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    Temporary account IP viewer granted

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

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

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

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

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

    Rollback granted

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

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

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

    Pending changes reviewer granted

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

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

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

    Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11

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    Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 5. Please help translate.

    Highlights

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

    Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
    See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

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


    Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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    MediaWiki message delivery 22:38, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    This Month in Education: June 2026

    This Month in Education

    Volume 15 • Issue 6 • June 2026

    In This Issue

    July 2026

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    Women in Red | July 2026, Vol 12, Issue 7, Nos 358, 359, 376, 377

    Events:

    Announcements, tips, participation...

    Announcements from other communities:

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    Tip of the month:

    • Working on a group of linked articles? Have you thought about creating a navigation box for the footer of those pages?

    Other ways to participate:


    --MSGJ (talk 22:12, 28 June 2026 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

    This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2026)

    Akkawi cheese served with cherries
    Hello, Cosmic840. The article for improvement of the week is:

    List of Syrian cheeses

    Please be bold and help improve it!

    Previous selections: Injury • Khoekhoe

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

    Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 June 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • [reply]

    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. [1]
    • 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. [2]
    • 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 of prefix: without negation however remains unchanged. [3]
    • Recurrent item 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. [4]

    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.
    • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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

    MediaWiki message delivery 11:46, 29 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    WikiCup 2026 July newsletter

    The third round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 June at 23:59 (UTC). As a reminder, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, while peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

    Round 3 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; eight scored over 500; and thirteen scored over 300. The top three contestants had at least one featured article (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

    • MCE89 (submissions) with 1567 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography, as well as some article reviews
    • Ohio Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1547 points, mainly from good articles, featured articles, featured lists, and a good topic about figure skating, along with 20 article reviews
    • Reconrabbit (submissions) with 1004 points, mainly from a high-multiplier featured article on European rabbit and several good articles, DYKs, and reviews
    • A.Cython (submissions) with 1004 points, mainly from good articles about warfare, along with 22 article reviews
    • Generalissima (submissions) with 859 points, mainly from good and featured articles about rivers and East Asian topics

    The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 7 featured-topic articles, 117 good articles, 74 good-topic articles and more than 30 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 13 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 180 reviews. The tournament points table has been updated.

    Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 29 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikidata weekly summary #738

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

    Discussions

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

    Events

    Press, articles, blog posts, videos

    Tool of the week

    Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

    Newest properties and property proposals to review

    You can comment on all open property proposals!

    Did you know?

    Development

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

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

    Weekly Tasks

    In The Loop – Quarter 2, 2026

    In The Loop – WikiProject Amusement Parks newsletter
    In this issue:

    Full page for the latest issue

    WikiProject News

    • Coasting into announcement season
    • Operation B&M: Rescuing other-language B&M articles
    • Screening articles for notability

    Article News

    • Operation B&M
    • Featured content
    • Goals and statistics
    Amusement Industry
    • Fun Spot Atlanta and ArieForce One are closing
    • Coaster rethemings and openings
    • New thrill rides announced

    Member spotlight

    • New members
    • Outstanding contributions
    • HOW CAN YOU HELP?

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    MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:15, 30 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    July 10: Free Culture Friday / Wiki Loves Fútbol Watch Party

    July 10: Free Culture Friday @ Prime Produce
    Wiki Loves Fútbol, World Cup Watch Party! source ↗

    You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Free Culture Friday / Wiki Loves Fútbol World Cup Watch Party at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

    This special event will feature starting at 1:30 pm a Wikimedia Foundation meet-and-greet bringing together local staff and community, and then at 3 pm a Wiki Loves Fútbol watch party and edit-a-thon for the Second Quarter-Final, 2026 FIFA World Cup (Q137545497).

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

    Meeting info:

    (You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

    --Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:57, 30 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2026

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    Administrators' newsletter – July 2026

    News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2026).

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    Administrator changes

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    CheckUser changes

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    Oversight changes

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    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:07, 2 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikidata Platform Newsletter - July 2026


    This is the 8th issue of our monthly newsletter! The next issue will be published in August 2026.

    • Documentation on Query Rewrites: As WDQS continues its migration off Blazegraph, queries that rely on Blazegraph-specific extensions will need to be updated to comply with the SPARQL 1.1 and GeoSPARQL standards. To support this, we are publishing documentation to help you identify affected queries and rewrite them, so your queries keep working through the migration and beyond.
    This transition to standard SPARQL reduces vendor lock-in, improves interoperability with other triplestores, and ensures our codebase remains robust. Importantly, the specifics of these rewrites are doing more than just guiding manual code updates. The details define the processing logic for an upcoming tool designed to automatically convert Blazegraph queries into standard SPARQL for the QLever engine.
    The query rewrite details are focused on four key areas:
    1. Graph Analytic Services (GAS): See Blazegraph_Migration:_Rewrite_of_GAS
    2. MediaWiki API (MWAPI) Service: See Blazegraph_Migration:_Rewrite_of_MWAPI
    3. Label and Utility Services: See Blazegraph_Migration:_Rewrite_of_Label_and_Utility_Services_and_Functions
    4. Geospatial Functions: See Blazegraph_Migration:_Rewrite_of_Geospatial_Services_and_Functions
    We Want Your Feedback!
    As we map out these transition rules and develop the automated QLever conversion program, your input is critical. Please review the Wikitech pages linked above and let us know whether:
    • The rewrite rules cover your use cases
    • There are edge cases or specific Blazegraph quirks that are not accounted for
    Please share your thoughts, concerns, or examples of queries on the related Discussion pages of the links above, so we can ensure the automated converter works seamlessly for everyone.
    The system architecture from the WDQS v2 design doc has been implemented and deployed on Kubernetes. We ran a successful end-to end-test and validated that the QLever deployment can pick up a newly built index, start to backfill it with real-time events, and once ready the database can be queried. The service returns valid results, metrics are properly reported and available in Grafana, and logs are shipped to Wikimedia’s Observability Platform. Upcoming work will be focused on performance optimization and improvements to the indexing and real-time update pipelines supporting the service.
    • Timeline Update: As mentioned in our June newsletter, we are kicking off the Initial Implementation phase of the Blazegraph migration in July. After a few short weeks of final testing and iteration on the new endpoints, the first round of WDQS v2 users will be given access to the new endpoints so they can begin their migration. The QLever endpoints will become accessible to the broader community by October 1st, when we kick off Full Implementation, along with documentation on query rewriting.
    • Reminder to Report Use Cases: We encourage all members of the community to continue helping us identify higher-risk areas, namely SPARQL queries that are highly complex, by reporting use cases on our high-impact use cases and tools page. As a reminder, any use case can be reported through this mechanism. The purpose of this page is to give the WDP team visibility into user-level migration needs.
    • Blazegraph Migration Office Hour (July session): Our next Blazegraph Migration Office Hour will take place, Tuesday, 7 July 2026. This session 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, we encourage you to add questions, feedback, or migration-related support needs to this etherpad. This helps us shape the agenda and focus on the most relevant topics during the session.


    Udehb-WMF (talk) 10:54, 3 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2026)

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

    Chess

    Please be bold and help improve it!

    Previous selections: List of Syrian cheeses • Injury

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

    Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 July 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • [reply]

    Tech News: 2026-28

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    Updates for editors

    • Recurrent item View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain. [5]

    Updates for technical contributors

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

    In depth

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

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

    MediaWiki message delivery 13:54, 6 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikidata weekly summary #739

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

    Discussions

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

    Events

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

    Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

    Tool of the week

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

    Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

    Newest properties and property proposals to review

    You can comment on all open property proposals!

    Development

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    English Article about Gerhard Grössing

    Hi Cosmic480, I m referring to the english article about the Austrian physicist Gerhard Grössing, which is "put on to pigeonhole", because there exists already another version. Here are some facts: the othe version is written by another person, it is much too long and put into draft-status. My version is much shorter and a translation of the accepted german version (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Gr%C3%B6ssing). so what to do...? best regards Siegfried Fussy Sigifu (talk) 18:42, 6 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Good Article Gazette, Issue 16

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    Issue 16, 7 July 2026
    Ongoing discussions News Current statistics
    • Number of GAs: 44,338 (+423)
    • Number of nominations: 906 (-127)
    • GAs for reassessment: 34 (-8)

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    The 2026 Core Contest Winners!

    The winners of the 2026 Core Contest are announced 🎉. A huge turnout that resulted in one of our trickiest deliberation sessions. The judges (Aza24, Femke and Casliber) would like to thank everybody who joined and congratulate the winners!

    • First place (and a prize of £120) goes to Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk · contribs) for his dual efforts on Flatbread and Tortilla! One, formerly an unsourced list-like article, and the other, once a poorly sourced and spotty overview, both now number 250+ citations from an impressively academic source pool. We particularly commend the efforts to globalize content, treat the topics comprehensively and thoughtfully select illustrations. Both articles (one now a GA) are of a uniquely high quality amid the often underserved food topics on Wikipedia. Bravo!
    • Second place (and a prize of £100) goes to Phlsph7 (talk · contribs), a Core Contest regular who has once again shown a mastery of big topics, with his dual efforts on Agnosticism and Premise—both now GAs (one, with a review by our first place winner!). With immensely thorough sourcing improvements, alongside carefully nuanced text on these often misunderstood topics, both articles are a pleasure to read.
    • Third place (and a prize of £80) goes to MCE89 (talk · contribs), whose improvements to the Heard Island and McDonald Islands article have led to a triumphant FA declaration. The incredible balance of detail between human, geographical and flora-fauna elements is a great achievement, and sets a high standard for future island articles.

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    Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12

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    Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 19. Please help translate. This edition uses the new annual plan goals for this fiscal year (July 2026–June 2027).

    Highlights

    • Wikipedia 25: Wikipedia's 25th birthday was celebrated with various projects designed to grow awareness and support for Wikipedia and the people who make it possible. This includes the virtual birthday event on January 15, which garnered 10,000 live viewers and 15,000 reactions. Find more details on all related projects and results in the program report.
    • Sustainable use of Wikimedia infrastructure: A valid user-agent string will now 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.
    • Increasing account creation: The experiment providing direct access to “Create account” and “Log in” actions on mobile increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality. The feature will now be rolled out to all wikis on mobile web.

    Annual Goals Progress on Engage
    See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia

    With Sub-referencing editors can reuse and add details to a main reference. source ↗
    • Add A Link: The Foundation deployed Add A Link as a default-on suggestion within Suggestion Mode. It is now launched on all wikis to all editors who have opted in to the Suggestion Beta Feature.
    • Reusing references: Sub-referencing, the new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, was deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions.
    • Wikifunctions: Check out the 71 new functions with implementations to get a taste of what functions have been created.
    • Range calculator: 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.
    • Captcha verification: Abuse filters that are set to “require CAPTCHA verification” now also affect users with the skipcaptcha right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter.
    • Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing two variations of a "thank you" badge shown to donors after a recent donation to deepen the relationship between donors and the Wikimedia movement. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
    • Account security on private wikis: Two-factor authentication will become mandatory for user accounts on private wikis. This will protect private information from being exposed by an account with a compromised password.
    • Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 26 and 27 include users will now get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. See also the 65 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
    • Team Challenges: The core organizing team for Wikimania is introducing Team Challenges, a different approach to Wikimania Hackathon. This year, Wikimedians and professionals from other fields will join forces to undertake one of the 2026 technical challenges.

    Annual Goals Progress on Enable
    See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

    • Wikimedia Hackathon: A look at the 2026 edition of Wikimedia Hackathon which brought together 216 participants from 29 countries building, collaborating, and shaping the future together.
    • Wikimedia Hubs: The Hub Fund will pause funding for new pilots in fiscal year 2026–2027 to align with the work on the Ecosystem of Movement Organizations and the Global Resource Distribution Committee. Existing pilots in transition will be offered an additional year of funding.

    Annual Goals Progress on Protect
    See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

    • Open Knowledge And Digital Rights: Wikimedians shared their reflections on how Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum reinforced the role of our movement within broader digital rights conversations.

    Annual Goals Progress on Reach
    See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers

    • Journalism Award: Wikimedia Foundation announced three journalists from Africa as recipients of the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, run in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). The awards celebrate the essential role journalists play in creating well-researched articles that volunteer editors can use as source materials to develop content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. In total, 320 submissions were received from 40 African countries.

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