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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #243 is out: Community proposals for capturing meaning
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we report on three community proposals on syntactic approaches, we introduce a new Type (Complex numbers), we report on current hiccups on Abstract Wikipedia, we share more information about a presentation about Abstract Wikipedia at WikiCon Australia, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on April 13, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:35, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #727

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
- Past: Missed the second quarter Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session transcript here: 2026-04-08 (Q2 2026)
- Current: (Spanish) Public Domain in Latin America 2026 - 1st edition of the campaign to improve public domain data for Latin America is running until 15 June.
- Upcoming events:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 14 April, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). QuickStatements is one of the most widely used tools in Wikidata, enabling users to upload and edit large volumes of structured data efficiently. Originally developed by Magnus Manske, the tool has become essential for institutions, researchers, and volunteers working with open data. The new QuickStatements 3.0, developed by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, introduces a modernized interface, improved performance, and new features shaped by community input, making it easier than ever to contribute high-quality data to the Wikimedia ecosystem. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/QuickStatements3
- Art+Feminism is hosting a Community Hours session on April 17 to introduce their new Wikidata modules — don’t miss it!
- digiS Workshop „Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung“ am 20.04. - (German), registration closes 16.04, takes place online (10:00 – 11:30 CEST), room link after registration.
- Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - Wednesday, April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida.
- Visibility of Communities in Nigeria 2.0: 17.04 - 25.04, (please register on the link). Help enrich Wikidata with cultural preservation, tourism and inclusive development data for items on South Nigerian communities.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: (Spanish) Connecting: Basque documentary heritage on Wikipedia and Wikidata - a program to make Basque heritage data more visible, with events scheduled through April - June.
- Videos:
- Live Wikidata Editing #120 with Jan Ainali and Abbe98
- Can AI Replace Wikipedia? Jonathan Fraine & Raja Amelung Explain Why It Cannot - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan and Raja discuss why human knowledge and contribution to Wikipedia and Wikidata will always be important.
- Interfacing with Wikidata for fun and profit - Yaron Koren
- Introduction to Lexicographical data - By Chinonso Chidi
- WMUK Wikidata Training (1/2) - Why & how to add data to Wikidata - a beginner-friendly introduction to Wikidata editing hosted by Dr. Martin Poulter.
- WMUK Wikidata training (2/2) - Make your first Wikidata query using SPARQL - How to query Wikidata's vast store of knowledge using SPARQL.
- Wikidata and personal pronouns (P6553) by Clair Kronk and Crystal Yragui - part of the Queering Wikipedia Conference (2025)
- (Spanish) Queering the public domain using Wikidata and Wikipedia - with User:Hiperterminal.
- (Spanish) Taller de OpenRefine por David Ramírez-Ordóñez (User:Hiperterminal) - a workshop on OpenRefine with a geder perspective.
- Introducing lgbtDB: A Collaborative Queer Resource and Pilot Data Area by Clair Kronk.
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).
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- ConLang Code Registry code (3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3)
- official roster page (URL of a team's official page about this player)
- value type of this mathematical property (type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects)
- Usenet newsgroup (Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
- hardware is incompatible with (significant elements with which a computer hardware or electronic device is incompatible and which indicates a significant property of this hardware.)
- Peh-oe-ji (writing system for Taiwanese Hokkien (Q36778) or other Southern Min (Q36495) language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
- heir apparent (person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
- thumbtime (time for video thumbnail in seconds)
- Newest External identifiers: Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), BERON lexeme ID, Brussels BeStAddress street ID, Brussels BeStAddress address ID, Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID, Anarâš aavis topic ID, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID, TMDB award ID, Open Library Collection, Ohio University ArchiveSpace subject ID, VAi Archiefhub agent ID, PBA.com player ID, IRIS UNIL author ID, IPRESS ID, GEMI Number, StandardsMap ID, Japanese Location Database ID, IRDI, Wendingen object ID, Wendingen person ID, Oricon News ID, JMRC person id (en), Rappels person ID, KCI journal ID, KCI publisher ID, BIORAB-Kaiserreich ID, BIORAB–WEIMAR ID, Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID, Göteborgsalliansen player ID, Fungal Names taxon ID, Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID, Brewver beer ID, Central Registration Number (Indonesian police), UEA catalogue ID, lit.link ID, kulturbase.no ID, KuLaDig-ID, Topplista artist ID, TV Drama Database program ID, Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID, Swedish National Archives ID, Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID, PeeringDB facility ID, Nişanyan Adlar ID, National Theatre in Prague performance ID, National Theatre in Prague artist ID, JVID performer ID, CICAP Encyclopedia ID, MJ character glyph name, member of the Azorean parliament ID, Master Ideographs Seeker character ID, London Book Trades ID, Kloekecode, ID Prix de Lausanne, GDUNO ID, fotbolltransfers.com ID, Foot Résultats player ID, Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography ID, DBNL country ID, CROWCASS file number, European Dictionary Portal ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType)
- OpenType language system tag (identifier for a language (system) in OpenType)
- tattoos (anatomical location of a tattoo that this person or character have)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: organization in cooperation with ISO ID, EDAM Ontology ID, FISH Evidence Thesaurus Identifier, FISH Thesaurus of Monument Types ID, ScriptSource script ID, ScriptSource language code, Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Max username, BE-monumen ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- List of sitelinked small items to a single Wiki (source) - example wiki: Maori Wikipedia
- People who have herbarium specimens in Herbarium Dresdense (on a timeline) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Collectors affiliated with the Herbarium Dresdense (DR)
- WikiProject Highlights:
- LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/QuickStatements3 - don't forget to add yourself to the participants section if you plan to attend the 14.04 Zoom call.
- Temples in Roman Britain/Data Model subpage was added.
- Library and Information Science added subpages: Librarians dashboard, Indexers dashboard
- Newest database reports: Short Pages - A list of pages (mostly Items) that are very small, often appear completely blank. A review to judge whether they are suitable for deletion, victims of vandalism or require merging or expanding may be appropriate.
- Showcase Items: Baldur's gate II: Shadows of Amn - an isometric CRPG created with the Infinity engine, adapting the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition ruleset.
- Showcase Lexemes: spegnere (Italian verb) to turn off, switch off, extinguish.
Development
- The Wikibase Reuse Team is working on ensuring language fallback works on the GraphQL labels of linked entities functionality and improving the technical infrastructure behind wbsearchentities.
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: is working on introducing metrics that help observe the impact of Recent Change related work. Work continues on improving the Diff (T419244, 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
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: United Nations
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2026-16
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.
- 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.
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.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting later this week, Edit filter managers 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.
- 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. - 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).
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 7


Highlights
- Community Wishlist update: This monthly update covers how 44 wishes were fulfilled, 17 are in progress, and 15 more will start work soon. It includes completion of work on Watchlist labels, which allow users to add labels to items in their watchlist to help with managing and filtering; fixing a bug with preview page feature; indexing of Commons on Google & DuckDuckGo search; and a wish simplifying the insertion of maths formulas in articles. You can submit, vote on, and subscribe to wishes here.
- Goal setting for edit-a-thons: 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. This feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Join the Connection Learning Session on April 14 at 16:00 UTC to learn more about this feature and new ways to promote events and campaigns to editors.
- Collaboration with the United Nations: Learn how the Foundation engages with the United Nations to secure our collective voice and protect free knowledge.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

- Navigating articles on mobile: The Foundation is launching an experiment to test how to make it easier and more intuitive for readers to navigate through articles on mobile. To do this, we want to test Mobile Page Previews. This experiment will go live the week of April 20 and will run for four weeks.
- Editing tools for new editors: Tone Check was deployed on French, Japanese, and Portuguese Wikipedia as a default-on feature for editors who have published 100 or fewer edits locally. When promotional or subjective language is added, users are prompted to consider "neutralizing" the tone of the edit.
- Managing watchlist labels: The new watchlist labels feature 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.
- Latest experiments: See all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments in Product & Technology. A new experiment that just went live is one which aims to establish a baseline retention rate for logged-in readers.
- Latest Wikifunctions: Check out the partial list of the 102 new functions created last week – likely the first week we have exceeded 100.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 14 and 15 include an ongoing A/B test running on 10 Wikipedias to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. See also the 68 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
- Community discussions on Semantic Search: The Wikimedia Foundation, in collaboration with the CEE Hub, hosted a discussion session on Semantic Search for members of the CEE Youth Group.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Don't Blink!: This month's highlights from the Global Advocacy team include how the Wikimedia Foundation co-presented alongside the Internet Archive at the State of the Net conference.
- Digital rights and inclusion: Take a look at the sessions that Wikimedians and allied partners will lead during Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) 2026.
- Manuscript preservation: The Wikimedia Foundation supported volunteer-lead workshops to write Balinese Wikipedia articles about palm-leaf manuscripts (lontar) from the Leiden University Library collection.
- Youth content creators: Wikimedia Indonesia, together with the Wikimedia Foundation, delivered an introductory session on Wikipedia for young content creators representing all 11 ASEAN member states.
- Legal and Safety Contacts: The Wikimedia Foundation has created a single "Legal and Safety Contacts" page, to be linked in the footer of each wiki page. This will ensure that everyone has access to accurate and up to date Legal contact information. Insertion of the new links on different wikis will be done in stages, based on assessment of legal risk and necessity.
- Building shared principals for the internet as a public good: The Global Advocacy team published a blog with the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) summarizing a workshop that brought together digital rights advocates from Latin America to dream of a "digital utopia."
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Wikidata API: Wikidata’s structured knowledge is now available through Wikimedia Enterprise.
- Annual Planning and global trends: Join the America APP call on April 21 at 18:00 UTC. This meeting is an opportunity for the Latin American community to ensure that the region's voice helps shape the Wikimedia Foundation's work and priorities for the next fiscal year. The call will be in Spanish with interpretation into Portuguese and English. The last meeting between Wikimedia EDs and Foundation staff was dedicated to discuss global trends too. More discussions are happening on-wiki and in community spaces around different regions and projects.
- Futures Lab: The world is changing around us. As the Wikimedia movement navigates this moment over a hundred Wikimedians from different Wikimedia projects came together to deepen our understanding of how these trends are impacting our people and projects at the Wikimedia Futures Lab.
- Fundraising Hub: The Wikimedia Foundation has launched Fundraising Hub on English Wikipedia. The first discussion you can participate in is about distributing fundraising banner on English Wikipedia throughout the year.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Ombuds Commission: Announcement of the 2026 Ombuds Commission, the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the Privacy Policy, the Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy, the CheckUser Policy and the Oversight Policy.
- Wikinews closure: All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on May 4. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.
Other Movement-curated newsletters & news
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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #244 is out: Milestones; Some major issues hopefully resolved
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we celebrate 4000 functions on Wikifunctions and 1000 abstract articles on Abstract Wikipedia, we announce that we should have fixed some major issues with the websites, we inform you on our latest outreach activities, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:22, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-17
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
- After two years of development, ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽, also known as CodeMirror 6, is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other benefits to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer Bhsd who developed many of the new features, including code folding, autocompletion, and linting.
- A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design. Download the latest version and explore the update.
Updates for editors
- Reading lists is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias.
- An experiment which explores extending Page Previews to mobile web will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps. Read more about this experiment and others.
- On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't confirmed their email addresses can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it. Learn more.
View all 15 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- As part of the promotion of CodeMirror from a beta feature, all users will use CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages.
- The
mirrors.wikimedia.orgservice for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute. You can read more. - The
imageandoldimagetable will be removed from wikireplicas. If your tools or queries accessimageoroldimagedirectly, please update them to use thefileandfilerevisiontable before 28 May. - Following the recent implementation of global API rate limits on unidentified traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue efforts to ensure fair use of infrastructure by applying global limits to identified API traffic beginning the last week of April. 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 and Frequently Asked Questions.
- The Attribution API is now available as a beta. The API fetches information for crediting Wikimedia articles and media files wherever they are used. Reference documentation is available through the REST Sandbox special page available on all Wikimedia wikis (such as the REST sandbox on English Wikipedia). Share your feedback on the project talk page.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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Wikidata weekly summary #728

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
- Upcoming events:
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #88 May 11 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
- Wikidata turns 14 this October, and it’s time to start thinking about birthday celebrations🥳. See the various ways in which you can participate.
- Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida and requires registration (see link).
- University of Central Illinois - How does data power Wikipedia and Wikidata? Discover how your data skills can make an impact. Join the two onsite sessions (April 21, follow the link for registration details). Module 1 - GLAM Wiki and the Wikimedia Ecosystem: Commons and Structured Data: 0930 - 1130 CDT - An overview of GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). Module 2 - Wikidata: Editing, Querying, Citations and GIS Applications, 1300 - 1500 CDT
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Women in Photography – Wikidata Workshop with LightBox Photo Library - to address the underrepresentation of women photographers in the Wikimedia Projects, this workshop brought tech reporters, librarians, researchers and photography enthusiasts to understand how Wikidata can unlock data silos and connect different projects (in the Wikiverse and external) to make data on women photographers more searchable.
- Her Heritage Wiki Challenge: Art+Feminism in Ghana Month
- No Signal? No Problem: Building the Dagbanli Dictionary for Offline Use, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
- Papers: Optimising university web visibility: strategies using Wikidata identifiers and statements in Webometrics rankings By Backory et al., (2026), this study analyses Webometrics rankings of universities, applying clustering algorithms (K-means, hierarchical clustering, fuzzy C-means, GMM, and DBSCAN) to identify which identifiers and statements the top-ranked institutions have in common on their Wikidata entities.
- Videos:
- OKI Internship 2026 - Wikidata & Screening Test Preparation - Part of the Open Knowledge Initiative, hosted by Ankit V & Kasyap P.
- Charted Roots - Genealogy and worldbuilding in Obsidian - includes an example of linking to Wikidata to quickly add location data to your visualised family history.
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.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: ocremix.org game ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- especially (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, but applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
- independent of theory (theory that proves neither this proposition nor its negation)
- EPBC conservation status (the conservation status from the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 assigned by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water)
- part of discography (discography that this musical release is a part of)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Thai Government Agency GFMIS Code, Conlang Database ID, Plataforma Acácia, Observatório Terras Quilombolas, LMTA folkloro archyvo ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Rheinland-Pfalz, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID, Код Вестра, 19star performer ID, EM-DAT disaster number, ColBase ID, BIOSOP ID, BIOKAND ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Depthness of subway stations in meters (by Bouzinac)
- Newest database reports: Children of unborn parents, this list shows the child entity's birth date predates the parent entity's birth date: good candidates to check if the birth and relationship statements need correcting.
- Showcase Items: Haïlé Sélassié Ier - Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
- Showcase Lexemes: slide (L9704) - English noun (slaɪd) meaning "a photographic transparency", "a playground or gym apparatus", or "a mass movement of earth or snow"
Development
- The Wikibase Reuse team continued their work on ensuring language fallback works for labels of linked entities in GraphQL and on refactoring wbsearchentities
- The Wikidata team worked on explored how to reduce load for low data users T400325, fixed some bugs on the new mobile editing on Items T418110, T414454 and improved some error messages T417797, T412145
- In the WIT team, engineering continued working on the LilDiffCheck prototype
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: South Korea
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 21 April 2026
- News and notes: Six Serbian Wikipedia editors banned following controversy about political bias
Plus, new bans for AI-generated content in place, a new drop in active admins, pranks on pranks, May admin election, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- In the media: Could Wikipedia be involved in Massachusetts' proposed social media ban for minors?
Another regulate-the-internet attempt casts a wide net.
- Gallery: March equinox
The progression of seasons in March.
- Traffic report: Time to change my galaxy in case, we outta space!
What catches the reader's eye? Death and film, per usual, and a loop around the moon per unusual.
- Comix: Of skirts and articles
When significant coverage is only skin deep.
May 2026 Administrator Elections – Schedule

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- We plan to use the following schedule:
- April 29–May 5: Candidate sign-up
- May 8–May 12: Discussion phase
- May 13–May 19: SecurePoll voting phase
- If you have any questions, concerns, or thoughts before we get started, please ask at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
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