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Wikidata weekly summary #713

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

Discussions

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

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

Wikidata weekly summary #714

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

Discussions

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

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-03

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

Updates for editors

  • As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists project, the display of EditWatchlist will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish. [1]
  • The Global Watchlist is a MediaWiki extension that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs. [2][3][4][5]
  • Recurrent item View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13. [6]

Updates for technical contributors

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:33, 13 Januari 2026 (+08)balas

The Signpost: 15 January 2026

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

Wikidata weekly summary #715

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #714.

Discussions

  • Closed request for comments: Deprecate P642? - Consensus to deprecate was reached.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We continued work on supporting more datatypes for editing, specifically date, musical notation and monolingual text.
    • We worked on displaying constraint violation indicators.
    • You can try out the current state by enabling it in the beta features section of your preferences.
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate options for further reducing the amount of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist on the other wikis to reduce the size of the database tables.
  • Dumps: We finished our research on dumps, especially looking into different ways to define subsets. We will publish the report with results by end of February.
  • Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is continuing the evaluation of potential replacements for Blazegraph.

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-04

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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.

Updates for editors

  • The tray shown on Special:Diff in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered. [8]
  • The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now automatically determines the text direction (ensuring correct display of sites with unusual domain names) and shows detailed descriptions for log actions. Later this week, a new permanent link for page creations and CSS classes for each entry element will be added. [9][10][11][12]
  • Recurrent item View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed. [13]

Updates for technical contributors

  • As mentioned in the October 2025 deprecation announcement, MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin sunsetting all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API the week of January 26. Changes are expected to roll out to all wikis on or before January 30th. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found, compared, and tested using the REST Sandbox. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in Phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
  • Interactive reference documentation for the Wikimedia REST API has moved. Requests to API docs previously hosted through RESTBase (e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/) are now redirected to the REST Sandbox.
  • The WMF Wikidata Platform team (WDP) has published its January 2026 newsletter. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. As a reminder, you can subscribe to the WDP newsletter!
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

  • The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there!

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MediaWiki message delivery 04:29, 20 Januari 2026 (+08)balas

Wikidata weekly summary #716

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #715.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Property Creation Helper is a tool by ArthurPSmith. The tool takes a property proposal page and translates it into a QuickStatements batch (and then a second one for the examples) that a property creator can use to quickly create a new property.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikimedia Deutschland 2026 first quarter development plan has been published: Wikidata:Linked Open Data development plan.
  • Job opening: The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Platform Backend Migration Specialist (contract position) to support backend migration work on the Wikidata Query Service. This role focuses on technical work related to the migration away from Blazegraph. If you're interested in the role or want to learn more, see the full job description and application details.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We started working on supporting editing of monolingual text statements
    • We continued working on supporting editing of geocoordinate and quantity statements
    • We are fixing display issues with date statements
    • We continued work on showing constraint violations
  • GraphQL:
    • The security review was finished, removing a blocker to deploying GraphQL support to Wikidata
    • We added pagination to querying items by statement properties or values
    • We are extending the labels of linked entities functionality to also let you get the descriptions of the Items linked in a statement
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate options for further reducing the amount of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist on the other wikis to reduce the size of the database tables.
  • Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is continuing the evaluation of potential replacements for Blazegraph.

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-05

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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.

Updates for editors

  • Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on proposed future of the Product and Technology Advisory Council until 28 February.
  • All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the Account Security project.
  • Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page. [14]
  • Recurrent item View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of. [15]

Updates for technical contributors

  • A new AbuseFilter variable, account_type, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the createaccount and autocreateaccount actions. As part of this change, the variable accountname has been renamed to account_name, and accountname is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable. [16]
  • Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to upload.wikimedia.org/… will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:17, 27 Januari 2026 (+08)balas

This Month in Education: January 2026

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This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 1 • January 2026

In This Issue

The Signpost: 29 January 2026

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

Wikidata weekly summary #717

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


Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-06

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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.

Updates for editors

  • The "Maklumat laman" feature, which gives validating information about a page (example), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed. [17]
  • Recurrent item View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed. [18]

Updates for technical contributors

  • There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only. [19]
  • The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Weekly highlight

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:43, 3 Februari 2026 (+08)balas

Wikidata weekly summary #718

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-07

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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.

Updates for editors

  • Wishlist item Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.
  • A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. Learn more. [20]
  • When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes. [21]
  • The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata and testwikidata. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages. [22][23]
  • The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function {{#isbn}} available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so. [24]
  • Two new wikis have been created:
  • Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • A new global user group has been created: Local bots. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has. [27]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

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MediaWiki message delivery 07:30, 10 Februari 2026 (+08)balas

Wikidata weekly summary #719

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

Discussions

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

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-08

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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 SRE Team will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's Etherpad instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice. [29]

Updates for editors

  • The Information Retrieval team will be launching an Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March. Read more on Diff blog. [30]
  • The Reader Growth team will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
  • Previously, site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add #siteNotice { display: none; } to MediaWiki:Minerva.css. [31][32]
  • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue on Special:RecentChanges has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected. [33]

Updates for technical contributors

  • New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more. [34]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:17, 17 Februari 2026 (+08)balas

The Signpost: 17 February 2026

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

Wikidata weekly summary #720

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

Discussions

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

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-09

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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

  • Reference Check has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web. [35]

Updates for editors

  • The InterwikiSorting extension, which allowed for the sorting of interwiki links, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code. [36]
  • Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened. [37][38]
  • The Reader Experience team is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in MediaWiki:skin-theme-description and MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag to indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta.
  • The improved Activity tab which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.
  • Recurrent item View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug that prevented DiscussionTools from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality. [39]

Updates for technical contributors

  • The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a new hook, ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page. [40]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #721

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #720.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: Jan Myšák: Closed as successful, congratulations to Wikidata's newest admin!
  • New request for comments: Notability Policy - Round 2: we are still requesting your input on the new Notablity policy. Including whether to elevate the self-promotion essay to a policy.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 3 March, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, March 3 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikiproject P244 maintenance uses SPARQL queries to identify and resolve two types of constraint violations in Wikidata: instances of Wikidata items with more than one LCNAF identifier and instances of the same LCNAF identifier existing on more than one Wikidata item. The February 17th session walked participants through how to resolve the former issue, while the March 3rd session will focus on the latter. This session will be more discussion-focused, since instances where two LCNAF identifier have the same Wikidata item can be difficult to resolve because of Wikidata’s innate quirks. Maybe your ideas will become the official best practice! Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/LCNAF_Duplicate_Detection_P244_Maintenance
    • Bring-Your-Own-Data-Lab, on 24.04.2026, the HERMES Data Competence centre hosts an online BYODL. Dr. Katrin Moeller and Dr. Olaf Simons will share how to enrich your own personal data with standard data and the Wikibase FactGrid. Click the link for registration and more information.
    • Wikidata Workshop w/ Wikipedia Riba Aruba + University of Aruba Research Center (UARC), March 2, 12 - 2pm GMT-4. Click here to register.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
  • GraphQL: We are getting ready to launch the first version later this week, including preparing the documentation for how to use it.

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: 2026-10

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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

  • Wikipedia 25 Birthday mode is now live on Betawi, Breton, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Gorontalo, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Madurese, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese Wikipedias! This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. Communities can choose to turn Birthday mode on by getting consensus from their community and asking an admin to enable the feature and customize it via community configuration on the local wiki.

Updates for editors

  • Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to Swedish Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia and a couple of other wikis. You can try the feature on these projects or on testwiki and betawiki. Learnings from the first pilot wiki German Wikipedia have been published in a report. Reach out to the Wikimedia Deutschland team if you are interested in becoming a pilot wiki.
  • Paste Check will become available at all Wikipedias this week. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation. Paste Check tags all edits where it is shown for potential review. Local administrators can configure various aspects of the feature via Khas:EditChecks. Research across 22 wikis found that Paste Check resulted in an 18% decrease in relative reverted-edits compared to the control group. Translators can help to localize this and related features.
  • The Reader Experience team will be standardizing the user menu in the top right for all mobile users so that it is closer to the desktop experience. Currently this user menu is only visible to users with Advanced Mobile Controls (AMC) turned on. The only change is that a couple buttons previously in the left-side menu will move to the top right for users who do not have AMC turned on. This change is expected to go out March 9 and seeks to improve the user interface. [41]
  • Starting in the week of March 2, the emails sent out when an email address was added, removed, or changed for an account will switch to a substantially nicer and clearer HTML email from the prior plaintext one. [42]
  • Notifications are currently limited to 2,000 historic entries per user, and extend back to 2013 when the feature was released. This is going to be changed to only store Notifications from the last 5 years, but up to 10,000 of them. This will help with long-term infrastructure health and help to prevent more recent notifications from disappearing too soon. [43]
  • The Global Watchlist which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page continues to see improvements. The latest update improves label usage experience. The extension now allows activating the language fallback system for Wikidata items without labels in the viewed language, and showing those labels in the user’s preferred Wikidata language if no uselang= URL parameter is provided. [44][45]
  • The Wikipedia Android team has started a beta test of hybrid search on Greek Wikipedia. Hybrid search capabilities can handle both semantic and keyword queries enabling readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily.
  • For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March. Members of these groups will be unable to disable last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the second half of March, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. This applies to: CentralNotice administrators, checkusers, interface administrators, suppressors, Wikidata staff, Wikifunctions staff, WMF Office IT and WMF Trust & Safety. Nothing will change for other users. See the linked task for deployment schedule. [46]
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue preventing users from creating an instance in Wikibase.cloud has now been fixed. [47]

Updates for technical contributors

  • To help ensure fair use of infrastructure, over the next month the Wikimedia Foundation will implement global API rate limits across our APIs. In early March, stricter limits will be applied to unidentified requests from outside Toolforge/WMCS and API requests that are made from web browsers. In April, higher limits will be applied to identified traffic. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
  • The Wikidata Query Service Linked Data Fragment (LDF) endpoint will be decommissioned in February. This endpoint served limited traffic, which was successfully migrated to other data access methods that were better suited to support existing use cases. The hardware used to support the LDF endpoint will be reallocated to support the ongoing backend migration efforts. [48]
  • The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, improving platform sustainability and making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. Parsoid is now the default parser on 488 WMF wikis (268 Wikipedias), now covering more than 10% of all Wikipedia page views.
  • The process and criteria for requesting exceptional access to the high volume feed of the Wikimedia Enterprise APIs (at no cost for mission-aligned usecases), have now been published. This is to provide more thorough and clearer documentation for users.
  • Tech Blog, the blog dedicated to the Wikimedia technical community will be migrating to Diff, the community news and event blog. The migration should be complete in April 2026, after which new posts will be accepted for publishing. Readers will be able to access posts – old and new – on the landing page at https://diff.wikimedia.org/techblog.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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This Month in Education: February 2026

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This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 2 • February 2026

In This Issue

Wikidata weekly summary 722

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #721.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 8 - Task: Remove Wikipedia import references from statements where the referenced article has since been deleted.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Data2Go : An iOS app for browsing and editing Wikidata with a mobile-first UI. It combines fast search, rich item detail views, statement editing, map previews, media galleries, and account-based write access to Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • GraphQL: We have released the first version of this new API. You can read more about it and try it out.
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We have worked with editors to improve some highly-used modules that access Wikidata in a suboptimal way. They have been adjusted to lead to less unneeded change notification in people's watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
  • Mobile statement editing: We fixed an issue where certain Properties were not accessible in the new mobile UI. We are also working on fixing a bug with saving musical notation statements. We are continuing the work on supporting editing of geocoordinates.

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-11

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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

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
  • Last week, all wikis had 2 hours of read-only time, and extended unavailability for user-scripts and gadgets. This was due to a security incident which has since been resolved. Work is ongoing to prevent re-occurrences. For current information please see the post on the Stewards' noticeboard (translations).

Updates for editors

  • Users facing multiple blocks on mobile will now see the reasons for each block separately, instead of a generic message. This helps them understand why they are blocked and what steps they can take to resolve the issue. For example, users affected for using common VPNs (such as iCloud Private Relay) will receive clearer guidance on what they need to do to start editing again. [49]
  • Later this week, Suggestion Mode will become available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines. The feature is locally configurable, and can also be locally expanded with custom Suggestions. Current settings can be seen at Special:EditChecks and there are instructions for how administrators can customize the links to point to local guidelines. The feature is connected to Edit check which suggests improvements while someone is writing new content. In the future, the Editing team plans to evaluate the feature's impact with newcomers through a controlled experiment. [50]
  • Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where the cursor became misaligned during the use of CodeMirror’s syntax highlighting, which makes wikitext and code easier to read, has now been fixed. This problem specifically affected users who defined a font rule in a custom stylesheet while creating a new topic with DiscussionTools. [51]

Updates for technical contributors

  • API rate limiting update: To help ensure fair use of infrastructure, global API rate limits will be applied this week to requests without a compliant User-Agent that originate from outside Toolforge/WMCS and to unauthenticated requests made from web browsers. Higher limits will be applied to identified traffic in April. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
  • The new GraphQL API has been released. The API was developed as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), to improve developer experience and foster adaptability, and efficient data access. Try it out and give feedback. You can also sign up for usability tests.
  • The PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group continued improvements to Video2Commons in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads. Read this update to learn more.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • The Article Guidance team invites experienced Wikipedia editors from selected pilot wikis and interested contributors from other Wikipedias to fill out this questionnaire which is available in English, Arabic, Bengali, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, and Turkish. Your answers will help the team customize guidance for less experienced editors and help them learn community policies and practices while creating an article. Learn more on the project page.

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The Signpost: 10 March 2026

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

Wikidata weekly summary #723

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #722.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
    • If you have not tried it yet, now is an excellent time to turn it on in the beta features section of your preferences, test it and give feedback.
    • We have added support for editing globe coordinate statements
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to work on the issue of too many Wikidata in recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We are currently prototyping a way to only consider changes that actually have an impact on the article (phab:T419823). We also finished the work on an emergency switch to turn off sending changes for qualifiers and references to Wikipedia and co in case of major database disruptions (phab:T412956).
  • Ontology federation: We are working towards getting the code for ontology federation (in its first version of using Wikidata Items as values on other Wikibase instances) ready for wider testing.

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-12

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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.

Updates for editors

  • The ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ beta feature, also known as CodeMirror 6, has been used for wikitext syntax highlighting since November 2024. It will be promoted out of beta by May 2026 in order to bring improvements and new features to all editors who use the standard syntax highlighter. If you have any questions or concerns about promoting the feature out of beta, please share. [52]
  • Some changes to local user groups are performed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and logged there only. Now, interwiki rights changes will be logged both on Meta-Wiki and the wiki of the target user to make it easier to access a full record of user's rights changes on a local wiki. Past log entries for such changes will be backfilled in the coming weeks. [53]
  • On wikis using Flagged Revisions, the number of pending changes shown on Khas:Perubahan tertunggu previously counted pages which were no longer pending review, because they have been removed from the system without being reviewed, e.g. due to being deleted, moved to a different namespace, or due to wiki configuration changes. The count will be correct now. On some wikis the number shown will be much smaller than before. There should be no change to the list of pages itself. [54]
  • Wikifunctions composition language has been rewritten, resulting in a new version of the language. This change aims to increase service stability by reducing the orchestrator's memory consumption. This rewrite also enables substantial latency reduction, code simplification, and better abstractions, which will open the door to later feature additions. Read more about the changes.
  • Users can now sort search results alphabetically by page title. The update gives an additional option to finding pages more easily and quickly. Previously, results could be sorted by Edit date, Creation date, or Relevance. To use the new option, open 'Advanced Search' on the search results page and select 'Alphabetically' under 'Sorting Order'. [55]
  • Recurrent item View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug that prevented UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons from importing files from Flickr has now been fixed. [56]

Updates for technical contributors

  • A new special page, Khas:LintTemplateErrors, has been created to list transcluded pages that are flagged as containing lint errors to help users discover them easily. The list is sorted by the number of transclusions with errors. For example: Khas:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color. [57]
  • Users of the ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ beta feature have been using CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages, for some time now. Along with promoting CodeMirror 6 out of beta, the plan is to replace CodeEditor as the standard editor for these content models by May 2026. Feedback or concerns are welcome. [58]
  • The CodeMirror JavaScript modules will soon be upgraded to CodeMirror 6. Leading up to the upgrade, loading the ext.CodeMirror or ext.CodeMirror.lib modules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of the ext.CodeMirror.switch hook was also deprecated in March 2025. Contributors can now make their scripts or gadgets compatible with CodeMirror 6. See the migration guide for more information. [59]
  • The MediaWiki Interfaces team is expanding coverage of REST API module definitions to include extension APIs. REST API modules are groups of related endpoints that can be independently managed and versioned. Modules now exist for GrowthExperiments and Wikifunctions APIs. As we migrate extension APIs to this structure, documentation will move out of the main MediaWiki OpenAPI spec and REST Sandbox view, and will instead be accessible via module-specific options in the dropdown on the REST Sandbox (i.e., Khas:RestSandbox, available on all wiki projects).
  • The Scribunto extension provides different pieces of information about the wiki where the module is being used via the mw.site library. Starting last week, the library also provides a way of accessing the wiki ID that can be used to facilitate cross-wiki module maintenance. [60]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

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Wikidata weekly summary #724

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #723.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • AraBot - Tasks: Adding Aragonese sitelinks and updating articles on Aragonese Wikipedia with Wikidata's data.
    • InventaireBot - Task: Make automated edits generated by the inventaire.io (Q32193244) server and manual edits on behalf of users without a Wikidata account.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: DelintBot - Task: Fix lint errors on pages across all namespaces where Wikitext can be written (namespaces not managed by Wikibase).
  • New request for comments: archive.today - due to a RfC and policy on enwiki, this discussion needs your input on whether Wikidata will continue listing archive.today links.
  • Ongoing request for comments: Notability policy reform is looking for input about remaining questions around marginalized knowledge and external identifiers

Events

  • Upcoming events: (German) Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen, YouTube livestream – 28 March 2026 (UTC+1): presentations by Lisa Dieckmann at 12.30 - 12.50 (“Bilder verknüpfen – prometheus, Normdaten und Wikidata”), Lucy Patterson & Lukas Fuchsgruber at 16.30 - 16.45 (“Kritische Arbeit mit Sammlungsdaten auf Wikidata”), and Max Kristen at 17.30 - 17.45 (“usefulQueries: Unkompliziert Kunstgeschichte in Wikidata erkunden”).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Property Creation Helper takes a property proposal page and translates it into a QuickStatements batch (and then a second one for the examples) that a property creator can use to quickly create a new property. By ArthurPSmith

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • GraphQL API ongoing feedback: If you haven’t tried it yet, you can still explore it as a developer-friendly alternative to select WDQS features. Please Share your feedback on the project page, or sign up for deeper usability testing.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject LAGL (Linked Ancient and Greek Latin) has been established to develop guidelines for adding statements for ancient authors.
  • WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject IDEA: Oral Histories - International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) added a subpage for resources, guidelines and progress for adding oral history Items and Statements.
  • Showcase Items: Ngondo (Q3339328) - worship of water oracles and associated cultural traditions among the Sawa

Development

  • Infrastructure sustainability: We started working with a contractor to look at Wikidata's data storage to find opportunities for improving it.
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing the work on a prototype to compare a wiki page before and after it has been parsed to see if this is a feasible way to reduce the number of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist that do not affect the article (phab:T419823)

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-13

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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

  • Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys. This is a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. With this change, all users who opt for passwordless login will find it easier, faster, and more secure to log in to their accounts using any device. The new passkey login option currently appears as an autofill suggestion in the username field. An additional "Log in with passkey" button will soon be available for users who have already registered a passkey. This update will improve security and user experience. The screen recording demonstrates the passwordless login process step by step.
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.

Updates for editors

  • Wikimedia site users can now export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool. This will ensure that users retain their important notifications and avoid them being lost based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced. [61]
  • Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to Special:PersonalDashboard. This is an early version of an experience that introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project. [62]
  • The Special:Block now has two minor interface changes. Administrators can now easily perform indefinite blocks through a dedicated radio button in the expiry section. Also, choosing an indefinite expiry provides a different set of common reasons to select from, which can be changed at: MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown. [63]
  • Mobile editors at several wikis can now see an improved logged-out edit warning, thanks to the recent updates from the Growth team. These changes released last week are part of ongoing efforts and tests to enhance account creation experience on mobile and then increase participation. [64]
  • Recurrent item View all 36 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug that prevented mobile web users from seeing the block information when affected by multiple blocks has been fixed. They can now see messages of all the blocks currently affecting them when they access Wikipedia.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Images built using Toolforge will soon get the upgraded buildpacks version, bringing support for newer language versions and other upstream improvements and fixes. If you use Toolforge Build Service, review the recent cloud-announce email and update your build configuration as necessary to ensure your tools are compatible. [65][66]
  • The API Portal documentation wiki will shut down in June 2026. API keys created on the API Portal will continue to work normally. api.wikimedia.org endpoints will be deprecated gradually starting in July 2026. Documentation on the API Portal is moving to mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

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Wikidata weekly summary #725

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #724.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Thetalentone - Tasks: Adding and updating references, qualifiers, publication dates, and provenance on my own personal and company items (Q138324775 and Q138324581) to improve entity confidence for Google Knowledge Graph. Small batches only, no edits to unrelated items.
    • Dušan Kreheľ - Task: Sitelinks existing and newly created municipality pages on hrwiki and Wikidata.
  • New request for comments: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Mass-editing policy has a new proposal incorporating feedback and is awaiting votes.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 08th April 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit takes place until 20:00 CET, 30 May 2026.
    • "Wikidata in der Sammlungserschließung" (free online event in German on how GLAM institutions can use Wikidata, 20 April 2026, 10-11:30 CET, organized by Research and Competence Centre Digitalisation Berlin (Q51845259). More info and registration here.
    • Wikidata Ontology Course: The second offering of the Wikidata ontology course will be given in May and June 2026, with sessions 1-3 pm EDT (UTC-4) on Thursdays. The Wikidata ontology provides structure and organization for the rest of Wikidata and is thus fundamental to Wikidata. The course starts with the basic notions underlying the Wikidata ontology and goes on to cover querying using SPARQL, inference, constraints, advanced ontology notions, problems with the ontology, and other ontology-related aspects of Wikidata. Participants in the course are expected to complete weekly exercise sets and a project. More information on the course can be found at WikiProject Ontology/Ontology Course. To register for this offering fill in and submit the Google form.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • WikiVisage - Train a machine learning model to detect depicted subjects in Wikimedia Commons images and assist with adding the P180 (depicts) property.
  • Yesterdays - A web platform for cataloging and georeferencing historical images of Richmond, Virginia. It uses Wikidata items to help organize the georeferenced images.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Mobile editing user testing: join the participant panel: Wikimedia Deutschland is planning new user tests for the mobile editing experience (including more data types as a beta feature) in late April–early May. Participants of all experience levels are welcome, and users of right‑to‑left scripts are especially encouraged to sign up. Register here. Participants will be compensated for their time.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Wikibase GraphQL: We added support for a number of additional datatypes and started working on the functionality for querying Items by the external ID statement values or site links.
  • Mobile editing of statements: We spent time testing the current state and fixing remaining issues we found.

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: 2026-14

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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 Beta version of Abstract Wikipedia a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was launched last week. The project allows communities to build Wikipedia articles in their native language, which can be readily accessed by other users in their own languages. The wiki is powered by instructions from Wikifunctions and also based on structured content from Wikidata. Read more.

Updates for editors

  • The Growth team is running an A/B test to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. Currently when logged-out mobile users begin editing, they see a jarring warning message that can feel abrupt and discouraging. This also presents temporary account editing as the default rather than encouraging account creation. The test is running on ten Wikipedias, including Arabic, French, Spanish and German. Read more.
  • The Wikimedia Apps team is inviting feedback on how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps. The discussion focuses on improving how users access editing tools when they tap "Edit". This is part of a broader effort to convert readers who develop an interest in editing, to access a more user-friendly pathway to start contributing.
  • Recurrent item View all 45 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where citation fetching from the large newspaper archive Newspapers.com was no longer working, due to a block in Citoid requests, has now been fixed. [67]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 31 March 2026

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

This Month in Education: March 2026

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This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 3 • March 2026

In This Issue

Tech News: 2026-15

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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.

Updates for editors

  • The CampaignEvents extension now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in the documentation.
  • Wishlist item The new watchlist labels feature (announced in Tech News 2026-07) is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the 'watchstar' (or watch link, for skins that don't have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist. In all three places it is a new field following the expiry field.
  • Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where talk pages on mobile with Parsoid are unusable after empty section headers, has now been fixed. [68]

Updates for technical contributors

  • The sub-referencing feature, which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to more wikis later this year. Wikis using the Reference Tooltips gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js as shown here) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected. [69]
  • All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions. Read more.
  • The Action API has had several formats for requested output. One of them, format=php, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the JSON format. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots. [70]
  • The Special:NamespaceInfo page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia. [71]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #726

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #725.

Discussions

  • Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Oversight: EPIC (2) (RfP scheduled to end at 9 April 2026 12:35 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • ChooseLocal - Task/s: Read-only harvest of Wikidata entities (businesses, banks, etc.) by country, for use in a Canadia-centric local business directory.
    • JigildikBot - Task/s: Sitelink Management: Connecting newly created articles on kaa.wiki to their corresponding Wikidata items using Pywikibot. Label and Description Updates: Adding or updating Karakalpak (kaa) labels and descriptions for various items (especially geographical and biographical items) using OpenRefine.
    • JJPMaster (bot) - Task/s: Automatically add sitelinks for Abstract Wikipedia articles
    • TracklisterBot - Task/s: Adding missing external identifiers to Wikidata items for music artists, sourced from Tracklister (Q138905706), a music database that aggregates data from 20+ platforms. Properties: Discogs artist ID (P1953), Spotify artist ID (P1902), SoundCloud ID (P3040), Bandcamp ID (P3283), Beatport artist ID (P5765), Deezer artist ID (P2722), Last.fm ID (P3192), AllMusic artist ID (P1728), Apple Music artist ID (P2850), Tidal artist ID (P11853). Each claim includes a reference with stated in: Tracklister + reference URL pointing to the artist's page on tracklist.live.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dušan Kreheľ (bot) (approved)

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Mobile editing user testing: Wikimedia Deutschland is planning new user tests for the mobile editing experience (including more data types as a beta feature) in late April–early May. Participants of all experience levels are welcome, and users of right‑to‑left scripts are especially encouraged to sign up. Register here. Participants will be compensated for their time.
  • Wikidata's data is now also available via Wikimedia Enterprise APIs. (Wikimedia Enterprise blog post, WMDE announcement)
  • Wikidata embedding: The vectors of the embedding are now also published.
  • (Job vacancy) Engineering Manager, Wikidata Platform (WMF)
  • (Job vacancy in Indonesian) Wikimedia Indonesia: Data and Technology Apprenticeship Vacancy, April-June 2026 - apply by April 10. Duties include recording Wikidata editing tutorial videos, prepare datathons and training materials and events.
  • Research workshop on content verifiability in Wikidata: Researchers from King's College London (in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation) invite Wikidata contributors of all experience levels to a 2‑hour online workshop. Participants receive £90 compensation. Research details and registration.

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Development

  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate how to reduce the number of irrelevant changes showing up in Recent changes and Watchlist by seeing if we can compare the articles before and after the Wikidata change and detect a change in the article (phab:T419823)
  • GraphQL: You can now do lookups using itemByExternalId and itemBySitelink
  • Mobile statement editing: We worked on fixing remaining bugs (phab:T420585 , phab:T420028, phab:T419586)

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Weekly Tasks

Wikidata weekly summary #727

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #726.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: ZI Jony (2) - RfP scheduled to end after 17 April 2026 13:09 (UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Nirmos Bot 3 - Task(s): Turn one or more consecutive hard (non-breaking) spaces into one regular space in Swedish descriptions.
    • Alex NB OT - Task(s): Correction of incorrectly specified links to population data sources containing wikitext artifacts with categories, which leads to incorrect categorization of articles.
    • Alex NB OT 2 - Task(s): Extract KCI article ID from P953 and add it to P14184.
    • ReNeuralAgent - Task(s): (1) add descriptions, (2) Latvian labels/descriptions, (3) 'retrieved from' and 'source URL' to unreferenced Statements, (4) missing aliases from external Identifier sources, (5) Geo coordinates, (6) external identifiers, (7) Population numbers, (8) remove 'dead sitelinks', (9) constraint violations.
  • Open request for comment: Mass-editing policy is still open and requires your input.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • HumansMap - a connection-visualiser and explorer app for 3 million notable humans, all data sourced from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Call for tool builders: EntitySchemas listening tour: The Wikidata team wants your feedback on EntitySchemas to improve data quality and discoverability. Share your experiences, pain points, and needs via the project talk page or this short Google form (including option for a 30-min video call).

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Development

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Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-16

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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

  • Experienced editors are invited to test the Article guidance feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available. Also, after reviewing the outlines, please provide feedback on the project talk page. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video explaining the feature.

Updates for editors

  • On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel page to create new pages with custom content models, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights for the status of your wiki. [72]
  • The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.
  • Recurrent item View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed. [73]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Starting later this week, Penyunting penapis salah laku who have the ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors. [74][75]
  • Tools and bots that access the Notifications API (action=query&meta=notifications) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications. [76]
  • Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia). [77]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Berita Teknologi: 2026-17

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Sorotan mingguan

  • Selepas dua tahun pembangunan, ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽, juga dikenali sebagai CodeMirror 6, akan dilancarkan daripada status beta pada hari Selasa, 21 April. Ciri ini membawakan peningkatan dari segi kebolehbacaan kod dan wikiteks, pengurangan ralat penaipan, dan faedah lain kepada semua pengguna penyerlah sintaks standard. Terima kasih yang tidak terhingga kepada sukarelawan Bhsd yang membangunkan banyak ciri baharu, termasuk pelipatan kod, pelengkapan automatik, dan penirasan. [78]
  • Kemas kini utama pada aplikasi Wikipedia untuk iOS kini sedang dilancarkan, dengan perekabentukan semula antara muka agar sejajar dengan reka bentuk visual "Liquid Glass" terkini Apple. Muat turun versi terkini dan terokai kemas kini tersebut.

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Senarai bacaan ialah ciri yang membolehkan pembaca menyimpan rencana ke dalam senarai untuk dibaca kemudian. Ciri ini kini berstatus beta pada Wikipedia edisi bahasa Arab, bahasa Perancis, bahasa Indonesia, bahasa Vietnam dan bahasa Cina, serta secara lalainya didayakan khusus untuk semua akaun baharu pada semua Wikipedia.
  • Satu eksperimen yang meneroka pelanjutan Pralihat Laman ke web mudah alih akan dilancarkan pada minggu 20 April di Wikipedia edisi bahasa Arab, bahasa Inggeris, bahasa Perancis, bahasa Itali, bahasa Poland dan bahasa Vietnam. Pralihat Laman ialah tetingkap timbul yang memaparkan lakaran kecil, perenggan pendahulu dan pautan untuk membuka rencana penuh melalui pautan biru, sekali gus meningkatkan penemuan kandungan. Ciri ini sudah tersedia pada platform atas meja dan juga dalam aplikasi. Bacalah lebih lanjut berkenaan eksperimen ini serta maklumat lain berkaitannya.
  • Di beberapa wiki, penyunting yang telah log masuk tetapi belum mengesahkan alamat e-mel mereka kini akan lihat wujudnya satu sepanduk yang menggalakkan mereka berbuat demikian. Pengesahan alamat e-mel membenarkan pengguna untuk memulihkan akses kepada akaun jika mereka kehilangannya. Ketahui lebih lanjut. [79]
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 15 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu. Contohnya, isu penyuntingan laman wiki yang sangat besar dalam alat sunting wikiteks 2017 menyebabkan keperlahanan pemuatan, kelewatan pralihat dan penatalan, serta isu prestasi semasa memilih, menyalin atau menampal kandungan, kini telah dibaik pulih. [80]

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

  • Bersempena penamatan status ciri beta CodeMirror, semua pengguna akan menggunakan CodeMirror dan bukannya CodeEditor untuk penyerlahan sintaks semasa menyunting laman kandungan JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue dan Lua. [81]
  • Perkhidmatan mirrors.wikimedia.org untuk pengguna Debian dan Ubuntu akan ditamatkan dan berhenti berfungsi pada 15 Mei. Peruntukan perkhidmatan ini akan digantikan dengan pilihan yang lebih baharu dan lebih baik. Sesetengah pengguna mungkin perlu bertukar ke pelayan lain yang sepatutnya mengambil masa kira-kira seminit. Anda boleh membaca lebih lanjut melalui pautan ini. [82]
  • Jadual image dan oldimage akan dialih keluar daripada wikireplika. Jika alatan atau pertanyaan anda mengakses image atau oldimage secara langsung, sila kemas kininya untuk menggunakan jadual file dan filerevision sebelum 28 Mei. [83]
  • Berikutan pelaksanaan had kadar API sejagat baru-baru ini pada trafik yang tidak dikenal pasti, Yayasan Wikimedia akan meneruskan usaha untuk memastikan penggunaan infrastruktur yang adil dengan menggunakan had sejagat pada trafik API yang dikenal pasti bermula minggu terakhir bulan April. Had ini sengaja ditetapkan setinggi mungkin untuk meminimumkan impak terhadap komuniti. Bot yang berfungsi dalam Toolforge/WMCS atau dengan pengguna bot yang betul pada mana-mana wiki tidak sepatutnya terjejas buat masa ini. Walau bagaimanapun, semua pembangun dinasihatkan untuk mengikuti amalan terbaik yang telah dikemas kini. Untuk maklumat lanjut, sila lihat API Wikimedia/Had kadar dan Soalan Lazim.
  • API Atribusi kini tersedia pada peringkat beta. API ini mengambil maklumat untuk mengkreditkan rencana Wikimedia dan fail media di mana sahaja ia digunakan. Pendokumenan rujukan tersedia melalui laman khas Kotak Pasir REST yang tersedia pada semua wiki Wikimedia (seperti kotak pasir REST di Wikipedia Bahasa Inggeris). Kongsikan maklum balas anda di laman perbincangan projek.
  • Tidak terdapat versi MediaWiki terbaharu pada minggu ini.

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Wikidata weekly summary #728

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #727.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Yamato Shiya - RfP scheduled to end after 26 April 2026 11:10 (UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: ZI Jony 2 - Closed as successful

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Depictor by Hay Kranen is a tool that add structured data statements to Wikimedia Commons using a game-like interface

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • What is Wikidata? - Library Carpentry is part of The Carpentries, a registered non-profit teaching foundational coding and data science skills. They recently updated their introductory course to Wikidata and knowledge graph concepts.

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The Signpost: 21 April 2026

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

Wikidata weekly summary #729

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #728.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: Yamato Shiya - Congratulations to our newest Admin!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Chamiln17@FineWiki - Task/s: Read-only Wikidata entity cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.

Events

  • Upcoming events: Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session — 28 April 2026 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. This session covers QuickStatements 3.0, the updated batch-editing tool for Wikidata, redeveloped by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, featuring a modern interface and improved performance. Watch the previous session recording: on youtube. More details: QuickStatements3

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tools of the week

  • The Human History Atlas (WikiTime), a browser-based atlas that uses Wikidata and Wikipedia-sourced data to construct timelines and allows exploration of significant historical events.
  • Wikilympians, a real-time list of all 153,412 known Olympic competitors with Wikidata and Wikipedia coverage statistics

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikibase Suite 7.0 and Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.0.0 have been launched! It brings Wikibase closer to feature parity with Wikidata. Here's what's in the latest release:
    • Echo Extension: User activity alerts and notifications.
    • Discussion Tools Extension: Set of tools to enhance discussion pages.
    • Temporary Accounts: The support for temporary accounts without IP address exposure has been added. It will, however, remain disabled by default, in line with Wikibase Cloud.
    • Grouped External Identifiers (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310898): External identifiers are now grouped on entity pages for better readability.
    • “Mul” (multi-language) support: Adds support for multi-language values.

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Development

  • Query Service: It is now possible to download query results in Wikidata Query Service that include coordinates as KML & GPX (GeoJSON has been available since last year). Text from the first column in the results is used as the value for naming POIs. Thanks again to Atom.oil.2 for the patch. (phab:T414376)
  • The Wikidata team continued working on a prototype to make WikiProjects more visible (phab:T420907) and made the new Wikidata mobile UI use auto-resizing text areas instead of single-line text inputs, in order to make longer values easier to edit (phab:T414420)
  • The Wikidata Integrations team now has a working prototype of LilDiffCheck, injecting wikidata changes into recent changes only if there was a change on the wikipedia html (phab:T421390)
  • Language fallback will be available this week on the labels of linked entities functionality in GraphQL (phab:T413655)


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This Month in Education: April 2026

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This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 4 • April 2026

In This Issue

Tech News: 2026-18

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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.

Updates for editors

  • There is a change in how new users are autoconfirmed that will improve anti-vandalism protection. Currently, users who have had an account for a few days and made a few edits are automatically added to the Pengguna sah automatik group. This configuration tends to be exploited by some vandals, who create accounts and start to use them only after some time. To mitigate this, the configuration will be updated next week so that – for the purpose of becoming autoconfirmed – the account age will be counted from their first edit, instead of registration date. The numeric value of the age threshold will remain the same. This change will be deployed only to wikis which require at least one edit as part of the autoconfirmation conditions. [84]
  • All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the "automatically enable most beta features" option in their preference can now use the reading lists beta feature to save articles for later reading. This helps organize reading interests in one place for convenient access.
  • Recurrent item View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where infobox images have huge padding in Firefox, has been fixed. [85]

Updates for technical contributors

  • As a reminder, the global API rate limits will be applied this week to identified API traffic. This is to help ensure fair use of infrastructure. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, including the actual rate limits, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits and Frequently Asked Questions.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #730

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #729.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • OpenHistory – interactive historical atlas of 21k+ Wikidata-sourced historical events, polities, and territories on a timeline+map. SPARQL-driven pipeline, MIT/CC BY-SA. (GitHub)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • WikiTrivia - the webgame about putting historical events in the correct order recently got a huge update, thanks to creator Tom Watson.
  • Wikimedia API's / Rate limits - new rate limits are being added for all Wikimedia projects, to ensure sustainable use to the REST an ACTION API's. If you operate a bot and it has recently started producing an error message for producing too many API requests, please consult the linked MediaWiki page and amend your bot as needed.

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Development

  • Mobile statement editing: We continued fixing issues uncovered in testing
  • WikiProjects: We are working on adding links to the sidebar of Items to lead people to the respective WikiProjects for that Item. This way we hope to help people more easily find data modelling documentation as well as other editors interested in the same topic.

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Berita Teknologi: 2026-19

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Sorotan mingguan

  • Pasukan Panduan rencana menjemput para penyunting berpengalaman dari Wikipedia perintis berbahasa Arab, Bengali, Jepun, Portugis, Parsi, Turki, Inggeris Mudah, Sepanyol, dan Perancis, untuk turut membantu menterjemah dan menyesuaikan contoh kerangka rencana. Kerangka tersebut akan menjadi panduan bagi para penyunting dalam menyusun rencana yang jelas, berstruktur dengan baik, dan sesuai dengan dasar, semasa ciri tersebut diluncurkan secara rasmi pada Mei 2026. Arahan ringkas mengenai cara menterjemah dan menyesuaikan kerangka tersebut juga telah disediakan.

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • The Product and Technology Advisory Council has published draft recommendations on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the recommendation until May 8th on the talk page.
  • The number of available thumbnail size preferences in MediaWiki is being reduced to three standardized options—Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px), as part of ongoing efforts to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. As a result, existing preferences will be mapped to the nearest new size (for example, smaller selections like 120px or 150px will render at 180px, while larger ones like 300px or 360px will render at 400px). The preferences interface will soon be updated to reflect these changes, and users who wish to opt out or provide feedback can do so. [86]
  • From now on, even when a permission expires automatically, users will receive an Echo notification similar to the standard notification for permission changes. There is a difference between this and Global reminder bot in that the latter reminds users a week before the rights are due to expire, so that they can renew the rights.
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 32 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu. For example, the problem where the ULS language selector in Special:Translate would scroll vertically when it shouldn't, has been resolved. Previously, when users opened the "Translate to English" dropdown and typed certain inputs, the dialog would scroll vertically by a few pixels even when there was enough space to display all results. The dropdown no longer shifts unnecessarily when filtering languages. [87]
  • The Global Watchlist, which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page, continues to improve. For example, watchlists for Wikibase sites such as Wikidata now support EntitySchema elements for better tracking. The Live Updates mode now refreshes the special page every 60 seconds to comply with the updated global API rate limits for improved real-time responsiveness. Additionally, a directionality bug that displayed links as "changes 3" instead of "3 changes" in mixed-direction lists has been fixed. [88][89][90]

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

  • The second phase of global API rate limits has been rolled out to reduce the impact of AI crawlers and ensure fair, sustainable access to Wikimedia resources, prioritising human and mission-aligned traffic. Limits have been shifted from per-hour to per-minute, producing smoother traffic patterns and more predictable API load. Community users are not expected to be affected, and no action is required. Early indications show some User-Agent-based requestors are adjusting behaviour, and around 64% of automated API traffic has been identified. Monitoring continues, and Wikimedia Enterprise remains available for commercial support.
  • Item berulang Kemas kini kod terperinci kemudian pada minggu ini: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #731

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-11. Missed the previous one? See issue #730.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: AAU Research NLP Bot 1 - Task(s): Querying Wikidata for entities and relations and paths between them. From 1-hop until 3-hops.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: MarisDreshmanisBot (formerly ReNeuralAgent Bot) has been approved after a community intervention, see the discussion here.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • WikiProjects Days 2026 will take place between 19 - 21 June.
      WikiProjects are crucial to improving data quality and onboarding newcomers to specific areas of Wikidata. This event is the place for all editors to discover WikiProjects, find ones to join, learn about their modelling practices and how to improve the content and tools of your favourite WikiProjects. Register here to get any news or updates about this new Wikidata X Days event. The Call for Proposals is open! If you have an idea for a session, please submit it here by 26 May.
    • Wikidata Live Editing, 11 May
    • AI Bridges Symposium is taking place at Senate House, University of London across 28 and 29 May. (Free) Registration for this on-site event closes 21 May. The event will begin with introductions to Wikidata, Wikibase, connecting AI with Wikidata and follow on day 2 bringing the full ecosystem together for dialogue, debate, and collaborative action.
  • Ongoing: Coordinate Me 2026 - edit items with a P625 (coordinate location) from the focus countries and be in the running for a prize. Ends 31 May 2026.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Open Data DEx Explorer - "an interactive graph visualizer of semantic Open Data. Relationships are discovered heuristically and a graph structure created in real time, allowing navigation and insight into raw data without building formal ontologies."Read more on The Knowledge Commons blog, by Michelle Tomlyn.
  • GapMap.Wiki - explore knowledge gaps between different language Wikipedia's. GapMap identifies Wikipedia articles that exist in many languages but missing from the target, helping editors prioritize which articles to translate or create. No AI is used, just comparing publicly available databases.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

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Development

  • Mobile statement editing: We are continuing to improve the UX and fix issues uncovered in testing
  • Making WikiProjects more visible: We are working on adding links to the sidebar menu of Items to make it easier for people to find the WikiProject(s) associated with an Item, find like-minded people and learn about data modelling conventions etc in that particular area
  • Query Service: The service is being hit quite heavily and the Wikidata Platform team is working on blocking scrapers and misbehaving tools
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing our experiment to further reduce the amount of Wikidata changes that show up on Recent changes and Watchlist but don't actually change the article. Specifically we are looking at checking if there is any difference in the rendered article before and after the change coming from Wikidata

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

Berita Teknologi: 2026-20

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Sorotan mingguan

  • Komuniti Teknologi telah menerbitkan panduan baharu yang menerangkan bagaimana hajat pada Senarai Hajat Komuniti ditriaj dan diutamakan. Pendokumenan ini bertujuan untuk membantu penyumbang menulis cadangan yang lebih kukuh dengan menjelaskan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi keputusan keutamaan. Selain kiraan undi, panduan ini mengetengahkan pertimbangan seperti potensi impak terhadap komuniti apabila menentukan hasrat yang akan diteruskan.

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Pasukan Pertumbuhan Pembaca sedang melancarkan satu eksperimen untuk menguji Ciri Kad Kongsi baharu yang membolehkan pembaca mencipta kad yang menarik secara visual daripada rencana Wikipedia atau bahagian rencana terpilih dan berkongsinya dalam talian, dengan setiap kad memautkan kembali ke rencana asal untuk membantu meningkatkan bilangan pembacaan dan penemuan rencana. Ujian A/B mudah alih sahaja akan tersedia untuk sebahagian pembaca di Wikipedia-Wikipedia bahasa Arab, bahasa Cina, bahasa Perancis, bahasa Vietnam dan bahasa Inggeris untuk lebih memahami tabiat pembacaan dan keberkongsian pengguna, dan dijadualkan bermula pada minggu 18 Mei dan berlangsung selama empat minggu.
  • Aplikasi Wikipedia Android dan iOS baru-baru ini telah melancarkan cabaran membaca 25 hari ke dalam ciri Beta, sebagai sebahagian daripada usaha untuk memacu penglibatan pembaca dengan menggalakkan pengguna melengkapkan pencapaian bacaan. Untuk menjejaki rentetan bacaan mereka semasa cabaran, pengguna Aplikasi boleh menambah widget yang menampilkan Baby Globe pada skrin utama mereka. Cabaran ini secara rasminya bermula pada 11 Mei.
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 17 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu. Contohnya, sebuah isu yang melibatkan keutamaan sejagat bagi pendayaan penyerlahan sintaks pada wikiteks, yang didapati dilumpuhkan secara kendiri secara tidak terjangka walaupun selepas ia dihidupkan, kini telah dibetulkan. [91]

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

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Wikidata weekly summary #732

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #731.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PatsaBot 1 - Task/s: Add sitelink from Template:Taxonomy/* on thwiki to same entry from enwiki and update Thai description from generic template format to "แม่แบบอนุกรมวิธาน" (taxonomy template).
    • MarisDreshmanisBot 2 - Task/s: Create occupation Q-items and add native-language labels on existing occupation Q-items from 33 state-issued national occupation classifiers (165 national registries, 154 countries, ~30,000 new Q-items, ~120,000 native labels across 53 languages).
    • ias-kbase - Task/s: Read-only bulk entity lookups for an internal knowledge graph project. Fetches labels, claims, and sitelinks from Wikidata and intro-paragraph extracts from English Wikipedia. No writes.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Tighter connection of the Wikibase Ecosystem: We've been working on making it possible to use Wikidata Items (and later from other Wikibase instances) as values in statements on other Wikibase instances. You can now try it out on a demo system or set up your own test instance to give it a try. More details in the announcement.
  • Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are continuing the work on showing less irrelevant changes on recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co by trying to determine if an edit from Wikidata actually changed the rendered article or not
  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We worked on reducing the load for users with limited data
    • We are continuing to fix issues uncovered in testing
  • Making Wikiprojects more visible: We are getting ready for testing of the prototype. We'll be adding links to the respective Wikirojects on Item pages in the tools menu to make it easier for people to find the corresponding Wikiprojects. This is based on statements already on the Item such as specific external IDs.

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

Berita Teknologi: 2026-21

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Sorotan mingguan

  • Pasukan Wikipedia Abstrak telah mengenal pasti potensi lima wiki perintis yang berminat untuk menerapkan rencana abstrak pada wiki masing-masing. Wiki perintis yang terlibat ialah Wikipedia bahasa-bahasa Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arab dan Indonesia. Tempoh maklum balas akan dibuka sehingga 22 Mei. Jika komuniti anda berminat untuk menjadi wiki perintis, sila beritahu kami di Meta.

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Satu eksperimen untuk menunjukkan Senarai Bacaan kepada pembaca log keluar di web mudah alih akan dilancarkan pada 18 Mei merentasi Wikipedia bahasa-bahasa Jerman, Sepanyol, Itali, Portugis, Poland, Belanda, Turki dan Urdu, dan akan berlangsung selama sebulan. Usaha ini menyokong matlamat yang lebih luas untuk membantu pembaca menyimpan dan menyusun recana untuk bacaan kemudian, sambil menggalakkan tabiat yang boleh membawa kepada penyumbangan terhadap Wikipedia pada masa hadapan.
  • Untuk menyokong butang penanda buku dalam ciri beta Senarai Bacaan, menu "Peralatan > Tindakan" telah dikemas kini untuk memaparkan ikon-ikon tindakan, termasuklah ikon bintang pantauan yang membantu penyunting mengenal pasti rencana yang dipantau sementara. Ikon-ikon tersebut kini sudah berpadanan dengan ikon-ikon pada paparan mudah alih, meningkatkan ketekalan penggunaan ikon merentasi paparan platform. Perubahan ini kini terhad kepada menu tindakan dan terutamanya memberi kesan kepada penyunting yang mempunyai hak pengguna istimewa. [93]
  • Mod Cadangan telah diterbitkan dalam bentuk ujian A/B untuk penyunting baharu paparan web mudah alih di ~15 edisi bahasa Wikipedia. Eksperimen ini akan mengukur impak Mod Cadangan terhadap perkadaran sesi suntingan web mudah alih pengguna baharu yang menghasilkan suntingan rencana yang membina (tak dibalikkan). Eksperimen ini juga akan menilai impak ciri tersebut terhadap pengekalan penyunting dan memantau perubahan terhadap kadar pembalikan dan kadar sekatan.
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 27 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu. Contohnya, satu isu dalam aplikasi Android Wikipedia yang melibatkan imej kadangkala gagal dimuatkan selepas membuka pemberitahuan senarai bacaan yang disyorkan, kini telah dibetulkan. [94]

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

Lebih lanjut

  • Dalam Wikipedia Bahasa-bahasa Inggeris, Perancis, Jepun dan beberapa yang lain, terdapat suatu ujian berkaitan penggunaan hCaptcha, sebuah perkhidmatan pengesanan bot pihak ketiga. Percubaan tersebut telah menunjukkan bahawa hCaptcha berkesan mengesan dan menghalang beberapa aktiviti automatik berniat jahat dengan sendirinya, serta memberikan isyarat kepada pemeriksa dan pengelola untuk penelitian lanjut. Oleh kerana hasilnya positif, hCaptcha akan dilancarkan di semua wiki dalam beberapa minggu akan datang. Lihat laman projek hCaptcha untuk maklumat teknikal tentang pelaksanaan dan perlindungan privasi. Ketahui lebih lanjut.
  • Kemas kini Teknologi Komuniti terkini kini sudahpun tersedia, dengan kemajuan merentasi beberapa inisiatif Senarai Hajat Komuniti, termasuklah pengembangan Senarai Bacaan daripada aplikasi mudah alih ke laman web, sokongan bahasa baharu untuk "Who Wrote That" dan Papan Pemuka Peribadi, penambahbaikan pada proses kemasan 3D dan Carta, dan kerja akan datang berkenaan pengisihan laman perbincangan, pemainbalikan audio dan aliran kerja penyuntingan. Kemas kini ini juga mengongsikan keutamaan semasa, trend status senarai hajat dan peluang untuk maklum balas komuniti berkenaan bidang tumpuan masa hadapan dan Pelan Tahunan Yayasan Wikimedia 2026–2027. Baca surat berita penuh untuk butiran lanjut.

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The Signpost: 22 May 2026

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

Wikidata weekly summary #733

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-25. Missed the previous one? See issue #732.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Skolkoll-bot 1 - Task(s): Adding Skolverket identifiers and source URLs to Swedish school items

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • LexeMap - is a lexeme coverage mapper that audits Wikidata lexeme data across languages. It runs live SPARQL queries against Wikidata and cross-references against Wiktionary to identify gaps in lexicographical data.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Starting May 28, 2026, the Special:EntityData page will no longer support the PHP‑serialized format (e.g .php URLs). Affected requests will return HTTP errors. Please switch to a stable format like JSON (example: Q42.json). The change is already active on test and beta wikis. (full announcement)

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Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We continued working on reducing the page size to make it easier on mobile data plans
    • We are improving how error messages are shown
  • Making WikiProjects more visible: We are continuing the work on getting it ready for a first rollout.

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

Berita Teknologi: 2026-22

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Sorotan mingguan

  • Berikutan sebuah eksperimen penciptaan akaun yang berjaya, mesej amaran suntingan log keluar yang dipertingkatkan akan diterapkan ke semua wiki Wikimedia pada minggu pertama bulan Jun. Perubahan ini hanya akan menjejaskan pengguna yang log keluar yang membuka sesi penyuntingan pada paparan web mudah alih. Pengalaman yang dikemas kini tersebut direka untuk menggalakkan penciptaan akaun dengan lebih jelas, sambil masih membenarkan pengguna menyunting menggunakan akaun sementara. Keputusan daripada eksperimen tersebut menunjukkan peningkatan ketara dari segi penciptaan akaun, dengan peningkatan relatif sebanyak 27% dalam kalangan pengguna yang terpaparnya mesej yang dikemas kini. Seperti yang dijangkakan, apabila lebih ramai orang dicorongkan ke proses penciptaan akaun, akaun sementara menurun sebanyak 16%. Eksperimen ini tidak menunjukkan sebarang perubahan ketara dalam kadar suntingan konstruktif atau metrik penyumbang terpantau lain. [95]

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Atas dasar keselamatan, ahli kumpulan pengguna tertentu perlu mengaktifkan pengesahihan dwifaktor (2FA). Ahli kumpulan berkenaan tidak akan dapat melumpuhkan kaedah 2FA terakhir pada akaun mereka, dan akan jadi mustahil untuk menambah pengguna tanpa 2FA ke kumpulan ini. Pengguna berkenaan masih boleh menambah kaedah pengesahihan baharu atau mengalihkeluarkannya, selagi masih ada sekurang-kurangnya satu kaedah diaktifkan secara berterusan. Dalam beberapa minggu akan datang, pengguna tanpa 2FA akan dialih keluar daripada kumpulan berkenaan. Hal ini terutamanya terpakai kepada birokrat. Lihat tugasan terpaut untuk jadual pelaksanaan. [96][97]
  • Pasukan Hajat Teknikal WMDE akan menjalankan Ujian A/B pada 10 wiki, untuk menguji potensi penambahbaikan Pralihat Rujukan. Eksperimen ini akan dijalankan selama ~2 minggu pada akhir Mei / awal Jun dan akan mengganggu sebanyak 10% pembaca atas meja di wiki-wiki yang menyertai ujian ini.
  • Selepas dua eksperimen yang berjaya, pasukan Pertumbuhan Pembaca akan melancarkan suatu ciri beta Pelayaran Imej ke semua paparan mudah alih Wikipedia pada 25 Mei. Hal ini bermakna sesiapa sahaja yang telah mengaktifkan semua ciri beta secara lalai akan mula dapat melihat ciri ini, dan orang lain boleh menanda kotak untuk menghidupkannya dalam pilihan mereka. Ciri beta tersebut akan merangkumi sebuah karusel bagi kesemua imej pada sesuatu rencana di bahagian atas rencana tersebut, dengan kawalan untuk penyunting untuk mengecualikan imej daripada karusel rencana tersebut atau mengecualikan rencana daripada ciri tersebut sepenuhnya.
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 30 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu. Contohnya, fail STL tiga dimensi telah dipaparkan secara tidak betul oleh sambungan pemapar media 3D yang kini telah dibaiki. [98]

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

  • Kelas CSS legasi tleft dan tright telah digantikan dengan floatleft dan floatright kerana kelas sebelumnya tidak berfungsi secara tekal merentasi kesemua platform MediaWiki, terutamanya paparan web mudah alih dan aplikasi mudah alih. Projek yang bergantung pada kelas ini digalakkan untuk menyemak penggunaan berkaitan dan merancang untuk proses penghijrahan. Sila ambil perhatian bahawa floatleft dan floatright juga mungkin akan dihentikan pada masa hadapan, walaupun pada masa ini tiada rancangan untuk berbuat demikian. Tekan pautan ini untuk bacaan lanjut.
  • Item berulang Kemas kini kod terperinci kemudian pada minggu ini: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #734

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #733.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Recent Changes API: This API lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • On 31 May, item Q140000000 ("Maxx", about a cinema in Delmenhorst, Germany) was created.
  • Feedback wanted: To support improving Wikidata integration on the Programs & Events Dashboard, the EduWiki Hub invites Wikidata organizers, trainers, and contributors to share suggestions on metrics, tracking features, and workflows you would like to see in the dashboard. In addition, try out the new Advanced Search share your thoughts on the Dashboard talk page. (full announcement)

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Development

  • Mobile editing of statements:
    • We fixed how we handle statements with deleted Properties (phab:T402619)
    • We improved the behaviour when using the browser's back button (phab:T414454)
    • We continued working on improving the way error responses are shown (phab:T423613)
    • We addressed issues found in testing
  • Improving the visibility of WikiProjects: We added support for finding the associated WikiProject of an Item based on statements on the Item
  • GraphQL:
    • We are working on expanding the data available through search. Specifically we are including all Item data in search result nodes (phab:T427389) and extending the query by Item and Property value to return all Item data (phab:T416885)
    • We are improving the documentation.

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This Month in Education: May 2026

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This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 5 • May 2026

In This Issue

Tech News: 2026-23

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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.

Updates for editors

  • The Reader Experience team 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 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.
  • The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.
  • Recurrent item View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed. [99]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #735

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #734.

Discussions

  • RfC: Mass editing policy: The community is currently voting on a proposed policy to regulate mass edits on Wikidata. More input is needed to reach a broad consensus. Please review the proposal and join the discussion/vote on the RFC page.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

  • The team was involved in workshops last week so there are no updates.

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.

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Berita Teknologi: 2026-24

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Sorotan mingguan

  • Perusahaan Wikimedia telah meningkatkan had penggunaan percuma untuk tawaran APInya. Had permintaan bulanan untuk API Atas Permintaan telah meningkat daripada 5,000 kepada 50,000 permintaan, manakala had API Tangkap Layar telah meningkat daripada 15 kepada 30 permintaan sebulan. Di samping itu, tangkapan layar kandungan terstruktur kini boleh didapati untuk akaun percuma. Perubahan ini memperluaskan akses kepada data Perusahaan Wikimedia untuk pemaju, penyelidik, dan organisasi yang menggunakan kandungan Wikimedia. [100]

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Ciri Jelajah Suapan (Explore Feed) yang dipertingkatkan, kini dipanggil Suapan Utama (Home Feed), dilancarkan kepada 50% pengguna aplikasi Android Wikipedia. Suapan Utama membantu pembaca menemukan kandungan yang berkaitan melalui dua tab baharu: Komuniti dan Untuk Anda. Tab Komuniti menyediakan suapan boleh tatal bagi kandungan tersusun serta kemas kini daripada komuniti dan gerakan Wikimedia yang lebih luas, manakala tab Untuk Anda menawarkan pengalaman skrin penuh boleh leret yang menunjukkan kandungan yang disesuaikan kepada minat pengguna. Rekaan semula ini merupakan sebahagian daripada usaha lebih luas untuk menambah baik penemuan kandungan dan mempertingkatkan pengalaman pembelajaran dalam aplikasi Wikipedia.
  • Permainan trivia harian Yang mana datang dahulu? kini tersedia dalam versi beta aplikasi iOS Wikipedia edisi bahasa Inggeris, Jerman, Perancis, Portugis, Rusia, Sepanyol, Arab, Cina dan Turki. Permainan ini menggunakan peristiwa bersejarah daripada kandungan Wikipedia "Hari Ini Dalam Sejarah" dan mencabar pembaca untuk meneka peristiwa yang mana satu antara dua yang berlaku dahulu. Permainan ini sebelum ini telah dilancarkan pada aplikasi Android. Komuniti yang berminat untuk menyediakan permainan ini dalam bahasa mereka boleh membaca arahan dan keperluan.
  • Sub-rujukan, yakni suatu ciri MediaWiki baharu yang membolehkan para penyunting menggunakan semula rujukan sedia ada, akan mula dilancarkan ke wiki Wikimedia berikutan satu fasa rintis yang berjaya. Pemasangaturan ciri ini akan bermula pada 8 Jun untuk kebanyakan wiki Kumpulan 1 dan Wikipedia Bahasa Perancis, dengan Wikipedia edisi bahasa tambahan lain menerima ciri ini dalam beberapa bulan akan datang. Komuniti wiki setempat digalakkan untuk bersedia dengan menyemak mesej sambungan Cite yang belum diterjemahkan dalam bahasa masing-masing dan menyemak sebarang penggunaan Petua Alat Rujukan (Reference Tooltips), yang mungkin memerlukan kemas kini untuk menyokong fungsi baharu. Wiki yang menggunakan Pralihat Rujukan (Reference Previews) tidak perlu mengambil sebarang tindakan. Komuniti setempat juga mungkin perlu mencipta cite-tracking-category-ref-details kategori penjejakan sebagai kategori tersembunyi menggunakan __HIDDENCAT__ (atau templat khusus), dan menyambungkannya ke item Wikidata d:Q129764848 berpadanan. [101]
  • Eksperimen Pralihat Laman pada paparan web mudah alih telah selesai. Pasukan tersebut memutuskan untuk tidak melancarkan ciri ini selepas keputusan menunjukkan tiada kesan ketara secara statistiknya terhadap pengekalan pembaca, kerana metrik kejayaan utama ialah peningkatan pengekalan. Pralihat Laman yang sudahpun tersedia di paparan atas meja dan dalam aplikasi, memaparkan lakaran kenit, perenggan pendahuluan dan pautan ke rencana penuh apabila pembaca mengetik pautan biru. Percubaan tersebut menguji pengalaman ini di web mudah alih merentasi enam Wikipedia.
  • Pustaka ikon antara muka pengguna akan dikemas kini kemudian pada minggu ini atau minggu depan. Kebanyakan ~300 ikon telah diperhalusi sedikit dan ~30 ikon baharu telah ditambah. Perubahan ini menambah baik ikon untuk menjadikannya lebih konsisten dan mudah difahami, serta meningkatkan keseimbangan visual apabila digunakan secara berkumpulan.
  • Antara muka Pemilih Bahasa Universal (ULS) dalam MediaWiki, yang membantu pengguna memilih kandungan dalam bahasa lain, telah dikemas kini. Versi baharu ini meningkatkan kelajuan dan kebolehcapaian, dan pengguna projek Wikimedia kini boleh menyematkan bahasa pilihan untuk pertukaran bahasa yang lebih pantas. Pemasangaturan ULS versi baharu ini ke laman Wikimedia akan berlaku secara beransur-ansur dalam beberapa minggu akan datang. Anda boleh mengujinya sekarang sebagai ciri beta dengan memilih ciri beta dalam pilihan profil anda dan berkongsi maklum balas anda pada laman projek tersebut.
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 21 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu. Contohnya, isu yang melibatkan papan pemuka Analisis Paparan Laman di pageviews.wmcloud.org berhenti mengemas kini data graf dalam bulan Mei 2026 sehingga menjejaskan semua pengguna, kini telah dibetulkan. [102]

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

  • Tandatangan fungsi untuk mw.util.addPortletLink() telah dipermudahkan. Pembangun kini boleh menghantar objek konfigurasi berbanding senarai parameter kedudukan apabila mencipta pautan portlet. Tandatangan fungsi sebelumnya kekal disokong untuk keserasian ke belakang. Contohnya, berbanding: mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page'); disaran untuk menggunakan mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });. Penyelenggara skrip digalakkan untuk menyemak penggunaan sedia ada addPortletLink() dan mengemaskininya ikut keadaan. Perubahan ini akan tersedia di semua wiki bermula 11 Jun. Terima kasih kepada sukarelawan komuniti Gerges kerana menyumbang kepada penambahbaikan ini. [103]
  • Perbincangan Senarai Hajat Komuniti: Pasukan Produk & Teknologi memperkenalkan beberapa perubahan yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan bilangan dan kerumitan hajat untuk dipenuhi, termasuklah pembubaran pasukan Teknologi Komuniti. Pasukan ini sedang terlibat dalam perbincangan tentang cadangan hala tuju untuk senarai hajat daripada ahli komuniti. Termasuk cara untuk menstrukturkan pengundian tahunan, penjejakan hajat yang lebih baik, membuang bidang tumpuan dan kemas kini berkaitan pengambilan kakitangan.
  • Item berulang Kemas kini kod terperinci kemudian pada minggu ini: MediaWiki

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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

Berita Teknologi: 2026-25

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Berita Teknologi terkini daripada komuniti teknikal Wikimedia. Sila beritahu pengguna lain tentang perubahan ini. Bukan semua perubahan akan menjejaskan anda. Terjemahan telah pun tersedia.

Sorotan mingguan

  • Pasukan Pertumbuhan Pembaca telah melancarkan ciri beta Pelayaran Gambar (Image Browsing) pada versi web mudah alih ke seluruh Wikipedia. Ciri ini menampilkan satu karusel gambar di bahagian teratas bagi rencana yang mempunyai tiga atau lebih banyak gambar. Para penyunting dapat mengkonfigurasi ciri ini melalui beberapa kaedah kawalan. Jika perlu menyembunyikan gambar tertentu daripada sesuatu laman, sama ada gunakan class=notpageimage agar gambar tersebut tidak tertampil dalam pralihat lakaran kenit, atau gunakan class=noviewer untuk mengecualikan gambar tersebut daripada MediaViewer. Karusel gambar juga dapat dinyahdayakan sepenuhnya pada mana-mana laman menggunakan kata kunci ajaib __NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__. Untuk memberikan maklum balas atau menandakan pepijat, sila lawati laman projek berkaitan.
  • Wikijadual (Wikitables) kini boleh disusun menurut tertib menurun pada klik pertama dengan menambah data-sort-order="desc" pada sel pengepala. Sebelum ini, secara lalai, pengetikan pada pengepala lajur buat kali pertama akan menyusunnya dalam tertib menaik. Penambahan pada Wikijadual ini memberikannya lebih banyak kawalan dan kelenturan, manakala tingkah laku lalai untuk klik berikutnya kekal tidak berubah. [104]

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Ciri Panduan rencana sedang diuji oleh beberapa orang penyunting yang mencipta rencana baharu di Wikipedia edisi-edisi bahasa Inggeris Ringkas, Perancis dan Turki. Eksperimen ini juga akan bermula tidak lama lagi di Wikipedia edisi-edisi bahasa Arab dan Bengali. Ciri ini memberikan panduan yang dikawal selia oleh komuniti kepada penyunting untuk membantu mereka mencipta rencana yang mematuhi piawaian komuniti. Penyunting berpengalaman boleh terus mencipta atau menyesuaikan rangka untuk jenis rencana tertentu yang biasanya dicipta oleh penyumbang yang kurang berpengalaman. Rangka ini membimbing penyunting yang kurang berpengalaman dalam mencipta rencana berkualiti tinggi. Panduan ringkas untuk penanda yang digunakan dalam rangka tersebut boleh didapati di laman ini. Contoh rangka yang boleh diadaptasi dan arahan tentang cara menyesuaikannya terdapat di bahagian pada laman projek tersebut.
  • Mana-mana wiki yang ingin menggantikan butang "selama-lamanya" dalam Special:Block untuk akaun sementara (contohnya, wiki yang menyekat pengguna sementara hanya sehingga tamat tempoh akaun) akan dapat berbuat demikian dengan mencipta MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account dengan tempoh sekatan yang mereka inginkan. [105]
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 41 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu.

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

  • Menjelang akhir bulan Jun, rentetan agen-pengguna yang sah akan diperlukan untuk memuat turun lambakan data terautomasi dari laman web dumps.wikimedia.org. Permintaan terautomasi yang menyediakan agen-pengguna yang generik atau kosong bakal disekat. Hal ini akan meluaskan penguatkuasaan bagi dasar agen-pengguna yang telah lama wujud. Akses kepada lambakan melalui Perkhidmatan Awan Wikimedia tidak akan berubah.
  • Pelancaran had kadar API sejagat kini telah selesai, dengan had yang dikuatkuasakan merentasi semua API dan pada tahap terdokumentasi untuk kesemua kumpulan. Bot yang berjalan dalam Toolforge/WMCS atau dengan hak pengguna bot pada mana-mana wiki kekal dikecualikan. Semua bot perlu kekal mengikuti amalan terbaik yang didokumenkan untuk mengelakkan daripada dihadkan kadarnya.
  • [Wiki Portal API https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page] akan berada dalam mod bacaan sahaja bermula minggu ini (15-18 Jun). Pada minggu berikutnya (22-25 Jun), semua URL wiki Portal API akan dialihkan ke API Wikimedia di mediawiki.org. Ketahui lebih lanjut di laman projek berkenaan.
  • Item berulang Kemas kini kod terperinci kemudian pada minggu ini: MediaWiki

Perjumpaan dan acara

  • Pada 17 Jun jam 6 petang UTC, Yayasan Wikimedia akan mengadakan panggilan Discord yang tertumpu pada semakan kod. Kami telah mendengar melalui Tinjauan Kepuasan Pembangun bahawa sukarelawan sedang bergelut dengan semakan kod dan kami ingin membincangkan pengalaman ini dengan matlamat untuk mengemukakan penyelesaian yang boleh dilaksanakan. Anda boleh menyertai panggilan melalui pelayan Discord Komuniti Wikimedia.
  • Persidangan Wikimedia Amerika Latin akan menganjurkan hackathon serantau yang akan menghimpunkan komuniti teknikal gerakan Wikimedia termasuk pembangun, penyelia sistem, ahli sains data, dan pengguna yang mempunyai hak lanjutan. Penyumbang teknikal yang berminat boleh memohon biasiswa untuk menyertai sehingga 21 Jun pada tengah malam (waktu Bolivia, UTC-4).
  • Jom daftar Cabaran Pasukan Wikimania untuk menyertai acara istimewa ini. Cabaran Pasukan akan berlangsung dalam talian dan secara bersemuka dari 21 hingga 22 Julai, yakni sebelum persidangan Wikimania. Semua orang dialu-alukan, tanpa mengira kemahiran atau pendaftaran Wikimania. Beberapa pasukan akan mengendalikan 10 cabaran penting yang menyokong komuniti Wikimedia. Untuk butiran lanjut, lawati laman Cabaran Pasukan dan daftar di sana. Pendaftaran ditutup pada 20 Jun jam 11 malam UTC.

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The Signpost: 21 June 2026

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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 2026-06-22. 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

Berita Teknologi: 2026-26

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Berita Teknologi terkini daripada komuniti teknikal Wikimedia. Sila beritahu pengguna lain tentang perubahan ini. Bukan semua perubahan akan menjejaskan anda. Terjemahan telah pun tersedia.

Sorotan mingguan

  • Ciri-ciri Growth kini tersedia di Wikidata. Kemas kini ini mendayakan akses kepada Pementoran (jika dikonfigurasi), modul Impak, Panel Bantuan dan Laman Pemula Pengguna Baharu yang diringkaskan (tanpa Suntingan Cadangan). Penyelia Wikidata masih sedang mengkonfigurasi ciri-ciri tersebut melalui Konfigurasi Komuniti.

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Laman khas Khas:RangeCalculator telah dicipta. Ia membenarkan pengguna mencari julat IP tanpa perlu bergantung pada alat luaran. Sehingga kini, alat ini hanya tersedia untuk Pemeriksa (CheckUsers). [106]
  • Sub-rujukan ialah sebuah ciri MediaWiki baharu yang membenarkan para penyunting mengguna semula rujukan dengan butiran berbeza. Ia akan digunakan pada kebanyakan edisi bahasa Wikipedia bersaiz kecil dan sederhana pada 23 Jun. Laman FAQ (soalan lazim) menyenaraikan tindakan yang mungkin perlu diambil pada wiki anda bagi menyokong pemasangaturan. Semak pelan pengeluaran untuk langkah pasang atur seterusnya. [107]
  • Bermula minggu hadapan, pengguna akan menerima pemberitahuan apabila mereka disekat atau dinyahsekat daripada menyunting, atau jika sekatan ini berubah. [108]
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 32 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu.

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

  • Bermula minggu depan, penapis salah guna yang ditetapkan "memerlukan pengesahan CAPTCHA" akan mula turut menjejaskan pengguna dengan hak skipcaptcha, yang merangkumi kebanyakan pengguna sah automatik. Bot pula dikecualikan. Perubahan ini hanya menjejaskan suntingan yang mencetuskan penapis salah guna. Hak skipcaptcha akan terus mengecualikan pengguna daripada keperluan untuk menyelesaikan CAPTCHA dalam proses biasa menggunakan wiki. [109]
  • Pendokumenan rujukan untuk API Lift Wing telah berpindah dari Portal API ke Kotak Pasir REST interaktif.
  • Wiki Portal API kini telah ditutup. Untuk pendokumenan API, lihat API Wikimedia di mediawiki.org. Semua URL wiki Portal API (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) akan dilencongkan ke laman mediawiki.org bermula 22 Jun. [110]
  • Item berulang Kemas kini kod terperinci kemudian pada minggu ini: MediaWiki

Perjumpaan dan acara

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This Month in Education: June 2026

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This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 6 • June 2026

In This Issue

Berita Teknologi: 2026-27

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Berita Teknologi terkini daripada komuniti teknikal Wikimedia. Sila beritahu pengguna lain tentang perubahan ini. Bukan semua perubahan akan menjejaskan anda. Terjemahan telah pun tersedia.

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Sebagai sebahagian daripada Eksperimen Penciptaan Akaun, pasukan Growth menguji penambahan ikon akaun pengguna dalam pengepala web mudah alih untuk pengguna log keluar, memberikan akses terus kepada tindakan "Cipta akaun" dan "Log masuk". Eksperimen tersebut meningkatkan penciptaan akaun sebanyak kira-kira 20% tanpa menjejaskan secara negatif dari segi kualiti suntingan mahupun kadar suntingan membina. Ciri ini akan dilancarkan ke paparan web mudah alih di semua wiki Yayasan Wikimedia pada minggu pertama bulan Julai. [111]
  • Selepas berjayanya satu eksperimen, pengguna yang log masuk yang tidak mengesahkan alamat e-mel mereka semasa akaun mereka dicipta akan melihat sepanduk baharu yang meminta mereka melengkapkan proses tersebut. Hal ini membantu mengurangkan risiko pengguna terkunci daripada akaun mereka, dan menjadikan alamat e-mel akaun secara keseluruhan lebih boleh harap. Hal ini merupakan sebahagian daripada projek Keselamatan Akaun. [112]
  • Sebuah kemas kini pada Carian sedang memperhalus bagaimana -prefix: bertindak apabila digunakan untuk mengecualikan hasil carian. Sebelum ini, penggunaan -prefix: dengan tanda negatif boleh meluaskan hasil carian secara tidak sengaja dengan menambah ruang nama yang disertakan dalam skop carian, yang membawa kepada tingkah laku yang mengelirukan bagi pengguna yang menjangkakan penapis pengecualian yang mudah. ​​Dengan kemas kini ini, -prefix: kini akan mengecualikan tajuk laman berpadanan seperti yang dimaksudkan dan mungkin memaparkan amaran jika ruang nama yang berkaitan tidak dipilih secara eksplisit. Walau bagaimanapun, tingkah laku prefix: tanpa penafian kekal tidak berubah. [113]
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 33 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu. Contohnya, sebuah isu melibatkan penilai rencana (reviewer) yang menggunakan palang alat Kurasi Laman tetapi tidak autolanggan perbincangan pada laman perbincangan yang mereka mulakan kini telah dibetulkan. Penilai rencana kini akan menerima pemberitahuan apabila terdapat mana-mana pengguna yang membalas perbincangan tersebut. [114]

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

  • Bermula 29 Jun, muat turun automatik daripada laman web dumps.wikimedia.org akan tertakluk kepada dasar ejen-pengguna. Permintaan automatik yang menyediakan ejen-pengguna generik atau kosong akan disekat. Akses kepada lambakan melalui Perkhidmatan Awan Wikimedia kekal tidak terjejas. Hal ini merupakan susulan kepada pengumuman yang dibuat dalam isu 2026/25 Berita Teknologi.
  • Item berulang Kemas kini kod terperinci kemudian pada minggu ini: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #738

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #737.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • TopDevsBot - Task/s: Create new items for software-development, design, and consulting companies from source data: topdevs.ai
    • SonalBot - Task/s: Reference Gardener (archive dead reference links) + Welcome Bot (welcome new users)
  • New request for comments: WM Commons: Policy update for AI content - this RfC will seek opinions on the use and allowance of AI-generated and modified content. This can have downstream impacts on Wikidata.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July. A Q&A clinic will be held on 1 July at 15:00 UTC (join here).
  • Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship, Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
    • We are continuing to evaluate the prototype for reducing the number of unnecessary edits from Wikidata that show up in watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co. The approach is to look at the diff of the rendered article before and after the change from Wikidata is made. If there is no difference then the change is probably not relevant for that article. We are collecting a sample to further understand how it performs.
    • To continue to address Wikidata's scaling issues, we are planning the migration of entity usage tables to the X1 cluster.
  • Mobile editing of statements:
    • We implemented more feedback from testing of the new mobile front-end. Specifically we worked on making it clearer when a statements already exist that the editor is trying to add to the Item.
    • Additionally, we made minor improvements to the look and feel of the mobile front-end.
  • REST API:
  • GraphQL:
    • We added support for requesting “best statements” for a given Property (phab:T428138)
    • We are working on adding support for negation in Property value pair filters (phab:T429580)

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-28

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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.

Updates for editors

  • Recurrent item View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain. [115]

Updates for technical contributors

  • In preparation for Celebrate Women campaign planned for March 2027, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Content Enablement team has launched a 22-question survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ (anyone who identifies as a woman) across Wikimedia projects. The survey takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 20 July 2026. The questions are also available on-wiki for review in advance.
  • The Score extension now supports rendering music scores as SVG images in addition to PNG, addressing a long-standing feature request and resolving historical image quality issues. Both formats are now provided to clients, with PNG in the src attribute and SVG in the srcset attribute.
  • The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. It was enabled on French Wikipedia, bringing total progress to covering 78.9% of Wikipedia page views. Rollout to English Wikipedia desktop will progress through this week.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap blog post is now live. It highlights the projects, sessions, and social activities from this year’s event, and shares initial plans for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon.

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Wikidata weekly summary #739

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #738.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship:
    • 1Veertje - Closed as Successful
    • Ziv - Closed as Successful
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • gov-wikidata-match 1 - Task/s: Link existing GOV (historical gazetteer) building-like objects to existing Wikidata building-like objects.
    • AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task/s: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to Wikidata items about people, only where the OpenLibrary author and the Wikidata person have been confirmed to be the same individual, with a source on every statement.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • The Wikidata Platform (WDP) monthly office hour takes place tomorrow, Templat:Zonestamp. These office hours are focus on the Blazegraph migration work, and the team is inviting all community members to join the discussion. Register via the event page
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST (in your timezone), 08th July 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Sandbox sessions: Wikidata Reference Validator Tool - improving Wikidata references - Aug 15, 17:00 - 18:00 UTC.
    • Wiki Education + AASLH: Documenting America with Wikidata, a collaboration between Wiki Education and the American Association for State and Local History is offering six hour-long meetings held weekly to introduce attendees to Wikidata and improve content for Wikidata and Wikipedia on American history. Registration ends: July 17, 23:59 Pacific Time (PT)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: (fr) Le point sur la diversité de genre dans les articles in *Regards sur l'actualité du mouvement Wikimedia*
  • Papers:
    • Spatiotemporal-Heuristic A* Search for Pruning - Historical Influence and Succession Paths in Wikidata - Paper, by Michael James Liman (2026).
    • Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models - Paper by Chepurova et al., (2026).
  • Videos: (Español) Introduction to Wikidata - Dr. Claudia De Souza and Prof. Dinah Wilson Fraites introduce Wikidata with Spanish-slides.

Tool of the week

  • Zelph: Offers powerful analysis capabilities for the complete Wikidata knowledge graph while remaining adaptable for any semantic domain.
  • World Cup Heights: An interactive data‑viz app that shows the heights of FIFA World Cup players, arranged so you can quickly compare teams, positions, and overall height distributions.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July.
  • The Wikidata Platform team has published the 8th issue of its monthly newsletter. This edition includes updates on the migration of WDQS backend away from Blazegraph, including a transition into the next phase Initial Implementation (pilot) phase following completion of the installation phase. This update also include some Documentation on Query Rewrites the team will like the Wikidata community and all WDQS users to help review and leave feedbacks. see WDP monthly newsletter for more details

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

  • The development team are at an offsite retreat this week.

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

Weekly Tasks

The Signpost: 13 July 2026

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

Berita Teknologi: 2026-29

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Berita Teknologi terkini daripada komuniti teknikal Wikimedia. Sila beritahu pengguna lain tentang perubahan ini. Bukan semua perubahan akan menjejaskan anda. Terjemahan telah pun tersedia.

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Ciri Semakan Nada membantu pengguna baharu mengenal pasti petikan dalam rencana Wikipedia yang mungkin mengandungi bahasa bukan ensiklopedik dan menggalakkan mereka untuk mempertimbang semakan semula nada tersebut. Ciri ini telah diuji mengikut kaedah A/B pada Wikipedia bahasa-bahasa Arab, Inggeris, Perancis dan Portugis, dengan kadar penyiapan tugasan pengguna baharu meningkat sebanyak 38.7% berbanding tugasan Sunting kopi lalai, tanpa penurunan kualiti suntingan. Ujian ini berakhir pada 9 Julai dan ciri ini kini tersedia untuk semua orang di wiki-wiki terlibat dan boleh dikonfigurasikan melalui Konfigurasi Komuniti. Plan seterusnya adalah untuk melancarkan ciri Semakan Nada ke lebih banyak wiki.
  • Konfigurasi komuniti yang membenarkan penyingkiran automatik mentor yang tidak aktif berdasarkan kriteria yang boleh dikonfigurasikan akan diaktifkan pada hari Khamis 16 pada sesetengah wiki untuk memastikan senarai mentor sentiasa dikemas kini. Mentor merupakan penyumbang berpengalaman yang memilih untuk membantu pengguna baharu di wiki melalui Ciri Pertumbuhan. Penyelia kini boleh menyediakan tetapan melalui Khas:Konfigurasi Komuniti/Ciri Bimbingan, dan tetapan baharu ini akan berkuat kuasa mulai hari Khamis ini.
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 38 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu. Contohnya, isu yang melibatkan sesetengah pengguna aplikasi Android Wikipedia yang dilog keluar serta-merta selepas log masuk, sehingga menghalang mereka daripada terus log masuk dan menyunting laman, kini telah dibetulkan. [116]

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

  • Menyunting laman melalui skrip atau gajet pengguna menyebabkan label senarai pantau yang telah ditetapkan oleh pengguna pada laman tersebut dikosongkan. Perkara ini kini telah dibetulkan. [117]
  • Untuk mengatasi pepijat Safari (lihat phab:T425211), pada wiki yang didayakan Parsoid, href wikilink kini menggunakan url mutlak bukannya url relatif protokol. Output API REST kekal tidak berubah dan terus menggunakan url relatif protokol. Gajet, skrip pengguna, bot dan CSS mungkin perlu disesuaikan jika ia bergantung pada kehadiran url relatif protokol dalam href wikilink. [118]
  • Item berulang Kemas kini kod terperinci kemudian pada minggu ini: MediaWiki

Lebih lanjut

  • Pasukan Platform Eksperimen Yayasan Wikimedia telah menerbitkan catatan blog yang mengimbas kembali tahun pertama eksperimen berstrukturnya. Catatan tersebut menyerlahkan eksperimen yang berjaya seperti Semakan Salin Tampak (Paste Check), Semakan Rujukan dan Semakan Nada, yang meningkatkan hasil penyuntingan dan telah dilancarkan kepada lebih ramai pengguna, serta eksperimen yang tidak membawa kepada perubahan produk. Baca lebih lanjut.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:11, 14 Julai 2026 (+08)balas

Wikidata weekly summary #740

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #739.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: GA Kevin - RfP scheduled to end after 14 July 2026 18:40 (UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Nabbot 2 - Task: Translating English descriptions to Turkish using a predefined dictionary mapping.
    • AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to items about people, where the OpenLibrary author and Wikidata person are the same individual, when every statement is sourced.
    • EquipboardBot - Task: Add Equipboard artist ID (P6912) to Wikidata items for musicians, sourced from Equipboard's own database of public artist identifiers.
  • Call for Participation in Improving Constraints
    • Just about any aspect of constraints is in scope, from rewriting existing bots to expanding the power of property constraints to adding new kinds of constraint. If you are interested, sign up in WikiProject Property Constraints/improving.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • rudof can be used as a command line tool or can be embedded as a library using cargo. It can be used to validate RDF data represented with different syntaxes like Turtle, NTriples, to name a few. As well as RDF data available through SPARQL endpoints like Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • A Project Chat discussion on the new Mentorship features. Self-enrollment has been enabled with the following requirements - account age: 365 days, edits: 500.
  • There is also a proposal to add an advisory message to new accounts that create multiple items.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Blazegraph migration: We are continuing to prepare the Query UI, Query Builder, constraint checks, etc for the migration to QLever (phab:T425618)
  • Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are investigating some Lua modules to find ones responsible for a lot of unnecessary entries in Watchlist and Recent changes on Wikipedia and co (phab:T429366)
  • GraphQL: Added support for negation in property value pair filters (phab:T429580)
  • REST API: We are working on the first pieces of support for Lexemes: retrieving a full Lexeme (phab:T429332)

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

Weekly Tasks

Wikidata weekly summary 741

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #740.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

  • Wikidata Query Service: We are working on adapting the Query Service UI to get it ready for the move to QLever
  • Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing to fix small issues found in testing
  • Lexemes: We are continuing the work on adding support for Lexemes to the REST API
  • Sustainability:
    • We are preparing the migration of some database tables on the client wikis that track the usage of Wikidata's data in articles on Wikipedia and co
    • We are further investigating how many changes from Wikidata that currently get sent to Wikipedia and co don't actually lead to a change in the article to be able to reduce these cases further

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

Weekly Tasks

Berita Teknologi: 2026-30

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Berita Teknologi terkini daripada komuniti teknikal Wikimedia. Sila beritahu pengguna lain tentang perubahan ini. Bukan semua perubahan akan menjejaskan anda. Terjemahan telah pun tersedia.

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Pasukan Pengalaman Pembaca telah menerapkan maklum balas komuniti berkenaan penempatan butang bintang pantau dan butang senarai pantau untuk ciri beta Senarai Bacaan, yang akan membolehkan penyimpanan rencana untuk bacaan kemudian hari, dan ini merupakan salah satu daripada butir senarai hajat yang membawa fungsi tersebut ke web. Para penyunting dijemput untuk mendayakan ciri beta bagi mengujinya dan berkongsi pendapat mereka.
  • Mod Cadangan menawarkan cadangan suntingan dalam VisualEditor untuk menambah baik rencana Wikipedia. Semua cadangan boleh dikonfigurasikan oleh komuniti setempat. Ciri PadanTeks (TextMatch) ialah suatu cara untuk sukarelawan mencipta cadangan setempat tersuai. Ciri ini mencari rentetan teks dalam rencana, dan kini merangkumi sokongan untuk ungkapan nalar. Hal ini memberikan sukarelawan ketepatan dan fleksibiliti yang lebih tinggi terhadap jenis cadangan setempat yang boleh mereka cipta. Nota: Cadangan yang diberi boleh disasarkan berdasarkan kiraan suntingan orang yang sunting serta aspek lain pada laman tersebut. Anda boleh mencari contoh daripada komuniti lain untuk inspirasi, termasuk PadanTeks yang mengesan: kesilapan taip, kesalahan tatabahasa, kandungan iklan potensi, klise, penggunaan tanda sempang atau tanda hubung yang salah, kata kunci masa yang tidak khusus, nama yang ketinggalan zaman, dan banyak lagi. Sebarang maklum balas amat dihargai.
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 27 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu. Contohnya, satu isu di mana alat Terjemahan SVG boleh menggunakan versi fail yang ketinggalan zaman, menyebabkan terjemahan sedia ada ditulis ganti apabila terjemahan baharu dimuat naik, kini telah dibetulkan. Secara keseluruhan, pada suku terakhir April – Jun 2026, kira-kira 337 tugasan komuniti telah diselesaikan oleh Yayasan Wikimedia.

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

  • Pada wiki yang mendayakan Parsoid, Parsoid kini memaparkan maksimum 1,250 imej setiap laman. Kategori penjejakan baharu, "media-limit-reached", akan disediakan tidak lama lagi untuk mengenal pasti laman yang mencapai had ini, menjadikannya lebih mudah untuk mencari kandungan yang output medianya mungkin telah dihadkan semasa pemaparan. Lihat phab:T430854 untuk maklumat lanjut dan maklum balas.
  • Item berulang Kemas kini kod terperinci kemudian pada minggu ini: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:46, 21 Julai 2026 (+08)balas

Wikidata weekly summary #742

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #741.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • AuntuBot - Task/s: Per the approved bot request at commons:Commons:Bots/Requests/AuntuBot, I am in the process of uploading approximately 50,000 issues of the Bangladesh Gazette to Wikimedia Commons. We need to a parent Wikidata item for each specific issue/volume to import and organize these files on Bengali Wikisource. Note that AuntuBot has already been granted a bot flag on Wikimedia Commons for the file uploads.
    • Rebot 2 - Task/s: We recently created the new property perspective (P14345) (Wikidata:Property proposal/anatomical view). With Rebot, I plan to move:
  • About 570 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a property
  • About 1400 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a qualifier of image (P18)
    • Rebot 3 - Task/s: Import 1389 instances of taxon author citation (P6507) from this Catalan Wikipedia list, compiled by bot from the articles.
    • Rebot 4 - Task/s: The task consists in changing these 1072 items. It has to change creator (P170) to the new property photographer (P14574). Also there are 1000+ items in which the property should be used as a qualifier.
    • Openpep - Task/s: Maintenance of Politically Exposed Person (PEP) data on Wikidata for Thai government officials. Specifically:
  • Creating new Wikidata items for Thai politicians not yet in the database
  • Adding P39 (position held) claims with proper qualifiers (P580 start time, P582 end time, P2937 legislative term for legislators, P1365/P1366 replaces/replaced by, P1545 series ordinal)
  • Adding P102 (member of political party) with date qualifiers
  • Adding P569 (date of birth), P106 (occupation), P21 (sex or gender), P19 (place of birth), P1559 (name in native language)
  • Setting and correcting labels, descriptions, and aliases
  • Removing incorrect claims and deduplicating
  • Adding social media profiles (P2003 Instagram, P2013 Facebook, P11705 Facebook numeric ID)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • OWL Places, the Wikidata-OpenStreetMap matching tool, can now add OpenStreetMap IDs to Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

  • The team were at Wikimania this past week so not much development happened.

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

Weekly Tasks

Berita Teknologi: 2026-31

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Berita Teknologi terkini daripada komuniti teknikal Wikimedia. Sila beritahu pengguna lain tentang perubahan ini. Bukan semua perubahan akan menjejaskan anda. Terjemahan telah pun tersedia.

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Wishlist item Alat Terjemahan Kandungan kini menyokong mod gelap, maka memenuhi permintaan Senarai Hajat Komuniti. Hal ini menjadikan alat ini selaras dengan ciri kebolehcapaian yang sudah tersedia pada rupa Vektor 2022 dan Minerva, membantu mengurangkan keletihan visual bagi pengguna yang menterjemahkan kandungan. [119]
  • Mod sumber AlatPerbincangan (DiscussionTools) dan alat sunting wikiteks 2017 kini akan menawarkan pelengkap automatik untuk pautan ([[), templat ({{), tag HTML dan penghurai (<), serta kata kunci ajaib (__), menjadikannya lebih cepat dan mudah untuk memasukkan pautan, templat dan penanda wiki lain semasa menyunting. [120]
  • Pasukan Pertumbuhan Pembaca telah menamatkan eksperimennya yang berkaitan dengan pralihat laman mudah alih dan tidak akan melancarkan ciri tersebut. Pralihat Laman ialah merupakan sebuah tetimbul helaian bawah yang muncul apabila pembaca mengetik pautan biru, untuk menunjukkan lakaran kecil, perenggan pendahuluan dan pilihan untuk membuka rencana. Eksperimen tersebut menunjukkan tiada perubahan pengekalan pembaca dengan metrik penunjuk negatif, menunjukkan bahawa pembaca web mudah alih lebih suka menavigasi terus ke rencana yang dipautkan daripada menggunakan pralihat laman.
  • Pasukan Pengalaman Pembaca telah menyaksikan hasil awal yang memberangsangkan berkaitan dengan Ciri Senarai Bacaan, dengan 93% daripada pengguna yang mengambil bahagian melaporkan bahawa ciri tersebut memang berguna. Senarai Bacaan membantu pembaca aktif menyimpan rencana untuk bacaan masa hadapan dan menyokong matlamat pembelajaran mereka dalam projek Wikimedia. Pasukan ini turut merancang penambahbaikan selanjutnya sebelum memperluas penggunaan ciri ini kepada lebih ramai pengguna.
  • Inisiatif Penyegaran Jelajah Suapan telah diuji pada pembaca aplikasi Wikipedia yang baharu mahupun yang kasual. Suapan yang disegarkan membantu pembaca menemui kandungan baharu dan relevan. Selepas peningkatan 10.5% dari segi keterlibatan suapan, pasukan Wikimedia Apps telah memutuskan untuk meningkatkan reka bentuk semula Suapan Utama kepada iOS dengan pembelajaran daripada keluaran Android yang diterapkan.
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 23 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu. Contohnya, satu isu yang melibatkan nama subjek dalam ciri Bimbingan Rencana dipaparkan dengan format huruf besar yang salah di Wikipedia bahasa Perancis kini telah dibetulkan. Nama subjek kini akan mengikut peraturan huruf besar yang betul untuk bahasa tersebut. [121]

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

  • Selepas menjalankan beberapa Eksperimen Penciptaan Akaun untuk meningkatkan kadar kesiapan pendaftaran, versi baharu medan nama pengguna pada Cipta Akaun telah dilancarkan. Ia termasuklah tetimbul yang meringkaskan dasar nama pengguna untuk memberikan panduan yang lebih jelas semasa penciptaan akaun. Sebagai sebahagian daripada perubahan ini, mesej createacct-helpusername dan createacct-username-help yang telah dikonfigurasikan oleh beberapa komuniti tidak akan digunakan lagi. Jika komuniti ingin menyesuaikan panduan yang ditunjukkan dalam papan timbul baharu, mereka boleh menyunting mesej berikut: createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet1, createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet2 dan createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet3. [122]
  • Pada waktu terkemudian minggu ini, penyerlah sintaks CodeMirror akan menawarkan tema warna. Tema-tema tersebut boleh dipilih daripada menu lungsur turun dalam dialog penuh Keutamaan CodeMirror. Untuk wikiteks, tema yang tersedia adalah seperti lalai, mesra buta warna (sebelum ini pilihan keutamaan buta warna pada Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing) dan tiada penyerlah. Untuk bahasa kod (iaitu, CSS/JavaScript/JSON/Vue/Lua), terdapat beberapa tema yang tersedia. Tema yang sama ini akhirnya akan tersedia untuk wikiteks juga. [123]
  • Mulai saat ini, mana-mana wiki boleh mengehadkan penyuntingan dalam ruang nama "Pengguna" hanya kepada pemilik laman dan kumpulan pengguna tertentu. Baca pendokumenan konfigurasi untuk mengetahui lebih lanjut.
  • Item berulang Kemas kini kod terperinci kemudian pada minggu ini: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:49, 28 Julai 2026 (+08)balas

This Month in Education: July 2026

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Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.

This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 7 • July 2026

In This Issue

The Signpost: 2 August 2026

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

Berita Teknologi: 2026-32

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Berita Teknologi terkini daripada komuniti teknikal Wikimedia. Sila beritahu pengguna lain tentang perubahan ini. Bukan semua perubahan akan menjejaskan anda. Terjemahan telah pun tersedia.

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Pasukan Pengalaman Pembaca telah membangunkan sebuah demo tampalan (patch demo) yang membalut palang alat laman kepada dua baris apabila ruang mendatar tidak mencukupi untuk semua butang. Hal ini bertujuan untuk mengurangkan kesesakan dalam palang alat Vector 2022, yang boleh berlaku pada beberapa edisi bahasa Wikipedia pada lebar skrin tertentu. [124]
  • Pasukan Pengalaman Pembaca merancang untuk melancarkan Senarai Bacaan, yang turut merupakan sebuah butir Senarai Hajat Komuniti, kini tersedia untuk dicuba dalam versi beta serta didayakan dalam bentuk ciri penuh pada bulan September. Sebelum itu, bantuan penterjemah sukarela diperlukan untuk terjemahan rentetan ke dalam sejumlah bahasa yang ada. Ciri ini menyokong matlamat membaca dan pembelajaran di Wikipedia.
  • Minggu depan, jadual isi kandungan pada laman fail Wikimedia Commons akan diperbaik dengan menggabungkan jadual isi kandungan laman fail dengan jadual isi kandungan laman. Hal ini akan memudahkan pemahaman struktur laman fail, menavigasi ke bahagian tertentu, dan berkongsi pautan ke bahagian individu. [125]
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 24 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu. Contohnya, isu yang melibatkan beberapa imej TIFF gagal dimuatkan selepas mengklik lakaran kecilnya, menyebabkan imej yang rosak dipaparkan bukannya imej bersaiz penuh, kini telah dibetulkan. [126]

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

  • Pemilih pembolehubah dan fungsi dalam AbuseFilter (Penapis Salah Guna) telah dikemas kini untuk menyokong carian dan autolengkap. Hal ini akan membolehkan penyelenggara penapis mencari pembolehubah atau fungsi yang dikehendaki dengan lebih cepat. [127]
  • Format-format MJPEG dan VP8 telah dialih keluar daripada pemain video. Sebaliknya, format MP4 (MPEG-4 Bahagian 2) telah ditambah, yang menyediakan video berkualiti tinggi kepada peranti iPhone yang lebih lama. Hal ini mungkin mengambil masa beberapa minggu untuk mengemas kini semua video sedia ada secara retroaktif. Format lalai untuk peranti moden kekal sama (VP9/WebM). [128]
  • Item berulang Kemas kini kod terperinci kemudian pada minggu ini: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:46, 4 Ogos 2026 (+08)balas

Wikidata weekly summary #743

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #742.

Discussions

  • INAPerson 1 - Task/s: Create Wikidata pages entries for mostly French journalists, using INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) catalogue as reference.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Leximap: Create a colour-coded map of Lexemes from a Wikisource page's text, roll-over individual words to discover more about the lemma
  • Filmmap: a free interactive map of filming locations built from Wikidata. Search the title to see where it’s shot or a place to see what was made there
  • Cradle-gadget – A new user script embeds the Cradle form editor into Wikidata item pages, enabling schema-based editing with ShEx.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
    • We reviewed samples of Wikidata-related entries in Recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co in order to see which additional changes we can remove because they don't change the article.
    • We are preparing for the migration of the entity usage table to the extension database cluster to address database scalability issues (phab:T424133)
  • Wikidata Query Service: We are continuing to adapt the Query Service UI and the Quality Constraints extension for the upcoming move from Blazegraph to QLever.
  • REST API: We are continuing to add support for Lexemes, specifically retrieving a full Lexeme (GET) (phab:T429332)

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

Weekly Tasks

Wikidata weekly summary #744

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #743.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Cradle-gadget is a tool by User:DanielyepezgarcesThis is an interactive, schema-based form editor that works directly within Wikidata item pages. It allows users to check, view, add, modify, or delete claims in a modern sidebar drawer or a dedicated special page, aligned with the Wikimedia design guidelines. This is the easiest way to exploit the benefits of Wikidata entity schemas, powered by ShEx.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The 2026 OpenRefine User Survey is now open. (Note that a link to a feature-prioritization survey is provided at the end of the Google Form so don't miss that if you want to influence what should get more focus.)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Sustainability: We continued the work on migrating usage tracking on Wikipedia and co to the extension database cluster (phab:T424185)
  • Watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co: We finished our review of a sample of Wikidata edits sent to Wikidata and co in order to better understand which remaining ones are not useful. It will soon be published on Commons.
  • Query Service: We continued the work on preparing the Query Service UI for the migration from Blazegraph to QLever and will move to Query Builder and Quality Constraints next

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

Weekly Tasks

Berita Teknologi: 2026-33

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Berita Teknologi terkini daripada komuniti teknikal Wikimedia. Sila beritahu pengguna lain tentang perubahan ini. Bukan semua perubahan akan menjejaskan anda. Terjemahan telah pun tersedia.

Kemas kini untuk penyunting

  • Item senarai hajat Pintar Carta (ChartWizard) baharu kini tersedia di Wikimedia Commons untuk pengguna yang berminat untuk mencipta carta daripada data mereka sendiri. Alat bestari ini menjadikan sambungan Chart lebih mesra pemula dengan membenarkan penyunting mencipta carta, seperti carta palang dan carta pai, tanpa perlu menggunakan JSON. Para pengguna masih boleh bertukar kepada penyunting JSON jika mereka mahu. Maklum balas tentang alat baharu ini dialu-alukan di laman perbincangan hajat.
  • Item berulang Lihat kesemua 19 tugasan serahan komuniti yang telah diselesaikan pada minggu lalu. Contohnya, sebuah isu berkenaan widget Gambar Hari Ini pada aplikasi iOS Wikipedia memaparkan imej yang sama setiap hari dan bukannya dikemas kini setiap hari, kini telah dibetulkan. [129]

Kemas kini untuk penyumbang teknologi

  • Imej-imej SVG formula matematik akan dijana tidak lama lagi dalam pelayar bukannya lagi pada pelayan. MathML akan terus dijana pada pelayan dan dipaparkan dalam pelayar tanpa JavaScript. Wikibuku akan melihat perubahan ini pada 12 Ogos, Wikisumber pula pada 19 Ogos dan Wikipedia pada 20-27 Ogos. Anda boleh cuba ciri ini dengan memilih "Pemaparan MathJax sebelah pelanggan" dalam pilihan anda. Perubahan ini merupakan sebahagian daripada usaha-usaha penamatan RESTBase dan penamatan Mathoid. [130]
  • Laman-laman kategori tidak lama lagi akan menyokong pengisihan entri mengikut masa ia ditambah ke dalam kategori. Hal ini akan memudahkan pencarian laman yang dikategorikan baru-baru ini atau sudah dikategorikan sejak lama. Hal ini bakal meningkatkan aliran kerja untuk kategori penyelenggaraan seperti tunggakan penghapusan dan lain-lain tugasan semakan berasaskan masa. Anda boleh menggunakan argumen URL cldsort=timestamp dalam paparan kategori untuk mengisih entri. [131]
  • Gajet dan skrip pengguna pada wiki Wikimedia kini boleh menggunakan ciri ES2018 dan ciri ES2019 dalam kod JavaScript. Sebelum ini, platform ini hanya membenarkan sehingga ES2017. MediaWiki telah mengesahkan kod sumber untuk melindungi fungsi daripada ralat sintaks dan untuk memastikan skrip sah dalam semua pelayar yang disokong. [132]
  • Item berulang Kemas kini kod terperinci kemudian pada minggu ini: MediaWiki

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