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Wikidata weekly summary 722

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
- Upcoming events:
- The 6th Wikidata Workshop has been announced for ISWC 2026. If you are interested in joining the wWorkshop for the scientific Wikidata community, contact: 6th-wikidata-workshop@googlegroups.com
- Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - April 22, 2026, 13:00 - 14:30, at the University of Central Florida.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Papers: Scholia 2026: Compliance with SPARQL 1.1, to be presented at SWAT4HCLS 2026
- Videos:
- (Swedish) Mix'n'Match IFKDB / Mix'n'Match DIF Historia - Magnus Sälgö
- (Spanish) Introducción a Wikidata, Dinah M. W.Fraites and Dr. Claudia De Souza give a comprehensive tour and introduciotn of Wikidata for the Centro para la Excelencia Académica
- Accessibility and Gen AI - Ep 15 w/ Denny Vrandečić (Head of Special Projects at Wikimedia Foundation) - a conversation about Abstract Wikipedia, the relationship between Wikimedia, Wikipedia and other Projects and how the Foundation will adopt and adapt to emergent technologies such as LLM's.
- Epigraphic Object Encoding - Session 7 of the SunoikisisDC Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage. Experiences encoding epigraphic data into Wikidata starts at 58:27.
- (Arabic) Arabic Wikidata Days 2025: Adding Wikidata to include Arabic Content (example: Hijri Calendar), Saeed Hubaishan presents a practical example of adapting Wikibase to enable adding new data types that haven't previously been modelled, such as dates in the Hijri Calendar.
- Wikimania 2025 - Unpopular Opinions: Bold Lightning Talks to Shake Up Wikimedia: Moving Categories to Wikidata ((Ad Huikeshoven)) / Introducing Wiki AI (Sam Klein)
- Unlocking Government Data for Wikidata: Stories, Impacts & Open Dialogue from Wikimania 2025. Panelists: Butch Bustria, James M. Heilman (Doc James), Jan Ainali, Vanj Padilla, Wisdom Ferrer, Seddon explore how the reuse of public domain & government datasets enriches Wikidata & bolsters public engagement with Wikimedia projects.Slides
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
- Wikidata now has a GraphQL API! Read more about it and try it out or sign up for the usability tests.
- The WMF is in the process of rolling out new global API rate limits. This will also affect Wikidata. For more details see mw:Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: ICAO 24-bit aircraft address, BISMaL taxon ID, Xcity actress ID, All Skies Encyclopaedia ID, Power Thesaurus ID, Kvinnehistorie.no persons ID, Mastercaller player ID, dartn.de player ID, darts1.de player ID, pdpa.co.uk player ID, People's Graphic Design Archive creator ID, HKCinema film ID, Medvik ID, Obálky knih ID, MusicaPopular.cl ID, CAMEO page ID, ciss.org sportsperson ID (deaf sport)
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- maximum vehicle length (maximum authorized length for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
- Peer-review propertiy for journals or publications ({{TranslateThis | de = <!-- Beschreibung auf Deutsch --> <!-- | xx = Beschreibungen in anderen Sprachen --> }}Scholarly journals or publications should have a property "peer review process" indicating which peer review process (if any) is applied for the publication.)
- maximum vehicle width (maximum authorized width for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
- maximum vehicle weight (maximum authorized weight (tonnage / gross vehicle weight) for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (load limit))
- regional conservation status (conservation status of species in national or regional Red List publications that follow the IUCN red list criteria)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: LINE official account ID, Kulturbase.no ID, CROWCASS file number, Integbio Database Catalog ID, norsk fangeregister historie ID, Census of Italian Architecture since 1945, TMDB award ID, SocioMap ID, AVefi ID, NSK new ID, Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Beer
- Showcase Items: Melbourne Airport (Q733738) - international airport serving Melbourne, Australia
- Showcase Lexemes: sampaa (L1154759) - Dagbanli noun that translates to a hut within a compound to provide shelter for people during the warm season.
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
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus: agencies for the environment and nature conservation.
- 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: 2026-11
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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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MediaWiki message delivery 18:51, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 10 March 2026
- Interview: Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO
Part 2.
- News and notes: Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki
Dormant worm awakes; a sketchy archiving site struck; ether burns.
- Special report: What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?
A horrifying exploit took place, which could have had catastrophic and far-reaching consequences if used maliciously; instead, it seems to have happened by accident and was used for childish vandalism. How did this happen, and what did the script actually do?
- In the media: Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware
As well as controversy over LLM translations.
- Recent research: To wiki, perchance to groki
Comparisons continue.
- Obituary: Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet
Rest in peace.
- Opinion: Interface administrators and trusting trust
Potential attacks are the logical consequence of giving a group of users unlimited control over JavaScript.
- Technology report: English Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content
After the archive site launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started, with consensus to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times.
- Op-ed: Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?
The answer is slop.
- Essay: The pursuit of a button click
Volunteering for Wikipedia has its rewards. The thank-button, for example.
- In focus: Short descriptions: One year later
A discussion of the challenge set forth to the Wikipedia community one year ago!
- WikiProject report: Unreferenced articles backlog drive
Unreferenced articles in English Wikipedia - help us in the backlog drive!
- Community view: Speaking of planning ...
The WMF planning process is underway.
- Traffic report: Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds
Death and the Winter Olympics.
- Crossword: "It will never happen"
Want to take a break?
- Comix: BRIEn't
Or is it.
Standalone articles for yearly golf majors
Please read the first bullet of WP:WHYN. Accordingly, (sourced) content relating to these tournaments needs to be added to justify standalone articles. Otherwise, the redirects should be restored until such content can be written (all the information presently in these articles is available in the parent articles). Regards. wjematherplease leave a message... 14:57, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
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Your draft article, Draft:Enzo Paci

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I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hi Thriley. Thank you for your work on Martyn Butler. Another editor, Mariamnei, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:
Thank you for your work on this article. Please fix the bare URLs and establish notability as per WP:BIO. Thanks and have a great day!
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Books & Bytes – Issue 73
Issue 73, January–February 2026
- Four new partnerships
- User survey thanks
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Miss Nelson is Missing has been published
Miss Nelson is Missing, which you started as a draft, has been published after I expanded it a bit. Perhaps the Netflix film version should have its own article once it is released. DowntownUgarit (talk) 19:47, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: February 2026
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Thank you for your work on this article. Please add more sources and establish notability as per WP:BIO. Please also fix the bare URL. Thanks and have a wonderful day!
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DYK for John H. Beyer
On 14 March 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John H. Beyer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that John H. Beyer co-founded an architectural firm in 1968 that opposed large-scale urban redevelopment, inspired partly by the book The Death and Life of Great American Cities? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John H. Beyer. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, John H. Beyer), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.
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DYK for Annie Stainer
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Nomination of Kim Vo for deletion
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kim Vo until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.BhikhariInformer (talk) 05:56, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #723

week leading up to 2026-03-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #722.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- The African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) project - The ALMEDA project’s key outcome is a linked, open, and searchable metadata repository—built from extensive cataloguing of previously uncatalogued materials and enriched through a user-friendly interface launching in 2025, designed to support ongoing growth beyond the project’s initial five-year funding.
- https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/13/structuring-dagbanli-on-wikidata-lexemes-senses-and-the-digraph-challenge/
- Papers: Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy - This study develops a refined taxonomy of Wikidata qualifiers—based on their semantics, frequency, and diversity—to help contributors select appropriate qualifiers, improve querying and inference, and enhance knowledge graph design, ultimately offering a structured framework that covers the most important qualifiers and supports better recommendation systems. By Falquet & Aljalbout (2026).
- Videos: LIVE Wikidata editing #118 at the Open Data Day - Wikipedia Weekly Network:
- Introduction to editing Wikidata on mobile - Art + Feminism in Wikimedia Botswana
- Queer women in the Arts (English): A panel discussion and Wikidata workshop
- Podcasts: Wikipediapodden interviews Lydia Pintscher about the ongoing Wikidata notability reform (also available on Commons)
- Notebooks: Who gets a biography on French-language Wikipedia? A country-by-country portrait of biographical coverage for people born between 1950 and 2000.
Tool of the week
- Wdquery : GraphQL-powered Wikidata item advanced search.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- https://casier-politique.fr
- Fornland—aggregates over a million cultural heritage sites from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland into one interface, combining Wikidata and other sources .
- m:Coolest Tool Award
- The WMF Wikidata Platform team has published its March 2026 newsletter. To have new issues of the WDP monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!
- Reminder that the 4 week grace period for switching to the v1 route for the Wikibase REST API search endpoints will end this week. The v0 route will be turned off and hence will no longer function.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- river regime (predominant pattern of annual changes to a stream's discharge at a particular period)
- seat occupied (seat held by a person within an academy or other society)
- Newest External identifiers: Génération Nintendo publisher ID, KCI article ID, LINCS ID, radeberger-stadtgeschichte.de Object Identificator, Flohic ID, Vlaams Woordenboek ID, Bach digital person ID, Bach digital work ID, Identificativo Antenati, Liiga.fi player ID, Pesistulokset.fi player ID, Letterboxd producer ID, Fragplace brands ID, Fragplace fragrances ID, Fragplace notes ID, Fragplace perfumers ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- population pyramid (Age pyramid image for demography articles)
- StatsF1 ID (Link to a Formula 1 specific database)
- maximum vehicle height (maximum authorized height for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (regulatory limit from signage))
- Bibliografi.dk (Bibliografi.dk)
- PeerTube instance URL (the PeerTube instance of/about the subject)
- Central Registration Number (Indonesia) (primary service registration number assigned to a member of the Indonesian Armed Forces or Indonesian National Police)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Digital Public Good, LUBW-RIPS-Wasserkraftanlage-ID, Identifiant QueenBallers.com d'une joueuse, Foto Atlas taxonomy ID, Brewver beer ID, Göteborgsalliansen, Consumer Rights Wiki article ID, Royal Air Force service number, Identifiant d'une personne dans le Bianco, Tajik-Russian Dictionary word ID, AmericanAristocracy person ID, AmericanAristocracy house ID, Shinmei database ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Showcase Items: Patrice Lumumba (Q161672) - Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)
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
- 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: Bangladesh
- 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!
ITN recognition for Victoria MacKenzie-Childs
On 16 March 2026, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Victoria MacKenzie-Childs, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Amakuru (talk) 18:26, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-12
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 Improved Syntax Highlighting 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.
- 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.
- On wikis using Flagged Revisions, the number of pending changes shown on Special:PendingChanges 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.
- 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'.
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.
Updates for technical contributors
- A new special page, Special: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: Special:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color.
- Users of the Improved Syntax Highlighting 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.
- The CodeMirror JavaScript modules will soon be upgraded to CodeMirror 6. Leading up to the upgrade, loading the
ext.CodeMirrororext.CodeMirror.libmodules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of theext.CodeMirror.switchhook 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. - 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., Special: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.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The 2026 Coolest Tool Award celebrating outstanding community tools, is now open for nominations! Nominate your favorite tool using the nomination survey form by 23 March 2026. For more information on privacy and data handling, please see the survey privacy statement.
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:34, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
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Nomination of Disappearance of James Gracey for deletion
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Concerns regarding notability and orphan status of Peachy Keenan
I noticed this article has remained an orphan stub since its creation and currently lacks the depth of independent, secondary sourcing required by WP:GNG or WP:AUTHOR. While the subject has a 2023 book release, the coverage appears to be largely routine or from partisan outlets. Before I take this to AfD, are there any major mainstream profiles or critical reviews (New York Times, Atlantic, etc.) that could be added to justify keeping this? Otherwise, it feels like it doesn't meet the bar for the mainspace. Mergle (talk) 23:49, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
- I think the four sources listed in the article that aren't book reviews from conservative publications establish that she is a prominent member of the "right-wing natalist" movement. This Washington Post article does some analysis: . I make a lot of biographic articles and have a solid understanding of notability. The Post article and the other three plus the book reviews demonstrate notability to me. It just needs to be expanded beyond the stub that it is, but I don't really have an interest in this subject matter right now. Thriley (talk) 03:28, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Peachy Keenan

The article Peachy Keenan has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Subject is a non-notable cultural commentator. Fails WP:GNG and WP:AUTHOR as sources are primarily routine book mentions or partisan interviews. Article is an orphan with zero biographical depth.
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Alessandro Cortese de Bosis
Thanks for your contributions to Alessandro Cortese de Bosis. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and these sources should be compatible with the requirements of WP:GNG and WP:SIGCOV(national level, secondary, reliable). I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while. Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Boynamedsue (talk) 17:55, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Spring music
on Bach's birthday, a story about my joy -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:34, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Agape Community

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Wikidata weekly summary #724

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
- Blogs:
- Structuring Dagbanli on Wikidata: Lexemes, Senses, and the Digraph Challenge by Masssly and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
- Open Knowledge Graphs: A Search Engine for Ontologies, Controlled Vocabularies, and Semantic Web Tools, by Steve Hedden
- (German) Erinnerungskultur zum Mitmachen: eine digitale Landkarte zum Gestapoterror in Niedersachsen by Gabriele Fahrenkrog
- Papers: Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy presents an analysis of Wikidata qualifiers, focusing on semantics and usage, in order to develop a taxonomy to help in selecting appropriate qualifiers, querying the knowledge graph, and making logical inferences. By Gilles Falquet and Sahar Aljalbout (2026).
- Videos:
- Creating a Wikidata item for a Historic Building - OpenStreetMap for History Buffs gives a practical example of creating a Wikidata Item for a historic Irish building, but you can adapt it for other historical or archeological sites.
- Introduction to Wikidata (Creating items, Statements & References) - Africa Wiki Women continue their introductory series with trainer, Blessing Timothy.
- (French) Introduction à Wikidata is also provided by Africa Wiki Women.
- Simple steps to edit Wikidata Episode 1(WAMP) - User:Dsp13 of the Wiki Afrodemics Project covers a variety of topics to help new editors make meaningful contributions to Wikidata.
- (French) Introduction à la modification de Wikidata sur mobile - Art+Feminism in partnership with WM Botswana provide a training session for mobile editing (with a focus on women artists, feminist movements and underrepresented cultural contributions).
- Queer Women in the Arts: Art+Feminism teamed up with WikiLGBT+ (Event page) for a panel discussion and Wikidata training centering on Queer Women in the Arts, in honour of International Women's Day. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
- Wikidata tools: Pet Scan - User:Epìdosis introduces this handy tool that allows you to query and generate lists of Wikipedia pages or Wikidata items based on defined criteria such as Categories, Properties, Templates, and others.
- Introduction to Wikidata & Property Dashboard - Essential Wikidata Tools: Automating Your Workflow workshop given 13 March 2026. Hosted by Alan Ang, Camillo Pellizari, Pru Mitchell, and Taufik Rosman for the ESEAP community.
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
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- mass number (total number of baryons in an atomic nucleus)
- soil acidity preference (soil acidity preference of a plant species or lichen)
- Diepkloof (Place in Johannesburg, South Africa)
- paid-up capital (portion of a company’s issued share capital that has been paid by shareholders)
- New External identifier property proposals to review:: Shinmei database ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Baden-Württemberg, Central Registration Number (Police), NIP 9-digit, MeetStadium ID, indexxx.com performer ID, BGAFD actress ID, Shellers From the Past ID, معرف منشور في قاعدة بيانات معرفة, London Book Trades ID, KCI journal ID, KCI publisher ID, PeerJ person ID, BIORAB–FRANKFURT ID, BIORAB–WEIMAR, BIORAB-KAISERREICH, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID, Wikiparfum perfumer ID
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
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2026-13
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- WMDE Technical Wishes is considering improvements to automatically generated reference names in VisualEditor. Please check out the proposed solutions and participate in the request for comment.
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Your draft article, Draft:Aaron Renn

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Your draft article, Draft:Martha Stewart Living (TV series)

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ITN recognition for Nicholas Brendon
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Your draft article, Draft:Joe O'Donnell

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Your draft article, Draft:Charles Renfro

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ITN recognition for Tracy Kidder
On 26 March 2026, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tracy Kidder, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Left guide (talk) 08:35, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
DYK for Laurie Triefeldt
On 26 March 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Laurie Triefeldt, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Laurie Triefeldt taught herself to use a computer program to create World of Wonder to fill the gap between text and illustration? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Laurie Triefeldt. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Laurie Triefeldt), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.
Proposed deletion of Michael Forsythe

The article Michael Forsythe has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Does not meet WP:BIO and found little reliable secondary sources showing notability of the person.
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If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Squirist (talk) 18:22, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- I deprodded the article. A google search quickly finds enough book reviews for his two books to meet WP:NAUTHOR, even without going to the WP:Library. One of his books already had an article linking to reviews for that book. Even if he wasn't personally notable, the article wouldn't be appropriate for deletion, but for redirection to the book article. However, he has a second book as well with multiple reviews. Jahaza (talk) 19:26, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
Question from Ari 1600 (14:38, 28 March 2026)
weather
I like weather and geography thr most Ari 1600 (talk) 18:43, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
- Those are two fascinating subject areas. I recommend you introduce yourself on the talk pages of WikiProject Geography and WikiProject Weather. Explain what specifically you are interested in and hopefully some editors in those subject areas can show you some articles where help is needed. Best, Thriley (talk) 18:47, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
Concern regarding Draft:Personal and The Pizzas
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Hi there! I had a question about how talk pages are used to suggest edits. I have a part of an article that looks irrelevant or opinionated, and I would like to make the case to delete it. Would I write a message on the talk page? Or would there be another way to ask for feedback? --Snailofsorts (talk) 20:33, 29 March 2026 (UTC)
Question from Javaidiqbal274 (10:22, 30 March 2026)
"Hi, I have created a draft article in my sandbox on English Wikipedia. Could you please review it and let me know if any improvements are needed before I submit it for publication? Thank you!" --Javaidiqbal274 (talk) 10:22, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
Question from Javaidiqbal274 (10:23, 30 March 2026)
"Hi Thriley, thank you for being my mentor. I have recently created a draft in my sandbox on English Wikipedia. Since you mentioned your interest in getting new articles into mainspace, could you please take a look at my draft and guide me on what improvements are needed to make it ready for publication? Looking forward to your advice!" --Javaidiqbal274 (talk) 10:24, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #725

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
- Blogs:
- Papers:
- Did AI Crawlers Kill SPARQL Federation?, including Wikidata examples
- Gender and intersectional bias in featured biographies on the front page of the Italian edition of Wikipedia, 2014–2024 Open Access - Wikidata featured heavily in the design and methodology. By Rovira et al., (2026).
- Videos:
- Adding architectural data to a Wikidata item for a Historic Building from OpenStreetMap for History Buffs.
- Live Wikidata Editing #119 - Ainali and Abbe98 are back to edit Wikidata and explain their thinking along the way.
- (Spanish) Wikidata and the public domain - Tools for bulk editing in Wikidata: Mix n Match and QuickStatements, last class of a 9-part series provided by Jorge Gemetto.
- (German) Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen, day 2, digital/local collection loves wiki.
- (German) Von OpenStreetMap zu semantisch vernetzten Wissensgraphen FOSSGIS 2026 Conference.
- Using Wikibase as an Integration Platform with Matthew Ong. Originally given at the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin, 19 November 2024.
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
- Newest General datatypes:
- Digital Public Good ID (identifier of a digital public good in the Digital Public Goods Registry)
- apportionment diagram (image that displays the representation of seats won by party in an election to an assembly)
- peer-review process for scholarly journals or publications (''(without English description)'')
- Newest External identifiers: X Games athlete ID (new), AIK soccer player ID, Uitleenwoordenbank ID, abadis.ir word ID, AmericanAristocracy house ID, AmericanAristocracy person ID, British Newspaper Archive publication ID, Buitenlandse aardrijkskundige namen in het Nederlands ID, Landskrona BoIS player ID, Library of the University of Santiago de Compostela authority ID, DBNL place ID, Faulhaber edition ID, Foto Atlas taxonomy ID, Integbio Database Catalog ID, KCUE academy ID, LibriVox reader ID, Manga-DB person ID, Manga-DB magazine ID, Manga-DB publisher ID, Digital Public Goods Registry, NSK ID, Tribuna.com football players ID, Sport Express person ID, Open Food Facts brand ID, RITVA company ID, OldRacingCars.com drivers ID, Spellingwijzer Onze Taal ID, EpiMedDat ID, Pinkhof ID, Scheikunde ID, Movist person ID, ISSN-H, Names, Persons, and Groups of People of the Middle Ages ID, Parlement.com object ID, wikiru.jp wiki ID, BGAFD actress ID, IFK Norrköping player, LINE official account ID, Norwegian war prisoner histories ID, indexxx.com performer ID, SetesdalWiki ID, Shellers From the Past ID, SocioMap ID, Publication ID in e-Marefa database
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- civil service position level (classification level of a civilian public service position within a government administrative hierarchy)
- Usenet newsgroup (Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
- predicted winning party (the party predicted to win an election, according to some source)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Numen ID, member of the Azorean assembly ID, identifiant Rappels d'une personne, Identifiant dans la base de noms France Archives, Anarâš aavis topic ID, Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID, MangaBaka manga ID, JVID performer ID, PlayStation Trophies achievement ID, BERON lexeme ID
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Did you know?
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Hogback - Hogbacks are a type of gravestone marker used in 10th - 12th Century Northern England.
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Newest database reports: Humans with the same date of birth year (P569) and date of death year (P570).
- Showcase Items: Australia (Q275180) - 2008 film by Baz Luhrmann
- Showcase Lexemes: viɛla - Dagbanli adjective (of quality that is pleasing to human senses).
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
- 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: Mongolia
- 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: 2026-14
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.
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.
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The Signpost: 31 March 2026
- News and notes: Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down
All languages to be shut down in May; first AI agent blocked; new name for AfD?
- In the media: AI ban, newspapers disrupt archiving; and antisemitism complaints
Perennial challenges with AI, demographic representation, and attacks from people buying media influence.
- Community view: Videos from WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC
In attendees' own words.
- Disinformation report: Cleaning up after Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Nygard, and Mohamed Al-Fayed
Countering the edits of the rich and dangerous.
- WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC review
About the conference series, and this conference particularly.
- Obituary: Dr. Subas Chandra Rout
Rest in peace.
- Traffic report: Call in the dogs of war, soldier of fortune
Though of course the picture needs to be Chuck Norris...
- Gallery: Canadian Rangers participate in Operation Enduring Encyclopedia
Analogies between how Wikipedia works and how Canada works.
- Comix: n00bsitting
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These all seem to be fairly brief mentions of the firm describing their role in the lawsuits against Meta. Bergman may be notable, but need more than just the profile in Time. I think this should be returned to draft for now.
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- I'll add more material. I think it passes based on the media, including the documentary film that featured the center's work. Thriley (talk) 01:29, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- What's the documentary? voorts (talk/contributions) 01:31, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- Do you think it passes NCORP based on the presently cited sources? voorts (talk/contributions) 01:32, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- This documentary Can't Look Away: The Case Against Social Media. Thriley (talk) 01:35, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- While I think Bergman meets notability, I thought the center does as well based on the coverage. Better to have an article about the center which includes Bergman's work plus others. Thriley (talk) 01:37, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- I disagree that the firm is notable based on the current sourcing. There aren't any WP:SIRS. A documentary featuring the firm is definitionally not independent of the firm. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:38, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- I've made many articles but I don't think I've written one about a law firm. The Center's role in K.G.M. v. Meta et al. suggests to me that it is notable. I could easily shift the citations to an article about Bergman, but that feels like I'm ignoring the actual major entity here. Thriley (talk) 01:45, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- Law firms are businesses. That means they need to meet WP:NCORP. This firm's role in K.G.M. isn't relevant to its notability. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:47, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- Please feel free to move it to draft and I'll expand there. Thriley (talk) 01:47, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- Moved to draft. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:48, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- I've made many articles but I don't think I've written one about a law firm. The Center's role in K.G.M. v. Meta et al. suggests to me that it is notable. I could easily shift the citations to an article about Bergman, but that feels like I'm ignoring the actual major entity here. Thriley (talk) 01:45, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- I disagree that the firm is notable based on the current sourcing. There aren't any WP:SIRS. A documentary featuring the firm is definitionally not independent of the firm. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:38, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
This Month in Education: March 2026
This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 3 • March 2026
- Advancing 21st-Century Education: Proposal to Establish the Yorùbá Wikipedia Fan Club at Arolu College of Education, Ilemona
- Awareness Programme on Language and Culture Protection by KWUG
- Teachers from Various Institutions in Rio de Janeiro Explore Wikipedia as a Means of Preserving Memory and Checking Sources
- Edu Wiki Nigeria Co-Founder Facilitates Textbook Donation to AHAJAS Integrated School, Gombe
- Inside Wikimedia Ukraine's education program
- Karavali Wikimedians at Mangaluru Design Summit 2026
- One School, One Article Campaign Wrap Up
- Seeds of Knowledge: A Wiki Project that Sparked a Community at ADUN
- Student workshops at Serbian Universities: enriching Wikipedia with topics on culture and technology
- The Open Knowledge Alliance: Wikimedia and Libraries
- Wikimedia CR published updated guide for beginners
- Wikimedia goes back to the classroom in Brazil
- Workshop on Feminism and Folklore 2026 by Wiki Club SATI
- “Wikimedia MKD in Action: Teacher Conferences and Education Activities
- Wikipedia & Libraries: Building New Contributors
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Tech News: 2026-15
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.
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.
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.
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.
- 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. - The Special:NamespaceInfo page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia.
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Wikidata weekly summary #726

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
- 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.
- Blazegraph Migration Office Hours: Blazegraph migeration office hours April edition is today, 7th January, . These sessions focus exclusively on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). See the office hour page for details and future sessions.
- digiS Workshop: Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung - 20 April 2026, 10.00 CEST (08:00 UTC), this online workshop (held in German) will practice Wikidata skills across SPARQL, OpenRefine and QuickStatements with a focus on using Wikidata for GLAM Institutions. To register, visit the link.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Wikidata graphs for data visualisation of endangered horse breeds in Wikipedia By Tsaag Valren
- Does country of birth have an effect on the probability to have a biography in French-language Wikipedia? (Le pays de naissance a-t-il un effet sur les chances d'avoir une biographie sur Wikipédia ?), published in RAW-Regards sur l'actualité de Wikimedia in Wikipedia in French.
- (German) Wikidata ist ein teil von Wikimedia Enterprise - an update from Wikimedia Germany on Wikidata's inclusion with Wikimedia Enterprise.
- (German) How to edit nearby: Notizen für regionale Open GLAM-Labore und offene Daten by Jens Bemme.
- Building the Dagbanli Dictionary’s Audio Pipeline: OGG, iOS, and Transcoding, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
- Papers:
- OntoKG: Ontology-Oriented Knowledge Graph Construction with Intrinsic-Relational Routing by Li et al., (2026), includes a case study of cleaning and resolving entity labels and descriptions from a 100 million entity dump.
- ENEIDE: A High Quality Silver Standard Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Historical Italian by Santinia et al., (2026), the ENEIDE dataset links over 2000 historical documents to 8,000+ Wikidata entities.
- CADEL: A Corpus of Administrative Web Documents for Japanese Entity Linking by Higashiyama et al., (2026)
- Videos:
- Using content from Wikidata in your apps, lightning talk by Jan Ainali
- 2025: OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Collaboration: Taiwan Case
- 2025: The Ugandan Geo Quests: Mapping Libraries and Museums into the Knowledge Commons
- Using Wikidata for data enrichment in museums
- Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 1: What is Wikidata & Why Does It Matter?
- Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 2: Wikidata Building Blocks
- Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 3: Create an Account & Your First Edits
- Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 4: First Edits: Adding References
- Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 5: Creating a New Item
Tool of the week
- An AI chat interface to Wikidata by Santhosh Thottingal is a tool that gives answers to almost everything on Wikidata
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.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- regional conservation status (conservation status of species in national or regional Red List publications that follow the IUCN red list criteria)
- PeerTube instance URL (the PeerTube instance of/about the subject)
- Newest External identifiers: PeerJ person ID, RITVA corporate body ID, Royal Air Force service number, LUBW-RIPS hydroelectric power station-ID, Biorab-Frankfurt ID, Minfin company ID for banks, Wikiparfum perfumer ID, Cultural heritage ID in Baden-Württemberg, MangaBaka manga ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Wikimedia Commons content descriptor (Wikimedia Commons content descriptor which applies to this media file)
- energy density (amount of energy extractable from a substance (e.g. in a combustion engine) per unit of volume or of mass)
- main page URL (link to main page or item on website)
- Bayerische Naturdenkmal-ID (identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt)
- election result (map that displays the result of this election)
- meta-category for (topic or class of items covered by the lowest categories in this meta-category's hierarchy)
- Cast (Cast)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID, lit.link ID, WikiKids page ID, KuLaDig ID, Wikiparfum brand ID, Turkey district ID, Turkey province ID, OSDev, Giant Bomb Wiki ID, Myrotvorets ID, Fraktionsprotokolle.de-ID, KISTI article ID, Irish State Administration Database Unit ID, Hessische Parlamentarismusgeschichte Abgeordneten-ID, ocremix.org game ID, Tube8 ID, YourPorn ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Wikispecies pages linked to Wikidata items via a specific property (example given: Family Name (Q101352)) - (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Salon de Paris - a list of annual temporary exhibitions usually held in the Salon Carré of the Louvre Palace.
- Mesocosms - about modelling research infrastructure, processes and outcomes involving use of mesocosm (Q138857216) (experimental system to examine the natural environment under controlled conditions).
- Archive WikiProject for Wikimedia Indonesia February 2025 Datahon
- WikiProject Highlights: Govdirectory: Eswatini
- Newest database reports: Badged Items without Claims - this report lists items that have received a badge (such as Good / Featured Article) but have 0 statements.
- Showcase Items: Académie Julian (Q337480) - former art school in Paris, France
- Showcase Lexemes: kurugu (L724819) - Dagbanli noun that translate to English as metal, harem trousers, hour or coin.
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)
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: Eswatini
- 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!
Question from Jetpilot998855 (03:21, 8 April 2026)
hello how long does it take a page to get published? --Jetpilot998855 (talk) 03:21, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
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Question from Tristansky (18:47, 10 April 2026)
Hello, I made an edit on the Charles Follis page. His nickname was listed as “Charles the speedy” but he’s definitely known much better as “the black cyclone” and I had never even heard the speedy one so I found a few sources and chose the best one to be able to change it. Can you look at the edit for me and see if I did it right if you get a chance? --Tristansky (talk) 18:47, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
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ITN recognition for Pearl Fryar
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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 Improved Syntax Highlighting 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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Question from Glamournerd (19:56, 13 April 2026)
Hey, so I'm hoping to create some pages for under-represented women in science and medicine. I'm just going to get started with a new one now but I'm sure I'll have lots of questions very soon! --Glamournerd (talk) 19:56, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
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Question from Star1609 (10:12, 14 April 2026)
what is happenning --Star1609 (talk) 10:12, 14 April 2026 (UTC)



