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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 16
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Highlights
- Simplifying account creation: The Special:CreateAccount page has been simplified as part of ongoing work to modernize the account creation experience. Multiple account creation experiments show that a simpler form helps newcomers complete registration.
- Movement Ecosystem strategy: Deadline to provide feedback on the first version of the proposal are extended until Sep 30 to allow more time for community feedback and discussion.
- New format for the Community Wishlist: You can read the proposed ideas on Meta. This new process plans to improve how wishes are triaged, voted on, and prioritized in a way that is transparent and balanced across project families and language editions. Please let us know what you think will work well or if there are ways to make this proposal stronger. This consultation is open for two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Engage
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- Improving page performance: In order to improve page performance, images now load when they are viewed. This means images that are lower down within an article will not load if a reader never scrolls to that part of the page, which may affect some image-related metrics.
- Android Reading list updates: Some of the recent Android releases include updates to the Saved feature. This first round of changes on the Android app include redesigning the "Saved" tab to include an "All articles" view, and remove the user-facing default "Saved" reading list.
- Reading list on desktop: Reading lists has been released on Chinese, Bengali, Czech, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. The feature is now available for logged-in users on those wikis.
- Event Registration tool: The Worklist feature for the Event Registration tool is now live on all Wikimedia wikis. With Worklist, event organizers can add the articles their event will focus on directly to the event page. The Worklist also powers Event Pathways which notifies other editors of the upcoming or ongoing event when they edit an article featured in the event’s Worklist.
- Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy: Wikimedia is participating in Round 33 of the Outreachy program that runs from December 2026 through March 2027. The deadline to submit projects on Phabricator is Sept 4 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by Sep 11.
- Latest experiments: A current experiment is testing to introduce a new content type in Apps home. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 34 and 35 include that a new Wikipedia in Bole has been created. See also the 58 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
- UwER Conference: In December, the Wikimedia Portugal and Wikimedia Foundation will be hosting a first-of-its-kind convening for users with extended rights. Applications to attend opened August 13 and will close on September 4.
Annual Goals Progress on Enable
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- Wikimedia Endowment: Updates from the July 2026 Wikimedia Endowment Board Meeting.
Annual Goals Progress on Protect
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- Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
- Legal footer update: The Foundation had updated the Legal and Safety Contact Information on 300+ content wikis. The project adds a link to a Foundation-managed central page where people can find contact information to report illegal issues and serve official legal notices. This helps to resolve gaps if community-managed contact pages are missing or incomplete.
Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- Collaboration: UNESCO and Wikimedia Movement deepen their partnership at Wikimania 2026.
- Digitization: Bringing Balinese Manuscripts to Wikimania 2026.
- Language related projects: Read some key highlights from the latest edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
Board and Board committee updates
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- AffCom: The Affiliations Committee is extending the pause on new affiliate recognition until the affiliate recognition and funding model is further clarified.
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I'd ask that you amend this to no consensus. There is not rough consensus that a sanction is no longer required to prevent disruption. voorts (talk/contributions) 22:14, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
- Which of these statements are you saying there is no consensus about?
- There was agreement there was a problem here.
- After reflection SmokeyJoe agreed there was a problem and committed to doing better.
- That was six weeks ago.
- There had been a request for this to be closed and in honoring that request this thread was unarchived.
- Since being unarchived there seems to be agreement that imposing a sanction now wouldn't be appropriate.
- I am guessing your issue with 5? I already made clear that there was "agreement" (I intentionally didn't use consensus; compare to the close I decided was finally ready and did a few minutes after this) since being unarchived to not impose a sanction now (emphasis added). I stand by that as being an accurate reflection of the conversation. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 22:20, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
- Request withdrawn. voorts (talk/contributions) 22:45, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
Your RfC closure
[edit]Mostly out of curiosity, did you intentionally use the plural form of the noun "criterion" in your closure statement? On Wikipedia we usually use the singular form. FaviFake (talk) 22:32, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
- The wording of the question said "criteria" and to make it clear what the answer was, I also used it. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 22:34, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
- Good point! I've never seen it being used in this way on this site and I missed the RfC statement. Thanks for the closure. FaviFake (talk) 22:35, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
IP Pool Unblock Request!
[edit]Hi Barkeep49,
Could you please reconsider the block on IP’ 2401:4900:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 This is my IP range too, and I’m an unrelated legitimate user. My account is fine, but seeing this range repeatedly blocked and extended over the years by different admins is honestly disheartening.
Could you please unblock the range for legitimate users and, if possible, block the specific problematic IP(s) instead of the entire /32?
Thanks :) Tenshi Uisu (talk) 09:58, 4 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Tenshi Uisu you may want to ask for IP Block Exempt which I think will help you with your need. Unfortunately the ongoing level of disruption on the IP makes it difficult to just unblock it completely at this time. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 14:18, 4 September 2026 (UTC)
Question
[edit]Hello Barkeep49, I have a question. There is a user who has a very large number of articles written, can you give autopatrolled to them. It is GoldenBootWizard276. In solidarity, Dafootballguy (Want to talk?) 23:48, 6 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Dafootballguy I've clearly not been able to get to evaluating this. You're allowed to request autopatrol for others at WP:PERM/A. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 21:04, 8 September 2026 (UTC)
Notification
[edit]Just a heads up that I just quoted you at ANI. You're not the one I brought to the noticeboard, though. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 20:50, 8 September 2026 (UTC)
Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment
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Glenn Dubin/Jeffrey Epstein BLP dispute
[edit]Hi Barkeep49. Can you help resolve a content dispute at Talk:Glenn Dubin#Innuendo? I found your name on the admin list and I see you're an experienced editor with sensitivity to BLP issues. I recently invited a different admin to this discussion, but she did not weigh in on the specific content being disputed. (She also encouraged me to avoid further participation in the discussion itself, due to my disclosed COI, and I will try to follow this suggestion.) Thank you so much for your time. AM for Dubin (talk) 15:35, 10 September 2026 (UTC)