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Wikidata weekly summary #736
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #735.
week leading up to 2026-06-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #735.
Discussions
- Request for comments: The discussion about reforming Wikidata's notability policy is ongoing. There is now a new proposal waiting for your feedback.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- WikiLoves Pride 2026 - six fortnightly editing sessions to add, expand and translate LGBTQ+ content on the Wikimedia projects.
- WikiProjects Days 2026 is taking place this coming weekend, 19-21 June. Check out the daily program...(click UTC for your local timezone)
- Click here -> Register <- for access links to the event.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Preserving Pride, Across Languages : From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: A New Way to Think About Knowledge
- Visibility of Communities in Nigeria on Wikidata 2.0: Expanding Digital Representation for Nigerian Communities
- The Year’s First Quarter with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group - Expanding partnerships and contributions to Wikidata, Wikipedia and other sister projects.
- Introducing the Wiki Afrodemics Mentorship Project Cohort 1 - A pan-african and guided multilingual training on Wikipedia editing, Wikidata contribution, and resource mobilisation.
- Amplifying Women’s Stories and Indigenous Knowledge: Feminism and Folklore 2026 in the Igbo Community - Improving the representation of women and cultural heritage in Igbo language on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiquote.
- A Reflection on What I Learned at My First International Women’s Day Celebration - Celebrating and documenting women activists and politicians on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Three Tools that bring digital botany within reach (spoiler: One of them is Wikidata) - article available in DE, ES, FR, JA, PT and ZH-CN.
- Papers: Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata by Grallert et al., (2026). As digital humanities tools proliferate, this paper argues that Wikidata can help connect the research landscape by documenting, citing and connecting tool registries.
- Videos:
- OSM / Lifting Stones in Wikidata - a video tutorial on mapping lifting stones on OpenStreetMap, using two examples from County Kilkenny, Ireland.
- Mapping Every Wonder on Earth - animated visualisation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites recorded in Wikidata.
- 2025: Tales of Discovery - Museums and Heritage channel mentions how Wikidata is being used as a bridge between several sites and projects for 3D modelling ships, wrecks and other artifacts from maritime history.
- Mentor Me! Session 6 with Jinoy Tom Jacob, who will show us how to use OpenRefine to batch edit Wikidata and the Commons.
Tool of the week
- BisikBekasi : Community-curated knowledge base where local data items are integrated with Wikidata items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Newcomer Dashboard will be deployed to Wikidata pending on-wiki configuration by Admins. The dashboard aims to provide guidance, helpful links, and mentorship opportunities for new editors.
- Guido Gezelle on Wikidata: networking in map - this project created 5 visualisations produced from Wikidata on the poet Guido Gezelle.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- print matrix state (in printmaking, a stage of development of the relief matrix after a permanent modification)
- body modification (deliberate altering of the human anatomy for non-medical reasons that this person or fictional character has undergone)
- Newest External identifiers: Roller-results.com skater ID, Wikiparfum fragrance ID, EU sanctions tracker subject ID, Maoyan celebrity ID, CINEMATODAY film ID, DMM director ID, Model Mayhem ID, DAM song ID, OpenParlData ID, IAU member ID, PurplePort ID, LinkMe ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Vistonline (Agenzia italiana di visti consolari e legalizzazione documenti, con sede a Roma)
- Natural science/Taxon footprint (Taxon footprint)
- Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number (Unique identification number assigned to a school by the Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka, used in the annual school census and official examinations (G.C.E. O/L, A/L))
- sport title (link to sport title (like master of sports or yokodzuna), besides chess and martial arts titles)
- dual notion in category theory (dual notion in category theory)
- penalty shootout kicked by (Indicates the person who took an individual penalty kick during a penalty shoot-out.)
- Finnish educational institution ID (Five-digit identification number for Finnish educational institutes assigned by Statistics Finland.)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant d'une personne sur ZicTrad, Skeivopedia ID, Artistas Visuales Chilenos ID, Mathlib declaration ID, FES digital collections person ID, BBC Bitesize topic ID, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), Sceneweb artwork ID, Sceneweb production ID, regjeringen.no government ID, regjeringen.no ministry ID, regjeringen.no politician ID, Maoyan film ID, Identifiant livres-cinema.info d'un auteur, National Operator Code (UK)
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Wiki x K-pop 2026: Datathon 3.0 a.k.a the ICONIC BY MISTAKE EDITING party.
- Ontology Course 2 / GLAM Authority Entity Ontology in Wikidata
- Newest database reports: Thanks Log - who's thanking who and on what.
- Showcase Items: 2026 FIFA World Cup (Q5020214) - in the United States, Mexico and Canada in 2026
- Showcase Lexemes: alikaali (L720932) - Dagbanli noun (derived from ha <--ar) which can mean soothsayer, judge or Muslim scholar
Development
- Ontology federation: The development team is looking for people to give feedback on the new feature that allows editors on other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as statement values. (more details)
- GraphQL:
- We extended the searchItems field so that developers can now get all Item data immediately from the search results (phab:T416885)
- We are working on the ability to get only best ranked statements (phab:T428138)
- MCP: The Wikidata MCP has been extended. You can now also use an MCP for other Wikibase instances. (more details)
- Wikibase Cloud: We are looking into making it possible to log into Wikibase Cloud instances with your Wikidata account to make it easier for Wikimedians to contribute on Cloud instances.
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are planning the migration of the entity usage table to a new database cluster to handle increased usage of Wikidata's data across the Wikimedia projects.
- We are continuing our work to decrease the number of irrelevant changes coming from Wikidata that show up in Wikipedia's recent changes and watchlist. Specifically we are evaluating a prototype that looks at the rendered article before and after the change and determines if anything actually changed in the article before adding an entry to recent changes and watchlist.
- Mobile editing of statements:
- We are improving support for RTL languages.(phab:T360854, phab:T427655, phab:T427658, phab:T427661, phab:T428246)
- We started fixing multiple UI layout and spacing issues, including mandatory fields, value fields, snak types, references, and add-statement button usability (phab:T428766, phab:T428761, phab:T428759, phab:T428450)
- We are improving the server-side rendering (phab:T409827)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2026-25
[edit]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 Reader Growth team has launched an Image Browsing beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use
class=notpageimageexcluding it from thumbnail previews, orclass=noviewerexcluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word__NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page. - Wikitables can now be sorted in descending order on the first click by adding
data-sort-order="desc"to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged.
Updates for editors
- The Article guidance feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
- Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account with the block duration they want.
View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
- The roll out of global API rate limits is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.
- The API Portal wiki will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server.
- The Latin American Wikimedia Conference will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).
- Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page and register there. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.
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The Signpost: 21 June 2026
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- From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism
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- Disinformation report: PR for the people?
- Recent research: Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
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- On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-26
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The Renovating Action Party was a left-wing Salvadoran political party that existed from 1944 to 1967. The party had three distinct phases of its existence under the leaderships of Colonel José Asencio Menéndez (1944–1950), the old line (1950–1964), and the new line (1964–1967).
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Wikidata weekly summary #736
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #736.
week leading up to 2026-06-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #736.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Ziv - RfP scheduled to end after 24 June 2026 19:26 (UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Nabbot 1 - Task: Adding Turkish descriptions for scientific articles
Events
- Upcoming events:
- The Wikimania 2026 program has been revealed, go bookmark your favourite sessions.
- Physical Training; Improving Health Articles in Africa - 21 June, 10:00, University of Ibadan.
- The WikiIndaba Call for Proposals ends June 30th - don't forget to submit your Wikidata-sessions.
- Sessions of the WikiProjects Days 2026 event will shortly be available on Commons: Presentations / Videos
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- WikiTiddler; Tiddlywiki as a live Wikidata frontend - if you run a TiddlyWiki instance, you can now run queries to the Wikidata Query Service and convert the results to Tiddlers.
- TIB: What do we mean when we talk about AI and open knowledge? - Lozana Rossenova details their experiences at the AI+Bridges Symposium.
- Papers:
- How to use Wikibase for Mixed-Methods Research, a book published by F. Bailo, E. Booth, and J. Williams
- Wikimedia as a Platform for Evidence Synthesis: Quantifying Bias and Literature Coverage in Crowd-Sourced Knowledge Graphs by D. Mietchen, and J. Dearborn, (2026).
- From Wikidata to Smart Tourism: A Reproducible Pipeline Based on AI and Fuzzy Logic for Interpretable Multi-Category Classification of Points of Interest - This paper develops a reproducible pipeline that converts Wikidata POIs into an interpretable tourism taxonomy, enabling multi-category classification and personalized smart tourism applications. By Kontogianni et al., (2026)
- Videos:
- Name Suggestion Index Explained: How OpenStreetMap Standardizes Brands
- EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-06-04)
- Using the Duplicity and WD Fist Tools to edit Wikidata
- Unlocking Data through Semantic Linking, presented at ENDORSE 2025 by Thora Hagen. Experiences using 19th-century German encyclopedias, demonstrating how semantic enrichment via Wikidata can reveal fascinating patterns.
- (Deutsch) From your pocket to the knowledge graph: SquirrelBase is a Wikibase instance that functions as a semantic metadata and reference platform. Make 3D smartphone captures of cultural assets, artworks, and ephemeral structures FAIR.
Tool of the week
- MotusArtium : Wikidata GraphQL showcase application for exploring and understanding art movements (alpha version). GraphQL queries used
- As seen during WikiProjects Days 2026 - Classification.js, visualise parent classes and identify incorrections, detect superclass tree loops. To use, click Activate and copy the two lines into your Common.js page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Reminder: Try Ontology Federation to import Items from Wikidata to your Wikibase instance. Share your feedback in the linked survey. (full announcement)
- A session at WikiProjects Days 2026 was devoted to general-purpose tools for WikiProjects. A new page under the main Wikidata tools page was created with a list and description of these tools. Take a look at Wikidata:Tools/WikiProjects and add any missing tools.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- meteorological intensity classification (category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585))
- perfumer (person who created a perfume)
- dual notion (category theory) (dual of the concept in category theory)
- External identifiers: catholica.cz ID, Skeivopedia ID, Mathlib Declaration ID, Annuséries series ID, FES digital collections person ID, BBC Bitesize topic ID, Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), OTOTOY artist ID, livres-cinema.info author ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
- Gmedia rating (video games) (Video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system ({{Q|Q28717438}}))
- External identifiers: altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, some properties for category theory, Farzonagon ID, TV Guide film ID, Letterboxd Writer ID, d Hits artist ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, Fantia ID, 17LIVE ID, CFLapedia player ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, U-NEXT Parson ID, U-NEXT Video ID, H-NEXT Parson ID, ABEMA Video ID, FOD Parson ID, LRT topic ID, FOD Video ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, belarusenc.by ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Writing Systems Technical Resources script code, Répertoire des films classés film ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID, Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, Kanal Architecture entry ID, Web The Television Parson ID, Web The Television Work ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Showcase Items: ship (Q11446) - large buoyant watercraft
Development
- We enabled links to WikiProjects in the sidebar and added links to WikiProjects Music, Medicine, Datasets, sum of all paintings, and elections (T422935, T422935)
- We added a floating “add statement” button that makes it easier to add statements without looking through the existing statements (T417641, T428450).
- We’re working on making sure that users can tell when statements exist before they add new ones (T424009).
- We made some layout fixes to wbui2025 / MEX (T428766, T428761, T428759, T427658, T428853).
- We refactored error handling (T423613).
- We’re refactoring the server-side rendering so we don’t need separate .less style files (T409827).
- We’re working on the interaction between scrollable values and indicator icons (T425974).
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2026-26
[edit]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
- Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.
Updates for editors
- The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
- Sub-referencing is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan for the next deployment steps.
- Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the
skipcaptcharight, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. Theskipcaptcharight will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis. - Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox.
- The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community.
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11
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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 5. Please help translate.
Highlights
- Community Wishlist: Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future.
- Simplifying account creation: The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making "Create Account" icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.
- New U4C members elected: The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Wikimania conference program: The Wikimania 2026 program is now live! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your "must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket here, if you haven't signed up yet.
- Neutral Point of View: A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion open until July 15, 2026.
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
- App Explore feed: The redesigned App Explore feed, now called "Home", has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.
- Wikipedia games: The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia’s “On This Day” content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first.
- Reusing references: Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.
- Article guidance: The Article guidance feature is being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
- Mobile Page Previews: The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link.
- Wikifunctions: You can now add images to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.
- Wikidata: The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline.
- Growth features: Growth features are now available at Wikidata! Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration, but this update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).
- Mentors' management: The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.
- Collaborative Contributions: If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more.
- Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 and 25 include how the user interface icon library is being updated. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Digital Safety: Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. It'll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It's focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.
- Don't Blink: Read the latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.
- Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model: Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Enterprise: SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.
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 · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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This Month in Education: June 2026
[edit]This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 6 • June 2026
In This Issue
- Wikipedia Editathon at Dinajpur Govt. College: Empowering Graduate Students in the Open Knowledge Movement
- Wikimedia Serbia prepares for Edu Wiki camp 2026
- Wiki Digi-Youth Clubs pilot explores challenge-based learning across three countries
- Why the EduWiki Hub Starter Kit Matters for the Future of Education
- Portuguese Universities adopt free knowledge tools: Wikipedia is the favorite
- Translating on Wikipedia used as extra – credit assignment in University of Prishtina, Kosovo
- Strengthening Wikimedia Education Through Community Learning and Digital Literacy Initiatives
- Small Group, Big Impact: Building Skills Through the Wikimedia Volunteer Focus Group in Botswana
- "25x25 Project – Celebrating Wikipedia" in Córdoba, Argentina
- Mapping and gathering educational activities on Wiki in Brazilian universities
- Growing Wiki Education in the Philippines: Highlights from Bikol WikiConference 2026
- From Mentee to Builder: Six Months in the EduWiki Hub Mentorship Program
- EduWiki Hub publishes its first Community Newsletter
- Click, Capture, and Contribute: Scaling Open Knowledge Through Mobile Photography
- Education in Action: Limkokwing School Adoption Program 2026 and Wikimedia Learning Outcomes
- Impact of Wiki Digi youth Clubs initiative in education of Rwanda
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-27
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Facial age estimation is the use of artificial intelligence to estimate the age of a person based on their facial features. Computer vision techniques are used to analyse the facial features in the images of millions of people whose age is known and then deep learning is used to create an algorithm that tries to predict the age of an unknown person. The key use of the technology is to prevent access to age-restricted goods and services. Examples include restricting children from accessing internet pornography, checking that they meet a mandatory minimum age when registering for an account on social media, or preventing adults from accessing websites, online chat or games designed only for use by children.
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[edit]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
- As part of the Account Creation Experiments, the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July.
- After a successful experiment, logged-in users who did not confirm their email address when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the Account Security project.
- An update to Search is refining how the
-prefix:behaves when used to exclude results. Previously, using-prefix:with negation could unintentionally broaden search results by adding the namespaces included in the search scope, leading to confusing behavior for users expecting a straightforward exclusion filter. With the update,-prefix:will now strictly exclude matching page titles as intended and may display a warning if the relevant namespace has not been explicitly selected. The behavior ofprefix:without negation however remains unchanged. - View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where reviewers using the Page Curation toolbar were not automatically subscribed to talk page discussions they started has now been fixed. Reviewers will now receive notifications when someone replies to those discussions.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the user-agent policy. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. This is a follow up to the announcement made in the 2026/25 issue of Tech News.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikidata weekly summary #738
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #737.
week leading up to 2026-06-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #737.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- TopDevsBot - Task/s: Create new items for software-development, design, and consulting companies from source data: topdevs.ai
- SonalBot - Task/s: Reference Gardener (archive dead reference links) + Welcome Bot (welcome new users)
- New request for comments: WM Commons: Policy update for AI content - this RfC will seek opinions on the use and allowance of AI-generated and modified content. This can have downstream impacts on Wikidata.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- 2026 Chiayi Streetview Workshop July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Tâi-uân tôo-su-sik, Chiayi, Taiwan.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #90 July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Lobid Blog: NWBibBot – Making a regional bibliography visible in Wikipedia with help from Wikidata
- Tech News (WMDE) Knowledge wants to be found - We interview Tim Wittenborg about the WissKomm Wiki, from the Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology in TIB Hannover.
- Bridging Open Knowledge And Digital Rights: Reflections From DRIF 2026 And The Wikimedia Community
- Papers: MathModDB: A Database for Mathematical Models - The Mathematical Models Database (MathModDB), deployed on the MaRDI Portal within Germany’s National Research Data Infrastructure, provides researchers with a curated knowledge graph that organizes scattered mathematical models, formulas, and assumptions, connects to related tools like MathAlgoDB and MaRDMO, and demonstrates practical use through cases such as plasma physics modeling. By Fiedler et al., (2026)
- Videos:
- WikiProjects Days 2026 - recordings now on Commons, if you missed the event or want to recap what was discussed, individual session recordings are now available from the Event program.
- Jason Evans: Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey
Tool of the week
- Altilunium Panoply : A lightweight Wikibase alternative for creating collaborative knowledge bases, written as a single PHP file with no dependencies.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July. A Q&A clinic will be held on 1 July at 15:00 UTC (join here).
- Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship, Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: Taiwan Central News Agency news topic ID, Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, Sceneweb artwork ID, Sceneweb production ID, Fantia ID, Finnish educational institution ID, altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, TV Guide film ID, FOD person ID, LRT topic ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- subdiscipline of (less specific academic discipline)
- has garden (Object is a {{Q|1107656}} related to this {{Q|16222597}})
- ranking by (issuer of a ranking)
- linguistic group (group of people who share the same language, regardless of their ancestry or ethnicity)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Pure Adult actress ID, Taiwan Central News Agency News tag id, Pure Adult studio ID, Natural science/GBIF taxon ID, Digitaler Portraitindex person ID, torial ID, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, Samtrafiken-vehicle-id, Sundsvall Municipality opendata ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, KBS News topic ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur Autoroc, La Grange ID, Rakuten Books author ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Roles and contributions of ? in Fictional Universes and Media franchises (source)
- Schema examples: it's World Cup time so here's 2 soccer/football-related EntitySchemas.
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Highlights: GovDirectory has opened a Madagascar page.
- Showcase Items: Lionel Messi - 6 World Cups, scoring in the last 7 consecutive matches.
Development
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are continuing to evaluate the prototype for reducing the number of unnecessary edits from Wikidata that show up in watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co. The approach is to look at the diff of the rendered article before and after the change from Wikidata is made. If there is no difference then the change is probably not relevant for that article. We are collecting a sample to further understand how it performs.
- To continue to address Wikidata's scaling issues, we are planning the migration of entity usage tables to the X1 cluster.
- Mobile editing of statements:
- We implemented more feedback from testing of the new mobile front-end. Specifically we worked on making it clearer when a statements already exist that the editor is trying to add to the Item.
- Additionally, we made minor improvements to the look and feel of the mobile front-end.
- REST API:
- REST search routes now take apihighlimits right into account (phab:T428032)
- We are starting to work on Lexeme support (phab:T429572, phab:T429332)
- GraphQL:
- We added support for requesting “best statements” for a given Property (phab:T428138)
- We are working on adding support for negation in Property value pair filters (phab:T429580)
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: Poland
- 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!
"Jewnited Snakes" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Jewnited Snakes has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 July 4 § Jewnited Snakes until a consensus is reached. feedmepaperr (talk) 02:41, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-28
[edit]The winner this Translation of the week is
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The Paulo César Vinha State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual Paulo César Vinha) is a state park in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. It protects an area of dunes, lagoons and marshes along the Atlantic shore.
(Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Tech News: 2026-28
[edit]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 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain.
Updates for technical contributors
- In preparation for Celebrate Women campaign planned for March 2027, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Content Enablement team has launched a 22-question survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ (anyone who identifies as a woman) across Wikimedia projects. The survey takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 20 July 2026. The questions are also available on-wiki for review in advance.
- The Score extension now supports rendering music scores as SVG images in addition to PNG, addressing a long-standing feature request and resolving historical image quality issues. Both formats are now provided to clients, with PNG in the
srcattribute and SVG in thesrcsetattribute. - The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. It was enabled on French Wikipedia, bringing total progress to covering 78.9% of Wikipedia page views. Rollout to English Wikipedia desktop will progress through this week.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap blog post is now live. It highlights the projects, sessions, and social activities from this year’s event, and shares initial plans for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon.
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Wikidata weekly summary #739
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #738.
week leading up to 2026-07-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #738.
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship:
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- gov-wikidata-match 1 - Task/s: Link existing GOV (historical gazetteer) building-like objects to existing Wikidata building-like objects.
- AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task/s: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to Wikidata items about people, only where the OpenLibrary author and the Wikidata person have been confirmed to be the same individual, with a source on every statement.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- JigildikBot - Approved
- SonalBot - Approved
- ias-kbase - Approved
Events
- Upcoming events:
- The Wikidata Platform (WDP) monthly office hour takes place tomorrow, . These office hours are focus on the Blazegraph migration work, and the team is inviting all community members to join the discussion. Register via the event page
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST (in your timezone), 08th July 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.
- Sandbox sessions: Wikidata Reference Validator Tool - improving Wikidata references - Aug 15, 17:00 - 18:00 UTC.
- Wiki Education + AASLH: Documenting America with Wikidata, a collaboration between Wiki Education and the American Association for State and Local History is offering six hour-long meetings held weekly to introduce attendees to Wikidata and improve content for Wikidata and Wikipedia on American history. Registration ends: July 17, 23:59 Pacific Time (PT)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: (fr) Le point sur la diversité de genre dans les articles in *Regards sur l'actualité du mouvement Wikimedia*
- Papers:
- Videos: (Español) Introduction to Wikidata - Dr. Claudia De Souza and Prof. Dinah Wilson Fraites introduce Wikidata with Spanish-slides.
Tool of the week
- Zelph: Offers powerful analysis capabilities for the complete Wikidata knowledge graph while remaining adaptable for any semantic domain.
- World Cup Heights: An interactive data‑viz app that shows the heights of FIFA World Cup players, arranged so you can quickly compare teams, positions, and overall height distributions.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July.
- The Wikidata Platform team has published the 8th issue of its monthly newsletter. This edition includes updates on the migration of WDQS backend away from Blazegraph, including a transition into the next phase Initial Implementation (pilot) phase following completion of the installation phase. This update also include some Documentation on Query Rewrites the team will like the Wikidata community and all WDQS users to help review and leave feedbacks. see WDP monthly newsletter for more details
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- prisoner number (number or identifier assigned to a prisoner, to be used as a qualifier for P2632 (place of detention))
- photographer (person who took this photograph)
- Gmedia rating (video games) (video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system)
- visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
- garden (garden of this subject)
- objects (category theory) (the precise objects of the category (category theory))
- morphisms (the precise morphisms of the category (category theory))
- terminal object (the precise terminal object of the category (category theory))
- initial object (the precise initial object of the category (category theory))
- products (category theory) (the precise products of the category (category theory))
- coproducts (category theory) (the precise coproducts of the category (category theory))
- isomorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
- monomorphisms (the precise monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
- epimorphisms (the precise epimorphisms of the category (category theory))
- regular monomorphisms (the precise regular monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
- regular epimorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
- left adjoint (the left adjoint of the functor)
- enriched over (the base monoidal category, bicategory, etc. of the enriched category)
- monoidal category operation (the “tensor product” bifunctor of the monoidal category)
- 2-morphisms (the precise 2-morphisms of the 2-category)
- taxon footprint (image of a footprint of this taxon)
- Newest External identifiers: Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, Taiwan Central News Agency news tag ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, Web The Television work ID, Web The Television person ID, U-NEXT person ID, U-NEXT video ID, Sokmil director ID, Sokmil idol ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Répertoire des films classés film ID, regjeringen.no ministry ID, regjeringen.no politician ID, Objectif plumes work ID, National Operator Code (UK), Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Myludo game ID, MyDirtyHobby ID, Maoyan film ID, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Letterboxd writer ID, KSW organization ID, KSW person ID, KSW place ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, Artistas Visuales Chilenos propertyvalue ID, Canadian Trademark Registration Number, occitanica.eu ID, Hancinema company ID, ZicTrad person ID, H-NEXT Person ID, FOD video ID, Farzonagon ID, d Hits artist ID, ABEMA video ID, 17LIVE ID, regjeringen.no government ID, Pure Adult actress ID, Pure Adult studio ID, GBIF taxon ID, Digital portrait index person (GND) ID, torial username, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, CatDat category ID, CatDat functor ID, CatDat category property ID, CatDat functor property ID, Samtrafiken-vehicle ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Olyrix artist ID, AutorÒc 16-18 author ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review::
- dielectric strenght (maximum electric field a material can withstand before electrical breakdown occurs)
- about page URL (URL to the official about page)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Rakuten Books author ID, Rakuten TV adult Person ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, Le GRoG ID, NHK On Demand Program ID, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, GCD character ID, Identificador de agente econômico na ANCINE, 1SCREEN Program ID, Architectenregister-id, LUDAP ID, TakaWiki ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID, BiDünyaFilm film ID, CNUC code, Steady username, NHK ONE Program ID, SongLyrics.com song ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, ClayArena shooter profile ID, Open Collective ID, Anobii author ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Development
- The development team are at an offsite retreat 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: France
- 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!
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12
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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 19. Please help translate.
This edition uses the new annual plan goals for this fiscal year (July 2026–June 2027).
Highlights
- Wikipedia 25: Wikipedia's 25th birthday was celebrated with various projects designed to grow awareness and support for Wikipedia and the people who make it possible. This includes the virtual birthday event on January 15, which garnered 10,000 live viewers and 15,000 reactions. Find more details on all related projects and results in the program report.
- Sustainable use of Wikimedia infrastructure: A valid user-agent string will now be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
- Increasing account creation: The experiment providing direct access to “Create account” and “Log in” actions on mobile increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality. The feature will now be rolled out to all wikis on mobile web.
Annual Goals Progress on Engage
See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia
- Add A Link: The Foundation deployed Add A Link as a default-on suggestion within Suggestion Mode. It is now launched on all wikis to all editors who have opted in to the Suggestion Beta Feature.
- Reusing references: Sub-referencing, the new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, was deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions.
- Wikifunctions: Check out the 71 new functions with implementations to get a taste of what functions have been created.
- Range calculator: The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
- Captcha verification: Abuse filters that are set to “require CAPTCHA verification” now also affect users with the
skipcaptcharight, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. - Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing two variations of a "thank you" badge shown to donors after a recent donation to deepen the relationship between donors and the Wikimedia movement. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Account security on private wikis: Two-factor authentication will become mandatory for user accounts on private wikis. This will protect private information from being exposed by an account with a compromised password.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 26 and 27 include users will now get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. See also the 65 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
- Team Challenges: The core organizing team for Wikimania is introducing Team Challenges, a different approach to Wikimania Hackathon. This year, Wikimedians and professionals from other fields will join forces to undertake one of the 2026 technical challenges.
Annual Goals Progress on Enable
See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Wikimedia Hackathon: A look at the 2026 edition of Wikimedia Hackathon which brought together 216 participants from 29 countries building, collaborating, and shaping the future together.
- Wikimedia Hubs: The Hub Fund will pause funding for new pilots in fiscal year 2026–2027 to align with the work on the Ecosystem of Movement Organizations and the Global Resource Distribution Committee. Existing pilots in transition will be offered an additional year of funding.
Annual Goals Progress on Protect
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- Open Knowledge And Digital Rights: Wikimedians shared their reflections on how Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum reinforced the role of our movement within broader digital rights conversations.
Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- Journalism Award: Wikimedia Foundation announced three journalists from Africa as recipients of the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, run in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). The awards celebrate the essential role journalists play in creating well-researched articles that volunteer editors can use as source materials to develop content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. In total, 320 submissions were received from 40 African countries.
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-29
[edit]The winner this Translation of the week is
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Caledonian MacBrayne, in short form CalMac, is the trade name of CalMac Ferries Ltd, the major operator of passenger and vehicle ferries to the west coast of Scotland, serving ports on the mainland and 22 of the major islands. It is a subsidiary of holding company David MacBrayne, which is owned by the Scottish Government.
(Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Tech News: 2026-29
[edit]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
- Revise Tone helps newcomers identify passages in Wikipedia articles that may contain non-encyclopedic language and encourages them to consider revising the tone. The feature was A/B tested on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias, where newcomer task completion rates increased by 38.7% compared to the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis, configurable via Community Configuration. The plan is to release Revise Tone to more wikis.
- The community configuration that allows automatic removal of inactive mentors based on configurable criteria will be enabled on Thursday 16, on some wikis to keep mentor lists up to date. Mentors are experienced contributors who opt in to help new users on-wiki through the Growth Features. Administrators can now prepare the settings via Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship; they will take effect starting Thursday.
- View all 38 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some users of the Wikipedia Android app were logged out immediately after signing in, preventing them from staying logged in and editing pages, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Editing a page via user scripts or gadgets was causing watchlist labels that the user had assigned to that page to reset. This has now been fixed.
- To work around a Safari bug (see phab:T425211), on Parsoid-enabled wikis, wikilink hrefs now use absolute urls instead of protocol-relative urls. REST API output remains unchanged and continue to use protocol-relative urls. Gadgets, user scripts, bots, and CSS might need to be adapted if they relied on the presence of protocol-relative urls in wikilink hrefs.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Wikimedia Foundation’s Experiment Platform Team has published a blog post reflecting on its first year of structured experimentation. It highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes. Read more.
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Wikidata weekly summary #740
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #739.
week leading up to 2026-07-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #739.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: GA Kevin - RfP scheduled to end after 14 July 2026 18:40 (UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Nabbot 2 - Task: Translating English descriptions to Turkish using a predefined dictionary mapping.
- AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to items about people, where the OpenLibrary author and Wikidata person are the same individual, when every statement is sourced.
- EquipboardBot - Task: Add Equipboard artist ID (P6912) to Wikidata items for musicians, sourced from Equipboard's own database of public artist identifiers.
- Call for Participation in Improving Constraints
- Just about any aspect of constraints is in scope, from rewriting existing bots to expanding the power of property constraints to adding new kinds of constraint. If you are interested, sign up in WikiProject Property Constraints/improving.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wikimania 2026 is fast approaching. Taking place 21 - 25 July in Paris, France. Can't attend? Register for a ticket to the virtual event and watch sessions online.
- Interested in Wikibase Ontology Federation? Join the July 14 call, see the Cleaning Task Force page for more details.
- Previous events:
- The 3rd Quarter Wikidata + Wikibase office hour was held. The transcript is available to read:
Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2026 07 08
- The 3rd Quarter Wikidata + Wikibase office hour was held. The transcript is available to read:
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Behind Better Data: Inside Wikidata’s First WikiProjects Days
- Africa Wiki Challenge 2026 in the Ghanaian Pidgin Community: Documenting “Water for Life” Through Wikimedia Projects
- Reflecting on progress and planning ahead: Dagbani Wikimedians User Group holds its last quarter team meeting
- EduWiki Workshop: Combining PETScan and Generative AI for Smarter Wikipedia Editing
- Why Computational Historians need Wikidata - a substack article by Jim Clifford
- Papers
- A Demonstration of WikiRAG: An Evidence-based Link Prediction for Wikidata with Retrieval Augmented Generation - WikiRAG is an interactive framework that combines automated link prediction with retrieval‑augmented generation and human validation to reliably complete knowledge graphs like Wikidata by generating candidate links, retrieving supporting evidence, and enabling users to confirm and export validated triples. By Sabu, et al., (2026)
- Videos
- Using Open Refine by Wikimedia Australia, Paul Duchesne presents "Using OpenRefine" during WikiCon Australia 2026, (National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra).
- Let’s Get Mappy - making maps on Wikimedia platforms by Wikimedia Australia, Alex Lum presents how location (pushpin) maps, locator maps, and interactive "slippy" local maps end up on Wikipedia, and how infoboxes, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap works together to generate them
- (繁體中文/zh-TW) Tutorial on Editing Temple Data for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons - recording of a workshop (July 5) on Tutorial on Editing Temple Data for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, held by Wikimedia Taiwan Community and OSM Taiwan.
- Open data tools for cultural heritage 2nd session in the workshop series “Open Data to Strengthen Online Cultural Heritage,” held March 24, 2026, and organized by the National Library of Uruguay (BNU), Wikimedians of Uruguay, Datysoc, and Data Uruguay.
- GLAMs and Citizen Science Encouraging and Enabling Participation - Siobhan Leachman presents "citizen science workflows" (BHL, iNaturalist, Bionomia, Wikidata) to show how GLAM's can empower citizen scientists to reuse their collections.
Tool of the week
- rudof can be used as a command line tool or can be embedded as a library using cargo. It can be used to validate RDF data represented with different syntaxes like Turtle, NTriples, to name a few. As well as RDF data available through SPARQL endpoints like Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A Project Chat discussion on the new Mentorship features. Self-enrollment has been enabled with the following requirements - account age: 365 days, edits: 500.
- There is also a proposal to add an advisory message to new accounts that create multiple items.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Rakuten TV adult person ID, KBS News topic ID, Rakuten Books author ID, PTS News Network topic ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, La Grange person ID, Fontaines de Belgique ID, NHK On Demand program ID, 1SCREEN program ID, LUDAP ID, Bianco keyword ID, Architectenregister ID, ClayArena shooter profile ID, Sundsvall Municipality opendata beach ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- relocated from (Object is the original or former {{Q|17334923}} of the permanently relocated {{Q|16222597}})
- OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType)
- transforms from (this fictional or mythical entity transforms from that form)
- Korean Classification of Administrative Districts (code assigned to an administrative district of South Korea in the Korean Classification of Administrative Districts)
- External identifiers: Anobii book ID, Google Maps Place ID, Viberate Artist ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage style ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage designer ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, Deltarune Wiki article ID, INAPP OA author ID, CNR-IRIS ID, AnimeOshi anime ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal Artist ID, CIDIM Artist ID, Operabook Artist ID, Mizan al-Arab poet ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, OpenStreetMap data item ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, A World Made by Travel person ID, Scent Base notes ID, radio.net IDs, Scent Base perfumer ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Items only connected to Telugu Wikipedia (source) - change the language code 'te' to make it work with any other Wikipedia
- Schema examples: French historic monument (E269) - With Wikimania taking place in the French Capital, you can use this entity schema if you feel inspired to or expand items on French monuments.
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Project Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - a Chinese-animated television franchise.
- (Français) Project Orthodox Christianity
- Project SUNY Libraries EMCO
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Project Govdirectory Poland added several new subpages detailing coverage and progress on State, Local Agencies and Marshall's Offices.
- Project Property Constraints added a subpage: Improving - a call for participation, as a result of discussions during WikiProjects Days 2026.
- Newest database reports: Most sitelinked Items (with statements)
Development
- Blazegraph migration: We are continuing to prepare the Query UI, Query Builder, constraint checks, etc for the migration to QLever (phab:T425618)
- Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are investigating some Lua modules to find ones responsible for a lot of unnecessary entries in Watchlist and Recent changes on Wikipedia and co (phab:T429366)
- GraphQL: Added support for negation in property value pair filters (phab:T429580)
- REST API: We are working on the first pieces of support for Lexemes: retrieving a full Lexeme (phab:T429332)
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!
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-30
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In 2023, resident foreigners made up 26.3% of Switzerland's population. Most of these (83%) were from European countries. Italy provided the largest single group of foreigners, accounting for 14.7% of total foreign population, followed closely by Germany (14.0%), Portugal (11.7%), France (6.6%), Kosovo (5.1%), Spain (3.9%), Turkey (3.1%), North Macedonia (3.1%), Serbia (2.8%), Austria (2.0%), United Kingdom (1.9%), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1.3%) and Croatia (1.3%). Immigrants from Sri Lanka (1.3%), most of them former Tamil refugees, were the largest group of Asian origin (7.9%).
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Wikidata weekly summary 741
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #740.
week leading up to 2026-07-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #740.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- RupumpedBot - Task/s: When an Item on a Kenyan river has a Swahili label but no English version, this bot will derive an English label and description.
- William Avery Bot 14 - Task/s: Change values of url properties in mainspace that link to http://web.archive.org/ to use the https protocol (requested at Bot requests#Make HTTPS for Wayback Machine recurrent)
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wikimania is about to begin. Whether you're attending on-site or virtually, plan your sessions so you don't miss any.
- Full program / Wikidata-only program
- Get your virtual ticket
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #91 Aug 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
- Force11 webinar: Metadata for all with Wikidata will look at three novel applications, WikiCite, the Trans Music Achive and the Pratt Institute. Held online August 26, 13-14:00 UTC. Please register for the access link.
- Wikimania is about to begin. Whether you're attending on-site or virtually, plan your sessions so you don't miss any.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Calling Wikifunctions for der, die, das
- How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata
- Altilunium Panoply v26.7.19 : In this latest release, the external Wikidata connection logic has undergone a major architectural overhaul to improve internal trace mapping.
- Videos:
- (Svenska) Strategic inclusion of library data on Wikidata - first recorded at Digikult 2019, with Alicia Fagerving.
- (Français) I’ll explain how Wikidata works! (Livestream recording), User:Lyokoï will introduce Wikidata and its concepts and the fundamentals of editing.
- (繁體中文/zh-TW) Wikivoyage Guidelines for editing Temple information
- How to use Wikibase for Mixed Methods Research, with Francesco Bailo. Recorded at SICSS Melbourne 2026 (Summer Institute in Computational Social Science).
- Games: Webwoven - a new game has surfaced, powered by Wikidata. Race from start to finish in as few connections as possible. Already includes Leaderboards, daily challenges and multiplayer. Sure to be a hit at future Wikidata events.
Tool of the week
- wikivibes is a tool by Magnus Magnus that play public domain music from Commons, tracked by Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Jobs:
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- about page URL (URL to the official about page)
- External identifiers: Western Orthodox Wiki ID, Steady publication ID, Open Collective ID, Guide du Rôliste Galactique ID, CNUC code, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, CNR-IRIS author ID, Anobii Book ID, Anobii author ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, TakaWiki numeric page ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal artist ID
- General datatypes: none
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- autoptic examination (time of last direct examination of the inscribed object)
- Tabular data series (A tabular data series in Commons that models the given concept)
- data series (A data series about the given topic.)
- incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
- former operator (entity, company, military service, or organisation which is notable for previously operated the item, aircraft, vehicle, or other equipment)
- número de la plaza (square number)
- External identifiers: PISAI ID, Ko-fi page ID, Scent Base brand ID, Etsy shop name, Overcast podcast ID, Grillplatser.nu ID, Criticker Film ID, HAND ID, Open Language Archives Community language code, identifiant Ciel d'oc d'une publication, ODiD ID, Generic/Numero de Registre Tributari, UntitledDb People ID, MissEvan drama ID, MissEvan sound ID, MissEvan ID, MissEvan voice actor ID, Fmfenxiang FM ID, Fmfenxiang sound ID, Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Development
- Wikidata Query Service: We are working on adapting the Query Service UI to get it ready for the move to QLever
- Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing to fix small issues found in testing
- Lexemes: We are continuing the work on adding support for Lexemes to the REST API
- Sustainability:
- We are preparing the migration of some database tables on the client wikis that track the usage of Wikidata's data in articles on Wikipedia and co
- We are further investigating how many changes from Wikidata that currently get sent to Wikipedia and co don't actually lead to a change in the article to be able to reduce these cases further
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2026-30
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Reader Experience team has incorporated community feedback around the placement of watchstar and watchlist buttons for the Reading Lists beta feature, which would allow for saving articles for later reading – a wishlist item to bring the functionality to web. Editors are invited to enable the beta feature to test it out and share their thoughts.
- Suggestion Mode offers edit suggestions within the VisualEditor for improving Wikipedia articles. All suggestions are community-configurable. The TextMatch feature is a way for volunteers to create custom local suggestions. The feature searches in articles for strings of text, and now includes support for regular expressions. This gives volunteers greater precision and flexibility over the kinds of local suggestions they can create. Note: Suggestions can be targeted based on the edit count of the person editing as well as other aspects of the page. You can find examples from other communities for inspiration, including TextMatches that detect: typos, grammar-errors, potential advertisements, clichés, incorrect dash or hyphen usage, non-specific time keywords, outdated names, and more. Any feedback is appreciated.
- View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the SVG Translate tool could use an outdated version of a file, causing existing translations to be overwritten when new ones were uploaded, has now been fixed. Overall, in the last quarter from April – June 2026 about 337 community tasks were resolved by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Updates for technical contributors
- On Parsoid-enabled wikis, Parsoid now renders a maximum of 1,250 images per page. A new tracking category, "media-limit-reached", will be soon made available to identify pages where this limit is reached, making it easier to find content whose media output may have been restricted during rendering. See phab:T430854 for more information and to provide feedback.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 13
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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on July 3. Please help translate. The work follows annual plan goals for this fiscal year (July 2026–June 2027).
Highlights
- Reflections from around the puzzle globe: Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Bernadette Meehan shares her reflections from around the puzzle globe.
- Wikimania 2026: Wikimania is happening this week! After the event, all streamed sessions will be linked in the program on Eventyay and later uploaded to Commons.
- Grantmaking: The Global Resource Distribution Committee has published a Grantmaking Strategy draft that sets out a renewed approach to how the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Fund is distributed across the Wikimedia Movement. The GRDC is requesting feedback from volunteers and affiliates, regardless of whether they are grantees or not.
- Movement Ecosystem: A proposal that would update movement affiliate recognition and establish new, connected criteria for eligibility to receive Community Fund grants is now available for community review. You are invited to read the proposal and participate in the discussion until August 7.
- AI's impact on Free Knowledge: How AI threatens the social contract of free knowledge and what we can do about it.
Annual Goals Progress on Engage
See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia
- The Wikipedia Library: Five new collections were added to the Wikipedia Library and a course developed by leading experts in academic publishing and open knowledge was launched.
- Women+ contributions in Wikimedia Tech: A guide based on lived experience on how to address some of the invisible barriers for women+ in more technical Wikimedia spaces and recommendations to become more inclusive. Help further by filling out this survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ across Wikimedia projects until July 20.
- Structured Experimentation: A reflection on the first year of structured experimentation highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes.
- Revise Tone test ended: The A/B test of Revise Tone ended on July 9. It showed that newcomer task completion rates increased by 38.7% compared to the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The feature is now available for everyone on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias. The plan is to release Revise Tone to more wikis.
- Keeping mentor list up to date: Administrators on wikis where Growth features are available can now automatically remove inactive mentors by configuring the settings at Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship to keep the list updated. Mentors are experienced contributors who opt in to help new users on-wiki through the Growth Features.
- Wikifunctions: How Abstract Wikipedia fits into the Wikimedia Foundation's annual plan FY26/27.
- Wikidata: The latest Wikidata Platform newsletter (July edition) shares how to identify and rewrite queries that rely on Blazegraph-specific extensions and affected by the migration off Blazegraph.
- Discussion Tools: On English Wikipedia, DiscussionTools' Usability Improvements has now become default for talk pages. You can opt-out of these changes at any time in user preferences. With this, Discussion Tools are now fully available at all wikis.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 28 and 29 include the new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. See also the 72 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks. Overall, from April – June 2026 about 337 community tasks were resolved by the Wikimedia Foundation.
- Language inclusivity at Wikimania 2026: New approaches to translation and interpretation will be tested at Wikimania this year.
- Call for submissions open for Wikimedia Latin America Conference 2026: The Wikimedia community in Latin America has opened the call for session proposals for the Wikimedia Latin America Conference 2026. Community members are invited to submit proposals for the conference program by August 10.
Annual Goals Progress on Protect
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- Advocacy: China again blocks the Wikimedia Foundation as a permanent observer to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
- UK Online Safety Act: Ofcom, the United Kingdom's Office of Communications, announced that Wikipedia is not designated as a Category 1 service under the Online Safety Act (OSA). This is an important and welcomed outcome as a Category 1 designation could have included privacy and safety risks to our global community of volunteers.
- UN Open Source Week edit-a-thon: Volunteers created 60 new Wikipedia articles and made nearly 700 updates to improve Wikipedia's coverage of UN and open source topics at the second UN Open Source Week edit-a-thon co-hosted by Wikimedia Foundation.
- "Don’t Blink": The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
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- "A Wiki Minute" videos: New videos are added to the series answering some of the most common questions such as "Do you still need Wikipedia when AI can answer anything?" and "Does Wikipedia push a political agenda?".
- Wikipedia 25 brand collaboration in Indonesia: On 4 July, the Jakarta-based street wear company Ageless Galaxy launched a Wikipedia 25 collection, the first ever Wikipedia Brand Collaboration in Asia. The apparel collection featured hats, t-shirts, and a jigsaw puzzle cardigan. Wikimedians in Indonesia joined Ageless Galaxy for a launch party.
Other updates
- Leadership: Reflections on 15 years at Wikimedia Foundation and a new chapter.
- Enterprise: GNOMI Partners with Wikimedia Enterprise to Bring Trusted Human Knowledge to Its AI News Agent.
Board and Board committee updates
See also: Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Board Elections Eligibility: There are new proposed eligibility criteria for standing as a candidate in Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election now available for feedback. The requirements are more specific and detailed than in years past, to both inform the community of what the Board needs and to create multiple pathways to the Board for Wikimedians.
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-31
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La Study of Man's Impact on Climate (traduisible en français par « Étude de l'impact de l'homme sur le climat ») est une conférence scientifique internationale consacrée à l'influence humaine sur le climat qui s'est tenue à Stockholm, en Suède, du 28 juin au 16 juillet 1971. Elle aborde diverses hypothèses parmi lesquelles la destruction de la couche d'ozone et le réchauffement (ou refroidissement) climatique, établit l'état du savoir à leur sujet et, soulignant les nombreuses inconnues qui demeurent, appelle à consacrer davantage de fonds à la recherche scientifique sur le climat.
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Wikidata weekly summary #742
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #741.
week leading up to 2026-07-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #741.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- AuntuBot - Task/s: Per the approved bot request at commons:Commons:Bots/Requests/AuntuBot, I am in the process of uploading approximately 50,000 issues of the Bangladesh Gazette to Wikimedia Commons. We need to a parent Wikidata item for each specific issue/volume to import and organize these files on Bengali Wikisource. Note that AuntuBot has already been granted a bot flag on Wikimedia Commons for the file uploads.
- Rebot 2 - Task/s: We recently created the new property perspective (P14345) (Wikidata:Property proposal/anatomical view). With Rebot, I plan to move:
- About 570 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a property
- About 1400 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a qualifier of image (P18)
- Rebot 3 - Task/s: Import 1389 instances of taxon author citation (P6507) from this Catalan Wikipedia list, compiled by bot from the articles.
- Rebot 4 - Task/s: The task consists in changing these 1072 items. It has to change creator (P170) to the new property photographer (P14574). Also there are 1000+ items in which the property should be used as a qualifier.
- Openpep - Task/s: Maintenance of Politically Exposed Person (PEP) data on Wikidata for Thai government officials. Specifically:
- Creating new Wikidata items for Thai politicians not yet in the database
- Adding P39 (position held) claims with proper qualifiers (P580 start time, P582 end time, P2937 legislative term for legislators, P1365/P1366 replaces/replaced by, P1545 series ordinal)
- Adding P102 (member of political party) with date qualifiers
- Adding P569 (date of birth), P106 (occupation), P21 (sex or gender), P19 (place of birth), P1559 (name in native language)
- Setting and correcting labels, descriptions, and aliases
- Removing incorrect claims and deduplicating
- Adding social media profiles (P2003 Instagram, P2013 Facebook, P11705 Facebook numeric ID)
- DutchFixer - Task/s: Reformat Dutch verb forms that are listed as past tense (Q1994301), participle (Q814722) to simply use past participle (Q12717679)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Vladimir Terentyev used the set of names for every dish from Wikidata -- labels and aliases in every language -- along with restaurant data from OpenStreetMap to develop a world map of dish names, attempting to answer the research question: "Where does plov end and biryani begin, and who really draws these borders?"
- Giving Open Source Hardware a Place on Wikidata
- Simplified entry of complex data into Wikibase
- Grateful and Growing: Reflecting on My Wiki Afrodemics Fellowship, Pilot Cohort
- Papers: DivinWD: Exploring the Diversity of Scientific Publications in Wikidata - DivinWD is a large open-source dataset of over 23 million triples and 1.2 million scholarly articles (2010–2024), integrating Wikidata with five bibliographic sources and gender data to enable transparent diversity analyses in science while documenting biases and infrastructural limitations. By Saletti et. al., (2026)
Tool of the week
- OWL Places, the Wikidata-OpenStreetMap matching tool, can now add OpenStreetMap IDs to Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- dielectric strength (electric field strength that causes electrical breakdown of an insulating material under specified test conditions)
- still taken from the audiovisual work (image comes from the given audiovisual work)
- External identifiers: Operabook artist ID, MPA certificate number, Deltarune Wiki article ID, A World Made by Travel person ID, UntitledDb person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Fediverse app (Fediverse platform of the instance or address)
- Fediverse instance URL (Ferdiverse instance of/about the subject)
- reference amount (Amount of the food that contains a particular quantity of a nutrient.)
- Qidian Book ID ()
- External identifiers: Garance item ID, Kinorating, IGN producer, Fediverse address, Music & Opera artist ID, LFL player ID, Soccer365.net tournament ID, kicker.de coach ID, BeSoccer team ID, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID, SofaScore tournament ID, Foot Mercato club ID, Lithuanian movie register ID, Foot Mercato referee ID, BeSoccer referee ID, Kicker.de referee ID, Soccer365.net referee ID, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID, Soccer365.net stadium ID, MFL player ID, Okko movie ID, RIA Novosti organization ID, OpenParliamentTV person ID, OpenParliamentTV organization ID, OpenParliamentTV term ID, Camping.se ID, classicalive artist ID, Chess Games tournament ID, Chess.com tournament ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, Flemish educational institution number, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, Lulu spotlight ID, RPGnet Index ID, EU Treaties and Agreements database ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Development
- The team were at Wikimania this past week so not much development happened.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2026-31
[edit]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
Content Translation now supports dark mode, fulfilling a Community Wishlist request. This brings the tool in line with the accessibility features available in the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins, helping reduce visual fatigue for users translating content. - DiscussionTools' source mode and the 2017 wikitext editor will now offer autocomplete for links (
[[), templates ({{), HTML and parser tags (<), and magic words (__), making it quicker and easier to insert links, templates, and other wiki markup while editing. - The Readers Growth team has concluded its experiment with mobile page previews and will not roll out the feature. Page Previews are a pop-up bottom sheet that appears when readers tap a blue link, showing a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and an option to open the article. The experiment showed flat retention and negative indicator metrics, suggesting that mobile web readers preferred navigating directly to linked articles rather than using page previews.
- The Reader Experience team has seen encouraging early results from the Reading Lists feature, with 93% of participating users reporting that it was useful. Reading Lists help active readers save articles for future reading and support their learning goals on Wikimedia projects. The team plans further improvements before expanding the feature to more users.
- The Explore Feed Refresh initiative was tested with new and casual Wikipedia app readers. The refreshed feed helps readers discover new and relevant content. After a 10.5% increase in engagement with the feed, Wikimedia Apps team has decided to scale the Home Feed redesign to iOS with the learnings from the Android release applied.
- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where subject names in the Article Guidance feature were displayed with incorrect capitalization on French Wikipedia, has now been fixed. Subject names will now follow the correct capitalization rules for the language.
Updates for technical contributors
- After running several Account Creation Experiments to improve registration completion rates, a new version of the username field on Create Account has been rolled out. It includes a popover summarizing the username policy to provide clearer guidance during account creation. As part of this change, the messages
createacct-helpusernameandcreateacct-username-helpthat several communities have configured will no longer be used. If communities want to customize the guidance shown in the new popover, they can instead edit the following messages:createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet1,createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet2, andcreateacct-username-policy-popover-bullet3. - Later this week, the CodeMirror syntax highlighter will offer themes. The themes can be picked from a dropdown menu in the full CodeMirror preferences dialog. For wikitext, available themes are default, colorblind-friendly (previously the colorblind preference option on Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing) and no-highlighting. For code languages (i.e., CSS/JavaScript/JSON/Vue/Lua), there are several themes available. These same themes will eventually be available for wikitext, too.
- From now on, wikis can restrict editing in the "User" namespace to only the page owner and certain user groups. Read the configuration documentation to learn more.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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This Month in Education: July 2026
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Volume 15 • Issue 7 • July 2026
In This Issue
- Practical Wikipedia Training for Teachers Held in Tetovo, Macedonia
- Wikimedia Ukraine at the Teachers of the Future Festival
- Six Months of Growth, Learning, and Impact: My Journey as an EduWiki Mentor
- PhilWiki Community pays homage to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry at Wikimania Paris 2026
- Google25 Expands Tamil Wikipedia Community
- Edu Wiki camp gathers Serbian youth around the topic of open knowledge
- Cátedra Glaciares: A Collaborative Experience for the Study and Conservation of Colombia’s Cryosphere
- Continuing Wiki education partnerships in Brazil
- Building EduWiki in Albania: From school outreach to student contributions in Wikimedia projects
- 1Lib1Ref WUGN Kaduna, 2026
- We create the first master class on access to knowledge and open technology in collaboration with National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM
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- News and notes: Foundation rejects voluntary recognition of union, proposed board eligibility rules sharply restrict candidates
- WikiConference: "Kurier, Signpost, wikipress: You can be a Wikimedia journalist" - Wikimania presentation by User:Noé Recap
- Arbitration report: Think, and not just about content
- News from Diff: Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2026!
- On the bright side: The beautiful game
- Traffic report: Odyssey and Oyarzabal
- Comix: Well-spotted
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-32
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The plot of Prats de Molló was an attempted military invasion of Catalonia carried out from France to achieve its independence planned by Francesc Macià and the leadership of the Estat Català party, discovered and aborted in 1926. The plan consisted of the penetration of two columns (one from Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans, the other from Coll d'Ares), which were to occupy Olot and proclaim the Catalan Republic.
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Tech News: 2026-32
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Reader Experience team has developed a patch demo that wraps the page toolbar onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, which can occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
- The Reader Experience team is planning to launch Reading Lists, a Community Wishlist item, which is currently available to try in beta, as a full feature in September. Before then, volunteer translator help is needed for string translations into a number of languages. The feature supports reading and learning goals on Wikipedia.
- Next week, the table of contents on Wikimedia Commons file pages will be improved by consolidating the file page table of contents with the page table of contents. This will make it easier to understand a file page’s structure, navigate to specific sections, and share links to individual sections.
- View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some TIFF images failed to load after clicking their thumbnail, causing a broken image to be displayed instead of the full-size image, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The variable and function selector in AbuseFilter has been updated to support search and autocomplete. It will allow filter maintainers to find the desired variable or function more quickly.
- The MJPEG and VP8 formats are removed from the video player. The MP4 format (MPEG-4 Part 2) is added instead, which provides higher quality videos to older iPhone devices. It may take a few weeks to retroactively update all existing videos. The default format for modern devices stays the same (VP9/WebM).
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikidata weekly summary #743
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #742.
week leading up to 2026-08-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #742.
Discussions
- INAPerson 1 - Task/s: Create Wikidata pages entries for mostly French journalists, using INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) catalogue as reference.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wikimedia & Research conference in the CEE region: programme coming in August, registration open - follow link for registration instructions, (onsite) open until August 26, (online) open until at least October 5. Event takes place Katowice, Poland, October 9-10, 2026.
- Workshop: Wikidata for Open Innovation - DCMI 226. Held on August 3 by Kalliopi Mathios, participants will get hands-on experience of Wikidata for use in Libraries, Industry and Communities.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers:
- the proceedings of the conference Wikidata and Research (cf. Meta page), held in Florence (Italy) on June 5-6, 2025, have been published on July 2026 and are available in CC-BY 4.0 license: Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences; 32 papers, 25 in English and 7 in Italian, deal with the usage of Wikidata and other Wikibase instances in different fields of academic research
- Detecting Knowledge Inconsistencies Across Text, Tables, and Knowledge Graphs by Wei et al., (2026). This paper introduces Kontrast: a tool for comparing Wikidata's statements against Wikipedia tables (and text) to find conflicting information or inconsistencies and missing data.
- Videos: LIVE Wikidata Editing #123 with hosts User:Ainali and User:Abbe98
Tool of the week
- Leximap: Create a colour-coded map of Lexemes from a Wikisource page's text, roll-over individual words to discover more about the lemma
- Filmmap: a free interactive map of filming locations built from Wikidata. Search the title to see where it’s shot or a place to see what was made there
- Cradle-gadget – A new user script embeds the Cradle form editor into Wikidata item pages, enabling schema-based editing with ShEx.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job vacancy: (Remote) Software Engineer for the Wikidata Platform team.
- Wikibase Cloud has a new hosting policy (pilot version)
- Subster - a timeline-based Wikidata-powered game that plays songs from your own music collection and asks you to rank it against other songs in your hand. Like a digital, cardless version of Hitster. Requires a subsonic-compatible music server to connect to.
- Uyen developed a tool in which you can visualize and inspect content gaps and shared content between different Wikipedia editions, as well as topic distributions: https://wiki-gap-finder.toolforge.org/ Check it out and give them feedback.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- tabular data series (A tabular data series in Commons that models the given concept)
- infobox chronology (indicate the place of an item in an Infobox chronology, as seen on the Wikipedias.)
- OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType, without trailing spaces)
- Fediverse app (Fediverse platform of the instance or address)
- Fediverse instance URL (Ferdiverse instance of/about the subject)
- External identifiers: Viberate artist ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage style ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage designer ID, radio.net station ID, radio.net podcast ID, Sokmil AV performer ID, Scent Base brand ID, Scent Base notes ID, Scent Base perfumers ID, PISAI ID, CIDIM Artist ID, Etsy shop name, Open Language Archives Community language code, OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID, Ko-fi page ID, KinoRating ID, Korean Classification of Administrative Districts, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID, SofaScore tournament ID, RIA Novosti organization ID, MFL player ID, MissEvan username, Soccer365.net referee ID, Soccer365.net stadium ID, Soccer365.net tournament ID, IGN producer ID, kicker.de coach ID, Kicker.de referee ID, Lithuanian movie register ID, LFL player ID, BeSoccer referee ID, BeSoccer team ID, OpenParliamentTV organization ID, OpenParliamentTV person ID, OpenParliamentTV term ID, Foot Mercato referee ID, Foot Mercato club ID, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID, Chess Games tournament ID, Chess.com tournament ID, Camping.se ID, Garance item ID, OpenType language system tag, Okko movie ID, Grillplatser.nu ID, Número de Registre Tributari, MissEvan sound ID, MissEvan drama ID, Flemish educational institution number, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID, RPGnet Index ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- ENS name (Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain associated with a person or entity)
- Inventaire régional du patrimoine en Wallonie ID ()
- member of musical group (member of musical group)
- name type (type of noun or name the sense is)
- External identifiers: CINE21 Program ID, Rakuten TV adult maker ID, DMM maker ID, sukumizu.tv actress ID, GAS actress ID, Paradise TV Parson ID, syukou-club(X-DIABLO) actress ID, Brazilian Fauna Taxonomic Catalogue ID, CINE21 company ID, STAPI Book ID, STAPI Comics ID, STAPI Episode ID, STAPI Performer ID, Qidian Author ID, Medieval Unicode Font Initiative ID, Apple Maps place id, Filmycast person ID, EORI, GBIF Specimen (occurrence), d anime store Parson ID, d anime store work ID, Crank-in! Parson ID, Crank-in! drama ID, Crank-in! animation ID, Crank-in! movie ID, Elite Prospects team ID, r-hockey.ru team ID, Elite Prospects stadium ID, izohli.uz word ID, Dubbinfo ID, DBNL chamber of rhetoric ID, BLS Code, JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia article ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Retrieve all Belgian writers without an article on French Wikipedia (source)
- Schema examples: Swedish barbecue areas (E408)
- Newest WikiProjects: Project Occitan
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Project Broadcasting - after 10 years of inactivity, the project has been revived with a flurry of activity . Of particular interest is the change in broadcasting scope from primarily airwave to internet transmission.
- Wiki x K-pop 2026 • Editing Party - Japan Week Datathon
- Newest database reports: Wikidata Terminator - find items that lack Label, description or sitelink.
- Showcase Items: Oman (Q842) - state in western Asia
- Showcase Lexemes: cheche (L648863)
Development
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We reviewed samples of Wikidata-related entries in Recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co in order to see which additional changes we can remove because they don't change the article.
- We are preparing for the migration of the entity usage table to the extension database cluster to address database scalability issues (phab:T424133)
- Wikidata Query Service: We are continuing to adapt the Query Service UI and the Quality Constraints extension for the upcoming move from Blazegraph to QLever.
- REST API: We are continuing to add support for Lexemes, specifically retrieving a full Lexeme (GET) (phab:T429332)
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: Seychelles
- 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!
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 14
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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on July 18. Please help translate.
Special Wikimania issue
This is a special Wikimania issue of the Bulletin. We'll be back to our regular format in the next issue
- Wikimania Paris: Paris hosted Wikimania 2026 as Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of free knowledge. Catch up on missed sessions of Wikimania 2026 by checking session pages in the program.
- Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2026: The beloved Wikimedian of The Year awards shine the light on exceptional individuals, and through them, on the whole Wikimedia community. Learn about all of this year's winners.
- Daily highlights from Wikimania:
- Public policy advocacy: Overview of Wikimania 2026 sessions about public policy advocacy. While not all sessions are recorded, you can watch some by clicking the session.
- Users with extended rights pre-conference: 190 users with extended rights from all around the world gathered at a Wikimania pre-conference, to exchange experiences, learn from each other and connect.
- Media coverage: The event was mentioned in many media outlets as part of wider coverage about the Wikimedia projects including in Le Monde, El Nacional and Radio France.
Annual Goals Progress on Engage
See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia
- Improvement to Reading Lists: Community feedback around the placement of watchstar and watchlist buttons for the Reading Lists beta feature has been incorporated. 93% of participating users reported that it was useful. This feature allows saving articles for later reading – a wishlist item to bring the functionality to web.
- Creating custom edit suggestions: With the TextMatch feature, volunteers can now create custom local suggestions within the VisualEditor for improving Wikipedia articles. You can find examples from other communities for inspiration. Share your feedback.
- Dark mode for Content Translation: Content Translation now supports dark mode, fulfilling a Community Wishlist request. This brings the tool in line with the accessibility features available in the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins, helping reduce visual fatigue for users translating content.
- Mobile page preview: Based on the conclusion of the experiment, mobile page previews feature will not be rolled out. The experiment showed flat retention and negative indicator metrics, suggesting that mobile web readers preferred navigating directly to linked articles rather than using page previews.
- Scaling of Explore Feed to iOS: The Explore Feed Refresh initiative was tested with new and casual Wikipedia app readers. The refreshed feed helps readers discover new and relevant content. After a 10.5% increase in engagement with the feed, Home Feed redesign will be scaled to iOS by applying the learnings from the Android release.
- Improving Account Creation process: After running several Account Creation Experiments to improve registration completion rates, a new version of the username field on Create Account has been rolled out. Read more.
- Latest experiments: An ongoing experiment is testing to better guide Temporary Account users toward full account creation. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 30 and 31 include that now wikis can restrict editing in the “User” namespace to only the page owner and certain user groups. See also the 50 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
- New bot detection system for all wikis: After a successful trial, which showed evidence of both deterring bots and being easier to use, hCaptcha (our new bot detection system) has been rolled out to all wikis, for account creation, and for most newcomer edits.
Annual Goals Progress on Protect
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- Online age verification: Around the world, governments are adopting different approaches to online age verification. Learn more about it and how it is shaping our experiences online in a new three-part blog series: "What is it, a timeline of age-based restrictions, and why it matters", "What means what, how it's done, and balancing child rights and safety", and "Age-based restrictions, draft bills to watch, global complexity, and engaging with lawsuits".
Board and Board committee updates
See also: Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Affiliation Committees: Celebrating 20 Years of the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee.
Other updates
- Enterprise: How Wikimedia Enterprise protects Wikipedia in the AI era.
- Unionization: Wikimedia Foundation Statement on US unionization request.
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-33
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Composizione VII (Композиция VII o Zu Komposition 7) è un olio su tela del 1913, realizzato dal pittore russo Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij e conservato nella Galleria Tret'jakov di Mosca.
Prodotto centrale del pittore russo nel periodo 1910-1915, essa è considerata l'opera che certificò la raggiunta maturità creativa da parte di Kandinskij, rappresentando anche l'apice della sua energia creativa. È considerato il più rappresentativo tra i lavori completati durante l'anno del successo internazionale dell'artista, simboleggiando il punto di emancipazione definitivo dell'Astrattismo.
Opera più grande mai realizzata dall'artista per dimensione, facente parte della serie denominata Composizioni, rappresenta un'allegoria dell'Apocalisse, di cui riprende il tema e lo propone in una versione astratta, trasfigurata dalla realtà in una forma composta da sole linee e colori.
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Wikidata weekly summary #744
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #743.
week leading up to 2026-08-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #743.
Discussions
- The order of properties on Wikidata is governed by MediaWiki/Wikibase-SortedProperties. We propose moving (P2559) Wikidata usage instructions to the top, so important guidance is more visible and less likely to be overlooked. To comment on this change, please visit MediaWiki_talk#prominently displaying (P2559).
- Closed request for comments: 19 RfC's were closed recently, too many to list here. Please see the RfC page for more information.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- (Deutsch) nfdi4 / Workshop: Make Research Software Findable using the Software Marketplace Wikidata, 18.08.2026, 14:00–16:00 CEST (register for Zoom-link)
- Improving Wikidata References: The hands-on session will explore how to identify and improve broken references on Wikidata , 15.08.2026, 17:00–18:00 WAT (UTC+1).
- Looking ahead: (Deutsch) Freie Universitat / Tidy data version control - Wikidata in research: 22.10.2026, 09:00 - 16:00 CEST.
- Previous events: August 04 - Blazegraph Migration office hour - see the Etherpad notes for questions and answers.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- gdottv / The Weekly Edge article: demonstrating the Wikidata Query Logs (WDQL) Dataset talks about a paper released in February this year, (Wikidata Query Logs Dataset)
- LinkedIn - User:Orthodoc10 describes their experience mapping and modelling knee replacement surgical practices into Wikidata
- Wikisignals.org: Helping Editors Evaluate Reference Reliability
- Zero-budget programs you could start tommorrow - Lessons from Wikimania Paris]
- OpenSpeaks Tools Update: Subtitler, Tome, and Bento Go Stable — Meet Media Dashboard
- [[Diffblog:a-look-at-a-2026-wikimania-hackathon-project-wikidata-bias-detector|A look at a 2026 Wikimania Hackathon Project – Wikidata Bias Detector]
- nlnet Foundation / Inventaire Split - a short article on this standalone Wikidata-federated Bibliographic database.
- Maltese national Book Council and WM Malta renew partnerhship: Wikidata to support and feed Maltese Wikipedia.
- [Diffblog:wikisignals-org-helping-editors-evaluate-reference-reliability|Wikisignals.org: Helping Editors Evaluate Reference Reliability] - the project aims to add to news-related organisation entities to help feed Wikipedia infoboxes with structured data.
- Videos:
- India's Software Stories: A Hands-on Workshop with Software Heritage, Commons and Wikidata - a Wikimania Lightning talk with Mathilde Fichen and Pavan Santhosh. (Session page)
- The Art of Editing Wikidata (Africa Wiki Women) - Guest host David Palfrey will share valuable insights and help newcomers uncover the mysteries of editing Wikidata, this session is in collaboration with Art+Feminism.
- (no audio) Tutorial: Add Geoshape to Wikimedia Commons and connect it to its Wikidata Item - Anne Chen gives a visual demonstration of the steps provided in this google doc, found on the WikiProject IDEA page.
- LIVE Wikidata Editing #124 is streaming today, 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC)!
- (Bahasa Indonesian) Wikimedia Indonesia have released 4 short videos on editing practices, querying, basic structure and data quality of Wikidata.
- (Deutsch) ZB MED LAB | The Carpentries - aimed at researchers and professionals who work with data, a series of tutorials and workshops to teach you Wikidata, Python, R, OpenRefine and more.
Tool of the week
- Cradle-gadget is a tool by User:DanielyepezgarcesThis is an interactive, schema-based form editor that works directly within Wikidata item pages. It allows users to check, view, add, modify, or delete claims in a modern sidebar drawer or a dedicated special page, aligned with the Wikimedia design guidelines. This is the easiest way to exploit the benefits of Wikidata entity schemas, powered by ShEx.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The 2026 OpenRefine User Survey is now open. (Note that a link to a feature-prioritization survey is provided at the end of the Google Form so don't miss that if you want to influence what should get more focus.)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- particularly (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, when the statement applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
- incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
- External identifiers: CINE21 TV program ID, GCD character ID, ODiD ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, NHK ONE program ID, CINE21 company ID, Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID, Fmfenxiang sound ID, Elite Prospects team ID, Elite Prospects stadium ID, r-hockey.ru team ID, Classicalive artist ID, Apple Maps place id, HAND ID, Brazilian Fauna Taxonomic Catalogue ID, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, MissEvan voice actor ID, Music & Opera artist ID, Dubbinfo ID, GAS actress ID, EU Treaties and Agreements database ID, syukou-club(X-DIABLO) actress ID, sukumizu.tv model ID, Paradise TV Person ID, Regional heritage of Wallonia ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- filing unit code
- has Member (has member)
- introduced to (region outside the natural range of a taxon into which it was introduced through direct or indirect human activity)
- External identifiers: Lift-World lift ID, Schiffsdatenliste ID, marketswiki, National Palace Museum Digital Archive ID, Information Commissioner's Office registration reference, Registry of Type Design ID, Ariana Museum ID, Emulation General Wiki article ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal immovable object ID, Sofia monuments register ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal museum ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal movable object ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal stone carving ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal protection zone ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal wall painting ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal documentation record ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage Portal movable object ID, RIdIM ID, Weibo ID, Weibo username
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Ten longest State of the Union adress in the USA
- Schema examples: object with inscription - schema for objects with inscriptions (Q1640824)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Highlights: Project Ontology added a Metaclasses page
- Newest database reports: Sitelink statistics by User:Pasleim.
Development
- Sustainability: We continued the work on migrating usage tracking on Wikipedia and co to the extension database cluster (phab:T424185)
- Watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co: We finished our review of a sample of Wikidata edits sent to Wikidata and co in order to better understand which remaining ones are not useful. It will soon be published on Commons.
- Query Service: We continued the work on preparing the Query Service UI for the migration from Blazegraph to QLever and will move to Query Builder and Quality Constraints next
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: Seychelles
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2026-33
[edit]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
- A new ChartWizard is now available on Wikimedia Commons for users interested in creating charts from their own data. The wizard makes the Chart extension more beginner-friendly by allowing editors to create charts, such as bar and pie charts, without needing to use JSON. Users can still switch to the JSON editor if they prefer. Feedback on the new tool is welcome on the wish talk page.
- View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Wikipedia iOS app’s Picture of the Day widget displayed the same image every day instead of updating daily, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Math formula SVG images will soon be generated in the browser instead of on the server. MathML continues to be generated on the server and renders in the browser without JavaScript. Wikibooks will see this change on 12 August, Wikisource on 19 August and Wikipedia from 20-27 August. You can try this by selecting "MathML with SVG image (client side MathJax rendering)" in your preferences. This change is part of deprecating RESTBase and deprecating Mathoid.
- Category pages will soon support sorting entries by the time they are added to a category. This will make it easier to find recently or long-standing categorized pages. It will also improve workflows for maintenance categories such as deletion backlogs and other time-based review tasks. You can use
cldsort=timestampURL argument in category view to sort the entries. - Gadgets and user scripts on Wikimedia wikis may now use ES2018 features and ES2019 features in JavaScript code. Previously, the platform only allowed up to ES2017. MediaWiki validates the source code to protect functionality from syntax errors and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-34
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Divorce in Poland occurs at a rate slightly below that of the average for Europe. In the Polish legal system, divorce proceedings fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of the civil court; there is no legal basis for resolving a marriage through the agreement of the spouses or through administrative procedures. Divorce requests are assessed by the court, in accordance with the positive and negative prerequisites set in the relevant law.
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Wikidata weekly summary #745
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #744.
week leading up to 2026-08-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #744.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- WikiLoves Pride / Australia, 15 August, drop-in online for a collaborative editing session on LGBT+ representation on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons.
- Drop-in and Wikidata, 27 August, WM Australia also hold a drop-in Wikidata ediitng sesison.
- Open Heritage - Wikidata Islamic Civilization Contest from September 1 - 30, 2026. Register for news.
- A Wikidata training webinar will be held August 25.
- Looking ahead: Hands-on workshop: Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond - Digital Humanities Lab, 12.11.2026, 14:15-15:45 CEST.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Papers: Cultural information bubbles: A new approach for automatic ethical evaluation of digital artwork collections based on Wikidata by M. Zhitomirsky-Geffet and S. Minster, (2026).
Tool of the week
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WM Australia is funding partner projects for 2026 - 2027, for Australian organisations or individuals who want to build projects for open and free knowledge, including Wikidata.
- Job Vacancies: (Interim) Engineering Manager / Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
- Survey: What content would you like to see on the Wikidata Social media channels? - only want to hear about Wikidata events or news, would like to see more use-cases of Wikidata, or perhaps you'd like more beginner or advanced Wikidata tutorials? Let us know in this short survey.
- We are setting up to apply for recognition of a new Wikimedia user group, Wikimedians for Data Organization and Quality. The group's goal will be to improve the organization and quality of data, particularly structured data, in Wikimedia projects. You can see more details in the group's home page and, if you wish, you can contribute to the discussion in its talk page. We invite you to be a part of this proposed user group by adding your Wikimedia signature to the Interested Parties section of the group's page.
Ege Atacan Doğan and Peter Patel-Schneider
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- located at a height (a property intended to indicate the height of any objects from the ground)
- contributed to narrative universe (narrative universe that a person contributed to)
- name type (type of noun or name the sense is)
- introduced to (region outside the natural range of a taxon into which it was introduced through direct or indirect human activity)
- External identifiers: d anime store Work ID, d anime store Person ID, Crank-in! drama ID, Crank-in! animation ID, Crank-in! person ID, STAPI Book ID, STAPI Episode ID, STAPI Performer ID, Qidian Author ID, Crank-in! movie ID, DBNL chamber of rhetoric ID, Criticker Film ID, Lulu spotlight ID, German Maritime Museum Ship ID, Rakuten TV adult maker ID, izohli.uz word ID, Ciel d'oc publication ID, Lift-World lift ID, STAPI Comics ID, Qidian Book ID, National Palace Museum Digital Archive ID, DMM maker ID, Registry of Type Design ID, Fediverse address, Information Commissioner's Office registration reference, WorldFootball.net ID (new), Sofia monuments register ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal immovable object ID, Ariana Museum ID, RIdIM ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- school of martial arts (school or style of martial arts this person studied)
- has official Italian government website (tems that the item has an official website operated by or belonging to the Government of Italy)
- Infraestructuras de Portugal ID (station code Infraestruturas de Portugal)
- External identifiers: Silloria perfumer ID, Silloria notes ID, Beer Advocate beer style ID, BBFC release ID, Identifier for a person in norwegian polar history, Filmová databáze seriál ID, Serbo-Croatian Literary Language entry ID, dbv member slug, idw member ID, Sky programme ID, immaterieelerfgoed.be ID, Geoshape Repository ID, FIBA.basketball event ID, SEASLUG.WORLD species ID, Silloria brands ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du COMDT, Identifiant d'un(e) ou plusieurs musicien(ne)s sur Paraulas en òc, Identifiant d'un(e) ou plusieurs musicien(ne)s sur Trobasons, Kinolights Parson ID, Kinolights Work ID, Identifiant d'un ouvrage dans le catalogue du CREDD'O, parliament.uk constituency ID, Europeans In East Africa ID, Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke ID, Judoresults judoka ID, Silloria perfumes ID, Scent Base perfumes ID, IMCDB work ID, identificador de sardana de somarxiu.cat, Xcity maker ID, CrashPad Series performer ID, PinkLabel.TV performer ID, Seiyu Grand Prix Person ID, animehack Person ID, animehack Program ID, animehack movie ID, XBIZ.com topic ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Schema examples: (E528) Space Telescope, instrument in outer space for observing distant space objects
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest database reports: Recent deaths (this report can help for updating Wikipedia articles
Development
- Query Service: We started preparing the constraint checks for the migration from Blazegraph to QLever.
- Page load times: We looked into unnecessarily loaded modules related to the Wikidata Bridge to see if we can remove them and speed up page load times.
- Wikipedia and co:
- We worked with English Wikipedia to optimize the CiteQ module code to generate less usage tracking for "Anonymous".
- We checked a variety of Mediawiki areas where Parsoid deprecation may lead to breakages.*
- Sustainability: We are planning to migrate the usage tracking data to the X1 extension cluster. We are checking which queries involving entity usage will need re-writing or updating.
- REST API: We finished adding support for getting a full Lexeme and started work on creating Lexemes.
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: Seychelles
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2026-34
[edit]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 Worklist feature for the Event Registration tool is now live on all Wikimedia wikis. With Worklist, event organizers can add the articles their event will focus on directly to the event page. The Worklist also powers Event Pathways which notifies other editors of the upcoming or ongoing event when they edit an article featured in the event's Worklist. This is the minimum viable version (MVP), and feedback is welcome. Organizers are encouraged to try the feature. A hands-on Worklist Setup Workshop will take place on 18 August at 16:00 UTC and 19 August at 11:00 UTC.
Updates for editors
- Special:ShortPages displays short pages by their size, but in many cases it gets filled with disambiguations and soft redirects, making it harder to find the short articles themselves. Starting this weekend, you will be able to choose not to include an article in the special page by adding the magic word
__EXPECTSHORTPAGE__. - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Bole (
w:bol:) - Starting the week of August 17, the page toolbar will wrap onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This is a fully merged patch from the Reader Experience team which aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, that may occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
- View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, uploading large files to Wikimedia Commons has become more stable and less prone to failure following some fixes related to the “Could not acquire lock” upload error.
Updates for technical contributors
- Debian Bullseye will reach the end of its Long Term Support on 31 August 2026. Some Cloud VPS projects still have instances running Debian Bullseye. Maintainers of those projects are encouraged to migrate to Debian Bookworm or Debian Trixie. A migration guide is available to help with the process, and users may also want to consider whether their workload is better suited to Toolforge. If you need help or cannot complete the migration by 31 August, please contact the Cloud VPS admins as soon as possible. Read more.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 15
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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on August 1. Please help translate.
Highlights
- Improving Account Creation process: As part of Account Creation Experiments an improved account creation form has been released. The form now provides live username validation, a clearer username policy popover, and a reveal password button. We also removed redundant elements and jarring warning messages, improved the form's information hierarchy, and aligned the design with Codex design system guidelines.
- Create charts from your own data: The new ChartWizard makes the Chart extension more beginner-friendly by allowing editors to create charts, such as bar and pie charts, without needing to use JSON. The ChartWizard is now available on Wikimedia Commons. Feedback on the new tool is welcome on the wish talk page.
Annual Goals Progress on Engage
See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia
- Worklist Feature Setup Workshop: Are you organizing or planning a Wikimedia editing event soon? Join one of these workshops (Aug 18 at 16:00 UTC and Aug 19 at 11:00 UTC) to set up the new worklist feature for your event. With this feature, organizers can list the specific articles their event will focus on, directly on the event page.
- Reading Lists to launch as full feature: The Reading Lists, a Community Wishlist item, will be launched in September as a full feature. Volunteer translator help is needed for string translations into a number of languages before the launch.
- Improving Commons' section headings: The table of contents on Wikimedia Commons file pages was improved to make it easier to understand a file page’s structure, navigate to specific sections, and share links to individual sections.
- From Abstract Wikipedia: An apple is a fruit and new experimental type: anonymous functions.
- Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment would test methods for email confirmation enforcement for new accounts to determine which approach is the most effective at driving email confirmation. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 32 and 33 include that Category pages will soon support sorting entries by the time they are added to a category to make it easier to find recently or long-standing categorized pages. See also the 43 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Protect
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- Don't blink: Representing Wikimedia at the United Nations’ Open Source Week and other latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
- Online Identity Verification: Anonymity is Important for Democracy and It’s Also at Risk.
Board and Board committee updates
See also: Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees: Reflections on Wikimania 2026.
Other updates
- Leadership: Wikimedia Foundation will welcome Rena Kokalari as new Chief People Officer from 1 September.
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-35
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The Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle (Macedonian: Ден на македонската револуционерна борба),[1] also known as Day of VMRO, is a national holiday which is celebrated on October 23 in North Macedonia. In 2007, the holiday was voted into law as a new national holiday. It is a non-working day.
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Wikidata weekly summary #746
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #745.
week leading up to 2026-08-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #745.
Events
- Upcoming events: Wikidata Lab XLVIII: Outreach Dashboard, August 27, at 15:30 UTC. Come see and discuss new Wikidata functionalities of the Outreach Dashboard!
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Finishing Outreachy with Wikidata support for Wikiscore by ACorrea WMB and AnaMRRuiz
- Papers: Climate Knowledge Graph (ClimateKG) - A partnership project to make a knowledge graph of the 10,000 page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report.
Tool of the week
- Lex-Olympia — A new tool for improving Wikidata Lexemes. Try it out and share your feedback with the developer and community.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Research study: AI tools for content verifiability on Wikidata. Researchers from King's College London are inviting Wikidata editors (especially those working on health or GLAM/cultural heritage content) to participate in a two-stage study (1-hour interview + 2-hour workshop) exploring how AI tools can support content verifiability. Participants receive compensation via Love2Shop vouchers. Sign up here (Qualtrics form).
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: BBFC release ID, Silloria brands ID, Silloria notes ID, Silloria perfumer ID, Kinolights person ID, Kinolights work ID, BeerAdvocate beer style ID, immaterieelerfgoed.be ID, idw member ID, Geoshape Repository municipality ID, Filmová databáze seriál ID, FIBA.basketball event ID, dbv member slug, Silloria perfumes ID, SEASLUG.WORLD species ID, parliament.uk constituency ID, Judoresults judoka ID, Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke ID, IMCDB work ID, Norwegian polarhistory ID, CREDD'O catalog ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- substance control status (control regime a substance is placed under in a jurisdiction or by an international treaty — schedule, class, or explicitly uncontrolled; qualify with "applies to jurisdiction" (P1001) and start/end time)
- Bibcode access status (Indicator of the access statement for a document on Bibcode)
- External identifiers: wowKorea Parson ID, wowKorea Work ID, TOWER RECORDS ONLINE artist ID, Antarctic Protected Areas database ID, WikiPepper pepper ID, Inventory Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands ID, NAKED(X-DIABLO) actress ID, Weibo ID, Umamusume Wiki article ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du CREDD'O, Georgian NAPR identification number, Companyinfo.ge corporation ID, T&F NCAAdb athlete ID, UkrBIN ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture record identifier
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:Railway stations map in the two Koreas
Development
- REST API: We are continuing the work on making it possible to create a Lexeme and will then move on to adding statements to Lexemes.
- GraphQL: We are working on moving the Item search from cirrussearch to mariadb to be able to add more functionality.
- Newcomer homepage: We are updating the text to move it away from some Wikipedia-specific phrases (e.g. articles)
- Mobile editing: We worked on not showing edit links on old revisions and diffs since those can not be edited.
- Page load times: We continued looking into unnecessarily loaded modules related to the Wikidata Bridge to see if we can remove them and speed up page load times.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2026-35
[edit]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 Special:CreateAccount page has been simplified as part of ongoing work to modernize the account creation experience. The panel showing project statistics no longer appears next to the form on desktop and mobile web. Multiple account creation experiments show that a simpler form helps newcomers complete registration.
- In order to improve page performance, images now load when they are viewed. This means images lower down an article will not load if a reader never scrolls to that part of the page, which may affect some image-related metrics.
- View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where image thumbnails in Abstract Wikipedia could fail to display after the corresponding file was moved on Wikimedia Commons, has now been fixed. Thumbnails will now update correctly when files are moved.
Updates for technical contributors
- User Info card is a feature that helps patrollers see information about user accounts. So far, it has been available only in places such as page history, logs and recent changes. Now, it's possible to place it in the page content as well, using the
{{#uic:}}parser function. It can be particularly useful in templates like{{Userlinks}}(or their specialized variants), as it will make it easier to see the context about a user on various noticeboard pages. The card will be displayed only to users who have it enabled in their preferences. - Due to user security and privacy risks, we have disabled access to
Special:MyPageURLs when specifically usingaction=raw. If you are impacted by this, consider whether you can use an alternative approach.Special:MyPageURLs can still be accessed and used withoutaction=raw. Specified user page URLs (e.g.User:Myusername) can still be used withaction=raw. - Due to an update, the thumbnailing software has been improved. This includes upgrading
librsvgto 2.60 andImageMagickto 7, as well as resolving a number of long-standing thumbnailing bugs like rendering errors.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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