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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 12

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 13. Please help translate.

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Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 Istanbul

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

• Elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees: Call for candidates is now open until July 2 at 11:59 UTC.
• Sister projects task force: The sister projects task force has started a community consultation about Wikispore and Wikinews.
• Wikimania 2025: Register now to join Wikimania 2025 virtually from 6–9 August.
• Neutral Point of View: This year's annual planning saw many conversations about the global trends that affect our movement including neutrality and the NPOV policies.

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

• Wikimedia Hackathon 2025: Highlights from Wikimedia Hackathon, a place where everything is 'technically possible'.
• Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon: Reflections and insights from participants and mentors.
• Wikimedia API: The MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse.
• Tech News: The Editing team will release Multi Check to most Wikipedias. This feature shows multiple Reference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. More updates from Tech News week 25 and 26.
• Temporary Accounts: Temporary accounts were rolled out on ten large and medium-size Wikipedias, including Arabic, Chinese, French, Polish, Indonesian and more. Deployments on more Wikipedias will follow this week. Share your thoughts about the project.
• Mobile Apps: Mobile Apps team launched A/B test of Tabbed Browsing on the iOS Wikipedia App. Users in Arabic, English, and Japanese in select regions will see the test.
• WikiGames: The Android team launched Which Came First? — a fun, multilingual trivia game now available to all Android users in nine languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish). It's a new step in making Wikipedia more interactive and engaging for mobile users.
• Community Wishlist: Read results of the recently closed "Wishathon", our internal hackathon organized by Community Tech to help fulfil more wishes from Community Wishlist.
• Wikifunctions: Read Wikifunctions' July–September 2025 plans.
• CampaignEvents Extension: CampaignEvents extension has now been deployed to all Wikipedia, meaning that organizers on any language Wikipedia can now gain access to the extension features directly on that Wikipedia through the Wikipedia local admins.

Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity
See also: list of movement events · WikiLearn News

• Let's Connect Peer Learning: A look into 3 years of Let's Connect and peek into what's next.
• Knowledge Equity Fund: How a Knowledge Equity Fund grantee and a Wikimedia affiliate collaborate on Human Rights.
• A Wiki Minute Videos: We published three new 'A Wiki Minute' videos about what it takes to run Wikipedia and more topics. All videos are recorded and captioned in Arabic, German, English, French, Brazilian-Portuguese, Spanish.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Legal: Administrative update to the Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use.
• Global Advocacy: Expanding tech policy knowledge at the first big UN Wikipedia edit-a-thon.
• Legal: We announced that a Wikipedia admin has joined our UK Online Safety Act lawsuit.

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 · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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Wikidata weekly summary #687

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-067-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #686.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Bovlbbot - Task(s): this bot request asks for admin access (or access to deleted revisions if possible) so it can move the updater task for User:Bovlb/wd-deleted.
  • Andrebot 3 - Task(s): Fill in historic countries for the settlements, communes, towns and cities of Romania.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our final session of our event series on the Wikidata graph split project and SPARQL skills! We will be diving into the mechanics of federated SPARQL queries and look forward to a hands-on and interactive session exploring how to use the scholarly article query service. Join us Tuesday, July 8th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1751990400). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
  • Hackathon announced for Wikimania 2025, Nairobi. Call for Projects is now open! Includes a newcomer track for first-time participants. Add yourself to the participants list or see the resources page for further event info.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Press
  • Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy - by The Register, this article highlights examples of Wikidata serving and powering a growing ecosystem of FOSS projects, outside of Wikipedia.
  • (Italian) WikiLib: Roman+Vatican Librarians compared on Wikidata -
• Blogs
  • Preserving Indonesian GLAM Assets in Wikidata - This article documents how Indonesian users collaborated in preserving Indonesian GLAM assets by adding its metadata to Wikidata during 2025 GLAM Wiki Month organized by Wikimedia Indonesia.
• Papers
  • Linking Challenges for Pseudonyms: The Studies of VIAF, ISNI, Wikidata, Meridian, and Beyond by Charlene Chou
• Thesis
  • The Dictionary of Italian contemporary pseudonym writers in Wikidata. Methodology and results: MA thesis (discussed on 29 May) regarding the systematic addition in Wikidata of all the nearly 500 Italian writers described in a biographical dictionary, with a first introductory part, a second part describing the editing methodology, including the authority work done both in Wikidata and in some major authority files (SBN, GND, IDREF) to disambiguate the main homonyms, and a third part analysing through SPARQL queries the data about these writers
    • full thesis (in Italian) published in the University of Pisa thesis repository; work materials available in the Wikidata usersubpage of Sara De Monaco; slides (in Italian) used in the discussion available in Wikimedia Commons; related datasets available in Zenodo
• Videos
  • (mostly Italian, with some parts in English) Wikidata & Research International Conference (video of 5 June session) - held at the University of Florence 5-6 June 2025, the conference touched on role of Wikidata in academic research (cf. Wikidata and research]), building on past initiatives such as Wikidata Days Bologna 2024.
  • (Portuguese) How to add Wikidata-powered Infoboxes to Wikipedia - a short tutorial video from the University of São Paolo Institute of Mathematics and Statistics.

Tool of the week

User:Kod B - ArchiveExternaLinks.js This script automatically archives external links found in the statements of Wikidata items, in order to improve source durability and reduce the risk of broken links (link rot), similar to what already exists on Wikipedia.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• What belongs where in the Wikibase Ecosystem? There is ongoing research to better understand what people are currently thinking about this and you can take part by sorting some scenarios.
• How to properly cite a Newspaper article? Project Chat discussion.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: QUDT dimension ID, istina.msu.ru journal ID, Niedersächsische Personen ID, Submarine Cable Map ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • MediaWiki page revision ID (ID for a MediaWiki wiki revision, Wikimedia projects should use {{P|7569}})
    • applies if VIN matches regular expression (this statement is only true if the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) of a vehicle matches this regular expression)
    • Cadastral areas (List of cadastral areas of municipality)
    • settlement classification (settlement classification)
    • Modern Shrine Ranking (Rank in the [[Q712534|Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines]])
    • Divine Rank (The [[Q11591025|Shinkai (divine rank)]] of a Shrine)
    • Engishiki celebration category (Celebration category mentioned in the engishiki)
    • Engishiki Rank (Rank of a shrine in the Engishiki Jinmyocho.)
    • Honji Buddha (Buddha that this kami is identified with)
    • Suijaku Kami (Kami that this Buddha is believed to have manifested as)
    • identifiant Generation MSX d'une société ou d'un groupe de démo (company or demo group identifier in the Generation MSX database of MSX videogames)
  • External identifiers: Knowledge Graph for Irish History ID, National Library of Uruguay book ID, Kokugakuin University Shrine Database ID, Observer tag, Observer contributor ID, Geoguessr ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Uganda's hydropower plants (source)
• Newest WikiProjects Postcards was created, including a list of project-specific Queries
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • GovDirectory added a Type watchlist.
  • WikiProject Taiwan added a Library List.
• Newest database reports: Abuse Filter effectiveness
• Showcase Items: Stefan Löfven (Q2740012) - Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden between 2014–2021
• Showcase Lexemes: sterk (L453737) - Norwegian Bokmål adjective (stæʁk) meaning "strong", "intense", or "durable"

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We finished the Item prefix search (phab:T388209). It'll go live later when we are also done with the Property prefix search.
• Search: We are fixing a bug when pasting into the new search box (phab:T397608)
• Mobile statement editing: We are working on basic viewing of statements (phab:T394886) - nothing useful to see yet
• Dumps: There was an issue with the last dumps not being generated. The Data Platform SRE team is looking into it (phab:T398756)

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: Austria
• 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!

· Previous issue · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #688

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-07-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #687.

Discussions

• Open request for Oversight permissions: Jianhui67 (RfP scheduled to end at 27 July 2025 13:28 UTC)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 16th July 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) 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.
  • Submit Your Program Proposal for WikiIndaba 2025 by 20th July. Apply for a scholarship to attend the event here.
  • Wikimania 2025 Hackathon kicks off on Tuesday, 5 August and a dedicated workspace will be available throughout the conference until Saturday, 9 August. Have a technical idea, tool, or project you want to build during the hackathon? Submit it now and start connecting with collaborators! Add your project here.
  • WikiCite 2025 will take place from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st of August! in Bern (Switzerland) and online! See the draft program here.
  • 2025 LD4 Conference: Linked Data in the Real World (website; schedule and registration; streaming on Youtube), 28th-30th July 2025, virtually on Zoom; many Wikidata-related sessions:
    • July 28, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT - Has This Been Done Before? Exploring Wikidata Projects Through Diff and TMIG Archives by Silvia Gutierrez (workshop)
    • July 29, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT - Wikidata Affinity Group: Introduction to Wikidata for Entity Management by Alex Jung, Kyla Jemison, Susan Radovsky (cf. d:Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group)
    • July 29, 2025 3:15pm - 3:45pm EDT - Scholarly profiling in Wikidata: Creating a knowledge graph for the SEEKCommons open science research network by Dorothy Howard
    • July 29, 2025 3:45pm - 3:55pm EDT - From Biographical Dictionary to Linked Data by Sara De Monaco (cf. d:User:SaraDeMonaco/Tesi magistrale and d:Q135208119)
    • July 29, 2025 3:55pm - 4:05pm EDT - LCCNbot one year on: an update by Mary Muratsubaki Campany (cf. d:User:LccnBot)
    • July 29, 2025 4:05pm - 4:15pm EDT - Supporting access to CD-ROMs while using and contributing to Wikidata by Claire Fox
    • July 29, 2025 4:15pm - 4:25pm EDT - Surfacing Sociotechnical Research with Wikidata by Kathleen Burlingame
    • July 29, 2025 4:25pm - 4:35pm EDT - Wikidata Workflows with ORCID and OpenRefine: A Binghamton University Case Study by Sasha Frizzell
    • July 30, 2025 2:45pm - 4:45pm EDT - WiLES: Wikidata Lexicographical Event Semantics modeling for natural languages by Humza Yaqoob, Mahir Morshed (workshop)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Scaling the Knowledge Graph Behind Wikipedia By Alex Woodie
  • The power and potential of Wikidata for botany (see paper below) By Heidi Meudt
• Papers
  • Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data By Sabine et al., (2025). This study explores Wikidata as an open, multilingual knowledge base that connects botanical data across sources, and urges botanists to collaboratively enrich its content to support a broad spectrum of plant science.
• Videos
  • Wikidata labels and descriptions By Moore Wikimedia Community
  • Wikidata Lablar Description Stockholm Archipelago trail By Magnus Sälgö
• Presentations
  • How To...Wikibase? - Senior Partner Manager, Christos Varvantakis has produced this set of training and educational material to get you started with Wikibase.

Tool of the week

• Commons Depictions is a tool that display depictions of Wikidata items on Wikimedia Commons

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes
  • official donation page URL (official URL for making donations to the subject)
  • image of cosplay (cosplay that depicts this character or person)
  • ‎worn on (part of the body where an item of clothing, equipment, or jewelry is worn)
  • warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
  • ‎matricule number (identifier for a football club affiliated with the Royal Belgian Football Association)
• New External identifiers: CABR-identifier, Nederlands Film Festival person ID, The Sun topic ID, IMDb interest ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Cyclocross24 rider ID (identifier for a cyclo-cross cyclist in the Cyclocross24 database)
  • Polyhedron net (A net of attached 2D polygon created for each polyhedron)
  • Kanpei or Kokuhei ()
  • file name (name used for this entity in a computer file system)
  • Anthologia Graeca author (Author number in the Anthologia Graeca Project, an online annotated edition of the [[w:Greek Anthology]])
  • langue locale dominante ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: accomplice, CCCA ID, Cover Art Archive image, Athletics Podium person ID, CESAR title ID, GaultMillau-idenficatiecode Nederland, eFloraMEX ID, BORIS Unibe author ID, EDBO institution code, OSHWA Identifier, identifiant Personnel de l'administration préfectorale depuis 1945, identifiant Personnel de l'administration préfectorale au 19e siècle, The Traditional Ballad Index file name, ID edizioni CoBiS LOD, SIK-ISEA person ID, SIK-ISEA group ID, SIK-ISEA institution ID, SIK-ISEA work ID, SIK-ISEA document ID, speedrun.com level ID, Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Polish version), Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Russian version), Mizuumi Wiki article ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now source
  • The names of the characters from Asterix & Obélix, in French, English, German, Latin and some other languages (source)
  • Map the global distribution of periodicals in publication languages from the Eastern Mediterranean (Arabic, Ottoman, Greek, Ladino, Coptic etc) (source)
• Showcase Items: Das Erste (Q49727) - German public-service television channel
• Showcase Lexemes: reference (L5785) - English noun/verb (ˈɹɛf.ɹəns) meaning "source citation", "supporting document", or "relationship"

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We started work on the simple Property prefix search phab:(T397838)
• Mobile statement editing: We continued the work on the basics with viewing of statements (phab:T394886])
• Search: Fixed a bug when pasting into the search box (phab:T397608)
• Integration in Wikipedia and co:
  • We began research into current limits for collapsing entity usage. (Basically when an article uses more data from an Item than the configured limit then we consider all data on that Item to be used. This is done for infrastructure reasons.) We’d like to improve this to further reduce unnecessary Wikidata changes showing up on watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
  • We will roll out showing labels instead of IDs in Wikidata edits in watchlist and recent changes to more wikis later this week.

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: Chile
• 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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:09, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 13

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 27. Please help translate.

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The Wikimania Hackathon 2025 inviting project ideas.

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

• Wikimania Hackathon 2025: The Wikimania Hackathon 2025 is inviting you to submit your project idea.
• WikiWomen* Summit 2025: The WikiWomen* Summit 2025 will take place in a hybrid format on 5th August, the pre-conference day of Wikimania 2025. Register now.
• WikiIndaba 2025: The scholarship applications and program submissions are open until 23:59 GMT on July 20.
• WikiCon Brasil 2025: WikiCon Brasil 2025 will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
• WikiConvention francophone 2025: The WikiConvention 2025 will take place in Cotonou, Benin, October 2-5. The call for submissions is open until July 15.

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

• Tech News: Temporary accounts have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese; The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled on all Wikipedias. More updates from Tech News week 27 and 28.
• AbuseFilter: AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data in AbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user’s IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts.
• Favorite Templates: A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist.
• Wikipedia App: We have launched an A/B test of tabbed browsing in the Wikipedia iOS app. This feature allows users to open multiple articles in separate tabs, making it easier to switch between topics, explore, and return to previous reading spots. The test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. We’re collecting feedback and plan to make the feature more widely available soon.
• MediaWiki: The MediaWiki Platform team has introduced a unified Built-in Notifications system, as part of MediaWiki 1.44, that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications across the platform.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events

• Hubs: Personal, consistent and deeply human: How CEE Hub support the region organizations.
• Legal: Good intentions make for bad law in Utah, we argue in our amicus brief in the Netchoice v. Brown case.
• Wikimedia Organizations: The Wikimedia Foundation and a group of experienced co-authors with affiliate background have drafted the paper Towards a Healthy Ecosystem of Wikimedia Organizations. This paper aims to be presented as a proposal for the movement at Wikimania in August 2025 in Nairobi. Share your feedback before July 29.
• Advocacy: We have created The Wikipedia Test: a public policy tool and a call to action to help ensure regulators consider how new laws can negatively affect online communities and platforms that provide services and information in the public interest.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: The next showcase will center around the theme of "Examining the Impact of LLMs on Knowledge Production Communities" and will take place on July 16 at 16:30 UTC.
• Administrative Update to Our Privacy Policies: Following personnel changes, we are removing the name of our former point of contact serving the European Economic Area and the UK for questions and requests related to personal data in the privacy policy and donor privacy policy.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Affiliations Committee: New resolution from AffComm on User Group recognition interval period.

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 · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:54, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 July 2025

• News and notes: Is no WikiNews good WikiNews? — Election season returns!
  Endowment tax form, Wikimania, elections, U4C, fundraising and a duck!

• In the media: How bad (or good) is Wikipedia?
  And how do we know?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Medicine reaches milestone of zero unreferenced articles
  Five-year journey comes to healthy fruition.

• In focus: Wikimania 2025: Connecting Wikimedians across the world for 20 years
  Wikimedians from around the world will gather in person and online at the twentieth annual meeting of Wikimania.

• Recent research: Knowledge manipulation on Russia's Wikipedia fork; Marxist critique of Wikidata license; call to analyze power relations of Wikipedia
  As well as "hermeneutic excursions" and other scientific research findings.

• News from the WMF: Form 990 released for the Wikimedia Foundation’s fiscal year 2023-2024
  The report covers the Foundation's operations from July 2023 - June 2024

• Discussion report: Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred
  A step towards objective and comprehensive coverage of a project nearly too big to follow.

• Comix: Divorce
  Drawn this century!

• Opinion: Women are somewhat under-represented on the English-language Wikipedia, and other observations from analysis
  How data from the Wikipedia "necessary articles" lists can shed new light on the gender gap

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 4): The Future Of Wikimedia and Conclusion
  Annual plans, external trends, infrastructure, equity, safety, and effectiveness. What does it all mean?

• Obituary: Pvmoutside, Atomicjohn, Rdmoore6, Jaknouse, Morven, Martin of Sheffield, MarnetteD, Herewhy, BabelStone
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: God only knows
  Wouldn't it be nice without billionaires, scandals, deaths, and wars?

• Humour: New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia
  If you are too blasé for Mr. Blasé and don't give a FAC.

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Your talk page archive

Most Wikipedia editors archive their talk page from time to time, and most editors make multiple archive pages. In contrast, you've created one monolithic archive page, which is now 1,315,380 bytes, which is enormous by Wikipedia standards. I came to talk page archive because it is listed at Links in links lint errors, in fact right now it is the only page listed there. The crazy thing is, the line of markup that is detected as having a links in links error does not seem to have anything wrong with it. Maybe the real problem is that the page is so big that the linter can't handle it. I encourage you to break up your talk page archive into smaller pieces. If you do, consider a target size of somewhere between 50,000 and 200,000 bytes. If your target size is 100,000 bytes, you would end up with about 13 or 14 archive pages. I hope you will consider it. You probably already know about Help:Archiving a talk page. Cheers, Anomalocaris (talk) 13:40, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

@Anomalocaris: have chopped it up into bits and set up an auto-archive. I'd not come across the help page or bots before so thanks for flagging! Zeromonk (talk) 09:24, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Congratulations. I noticed that the archive box isn't listing your archive pages. I archive my own talk page manually and I've never set up a bot for archiving, but I think it works as follows. You've set it up this way:

• {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis|archiveprefix=User talk:Zeromonk/Archives/|format=Y/F|age=2160|archivebox=yes|box-advert=yes}}
• Archive pages User talk:Zeromonk/Archive1, User talk:Zeromonk/Archive2, ...

I don't know, but think this would work:

• {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis|archiveprefix=User talk:Zeromonk/Archive|format=%%i|age=2160|archivebox=yes|box-advert=yes}}
• Archive pages User talk:Zeromonk/Archive 1, User talk:Zeromonk/Archive 2, ...

I formed this conclusion by going to Special:WhatLinksHere/User:ClueBot_III/ArchiveThis to find pages that use this tool, and then I clicked on Talk:Archaeology, which includes this:

{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis
| age                 =2160
| archiveprefix       =Talk:Archaeology/Archive
| numberstart         =2
| maxarchsize         =75000
| header              ={{Automatic archive navigator}}
| minkeepthreads      =5
| format              = %%i
}}

and the archive pages are Talk:Archaeology/Archive 1, Talk:Archaeology/Archive 2, ...

so this leads me to believe you're supposed to have a space just before the number in the archive file names. If you want to test if this is correct, you could try this code and move just the first archive page to have a space before "1", and if the archive box displays that file, then move all of the archive pages the same way. There is also Wikipedia:Help desk. Good luck! —Anomalocaris (talk) 17:38, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #689

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-07-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #688.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Wikimedia and Open Knowledge Conference (survey) is being planned for 2026 in Poland. This event is to focus on research carried out on or with Wikidata and Wikipedia. Your opinion is wanted! Please fill out the Google Forms survey to help the organisation committee plan. Also available in Polish and Ukrainian.
  • Wikimania 2025 Program is Live! This is also the time to add your Wikidata meetups. Please start marking your preferred Wikimania sessions (⭐/like) and mark to your mobile apps or calendars. If you are joining online to watch live stream and use the interactive features, please register on eventyay through wikimania.org (source)
• Past: Missed the Q3 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-07-15 (Q3 2025)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers: An educator framework for organizing Wikipedia editathons for computational biology (uses Wikidata to power the compbio-on-wiki.toolforge.org/ tool)

Tool of the week

• Wikinity A tool allowing you to find (un)photographed objects, so you can take a picture of them and send it to Wikidata. The tool was created By Martin Urbanec

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Call for Papers is now open for the Journal of Open Humanities Data special collection: "Wikidata across the Humanities: datasets, methodologies, reuse." This editorial will explore how Wikidata is transforming research and collaboration in the humanities. If you're working on a relevant project, submit your proposal here
• What belongs where in the Wikibase Ecosystem? There is ongoing research to better understand what people are currently thinking about this and you can take part by sorting some scenarios.
• Wikimedia Deutschland is inviting further feedback on the Mobile Editing Experience prototype (currently just a design file so not everything is clickable). Please follow the instructions below and share your thoughts at Wikidata talk:Usability and usefulness/Item editing experience/Mobile editing of statements:
  • Add "business woman" as an occupation
  • Add a start date to the relationship with A$AP Rocky and provide a reference
  • Find the place of birth (Saint Michael) and open that page
  • Add the coordinate location for Saint Michael

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes:
  • ‎matricule number (identifier for a football club affiliated with the Royal Belgian Football Association)
  • ‎settlement classification (type of settlement according to a topographical classification)
  • Polyhedron net (a net of attached 2D polygon created for each polyhedron)
• New External identifiers: National Library of Uruguay book ID, The Jerusalem Post topic ID, Physicians of Georgia Biographical Dictionary ID, eFloraMEX ID, Theatre museums of Russia person ID, Georgian Athletes Biographical Dictionary ID, Georgian Winemakers ID, Ukrainian Book of Remembrance person ID, BORIS Portal Unibe ID, Society for the Promotion of Literacy among Georgians Members ID, Deaf Movie Database title ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • identifiant Generation MSX d'un matériel (hardware identifier in the Generation MSX database of MSX videogames)
  • Polish Taxpayer Identification Number (an identifier for an entity paying taxes in Poland)
  • official roster page (URL of a team's official page about this player)
  • transistor density (density of transistors for classifying the complexity of discrete circuits)
  • Historische Bildpostkarten Universität Osnabrück - Entities (Identificator for persons and publishers of historical picture postcards)
  • grave (grave of a person)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: fanlore article id, Afrikaregisteret ID, Hong Kong company ID, California Entity Number, Macanese company ID, Corporation Number in Canada, QCC Code, Cyprus company ID, Malta company ID, GEMI Number, CUIT, Jamaica company ID, SEC Number, Mã số doanh nghiệp, movieID, Thailand company ID, PCPartPicker chipset ID, gosfilmofond.ru ID, Directorio de museos del Sistema de Información Cultural, Burmese company ID, Cambodian company ID, Georgian Encyclopedia ID, Vintagepostcards-Archive-ID, MacPorts port, Berardi Arte artist ID, Adult Film Database director ID, Elonet company ID, dvdcompare.net film id, SpaceReference.org celestial object ID, English solicitors ID, Deaf Movie Database person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Mathematical formulae containing HTML escapes https://w.wiki/EoeL]
  • Most frequent objects depicted on coats of arms (source)
• Showcase Items: Finding Forrester (Q1140439) - 2000 film directed by Gus Van Sant
• Showcase Lexemes: Września (L1372236) - Polish proper noun (ˈvʐɛɕ.ɲa) meaning "September (month)", "town in Greater Poland", or "village in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship"

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We have enabled the new Item Prefix Search endpoint on wikidata. You can try it out now with a call like this: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/suggest/items?language=en&q=potat If you have feedback please leave it at Wikidata talk:REST API feedback round
• Additional APIs: We are looking a bit more into GraphQL and what it could offer to make programmatic access to Wikidata's data better.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We enabled showing the labels of entities in edit summaries in recent changes and watchlist. Now you no longer have to click to get to Wikidata and check what is behind a mystery ID in an edit summary coming from Wikidata.
• Mobile statement editing: We are working on formatting references, qualifiers, various data types and multiple statements for one property. We are planning to enable the new mobile UI on Beta Wikidata soon. Important: For now it is a read-only UI, as we have not started to implement editing yet, and some data types won’t have the correct appearance yet.

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: Vietnam
• 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!

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 14

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on July 11. Please help translate. The bulletin will be back after Wikimania with a special issue on the 19th August.

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Get Ready for Wikimania 2025!

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

• Wikimania 2025: Register to join virtually the 20th Wikimania taking place from August 6-9. The programme has highlights from across Wikimedia projects and communities including the reveal of who will be this year's Wikimedians of the year.
• Strengthening a neutral point of view: An overview of NPOV policies across Wikipedia projects, shows that 153 Wikipedias out of 342 (45%) don’t have easily accessible guidance on neutrality. The research was conducted to help understand how neutrality is ensured in our projects. and to provide an opportunity for peer learning across project communities. Read the full research and join the conversation.

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

• Tech News: See all the 60 community-submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks in Tech News week 29 and 30. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate.
• Temporary Accounts: After the rollout of temporary accounts on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, we are monitoring the impact of this change, and preparing for the next deployments. See the full project update.
• Add a link: Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers, as opposed to keeping it open to more experienced editors as well. "Add a link" helps newcomers to start editing, so restricting the feature to them enables Administrators to cater the feature to that specific group, which they can do via the Community Configuration feature.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events

• Digital Safety: PEN America shares 5 tips for bolstering your safety and privacy online.
• Amicus brief: Our amicus brief in Patterson v. Meta: Defending free speech and the open internet in another Section 230 legal case.
• UK Online Safety Act: Court hearings for the Wikimedia Foundation's challenge to the UK Online Safety Act "Categorisation Regulations" happened on July 22 and 23. A verdict is not expected until August.
• Advocacy sessions: Collaborate for change at these policy advocacy sessions at Wikimania 2025.
• Public-Interest content: Expanding Indonesian Wikipedia with Public-Interest Content through Project Gayatri.
• The Wikipedia Test: Learn how to use the Wikipedia Test, a tool to protect the public interest internet.
• Equity Fund: As it closes, the Equity Fund has announced its final round of grants to six past grantees. It will also be providing four "Connected Grants" to movement organizations who will pair closely with one of the grantees to collaborate together.
• Don't blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
• Content Translation: Translators who use the Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Regions" filter.
• Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions now has a new kind of Types: Wikidata-based enumerations, also known as light-weight enumerations.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Endowment: Sharing the Wikimedia Endowment’s Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 – 2024. Learn more from the frequently asked questions.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Annual plan: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the Foundation's annual plan for next year virtually in their quarterly meeting. You can read more about the goals for next year and a summary of the continuous conversations that shaped the plan.
• Board selection: The Elections Committee shared a list of the all eligible candidates. As there are more than 10 eligible candidates, a shortlisting process is currently taking place. Representatives of Wikimedia movement affiliates that are currently compliant with their reporting obligations can participate in the shortlisting process. Learn more about this process and next steps on Meta.

Foundation statements

• WIPO permanent observer: For fifth time, China blocks Wikimedia Foundation as permanent observer to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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 · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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Women in Red August 2025

Women in Red | August 2025, Vol 11, Issue 8, Nos. 326, 327, 344, 345, 346 Online events: New: Alphabet run O & P | Indigenous women | Film and stage Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Wikipedia:Developing Countries WikiContest runs 1 July 2025 until 30 September 2025 Tip of the month: Read the essay Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities to understand the criteria for status as Native American or Indigenous Canadian Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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This Month in Education: July 2025

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 7 • July 2025

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In This Issue

• Crafting Impactful Education Newsletters: Shared Insights from EduWiki 2025
• Educational Outreach with Youth Centers in Albania
• Discussing educational resources at WikiCon Brasil 2025
• Enhancing Mobile-Friendly Contribution in Wikimedia Education Programs
• The second semester of Leamos Wikipedia begins in Bolivia with challenges and learning
• When Travel Fails, Learning Continues: A Reflection from EduWiki 2025
• Wiki club in Kumanovo - the newest Wiki club of Wikimedia MKD
• Jaroslav Mašek: How KISK FF MU students used AI to write Wikipedia
• Various programmes up and rolling with Charles University Prague

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The Signpost: 9 August 2025

• News and notes: Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them
  Plus a mysterious CheckUser incident, and the news with Wikinews.

• Discussion report: News from ANI, AN, RSN, BLPN, ELN, FTN, and NPOVN
  A review of June, July and August.

• Disinformation report: The article in the most languages
  Who is this guy?

• Community view: News from the Villages Pump
  Threads since June.

• In the media: Disgrace, dive bars, deceased despots, and diverse dispatches
  And slop.

• Crossword: Accidental typography
  It's not a conlang, it's a crossword puzzle.

• Comix: best-laid schemes o' wikis an' men
  gang aft agley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy!

• Traffic report: I'm not the antichrist or the Superman
  Everybody's Somebody's Fool.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 15

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on July 25. Please help translate.

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Robert Sim (User:Robertsky), Wikimedian of the Year 2025

Group photo of hundreds of Wikimania attendees

Wikimania 2025 group photo

Special Wikimania issue This is a special Wikimania issue of the Bulletin. We'll be back to our regular format in the next issue

• Wikimania Nairobi: Catch up on missed sessions of Wikimania 2025 by checking session pages in the program. These links will be replaced by Commons links when the uploads are finished.
• Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2025: The Wikimedian of the Year awards give us an opportunity to pause, taking a moment to recognize people who make our mission possible. Learn about all of this year's winners.
• Highlights: Daily highlights from Wikimania:
  • Day 1 - Celebrating 20 years of Wikimania,
  • Day 2 - Technology in a changing world,
  • Day 3 - Connecting with communities in Africa,
  • Day 4 - Bringing generations together.
• Product and Tech: Wikimania 2025 sessions about Product and Tech you can watch, with links to the recordings.
• Affiliate Strategy: Wikimania 2025 Brings Affiliate Strategy Recommendations into Focus.
• Twentieth edition of Wikimania: Celebrating humans who make Wikipedia possible.

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

• Tech News: Some of the latest update from Tech News week 31, 32, and 33: The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16; The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.
• Collaborative Contributions: Share your comments on Collaborative Contributions. This project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis.
• PTAC: The Product and Technology Advisory Council published a set of proposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22.
• Watchlists and Recent Changes: The Foundation will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages over the next few months. Please read the latest update, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish on the topic.
• Wikifunctions: The Foundation is working on demonstrating functions that generate sentences and fragments in several languages. This is a considerable step towards creating text for Abstract Wikipedia.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events

• Wikimedia Futures Lab: The Wikimedia Futures Lab is a process and convening co-designed by the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland that will help us all learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses. You can apply now to join the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts.
• Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
• Language and Internationalization: Read about language support for new languages and other highlights from the July 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
• Language Community: The next language community meeting will be held on August 29 at 15:00 UTC.
• UK Online Safety Act: The High Court of Justice has dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation's challenge to the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations. While the decision does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we hoped for, the Court’s ruling emphasized the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia is protected as the OSA is implemented.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Affcom News: Read the latest issue of AffCom News (April-June 2025), the newsletter that distributes relevant news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.

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 · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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Women in Red September 2025

Women in Red | September 2025, Vol 11, Issue 9, Nos. 326, 327, 347, 348, 349 Recognized as the most active, topic-based WikiProject by human changes. Online events: New: Alphabet run Q & R | Women writers & their works | Microstates Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Wikipedia:Developing Countries WikiContest runs 1 July 2025 until 30 September 2025 Tip of the Month: Researching historical women writers who used pseudonyms requires careful investigation across multiple sources, as many women adopted pen names to avoid gender bias and judgment (e.g., being labeled a bluestocking) and, ultimately, to get published. Progress ("moving the needle"): The WikiProject Women in Red homepage is usually updated weekly, using the Humaniki tool. Sadly, Humaniki has been out of action since 23 June. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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Nomination for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!

Nominations for the upcoming Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:03, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2025

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 8 • August 2025

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In This Issue

• Bootcamp Wikipedia in Classroom
• Brazil launches campaign about Open Science on Wiki
• Breaking Barriers: Yoruba Wikipedia Fan Club Offa's Historic Wins
• Emerging Voices in Free Knowledge: The Journey of Wiki Club SATI
• From a Curious Student to a Wikimedia Leader
• From webinars to conferences: Wikimedia Ukraine’s approach to events for educators
• Higher education with Wikipedia in Spain
• Scientific Contribution from Serbia: Wikipedia in Education Research Published in a Prestigious Journal
• Teachers with Wikipedia. What if we create a Spanish-speaking collaboration network
• The brains behind Wikipedia
• Why EduWiki Should Be Considered by Policymakers
• Wikimedia Chile in Visviri: Free knowledge and education at Chile’s starting point
• Wikipedia as a tool presented at Media Education Summer School for Teachers
• Wikipedia vs AI at La Trobe University
• St Aloysius University – Wikipedia training session for newcomers
• Wiki Loves Academics, WUGN Kaduna
• In Just 3 Minutes: The Power of Wiki Education
• Sensing Cebu: Fieldnotes of an Academic as a Wiki Volunteer

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 16

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on August 16. Please help translate.

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Wikipedia’s 25th birthday logo.

Wikipedia 25 Birthday cake

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

• Wikimedia Futures Lab: Apply before Sep 4 to join The Wikimedia Futures Lab, the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts, to learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses.
• Wikimania 2026: The theme and date for Wikimania 2026 have been decided: Liberté, Équité, Fiabilité (Freedom, Equity, Reliability). This edition will take place in Paris, from July 21 to July 25, 2026.

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

• Tech News: Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 34 and 35: An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki and English Wikipedia for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September; Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find.
• Spread Wikilove, thank comments: A new improvement was added to the "Discussion tools" Beta feature; it is now possible to thank a user for their comment. This new feature is released for a 3-months long test.
• Community Wishlist: Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish.
• Wikipedia Mobile Apps: The Android app team has launched a new experiment in Italy that lets logged-out readers of Italian and English Wikipedia set their own donation reminders based on how often they read. This new approach responds to feedback from donors who say their motivation to give is tied to their reading habits. Instead of one-size-fits-all banners, readers can now choose reminders that fit their own usage, all while keeping their privacy intact.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events

• Wikipedia 25: To celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday, the Wikimedia Foundation is adding several resources to the Wikipedia 25 Meta-Wiki hub.
• The Wikipedia Library: Collections from Dow Jones & Company, including the The Wall Street Journal, are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library.
• Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Affiliate recognition: The recognition of new User Groups, Chapters, and Thematic Organizations is paused until March 31, 2026.
• Board of Trustees selection: The voting period for the upcoming Board selection process will now open on October 8 and close October 23.
• New Board member: Wikimedia Foundation welcomes incoming Board Trustee Mayree Clark.

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 · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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The Signpost: 9 September 2025

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation loses a round in court
  UK Online Safety Act remains undefeated.

• In the media: Congress probes, mayor whitewashed, AI stinks
  Plus Wiki rules, Wiki Spin, and physicists get street cred!

• Disinformation report: A guide for Congress
  The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.

• Recent research: Minority-language Wikipedias, and Wikidata for botanists
  And other new research findings.

• Technology report: A new way to read Wikisource
  Tis true: there's magic in the web of it.

• Traffic report: Check out some new Weapons, weapon of choice
  With the usual mix of war, death, super heroes, a belt, and Wednesday.

• Essay: The one question
  It's an easy one.

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Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!

Voting for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open! A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. Voting closes at 23:59 UTC on 29 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:26, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 17

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on August 29. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

• Wikimania 2026: The scholarship application for Wikimania 2026 is open. Apply now by October 31.
• Wikipedia 25: Help us find inspiring stories to share during birthday celebrations by September 23.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: "Readers and Readership Research" will be the featured theme for the next research showcase taking place on September 24 at 16:30 UTC.
• Update to banner and logo policies: Feedback is requested on proposed policy and documentation updates regarding the use of banners and logos for advocacy purposes.
• GLAM Wiki 2025: The registration for GLAM Wiki Conference is open until September 30.

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 protect Wikimedia from malicious bots

• Better bot detection: How we are improving bot detection and replacing our CAPTCHA.
• Temporary Accounts: Temporary accounts are now deployed to almost all wikis except the last 11.
• User Info: This new feature displays data related to a user account when you tap or click on the "user avatar" icon button next to a username. It's meant to be useful for different users with extended rights as well as newcomers.
• Newsletter highlights: The latest Readers Newsletter is now available. It includes considerations about Wikipedia's declining pageviews in the recent years, how the Foundation and communities may work on addressing this together, and the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience.
• Activity Tab Experiment: The Foundation launched an experiment testing a new Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app to our beta testers. Instead of only showing editing activity, this tab also surfaces insights about reading and donation behavior.
• Search Suggestions: To make it easier for users to find articles, logged-out users on both desktop and mobile will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. All non-English wikis received this update in June and July.
• Paste Check: The Foundation is working on a new check: Paste check. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted to ensure it is aligned with the Movement's values. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis.
• CampaignEvents extension: The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the information page.
• Structured Task: The Add a Link Structured Task has been fully released at English Wikipedia. This release is an important step in making editing more accessible for new contributors, especially on mobile.
• Tech News: Read more updates from Tech News week 36 and 37.
• Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions is now available on 65 Wiktionaries and has a new capability to copy function calls from one Wikipedia to another.
• Multilingual Contributors: The Language and Product Localisation team is launching a CentralNotice campaign to attract multilingual contributors to specific Wikipedias. The campaign will feature regionally targeted banners to reach potential native speakers.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events

• Global Resources: Introducing the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee (GRDC).
• Funding the Movement: Key Takeaways, Trends, and Lessons from FY 2024-2025 Community Fund Grants.
• Open Indonesia: Reflections on Open Indonesia, an event in Bandung gathering communities dedicated to advancing open knowledge to build the country's Open Knowledge Roadmap.
• WikiWomen*: Reflections from the WikiWomen* Summit 2025.
• Gender & AI: Is Gendering AI Possible? Reflections from the 2025 Gendering AI Conference.
• Wikipedia 25: What one centenarian can teach us about 25 years of Wikipedia.
• Knowledge Equity Fund: Wikimedia Ghana User Group receives Knowledge Equity Fund Connected Grant.
• Wikimania 2025: ESEAP First Timers at Wikimania Nairobi.
• César do Paço Lawsuit: Update about a lawsuit in Portugal and the Foundation's appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
• UK Online Safety Act: The Wikimedia Foundation will not appeal the UK High Court’s decision to dismiss our challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• August board meeting: Updates on board appointments and selection, CEO search, work to strengthen Wikipedia's approach to neutral point of view and updates on three pilots around more shared decision-making and shared accountability across the movement.
• New Endowment board members: Welcoming New Wikimedia Endowment Board Members, Kevin Bonebrake and Ike Kier.

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 · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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Women in Red | October 2025, Vol 11, Issue 10

Women in Red | October 2025, Vol 11, Issue 10, Nos. 326, 327, 350, 351, 352 Recognized as the most active topic-based WikiProject by human changes. Online events: New: Alphabet run S & T | Women in STEM | Halloween Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Sister wikiproject Women in Green October 2025 Good Article Edit-a-thon focuses on What Women Do Tip of the Month: Notable does not always mean admirable; you don't have to like an article's subject to make the article a useful contribution to Wikipedia. Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via various tools: previously, Humaniki tool; currently, QLever. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 6,283 articles during this period: 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280; 415,618 women) 24 September 2025: 20.20% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,088,533 biographies; 421,901 women) Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 18

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on September 13. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

• CEE Meeting: Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 26-28.
• Learning Clinic: The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic will talk about "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool" and will take place on September 30 at 13:00 UTC.
• Big Fat Brussels Meeting: The tenth in-person gathering of Wikimedians enthusiastic in free knowledge advocacy, Big Fat Brussels Meeting, will take place on October 3-4.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture" will be the featured theme for the next research showcase taking place on October 15 at 16:30 UTC.

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

Wikifunctions now available on 123 Wiktionaries

• Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week 38 and 39.
• Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions is now available on 123 Wiktionary languages and have more than 3,000 functions available.
• Collaborative Contributions: A new feature, called Collaborative Contributions, allows editors to see the impact of their collaborative editing activities. It was live demoed earlier and you can follow instructions to test it out.
• CampaignEvents extension: The CampaignEvents extension was deployed to Wikimedia Commons and all Wikisources -80+ wikis.
• Event registration: Starting the week of October 6, on small and medium wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration as an organizer. No changes will be made for large wikis unless requested in Phabricator. More information on Meta.
• Search Suggestions: Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users now see suggestions of articles for further reading on all Wikipedias, in order to make it easier for users to find articles.
• Datacenter server switchover: A successful datacenter server switchover backup test took place on September 24.
• Activity Tab now on Android: Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events

• Banners & Logos policies: The Wikimedia Foundation has published draft proposals for policies related to the use of banners and logo changes for advocacy purposes.
• Wikipedia 25: Wikimedia Foundation is creating playful, celebratory interventions on the Wikipedia portal page, the Wikipedia app, and potentially any interested Wikipedias to celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday. Please share your inputs and add your username on the Talk page if you think your community would be interested in participating.
• Regional Funds: Welcoming new ESEAP Regional Funds Committee Members.
• Peer Learning: Reflections from Let’s Connect at Wikimania Nairobi 2025.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Enterprise: Structured Contents now supports Wikipedia tables as structured JSON.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Wikimedia Georgia: Wikimedia Georgia becomes the newest Wikimedia Chapter.

Foundation statements

• Knowledge integrity: The Wikimedia Foundation launches a new series that explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.

Highlights from 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 · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

• National award: Wikipedian and current chair of Wikimedia Deutschland, Alice Wiegand, receives the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her voluntary commitment to Wikipedia and the global Wikimedia movement.
• Supporting admins and patrollers: Motivating, training and networking – Wikimedia Ukraine’s plan to support Wikipedia admins and patrollers.
• Wikimania roundup: A roundup of Wikimania and this year's Wikimedians of the year by the French-speaking community's newsletter, Regards sur l’actualité du mouvement Wikimédia (Views on Wikimedia movement's events, or RAW).

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The Signpost: 2 October 2025

• News and notes: Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"; WMF publishes transparency report
  This time "not merely negative".

• In the media: Extraordinary eruption of "EVIL" explained
  Wickedpedia wrangles post-truth politics.

• Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client
  Unexpected news!

• Discussion report: Sourcing, conduct, policy and LLMs: another 1,339 threads analyzed
  Fifty hot topics from fourteen noticeboards.

• Community view: The pressing questions of the modern WWW, as seen from the Village Pump
  Policy, politics, icons, captchas, and LLMs.

• Recent research: Is Wikipedia a merchant of (non-)doubt for glyphosate?; eight projects awarded Wikimedia Research Fund grants
  And other recent publications.

• Opinion: Some disputes aren't worth it
  When to walk away.

• Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name
  Celebrities, deaths and software.

• Comix: A grand spectacle
  All invited!

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This Month in Education: September 2025

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 9 • September 2025

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In This Issue

• Brazil organizes seminar to discuss open science and scientific dissemination
• CBSUA Recognizes Wiki Training Completers, Awards Feminism & Folklore 2025 Winners
• 2nd International Conference on Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures Mexico 2025
• Accredited seminar for teachers in Veliko Gradište
• Breaking Barriers, Why open Knowledge matters
• Cross-Continental Knowledge Exchange: Offa Youth Impact Initiative and St Aloysius University in 3D Education Outreach
• Igbo Language Audio Project in the Igbo Wiki Fan Club IMSU & Alvan
• Let's Read Wikipedia reached teachers of the Weenhayek indigenous nation in Bolivia
• Monograph on Wikipedia in the classroom, Docere Magazine
• The Third Training Course of the “Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom” Program in Jordan
• The Ukrainian Educators’ Wikimedia Conference 2025
• Wikimedia MKD's edit-a-thon: Lakes
• Free culture in the classroom
• Wikimedia Rwanda Wiki clubs

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 19

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on September 26. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

• Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Selection: Announcement of the final ballot for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election and more answers about the decision. Eligible voters can vote between October 8 – October 23.
• Wikipedia 25: Are you planning to organize events to celebrate Wikipedia's 25th birthday? The Wikimedia Foundation offers grants to support active Wikimedia groups in organizing short-term, low-cost projects to celebrate this milestone. Applications are open until November 1.
• WikiConference North America 2025: WikiConference North America will take place from October 16–19 in New York City, USA.

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

Dark Mode will soon be available on all Wikimedia sites.

• Mobile Editing: Insights on mobile web editing on Wikipedia in 2025 are now available. This report highlights that ~95% of IP mobile users editing via wikitext open the editor but make no changes at all, a vast untapped potential. It also pinpoints where contributors most often drop off.
• Dark Mode: Dark Mode user interface will be rolled out on all Wikimedia sites on October 29. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations.
• Community wishlist extension: The new Community Wishlist extension has been released. This will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances.
• Paste Check: 22 Wikis are now testing a new Edit Check feature, Paste Check, to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content.
• Tone Check: The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits.
• Search Suggestions: Search Suggestions was deployed on English Wikipedia. Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature is available on both desktop and mobile.
• Unsupported Tools Working Group: A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed to help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. The group has chosen Video2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.
• Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week 40 and 41 including about Sub-referencing – a new feature to re-use references with different details.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: Don't miss the next Wikimedia Research Showcase, "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata's Role in Learning and Culture" taking place on October 15 at 16:30 UTC.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events

• Wikimania: Wikimania Nairobi has been featured in more than 100 stories across community platforms and international media outlets.
• Wikifunctions: Rich text is now available for embedded Wikifunctions calls across the 150 wikis where it’s enabled.
• WikiLearn: New Wikipedia online courses you can join to strengthen your Wikimedia editing skills.
• Human Rights: Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human: Wikimedia Foundation publishes a Human Rights Impact Assessment on the interaction of AI and machine learning with Wikimedia projects.
• Don't blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
• Digital Safety & Privacy: Frequently Asked Questions about Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Work.
• Transparency Report: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Latest Transparency Report.
• Privacy Policy: The Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy is getting a minor update in preparation for Temporary Accounts.
• Learning Clinic: Join the next Let's Connect Learning Clinic on the topic of "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool (Part 2)" taking place on October 20 at 17:00 UTC.

Foundation statements

• Knowledge integrity: Lessons from Wikipedia on the 3 building blocks of trustworthy information. This is part of the new series from the Wikimedia Foundation that explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.

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 · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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The Signpost: 20 October 2025

• News and notes: Board shuffles, LLM blocks increase, IPs are going away
  And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.

• Special report: The election that isn't
  Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.

• Interview: The BoT bump
  Who was bumped and why?

• In the media: An incident at WikiConference North America; WMF reports AI-related traffic drop and explains Wikipedia to US conservatives
  ...while Musk prepares to launch "Grokipedia".

• Traffic report: One click after another
  Serial-killer miniseries, deceased scientist, government shutdowns and Sandalwood hit "Kantara" crowd the tubes.

• Humour: Wikipedia pay rates
  Don't get too excited before you read this.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 20

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on October 11. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

• Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection: Additional perspectives on current and future board selection processes.
• Global trends: We are seeing 8% declines in human page views on Wikipedia as some users don't directly visit Wikipedia to get information. Learn about this new user trend, how the Wikimedia Foundation anticipate these changes, and how you can help.
• WECUDI 2025: The second conference of Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures will be held from October 29–31 in Mexico City, Mexico.
• GLAM Conference: Wiki GLAM Culture and Heritage Conference (WGCHC) will take place on 30 October – 1 November in Lisbon, Portugal.
• WikidataCon 2025: WikidataCon 2025 will take place online from October 31 – November 2.

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

The naming contest for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing.

• Making it easier to say thanks: Users on most wikis will now have the ability to thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page.
• Account security: Improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. Another part of the project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity.
• Abstract Wikipedia: The naming contest for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing. Voting is now open until November 3.
• Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week 42 and 43 including the community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Wikimedia apps: The Wikipedia iOS App launched an A/B/C test of improvements to the Tabbed browsing feature into Beta for select regions & languages. Called “More dynamic tabs”, the experiment adds user-requested improvements and introduces article recommendations within the tabs overview, showing “Did you know” or “Because you read” content depending on how many tabs are open.
• CampaignEvents extension: Campaignevents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities.
• Event registration tool: Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events

• Digital safety: Explore how you can help make Wikimedia safer by taking our new self-paced course, Safety for Young Wikimedians.
• Wikimedia Core Curriculum: The Wikimedia Foundation has developed seven online video learning modules covering the core English Wikipedia policies. You are invited to use, adapt, and translate the course.
• Advocacy: The Wikimedia Foundation has signed onto a statement that calls on governments and UN bodies to keep discussions about the future of internet governance accessible to non-government actors like industry and civil society. This statement is part of ongoing joint advocacy with affiliates to influence UN discussions about the future of internet governance such as the Global Digital Compact campaign and WSIS+20 deliberations.
• GLAM: The Wikimedia Foundation and several affiliates have signed onto the Open Heritage Statement, which supports galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions) to have the legal rights they need to collect, preserve, and provide access to cultural heritage.

Foundation statements

• How Wikipedia works: Wikimedia Foundation responds to questions about how Wikipedia works.

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 · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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Women in Red - November 2025

Women in Red | November 2025, Vol 11, Issue 11, Nos. 326, 327, 353, 354 Recognized as the most active topic-based WikiProject by human changes. Online events: New: Alphabet run: U, V, W | Asian women Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Women in Red's Asian women event is part of the global Wikipedia Asian Month 2025 campaign. You are welcome to add your contributions to both event pages. Tip of the Month: Verifiability is increasingly important as AI evolves. You should ensure that every statement made is adequately sourced. There should be no less than three independent reliable sources for each biography, including at least one source for each paragraph. Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via various tools: previously, Humaniki tool; currently, QLever. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 20,473 articles created in the past year. 21 Oct 2024, 19.963% of biographies on EN-WP were about women (2,030,245 biographies; 405,305 women) 28 Oct 2025: 20.23% of biographies on EN-WP were about women (2,094,677 biographies; 423,778 women) Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help wanted! Want to apply your skills or learn new ones? Help us plan monthly events, design event logos, come up with a tip-of-the-month, and/or provide any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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November article improvement drive

Starting on 1 November, the month-long 2025 Article Improvement Drive will target a number of content improvement areas and backlogs. Participating editors will be in line for barnstars and other awards; articles from all aspects of the project will be eligible so there will be something for everybody. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up now! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:18, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

This Month in Education: October 2025

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 10 • October 2025

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In This Issue

• "WikiDonne Internship: Wikimedia Platforms for Open Education and Inclusive Culture!" winner at the Open Education Awards 2025
• A Proud Chapter in My Wikimedia Journey 🇳🇬: From Editor to Organizer
• Debating open science and scientific dissemination in Brazil
• Enhancing Academic Articles on Wikipedia with the State University of Jakarta
• India’s Students and Educators Lead the Way in the Wiki Science Competition 2025
• JDACA & Amman Arab University
• New starting page for Wikipedia users had been launched in September
• Teaching Evidence Synthesis Automation with the Wikipedia–Kaggle Dataset
• Wikimedia MKD’s Education Program activities for October
• Wikimedia Serbia prepares eight annual Edu Wiki camp
• Wikivoyage editathon in Peshkopia, Albania

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The Signpost: 10 November 2025

• News and notes: Temporary accounts go live and WMF board member self-suspends
  ArbCom elections draw close, and Wikimania '27 in Santiago.

• Community view: Six Wikipedians' thoughts on Grokipedia, and the humanity of it all
  It ain't a five course meal, according to one of our interviewees.

• Wikicup report: BeanieFan11, WikiCup victor of 2025, covers the results
  Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

• In the media: Jimbo's book, an argument about genocide, and a train of shame
  Wikipedia's new rival, political controversy in Italy and other Wiki-reports.

• Recent research: Taking stock of the 2024–2025 research grants
  $400,000 USD in total funding: what did we get?

• Opinion: With Grokipedia, top-down control of knowledge is new again
  Does it shed any light on particular topics that are better suited to LLM-generation than others?

• Obituary: Struway
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: The documentaried, the disowned, the deceased, Diwali and the Dodgers
  You know your man is working hard, he's worth a deuce.

• Comix: Head of steam
  'Sblood!

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 21

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on October 24. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
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Wikimania Santiago will happen in 2027.

• Wikimania 2027: Santiago, Chile is announced as the location for Wikimania 2027. The annual conference returns to Latin America after more than 10 years, following previous editions in Buenos Aires (2009) and Mexico City (2015).
• Wikidata recognized as a Digital Public Good: Wikidata became the second Wikimedia project to be officially recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance.

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

• Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week 44 and 45 including the community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Activity Tab: The Wikipedia Android app expands the new Activity tab to all users. It offers a complete view of your Wikipedia activity: reading time, saved articles, edits, and donation history (for known donors). This change aims to make Wikipedia a more engaging experience for readers and contributors alike, while keeping all personal data private and stored locally on your device.
• Tabbed browsing: Tabbed browsing is now available on the Wikipedia App for iOS. Tabs will let you keep more than one article open at a time, making it easier to explore complex topics, follow links without losing your place, and pick up where you left off.
• CampaignEvents extension: Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
• Image browsing: The Wikimedia Foundation launched image browsing, an experiment that puts images on top of your Wikipedia article reading journey, on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
• Temporary accounts: Temporary Accounts are now enabled on 1,000+ projects including English Wikipedia.
• Abstract Wikipedia naming contest: The first round of “abstract content wiki” naming vote has ended and the first legal review had begun to determine the 6 names that will make it to the second round on November 17.
• Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions is now deployed across 12 Wiktionaries and 4 Wikipedias.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events

Digital Safety Resource Center provides tips and tools to protect yourself online.

• Privacy in Wikipedia research: The Wikimedia Foundation published Privacy in Public: Navigating Research, Personal Data, and Safety on Wikipedia, a whitepaper which guides researchers in navigating privacy of Wikipedia editors in their research. Read the highlights and key takeaways for researchers and Wikipedians.
• Digital Safety: The Wikimedia Foundation is launching Digital Safety Office Hours to explore how to stay safe digitally, what does digital safety mean, what extra precautions can Wikimedians take. The first session will take place on November 28 at 9 AM and 7 PM UTC. Check out also our Digital Safety Resources Center to learn practical tips and tools you can use immediately.
• Volunteer roles for movement governance: The Movement governance committees are seeking new volunteers to support essential and high-impact work across the Wikimedia ecosystem. The current appointment cycle is open for the AffCom, Ombuds Commission, and Case Review Committee. Applications for these committees will remain open until December 11. The team will host a community conversation on November 26, at 3 AM UTC.
• Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
• Wikimedia Core Curriculum: Want to learn how to edit Wikipedia? – A new free self-paced course, all in video with subtitles, is available from the Wikimedia Foundation!

Foundation statements

• Transparency builds trust: The latest edition from the series "Lessons from Wikipedia" explores how deep transparency has helped make Wikipedia one of the most trusted sources on the internet.

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 · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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