prefix of {@code text} starting just after the change. * Tries to end at a sentence boundary (. ! ?) near the CTX_CHAR_LIMIT * cut-point. Falls back to a hard cut with "…". */ static String snippetAfter(String text) { if (text.length() <= CTX_CHAR_LIMIT) return text; int target = CTX_CHAR_LIMIT; int best = -1; int lo = Math.max(0, target - SNAP_WINDOW); int hi = Math.min(text.length() - 1, target + SNAP_WINDOW); for (int i = lo; i <= hi; i++) { if (isSentenceEnd(text, i)) { // End of sentence — include the punctuation char itself. if (best < 0 || Math.abs((i + 1) - target) < Math.abs(best - target) || (best > target && i + 1 <= target)) best = i + 1; } } int end = best >= 0 ? best : target; return text.substring(0, end).trim() + "…"; } /** True if the character at position {@code i} ends a sentence (. ! ?). */ static boolean isSentenceEnd(String text, int i) { char c = text.charAt(i); return c == '.' || c == '!' || c == '?'; } /** * Set-based fallback for very large pages (600+ lines) where LCS is too * slow. Context snapping is not applied here because line positions are * lost when comparing sets. */ static String setDiff(String[] a, String[] b) { Set<String> sa = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(a)); Set<String> sb = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(b)); StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder(); for (String l : b) if (!l.isBlank() && !sa.contains(l)) out.append("+ ").append(l.trim()).append('\n'); for (String l : a) if (!l.isBlank() && !sb.contains(l)) out.append("- ").append(l.trim()).append('\n'); return out.isEmpty() ? "(structural changes only)\n" : out.toString(); } static int[] diffCounts(String diff) { int add = 0, rem = 0; for (String l : diff.split("\n")) { if (l.startsWith("+ ")) add++; else if (l.startsWith("- ")) rem++; } return new int[]{add, rem}; } static String truncateDiff(String diff) { String[] lines = diff.split("\n", -1); if (lines.length <= MAX_DIFF_LINES) return diff; StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); for (int i = 0; i < MAX_DIFF_LINES; i++) sb.append(lines[i]).append('\n'); sb.append("… (").append(lines.length - MAX_DIFF_LINES).append(" more lines truncated)\n"); return sb.toString(); } // ========================================================================= // Smart chunking // ========================================================================= static List<List<Revision>> smartChunk(List<Revision> revisions, int budget, int gapDays) { List<List<Revision>> chunks = new ArrayList<>(); if (revisions.isEmpty()) return chunks; List<Revision> cur = new ArrayList<>(); int curTokens = 0; for (Revision r : revisions) { int t = estimateTokens(r); boolean full = !cur.isEmpty() && curTokens + t > budget; boolean gap = !cur.isEmpty() && daysBetween(cur.get(cur.size()-1).timestamp(), r.timestamp()) > gapDays; if (full || gap) { chunks.add(new ArrayList<>(cur)); cur.clear(); curTokens = 0; } cur.add(r); curTokens += t; } if (!cur.isEmpty()) chunks.add(cur); return chunks; } static int estimateTokens(Revision r) { return Math.max(10, (r.diffText().length() + (r.comment() != null ? r.comment().length() : 0) + 80) / 4); } static double daysBetween(String ts1, String ts2) { try { return Duration.between(Instant.parse(ts1), Instant.parse(ts2)).toDays(); } catch (Exception e) { return 0; } } // ========================================================================= // Claude API // ========================================================================= static String analyzeChunk(List<Revision> chunk, String pageTitle, int chunkNum, int total, String apiKey) throws Exception { String from = chunk.get(0).timestamp().substring(0, 10); String to = chunk.get(chunk.size()-1).timestamp().substring(0, 10); StringBuilder prompt = new StringBuilder(); prompt.append("You are reviewing the edit history of the Wikipedia page \"").append(pageTitle) .append("\" (chunk ").append(chunkNum).append("/").append(total) .append(", ").append(from).append(" to ").append(to).append(").\n\n"); prompt.append("Each revision shows:\n"); prompt.append(" Lines starting with '+' were added.\n"); prompt.append(" Lines starting with '-' were removed.\n"); prompt.append(" Indented lines (two leading spaces) are surrounding context "); prompt.append("— unchanged text immediately before or after the edit, "); prompt.append("trimmed to a sentence boundary where possible.\n\n"); prompt.append("List only SIGNIFICANT edits — substantive content changes, "); prompt.append("not typo fixes, bot edits, or formatting tweaks unless they changed meaning.\n"); prompt.append("If there are no significant edits in this chunk, say so in one line.\n\n"); prompt.append("Format: for each significant edit, one bullet:\n"); prompt.append("- [DATE] [REVISION_ID] by [USER]: <1-2 sentence description> | <diff URL>\n\n"); for (Revision r : chunk) { prompt.append("rev:").append(r.id()) .append(" | ").append(r.timestamp(), 0, 10) .append(" | ").append(r.contributor() != null ? r.contributor() : "anon"); if (r.comment() != null && !r.comment().isBlank()) prompt.append(" | comment: ").append(r.comment()); prompt.append(" | +").append(r.linesAdded()).append(" -").append(r.linesRemoved()).append('\n'); prompt.append(r.diffText()).append('\n'); } return callClaude(prompt.toString(), apiKey, 1200); } static String synthesize(String pageTitle, List<String> chunkResults, List<Revision> revisions, String apiKey) throws Exception { if (revisions.isEmpty()) return "_No revisions to analyze._"; String from = revisions.get(0).timestamp().substring(0, 10); String to = revisions.get(revisions.size()-1).timestamp().substring(0, 10); StringBuilder prompt = new StringBuilder(); prompt.append("You have analyzed the full edit history of the Wikipedia page \"") .append(pageTitle).append("\" from ").append(from).append(" to ").append(to).append(".\n\n"); prompt.append("Below are chunk-by-chunk summaries of significant edits. "); prompt.append("Write a concise executive summary (aim for 200-400 words) covering:\n"); prompt.append("1. The most consequential changes overall\n"); prompt.append("2. Major phases or themes in the page's evolution\n"); prompt.append("3. Any visible edit wars or recurring disputes\n\n"); prompt.append("Cite revision IDs and diff URLs for the most important edits.\n\n"); for (int i = 0; i < chunkResults.size(); i++) { prompt.append("### Chunk ").append(i + 1).append('\n'); prompt.append(chunkResults.get(i)).append('\n'); } return callClaude(prompt.toString(), apiKey, 2000); } static String callClaude(String userMsg, String apiKey, int maxTokens) throws Exception { String body = "{\"model\":\"" + CLAUDE_MODEL + "\",\"max_tokens\":" + maxTokens + ",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":" + jsonStr(userMsg) + "}]}"; HttpClient http = HttpClient.newBuilder().connectTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(30)).build(); HttpRequest req = HttpRequest.newBuilder() .uri(URI.create(API_URL)) .header("Content-Type", "application/json") .header("x-api-key", apiKey) .header("anthropic-version", "2023-06-01") .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString(body)) .timeout(Duration.ofSeconds(120)) .build(); for (int attempt = 0; ; attempt++) { HttpResponse<String> resp = http.send(req, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString()); if (resp.statusCode() == 200) { String rb = resp.body(); int ts = rb.indexOf("\"text\":") + 7; int vs = rb.indexOf('"', ts) + 1; int ve = findStrEnd(rb, vs); return unescape(rb.substring(vs, ve)); } if (resp.statusCode() == 429 && attempt < BACKOFF_SECONDS.length) { int wait = BACKOFF_SECONDS[attempt]; System.out.printf(" Rate limited (429). Waiting %ds before retry %d/%d...%n", wait, attempt + 1, BACKOFF_SECONDS.length); Thread.sleep(wait * 1000L); continue; } throw new RuntimeException("Claude API " + resp.statusCode() + ": " + resp.body()); } } // ========================================================================= // Output // ========================================================================= static void writeOutput(String path, String title, List<Revision> revisions, String summary, List<String> chunkResults) throws IOException { String from = revisions.isEmpty() ? "?" : revisions.get(0).timestamp().substring(0, 10); String to = revisions.isEmpty() ? "?" : revisions.get(revisions.size()-1).timestamp().substring(0, 10); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); sb.append("# ").append(title).append(" — Edit History Analysis\n\n"); sb.append("**Period:** ").append(from).append(" → ").append(to).append(" \n"); sb.append("**Revisions analyzed:** ").append(revisions.size()).append(" \n"); sb.append("**Generated:** ").append(Instant.now().toString(), 0, 10).append("\n\n"); sb.append("---\n\n## Summary\n\n").append(summary).append("\n\n---\n\n"); sb.append("## Detailed Analysis\n\n"); for (int i = 0; i < chunkResults.size(); i++) { sb.append("### Chunk ").append(i + 1).append("\n\n"); sb.append(chunkResults.get(i)).append("\n\n"); } Files.writeString(Paths.get(path), sb.toString()); } // ========================================================================= // Tiny JSON helpers (no external deps) // ========================================================================= static String extractStr(String json, String key) { int p = json.indexOf(key); if (p < 0) return null; p += key.length(); while (p < json.length() && json.charAt(p) == ' ') p++; if (p >= json.length() || json.charAt(p) != '"') return null; p++; StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); while (p < json.length()) { char c = json.charAt(p); if (c == '\\' && p + 1 < json.length()) { char nx = json.charAt(p + 1); switch (nx) { case '"' -> sb.append('"'); case '\\' -> sb.append('\\'); case 'n' -> sb.append('\n'); case 'r' -> {} case 't' -> sb.append('\t'); case 'u' -> { if (p + 5 < json.length()) { try { sb.append((char) Integer.parseInt(json.substring(p + 2, p + 6), 16)); } catch (Exception ignored) { sb.append('?'); } p += 4; }} default -> sb.append(nx); } p += 2; } else if (c == '"') { break; } else { sb.append(c); p++; } } return sb.toString(); } static String extractNum(String json, String key) { int p = json.indexOf(key); if (p < 0) return null; p += key.length(); while (p < json.length() && json.charAt(p) == ' ') p++; StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); while (p < json.length() && Character.isDigit(json.charAt(p))) sb.append(json.charAt(p++)); return sb.isEmpty() ? null : sb.toString(); } static String jsonStr(String s) { return "\"" + s.replace("\\", "\\\\").replace("\"", "\\\"") .replace("\n", "\\n").replace("\r", "").replace("\t", "\\t") + "\""; } static int findStrEnd(String s, int start) { for (int i = start; i < s.length(); i++) { if (s.charAt(i) == '\\') { i++; continue; } if (s.charAt(i) == '"') return i; } return s.length(); } static String unescape(String s) { return s.replace("\\n", "\n").replace("\\t", "\t").replace("\\\"", "\"") .replace("\\/", "/").replace("\\\\", "\\"); } // ========================================================================= // Misc // ========================================================================= static String cat(String a, String b) { return a == null ? b : a + b; } static String require(String env) { String v = System.getenv(env); if (v == null || v.isBlank()) die(env + " environment variable not set."); return v; } static void die(String msg) { System.err.println("Error: " + msg); System.exit(1); } }

Polygnotus (talk) 04:59, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. I’ll take a detailed look later Dw31415 (talk) 05:05, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Cat

A ridiculous cat

Please excuse my erroneous edit, likely a mistaken rollback or revert caused by my fat fingers, hypnagogia, or one of my ridiculous cats. I have likely self reverted or noticed the mistake after you corrected it. Again, my apologies. Thank you. EvergreenFir (talk) 06:28, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@EvergreenFir That is an excellent cat. Polygnotus (talk) 06:32, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #720

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #719.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Jan Myšák - RfP scheduled to end after 28 February 2026 11:11 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Sjö - Closed as successful, congratulations User:Sjö.
• New request for comments: Notability policy reform: Round 2, where policy is suggested based on round 1 discussions.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Apply Now: Scholarships for the Language Diversity Conference 2026 - scholarship application deadline: 13 March 2026 / Conference dates: 2 - 4 October 2026 in Accra, Ghana.
  • Office Hour: Notability Policy - February 26th 2026 at 5PM UTC (your timezone).
  • (Catalan) They were not witches, they were women from Andorra - a Wikimarathon for Witches edit-a-thon to make biographies of Andorran women accused of witchcraft more visible on Wikidata and Wikipedia. Sign-up on Meta: 09:30 – 12:30 UTC, 7 March 2026.
• Ongoing: International Mother Language Day 2026 Datathon - February 21, 2026 – March 3, 2026

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Stack Overflow: Even GenAI uses Wikipedia (+Wikidata) as a source - transcript of the podcast audio between Ryan Donovan and Philippe Saade, on the Wikidata Embedding Project and vectorizing 30 million entities for semantic search.
  • Diff Blog: Revitalizing UK History, Series 2: Expanding Multilingual Access on Wikidata - Josef Anthony describes the projects efforts in documenting underrepresented UK historical figures in multiple languages.
  • Diff blog: Into the Spotlight: Sharing Archival Objects through Wikimedia Commons by User:LadyRabbit. Experience documenting Ellen Winstone, a historical figure, non-notability on Wikipedia doesn't mean they are not worth documenting. Wikidata and Commons can help.
• Papers: The Wikidata Query Logs Dataset (WDQL) - presenting a dataset of 200,000 question-query pairs intended to help train Natural Language questions into SPARQL. By S. Walter, H. Bast (2026).
• Videos: 3rd Wikidata Training of the On Wiki Skill Mentorship Program by Africa Wiki Women. Dives deeper into the core data modelling concepts, Wikidata-speciifc terminology and practical editing tips for beginners. Led by User:King ChristLike

Tool of the week

• Dagbanli dictionary - a monolingual Dagbanli dictionary built using Wikidata lexemes, with 20000 native audio recordings as usage examples pulled from Mozilla Common Voice. This means when you look up a word, you can hear it spoken in example sentences. See this in action here: suɣulo

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimania:2026 - The call for submissions for the program is open until March 1, 2026.
• OpenSanctions: As the CIA closes The World Factbook, we’re opening our global map of political power - introduces EveryPolitician.org, a global database of 690,000+ political office-holders across the globe. PoliLoom, GovDirectory, a dedicated WikiProject and the Wikidata community are helping make structured data on politicians transparent. Learn how you can contribute.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: annual greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by this entity in a year)
• Newest External identifiers: RFI topic ID, ‎Delfi.lv theme ID, SFDb original ID, Artdoc.Media film ID, ‎Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 practice ID, ‎Walloon-French dictionary ID, Bolivia INE code, Russian Register of Film Distribution Certificates ID, ‎Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek ID, ‎Woordenboek van Nieuwe Woorden ID, ‎Woordcombinaties ID, ‎Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands ID, Uzbek-Russian dictionary ID, ‎JMRC person id (he), Catalunya Romànica ID, ‎IEC 61355 identifier, Yandex Object Answer id, Michaelis Portuguese-English Modern Dictionary ID, Michaelis English-Portuguese Modern Dictionary ID, Uni24k indentifier, The Retro Web company ID, Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID, ‎Gravestone Project Cemetery ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • CWSAC classification ()
  • IBAN countries (The country which the bank with this property may create accounts in. For example "MyBank" can create bank accounts in "France" with the prefix "FR". Some banks have a single country they may create accounts in and other have many.)
  • Kloekecode (identifier for locations in the Netherlands, Flanders, French Flanders, and north-western Germany)
  • ICAO 24-bit aircraft address (Unique 24-bit ICAO aircraft address assigned to an individual aircraft’s Mode S transponder, expressed as a six-character hexadecimal code and used in ADS-B and air traffic surveillance systems.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Faulhaber-Edition ID, OldRacingCars.com drivers ID, ID Prix de Lausanne, Spellingwijzer Onze Taal ID, Uitleenwoordenbank ID, EpiMedDat ID, REVENCYT code, X Games athlete ID (new), Pinkhof ID, Scheikunde ID, JWS II ID, Buitenlandse aardrijkskundige namen in het Nederlands ID, PeeringDB Facility ID, DBNL place ID, DBNL country ID, DBNL titel ID, Movist person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Property table for a set of Wikidata items (the Memory of the World International Register)
  • People with PolSys ID (P1980), and with or without Norwegian historical register of persons ID (P4574) - (source)
• Schema examples: federally recognized tribe (E502): required and optional properties for items representing federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Ski - The goal of WikiProject Ski is to improve items about athletes, events and results from the different skiiing and snowboarding disciplines.
  • Nonprofit Orgs: South Africa - aims to add financial data to the biggest nonprofits
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Ontology: List of Ontology Pages
  • Sociotechnology: Resources
  • Chantiers MNBAQ
  • India: International Mother Language Day 2026 Datathon
• Showcase Lexemes: чурка (L179567) - Russian noun (ˈtɕurkə) meaning "a wooden block or stump", "a short piece of wood used in games", or "an offensive term for a person"чурка (L179567) - Russian noun (ˈtɕurkə) meaning "a wooden block or stump", "a short piece of wood used in games", or "an offensive term for a person"

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are preparing to reach out to editors about improving specific templates that are written in a way that creates a lot of unnecessary entries in Recent Changes and Watchlists.
• Mobile statement editing: We are getting close to having editing support for all datatypes. We are currently still working on the support for globe coordinates. We also added support for showing constraint violations on qualifiers and references.
• Data quality: We are doing technical investigations about how to make constraint violations available for querying again.
• GraphQL: We are getting ready to make GraphQL available on Wikidata later this week.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Spain
• 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: 2026-09

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

• Reference Check has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web. [56]

Updates for editors

• The InterwikiSorting extension, which allowed for the sorting of interwiki links, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code. [57]
• Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened. [58][59]
• The Reader Experience team is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in MediaWiki:skin-theme-description and MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag to indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta.
• The improved Activity tab which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug that prevented DiscussionTools from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality. [60]

Updates for technical contributors

• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a new hook, ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page. [61]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:01, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Draft:Baby_Globe "promising" in phrase "An editor has marked this as a promising draft" is not promotional (see {{Promising draft}}) dot.py 07:54, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Logical quotation autofixing

No worries on the revert. But I don't think fully-general automatic punctuation shuffling is the right approach: comparing your automated edit to my fully hand-crafted one, we see that yours moved the terminal punctuation out of longer quotes where it's possible that the original had terminal punctuation, in which case keeping it inside the quote would be correct; I didn't bother chasing up the sources for the quotes to check and left them as-is on the precautionary principle. I find it difficult to imagine an automated tool getting these cases right. (It also missed a case where a full stop was inside italics rather than quotes proper, but that's not fundamental to the approach.) One easy case that probably can be reasonably automated is single words inside quotes with punctuation, which will almost never be correct (and which usually draw my eye, annoy me, and make me fix the whole page). Polyphemus Goode (talk) 08:24, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Polyphemus Goode Good point. Life would be so much easier if we could just shorten such quotes by 1 char. Polygnotus (talk) 09:22, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DuplicateReferences false-positive

Abortion in Illinois https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6289084 J11csd (talk) 19:50, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Revival Process There are many false positives on this page. I would love if you could take a look at them. Here is one instance as an example: "The regime had already banned some distinctive markers of Muslim identity, such as religious clothing, leading to the widespread use of replacements for these articles." Where the flagged word is "leading." This example is "leading to."

I apologize for writing directly on your page, but this is where the tool directs to. Pietrus1 (talk) 00:39, 28 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]