User talk:Nw520

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Welcome to Meta!

Hello, Nw520. Welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). Happy editing!

-- Meta-Wiki Welcome (talk) 18:26, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary

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Tech News

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The Affiliate-selected Board seats process welcomes your support

Hello. You are receiving this message because you are active in the field of translations <3 The movement needs you! The Nominations phase has started for the ongoing selection process of two Board members, and the timeline is quite tight.

A Translation Central is available to help translators figure out what's been covered and what's left to do. Over the course of the next few weeks, your attention on candidates' profiles is particularly welcome.

While there are four languages that are especially relevant for multiple affiliates (namely Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish), we are asking your help for Chinese, Ukrainian, Bengali, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Polish, Farsi, German, Cantonese, Finnish, Hindi, Thai, Dutch, and Greek, as these also matter to affiliates! If you can't help: please see if you know anyone in your circle who could, and spread the word :) Thank you! Elitre (WMF) and Facilitators of ASBS 2019, 21:35, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space

There are two separate blog entries for Structured Data on Commons posted to Wikimedia Space that are of interest:

• Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister, discusses some ways that editors can work with structured data. Topics include tools that have been written or modified for structured data, in addition to future plans for tools and querying services.
• Structured Data on Commons - A Blog Series, written by me, is a five-part posting that covers the basics of the software and features that were built to make structured data happen. The series is meant to be friendly to those who may have some knowledge of Commons, but may not know much about the structured data project.

I hope these are informative and useful, comments and questions are welcome. All the blogs offer a comment feature, and you can log in with your Wikimedia account using oAuth. I look forward to seeing some posts over there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:33, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Global watchlist - Update 7

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script and the Global watchlist extension:

Future development

I have received a grant from the WMF to develop this script into an extension. As a result, I do not plan on any further developments being made to the user script. Please see the grant page for more information. Those interested in reviewing and providing feedback for the extension should follow the new phabricator board, phabricator:tag/mediawiki-extensions-globalwatchlist.

Translations

Many thanks to those that have contributed translations for the script's messages. Now that I am working on an extension, translation has migrated to translatewiki. Please see:

• translatewiki:Special:Translate/ext-globalwatchlist
• translatewiki:Special:Translate/ext-globalwatchlist-api
• translatewiki:Special:Translate/ext-globalwatchlist-script

To subscribe or unsubscribe from future updates, see the distribution list.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 04:41, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

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Global watchlist user script: About • Updates • Code
Global watchlist extension: documentation

Community Wishlist Survey 2021: Invitation

The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on 30 November, or comment on other proposals to help make them better. The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 December and 21 December.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:25, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.

In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.

We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.

We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

16:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Global watchlist - Update 8

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script and the Global watchlist extension:

As I noted in the last issue, I received a grant from the WMF to develop the global watchlist script into an extension. That extension has now been deployed on Meta. Visit m:Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings to get started.

I do not plan on any further developments being made to the user script. I have released version 9.1.0 to both the dev and stable versions, which includes a notification about the extension being available when you use the user script. You can dismiss the notification, and the script still works, but it will no longer be maintained.

Those interested in providing feedback for the extension should use the phabricator board, phabricator:tag/mediawiki-extensions-globalwatchlist. Any bug reports about the extension should be filed there.

This will likely be the last update sent to this list.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 19:42, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

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Global watchlist user script: About • Updates • Code
Global watchlist extension: documentation

Global watchlist - Update 9

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script and the Global watchlist extension:

Hi everyone. As I noted in the last issue, I received a grant last year from the WMF to develop the global watchlist script into an extension. That extension has now been deployed on Meta. Visit m:Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings to get started.

That grant has ended, and I have requested another grant to continue development of the extension, and figured subscribers of the newsletter about the user script might be interested. You can see and comment on the grant request at m:Grants:Project/DannyS712/Continued work on GlobalWatchlist extension - if you support this, I hope you'll consider endorsing the request.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 00:28, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

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Global watchlist user script: About • Updates • Code
Global watchlist extension: documentation

WikiSP Newsletter #2 (2021-06)

WikiSP Newsletter of July 2021.

Members

Gauri • Kwangya

News on complementary policies or changes to the Foundational Text

• Following the recommendations of the Council, the Linguistic Commission has been dissolved. It has been replaced by the Central Commission of Languages and the Project Hubs

Tech news

• We have performed maintenance on the Delta server.
• The bouncer is a service that allows a 24/7 connection to IRC so you don't miss anything. Following the migration of freenode to libera.chat, this group now offers this service. You can read about it here.

Miscellaneous

• In order for the project hubs to function properly, we require that members of the community of each project that this project focuses on be able to join the hubs. Specifically, we are looking for members of the communities of: enwikivoyage, dewikivoyage and all projects in Spanish.
• Remember you can subscribe to mailing list and find out about the latest news from the group (it will be added as a button at the bottom of this newsletter), you can also connect with us on #wikimedia-sp or subscribe to the Telegram version of this newsletter.

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WikiSP Newsletter #3 (2021-08)

WikiSP Newsletter of August 2021.

Members

Jsmura • Villalaso • Manlleus • Laura Fiorucci

Ongoing discussions

• A discussion on changes to the membership policy is underway,
• A discussion on increasing temporary seats on the Administrative Commission is underway.

Miscellaneous

• We have reached 25 members!
• Members to the Regional Committees were recently selected. Congratulations to Alexandrabello for joining the LATAM and The Caribbean Committee.
• SmallProjects starts on August 16. A synthesized version of how the project will work can be found here.

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20:49, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Read-only reminder

A maintenance operation will be performed on Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC. It should only last for a few minutes.

This will affect your wiki as well as 11 other wikis. During this time, publishing edits will not be possible.

Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).

For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help your community to be aware of this maintenance operation. Thank you!

20:35, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

WikiSP Newsletter #04 (2021-10)

WikiSP Newsletter of October 2021.

Members

Sargento de Hierro • SHB2000 • Ybsen lucero • JOAN

New election board members

Hasley • Hispano76

News on complementary policies or changes to the Foundational Text

• The electoral policy was approved; this allows the members of the group to decide the members of the different components or to choose the General Coordinator.

Ongoing discussions

• A vote to approve the Code of Conduct is in progress.
• The Administrative Commission is the most important component of the group as the substantive decisions emanate from there. Elections for the Administrative Commission have begun. The election commissioners will send a message to all those eligible to register as candidates and/or electors.

Miscellaneous

• After two years, we have finally been recognized! An announcement has been made, which is also summarized in this Spanish Wikinews article.
• Episodes one and two of SuenaWiki Reloaded, a space that allows to talk about the projects of the Wikimedia movement and free knowledge globally, can be listened to through Wikimedia Commons.

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02:14, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

WikiSP Newsletter #05 (2021-11)

WikiSP Newsletter of November 2021.

Members

-sasha-

News on complementary policies or changes to the Foundational Text

• Six days left to sanction the Code of Conduct. If you are an active member, you can go and exercise your vote.

Tech news

• We have implemented three new instances: Limesurvey, Moodle and MediaWiki. The first will be for conducting surveys to be sent to volunteers, the second for a future educational program and the third for testing on MediaWiki.
• As you know, this group offers permanent connection to Libera.Chat through its bouncer service. Now the requests are processed via Phabricator to make it easier for volunteers to access this service.

Miscellaneous

• On October 29, we requested a general support fund so that our mission can continue uninterrupted. We hope that the Latin America and Caribbean Committee will look favorably on our proposal to support small projects.
• We need your feedback: Help us to focus our efforts to support small projects in the coming year. We want you to tell us what we can support and in what ways we should support them. The survey will run for thirty days, until December 03. The survey link is here.
• The results of the Admincom's temporary seats will be announced on November 8.
• From November 09 to 10 we will have a edit-a-thon at Wikiviajes. There we will edit as many destinations as possible.
• On November 16th we will have the Allie Awards; a virtual award in which we recognize the excellence, initiative and activism of volunteers in the Wikimedia movement. You as a volunteer can nominate who you consider deserving of such an award. You only have to ping Galahad with the name and the reason why he/she deserves to be recognized. You have the opportunity to nominate until November 8.
• On November 17th we will be supporting the friends of WikiAcción Perú and the Cámara de Comercio de San Martín in the Wikiviajes workshop on the region of San Martín. If you want to participate, you can write us through hello<at>wikisp.org.

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Archiving this talk page

Hello Nw520. As this page is getting too big, I suggest setting up an automatic archival system. If you're unsure on how to do it, I am available to help you set it up. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 12:05, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

@Minorax: Thanks for your offer of assistance. Auto-archiving should now be properly set up. --Nw520 (talk) 13:16, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

The auto archive on this page will eventually end up at User talk:Nw520/Archive. If you want, and after the bot made the necessary edits, I can move User talk:Nw520/Archive to a page like User talk:Nw520/Archive/before 2022. And you can add ((year)) where a yearly archive will be created. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 13:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

@Minorax: I've added `((Year))` to the target-parameter. Since most of the messages which I intend to archive are global message deliveries that can be reread in the respective archives, I'd prefer to completely delete them rather than just archiving them. Do you happen to know, whether there's a bot for that? --Nw520 (talk) 13:31, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello. I'm unsure of which bot that'll be doing the archive as I'm using a different archive template. From Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Auto_archive, it seems like you're the only one using this template. Maybe you can change the target of the MMD bot to a subpage of this talk page, such as /Tech News & /Wikidata weekly summary, and you can remove these messages as and when you like. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 13:36, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Message target can be changed at Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors#N & Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikidata#N respectively. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 13:38, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

@Minorax: Migrated to `User:MiszaBot/config`, sorry for the mistake. :D After changing the message targets will I still receive notifications for new topics? --Nw520 (talk) 13:48, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello. Unfortunately no. However, you can add the 2 pages to your watchlist and view it from there as and when you like. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 14:09, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #222 is out: Kicking Off the Naming Contest for Abstract Wikipedia; Visualizing functions

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we kickstart our naming contest for Abstract Wikipedia, we present a beautiful representation of functions by a community member, we report on the next events we'll be part of, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 17:04, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #702

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #701.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Ternera - RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2025 16:10 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Rebot - Task: Make changes in w.wiki/Fed9, such as changing depicts (P180) = herbarium (Q181916) to herbarium specimen (Q61726742).

Events

• Upcoming:
  • WikidataCon 2025: Have you seen the Program yet?
    Available now on Pretalx, check now and plan your schedule.
  • 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit.
    Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
  • The Dublin Core DCMI 2025 conference will take place in Barcelona, Oct 22-25.
    • Presentation: Derivative Relationships and Bibliographic Families Among Creative Works: A Systematic Study of Their Application by the Wikidata Community from the FRBR and BIBFRAME Perspective
    • Workshop by Jneubert on converting a complex web application into a large static site integrated with Wikidata
    • Tutorial from Jelabra on shaping linked data and knowledge graphs.
  • Wikidata Lab XLVII: Wiki Infographics, about a tool for data visualization. On October 21, 17 UTC.
  • Wikimania 2026 Scholarships are open! Deadline is Friday, October 31st, 2025.
  • Wikidata 13th birthday celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group on October 24 and 25, 2025
• Past:
  • Missed the Q4 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-10-15 (Q4 2025)
  • Wikidata 13th birthday celebration in the WUGN Abuja Network

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (Finnish) From Wikidata to GEO (AI) optimization? by Johanna Janhonen
• Videos:
  • Genealogical tree creation with Wikidata - by Thimira Sahan
  • (Chinese) Wikidata 13 週年聚會暨 OpenRefine 工作坊 - by Wikidata Taiwan
  • (Spanish) Taller en línea: Introducción a Wikidata y Wikibase by bibliotecasUNAM
  • Wikimedia Research Showcase: Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture

Tool of the week

• WikiLokal - The tool uses your device location to find Wikidata Items and Wikipedia articles within a 3 kilometre radius of your location. Created by User:Affandy Murad

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Project Chat:
  • Help choose a name for the Abstract Wikipedia Project - combining WikiFunctions and Wikidata, a voting contest will run from Oct 20 - Nov 17, 2025.
  • How can Wikidata be useful IRL if it has less data than Wikipedia? - an ongoing discussion touching on data scraping tools such as Harvest templates (github) and data consistency between Wikipedia and Wikidata in places such as Infoboxes.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: organizational chart (image that displays the structure of this organization or government agency and the relationships and relative ranks of its parts and positions/jobs)
• Newest External identifiers: The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture entry ID, TechPowerUp CPU Specs Database ID, Catalogue of sundials ID, A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition entry ID, GPUZoo ID, NetEase Music album ID, Corporation Number in Canada, Biographical Dictionary of Almería identifier
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • image of outdoor seating (an image of the outdoor seating)
  • Elo rating (rapid) (Current or historical Elo rating of a player in rapid time control chess games)
  • ECHL profile ID (Id (number) used by ECHL on their website ehcl.com. URL takes a slug.)
  • award category or rank ((qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank)
  • public key (cryptographic public key (some ASCII encoding of it))
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Schulnummer Sachsen, Team Austria ID, IFES Election Guide ID, BNB agent ID, Arte de la Argentina ID, Democratic Memory Bank ID, Kicker competition ID, Soccer365.net team ID, LUDAP, Genbu.net ID, ztgd.com, ISTAMPIE entity, MIT Press edition id

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: List of Airports/Airstrips in Florida, USA
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject IDEA (translation tasks)
• WikiProject Highlights: Govdirectory South Korea was created.
• Showcase Items: Jagiellonian Library (Q24101) - library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków
• Showcase Lexemes: led (L762994) - Norwegian Nynorsk noun (leː) meaning "a joint between bones", "a movable body part", or "a generation"

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We made progress on support for more datatypes for editing.
• Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
  • We are investigating an issue with infoboxes using data from Wikidata after some recent changes to usage tracking (phab:T407684)
  • We are working on more improvements to the Databox module
• Ontology federation: We are starting to work on making it possible for other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as values in their statements. This expands on previous work around federated properties.
• Dumps: We have worked on fixing issues with the dumps that were failing recently. They should now be generated again and we continue to look into the cause.

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: Bahamas
• 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: 2025-43

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

• To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply. [1]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed. [2]

Updates for technical contributors

• The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the rest.php route through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
• Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. [3]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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

MediaWiki message delivery 19:36, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #223 is out: Welcome Zaree and Laura! Naming contest round 1 kicked off

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we welcome two new additions to the team, we update you on our naming contest for Abstract Wikipedia, we report on the next events we'll be part of, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 21:10, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #703

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #702.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Samoasambia - RfP scheduled to end after 27 October 2025 15:10 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Ternera - Closed as successful by Ymblanter (talk) 19:24, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
  • WikidataCon 2025, October 31 - November 2, make sure to register at the event page.
  • SPARQL workshop (in German): "From Zero to SPARQL. Eine Einführung in die Abfrage von Wissensgraphen (Schwerpunkt Wikidata)", 4 Nov 2025, 10-13, free and open to all, online via Zoom. more information and registration
  • The scholarship deadline for Wikimania 2026 is approaching fast: 31st of October. Apply today if you want to attend on a scholarship.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos:
  • (Spanish) Visualizaciones con el Servicio de Consultas de Wikidata
  • (Spanish)¿Cómo identificar y completar vacíos de información en Wikidata? Tabernacle e integraality
  • I Have 1000s of Items in Commons – What Do I Do Now?: Utilization Opportunities on Wikimedia Commons
  • (Chinese [Trad]) 鏈結資料文獻翻譯賽德克語成果發表會 Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation
• Presentations: Will AI Erase Us Again? The Role of Wikimedia Communities. Talk by John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2025 (Slides)

Tool of the week

• Nemo is a new Wikidata query tool by User:Markus Krötzsch the tool can answer queries, extracts subsets, and perform analyses in ways that SPARQL alone can't. It also lets you combine Wikidata with other data sources.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • start work (work in which this statement about a fictional entity begins to be valid)
  • end work (work in which this statement about a fictional entity ceases to be valid)
  • image resolution (pixel resolution of images generated or captured by this item (camera, software, etc))
  • display device resolution (physical pixel resolution of an electronic display)
  • ‎firmware (firmware installed on this hardware)
• Newest External identifiers: MultimediaWiki page ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, QCC Code, Jamaica company ID, SEC Number, Thailand company ID, gosfilmofond.ru ID, Cambodian company ID, English solicitors ID, Caixin company ID, ‎Nebraska Authors author ID, ‎Kick username, ‎Archivio Storico Ricordi partiture ID, Fantacalcio ID, ‎Plant Ontology ID, L'Équipe athlete ID, ‎RSQV ID, NRK topic ID, ‎OpenITI author ID, ‎Mellopedia ID, Liste unique des décorés ID, ‎Deník tag ID, Interaktionsdatabasen ID, ‎Adebiportal author ID, Biographische Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder ID, ISLRN, ‎Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, RIA Novosti person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion entry ID, ‎Qalamger.kz author ID, ‎Does the Dog Die? media ID, ‎Organ Index ID, American Kennel Club ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Responsable de departamento ()
  • Lämningsnummer ({{Q|Q10498015}} is a database of archaeological monuments in Sweden, maintained by {{Q|Q631844}}. Each item in the database has an identifier containing the year of registration and a number, e.g. ''L1970:5203''.)
  • number of comments per day ()
  • Commonwealth Sport country code (Commonwealth Sport country code)
  • operating humidity (humidity at which a device operates)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature Periodical ID, HarmonyOS NEXT APP ID, Rechtsinformationen des Bundes-ID, UNESCO Virtual Museum inventory ID, South Korean Business Registration Number, SetesdalWiki ID, Biography.com ID, Mackolik football manager ID, S1 No.1 Style actress ID, biserici.org church ID, RFC, Hudobné centrum IDs, FAIR Epigraphic Vocabularies ID, NVLI ID, SerBenfiquista.com players ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Map of pubs in Scotland (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kazakhstan
• Showcase Items:Lake Zanzibar (Q22530539) - lake in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada

Development

• Wikidata in Wikipedia and co:
  • We worked on making Wikidata change summaries in recent changes and watchlist on the other Wikimedia projects more understandable by adding icons. This will be rolled out soon (phab:T397258)
  • We continued the improvements to the Databox module (phab:T400322, phab:T400318)
• Mobile statement editing: We continued working on editing references (phab:T405236) and did clean-ups for the beta release (phab:T405743)
• GraphQL: We continued work on including labels of linked entities in responses
• Dumps: We are looking into why dump generation is slower than it should be recently

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: South Korea
• 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) 15:50, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-44

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 iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
• Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed. [4]

Updates for technical contributors

• The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
• The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the Special:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page. [5]
• Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
• A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
• Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited. [6]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #224 is out: Round 1 of “abstract content wiki” naming vote ending Monday; An example of short descriptions

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we update you on our naming contest for Abstract Wikipedia, we announce our first experimentation with short descriptions on Wikidata, we talk about our presentations at the upcoming WikidataCon 2025, and we take a look at the latest Type and software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on November 3, at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:48, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #704

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #703.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Samoasambia
• New requests for permissions/Bot: langCodesBot - Task(s): Python script to automate the cleanup of deprecated language codes (e.g., kr) from Wikidata items. Delete or move labels, descriptions, and aliases based on comparisons with fallback and related languages. The script uses the Pywikibot framework to process each item and logs cases it skips due to data inconsistencies or ambiguity to a CSV file for manual review.
• New request for comments: Exhibition models by Hexatekin - This proposal focuses on standardizing models for art exhibitions. There is not a consistent data model used for art exhibitions that factors in parent-child relationships for traveling exhibitions, show series, or biennials, despite these being important and common types of events in international art history.

Events

• Past:
  • Happy Birthday, Wikidata 🎉! We celebrated Wikidata’s 13th birthday with a community call to unveil presents and play games. Check out the replay of the event and the cool gifts people made: Wikidata:Thirteenth Birthday/Presents & messages
  • WikidataCon: You can catch up on the recordings and slides in the program
  • Wikidata Workshop at ISWC: You can catch up on the published papers on the website.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Building an Internet for Everyone: Wikidata Recognized as a Digital Public Good
  • Enriching Wikidata with AuthorityBox. An interview with Stefano Bargioni
    • examples of AuthorityBox can be seen in PUSC catalogue, URBE catalogue (code), Keratsini-Drapetsona catalogue; cf. also Stefano Bargioni, From Authority Enrichment to AuthorityBox. Applying RDA in a Koha environment (2020)
  • Exploring Nairobi and Building a Global Network: The Inspiring Wikimania@20 Experience
  • Supercharging Cultural Institution Collections with Wikidata
• Videos:
  • Por qué el conocimiento libre importa más que nunca | Gustavo Candela | Jornadas Anuales 2025
  • Wikidata Ontology Course | A NotebookLM Deep Dive
  • Odia Wikimedians User Group Celebration of the 13th Wikidata Birthday
  • Como utilizar o OpenRefine para cadastrar artigos científicos na Wikidata? - WikiTutoriais #05
  • Supercharging Cultural Institution Collections with Wikidata [October 2025]
  • ¿Cómo es la ontología de Wikidata?
  • Wikidata @13 celebration by the Tyap Wikimedians

Tool of the week The Wikidata Reference Validator by User:JosefAnthony helps check and replace broken or outdated references — keeping Wikidata’s knowledge verifiable and trustworthy. It checks whether external references are still accessible or offline, so we can ensure that every statement on Wikidata shows how we know what we know.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance
• Wikimedia chapters are providing scholarships for Wikimania 2026. Apply here if you're interested: Wikipedia:Förderung/Wikimania/English

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎Newegg item ID, ‎Hardcore Gaming 101 game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Luminous flux (Numerical value of the luminous flux emitted by a lighting device or light source, measured in lumens)
  • anatomical structure in view (the anatomical structure in view in the photo, e.g. head, wing, habitus (body))
  • anatomical view (view of an anatomical structure, e.g. ventral, dorsal, frontal)
  • collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field)
  • Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: BG IISDA org ID, BG NACID person ID, GCatholic former diocese ID, Grokipedia ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland ID, Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID, Davis Cup player ID 2025, Eiga.com drama ID, AntCat ID, Last Address ID, Disney+ browse ID, Japanese Film Database ID, Japan Location Database ID, Fight.ru fighters ID, IMI person id

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of ~12.000 western European tram stops among their respective networks
  • Count of Wikipedia articles about UNESCO Memory of the World inscriptions
• Showcase Items: perestroïka (Q167634) - political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform
• Showcase Lexemes:baseline (L46097) - English noun (ˈbeɪslaɪn) meaning "a starting point for comparison", "a benchmark in budgeting", or "a reference line in typography or surveying"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work on qualifiers and reference editing
• GraphQL: We are continuing the work on making labels of linked entities available in GraphQL (phab:T404692)
• Dumps: We are continuing to look into improvements for the dump process

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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Tech News: 2025-45

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

• 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). [7]
• For users with "Automatically subscribe to topics" enabled in their preferences, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "Add topic" or "Reply" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time. [8]
• Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files. [9]
• Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. [10]
• Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish! [11]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query. [12]

Updates for technical contributors

• Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means /s/ URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML class="title-shortlink". The /s/ URLs will keep working. [13]
• On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces and SRE Service Operations teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
• MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025. [14]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:35, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #225 is out: First round of voting for naming the wiki for abstract content closed; Calling for Wiktionary functions; Embedded Wikifunctions on Bengali Wikipedia and seven more Wiktionaries

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we update you on the closing of the first phase of the naming contest for Abstract Wikipedia, we introduce a possible implementation of Wikifunctions for Wiktionaries, we talk about our latest outreach events, and we take a look at the latest Type and software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:06, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #705

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #704.

Discussions

• Other: Draft policy for temporary account IP viewers. What requirements should be set for this user right?

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Introducing the Unicode Inflection Library Technical Preview Release : The Unicode Inflection Library leverages comprehensive lexicons from Wikidata to support standardized, multilingual grammatical transformations for global software applications.
• Videos:
  • Art+Feminism Celebrates Wikidata!
  • Day 5_Using WikiData with Spyral Notebook and Project Presentation
  • Wikidata and Wikipedia training for Art+Feminism 2025 in Uganda
  • What are Wikidata WikiProjects, and why should you join one? Watch this great explainer from the #LevelingUpDays2024 to see how these communities work together! Then, find your project: Wikidata:WikiProjects

Tool of the week

• User:Difool/WikidataCleanup.js: gadget allowing to do, in one click, a wide series of cleanups in an item: normalize labels, descriptions, and aliases (double spaces, certain Unicode characters), remove weak references, remove weakly referenced dates when they have lower precision than a strongly referenced date and downgrade unnecessary preferred ranks; about the general issue of redundancies in Wikidata, you can check WikiProject Redundancy
• Ghanasupremecases is a webapp that dynamically pulls and displays over 2,000 Supreme Court of Ghana cases from Wikidata, allowing users to access case details linked directly to Wikidata items. The goal is to make African legal data more open, structured, and discoverable, and to demonstrate how Wikidata can serve as a foundation for national-level legal archive

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Temporary accounts rollout: Starting November 12, the community will see logged‑out edits handled through temporary accounts instead of IPs, prompting tool and bot checks.
• Help shape the future WikidatCon! If you attended WikidataCon 2025, please take 10 minutes to share your feedback in this anonymous GDPR-compliant survey (sslsurvey)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • operating humidity (humidity at which a device operates)
  • collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field)
  • Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.)
• Newest External identifiers: CACI company ID, AEK Football player ID, Sultanlar Ligi player ID, BeWeb historical or artistic asset ID, SofaScore sports team ID, FootballFakts.ru football match ID, Kicker sports match ID, BDFutbol match ID, Foot Mercato / Fichajes / Fussball Transfers player ID, ‎Disney+ browse ID, ‎Filmarks ID, Memorial Book of Social Democracy-ID, NLAI ID, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain ID, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts ID, Antique Chinese and Japanese Porcelain Dictionary and Glossary of Terms entry, Filmfriend movie ID, Hesse School ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Dance entry ID, Saxony School ID, NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature periodical identifier, NZ Charities Register Number, IFES Election Guide ID, Arte de la Argentina ID, Democratic Memory Bank ID, Kicker competition ID, Soccer365.net team ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • time of deposition (date or point in time when an archaeological object or assemblage was buried, hidden, lost, or otherwise deposited.)
  • readiness (readiness)
  • greenhouse gases emissions (amount of greenhouse effect emited by a given company or industry sector)
  • neuter form of label (neuter form of name or title)
  • current season ({{TranslateThis | an identifier for the team's current season <!-- | xx = descriptions in other languages --> }})
  • flag carrier of (country of which the airline is the flag carrier)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: BFXC authority ID, BWB-nummer, Schulnummer Brandenburg, Encyclopedia of Shinto ID, Power Thesaurus ID, WDSF person ID, Blu-Ray.com film ID, Japanese Law Translation ID, USGS Publication ID, Afrikaregisteret ID, National cultural monument of Czechia ID, Admirable Façades styles ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID, Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID, TikTok User ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Map of all places related to persons with layers by property of the place (source)
• WikiProject Highlights: Passionate about highlighting women's achievements? WikiProject Women is dedicated to creating and improving data about women worldwide. Help close the gender gap in knowledge! #WikidataWikiProjects
• Showcase Items: Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (Q1136251) - cultural landscape in South Africa
• Showcase Lexemes: fold (L4479) - English verb (foʊld) meaning "to bend over on itself", "to mix ingredients gently", or "to fail or give in"

Development The development team were involved in roadmap planning meetings so not much happened in the past week.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Paraguay
• 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: 2025-46

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• Starting November 12, users will see a change in the appearance of talk pages on some Wikipedias. Almost all wikis have received this design change; English Wikipedia will get these changes later. You can read more on Diff. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in "Show discussion activity". [15]
• MediaWiki can now display a page indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request. [16]
• Using the "Show preview" or "Show changes" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content. [17][18][19]
• Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed. [20]
• The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging. [21]
• The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis. [22]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed. [23]

Updates for technical contributors

• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new Toolforge standards committee members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.
• The JWT issuer field in OAuth 2 access tokens for SUL wikis has been changed to https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work. [24]
• The JWT subject field in OAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from <user id> to mw:<identity type>:<user id>, where <identity type> is typically CentralAuth: (for SUL wikis) or local:<wiki id> (for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and the sessionJwt cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work. [25]
• MediaWiki's block messages (blockedtext, blockedtext-partial, autoblockedtext, systemblockedtext, blockedtext-tempuser, autoblockedtext-tempuser) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page $9 or emailing other users $10. [26]
• A REL1_45 branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change. [27]
• The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support. [28][29]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:38, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #226 is out: Getting ready for second round of voting for naming the wiki with abstract content; Rewriting the backend: Why Rust?

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we summarise current discussion regarding the naming contest for Abstract Wikipedia, we discuss how we are rewriting the backend, we ask for help in substituting a function, we suggest you the recordings of Wikifunctions-related sessions at the WikidataCon 2025, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also we remind you that the next Natural Language Generation Special Interest Group meeting will be held on November 18, at 16:00 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:42, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Join us for “Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages”!

Hello Nw520,

We’re excited to invite you to an inspiring global virtual gathering: the first Capacity Exchange Translat-a-thon.

Together with Language Diversity Hub, the Capacity Exchange (CapX) team will host its first Translation Marathon dedicated to ensuring linguistic equity in access to this amazing tool aimed to connect Wikimedians.
If you enjoy contributing to Wikimedia projects through translating and adapting content into different languages, this event is for you! Join us in the celebration of the multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia Movement at an event where communities that contribute in diverse languages will be able to share local knowledge and collaborate across borders.
Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages

• Date: December 6, 2025
• Time: 12 PM (UTC) - Check the event page for your local timezone
• Location: Online (Meta-Wiki + live session links)

Register for the Event here

If you can’t join the live event, you can still contribute to the translations! Edits will be counted for two weeks, until December 20th. And everyone who participates will receive a special badge to display on their CapX profiles.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:55, 13 November 2025 (UTC)