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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-23
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Umuganda is a national holiday in Rwanda taking place on the last Saturday of every month for mandatory nationwide community service from 08:00 to 11:00. Participation in Umuganda is required by law; failure to participate can result in a fine.
The program was most recently re-established under President Paul Kagame in 2009, having resulted in a notable improvement in the cleanliness of Rwanda. Also, there are other informal Umuganda day activities that occur in the middle of the month. These activities are initiated by either society or the government.
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Wikidata weekly summary #734

week leading up to 2026-06-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #733.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 13 - Task/s:
- Per Project Chat, replace "estauxunidense" in Asturian descriptions with "d'Estaos Xuníos". Example manual edits here and here.
- Also adds a default label, per d:Help:Default values for labels and aliases#When should I use default values for labels and aliases? and remove redundant labels in the simplest cases.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Temporaer Haus: OpenDataMonday, today, 1 June, 19:30 - 22:00 CEST, Augsburger Str. 23-25, 89231 Neu-Ulm.
- WikiKult Netzwerktreffen 2026: “Wikidata in Kulturerbeinstitutionen”, 11-12th June, Wikimedia Deutschland. German-speaking event for people working with Wikidata in the cultural heritage sector. Open to experienced contributors and newcomers alike.
- Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey, 11 June 17:00 - 18:00 CEST, online (English with German translation) – Keynote by Jason Evans.
- (Deutsch) Workshop // Wikibases, Knowledge Graphs und Wikidata, Tue 14 July, 10:00 - 13:00 CEST. Participation is for project members, Zentral Institut staff, and interested guests, on-site at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte. See link for registration details.
- Doing Migration History with Digital Methods: Beyond a Database - Wikibase as Research Infrastructure for Migration Prosopography Summer University at the German Historical Institute Paris, 8, rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris, 23 June 16:00 CEST.
- WikiProjects Days 2026 - preparing the Program - watch this space next week for the first edition of the Event Program or register to be notified of updates.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Behind the QIDs by User:Niryhpr
- Improving the interconnection between Wikidata and the CERL Thesaurus by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, also presented (in Italian) in Videos.
- Digitally mapping the Philippines’ historical markers by Eugene Alvin Villar.
- Papers:
- A data-driven analysis of automotive model evolution and technological lineage using Wikidata and Python network visualization by P. Trunova (2026).
- (Italiano) De Catulo a Wikidata by Nusch et al. (2026).
- Videos:
- Adding lifting stones to Wikidata - OSM for History Buffs
- (O'zbekcha) Participate in the Interlingual Relations Marathon and win! - Oʻzbekcha Vikipediyadagi (ukwiki) has over 12,000 articles missing a sitelink...time to change that.
- (Italiano) Wikidata and Library Catalogs: Building and Enabling a Digital Resources Network by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
- Presentations:
- De Wikidata à Wikipédia abstraite : promesses et illusions du savoir structuré (From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: Promises and Illusions of Structured Knowledge), Presentation by Jsamwrites, May 26, 2026, Wikicafé May Edition, organized by DMontagne en résidence. (video)
- DARIAH-EU WG DHwiki - A first year of activity by D. Lindemann and G. Candela (2026).
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Recent Changes API: This API lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- On 31 May, item Q140000000 ("Maxx", about a cinema in Delmenhorst, Germany) was created.
- Feedback wanted: To support improving Wikidata integration on the Programs & Events Dashboard, the EduWiki Hub invites Wikidata organizers, trainers, and contributors to share suggestions on metrics, tracking features, and workflows you would like to see in the dashboard. In addition, try out the new Advanced Search share your thoughts on the Dashboard talk page. (full announcement)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- found liable for (tort or civil wrong a person or organization was found liable of)
- PCBS Locality code (Locality Code of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics)
- Newest External identifiers: AV CHANNEL actress ID, AWA artist ID, CUE/Anexo, Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number, Catholic Encyclopedia Wikitólica ID, European System of Accounts ID (Germany), OpenEdition Publisher ID, Mineral Resources Data System deposit ID, Natalie ID, Oireachtas bill ID, Rakuten Music artist ID, recochoku artist ID, Adult Film Database film series ID, Adult Film Database studio ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- category's topic is member of the class (qualifier for use with {{p|14387}} and {{P|4224}} to describe certain sets of categories)
- applicable Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: School ID of the Department of Education, Philippines, Beeld en Geluid series identifier, DAM artist ID, DAM song ID, Joysound artist ID, Joysound song ID, K-MIB performer ID, DUGA actress ID, Chilean Museums Registry ID, Sokmil actress ID, Filmmakers Person ID, Model Mayhem ID, OCHA Place Code, Sri Lanka NGO Secretariat Registration Number, Sri Lanka Company Registration Number, AV CHANNEL director ID, DUGA director ID, AllMyLinks ID, AV CHANNEL maker ID, thegamerdex.com game ID, MyDirtyHobby ID, Fontaines de Belgique ID, Wikiparfum fragrance ID, Canadian Trademark Registration Number, DMM director ID, Pantheon.World ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
- Newest WikiProjects: Project Sri Lanka for editors who would like to focus on adding materials for Sri Lanka (Q854).
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Project Govdirectory added Cape Verde subpage
- Project P244 maintenance progress - a manually-updated progress tracker, is there a way to automate it?
- Newest database reports: Identified duplicates - this list shows items that most likely need merging but cannot due to conflicting sitelinks.
- Showcase Items: Q140000000: Wikidata's 140 Millionth Item
Development
- Mobile editing of statements:
- We fixed how we handle statements with deleted Properties (phab:T402619)
- We improved the behaviour when using the browser's back button (phab:T414454)
- We continued working on improving the way error responses are shown (phab:T423613)
- We addressed issues found in testing
- Improving the visibility of WikiProjects: We added support for finding the associated WikiProject of an Item based on statements on the Item
- GraphQL:
- We are working on expanding the data available through search. Specifically we are including all Item data in search result nodes (phab:T427389) and extending the query by Item and Property value to return all Item data (phab:T416885)
- We are improving the documentation.
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: Nigeria
- 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!
This Month in Education: May 2026
This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 5 • May 2026
- Teaching innovation with Wikimedia. Shared experiences in Spanish Universities
- Editing Wikipedia with Viktor Hygo High School in Albania
- Debating free license in Brazil
- Microclimatic Explainers: A short-form media approach to build micro-level environmental awareness in India
- Ukraine publishes the first academic collection of papers on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects
- Wiki Digital Youth Club Launches in Tanzania: Youth Build Digital Skills Through Competitive Quest Challenges
- Wiki Youth Participation in Building Rwanda’s Open Knowledge Ecosystem
- Wikimedia Digi-Youth Club in Nigeria
- Wikimedia MKD's Education News & Activities
- Wikipedia Serbia's interns and Wiki Ambassadors provide crucial support towards end of the school year
Tech News: 2026-23
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Reader Experience team is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.
- The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.
View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-24
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Il Juryeonggu (주령구?, 酒令具?, JuryeongguLR, ChuryŏngguMR) è un dado a 14 facce, risalente al periodo del Silla unificato (668-935 d.C.), ritrovato nel 1975 dopo alcuni scavi occorsi presso il Donggung e lo stagno Wolji di Gyeongju, in Corea del Sud. Le facce del dado mostravano inscrizioni recanti varie penalità o sfide, legate ad un gioco di bevute, dimostrando l'importanza dell'alcool e la raffinatezza con cui la sua assunzione veniva celebrata.
L'artefatto originale è andato perduto, incendiato in un maldestro tentativo di preservazione: oggi ne esistono delle repliche, disponibili anche commercialmente.
(Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikidata weekly summary #735

week leading up to 2026-06-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #734.
Discussions
- RfC: Mass editing policy: The community is currently voting on a proposed policy to regulate mass edits on Wikidata. More input is needed to reach a broad consensus. Please review the proposal and join the discussion/vote on the RFC page.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- WikiProjects Days 2026 - see the first version of the program! The online event takes place during the weekend of June 19 - 21. Register for updates and access links.
- Mezi bajty 0 - meetup of the Czech Wikidata community in Prague and online, 10th June 17:00 - 19:00 CEST (in Czech, Slovak, English)
- GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei) SPARQL Workshop|, 17th July 17:00 - 19:30 CEST (in German) - workshop from the German National Library on use of their SPARQL-endpoint for the GND (Gemeinsamer Normdatei) national authority file for wikidata users and wikipedians.
- (Deutsch) Workshop: Make Research Software Findable using the Software Marketplace Wikidata - August 18, 14:00 – 16:00 Uhr (CEST), Zoom-link on registration.
- Blazegraph Migration Office Hour (June session) will take place on Tuesday, 9 June 2026 (Tomorrow) at 16:00 UTC. This office hour is focused on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of WDQS. Whether you have questions, need clarification, or want to discuss how your use case may be affected. You can register for the session via the event page. In preparation, add questions, feedback, or migration-related support needs to this etherpad.
- Ongoing: Wiki Loves Pride 2026 (Meta) is ongoing and now has a dedicated Wikidata subpage: Event: Wiki Loves Pride 2026.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- (日本語/Japanese) [Practice drill: SPARQL basics to make and learn - Let's master Wikidata Query Service by Shoku_pan_65. Page offers AI translations.
- Behind the <P812: academic major> Property by rtnf.
- Adding Visual Context to the Dagbanli Dictionary: How the University of Ghana HCI Lab Dataset Powered our Sentence Matching System. Diff post by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan.
- Papers:
- Volume 16, Issue 5 of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out! - includes 7 papers on Wikidata topics.
- Rosetta Statements: simplifying FAIR knowledge graph construction with a user-centred approach - Vogt et al., (2026)
- (Русский/Russian) Automated Analysis and Visualization of Geographic Data on Global Volcanoes Based on the Wikidata Semantic Graph - by Мария Паландер (2026).
- Speaker Mining: FAIR Data on Public Broadcasts for Question Answering by Wittenborg et al., (2026)
- Videos:
- (Español) Wikidata for Climate Change, Wikipedia for Sustainable Futures by Daniel Canedo, a workshop on using Wikidata to record linked open data from extreme weather events.
- (Svenska) Merge Wikidata samma som by Magnus Sälgö. What to do when you find duplicate Wikidata Items pointing at the same location on OpenStreetMap.
- (Español) EntreWikis - Hacerwiki: Progress of Free Knowledge Projects in Colombia - Colombian Art in Open Data: training and infrastructure on Wikidata
- (Français) Wikidata for research and teaching by Pascal Martinolli. Introduces Wikidata basics, SPARQL, practical examples of data visualisation, enriching research data and exploring the opportunities and limitations of linked open personal data.
- (Français) Literature review: FAIR data sharing | FAIR Data Spring 2026 - Presentation slides, given by Adélie Ranville on their experiences organizing and sharing data using Zenodo, DOI, Zotero, Wikidata, and OpenRefine.
- (Deutsch) Building a shared knowledge infrastructure: a federated wikibase for video and podcasts hosted by Tim @BorgNetzWerk.
Tool of the week
- AutoSuggestSitelink: New features available. See the update post on Project Chat
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The WMF Wikidata pltaform team monthly newsletter (June edition) is out
- Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's occupation articles
- Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's articles about fields of knowledge
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes::
- trailer of (works that this trailer video represents)
- 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)
- Newest External identifiers: Joysound artist ID, Joysound song ID, DUGA performer ID, Sri Lanka Company Registration Number, Wikimedia Phabricator project PHID, Indonesian government work unit ID (satker ID), DAM artist ID, British Library catalogue ID, OCHA Place Code, Philippines School ID, Swedish-Danish Dictionary ID, Filmmakers actor ID, Chilean Museums Registry ID, Sri Lanka NGO Secretariat Registration Number, Beeld & Geluid series ID, INAPROC instance ID (Indonesia), DUGA director ID, AV CHANNEL maker ID, AV CHANNEL director ID, AllMyLinks ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- applicable Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
- IAU member ID (new) (ID of members in the [https://www.iau.org/IAU/Default.aspx International Astronomical Union (IAU)].)
- height above ground level (a property intended to indicate the height of any objects from the ground)
- Storm intensity classification (category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585))
- service status (the operational status of something like ship or building)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: PTS News Network topic ID, OTOTOY ID, identifiant EU sanctions tracker, OpenParlData ID, Catholica.cz ID, KSW person ID, KSW organization ID, KSW place ID, Myludo ID, Identifiant dans La Basa, PurplePort ID, Sokmil idol ID, Hancinema company ID, LinkMe ID, Netmath Glossary ID, Sokmil director ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Schema examples: Nazareth Padilla Montero (Q139959656) has been added as a showcase example of human (E10)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Project Civic Tech - for anyone developing datasets about civic resources in cities, and discuss best practices for Wikidata collaboration in civic tech.
- Project AI Cleanup - for reporting, monitoring and combatting edits and contributions from LLM and AI sources.
- Project: Whos who in marine taxonomy? - inititated by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), this project will document and enrich entities of the persons who have described marine species.
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Project LGBT added an Abstract Wikipedia subpage.
- Project Roads added a subpage for Greece National roads with highly-visual tables.
- Wiki x K-Pop datathon 2.0 - there is still some work to do to reach the goal on modelling the album: BABYMONSTER.
- Newest database reports: Deleted Wikidata entities that are connected to Commons files structured data (SDC)
- Showcase Lexemes: kafuni - Dagbanli noun that translate to "fan" in English
Development
- The team was involved in workshops last week so there are no updates.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
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: 2026-24
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 Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content.
Updates for editors
- The refreshed Explore Feed, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: Community and For You. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the For You tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.
- The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements.
- Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips, which may require updates to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the cite-tracking-category-ref-details tracking category as a hidden category using
__HIDDENCAT__(or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848. - The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.
- The user interface icon library will be updated later this week or next week. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.
- The Universal Language Selector (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page.
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The function signature for
mw.util.addPortletLink()has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of:mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page');usemw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses ofaddPortletLink()and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement. - Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

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

- A better way to give credit: The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.
- Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge: The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.
- Account security: The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.
- Incident reporting form: The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.
- Encouraging account creation: Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.
- Wikimedia Android App: The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: Community, featuring refreshed Explore content, and For You, with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The For You feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.
- Better discovery of images: The Image Browsing beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
- Reading Lists feature: The Foundation is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.

- Testing Suggestion Mode: Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
- Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references: References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.
- Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia: The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.
- Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20, 21, 22, 23 include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Tech blog moved to Diff: The migration of the Techblog to Diff is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.
- What’s new in the Wikipedia Library: Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library.
- New course on WikiLearn: A free self-paced online course, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.
- Wiki Mentor Africa: The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.
- Let's Connect Learning Clinic: If you missed it, you can now watch the recording of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.
- Community Conferences: Registration for WikiConference North America and Queering Wiki Conference is now opened. Call for Speakers for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Sharing the Form 990s: The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights on Form 990 for the Foundation and Form 990 for the Endowment on Meta-Wiki.
- Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.
- Structured Contents: How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia to Markdown with Python.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Board selection process: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC, and share your ideas on the talk page.
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-25
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Cape Fiolent (Crimean Tatar: Felenk Burun; Ukrainian: Фіолент; Russian: Фиолент; Latin: Parthenium), also historically called Cape Fiolente, is a cape and nature reserve (zakaznik) located in southern Sevastopol, a city within Crimea that is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine but currently occupied by Russia since 2014.
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Wikidata weekly summary #736

week leading up to 2026-06-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #735.
Discussions
- Request for comments: The discussion about reforming Wikidata's notability policy is ongoing. There is now a new proposal waiting for your feedback.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- WikiLoves Pride 2026 - six fortnightly editing sessions to add, expand and translate LGBTQ+ content on the Wikimedia projects.
- WikiProjects Days 2026 is taking place this coming weekend, 19-21 June. Check out the daily program...(click UTC for your local timezone)
- Click here -> Register <- for access links to the event.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Preserving Pride, Across Languages : From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: A New Way to Think About Knowledge
- Visibility of Communities in Nigeria on Wikidata 2.0: Expanding Digital Representation for Nigerian Communities
- The Year’s First Quarter with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group - Expanding partnerships and contributions to Wikidata, Wikipedia and other sister projects.
- Introducing the Wiki Afrodemics Mentorship Project Cohort 1 - A pan-african and guided multilingual training on Wikipedia editing, Wikidata contribution, and resource mobilisation.
- Amplifying Women’s Stories and Indigenous Knowledge: Feminism and Folklore 2026 in the Igbo Community - Improving the representation of women and cultural heritage in Igbo language on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiquote.
- A Reflection on What I Learned at My First International Women’s Day Celebration - Celebrating and documenting women activists and politicians on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Three Tools that bring digital botany within reach (spoiler: One of them is Wikidata) - article available in DE, ES, FR, JA, PT and ZH-CN.
- Papers: Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata by Grallert et al., (2026). As digital humanities tools proliferate, this paper argues that Wikidata can help connect the research landscape by documenting, citing and connecting tool registries.
- Videos:
- OSM / Lifting Stones in Wikidata - a video tutorial on mapping lifting stones on OpenStreetMap, using two examples from County Kilkenny, Ireland.
- Mapping Every Wonder on Earth - animated visualisation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites recorded in Wikidata.
- 2025: Tales of Discovery - Museums and Heritage channel mentions how Wikidata is being used as a bridge between several sites and projects for 3D modelling ships, wrecks and other artifacts from maritime history.
- Mentor Me! Session 6 with Jinoy Tom Jacob, who will show us how to use OpenRefine to batch edit Wikidata and the Commons.
Tool of the week
- BisikBekasi : Community-curated knowledge base where local data items are integrated with Wikidata items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Newcomer Dashboard will be deployed to Wikidata pending on-wiki configuration by Admins. The dashboard aims to provide guidance, helpful links, and mentorship opportunities for new editors.
- Guido Gezelle on Wikidata: networking in map - this project created 5 visualisations produced from Wikidata on the poet Guido Gezelle.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- print matrix state (in printmaking, a stage of development of the relief matrix after a permanent modification)
- body modification (deliberate altering of the human anatomy for non-medical reasons that this person or fictional character has undergone)
- Newest External identifiers: Roller-results.com skater ID, Wikiparfum fragrance ID, EU sanctions tracker subject ID, Maoyan celebrity ID, CINEMATODAY film ID, DMM director ID, Model Mayhem ID, DAM song ID, OpenParlData ID, IAU member ID, PurplePort ID, LinkMe ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Vistonline (Agenzia italiana di visti consolari e legalizzazione documenti, con sede a Roma)
- Natural science/Taxon footprint (Taxon footprint)
- Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number (Unique identification number assigned to a school by the Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka, used in the annual school census and official examinations (G.C.E. O/L, A/L))
- sport title (link to sport title (like master of sports or yokodzuna), besides chess and martial arts titles)
- dual notion in category theory (dual notion in category theory)
- penalty shootout kicked by (Indicates the person who took an individual penalty kick during a penalty shoot-out.)
- Finnish educational institution ID (Five-digit identification number for Finnish educational institutes assigned by Statistics Finland.)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant d'une personne sur ZicTrad, Skeivopedia ID, Artistas Visuales Chilenos ID, Mathlib declaration ID, FES digital collections person ID, BBC Bitesize topic ID, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), Sceneweb artwork ID, Sceneweb production ID, regjeringen.no government ID, regjeringen.no ministry ID, regjeringen.no politician ID, Maoyan film ID, Identifiant livres-cinema.info d'un auteur, National Operator Code (UK)
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Wiki x K-pop 2026: Datathon 3.0 a.k.a the ICONIC BY MISTAKE EDITING party.
- Ontology Course 2 / GLAM Authority Entity Ontology in Wikidata
- Newest database reports: Thanks Log - who's thanking who and on what.
- Showcase Items: 2026 FIFA World Cup (Q5020214) - in the United States, Mexico and Canada in 2026
- Showcase Lexemes: alikaali (L720932) - Dagbanli noun (derived from ha <--ar) which can mean soothsayer, judge or Muslim scholar
Development
- Ontology federation: The development team is looking for people to give feedback on the new feature that allows editors on other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as statement values. (more details)
- GraphQL:
- We extended the searchItems field so that developers can now get all Item data immediately from the search results (phab:T416885)
- We are working on the ability to get only best ranked statements (phab:T428138)
- MCP: The Wikidata MCP has been extended. You can now also use an MCP for other Wikibase instances. (more details)
- Wikibase Cloud: We are looking into making it possible to log into Wikibase Cloud instances with your Wikidata account to make it easier for Wikimedians to contribute on Cloud instances.
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are planning the migration of the entity usage table to a new database cluster to handle increased usage of Wikidata's data across the Wikimedia projects.
- We are continuing our work to decrease the number of irrelevant changes coming from Wikidata that show up in Wikipedia's recent changes and watchlist. Specifically we are evaluating a prototype that looks at the rendered article before and after the change and determines if anything actually changed in the article before adding an entry to recent changes and watchlist.
- Mobile editing of statements:
- We are improving support for RTL languages.(phab:T360854, phab:T427655, phab:T427658, phab:T427661, phab:T428246)
- We started fixing multiple UI layout and spacing issues, including mandatory fields, value fields, snak types, references, and add-statement button usability (phab:T428766, phab:T428761, phab:T428759, phab:T428450)
- We are improving the server-side rendering (phab:T409827)
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: 2026-25
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Reader Growth team has launched an Image Browsing beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use
class=notpageimageexcluding it from thumbnail previews, orclass=noviewerexcluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word__NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page. - Wikitables can now be sorted in descending order on the first click by adding
data-sort-order="desc"to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged.
Updates for editors
- The Article guidance feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
- Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account with the block duration they want.
View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
- The roll out of global API rate limits is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.
- The API Portal wiki will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server.
- The Latin American Wikimedia Conference will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).
- Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page and register there. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.
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The Signpost: 21 June 2026
- From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism
- News and notes: Community Tech development team disbanded
- Disinformation report: PR for the people?
- Recent research: Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
- Community view: Putting the Wish into the Wishlist
- On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth
- Technology report: Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts
- Traffic report: 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
- WikiConference report: Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026
- Comix: Take your turn
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-26
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The Renovating Action Party was a left-wing Salvadoran political party that existed from 1944 to 1967. The party had three distinct phases of its existence under the leaderships of Colonel José Asencio Menéndez (1944–1950), the old line (1950–1964), and the new line (1964–1967).
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Wikidata weekly summary #736

week leading up to 2026-06-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #736.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Ziv - RfP scheduled to end after 24 June 2026 19:26 (UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Nabbot 1 - Task: Adding Turkish descriptions for scientific articles
Events
- Upcoming events:
- The Wikimania 2026 program has been revealed, go bookmark your favourite sessions.
- Physical Training; Improving Health Articles in Africa - 21 June, 10:00, University of Ibadan.
- The WikiIndaba Call for Proposals ends June 30th - don't forget to submit your Wikidata-sessions.
- Sessions of the WikiProjects Days 2026 event will shortly be available on Commons: Presentations / Videos
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- WikiTiddler; Tiddlywiki as a live Wikidata frontend - if you run a TiddlyWiki instance, you can now run queries to the Wikidata Query Service and convert the results to Tiddlers.
- TIB: What do we mean when we talk about AI and open knowledge? - Lozana Rossenova details their experiences at the AI+Bridges Symposium.
- Papers:
- How to use Wikibase for Mixed-Methods Research, a book published by F. Bailo, E. Booth, and J. Williams
- Wikimedia as a Platform for Evidence Synthesis: Quantifying Bias and Literature Coverage in Crowd-Sourced Knowledge Graphs by D. Mietchen, and J. Dearborn, (2026).
- From Wikidata to Smart Tourism: A Reproducible Pipeline Based on AI and Fuzzy Logic for Interpretable Multi-Category Classification of Points of Interest - This paper develops a reproducible pipeline that converts Wikidata POIs into an interpretable tourism taxonomy, enabling multi-category classification and personalized smart tourism applications. By Kontogianni et al., (2026)
- Videos:
- Name Suggestion Index Explained: How OpenStreetMap Standardizes Brands
- EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-06-04)
- Using the Duplicity and WD Fist Tools to edit Wikidata
- Unlocking Data through Semantic Linking, presented at ENDORSE 2025 by Thora Hagen. Experiences using 19th-century German encyclopedias, demonstrating how semantic enrichment via Wikidata can reveal fascinating patterns.
- (Deutsch) From your pocket to the knowledge graph: SquirrelBase is a Wikibase instance that functions as a semantic metadata and reference platform. Make 3D smartphone captures of cultural assets, artworks, and ephemeral structures FAIR.
Tool of the week
- MotusArtium : Wikidata GraphQL showcase application for exploring and understanding art movements (alpha version). GraphQL queries used
- As seen during WikiProjects Days 2026 - Classification.js, visualise parent classes and identify incorrections, detect superclass tree loops. To use, click Activate and copy the two lines into your Common.js page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Reminder: Try Ontology Federation to import Items from Wikidata to your Wikibase instance. Share your feedback in the linked survey. (full announcement)
- A session at WikiProjects Days 2026 was devoted to general-purpose tools for WikiProjects. A new page under the main Wikidata tools page was created with a list and description of these tools. Take a look at Wikidata:Tools/WikiProjects and add any missing tools.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- meteorological intensity classification (category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585))
- perfumer (person who created a perfume)
- dual notion (category theory) (dual of the concept in category theory)
- External identifiers: catholica.cz ID, Skeivopedia ID, Mathlib Declaration ID, Annuséries series ID, FES digital collections person ID, BBC Bitesize topic ID, Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), OTOTOY artist ID, livres-cinema.info author ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
- Gmedia rating (video games) (Video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system ({{Q|Q28717438}}))
- External identifiers: altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, some properties for category theory, Farzonagon ID, TV Guide film ID, Letterboxd Writer ID, d Hits artist ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, Fantia ID, 17LIVE ID, CFLapedia player ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, U-NEXT Parson ID, U-NEXT Video ID, H-NEXT Parson ID, ABEMA Video ID, FOD Parson ID, LRT topic ID, FOD Video ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, belarusenc.by ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Writing Systems Technical Resources script code, Répertoire des films classés film ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID, Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, Kanal Architecture entry ID, Web The Television Parson ID, Web The Television Work ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Showcase Items: ship (Q11446) - large buoyant watercraft
Development
- We enabled links to WikiProjects in the sidebar and added links to WikiProjects Music, Medicine, Datasets, sum of all paintings, and elections (T422935, T422935)
- We added a floating “add statement” button that makes it easier to add statements without looking through the existing statements (T417641, T428450).
- We’re working on making sure that users can tell when statements exist before they add new ones (T424009).
- We made some layout fixes to wbui2025 / MEX (T428766, T428761, T428759, T427658, T428853).
- We refactored error handling (T423613).
- We’re refactoring the server-side rendering so we don’t need separate .less style files (T409827).
- We’re working on the interaction between scrollable values and indicator icons (T425974).
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- 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: 2026-26
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.
Updates for editors
- The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
- Sub-referencing is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan for the next deployment steps.
- Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes.
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the
skipcaptcharight, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. Theskipcaptcharight will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis. - Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox.
- The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community.
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11

Highlights

- Community Wishlist: Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future.
- Simplifying account creation: The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making "Create Account" icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.
- New U4C members elected: The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Wikimania conference program: The Wikimania 2026 program is now live! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your "must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket here, if you haven't signed up yet.
- Neutral Point of View: A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion open until July 15, 2026.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

- App Explore feed: The redesigned App Explore feed, now called "Home", has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.
- Wikipedia games: The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia’s “On This Day” content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first.
- Reusing references: Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.
- Article guidance: The Article guidance feature is being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
- Mobile Page Previews: The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link.
- Wikifunctions: You can now add images to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.
- Wikidata: The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline.
- Growth features: Growth features are now available at Wikidata! Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration, but this update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).
- Mentors' management: The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.
- Collaborative Contributions: If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more.
- Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 and 25 include how the user interface icon library is being updated. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Digital Safety: Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. It'll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It's focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.
- Don't Blink: Read the latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.
- Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model: Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Enterprise: SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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This Month in Education: June 2026
This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 6 • June 2026
- Wikipedia Editathon at Dinajpur Govt. College: Empowering Graduate Students in the Open Knowledge Movement
- Wikimedia Serbia prepares for Edu Wiki camp 2026
- Wiki Digi-Youth Clubs pilot explores challenge-based learning across three countries
- Why the EduWiki Hub Starter Kit Matters for the Future of Education
- Portuguese Universities adopt free knowledge tools: Wikipedia is the favorite
- Translating on Wikipedia used as extra – credit assignment in University of Prishtina, Kosovo
- Strengthening Wikimedia Education Through Community Learning and Digital Literacy Initiatives
- Small Group, Big Impact: Building Skills Through the Wikimedia Volunteer Focus Group in Botswana
- "25x25 Project – Celebrating Wikipedia" in Córdoba, Argentina
- Mapping and gathering educational activities on Wiki in Brazilian universities
- Growing Wiki Education in the Philippines: Highlights from Bikol WikiConference 2026
- From Mentee to Builder: Six Months in the EduWiki Hub Mentorship Program
- EduWiki Hub publishes its first Community Newsletter
- Click, Capture, and Contribute: Scaling Open Knowledge Through Mobile Photography
- Education in Action: Limkokwing School Adoption Program 2026 and Wikimedia Learning Outcomes
- Impact of Wiki Digi youth Clubs initiative in education of Rwanda
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-27
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Facial age estimation is the use of artificial intelligence to estimate the age of a person based on their facial features. Computer vision techniques are used to analyse the facial features in the images of millions of people whose age is known and then deep learning is used to create an algorithm that tries to predict the age of an unknown person. The key use of the technology is to prevent access to age-restricted goods and services. Examples include restricting children from accessing internet pornography, checking that they meet a mandatory minimum age when registering for an account on social media, or preventing adults from accessing websites, online chat or games designed only for use by children.
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Tech News: 2026-27
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
- As part of the Account Creation Experiments, the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July.
- After a successful experiment, logged-in users who did not confirm their email address when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the Account Security project.
- An update to Search is refining how the
-prefix:behaves when used to exclude results. Previously, using-prefix:with negation could unintentionally broaden search results by adding the namespaces included in the search scope, leading to confusing behavior for users expecting a straightforward exclusion filter. With the update,-prefix:will now strictly exclude matching page titles as intended and may display a warning if the relevant namespace has not been explicitly selected. The behavior ofprefix:without negation however remains unchanged.
View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where reviewers using the Page Curation toolbar were not automatically subscribed to talk page discussions they started has now been fixed. Reviewers will now receive notifications when someone replies to those discussions.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the user-agent policy. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. This is a follow up to the announcement made in the 2026/25 issue of Tech News.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikidata weekly summary #738

week leading up to 2026-06-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #737.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- TopDevsBot - Task/s: Create new items for software-development, design, and consulting companies from source data: topdevs.ai
- SonalBot - Task/s: Reference Gardener (archive dead reference links) + Welcome Bot (welcome new users)
- New request for comments: WM Commons: Policy update for AI content - this RfC will seek opinions on the use and allowance of AI-generated and modified content. This can have downstream impacts on Wikidata.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- 2026 Chiayi Streetview Workshop July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Tâi-uân tôo-su-sik, Chiayi, Taiwan.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #90 July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Lobid Blog: NWBibBot – Making a regional bibliography visible in Wikipedia with help from Wikidata
- Tech News (WMDE) Knowledge wants to be found - We interview Tim Wittenborg about the WissKomm Wiki, from the Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology in TIB Hannover.
- Bridging Open Knowledge And Digital Rights: Reflections From DRIF 2026 And The Wikimedia Community
- Papers: MathModDB: A Database for Mathematical Models - The Mathematical Models Database (MathModDB), deployed on the MaRDI Portal within Germany’s National Research Data Infrastructure, provides researchers with a curated knowledge graph that organizes scattered mathematical models, formulas, and assumptions, connects to related tools like MathAlgoDB and MaRDMO, and demonstrates practical use through cases such as plasma physics modeling. By Fiedler et al., (2026)
- Videos:
- WikiProjects Days 2026 - recordings now on Commons, if you missed the event or want to recap what was discussed, individual session recordings are now available from the Event program.
- Jason Evans: Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey
Tool of the week
- Altilunium Panoply : A lightweight Wikibase alternative for creating collaborative knowledge bases, written as a single PHP file with no dependencies.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July. A Q&A clinic will be held on 1 July at 15:00 UTC (join here).
- Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship, Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: Taiwan Central News Agency news topic ID, Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, Sceneweb artwork ID, Sceneweb production ID, Fantia ID, Finnish educational institution ID, altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, TV Guide film ID, FOD person ID, LRT topic ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- subdiscipline of (less specific academic discipline)
- has garden (Object is a {{Q|1107656}} related to this {{Q|16222597}})
- ranking by (issuer of a ranking)
- linguistic group (group of people who share the same language, regardless of their ancestry or ethnicity)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Pure Adult actress ID, Taiwan Central News Agency News tag id, Pure Adult studio ID, Natural science/GBIF taxon ID, Digitaler Portraitindex person ID, torial ID, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, Samtrafiken-vehicle-id, Sundsvall Municipality opendata ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, KBS News topic ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur Autoroc, La Grange ID, Rakuten Books author ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Roles and contributions of ? in Fictional Universes and Media franchises (source)
- Schema examples: it's World Cup time so here's 2 soccer/football-related EntitySchemas.
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Highlights: GovDirectory has opened a Madagascar page.
- Showcase Items: Lionel Messi - 6 World Cups, scoring in the last 7 consecutive matches.
Development
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are continuing to evaluate the prototype for reducing the number of unnecessary edits from Wikidata that show up in watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co. The approach is to look at the diff of the rendered article before and after the change from Wikidata is made. If there is no difference then the change is probably not relevant for that article. We are collecting a sample to further understand how it performs.
- To continue to address Wikidata's scaling issues, we are planning the migration of entity usage tables to the X1 cluster.
- Mobile editing of statements:
- We implemented more feedback from testing of the new mobile front-end. Specifically we worked on making it clearer when a statements already exist that the editor is trying to add to the Item.
- Additionally, we made minor improvements to the look and feel of the mobile front-end.
- REST API:
- REST search routes now take apihighlimits right into account (phab:T428032)
- We are starting to work on Lexeme support (phab:T429572, phab:T429332)
- GraphQL:
- We added support for requesting “best statements” for a given Property (phab:T428138)
- We are working on adding support for negation in Property value pair filters (phab:T429580)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- 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: Poland
- 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!
