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CEE Newsletter is out now!
[muokkaa wikitekstiä]Dear all,
The first CEE Newsletter issue of 2026 is now live, and we are happy to share it with you.
The past few months have been anything but quiet across our region. From Wikimedia CEE Spring and the CEE Women Campaign, to cross-border collaborations, youth initiatives, and new ideas taking shape, there is a lot happening -- and this issue brings together many of those stories in one place.
You will find highlights from community activities, updates from the CEE Hub, international news, and a wide range of contributions from across the region. It is a good snapshot of what we have been working on together at the start of the year.
As always, thank you to everyone who contributed -- by writing, sharing updates, or supporting behind the scenes.
Take a moment to explore the issue and see what is going on across the region: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/March_2026
As always, we have prepared a Russian version of the same issue: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/March_2026/ru
Happy reading!
On behalf of the CEE Newsletter team, Karo
Wiki Loves Eurovision 2026
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Hello everyone!
You are invited to participate in the "Wiki Loves Eurovision" article writing contest, where our goal is to create new Eurovision-related articles in the CEE-language Wikipedia editions and improve existing ones. The contest will take place from May 10 to June 10, 2026, and prizes are available:
- 1st prize: a voucher worth €60
- 2nd prize: a voucher worth €50
- 3rd prize: a voucher worth €40
- 4th–10th prize: a voucher worth €30
To participate in the contest and learn more, please visit this link. --MHeidarzadeh-CEEhub (talk) 14:00, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #748
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #747.
week leading up to 2026-09-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #747.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- HsfBot - Task/s: Mostly add missing Indonesian Wikipedia sitelinks to Wikidata items for taxonomy templates created by HsfBot on idwiki.
- CrossrefIDsBot - Task/s: Adding Crossref ID, DOI, Print ISSN, and Online ISSN from Crossref dataset where they are missing in Wikidata.
- CatmapperBot - Task/s: Add SocioMap ID statements for reviewed SocioMap category mappings, and provisionally add exact match URLs for reviewed ArchaMap category mappings until Wikidata approves an ArchaMap-specific identifier property.
- BenchfolkBot - Task/s: Add or correct sourced statements on existing items after explicit human approval.
- New request for comments:
- Class Q1048835 as a not valid value-type constraint - To remove an incorrect value for arvotyyppirajoite (Q21510865) for P27 (country of citizenship)
- Project chat: What images are appropriate for P18? - a lengthy discussion about quality control and what is acceptable for a P18 (image) value.
Events
- Upcoming events: Open Workshop: Connecting Basque heritage authors (Persons and entities) in Wikipedia and Wikidata - 22 September - 09:00 - 11:30 CEST.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: What Does a Wikidata-Powered Abstract Wikipedia Article Look Like? (Links: Substack and Medium)
- Papers: Bemme, J., & Winkler, A. (2026). Mehr Edits wagen? Virtuelle Ausstellungen erschließen mit Wikidata und Commons. LIBREAS. Library Ideas, (48). https://doi.org/10.18452/37905 / https://libreas.eu/ausgabe48/bemme/
Tool of the week
- Tabernacle is a tool by User: Magnus Manske it generates a table of Wikidata items and statements. Allows for quick addition of some types via WiDaR.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The 10th issue of the Wikidata Platform Newsletter is out. Also remember to join the next Blazegraph Migration Office Hour, that will take place Tuesday, 8th September 2026 at 16:00 UTC
- The Castle Map - every Castle, Fortress and Palace recorded on Wikidata, on a map.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: CREDDO author ID, World Athletics competition ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture record identifier, T&F NCAAdb athlete ID, COMDT author ID, Clergy Memorial (1914-1918) ID, Texas Legislators: Past & Present ID, Stiftungsarchive ID, Redalyc author ID, Kudos author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Pokémon Ability (Pokémon Ability assigned to this Pokémon species or form in games of the Pokémon series)
- Collective bargaining coverage (Percentage of workers covered by collective agreement coverage. This is distinct from union membership rate, because non-union members can also be covered, for example France has 7% union density but 98% collective bargaining coverage.)
- encompasses (specific entity this placeholder item may represent when the exact one is unknown)
- marionetteist (Person who manipulates a marionette in real time to create the illusion of life.)
- has expression of concern ((article) has an expression of concern (expression of concern notice))
- External identifiers: Common Core Ontologies concept ID, AbeBooks author ID, DEHIO digital Deutschland Bauwerk ID, VocaDB tag ID, CCLI song ID, LIDO concept ID, The Telegraph topic ID, BLL-Ontology concept ID, GOLD linguistic concept ID, ISBNdb author ID, BookWyrm author ID, BookWyrm book ID, China Railway station telegraph code, Darija.io ID, Vietnamese Administrative Unit Codes, Officials of Nazi Reich Ministries ID, Fandom.com universe page, KennisWest ID, identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du Centre Delavouët, Phenotype and Trait Ontology ID, National Governors’ Association ID, Numista engraver or designer ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID (new schema)
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: UNESCO Heritage sites 100km or less from the centre of the Meditrranean Sea (source)
- Schema examples: spaceport (E213): schema for spaceport (Q194188) locations, used to launch and receive spacecraft.
- WikiProject Highlights: Project Medicine / Knee Arthroplasty - a comprehensive subpage to model the techniques and procedures for knee-related surgery.
- Newest database reports: Same Humans/List by Occupations - this report presents possible human duplicates by comparing name and birth/death dates. They can be reviewed and flagged for merging and/or deletion.
Development
- Sustainability:
- We are looking into improvements to caching for Property labels (phab:T434204)
- We are continuing to prepare the move of the entity_usage table to the extension database cluster. Moving the tables is tentatively scheduled to begin after 24. September. (phab:T427472)
- Newcomer homepage: We are working on making the Newcomer Homepage show labels for Items instead of just the ID (phab:T429345)
- Wikidata changes in Watchlist and Recent changes of Wikipedia and co: We are deciding how filtering will look for hiding language link changes on wikis where the sitelink has not changed (phab:T435904)
- REST API: We are continuing to expand the support for Lexemes in the API, specifically creating a Lexeme, adding a statement to a Lexeme and adding a Form to a Lexeme
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: Tunisia
- 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: 2026-37
[muokkaa wikitekstiä]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
- Add a Link has been upgraded for English Wikipedia users with improved detection of links that have different capitalization. This will help reduce ambiguous suggestions caused by differences in capitalization in article titles, including articles about cultural goods. A second phase of improvements is planned, which will also prepare the feature for release in other languages.
- The Article guidance feature will be enabled by default for junior editors on Simple English and Turkish Wikipedia starting 10 September 2026 following an experiment. Junior editors with 0 to 99 edits will automatically see the feature when they click a red link or use the "" option on Turkish Wikipedia to create a new article. The change is intended to help junior editors create higher-quality articles that meet each Wikipedia’s standards. Additional improvements will continue based on the experiment results and community feedback.
- The Pageviews Analysis tool which allows users to compare pageviews across multiple pages, turns 10 years old this year and several new features have been added. They include WikiNav which provides insights into how readers of Wikipedia explore the content, editing stats in Siteviews, the ability to lookup articles belonging to a WikiProject, and support for dark mode.
- A visually simplified Minerva navigation bar is being tested for logged-out readers using mobile web on the Bengali, Czech, English, Farsi, and Polish Wikipedias. The experiment aims to determine whether simplifying the navigation improves reader retention. The test will run from August 31 to September 28, and no action is required from users.
- WMDE Technical Wishes is working on improving . Editors will only notice a slight change starting this week. When adding automatic reference names the numbering will start at
:1instead of:0. Read more on the project page. - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 23. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where Parsoid could mishandle nested nowiki tags, causing content to be lost and displaying unwanted text has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Interface administrators can configure gadgets from MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. The definition format has been updated and no longer requires the
ResourceLoaderoption, as gadgets are always loaded throughResourceLoader. This simplifies gadget configuration by removing an option that is no longer necessary, making gadget definitions easier for administrators. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Tech News: 2026-38
[muokkaa wikitekstiä]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 Future Audiences team has started a about a proposed new experiment to show a temporary notice about the new Google Preferred Sources feature to Wikipedia readers coming from Google. The experiment is to test whether this notice makes visitors come back to Wikipedia more often. Preferred Sources feature lets users choose websites they trust so Google can highlight content from those sources more prominently in Search and AI experiences. We are interested in testing this on other languages that Google supports and would welcome assistance with starting conversations on other wikis. If interested, please reach out to Future Audiences on the talk page.
Updates for editors
- The chat platform Discord is releasing a new self-service framework that websites can use to specify how their links should look when shared on Discord. The Future Audiences team is planning to start using this new framework to improve how Wikipedia links look when shared on Discord, giving better attribution and credit to contributors. The link appearance and behavior won't change in the first phase of this project as we want to first collect some baseline data to assess the impact of future changes. However, if community members who are active on Discord spot any issues, they can reach out on Phabricator or Metawiki.
- The Reader Growth team will be running an experiment to test whether compacting article lead sections on mobiles with the addition of a "read more" button improves reader retention. The test will begin on September 17 on Arabic, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and will run for four weeks.
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 23. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming week.
- View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where Wikistats for Wikipedias was returning an HTTP 500 error and could not be reached, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikimedia Commons links tables need to update their code to connect to the new x4 database cluster. The links tables have been moved from the s4 cluster to x4, and will no longer receive updates on s4. The page and redirect tables remain available on both clusters. A wiki replica for the x4 cluster will be set up afterwards. The change is being made because the s4 cluster has grown too large to operate efficiently. You can read more.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikidata weekly summary #749
[muokkaa wikitekstiä] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #748.
week leading up to 2026-09-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #748.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Both RfPs are scheduled to end after 17 September 2026 21:56 (UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 15 - Task/s: Automatically update Wikidata:Administrators by language, as requested at Wikidata:Bot requests#Request to automatically update Wikidata:Administrators by language (2026-08-04)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: CrossrefIDsBot - Closed as Approved
- New request for comments: Should class political territorial entity (Q1048835) as a valid value-type constraint (Q21510865) be removed from country of citizenship (P27) ?
Events
- Upcoming events:
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #93 Oct. 5 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Adélie Ranville demonstrates useful tools around bibliographic data and citations in Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiversity, including Zotero, Cita, and Tabernacle.::Event page: WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Project Series/Wikidata for literature review
- Wikidata's 14th Birthday is approaching! Join us October 29 for a Birthday call.
- Register to receive updates and news
- Run a local event or find events to join near you.
- Join the Birthday Call and see what Presents and Messages will be shared.
- WikiCon (Regensburg) 2026 - the conference dedicated to the German-speaking Wikipedia and sister projects communities, is taking place from 18 - 20 September. The sessions involving Wikidata: Wikidata - 9 Years later, Enter sources in Wikidata, Easily explore Wikidata (UsefulQueries), and WikiProject Stolpersteine goes Wikidata.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Videos:
- Live Wikidata Editing #126
- (Español) Workshop: Digital Humanities Methodologies Applied to Research
- Sep 2026 Community Call: International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) & Wikimedia - can IIIF be integrated with Wikimedia platforms, or as a Wikibase instance?
- 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign Launch 2026 using Wikidata
Tool of the week
- Lex-Olympia is a tool by User: Luca.favorido it is an open, gamified challenge platform for exploring Wikidata lexemes, born as a successor to the now-unmaintained Lexeme Challenge tool. Players test their language knowledge by matching audio, hyphenations, and concepts to lexemes, competing via scores and a weekly leaderboard.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WM Turkic languages user group (instagram post): official co-hosts of WikidataCon 2027; Istanbul, Türkiye, in collaboration with Üsküdar University.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- phonetic synthesis method (phonetic synthesis method used to process the recorded voice from a human source to build a voice bank)
- LPF rating (film and media rating in Malaysia by the Film Censorship Board)
- Collective bargaining coverage (Percentage of workers covered by collective agreement coverage. This is distinct from union membership rate, because non-union members can also be covered, for example France has 7% union density but 98% collective bargaining coverage.)
- has Pokémon Ability (Pokémon Ability assigned to this Pokémon species or form in games of the Pokémon series)
- External identifiers: Allotrope Foundation Ontology function ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology process ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology quality ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology result ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology role ID, Arcinsys Hessen ID, Arcinsys Niedersachsen/Bremen ID, Archivportal Thüringen ID, Baden-Württemberg archives ID, BookWyrm author ID, BookWyrm book ID, VocaDB tag ID, Statistics Finland Concept Database ID, sgpbusiness.com ID, LIDO concept ID, Common Core Ontologies concept ID, GenWiki article ID, findbuch ID, Darija.io ID, China Railway telegraph code, Sharjah Dictionary word ID, CCLI song ID, DEHIO digital Deutschland Bauwerk ID, Vietnamese administrative unit code, UkrBIN ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- stylized representation (stylized visual representation of the subject)
- Former country (Historical country that was in force at the time of this event/object or in the past)
- North Dakota Legislative Assembly biography ID (identifier for a biography at the North Dakota Legislative Assembly)
- Wyoming Legislator Database ID (identifier for a biography in the Wyoming Legislator Database)
- European Legislation Identifier (EU legislation identifier for documents published by the EU, its member states and other (non-EU) countries)
- Visa requirement (Requirement for a non-citizen to enter a country)
- External identifiers: FilmBaze people ID, EHRI Institution ID, Climate Policy Radar Topics, SEASLUG.WORLD taxon ID, Verenigingsloket vCode, StoryGraph book ID, China Railway Pinyin code, ZFIN person ID, BallotReady person ID, National Film Archive of Japan ID, Baza osób polskich ID, Mycelium entity ID, identifiant DDH, Alberta Legislative Assembly member ID, Homeostasis imbalance process ontology, Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga (DBBL) Spieler ID, Digital Momijiyama Bunko ID, Kunaicho Shoryobu Shuzo Kanseki Shuran ID, Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts ID, Siwar entry ID, ISDCF studio identifier, ISDCF facility identifier
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Tram stops per network map
- Schema examples: adminstrative district in Turkey (E133)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Medicine/Knee Arthroplasty maintains structured data for knee replacement on Wikidata, covering the procedure tree and the taxonomy of surgical techniques, with a literature layer of referenced scholarly articles.
- WikiProject Highlights:
Development
- Query Service migration: We are adapting more of the example queries for QLever
- Mobile editing: We are making minor adjustments in preparation for the rollout for everyone
- Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
- We are continuing to automate the connection of Wikidata to newly-created wikis, and replace the sites table with a Sitematrix lookup, which is more efficient (phab:T431093)
- We are continuing the research into how best to handle changes for language link updates in Recent changes and Watchlist, which are mostly considered not relevant for editors
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: Tunisia
- 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 17
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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on August 28. Please help translate.
Highlights
- Data center switch: All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 23 at 14:00 UTC as part of a scheduled switchover to allow for essential maintenance and improvements. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes in advance.
- Baseline NPOV Policy: The public conversation regarding the proposed baseline NPOV policy for Wikipedias that do not yet have one has been concluded. Read the summary report and the updated baseline NPOV policy text and enforcement guidance here.
- Save the date. Wikimania 2027 will be taking place in Santiago, Chile, and online from August 18 to 21, with the theme "The Internet we want". See the Wikimania 2026 coverage highlights and a brief update on what's ahead.
- Chart extension is now beginner-friendly: Creating graphs and charts previously required manual JSON editing. In response to a Community wish to make the Charts extension more user-friendly, a new Visual mode for adding values has been introduced.
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
- Introducing TextMatch: Communities are shaping Suggestion Mode with TextMatch to create custom suggestions that are tailored to their own policies and writing conventions. Share your feedback.
- Visual editor becoming default: Design work on the user experience for visual editing for newcomers is underway. This follows visual editor becoming default on English Wikipedia following a community discussion.
- Community Wishlist 2027 consultation: The consultation on the proposed new Wishlist process is closing this week. This year's cycle plans for wish submissions in late October/early November, triage completed by late November, and voting in early to mid January. Share feedback in any language on the talk page.
- Improved Add a Link feature: Add a Link has been upgraded for English Wikipedia users with improved detection of links that have different capitalization. This will help reduce ambiguous suggestions caused by differences in capitalization in article titles, including articles about cultural goods.
- Wikipedia Android app: Latest release includes updates to the Saved feature, bringing the app’s saving experience closer to iOS and Web. The update redesigns the Saved tab with an “All articles” view, removes the default “Saved” reading list, renames reading lists to “Collections,” and modernizes the article-saving experience.
- Domain change for thumbnails: The domain of URLs for thumbnails is changing from
upload.wikimedia.orgtothumb.wikimedia.org. The old URLs will continue to work but MediaWiki will advertise the new domain instead. Original files, videos, and transcodes will still be served fromupload.wikimedia.org. - Reading lists rollout continues on desktop: Following the initial deployment to Bengali, Chinese, Czech, and Vietnamese Wikipedias, reading lists went live on Arabic, French, and Indonesian Wikipedias and will go live on English Wikipedia on Sep 14, with all remaining wikis following on Sep 28.
- New features of Pageviews Analysis: Several new features have been added to the Pageviews Analysis tool which allows users to compare pageviews across multiple pages. They include WikiNav which provides insights into how readers of Wikipedia explore the content, editing stats in Siteviews, the ability to lookup articles belonging to a WikiProject, and support for dark mode.
- Article guidance: As part of an A/B experiment, Article guidance is now available in Turkish and Simple English.
- Latest experiments: A current experiment for logged-out mobile readers on Bengali, Czech, English, Farsi, and Polish Wikipedias is testing whether simplifying the Minerva navigation bar improves reader retention. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Wikifunctions status updates: Thanks to all contributors, Wikifunctions has now reached 5,000 functions.
- Latest highlights from Tech News: Weeks 36 and 37 of Tech News include the Article guidance feature is now enabled by default for editors with less than 100 edits on Simple English and Turkish Wikipedia.
Annual Goals Progress on Enable
See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Affiliates and grant funding: Have your say on proposals establishing (1) a new model and set of expectations for movement affiliates; (2) new, connected requirements to determine eligibility for receiving Community Fund grants from the Wikimedia Foundation; and (3) updated criteria for affiliate recognition processes.
- Community Fund reflections: Read the reflections on the fiscal year 2025–2026 of the Rapid Fund and General Support Fund, covering $17.73 million across 427 grants in 90 countries, with 56.2% distributed outside North America and Northern & Western Europe.
Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- World of Wikipedia launches: The World of Wikipedia game has been released. It is an online collectible card game where players sort fact from fiction across Wikipedia articles to build their card library. The game is the latest experiment in reaching younger audiences through familiar formats, following Wikispeedia on Roblox and Which Came First? on the Wikipedia app.
Other updates
See also: Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Celebrate Women 2026: Read the impact of Celebrate Women 2026 as the campaign concluded with 112 events, 238,222 unreverted content edits and 2,499,773,577 bytes added.
- US staff union vote: On Sep 3, eligible Wikimedia Foundation staff in the United States voted in favor of union representation in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election.
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The Signpost: 16 September 2026
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- News and notes: The Balance of Power
- In the media: Shocking photos may be changed on Wikipedia
- Disinformation report: Have UN Secretary-General candidates manipulated Wikipedia?
- Recent research: Google's AI overviews may have reduced search engine referrals to English Wikipedia by 5%
- WikiConference report: The backwater symbiosis – reflections from Wiki Conference India 2026
- Traffic report: Heaven let your light shine down
- Serendipity: Wikipedia Family Mosh Pit
- On the bright side: Fantasy video games, hopeful science fiction, and the change of seasons
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Wikidata weekly summary #750
[muokkaa wikitekstiä] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #749.
week leading up to 2026-09-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #749.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Kvazimodo
- RfP is scheduled to end after 26 September 2026 08:42 (UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Chrisahn - voting has been closed.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- BenchfolkBot - Task/s: Add or correct sourced statements on existing items after explicit human approval.
- CatmapperBot - Task/s: Add SocioMap ID statements for reviewed SocioMap category mappings, and provisionally add exact match URLs for reviewed ArchaMap category mappings until Wikidata approves an ArchaMap-specific identifier property.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: HsfBot - Closed as Approved
- New request for comments: Add properties to the Deletion policy - following a Project Chat discussion, suggestions for an amendment to the policy are being discussed and your feedback is welcome.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Open Knowledge Wikimedia Research in the CEE Region, online participation to the Conference is still open, register here: 09 - 10 October.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers:
- WiCleanData: Guaranteeing the Type Consistency of Wikidata by Taxonomy Refinement and Constraint Enforcement by Peng et al., (2026).
- The Wikibase Ecosystem in Digital Humanities and GLAM by Lindemann et al., (2026).
- Videos: (Swedish) The SAT trail in OSM and Wikidata by Magnus Sälgö.
Tool of the week
- Concept cloud - Shows language labels for Wikipedia links from a Wikidata item, and allows label editing.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job vacancy: Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- Wyoming Legislator Database ID (identifier for a biography in the Wyoming Legislator Database)
- has expression of concern ((article) has an expression of concern (expression of concern notice))
- External identifiers: National Governors’ Association ID, Numista engraver or designer ID, Phenotype and Trait Ontology ID, ZFIN person ID, Association Service Desk vCode, Nazi Reich Ministries ID, North Dakota Legislative Assembly biography ID, KennisWest ID, GOLD linguistic concept ID, Alberta Legislative Assembly member ID, EHRI Institution ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID (new schema), National Film Archive of Japan ID, Homeostasis imbalance process ontology, DDH ID, Economic Operators Registration and Identification number, wowKorea work ID, wowKorea Person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- illustrator (character) (artist who illustrated the character)
- contribution URL (URL of a page explaining how to participate in or contribute to a project or organization)
- Holy See cardinal biography ID (identifier for a cardinal's biography at the website of the Holy See)
- Atomic radius, covalent radius and van der Waals radius (measured or calculated radius of an atom of a chemical element)
- External identifiers: Register of British Slave Traders person ID, Tric Trac, PsychonautWiki article ID, Hitchwiki article ID, Raras disease ID, Heritage Overlay Number, Techniques de l'Ingénieur author ID, nbsearch, Indian Film History film ID, Indian Film History person ID, VideoGamesCritic game ID, identificador Eldoblatge d'actor original, identificador Eldoblatge d'actor de doblatge
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Schema examples: (E206) Stolperstein: Stumbling blocks, commemorative plaques set into the ground for victims of Nazism.
- Newest WikiProjects: (Traditional Chinese) Project Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum
- WikiProject Highlights: Project Ontology: Course Offering 3
- Newest database reports: Categories (to merge) - this list generated by User:Ivan A. Krestinin suggests potential duplicate categories.
Development
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: Tunisia
- 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: 2026-39
[muokkaa wikitekstiä]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 23 September 2026 at 14:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
Updates for editors
- The Growth team tested a new post-edit notice designed to encourage Temporary Account holders to register for a permanent account. The new notice replaced multiple dialogs and a simultaneous welcome notification with a single message highlighting the benefits of creating an account. The experiment increased permanent account creation from 1.94% to 3.66%, an 87% relative increase. The change will now be released to all wikis.
- For Wikipedia editors using the "Suggestion mode" Beta Feature, there is a new opt-in user preference for showing "experimental" edit checks and suggestions. These types are listed at Special:EditChecks, and are intended for early developer-testing and for gathering feedback from experienced users. Administrators can change the configuration details for each suggestion as usual. Administrators can also use this feature to help test their community's ideas for locally created checks and suggestions. Experimental types will have a more distinct visual style later this week. Feedback is welcome.
- The CEE Technical Village Pump has been launched as a space for technical discussions and collaboration among Wikimedia communities in Central and Eastern Europe.
- A new tool, Starter Kit, is now available for new and small language Wikipedia communities. It brings together guided tasks, tools, and resources to help communities get started, monitor their progress, and collaborate with the broader Wikimedia community. Starter Kit is hosted on Wikimedia Toolforge and is designed for Wikipedias with fewer than 50,000 articles. Learn more about how Starter Kit works and how communities have been using it in this Diff blog post.
- The Reader Growth team is launching a retest of the image carousel experiment. The retest will use three new versions of the design, updated based on community feedback. The team will assess results and determine with communities whether or not to proceed with the feature. The experiment will begin the week of September 28 and will run on Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English, Farsi, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
- After successful rollouts to Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias, the Reading Lists feature from the Reader Experience team will be available to all logged-in users on all Wikipedia wikis starting September 28.
- View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the mentor status script repeatedly updated mentors’ status even when nothing had changed, creating unnecessary Recent Changes entries, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The
abusefilterslist query API, used to retrieve specific details about active or historical abuse filters configured on a wiki, has been updated to support theformatversion=2configuration parameter, thereby leading to breaking changes to the API response. All users who maintain user-scripts or other code need to check if they use theabusefilterslist query API, and respond to any breaking changes. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Tech News: 2026-40
[muokkaa wikitekstiä]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
- Users of default skins on desktop and mobile web (Vector 2022 and Minerva respectively) will now be informed if the search suggestions displayed as they type into Search come from page redirects. Previously, users could get confused when the top search suggestions did not match exactly what they had typed. The new redirect notice clarifies that these suggestions are not random, but related to the search. The suggested pages may be redirects to the most relevant destination articles being searched for.
- Logged-out Wikipedia users on mobile web will begin to see a bookmark button for saving articles to their reading lists instead of the current Watchstar button. When clicked, the bookmark button prompts users to log in or create an account to save an article for later. An earlier experiment found that the bookmark icon was four times more likely than the Watchstar button to encourage logged-out users to create an account. This change is part of efforts to encourage more readers to become account holders and use features that help them save and return to content.
- An experiment will begin on September 29 on Spanish, Arabic, English, and French Wikipedias to simplify the experience users encounter immediately after account creation. The test will explore whether removing friction from the current Welcome Survey helps new users understand what to do next more easily. The experiment will run through the end of October.
- The Product and Technology Advisory Council has put out a call for the community to suggest topics that it should consider and discuss with the Wikimedia Foundation. Editors and technical contributors are invited to add topics to the council's talk page.
- Later this week, it will be possible for communities to configure Edit Checks and Suggestions so that they are shown within additional namespaces, such as a
Draft:namespace. Feedback is welcome. - A bug in the Global Watchlist is causing the page to fail to load for users that have unseen changes on Wikimedia Commons. Developers are working on a fix. Until then, affected users can follow the workarounds described in the relevant help section.
- New magic words
{{CATEGORYSORT:TIMESTAMP}}and{{CATEGORYSORT:RTIMESTAMP}}are now available for use. They are able to change the default sorting of categories to be based on timestamp of categorization. - View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where Wikistats for Wikipedias was not reachable has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The datacenter switchover, scheduled on September 23, has been postponed. The equinox exercise revealed capacity issues, preventing the switch of all services to the other datacenter. The process has been paused, prioritizing investigating that issue, to ensure that we continue to be able to serve our users reliably. A new exercise will be scheduled. Meanwhile, all traffic and edits continue to work as usual.
- On September 23, a power loss briefly affected all wikis, creating intermittent issues on both reading and editing modes. This also affected Gerrit. This is unrelated to the datacenter switchover postponement.
- Produnto has been deployed to mediawiki.org and some Indic language wikis. We want to hear your feedback on this experimental product. Produnto allows users to use Lua modules hosted in Wikimedia's GitLab. It simplifies the sharing of Lua code between wikis. Instead of copying each individual Lua module from one wiki to another, users will be able to easily share packages across all wikis.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- A Cross-wiki code collaboration workshop will be held online on October 2 at 12:30 UTC, bringing together South Asian technical contributors to learn about Produnto and begin piloting it on Hindi, Punjabi, Odia, Telugu, and Malayalam Wikipedias. Produnto is a package manager for deploying Lua modules hosted on GitLab to Wikimedia wikis, and was recently deployed on some pilot wikis.
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Wikidata weekly summary #751
[muokkaa wikitekstiä] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #750.
week leading up to 2026-09-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #750.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- MamouriBot, Task/s: Add census demographics — population, male population, female population, and no. of households — to existing Iranian settlement items identified by Iran statistics ID (P1010), from the Statistical Center of Iran censuses of 1385 (2006) and 1395 (2016).
Events
- Upcoming events:
- The program for the Wikidata Query Service Days (October 17-23) is now published, covering the migration from Blazegraph to QLever with sessions for editors, reusers, and tool builders; see the event page for details and schedule.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Papers: CodeGraph: Open-Taxonomy Knowledge Graph for Source Code with Wikidata Grounding by Pennino et al., (2026).
- Videos:
- When the Old Constraints Disappear: Work and Creativity in the Age of AI (Wikipedia->Wikidata->Wikifunctions->Abstract Wikipedia), John Samuel, Mindstone AI Meetup, September 22, 2026, Lyon, France (Video, Slides)
- AI BRIDGES Open Forum meeting - September 2026
Tool of the week
- HumansMap Gallery - The site offers various type of visualizations, and offers the possibility to navigate through connections between people and organizations, based on your interests, powered by Wikidata.
- 📚 Wikidata Book Itemizer It is a simple tool to catalog books on Wikidata! Creating work and edition items manually on Wikidata with proper metadata and multilingual labels can often be tedious and error-prone. Wikidata Book Itemizer automates this entire process with a simple form!
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is researching how to improve interoperability between Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud, and Wikibase Suite. If you've worked with data imports or staging, or even if you haven't, your input would be valuable. The survey takes 5 to 10 minutes and is anonymous. More information on the background of the questions: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Mass-editing policy#Context
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts ID, Siwar entry ID, Kunaicho Shoryobu Shuzo Kanseki Shuran ID, Emulation General Wiki article ID, Digital Momijiyama Bunko ID, Raras disease ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Writers at Risk database ID (Identifier in the PEN America Writers at Risk database, cataloging writers threatened, imprisoned, and jailed worldwide)
- External identifiers: Ohio Entity Number, NZPCN legacy ID, Žmonės.lt topic ID, Jersey HER Reference, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le Maitron, Google Search profile handle, Leipziger Biographie ID, LEO-BW person ID, Biopsa ID, Isle of Man Registered Building No., Waymark code, Identifiant dans OrthodoxWiki en français, WE League player ID, WE League manager ID, Delfi.lt topic ID, Lrytas.lt topic ID, Baidu Baike article
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Latin American Cinema / Films with an English or Portuguese Wikipedia page, but not Spanish
- Schema examples: (E422) 'Golden age of illustration' book from the Maastricht University Library collection.
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Project Schlaraffia - for enriching items about the German-language fraternity Schlaraffia (Q1305789) and its international and local associations.
- Project Tamil Nadu dedicated to creating and improving Wikidata content related to Tamil Nadu (Q1445) and Tamil (Q5885).
- WikiProject Highlights: Project PCC EMCO Wikidata CoP added a subpage for listing Properties normally associated with Corporate bodies.
Development
- Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with UX fixes. This is primarily visual polish and consistency as well as fixing bugs related to RTL display.
- Wikibase REST API:
- We are finishing the support for creating Lexemes and the statements on them.
- We are continuing working on support for adding Forms to a Lexeme.
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are going to stop sending language link changes to the first few wikis. An initial deployment to group1 wikis is now planned for Monday, 05.10.2026. (Click group1 on this Toolforge page to see which Wikis are included.) This will help reduce noise in Watchlists and Recent changes and help reduce the size of the database table holding recent changes on these wikis.
- Connecting a newly created Wiki to Wikidata is a manual task, we are automating that and optimising the SitesTable at the same time, making a 'single source of truth' that all wikis point to, rather than a table per Wiki that are all clones of each other.
- We are experimenting with raising the entity usage limit on wikis. If this is feasible, we can reduce the amount of bundled changes. This would reduce the quantity of Wikidata-triggered Recent Changes rows being created.
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: The Gambia
- 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 18
[muokkaa wikitekstiä]
Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on 15 September. Please help translate.
Highlights
- Introducing the Wikipedia Starter Kit: The Foundation has launched a new Toolforge-hosted tool giving new and small language Wikipedia communities a guided pathway through essential onboarding tasks, activity indicators, and connections to the wider movement.
- Apply for a scholarship to Wikimania 2027: Scholarship applications are now open to attend Wikimania 2027 in Santiago. To help with preparing submissions, orientation sessions in Spanish, Portuguese, and English will be held starting the week of October 5. The final deadline is October 31.
- Reading Lists rolling out to all Wikipedias: Starting September 28, logged-in users on every Wikipedia will be able to save articles to a "read later" list using the bookmark icon, following successful rollouts on Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
- WikiCelebrate: WikiCelebrating Juan "BugWarp" Kulichevsky, who has contributed to Wikimedia projects since childhood and is passionate about sports photography and community building in Argentina and beyond.
- The 2026 appointment cycle is open now through 31 October 2026 for the Ombuds Commission (OC) and the Case Review Committee (CRC). You can learn more about the committees, the roles, and how to apply on the Committee Appointments page on Meta-wiki.
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
- Community Wishlist 2027: The Community Wishlist Process is now updated, taking into account the feedback received. Look out for the call for wish submissions towards the end of October.
- Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026: From Sep 18-20, Wikimedians, open-knowledge researchers, and free-culture advocates from Central and Eastern Europe gathered for the first time in Romania. Take a look at the novelties and history behind CEE Meeting.
- Increasing account creation: To convert more casual users into logged-in daily users, the evergreen account creation prompt is released into Beta / TestFlight for iOS and Android. Also, a new post-edit notice designed to encourage Temporary Account holders to register for a permanent account will now be released to all wikis. The new notice has proven to increase permanent account creation from 1.94% to 3.66%.
- VisualEditor is now the default at English Wikipedia: this wiki has now adopted VisualEditor as the default editor on both desktop and mobile web, following a sitewide discussion that found overwhelming consensus to make the change.
- Retesting image carousel: The image carousel experiment will be retested using three new versions of the design, updated based on community feedback. The team will assess results and determine with communities whether or not to proceed with the feature.
- Wikifunctions: Your code can now call back to the Wikidata fetch functions. Wikifunctions have deployed an initial capability by which a code Implementation (in JavaScript or Python) can call certain other Wikifunctions Functions, get back the result, and have it available for further processing.
- Latest experiments: A current experiment is testing whether offering a "generic guidance" path for Article Guidance that does not depend on a Wikidata match would increase the chances of more article creation attempts. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 38 and 39 include a Reader Growth experiment testing whether showing only part of an article at first on mobile, with a “Read more” button to reveal the rest, encourages people to keep reading. See also the 56 community-submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
- Suggestions for Transliterated Search: If you regularly use two different writing systems (such as Hindi and Latin alphabet), sometimes you accidentally type with the wrong one and need to switch to the right keyboard. Now, this gadget will be able to suggest query based on what you typed.
- Peer-to-peer learning program: Let’s Connect, a peer-to-peer learning program is shifting to a community-organized model.
- LLM Paste Check rolling out to Wikipedia: A new Edit Check will prompt editors who paste text likely copied from an external AI chatbot to consider whether it aligns with movement AI-use policies and decide whether to keep or remove it. It goes live as a default-on feature at English Wikipedia on Sep 24 and at all Wikipedias on Oct 8.
Annual Goals Progress on Enable
See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Wikidata bulk downloads now free via Wikimedia Enterprise: New beta API endpoints let anyone download full Wikidata snapshots and pull hourly batch diffs at no cost, opening up bulk access that previously required a paid tier.
- Accountability for Wikimedia production services: To ensure clear accountability for responding to incidents in Wikimedia production services, Wikimedia Foundation published the Service Catalog page. The page is the canonical source of service ownership for code deployed to the Wikimedia Foundation cluster. See also FAQ pages which contain more background details.
- Datacenter switchover has been postponed: The equinox exercise revealed capacity issues, preventing the switch of all services to the other datacenter. The process has been paused, prioritizing investigating that issue, to ensure that we continue to be able to serve our users reliably. A new exercise will be scheduled. Meanwhile, all traffic and edits continue to work as usual.
- Affiliates and grant funding: The conversations on the new proposed model, requirements and criteria continues until the end of next week with public calls on 1) Tuesday, September 29, 16:00-17:00 UTC on affiliate growth paths and Friday, October 2nd, 17:00-18:00 UTC on affiliate overlaps.
Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- AI literacy program: A new regional initiative in ASEAN was launched to support training and conversations around AI literacy, accountability, and Indigenous self-determination.
- Testing Google preferred sources: An experiment is proposed on English Wikipedia to run a temporary (2-week) notice asking readers who come from Google to set Wikipedia as a “preferred source” in Google. We would see if this causes people who use Google to visit Wikipedia more. If your language wiki is interested, please reach out on the project's talk page.
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September 2026 CEE Newsletter is out
[muokkaa wikitekstiä]Hi everyone,
The September 2026 issue of the CEE Newsletter has been published.
This issue highlights diverse efforts to create, protect, and share open knowledge, featuring activities in education, GLAM, photography, and community engagement. It also explores new recognition and funding proposal, resources for smaller Wikipedia language editions, and peer-learning experiences.
Read the full newsletter here.
Enjoy the read!
Caner (User:Kurmanbek)
This Month in Education: September 2026
[muokkaa wikitekstiä]Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.
This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 9 • September 2026
In This Issue
- Wikipedia Writing Training at Universitas Terbuka. WikiRempah Welcomes Wikimedians in Ternate
- Wikimedia MKD’s Wiki Camp & Team Building 2026
- Wikimedia Commons Training for Students at Universitas Nurul Hasan Bacan: Mobilizing Bacan's Youth with WikiRempah
- Wikidata integration in the Library & Information Science course
- Translating the EduWiki Newcomer's Starter Kit in Albanian language
- Training Wikimedia Commons WikiRempah in Bacan, Bringing Digital Education to an Island Without Electricity
- Synergy Between WikiRempah, the West Halmahera Regency Education and Culture Office, and the Sultanate of Jailolo in Documenting Spice Route Cultural Sites
- St Aloysius Wiki Club Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Tulu Wikipedia
- Road to Open Source: bringing open source contribution into Indian engineering classrooms
- Photography and education: initiatives in Brazil
- Open Knowledge Initiatives Summer Internship 2026 – Project Workflow & Learnings
- Media Literacy Teacher Training with Wikimedia UK and Thoughtful
- Heritage Across Borders: St Aloysius Wiki Club Students Celebrate Cultural Heritage Through Wikipedia
- From Bandung's Street Signs to Wikipedia: Rediscovering Sundanese Script
- CSPC Wiki Club launches student community for open knowledge and youth leadership
- Amplifying Underrepresented Voices: Lessons from the Language Diversity Hub 2026
- Education activity: Can I trust Wikipedia?
Wikidata weekly summary #752
[muokkaa wikitekstiä] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-10-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #751.
week leading up to 2026-10-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #751.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- SaadBot - Task/s: A read-only (no edits) entity lookups for an academic research project building a relation triplet extraction (RTE) dataset from web text.
- OKA bot - Tasks: Improve Wikidata items using authoritative open datasets, e.g., national mapping data and reference works: add sources, fill gaps, create missing items and report conflicts from the Swisstopo dataset and its subsets.
- FoxfindingBot - Task/s: Passively enrich existing Wikidata games with gog.com metadata
- Wahl.de Bot - Task/s: Keep mandate data of German parliamentary members current. Edits to end date (P582), successor/replaced by (P1366), start time (P580), parliamentary term (P2937)retrieved and sourced from official sources.
- New request for comments: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Split needed from Q4167836: Split Wikimedia category (Q4167836) into two items, because one is for MediaWiki non-main namespace (Q35252665) and the other is for Wikimedia project page (Q14204246)
Events
- Upcoming events:
- On October 9 ends up the early-bird registration with its reduced fees for MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2026, November 11-13, at Jožef Stefan Institute (Q5918873). The program is already set up!
- Wikidata's 14th birthday (Q139103554) in Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2026, 24 Oct 2026.
- (Deutsch) Wikidata Writing Workshop, takes place Saturday, 31 October, 10:00 to 13:00 CEST at the Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, Obere Vorstadt 6, 5000 Aarau.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- (Deutsch) Domus – an open data project on the history of houses - Wikidata and FactGrid Wikibase combine to help build a map visualiser.
- WikiNusantara 2026: a second chance in Makassar
- N-RICH: a new Wikimedia Project to explore Wikidata as a connective layer for UK cultural heritage infrastructure
- Videos:
- (Short) Schomburg Center’s 2026 Wikidata Edit-a-thon during the New York Black and African Literature Festival
- RLUK DSF | Linked data and the research library - explores how libraries are engaging with linked data (including Wikidata) and what this means for metadata creation, management, and discovery.
- Wikidata 14th Birthday Celebration stream with Africa Wiki Women.
- AI BRIDGES Open Forum meeting, the September 2026 meeting, showcasing updates from the DARIAH’s DHWiki working group on Wikibase.
- Exploring networks of artists and scientists with the Wikidata Query Service.
- (Spanish) What does Wikidata contribute to open library data? with Elena Sánchez Nogales.
- LD4 Conference streams:
- Sessions 1 / Building more complete and linked GLAM datasets: The Smithsonian’s (In)Visible Women’s Project
- Sessions 2, incl.
- Sessions 4 including Finding where to contribute on Wikidata with Dustpan and Broomstick. Wikidata is mentioned throughout the stream.
- Sessions 5 / Reduced Fuzziness in Semantic Kompakkt 3D Object Viewer through Extensive Data Modelling in Wikibase
- Sessions 9 / Using Wikidata to Improve the Visibility of African Women in Open Knowledge
- Sessions 10 / From Sounds to Solidarity: Jazz, Student Protests, and Wikidata
- Wikidata Affinity Group: Working with Corporate Bodies for EMCO
Tool of the week
- Mergers & Acquisitions: A Wikidata Merge Assistant, a new web app that surfaces possible duplicate items from Wikidata and provides a simple interface for evaluating the candidate pairs and merging them together or marking them as different.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- disjoint with (instances of this type cannot be simultaneously instances of that type)
- contribution URL (URL of a page explaining how to participate in or contribute to a project or organization)
- atomic radius (measured or calculated radius of an atom of a chemical element)
- covalent radius (radius of an atom of a chemical element when covalently bonded)
- Van der Waals radius (radius of an imaginary hard sphere representing the distance of closest approach for a non-bonded atom)
- External identifiers: Tric Trac game ID, Techniques de l'Ingénieur author ID, Stereo Ve Mono release ID, Sky programme ID, Sky series ID, Scent Base perfumes ID, Register of British Slave Traders person ID, Onderwijstermen Taalunie ID, NZPCN legacy ID, Biopsa ID, Writers at Risk database ID, LEO-BW person (GND) ID, Leipziger Biographie ID, Jersey HER Reference, Isle of Man Registered Building No., Holy See cardinal biography ID, Google Search profile handle, Filmbaze people ID, China Railway Pinyin code, belarusenc.by ID, BLL-Ontology concept ID, IFWiki article, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage designer ID, Eldoblatge original actor ID, Eldoblatge original dub actor ID, Drag France directory ID, OrthodoxWiki ID (French), Le Maitron author ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage glossary ID, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage material ID, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage object type ID, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage technique ID, Brussels Inventory of Natural Heritage taxon ID, WE League manager ID, WE League player ID, ArchaMap ID, Womens German Basketball Bundesliga Player ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- has language or spelling variant (the (multilingual) label of the linked item is a a language, spelling or etymological variation of the label of this item)
- school of martial arts (school or style of martial arts this person studied)
- External identifiers: YouSaid person ID, Demko ID, Niconico Pedia article ID, Scholastica scholar ID, Hannah Arendt edition person ID, AbeBooks author ID (2), Identifiant dans Calames, identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du Centre Delavouët
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Schema examples: ICH item(E379) - schema for a Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage item in the international lists or national inventories.
- Newest WikiProjects: EastEnders (TV series) - a project for the BBC soap opera.
- Newest database reports: The EntitySchema Directory
Development
- REST API: Continuing the work on adding support for lexicographical data, specifically creating a statement, Form and Sense on a Lexeme
- Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into raising the entity usage limit. We are setting up monitoring to see how much it can reduce the amount of Recent Changes entries triggered from Wikidata.
- Mobile editing of statements: We continued addressing the remaining UX issues, including RTL and Kartographer issues
- hCaptcha: We are planning the support for it to Wikibase-specific pages like Special:New Item
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: Tanzania
- 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: 2026-41
[muokkaa wikitekstiä]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 process for this year’s Community Wishlist has been published, incorporating community feedback. The wish submission process will end on November 8. This year, a working group (open for volunteering) that includes community members familiar with the technical aspect of our wikis alongside Wikimedia Foundation staff, will take care of the triage process. The triage is expected to be completed by late November. Votes for wishes will start in January.
Updates for editors
- Editors using the visual editor will now see a warning when they paste text that is likely to have initially been copied from one of five external generative AI chatbots into Wikipedia. This feature is known as LLM Paste Check. It is a type of Edit Check that is community configurable. The check looks for markers in the copied HTML and is not using content watermark detection. Edits will also be tagged so that patrollers can review them more closely. The feature helps newcomers add content that respects Wikipedia’s policies and makes it easier for experienced editors to identify problematic edits. Communities with local policies about LLM usage can adjust the wording and policy that is linked. The team apologizes that this was rolled out without a delay for translations.
- Editors can now easily access the web visual editor directly from the iOS and Android apps. When opening the editor, users will be given a choice between visual editing and source editing. If they choose visual editing, they will be sent to a mobile web window in their phone's browser. After completing their edit, a banner will give them the option to return to the app. This enables readers to make quick contributions while casually reading.
- Users of the Wikipedia Android and iOS apps will now see a one-time account creation prompt after they have used the app for two consecutive weeks. This prompt explains the benefits of having an account. It is intended to help more casual readers become logged-in users who return to the apps regularly.
- Editors on group1 wikis, including Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource, will no longer see notifications on Recent Changes and Watchlist when a link to another language version of a page is added, removed, or changed in its Wikidata item. This change will begin on October 5 at 07:00 UTC as a two-week trial to reduce high-volume, low-value notifications and make important changes easier to identify. Editors who rely on these notifications can read more on the project page and share feedback or concerns on the talk page.
- View all 36 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where mentors who removed themselves from the mentorship program could still have mentees assigned to them and receive questions, has now been fixed. Mentees will now be reassigned when a mentor leaves the program.
Updates for technical contributors
- Wikimedia Brasil has published its Development Best Practices Framework (ABPD). It is a guide for staff, contractors and volunteers building technical tools and projects. It covers the project lifecycle, security, accessibility, personal data protection and responsible AI use, and explains how movement-wide guidelines were adapted to a local context. They encourage other affiliates to reuse it and adapt it. Read more in the Diff post.
- A new, canonical base URL for Wikimedia APIs will soon be introduced. The new canonical route follows a
{projectName}/api/pattern and will act as an alternative path for current REST APIs (for example:{projectName}/w/rest.php/). Both versions will be callable for all existing APIs, but the new structure will be the preferred path for newly created API modules. This change will be non-breaking for most users. The existing pathways will remain available for all existing endpoint requests. However, some endpoints may return URLs following the new pattern in response bodies. Changes will be available on test wiki first, with the rollout expected to cover all wikis by the end of October. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki.
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