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    Temporary account IP viewer granted

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    Hello, Cosmic840. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:

    • You must not share IP address data with someone who does not have the same access permissions unless disclosure is permissible as per guidelines listed at Foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy.
    • Access must not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).

    It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:

    • When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
    • Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
    • Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with one or more IP addresses (using the CIDR notation format).

    Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:24, 23 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Rollback granted

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    Hi Cosmic840. After reviewing your request, I have enabled rollback on your account. Please keep the following things in mind while using rollback:

    • Being granted rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle or Ultraviolet. It just adds a [rollback] button next to a page's latest live revision. It does not grant you any additional "status" on Wikipedia, nor does it change how Wikipedia policies apply to you.
    • Rollback should be used to revert clear and unambiguous cases of vandalism only. Never use rollback to revert good faith edits. For more information about when rollback is appropriate, see Wikipedia:Rollback § When to use rollback.
    • Rollback should never be used to edit war, and it should never be used in a content-related dispute to restore the page to your preferred revision. If rollback is abused or used for this purpose or any other inappropriate purpose, the permission will be revoked.
    • Use common sense. If you're not sure about something, ask!

    I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, and feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about appropriate use of rollback. If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin) and Wikipedia:Rollback. Good luck and thanks! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:22, 5 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending changes reviewer granted

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    Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

    Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.

    See also:

    * Pppery * in solidarity 05:33, 27 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

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    Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on May 8. Please help translate.

    Highlights

    • Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
    • Digital Public Goods: The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).
    • Better bot detection: A trial of hCaptcha on several Wikipedias, including English, French, and Japanese, showed it can effectively detect and deter bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards signals to look into. Based on these results, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis. See the project page for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections.

    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

    Example of the Attribution Framework recommendations.
    • A better way to give credit: The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.
    • Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge: The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.
    • Account security: The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.
    • Incident reporting form: The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.
    • Encouraging account creation: Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.
    • Wikimedia Android App: The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: Community, featuring refreshed Explore content, and For You, with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The For You feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.
    • Better discovery of images: The Image Browsing beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
    • Reading Lists feature: The Foundation is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.
    A design mockup of what the share card looks like.
    • Testing Suggestion Mode: Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
    • Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references: References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.
    • Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia: The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.
    • 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 weeks 20, 21, 22, 23 include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 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

    • Tech blog moved to Diff: The migration of the Techblog to Diff is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.
    • What’s new in the Wikipedia Library: Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library.
    • New course on WikiLearn: A free self-paced online course, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.
    • Wiki Mentor Africa: The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.
    • Let's Connect Learning Clinic: If you missed it, you can now watch the recording of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.
    • Community Conferences: Registration for WikiConference North America and Queering Wiki Conference is now opened. Call for Speakers for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.

    Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
    See also: Progress on the annual plan

    • Sharing the Form 990s: The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights on Form 990 for the Foundation and Form 990 for the Endowment on Meta-Wiki.
    • Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.
    • Structured Contents: How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia to Markdown with Python.

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

    • Board selection process: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC, and share your ideas on the talk page.


    Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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    For information about the Bulletin and to read previous editions, see the project page on Meta-Wiki. If you have feedback or suggestions about the bulletin, let us know at foundationbulletin(_AT_)wikimedia.org. For questions about the Wikimedia Foundation's work, contact us!


    MediaWiki message delivery 22:31, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Saturday, July 18, 2026 Minnesota User Group Wiknic!

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    In the area? You're invited to the Minnesota User Group Wiknic July 2026
    Saturday July 18, 2026 the Wikimedians of Minnesota User Group is having a Wiknic at the Minnesota State Capitol! We will be picnicing in the shade near the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial, so bring a picnic blanket, lawn chairs and a hot dish for the picnic if you like! We'll also be providing sandwiches for everyone but we encourage you to bring your own favorite dishes to share. All Minnesota Wikipedia editors and wanna-be editors are welcome! Learn more »

    When: Saturday, July 18, 2026
    Time: 10 to 1:30 pm
    Place: Minnesota State Capitol Mall, St. Paul, MN

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    MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:44, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Speedy deletion declined: Draft:John Hakim, MD

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    Hello Cosmic840. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft:John Hakim, MD, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: G12 declined - the copied material is a list of publications. There is no creativity in this list to generate a copyright. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 21:14, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Guild of Copy Editors – June 2026 Newsletter

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    Guild of Copy Editors June 2026 Newsletter

    Hello and welcome to the June 2026 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April.

    Election news: Nominations for the mid-year coordinator election ends at 23:59 on 15 June. Voting will last from 00:00 on 16 June to 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced on the election page.

    April Blitz: 18 of the 21 editors who signed up for the April 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 122,993 words in 56 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

    May Drive: 34 of the 66 editors who signed up for the May 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited 543,972 words in 211 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

    June Blitz: Our June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz will start on 14 June and finish on 30 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

    Progress report: As of 22:40, 11 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 132 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 1,691 articles.

    Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators.

    To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

    MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:57, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    This Month in GLAM: May 2026

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    Headlines
    Read this edition in full • Single-page

    To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

    At WP:AIV...

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    I noticed that you reported AntiCompositeNumber (Personal attack removed) a few minutes ago. Please do not report such names, even if you know they're Russian vandals. Cheers! – SimpleObjects-9ei 🏖️/☀️/🥵 (🌎 CentralAuth) 18:25, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2026)

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    Hello, Cosmic840. The article for improvement of the week is:

    Khoekhoe

    Please be bold and help improve it!

    Previous selections: Drinking water • Articulated bus

    Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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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.

    Discussions

    Events

    Press, articles, blog posts, videos

    Tool of the week

    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

    You can comment on all open property proposals!

    Did you know?

    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:

    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

    Tech News: 2026-25

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    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=notpageimage excluding it from thumbnail previews, or class=noviewer excluding 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. [1]

    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. [2]
    • Recurrent item 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.
    • Recurrent item 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.

    Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

    MediaWiki message delivery 16:46, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    June 24: WikiWednesday NYC Salon, Pride Month Edition

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    June 24: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
    Prime Produce on W 54th St

    You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

    This month's salon is a special Pride Month edition. Help us contribute to the Wiki Loves Pride global campaign and discuss how we can better represent LGBTQ+ issues on Wikimedia platforms.

    All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Photography Policy.

    Meeting info:

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    --Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    RM/TR request Marcelo Caetano

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    Following up, Why did you remove the Marcelo Caetano request as completed while it was not? CONFUSED SPIRIT(Thilio).Talk 17:39, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    @Thilio Because the request has been completed and i started the RM at talk:Marcelo Caetano and the request has been here for about three days. ~ŤheŴubṂachine-840≈ ● ✒️ 17:45, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Just a future heads up, that was not right because the move does not happen. Completed is supposed to be used when you did the move already and already done is used when another editor did the move and stale is the one used for the old requests or cleaning up inactive, and when you started the rm you should have removed it as contested not completed. CONFUSED SPIRIT(Thilio).Talk 18:29, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    The Signpost: 21 June 2026

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    The Signpost: 21 June 2026

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    News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

    Your Articles for Creation review on Shrek 5

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    Hello Cosmic840. This is a reminder that your Articles for Creation review on Shrek 5 is still marked as ongoing for over forty-eight hours. After seventy-two hours, Shrek 5 will be returned to the review queue so that other reviewers may review the draft.

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    This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2026)

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    Injuries to humans elicit an elaborate response including emergency medicine, trauma surgery (pictured), and pain management.
    Hello, Cosmic840. The article for improvement of the week is:

    Injury

    Please be bold and help improve it!

    Previous selections: Khoekhoe • Drinking water

    Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

    Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 June 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

    Your nomination of Samsung Galaxy S25 has failed

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    Your good article nomination of the article Samsung Galaxy S25 has failed. See the review page for more information. If or when the reviewer's feedback has been addressed, you may nominate the article again. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Cosmic840 -- Cosmic840 (talk) 00:46, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    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 2026-06-22. 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

    Press, articles, blog posts, videos

    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

    You can comment on all open property proposals!

    Did you know?

    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

    Tech News: 2026-26

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    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. [3]
    • 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. [4]
    • Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. [5]
    • Recurrent item 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 skipcaptcha right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. The skipcaptcha right will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis. [6]
    • 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. [7]
    • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

    Meetings and events

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    MediaWiki message delivery 13:03, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    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

    The Wikimania program is now live!
    • 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

    Screenshot showing the Explore Feed refresh in the Wikipedia app (from the Community tab entry point)
    • 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


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