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The Signpost: 1 December 2025

News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!
Admin and ArbCom elections upcoming, BoT elects two new members, task force advises to close Wikinews and keep Wikispore, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

In the media: Wales walk-off, antisemitism, supernatural powers, feminism turmoil, saints, and sex
Plus mammoth mummy sex-change operation completed!

Recent research: At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?
And other recent publications about contradictions and retractions.

Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
At work on Wikipedia whitewashing. How much should they be paid?

Traffic report: It's a family affair
Even in these times there is something to be thankful for!

Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust
Jimmy Wales and Dan Gardner write a book inspired by Wikipedia. What's in it?

From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."
The twists and turns of Epstein’s portrayal on Wikipedia.

Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan
A conversation about being the mascot of Wikipedia.

Opinion: AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
Using ChatGPT to fact-check a month's worth of Today's featured articles.

Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025
A recap of the latest convention of the Italian Wiki-community, held in Catania from 7–9 November.

Comix: Madness
It could happen to anyone.

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Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Reform_UK "leader in" in phrase "Farage stepped down as leader in March 2021" is not promotional GothicGolem29 (Talk) 02:38, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #708

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #707.

Discussions

A Project Chat discussion (here) on mul / fallback language for Labels, Descriptions and Aliases has continued on Help Talk: Default values for labels and aliases

Events

Upcoming events:
- Mark your calendars
  - Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map
    February 2 & April 20 (German) / June 2 (French), 2026. Workshops are on-site and online, registration mandatory (closes January 20).
  - Citizen Technology Community Gathering and Taiwan Translation Launch of Linked Open Data Documents December 7 Time: 13:30-16:50 UTC+8 at West District (Q707524) Xi Project
  - OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #83 December 8 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs:
Papers: Benchmarking SPARQL Engines on Wikidata Queries - Four open-source SPARQL engines were benchmarked on Wikidata, with QLever fastest, Blazegraph slower, and all showing SPARQL standard deviations. By Peter F. Patel-Schneider (2025).
Videos:
- Records in Contexts (RiC) Wikibase Working Session - Regine Heberlein of the (SAA) Description Section Steering Committee hosts a workshop on Wikibase implementation of the Records in Context Conceptual Model (RiC-CM).
- Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate - Follow along as WMDE's Lukas Werkmeister expands Items of Berlin Stoelpersteine.
- Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature - by Dr Thneed

Tool of the week

Prix Littéraires lists French-speaking literary prizes and their recipients, also computing statistics (see also WikiProject)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Nov 27: The Wikibase Community User Group met for a Wikibase Live Session and to discuss the Federated Values demonstration.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest External identifiers: Federal Taxpayer Registry ID, WDSF athlete ID, TikTok numeric user ID, USGS Publication ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- concurring opinion by (judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court agreeing with the majority's final decision but providing different or additional reasons)
- audio version of text (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).)
- Hong Kong fire alarm level (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
- overnight stays (number of tourists that stay overnight at a place)
- specimen determiner (person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
- collection date (the date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
- position holder name string (name of person holding a position)
- Crowdfunding target (target goal of this Crowdfunding campaign)
  - image sensor format (shape and size of a digital camera's image sensor)
- random page URL (link to random page on website)
- translates from (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from)
New External identifier property proposals to review: Twitter broadcast ID, Petal Maps Place ID, MJ character glyph name, Mastercaller player ID, dartn.de player ID, darts1.de player ID, pdpa.co.uk player ID, Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID, Theaterencyclopedie-identificatiecode, Buy Me a Coffee username, GoFundMe ID, Identifiant Maitron d'une biographie (nouvelle version), Michaelis Portuguese-English properties, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name slug, FCC ID Database company ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples: Objects bearing the handwriting of Moses Maimonides (Source)
Newest WikiProjects: Uzbekistan, Natural History Specimen Data Model
Newest database reports: Popular Items without Claims - these are the most-connected or linked Items that do not have any Statements.
Showcase Items: The Walt Disney Company

(Q7414) - American multinational mass media company

Showcase Lexemes: Showcase Lexemes: девочка (L103836) - Russian noun (dʲɪˈvot͡ɕkə) meaning "female child", "affectionate address to a woman", or "female organism"

Development

Mobile editing of statements:
- We have added editing support for more data types (entity IDs, geographical shapes and tabular data).
- It is now available as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org. You can enable it here.
Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are rolling out improvements to the Databox Lua module to a number of Wikipedias to make it easier to have out-of-the-box Wikidata-powered infoboxes
Ontology federation: We are making progress with making it possible to use Wikidata Item's as statement values in other Wikibase instances
GraphQL: We are continuing the work on the prototype, focusing on getting data from a batch of Items
Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is working on benchmarking of different replacement options for Blazegraph, the software powering the Wikidata Query Service

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: Togo
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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Tech News: 2025-49

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

Updates for editors

The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator.
Add a link will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF).
View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed. [1]
Two new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Toki Pona (w:tok:) [2]
- a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin (q:pcm:) [3]

Updates for technical contributors

Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:56, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Featured host

I see you are active at the Teahouse, so I put you in as a featured host (see Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host/Featured/10). Feel free to customize the picture to your liking. Interstellarity (talk) 15:39, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Interstellarity Thank you! I have added an image. Polygnotus (talk) 15:54, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Translated

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you translated text from nl:Graf met de handjes to Grave with the Hands. While you are welcome to translate Wikipedia content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing requires that you provide attribution to the contributor(s) of the original article. When translating from a foreign-language Wikipedia article, this is supplied at a minimum in an edit summary on the page where you add translated content, identifying it as a translation and linking it to the source page. Sample wording for this is given here. If you forgot, or were not aware of this requirement, attribution must be given retroactively, for example:

NOTE: Content in the edit of 01:25, January 25, 2023 was translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Exact name of French article]]; see its history for attribution.

Retroactive attribution may be added using a dummy edit; see Repairing insufficient attribution. It is good practice, especially if translation is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{translated page}} template on the talk page of the destination article. If you have added translated content previously which was not attributed at the time it was added, you must add attribution retrospectively, even if it was a long time ago. You can read more about author attribution and the reasons for it at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. GreenLipstickLesbian 💌🧸 07:20, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenLipstickLesbian I started the article, but as far as I can remember I didn't actually use the Dutch article. I don't see Wikipedia as a reliable source so I am more likely to just use the sources themselves. I can add a null edit tho if you like. Polygnotus (talk) 07:23, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's no need, I did that for you.

Meaning no disrespect to your memory (mine's rubbish), I'd find it hard to believe that you didn't draw from the Dutch article: compare this revision[4] with [5], and if you'd like a particular example them look at the paragraphs:

The cemetery Nabij Kapel in ’t Zand, colloquially known as "Oude Kerkhof" (the 'Old Cemetery'), originally served as a Jewish burial ground. By the late 18th century, it was expanded to accommodate other residents of Roermond. Architect Pierre Cuypers undertook a redesign of the cemetery in 1858, creating separate sections for Catholic and Protestant burials, divided by a wall.

(from the former)

and

The cemetery "Nabij de Kapel in 't Zand," popularly known as the "Oude Kerkhof," was originally a Jewish cemetery. At the end of the 18th century, it was expanded to include burial space for other residents of Roermond. Architect Pierre Cuypers redesigned the cemetery in 1858. Among other things, a Catholic and a Reformed section were established, separated by a wall.

(from the latter)

GreenLipstickLesbian 💌🧸 07:28, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenLipstickLesbian Thanks. It is certainly possible, but I can't really give a definitive answer so I go with a politicians "can't confirm or deny".

It is also possible this comes from the same source. I probably still have the backup in cold storage somewhere, so I could probably look it up if you want, but I do not remember so far back. Polygnotus (talk) 07:33, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Never believe anything until it's been officially denied", that's my motto!

Possible, but I hope not. I translate articles from other Wikipedias sometimes (though not for a while - Lee Dong-hwan (diplomat) is my last, I believe). It's fine. You have to check and source everything, but it's free content so you can pretty much do what you like with it. Unless your same source happens to be public domain, learning that you both took closely from a 3rd party source would be very scary. GreenLipstickLesbian 💌🧸 07:40, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenLipstickLesbian My wife wins every discussion because she just sounds so confident and I have no clue if what she is claiming (but you said...) is true or not so I just fold in every debate.

If she wanted to she could take advantage of my terrible memory so I just have to hope she doesn't. Polygnotus (talk) 07:52, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #709

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #708.

Discussions

New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Well, Well, Bot! - Task/s: Database imports, maintenance.
- RijksBot - Task/s: Adding Rijksmuseum IDs (P13234) to Wikidata items based on a CSV mapping of QIDs to Rijksmuseum URIs.
- CostamiriBot - Task/s: Chess related tasks such as monthly updates to the elo rating of chess players.
New draft: Wikidata:External identifiers/Obsolescence (opinions are welcome in its talk page)

Events

Upcoming events:
- How to view #25N with Wikidata? - a community hour with Wikimedia Chile, 21:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter)
- Fact-Checking with Wikidata Workshop - January 20, 2026, 16:30 ~ 18:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter) - WMDE's Philippe Saadé will show hands-on methods using the Wikidata MCP to retrieve, filter and classify Wikidata statements with semantic search, reranker LLM and NLI models, registration required.
- (Portuguese) Meeting Point Editatona II - Warm your hands modeling festival on Wikidata: December 10, 2025, 15:00 - 19:00 UTC+1, Porto, Portugal.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 9 December, 2025: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. Sessions will be held on October 14, November 25, and December 9, 2025 at our regular time of 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/PersonalPronouns
Past Events: Digital Humanities Hub: Documenting epigraphic data, Wikidata ontology practice - December 2 & 3, 2025, both 14:00 ~ 15:30 UTC.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs: Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Lafia
Papers:
- Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models - Chepurova et al., (2025)
- Victims of Posterity. Identifying Gaps on 19th-Century French Art History with Wikidata - first paper in the Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse collection by the Journal of Open Humanities Data. Authored by Claire Dupin de Beyssat.
Videos: GB Claude Code AI Agent: Fully Autonomous Wikidata Query & Visualization (Zero Human Intervention)
- (Taiwanese Mandarin) Wikidata Taiwan translation project on "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" (as published by the OCLC)

Tool of the week

Wikiguessr Game Is a Wikidata game it guess the location from Image from anywhere around the world by User: Ranjithsiji

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Remembering Amos Bairoch, co-contributor to Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Semantic Web of data and consulted often for TiagoLubiana's CellosaurusBot.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
- ‎GBFS feed URL (URL of a GBFS feed for the bicycle-sharing system)
- code of conduct URL (URL of a resource that contains the Code of Conduct of a project or organization)
Newest External identifiers: BFXC authority ID, Out tag ID, GayCities ID, Fight.ru fighters ID, Personality Database group ID, ‎Codes for the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China, Macanese company ID, ‎MovieID film ID, Teen Vogue tag ID, ‎CRT Database model ID, PriceRunner product ID, BWB number, Brandenburg School ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- fragrance gender (category for which a fragrance is marketed)
- perfumer (person who created a perfume)
- Discharge regime (The '''[[:en:Discharge regime|discharge regime]]''' can be Glacial, Nival or Pluvial. It can be a combination of 2 : Nivo-pluvial, Pluvio-nival, Nivo-glacial, etc. Be specific (e.g. pluvial tropical, meridional, etc.). Or be complex)
- minimal pair of (lexeme that differ from this one in only one phonological element)
New External identifier property proposals to review: Cookpad Recipe ID, Sector.sk game ID, Card Player ID, Fragrantica perfume ID, Fragrantica perfume brand ID, My Abandonware theme ID, Identificador Banrep Cultural, izoh.uz word ID, VGChartz game ID, Metacritic video game genre ID, Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID, Taking Stock ID, Game Font Library ID, Fragrantica perfume notes ID, EAGER game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
- Birthplace of French Heads of State
- Films starring Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hughes, available on YouTube
WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Turkmenistan
Showcase Items: Goosebumps - 2015 film directed by Rob Letterman
Showcase Lexemes: course (L3958) - English noun (kɔːrs) meaning "direction of movement", "program of study", or "part of a meal"

Development

Mobile statement editing:
- It's now possible to edit existing references (phab:T405236)
- We fixed a number of issues such as a problem when adding the first statements to an item (phab:T409069)
- We started work on showing constraint violation indicators (phab:T400676)
- We're working on showing errors in the edit form (phab:T408928)
- We're improving the edit summaries (phab:T411247)
Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We continued working on improvements to the Databox Lua module and template
GraphQL: We continued working on the first version of GraphQL support

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: Togo
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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Administrators' newsletter – December 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2025).

Administrator changes

Valereee

CheckUser changes

Spicy

Technical news

Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account associated with their edits.
Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). T382958

Miscellaneous

The December 2025 administrator elections are scheduled from Nov 25 – Dec 15.
An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in December 2025, with over 1,000 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

Sent byMediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:45, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-50

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

Weekly highlight

Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.

Updates for editors

Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [6]
The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. [7]
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [8]

Updates for technical contributors

Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [9]
Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated. [10]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DuplicateReferences false-positive

Gregory Retallack https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995Pbio...21..393W — GreenC 18:16, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Claude vs Gemini

Thanks for the info. I haven't tried Gemini, will do so soon. Do you think Claude is better? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 15:31, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Piotrus Less bad. I strongly prefer Claude. Polygnotus (talk) 15:40, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, I would gladly take the key if you have working ones to share. Best email me at my name at gmail. TIA. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:03, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Piotrus Take what you received by email and add this to it -7Iw3jtUTRRTeDG5ktvNPczCD6w-uEXo1QAA and then you have a working Claude key. Autoreload is disabled and you got a couple bucks. Polygnotus (talk) 01:17, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Any estimate what is the cost of a single article run? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:57, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Piotrus 2 or 3 USD cents maybe? Depends a bit on the length of the article. You can do about 160 articles with what is left in the account I think. Polygnotus (talk) 10:57, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 23

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on November 21. This will be the final bulletin for 2025 and we'll be back in late January 2026 with the next issue. Please help translate.

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

CEO appointment: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed Bernadette Meehan as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. She will be meeting communities around the puzzle globe when she officially joins on January 20, 2026.
Wikipedia's 25th birthday party: Join the virtual celebration for games, prizes, musical performances, volunteer spotlights, data visualization, surprise guests and more. January 15 at 16:00 UTC. Register on Meta.
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees: Join the next Conversation with the Trustees on December 11 at 17:30 UTC.

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

Wishathon: 15 patches were written and 5 merged, as part of a Wishathon for the Community Wishlist. One wish from the community was completed ("Preview page with this template" should not work with pages that do not transclude the template), and three more now have a clearer path forward.
Activity Tab on Mobile App: The Wikipedia iOS app is running an experiment that replaces the History tab with a redesigned Activity tab. This new tab surfaces personalized insights about reading, editing, and donations — all stored locally on your device for privacy. The goal is to see whether the new experience increases engagement and retention among logged-in readers.
Wikipedia Year in Review in Apps: The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 is now available for the iOS and Android apps. This year introduces new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs.
Add a Link: A feature that suggests links to be added to articles based on a prediction model, Add a link, has been deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time.
Abstract Wikipedia: The second round of voting on the name of Abstract Wikipedia concluded with Abstract Wikipedia as the top-voted name with 100 votes, followed by Wikigenerator with 91 votes. The name for the wiki project will now remain Abstract Wikipedia.
Anti-vandalism tool: Automoderator, now has the option to choose between two machine learning models to power the software on wikis using the tool.
Tools to support newcomers: Newcomers failing to add a citation to support added content has been one of the most common mistakes on Wikipedia. Reference Check, a tool that prompts them to add a citation before publishing an edit, has gone live for an A/B test on English Wikipedia.
Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 48 and week 49 include the Foundation working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful, and informative; and two new wikis being created: a Wikipedia in Toki Pona and a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin.
Infrastructure: Unifying our mobile and desktop domains achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.

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

Legal win in France: Wikimedia Foundation secures crucial legal win in France against legal attacks on freedom of speech.
CEE Hub: Overview of three years of growth, learning, and regional impact of CEE Hub.
Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
Digital Violence: How the Wikimedia movement is responding to digital gender based violence.
Wikimedia Research Showcase: The next research showcase will feature a special panel on "Experimentation on Wikipedia" and will take place on December 10 at 17:30 UTC.

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

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Pilot deviation

Hello. About 16 days ago, you reached out to me saying that you wanted me to "take a look for errors and omissions" in Pilot deviation. And you later said, "I find it difficult writing about a topic I am no expert in." which, I think, casually means that you're calling me an expert in that subject of article.... no? So I was just curious as to why you reached out to me and how you knew I basically existed since we never interacted before. I'm not saying that "Why in the world did you reach out to me?", I'm just saying, "Huh, I'm curious why you reached out to me, very interesting". No offense given here, just purely curiosity. Thank you. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 19:35, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, yes, we technically did interact before. I use your duplicate ref detector script and it's really great and helpful. Thank you for that. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 19:36, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ivebeenhacked Hi! Hm, I don't really remember and I don't store my browser history that long. Possibly because you were listed on WikiProject Aviation and I liked your username? I am not sure. Polygnotus (talk) 22:55, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I understand. I was just being curious. Thank you. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 22:58, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #710

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #709.

Discussions

The mass editing policy Request for Comments has a number of open questions looking for votes and comments to shape the mass-editing policy.

Events

Upcoming events:
A Scholia hackathon is ongoing this week, focused on completing the transition of Scholia to QLever as the SPARQL backend for its Wikidata queries.
Data and Technology Week 2025 from 19th of December 2025 to 22 of December 2025, organized by Wikimedia Indonesia‎ (Q13098516). Consisted of a Wikidata Workshop, a Wikifunction Introductory Seminar and Geodatathon. This event is in Indonesian.
- (English) WM Malaysia / 2025 SEA Games Datathon - 20.12.2025, 1200 ~ 1400 UTC. Register to contribute to items about athletes competing in South East Asian Games 2025 (Q25041680)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs: (French) Facebook post: ArkéoTopia: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (CTHS) to begin integrating Wikidata
Papers:
- Open Data Practices of Art Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment - second paper of the Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse collection. By Dişli et al., (2025).
- VIAF Governance Concerns about the Refurbished VIAF Web and API Interfaces by Stefano Bargioni (2025): a detailed account of the technical and governance issues experienced by VIAF in 2025 and its impact on its many external reusers, including Wikidata
Videos:
- (Italian) Wikidata and Wikibase for research: Camillo Pellizzari gives an overview of Wikidata, the data model, potential as scientific research subject and tool, then a Wikibase intro and its uses beyond Wikidata, with example instance: Hypotheseis; slides on Commons
- Feminist Structured data: A Conversation with Art+Feminism and Whose Knowledge?: How feminist values can reshape structured data on Wikidata to address gaps, representation, and opportunities for collaboration across communities.
- Community Hours: Art+Feminism community in Armenia: Former regional A+F ambassador, Arminé Aghayan-Flisch, tells us of her experiences growing the A+F Armenian community through GLAM, Wikidata and Wikipedia.
- (Spanish) PADEP 2025: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Dr. Luis Álvarez Azcárraga teaches the course: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Open Databases for Social, Artistic, and Cultural Studies
- See something, change something Webinar: @58:10, a presentation on the Wikidata agent plug-in for ArchivesSpace is given.
- Wikibase Live Session / November 27: First demo presented of federation of values from Wikidata to Wikibases.

Tool of the week

Broomstick - Broomstick is a tool to uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Congratulations to Govdirectory, the winner of the FSF's Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
wikibase-cli got support for claim reconciliation. This is typically useful to add a claim unless it already exists.
The Wikimedia Research Fund is open for funding applications for research projects around the Wikimedia Projects, including Wikidata.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes: has grammatical number (grammatical number used in this language)
Newest External identifiers: ‎NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Cabinet minutes of the German Government ID, neodb.social ID, Flemish Community Masterpieces List item ID, Medicin.dk medical condition ID, ‎Mapillary username, ‎Sector.sk game ID, ‎My Abandonware theme ID, ‎Encyclopedia of Shinto ID, ‎Blu-Ray.com film ID, ‎Japanese Law Translation ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID, Getty Collections Archival Component ID, CRA program account number, FC Barcelona player ID, Qalamos person ID, ‎KISTI conference ID
New External identifier property proposals to review: survivalhorrors.com ID, Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID, GamesIndustry.biz game ID, WhatsOnStage Stage Names ID, Adventure Game Hotspot game ID, identifiant Netflix titre, 4gamer.net game ID, Fragrantica perfumer ID, PC Guru game ID, British Newspaper Archive publication ID, GOG tag ID, Open Food Facts brand ID, Games for Change directory ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject P244 maintenance - For coordination and improvement of Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAP) via Library of Congress authority ID
- WikiProject Museum of Glass (Q2894440) - improving the visibility of visiting artists to the University of Washington Information School
WikiProject Highlights: Egezort's efforts in Mereology: removing/migrating part of statements in Recipe relationships
Newest database reports: 34 Bots operating without a Bot flag
Showcase Items: Fort George

(Q1426707) - 18th-century fortress built in the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745

Showcase Lexemes: mesa (L31222) - Spanish noun (ˈme.sa) meaning "table (furniture)", "mesa (flat-topped hill)", or "served table for dining"

Development

Edit summaries: We made changes that will improve the automatic edit summaries of edits made using the wbeditentity API endpoint. Tools that use this endpoint to edit statements will, in some cases, now have more accurate edit summaries; this also affects how such edits are summarized in edit groups. (phab:T411247)
Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are collecting feedback from the first wikis who got the new and improved Databox module.
Mobile statement editing:
- We are making remaining changes for the first roll-out as a beta-feature.
- We are working on showing constraint violations. (phab:T411602, phab:T400676)
GraphQL: We are working on making it possible to query for Items by Property/value pair (phab:T403576)
REST API: We are improving error messages for requests that failed due to an IP block (phab:T404727)

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: Germany
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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Tech News: 2025-51

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

Updates for editors

View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit. [11]

Updates for technical contributors

To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Special:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the externallinks table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. [12]
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:01, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Test

This is a test. PolygnotusTest (talk) 21:11, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is also a test. PolygnotusTest (talk) 12:17, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Passwords

I'm curious about your comment "The kind of people who need help when they forget their password should use Bitwarden not KeePass. And most people who use KeePass should probably use KeePassXC". Why do you think Bitwarden and KeePassXC are better than Keepass? And p.s. I don’t use any browser plugins for passwords; Keepass can do autotype and of course copy/paste is easy enough. David10244 (talk) 04:15, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@David10244 Relevant Teahouse link.

The KeePassXC website explains why KeePassXC is better than KeePass (They may or may not be a bit biased. Possibly.) and mentions one of the problems with KeePass. It also explains why KeePassXC is better than KeePassX.
I think that most KeePass users don't need help when they lost their password (being relatively nerdy and more educated on the topic, on average, in my estimation), and Bitwarden is more userfriendly for a wider range of people.

Polygnotus (talk) 04:49, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Polygnotus I'm a bit late, but thanks for the info. The supposed disadvantage that KeePass only works on Windows, and requires the .NET runtime, is not a disadvantage to me -- because I also only work in Windows, and I write code that uses .NET. 🙂 I don't use any KP plugins, and I have not considered KeePassX.

But I am now experimenting with KeePassXC, based on your comment. I think it looks slightly better than KeePass -- although not by a huge margin. I haven't decided whether to switch yet.

(Your link labeled "problems" goes to the FAQ page. The FAQ page doesn't really explain why KPXC is better than KP except for that one cross-platform thing. The other Q&A's apply to KP and KPXC both, or apply to all password managers... And yeah, I am nerdy enough to not need something that might be great for a wider audience. But now I understand what you meant by "the kind of people...")

I appreciate you taking the time to answer. I'll keep experimenting with KPXC and see how it goes! Thanks. David10244 (talk) 05:37, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 17 December 2025

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Traffic report: Death and stranger things
And going for the FIFA prize!

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About Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-12-17/Interview

If you want the section hatted, please hat it. Don't just undo me without actually hatting things. I've made the a similar request to PresN on their user talk as well. Right now both of you are reverting me, which means both of yall's extended bickering is on the page in a format that negatively affects the actual discussion of the topics. Soni (talk) 05:42, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Soni Yeah I saw you hatted it but that was undone unfortunately. Generally speaking I prefer hatting over cutting and pasting because hatting ensures the timeline is still easy to follow. Often but not always it is best if someone uninvolved does the hatting. I did make a script for that at some point but it is far from production ready:

User:Polygnotus/Scripts/Timeline.js

It shows a slider under the section headers. If you click it and move your mouse to the left and right you can travel through time. It only appears on talkpages when there are 10 or more messages in a discussion. This can be helpful when many people participate in a multi-threaded discussion. Polygnotus (talk) 05:48, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A Very Merry Christmas to you!

Hello there. 'Tis the season again, believe it or not, the years pass so quickly now! Your contributions to Wikipedia in 2025 are greatly appreciated! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas, and here's to a happy and productive 2026! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:12, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dr. Blofeld Thank you! Merry Christmas to you and yours and various others. Polygnotus (talk) 10:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your archives

Hello, Polygnotus! Not here to get on your case or anything, just curious: is there a reason your last twenty or so archive pages have only one topic each? Or is it perhaps an incorrect bot-instructions configuration? (As a manual archiver myself, I have little idea how those work.)—Odysseus 1479 21:31, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Odysseus1479 Yeah its because I messed up with some script or bot setting and then instead of dealing with it I just shrugged and ignored it. Polygnotus (talk) 21:36, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 07:03, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #711

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #710.

Discussions

Open request for adminship: Vitaly Zdanevich
New requests for permissions/Bot: Title markup bot - Task(s): There is a variety of HTML markup found in , violating various constraints on the property. The following task description is for a bot that can start the required cleanup process. I would like to request permission to implement the functionality outlined here as a first iteration, on the understanding that it will be extended and refined to cover more cases. It will operate within the limitation that it will only modify values, add qualifiers and update labels to keep them in-line with altered titles.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Videos:
- Wikidata 13th Anniversary in the Tyap Wikimedians User Group
- Remapping the Down Survey - By OSM for History Buffs
- Open Data DEx Demo #1 - This week's topic: Astronomy in WikiData!

Tool of the week

Timetrail - is a website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Wikimedia Deutschland jobs:
- Director of Engineering (all genders)
- Senior Data Analyst (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
- Japanese court rank (Japanese court rank of a person or a shrine)
- ‎value of this mathematical characteristic (non-numeric value of this characteristic applied to this mathematical object)
Newest External identifiers: Taking Stock ID, Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID, The Advocate tag ID, ‎Game Font Library ID, IMI person ID, ‎Metacritic video game genre ID, Banrep Cultural ID, FCC ID Database company slug, EDBO institution code, ‎GamesIndustry.biz game ID, ‎PC Guru game ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- common organism (organisms known by a common name of a biological taxon)
- part (exact number denoting the part of a creative work or edition)
- heir apparent (person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
New External identifier property proposals to review: Parfumo perfume ID, Parfumo perfumer ID, Parfumo perfumes ID, Parfumo fragrance notes ID, BoomerShooterDB game ID, identifiant Rappels d'une production théâtrale, Parfinity notes ID, Vandal game ID, Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID, GBIF ID, MetroidvaniaDB game ID, Games.cz game ID, Basenotes perfume brand ID, Basenotes perfume people ID, Basenotes perfume ID, CICAP Encyclopedia ID, Zelda Wiki ID, Yaba Sanshiro ID, identificador Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Finnish railway station code, Fight-A-Base game ID, Sketchfab model ID, Sketchfab channel ID, Sketchfab user ID, DVIDS Video ID, DeVuego game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
- Number of riots per country (source)
- Country having the most female politicians (source)
WikiProject Highlights: Niryhpr's efforts in organising the page User:Niryhpr/WikiProject_Ports (part of WikiProject Indonesia/Geodatathon)
Newest database reports: Language statistics for Items
Showcase Items: Mansa Musa - 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire
Showcase Lexemes: ਮਰਨ (L689064) - Punjabi verb (mərəɳ) meaning "to die (cease living)", "to wither or spoil", or "to give up (lose hope/energy)"

Development

Mobile statement editing:
- We added an indicator showing which Properties are not yet supported when creating new statements in mobile editing (T412719)
- We continued working on showing constraint violations on mobile (T411602, T411608)
- We are working on musical notation statements on mobile (T407247)
- We are improving error handling for incorrectly filled and unfilled fields in mobile editing (T408928)

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.
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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Tech News: 2025-52

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

Updates for editors

From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material. [13]
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected. [14]

Updates for technical contributors

Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute data-mw="interface" to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with data-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with other data-mw attributes, which are generated by Parsoid. [15]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Meetings and events

The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:43, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yo Ho Ho!

Ϣere SpielChequers is wishing a foaming mug of Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec25}} to your friends' talk pages.

@WereSpielChequers Thank you! Merry Christmas and happy holidays and all that! I recommend picking a handful of holidays and celebrating them all at the same time! Polygnotus (talk) 03:07, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please add classes to SectionLinks script

I tried SectionLinks but uninstalled it because the icons were too big. Adding a class would let users customize to their preference. How about, |class="sect-link", |class="sect-link-perm", and |class="sect-link-oldid", or you pick. Also, I don't know if there is a way to offer options in a script, but I'd rather have the icons after the section name (and also superscripted and small, but I can do that with the classes). Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 02:57, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot Good idea, thanks!

Done Merry Christmas and happy holidays! Polygnotus (talk) 03:05, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot Please test User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js and let me know what you think.

I don't know if there is a way to offer options in a script Kinda sorta, it can store settings in localStorage. Not ideal but better than nothing. Polygnotus (talk) 03:28, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also I think you can db-g7 User:Mathglot/Foo.js at this point. Polygnotus (talk) 04:17, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Working on it; not doing what I expected; not seeing any icons (with ...2) but maybe something's up with my css. With the main script, I get the icons for H2 headers, but not H3, or H4. Currently installed is SectionLinks2.js; test bed at User:Mathglot/sandbox7. Feel free to add more tests there, or copy to jump-start your own. May not get back to it tonight, not sure yet. Mathglot (talk) 04:38, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot I should probably add h2/h3/h4 as a setting. Snævar's comment here led to Quarry 100236 and then I posted the output and Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts to Claude and it spit out:

Position 143: User:Quarl/util.js - 161 total users, 16 active users, inactive for 7,256 days (~19.9 years)
Position 212: User:Topaz/comm.js - 101 total users, 1 active user, inactive for 7,276 days (~19.9 years)

It isn't correct, but its worth further investigation.

I have to do some things but will probably return to this soonish.

Note that the last line of User:Mathglot/common.js contains a typo.

Compare:

importScript( 'User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js // assisting testing...

importScript('User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js'); // assisting testing...

Your common.js also imports User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/generatedoi.js which won't work since that url is a 404.

Polygnotus (talk) 04:49, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note to self look at [16] test here User:Polygnotus/tmp/testsectionlinks

Oh, thanks for the tips! If I'm not around later, I'll be back tomorrow. Happy holidays! Mathglot (talk) 05:45, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ran into a more serious problem that is a dealbreaker for me, though perhaps not for others. I use script User:BrandonXLF/ShowRevisionID which adds revision ids to history and contrib pages. This is like a killer app for me, and I depend on it. The SectionLinks script somehow interacts with it, so that when both are installed, ShowRevisionID stops working. Not sure what is going on, or which one should be changed, but maybe you could look into it. If the locus of the problem is in his script, Brandon is around, but not a lot, and if you feel like forking his script instead of waiting and adjusting it so it plays nice with SectionLinks, I'll install both; otherwise, I'll just keep his, as I can't do without it, now. (Sort of like mobile phones, that none of us knew we needed until we had one.) Anyway, happy Holiday, and talk when you get back! Mathglot (talk) 01:38, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot The SectionLinks script does not and cannot interfere with the ShowRevisionID script.

The reason you experienced problems is because part of the last line of User:Mathglot/common.js is missing.

Remove the last line and use this instead:

importScript('User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js]]

Polygnotus (talk) 07:53, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Season's Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2026!

Hello Polygnotus, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2026.
Happy editing,
Abishe (talk) 16:32, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 16:32, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Merry Christmas! Polygnotus (talk) 07:53, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #712

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #711.

Discussions

Open request for adminship: Ppolar bear - RfP scheduled to end after 3 January 2026 13:40 (UTC)
- QubeCubeBot - Task/s: Continue import of Swedish Parliament documents inline with the modeling work in Wikidata:WikiProject Sweden/Swedish Riksdag documents.
- AinaliBot 3 - Task/s: Continue import of Swedish Parliament documents inline with the modeling work in Wikidata:WikiProject Sweden/Swedish Riksdag documents.

Events

This month's Scholia hackathon has moved Scholia closer to its planned switch to a QLever backend. Beta testers can assist by exploring the interim QLever-backed Scholia instance and reporting any issues.
Upcoming events:
- SWAT4HCLS 2026. Amsterdam, March 23-26, with a "Wikidata in healthcare and life sciences" session and Prof. Hannah Bast as one of the keynotes

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Videos:
- (Indonesian) Introduction to Wikifunctions presented by NikolasKHF (Niko). In this session, Niko introduced Wikifunctions project, how to edit a function, how to add an implementation and test, and demonstrated them. This is the first Wikifunctions training in Indonesian. Slides are available on Commons.
- (Indonesian) Wikidata for Academician presented by Wikimedia Indonesia's Data and Technology team. They introduced Wikimedia Indonesia, and then explained Wikidata, its underlying concepts and a glance to its history, how to add statements and references, how to query with Wikidata Query Services, Wikidata and its potential in research fields, Wikiprojects and Wikidata:For development resources. Slides are available on Commons.

Tool of the week

WD-NearbyItems : browse Wikidata Items nearby
Quizicle is a daily quiz/puzzle game that's not really a quiz and not really a puzzle. Deduce the answer from crossword-style clues with hot/cold feedback.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
- random page URL (link to random page or item on website)
- specimen classifier (person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
- collection date (date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
- land degradation (amount of land that is degraded by an object, mainly for infrastructure projects)
- Hong Kong fire alarm level (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
- page offset (difference between external page number printed on the work (P304) and the actual page in digital file (P7668))
- logical implication (axiom or conjecture that this axiom or conjecture implies)
Newest External identifiers: ‎survivalhorrors.com ID, ‎VGChartz ID, ‎Adventure Game Hotspot game ID, ‎BoomerShooterDB game ID, ‎Vandal game ID, GoFundMe fundraising ID, Adult Film Database director ID, S1 No.1 Style actress ID, ‎MetroidvaniaDB game ID, EAGER game ID, EAGER developer ID, ‎Games.cz game ID, ‎4gamer.net game ID, ‎GOG tag ID, ‎Yaba Sanshiro ID, ‎Games for Change directory ID, DLSite work ID, ‎DLSite person ID, ‎DLSite doujin circle ID, ‎Fight-A-Base game ID, ‎DeVuego game ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review: Erdős Problem number (Erdős Problem number)
New External identifier property proposals to review: PixelatedArcade genre ID, BRAHMS identifier, LegiStorm person ID, Game Boy Database game ID, NHK Archives Program ID, Wendingen object ID, Wendingen person ID, RetroCollect games ID, FIP.IT basketball player ID, Lenta.ru person ID, Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Polish version)., Télérama film ID., Bercail ID, Panoramax picture ID, InterSportStats athlete ID, Before I Play game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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Showcase Lexemes: turn (L3568) - English verb (tɜːrn) meaning "to rotate", "to change direction", or "to transform"

Development

No development happened in the past week as the team are on holidays. Happy new year everyone!

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Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
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Govdirectory weekly focus country: Czech Republic
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
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Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:12, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Exomoon "massive" in phrase "signature, massive" is not promotional Chronos.Zx (talk) 04:50, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have login problem by PAWS?

Hi, Polygnotus. I see you uses the tool PAWS. I cann't login to https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/ since last Saturday. I reported that at [17], but I cann't still login. I have not access to Phabricator to see of somebody is working about it or not. But my first question is maybe I'm the solely who have problem to login. I ask you, can you login to https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/ nowadays? If you have too problem, do you know somebody who can help us? Thank you and sorry for my English. Leonprimer (talk) 19:28, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Leonprimer Hello! There was a problem, see T413510. It is fixed now. Polygnotus (talk) 15:13, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy New Year, Polygnotus!

Happy New Year!

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Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Thank you! Happy new year! Polygnotus (talk) 18:59, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #713

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #712.

Discussions

Open request for adminship: Morne06 - RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2026 20:35 (UTC)
Closed request for adminship: Ppolar bear - general consensus is to reapply after gaining more experience.
New request for comments: Notability policy reform: first drafted in 2013, Wikidata has grown vastly since the original Notability policy was created. This first-round discussion is intended to collect ideas, comments, and reflections on how to improve the Notability Policy for what Wikidata currently is and will become.

Events

Upcoming events:
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #84 January 12 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
- Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026: a two-day event that will take place from 13 to 14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Apply for a grant and join the event.
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 14th January 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs:
- Rescuing Scholia #2: getting closer
- African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA)
- Wikontic: Ontology-Aware KG Pipeline - this article introduces Wikontic, a pipeline that builds knowledge graphs from text by enforcing Wikidata's ontological rules and merging duplicate entities.
Papers:
- Using Wikidata’s Ontology in Practice: A Neuro-Symbolic, Community-Centred Workflow for Integrating and Reusing Humanities Datasets - This article introduces an ontology-first, community-driven workflow that aligns humanities datasets with Wikidata to address data silos and gender inequities, offering reusable modelling patterns, SPARQL-based analysis, and a neuro-symbolic AI framework that reduces bias and supports reproducible, ontology-backed knowledge graph practices. By Velilla & Ferran-Ferrer (2025).
- A Semantic Wiki for Language Learning: The Case of the Baoulé Language - The BAOULE-WIKI project introduces a semantic wiki and homograph-detection model to preserve and teach the endangered Baoulé language, achieving high accuracy while paving the way for broader digital preservation of African languages through community collaboration and integration with knowledge bases like Wikidata and DBpedia. By Kra et al., (2026).
- Transforming the Digital Landscape: Towards a Medieval Knowledge Graph - Digitization has transformed medieval studies by expanding access and enabling new research methods, with future progress hinging on Linked Open Data, shareable identifiers, and collaborative knowledge graphs to truly democratize and enrich scholarship. By Burrows, (2026).
- Towards a Linked Open Index: Reconciling Museum Records to Wikidata for Index of American Design Constituents - The Index of American Design project’s reconciliation of thousands of records with Wikidata reveals both challenges and strategies for improving data alignment, while a linked Power BI tool supports ongoing monitoring of quality, access, and representation in humanities research. By Foster et al., (2026).
- The “Dizionario Degli Scrittori Italiani Contemporanei Pseudonimi” in Wikidata. Pseudonymous Authors in Wikidata: Dataset and Queries - The dataset from the MA thesis structures biographical data on 19th–20th century pseudonymous Italian authors in Wikidata, including corpus items, SPARQL queries, and analysis documents, and is reusable for further research or case studies. By De Monaco, (2025).

Tool of the week

Broomstick is a tool by Wikicollabs it uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.
Explore your Wikimedia activity year in review with Wiki Year in Review
Wikilokal (Android version): explore the world within a 3 km radius by Affandy Murad

Other Noteworthy Stuff

New project: Dissemination of polymer science through Wikipedia and Wikidata (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Q33438))

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
- crowdfunding target (target goal of this crowdfunding campaign)
- free height (vertical distance from the floor level to the lowest obstruction in the ceiling of an indoor or outdoor space)
Newest External identifiers: ‎PixelatedArcade genre ID, ‎Game Boy Database game ID, ‎RetroCollect games ID, MyWaifuList work ID, Nonbinary Wiki ID, Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID, DVIDS video ID, FIP.IT basketball player ID, Card Player ID, Télérama film ID, Boosty author ID, ‎Before I Play game ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Fungal Names taxon ID (ID number in the [[:w:Fungal Names]] database.)
- Braille transcription (transcription in Braille)
- Braille represents (graphene or phone that the Braille cell represents)
New External identifier property proposals to review: CNVD-ID, Trismegistos editor ID, woordenlijst lemma ID, European Vehicle Number, CourtListener person ID, Norwegian railway station code, Australian National Kennel Council ID, Museo del Marchio Italiano ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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Schema examples: (E498) district electoral division: Schema to describe an electoral division (small political division of Ireland).
Newest WikiProjects:
- Project IrishForges: Describing forges and forge buildings of Ireland using Wikidata, Wikimedia and other sources.
- Project Ireland: A hub for all Ireland-related Wikidata activities including cross-Wikiproject tasks.
- Project Historic Irish Placenames: focusing on County Kilkenny, connect historic placenames with their modern counterparts or create new items for "lost places".
- Svenska psalmodikon: A sub-project for the psalmodikon (Q3354977), a stringed-instrument popular in Sweden.
WikiProject Highlights: WikiPojects as decentralized governance - this sub-page of the Limits of Wikidata project proposes WikiProjects become caretakers of collections or subgraphs of relevant items.
Showcase Items: Venezuela (Q717) - country in South America
Showcase Lexemes: размах (L155644) - Russian noun (rɐzˈmax) meaning "amplitude (of a swing)", "physical span or width", or "scale/scope (of an activity)"

Development

No development happened in the past week as the team are just returning from the holidays.

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Weekly Tasks

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
Govdirectory weekly focus country:
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:21, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Rock_wren "leading" in phrase "leading up to" is not promotional(cool script btw) monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 20:01, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Close to 40k edits in 3 years... Wow! This barnstar is to appreciate that and more. Keep it going! Volten001 ^☎ 05:08, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Happy new year! Polygnotus (talk) 22:39, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – January 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2025).

Administrator changes

Fathoms Below

CheckUser changes

Oversight changes

Guideline and policy news

All general sanctions imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE) as a result of a recent RfC.
Due to the result of a recent RFC, the administrator recall process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election, whichever is later.
Changes to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy's disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE for more information.

Arbitration

Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Asilvering, Girth Summit, Guerillero, HJ Mitchell, HouseBlaster, Izno, Sdrqaz, SilverLocust.
The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been suspended.

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Wikidata weekly summary #714

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #713.

Discussions

New requests for permissions/Bot: AmeisenBot 3 - Task/s: Adding descriptions (and possibly labels and aliases as well) to items based on their statements.
New CheckUser requests: Saroj (RfP scheduled to end at 25 January 2026 09:31 UTC)

Events

Upcoming events:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 14th January 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- WMF Wikidata Platform team is launching a new office hours series starting January 27th, 2026 and continuing on the first Tuesday of each month. The scope of this series is be limited to Blazegraph migration support for the entirety of 2026. Participants are encouraged to register in advance for each session and may optionally add a brief description of their migration-related questions to the shared Etherpad to help guide preparation. See Blazegraph Migration office hour page for more details

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs: Wikidata at 13: Fante Wikimedians Joins the Celebration
Papers: Structuring the Sights and Stories of Pausanias with Wikidata - The Digital Periegesis project leverages Wikidata and linked open data tools to annotate, disambiguate, and connect Pausanias’s complex 2nd‑century text, enhancing accessibility, interoperability, and scholarly engagement with Greece’s historical and mythological landscape. By Kiesling et al., (2025)
Videos: (Papiamento) Wikipedia on Aruba | Episode 8: How to add a new topic (item) to Wikidata

Tool of the week

Knowledge Train A game to create a train of knowledge with the power of Wikidata - User:Athulvis

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Mobile statement editing is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata. Enable the Beta feature in your preferences settings, head to Wikidata Sandbox (Q4115189) (in mobile view) to test it and share your feedback here: Mobile editing of statements.
The WMF Wikidata Platform team has published its January 2026 newsletter. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. To have new issues of the WDP monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes: common organism (organisms known by this common name)
Newest External identifiers: Boosty author ID, ‎Before I Play game ID, ‎Korea Heritage Service Heritage Portal ID, ‎KaraokeTexty.cz artist ID, ‎KaraokeTexty.cz song ID, ‎Showlabs ID, DEUMM Online ID, Slekt og Data cemetery ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia ID, EZB library ID, topic of Dictionary of Canadian biography identifier, Cover Art Archive image, ‎X broadcast ID, Theaterencyclopedie ID, Maitron biography ID (new version), ‎Scilit organization ID, Fragrantica perfume ID, Fragrantica perfume brand ID, izoh.uz word ID, ‎Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID, Fragrantica perfume notes ID, Fragrantica perfumer ID, Parfumo perfume brand ID, Parfumo perfumer ID, Parfumo perfume ID, Parfumo fragrance notes ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Artistagraph ID (Identifies the Artistagraph for an artistIdentifier for creative works on Artistagraph, a platform for documenting and discovering artist information and creative work connections)
- number of tunnel tubes (Number of parallel tubes in a tunnel.)
New External identifier property proposals to review:: Mapillary sequence ID, People's Graphic Design Archive creator ID, Uni24k indentifier, Brussels BeStAddress municipality ID, Brussels BeStAddress street name ID, Brussels BeStAddress address ID, Wikifunctions object, MAX username, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ID, The Retro Web company ID, Schulnummer Berlin, KCI article ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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Query examples:
- Timeline of coup d'états
- All towns named Versailles
Showcase Items: mojito - traditional Cuban highball cocktail

Development

Mobile editing of statements: We have released the first version of mobile statement editing as a beta feature (see details above). In addition we are improving it further and are adding missing functionality to get it ready for a full release. This includes adding editing support for additional data types such as date and musical notation.
Blazegraph replacement: The Wikidata platform team is continuing their evaluation of alternative backends for the Wikidata Query Service.
Graph QL: We are continuing to work on the prototype to get it ready for wider testing and are waiting on a security review.
Dumps: We fixed an issue where the "latest" symlinks to data dumps weren't working correctly.
Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are investigating how to further reduce the number of unnecessary changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes coming from Wikidata. The work on this is also helping reduce the size of the recent changes database table, which is especially important on larger Wikipedias. In addition we are continuing to improve the Databox module to make it easier for smaller Wikipedias to get Wikidata-powered infoboxes.

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: Kazakhstan
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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Tech News: 2026-03

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

Weekly highlight

The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.

Updates for editors

As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists project, the display of EditWatchlist will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish. [18]
The Global Watchlist is a MediaWiki extension that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs. [19][20][21][22]
View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13. [23]

Updates for technical contributors

The VisualEditor citation tool and Reference Previews now support "map" as a reference type. [24]
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki/MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:31, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

"Relevance"?

At one time this set up the later development of Dee Dee trying to blame some of Gypsy's purported issues on that accident. I'll have to look through older versions of the article. Daniel Case (talk) 07:08, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, unreliable source allthatsinteresting says: Then, when Gypsy Rose was around eight years old, she fell off of her grandfather’s motorcycle. Dee Dee took her to the hospital, where she was treated for a minor abrasion to her knee. But Dee Dee was unconvinced that her daughter was healed. She believed that Gypsy Rose would need several surgeries if she ever hoped to walk again. Until then, Dee Dee decided, Gypsy Rose would remain in a wheelchair as to not aggravate her knee further. Polygnotus (talk) 07:31, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Daniel Case Ah here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOQcOQ4Mk_I&list=PL2h7Wy4Xi82iPibi7LEZNErOBJavQ3Zqh&index=2 Polygnotus (talk) 07:35, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 1

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

Highlights

Wikipedia turns 25: Time to start the party! Join the virtual celebration featuring musical performances, games, and more on January 15 at 16:00 UTC. and The party will be live interpreted into Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Join the celebration

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

Annual planning: Key questions for the Wikimedia movement to shape the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026-2027 annual goals. Join the discussion on-wiki.
Hackathon:
- Apply to join the Northwestern Europe 2026 Hackathon from March 13-14 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Application will close mid-January 2026 or earlier based on event capacity.
- General Registration for the 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon is now open! The hackathon will take place in Milan, Italy from May 1 - 3, 2026. Event details can be found here and registration will remain open until March 30th or until event capacity is reached.
Semantic search: Wikimedia Foundation is working on making it easier to find the information readers want.
Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 50, week 51, and week 52 include that now edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details which will help oversighters to prevent doxxing.
Wikifunctions: The first Wikifunctions Volunteers' Corner of the next year will take place on February 9.
Blazegraph Migration: To support the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), we are hosting regular calls starting on January 27. Wikidata users and tool maintainers are are invited to join, ask questions, and share migration-related concerns.

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

Upcoming Conferences: Announcing the six Wikimedia conferences funded for 2026 in the first round.
Wikimania 2026: A glimpse on what the team is currently working on to prepare for Wikimania 2026 in Paris.
Public Policy: Explore the resources available for public policy advocacy work, including explainers that describe key policy positions, guides on how to build a campaign or write a policy brief, and examples of open letters submitted to governments.
Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
Public-Interest content: The Project Gayatri content expansion program brought 7,656 new articles on Indonesian Wikipedia.
Wikimedia Research Showcase: The research showcase will return on January 22 at 17:30 UTC with the theme "Celebrating 25 Years of Wikipedia and the Research Behind It".
Wikimedia Research Report: The Wikimedia Foundation has published its 13th bi-annual Research Report, highlighting the work completed during the first six months of this fiscal year.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Past issues of the bulletin for progress on the annual plan

Wikimedia Enterprise: Read the full annual wrap-up of 2025 of Wikimedia Enterprise and how the year marked a fundamental shift in open knowledge.

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

Board of Trustees: Wikimedia Foundation welcomes two new Board Trustees Bobby Shabangu and Michał Buczyński.
Affcom News: Read the year-end issue of AffCom News (July-December 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 · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters ·Milestones ·

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:30, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Happy 25th Anniversary of Wikipedia!!

Feel free to read my story at User:Interstellarity/My Story and join in for some Wikipedia-related fun. I hope you like it. Interstellarity (talk) 22:10, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 15 January 2026

News and notes: Wikipedia's 25th anniversary is here!
Where does the time go?

Special report: Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call
The internet is booming. We are not.

Serendipity: The WMF wants to buy you books!
Really! A major triumph.

WikiProject report: Time for a health check: the Vital Signs 2026 campaign
The campaign to get all of our top-importance medical articles up to B-class or above.

In the media: Fake Acting President Trump and a Wikipedia infobox
D.J.T. assumes a new position.

Community view: The inbox behind Wikipedia
What the Volunteer Response Team actually does!

Recent research: Art museums on Wikidata; comparing three comparisons of Grokipedia and Wikipedia
And other research.

Traffic report: Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight
A world in white gets underway.

Comix: Oh come on man.
Really?

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Wikidata weekly summary #715

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #714.

Discussions

Closed request for comments: Deprecate P642? - Consensus to deprecate was reached.

Events

Upcoming events:
- Wikifying Te Tiriti 10-workshop series, attendees will learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and create Wikidata items, to increase the visibility of people and their projects working in Te Tiriti and anti-racism areas. Further information can be found on the WikiProject page / Workshop timetable. Register to attend.
- Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 in Uganda - contribute to the project by expanding or creating Wikidata Items connected to the project categories, such as Ugandan folklore, food, music, dances, traditional clothing, and more.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs:
- The London School of Economics and Political Science have employed a Wikimedian in Residence
- Wikimedia Indonesia held Data and Technology Week 2025 in last December 2025, organized introductory workshops on Wikidata and Wikifunctions. Read key takeaways and participants' discussion at Diff.
- Wikidata Days 2025 Journey in Africa: Building Knowledge, Languages and Communities
- Wikidata Botswana 2025: Celebrating 13 Years (And We Really Showed Up!)
Papers:
- A new monographic number of JLIS.it has been published regarding the OPAC SBN (the biggest collective library catalogue in Italy, with more than 7 thousands of libraries participating; about its collaboration with Wikidata, see the Wikidata coordination page); it contains 3 papers focusing on the use of Wikidata for authority control (all in Italian, with abstract in English):
  - Wikidata and SBN: An Assessment of Two Years of Work (2023–2025): an overview Wikidata-SBN of the collaboration in 2023-2025, focusing on the methods of reconciliation
  - Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN: a description of the procedure to extract data from Wikidata items matches with SBN authority records and adapt these data to be copied into non-individualised SBN authority records
  - NaMo, utility for populating missing date fields in authority records: a description of an utility to keep an authority file up-to-date finding missing death dates through Wikidata
- Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN - A collaboration between Wikimedia Italy and ICCU is enriching incomplete SBN authority records using Wikidata identifiers, enhancing catalogue accuracy and accessibility as entries continue to grow. By Ravelli, (2026).

Tool of the week

Puzzles By Nathan is a game that arrange words so each connects to the next

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Mobile editing for RTL languages: The Wikimedia Deutschland team is seeking users of right-to-left (RTL) scripts, including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu, to help test and improve the mobile statement editing experience. If you edit in an RTL language and would like to join user interviews or deeper testing, sign up here.
(French) Gendered place names in the public space of French-speaking Switzerland

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest External identifiers: Parfinity notes ID, ‎Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID, Basenotes perfume brand ID, Basenotes perfume people ID, Basenotes perfume ID, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ID, MAX username
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- location collected (geographic location where a specimen or sample was collected in the field)
- Category for music in this language (link to category item that contains music in this language)
New External identifier property proposals to review: Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID, CriticDB IDs, MPA certificate number, WorldFootball.net person ID (new), The Session tune ID, Parfumo fragrance note ID

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The tray shown on Special:Diff in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered. [25]
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Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Stephanie_S._Watowich "outstanding" in phrase "Award for Outstanding" is not promotional pHLOGISTON eNTHUSIAST (tALK pAGE) 14:42, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

FlyingDog "a record" in phrase "a record label" is not promotional pHLOGISTON eNTHUSIAST (tALK pAGE) 14:23, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DuplicateReferences false-positive

Valentino (fashion designer) https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/08/archives/its-more-dazzle-for-the-new-valentino.html Esprit15d • talk • contribs 14:36, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Editor of the Week

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Rafaelthegreat submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Polygnotus to be Editor of the Week for their amazing scripts and teahouse work. This user has made many wonderful scripts (like the AI Proofreader which I use and is very helpful) that help out very well. He even helped someone create a script! We should all thank them for their incredible knowledge of scripting and code (look at their user page!) And when Editor Oshwah was not online, this user skillfully responded to tricky questions at Oshwah's talk page. They even respond to questions at WP:TEA! This nomination was seconded by Bunnypranav, TechnoSquirrel69 and LuniZunie

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

{{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}

Tireless Contributor

Polygnotus

Editor of the Week
for the week beginning January 25, 2026

Nominated to be Editor of the Week for their amazing scripts and Teahouse work. Polygnotus has made many wonderful scripts such as the AI Proofreader which many editors use as a helpful tools in article creation. He has even helped an editor create a script! Their incredible knowledge of scripting and code is second to none. And when Editor Oshwah was off-line for an extended period, Polygnotus skillfully responded to tricky questions at Oshwah's talk page.

Recognized for

creating numerous scripts

Submit a nomination

Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 15:39, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! That is very nice to hear! Wikipedia can feel like shouting into the void sometimes so its nice when someone notices. Thanks again, Polygnotus (talk) 02:00, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! Very well deserved =) – LuniZunie_(talk) 19:45, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank god I didn't waste those 17 months writing my acceptance speech! Polygnotus (talk) 20:07, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

talk page comment conventions

A (now-inactive) user created User:IndentBot, which fixed inconsistencies in wikitext list markup, but they stopped running the bot, possibly because many users get cranky when the bot makes an imperfect edit, or when they disagree with its edit. (It used to save me from making lots of edits to improve accessibility in discussion threads.) For this particular situation, since only the arbitration clerks and arbitrators can copy edit the comment in question, a script would help only if they wanted to use it.

I have a custom stylesheet (see User:Isaacl/style/discussion-threads) that adds a vertical bar to the left of lists used within discussion threads and alternates between two different colours for the background of each level of nested list. With this stylesheet, it's easy to spot changes in list style type, as the vertical bar will be interrupted. isaacl (talk) 23:25, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Surrey_County_Cricket_Club "historic" in phrase "historic county" (also "historic counties") is not promotional (the countries of the British Isles have historic counties and England has ceremonial counties.)
PS: The phrase "historic offences" appears quite a lot too, to literally mean offences that were committed long ago but where a perpetrator is now held to account. There may be similar ones like "historic crimes". Komonzia (talk) 02:53, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Germanwings_Flight_9525 "expert" in phrase "expert support" is not promotional birdn4t0r (talk) 06:15, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Germanwings_Flight_9525 "exceptional" in phrase "exceptional cases" is not promotional birdn4t0r (talk) 06:17, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Getting_Killed "a record" in phrase "a record label" is not promotional. Also include the phrase "a record producer" Cattos ^💭 16:43, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos

... for maintaining your cool with this PITA. It's hard to know what the dumbest aspect of his argumentation is:

Is it that he still, at this late date, thinks that the size of the wikisource (not not images, templates, and Wikimedia-added gadgetry and administrative debris) is the main determinant of load time?
Or is it that he actually appealed to some nobody's blog [31], wherein the nobody (citing some other nobody's blog) actually informs us that if tabs, empty lines, and comments were removed from his university's homepage "from the start of the year to 25 October 2020, we could have saved 2.2GB of bandwidth ... and reduce our carbon footprint"? 2.2GB! Imagine! (And the carbon footprint just has to be intentional self-parody.) I don't know what's stupider -- being the guy who says such a thing and puts his name on it, or being the guy who cites the guy who says such a thing.
Or perhaps you have your own favorite.

He poses as some kind of technical expert, but it's clear he's just a script kiddie. I always suspected it, but when he wrote that my talk "is still lagging real hard and I still couldn't type a medium-sized word without the edit page going unresponsive for like 10 seconds" [32] it became certain that he was either not using section edits, or was using that stupid Reply tool, or had some kind of syntax highlighter or other stuff installed -- or all three -- and that he either doesn't understand the significance of those, or does but expects others to cater to his personal preferences (which he's now explicitly said). Congrats for forcing that out into the open.

The parallels to the insane proposal for an "Article Breakup Committee" of long ago [33] ...

I am interested in starting a small "long article" breakup committee ... First, an editor tries to establish consensus: the issue is brought up on the talk page, and it is suggested that the regulars break up the article into subtopics, with short summary paragraphs (w/ main article attachments) ... so that the main page gets below a certain limit. Second, if plan #1 stifles out in argument and indecision to act, for a number of consecutive weeks, than an breakup arbitration committee notice is placed on the talk page, putting an ultimatum deadline, such that either the regulars break up the page to below a certain limit by that date or an external breakup committee, enforced by a team of administrators, will do so.

... are really striking. That guy called anything over 100K a "super long page", which even 20 years ago was stupid. And like our friend today, he didn't seem to understand about templates, images, and so on, but was certain of the righteousness of his cause.

Anyway, thanks for doing what I probably could not have done without losing my cool, which is make it clear to all what the true source of his trouble is. Hopefully it's finally dawning on him what a fool he's made of himself. E Eng 18:29, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@EEng The best bit is obviously do you pretend to know better than me how my device works in response to Guy Macon.

I have the filenames of c:Category:Large images so I can make browsers struggle with less than 75KB of wikicode. Polygnotus (talk) 20:24, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

While I share most or all of the above opinions, I prefer to avoid getting into a fight, and don't need to be pinged. I believe I made my position on supposedly overly long wikitext perfectly clear in this comment:[34]

And yes, I probably do know better than he does how his device works.

Speaking of large images, I may have created the smallest image on Wikipedia that actually shows the user something useful: [35] --Guy Macon (talk) 00:34, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Stop closing discussions while involved

This is the second time in two days [36] [37]. You are in violation of WP:INVOLVED/WP:BADNAC because you extensively commented against my proposal and made public your opinion about how this discussion is a waste of time. You were told so the first time. You ignored me regardless. You provide no rationale whatsoever.
This is not how requests for comment are held, and as an experienced user, you must know this. Also, to preempt your argument, The snowball clause may not always be appropriate if a particular outcome is merely "likely" or "quite likely", and there is a genuine and reasoned basis for disagreement. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 20:01, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Szmenderowiecki You are "in violation of" [sic] WP:BADRFC, WP:BADGER, WP:DROPTHESTICK, WP:WIKILAWYER and various other uppercase shortcuts. Wikilawyering doesn't work with experienced users (especially not those who made WikiTextExpander).

Do you really think re-opening that discussion is going to somehow lead to the result you want? Do you not see how closing it is in your advantage? Can you not predict the future? Extrapolate from the data points you have. You are 66 edits deep in that discussion and there is just one person who was working towards a solution. Polygnotus (talk) 20:20, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

To the first paragraph: Wikilawyering is providing tortured reading of policy to fit your argument. You were given the literal reading of WP:INVOLVED - you are party to the discussion, you don't get to close it. It can't be clearer than that. And you were balls deep in that discussion as well, with 40 edits.
To the second paragraph: at least half of the edit count could have been avoided on VPI if people cared to read its contents. While reading some of the other arguments, I could not escape parallels with debates over the attire of the sexual assault victim on the night she went to the nightclub. The one person who actually worked towards something is to be commended for spending time thinking about alternatives and proposed at least something. This is constructive debate. Most other editors flat out refused to help. It's their right but also they don't get to say that the discussion was not productive. You shut this all down.
Just because the original proposal wasn't going to pass doesn't mean that search for solution could not be happening.
Guy Macon I know what WP:INVOLVED stands for, it has been long accepted practice that non-admin users closing discussions assume admin responsibilities and accountability, even while not using admin tools, because closures are generally the domain of administrators. That's WP:NACINV. It was a shorthand. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 20:59, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Szmenderowiecki You are "in violation of" posting a purposely misleading user warning to this page. Try actually reading WP:INVOLVED. Polygnotus is not an administrator and closing a discussion is not a use of administrator tools. Please don't pick random policies and accuse people of violating them when they clearly do not apply.

Polygnotus, per WP:NACINV you should have posted a call for close instead of closing the discussion yourself. Please don't do that. --Guy Macon (talk) 20:59, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Guy Macon Have you read WP:INVOLVED? Non-administrators closing discussions and assessing consensus are held to the same standards; editors closing such discussions should not have been involved in the discussion itself or related disputes. ~2025-38536-45 (talk) 14:40, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

1RR violation

You violated WP:1RR on 2025 Capital Jewish Museum shooting with this edit. Please self-revert. Longhornsg (talk) 04:57, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Also, explain your edit summary you can't link these things per NPOV in response to an accurate sourcing of an RS (that you admit is an RS). Longhornsg (talk) 04:58, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I replied over at Talk:2025 Capital Jewish Museum shooting#NPOV. Polygnotus (talk) 05:21, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]