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Congratulations to the Local Winners of Feminism and Folklore 2026
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Dear {{PAGENAME}},
The Feminism and Folklore International Organizing Team is pleased to congratulate the Local Winners of '''Feminism and Folklore 2026 ↗'''.
Local Winners are participants who achieved top rankings within their respective language communities through their valuable contributions to documenting folklore, women's history, culture, traditions, and related knowledge on Wikimedia projects in their local languages.
Your efforts have helped enrich Wikimedia content, preserve cultural heritage, and improve the representation of diverse communities and knowledge systems across the movement. We sincerely appreciate your dedication and contribution to the success of the campaign.
Appreciation Form
As a token of appreciation to receive prizes, all Local Winners are requested to complete the following form by '''22 June 2026'''.
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Thank you
We extend our heartfelt thanks to all Local Winners for their outstanding contributions and continued support of free knowledge. Your work has strengthened local-language content and helped make knowledge about folklore and women more accessible to communities around the world.
Congratulations once again on your achievement.
—''Feminism and Folklore International Organizing Team''
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Tech News: 2026-24
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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'''
- Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content. https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/enhanced-free-api ↗
'''Updates for editors'''
- The refreshed Explore Feed ↗, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: ''Community'' and ''For You''. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the ''For You'' tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.
- The Which came first? ↗ daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements ↗.
- Sub-referencing ↗, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis ↗ and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages ↗ in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips ↗, which may require updates ↗ to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews ↗ do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the ''cite-tracking-category-ref-details'' tracking category ↗ as a hidden category using <code><nowiki>__HIDDENCAT__</nowiki></code> (or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848 ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425662 ↗
- The Page Previews experiment ↗ on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.
- The user interface icon library ↗ will be updated later this week or next week ↗. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.
- The Universal Language Selector ↗ (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features ↗ in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page ↗.
- 12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427171 ↗
'''Updates for technical contributors'''
- The function signature for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink()</nowiki></code></bdi> has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page');</nowiki></code></bdi> use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });</nowiki></code></bdi>. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses of <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>addPortletLink()</nowiki></code></bdi> and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427945 ↗
- '''Community Wishlist discussion''': Product & Technology introduced changes ↗ meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions ↗ about a proposed direction for the wishlist ↗ from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates ↗.
- 12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗
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Tech News: 2026-25
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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 Reader Growth team ↗ has launched an Image Browsing ↗ beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use <code>class=notpageimage</code> excluding it from thumbnail previews, or <code>class=noviewer</code> excluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word <code><nowiki>__NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__</nowiki></code>. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page ↗.
- Wikitables ↗ can now be sorted in descending order ↗ on the first click by adding <code dir=ltr>data-sort-order="desc"</code> to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398416 ↗
'''Updates for editors'''
- The Article guidance ↗ feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature ↗ gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page ↗. Example outlines ↗ that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section ↗ of the project page.
- Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account ↗ with the block duration they want. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427125 ↗
- 12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:41}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:41|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.
'''Updates for technical contributors'''
- By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement ↗ of the long standing user-agent policy ↗. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
- The roll out of global API rate limits ↗ is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.
- The API Portal wiki ↗ will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org ↗. Learn more on the project page ↗.
- 12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗
'''Meetings and events'''
- On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey ↗ that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server ↗.
- The Latin American Wikimedia Conference ↗ will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship ↗ to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).
- Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page ↗ and register there ↗. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.
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Thank you for being a part of Feminism and Folklore 2026
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Dear {{PAGENAME}},
Your contributions helped make this year's Feminism and Folklore ↗ campaign a great success, and we are truly grateful for your time, knowledge, and dedication to documenting women's stories and folklore on Wikimedia projects.
As we reflect on this year's campaign and prepare for the next edition, we'd love to hear about your experience. Please take a few minutes to fill out our feedback form and share your thoughts and suggestions.
As a token of our appreciation, everyone who completes the form will receive a '''special digital postcard'''! in their email. This year marks '''''25 years of Wikipedia''''', and the postcard has been created to celebrate this milestone and to recognize the incredible efforts of participants like you who continue to enrich free knowledge for the world.
'''Form Link - here ↗'''
Please complete the feedback form by '''25 June 2026'''.
Thank you once again for making Feminism and Folklore 2026 a success. We hope to see you again in future campaigns!
Best regards,
Feminism and Folklore international Team.
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Tech News: 2026-26
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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'''
- Growth features ↗ are now available at Wikidata ↗. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured ↗), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.
'''Updates for editors'''
- The special page {{#special:RangeCalculator}} ↗ has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268429 ↗
- Sub-referencing ↗ is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ ↗ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan ↗ for the next deployment steps. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428902 ↗
- Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100974 ↗
- 12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.
'''Updates for technical contributors'''
- Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the <code>skipcaptcha</code> right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. The <code>skipcaptcha</code> right will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402595 ↗
- Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API ↗ has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox ↗.
- The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org ↗. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427537 ↗
- 12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗
'''Meetings and events'''
- Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code ↗ and Outreachy ↗. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community ↗.
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This Month in Education: June 2026
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<span style="font-weight:bold; color:#00A7E2; font-size:1.4em; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> Volume 15 • Issue 6 • June 2026</span>
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- Wikipedia Editathon at Dinajpur Govt. College: Empowering Graduate Students in the Open Knowledge Movement ↗
- Wikimedia Serbia prepares for Edu Wiki camp 2026 ↗
- Wiki Digi-Youth Clubs pilot explores challenge-based learning across three countries ↗
- Why the EduWiki Hub Starter Kit Matters for the Future of Education ↗
- Portuguese Universities adopt free knowledge tools: Wikipedia is the favorite ↗
- Translating on Wikipedia used as extra – credit assignment in University of Prishtina, Kosovo ↗
- Strengthening Wikimedia Education Through Community Learning and Digital Literacy Initiatives ↗
- Small Group, Big Impact: Building Skills Through the Wikimedia Volunteer Focus Group in Botswana ↗
- "25x25 Project – Celebrating Wikipedia" in Córdoba, Argentina ↗
- Mapping and gathering educational activities on Wiki in Brazilian universities ↗
- Growing Wiki Education in the Philippines: Highlights from Bikol WikiConference 2026 ↗
- From Mentee to Builder: Six Months in the EduWiki Hub Mentorship Program ↗
- EduWiki Hub publishes its first Community Newsletter ↗
- Click, Capture, and Contribute: Scaling Open Knowledge Through Mobile Photography ↗
- Education in Action: Limkokwing School Adoption Program 2026 and Wikimedia Learning Outcomes ↗
- Impact of Wiki Digi youth Clubs initiative in education of Rwanda ↗
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July 2026
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'''Events:'''
- ''New'': Crime & law ↗ <big>|</big> Alphabet run: Countries starting with M ↗
- ''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗
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- Women in Red celebrates its 11 Year Anniversary on July 18!
- Eiffel women ↗
- Developing Countries WikiContest ↗
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- Working on a group of linked articles? Have you thought about creating a navigation box ↗ for the footer of those pages?
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- Become a member ↗. You can always opt-out of notifications ↗.
- Join the conversations on our talkpage ↗.
- Help us plan future events ↗ and add any general ideas on developing the project.
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Tech News: 2026-27
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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.
'''Updates for editors'''
- As part of the Account Creation Experiments ↗, the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428220 ↗
- After a successful experiment ↗, logged-in users who did not confirm their email address ↗ when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the Account Security ↗ project. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428292 ↗
- An update to Search ↗ is refining how the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>-prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> behaves when used to exclude results. Previously, using <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>-prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> with negation could unintentionally broaden search results by adding the namespaces included in the search scope, leading to confusing behavior for users expecting a straightforward exclusion filter. With the update, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>-prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> will now strictly exclude matching page titles as intended and may display a warning if the relevant namespace has not been explicitly selected. The behavior of <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> without negation however remains unchanged. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427443 ↗
- 12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:33}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:33|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where reviewers using the Page Curation toolbar were not automatically subscribed to talk page discussions they started has now been fixed. Reviewers will now receive notifications when someone replies to those discussions. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329346 ↗
'''Updates for technical contributors'''
- Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the user-agent policy ↗. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. This is a follow up to the announcement made in the 2026/25 issue of Tech News ↗.
- 12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗
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Tech News: 2026-28
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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'''
- 12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:34}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:34|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T429769 ↗
'''Updates for technical contributors'''
- In preparation for Celebrate Women campaign ↗ planned for March 2027, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Content Enablement team ↗ has launched a 22-question survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ (anyone who identifies as a woman) across Wikimedia projects. The survey takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 20 July 2026. The questions ↗ are also available on-wiki for review in advance.
- The Score extension ↗ now supports rendering music scores as SVG images in addition to PNG, addressing a long-standing feature request ↗ and resolving historical image quality issues. Both formats are now provided to clients, with PNG in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>src</nowiki></code></bdi> attribute and SVG in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>srcset</nowiki></code></bdi> attribute.
- The new Parsoid ↗ parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis ↗, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. It was enabled on French Wikipedia, bringing total progress to covering 78.9% of Wikipedia page views. Rollout to English Wikipedia desktop will progress through this week.
- 12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗
'''In depth'''
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap blog post ↗ is now live. It highlights the projects, sessions, and social activities from this year’s event, and shares initial plans for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon.
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Koireng Lai
25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello, I'm AnonLionCavalier83. I noticed that you recently removed content ↗ from :Thangching ↗ without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary ↗. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page ↗. Multiple sources state that the deity Thangching is of Koireng origin. He is also popularly called Koireng Lai, even by Sanamahists ↗. Please do not remove such content, or worse, accuse editors of being "notable" for "fabricating". Please assume good faith ↗ and avoid personal attacks ↗. Thank you<!-- Template:uw-delete1 --> ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 18:01, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
:PS. Stop removing warnings ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 18:02, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
:Also, I've added the sources. Thank you ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 18:04, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello, I'm AnonLionCavalier83. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view ↗. Your recent edit to :Thangching ↗ seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page ↗. Thangching is commonly called "Koireng Lai" so there's no need to make it just a footnote. It's not "some scholars" who think Koireng Lai is from the Koireng people, it's just a fact. He's literally called "god of the koireng" because he literally was a god of the Kuki-Zo group before being adopted by the Meiteis. Cultures borrowing neighboring culture's deities is not an uncommon thing, so it makes sense for the Moirang Meiteis to borrow Koireng Lai. There's no need to downplay this fact. Your changes will have to be removed if it goes against the citations, as it did here. Thanks <!-- Template:uw-npov1 --> ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 19:20, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
:@AnonLionCavalier83 FYI, Meitei language is also categorised by many scholars in "Kuki Chin" language sub-family. But Meitei people are not Kuki Chin atleast. Likewise, Koireng language is classified under Kuki Chin sub-family, but the Koireng people group themselves in Naga ethnic category. So, linguistic category does not always equal to ethnic category. Haoreima (talk) 19:32, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
::Oh, thanks for the insight! ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 19:37, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
25px|alt=Warning icon ↗ Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy ↗ by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at :Thangching ↗, you may be blocked from editing ↗. Please comment in talk page ↗ on the changes you want instead of causing an edit war. Sanamahism was only original religion of Meiteis from the valley in Manipur, not the original religon of the Nagas or the Kukis. Please stop this and please assume good faith.<!-- Template:uw-npov3 --> ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 19:35, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
Minor Question
Controversy over Koireng Lai ↗ aside, where have I been "notable" for my "fabrications". I've only seen two users even disagree with my edits, you and that user without an account.
Did a Meitei organization get upset? Is Arambai Tenggol after me? 😂
Happy editing, thanks, and peace ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 19:51, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
:@AnonLionCavalier83 explain what do you mean by "Meitei organization" and "Arambai Tenggol" in this context? Haoreima (talk) 19:55, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
::like you said I'm notable for editing there. By "notable", I'd assume an organization related to the deity may have commented on my edits. If so, feel free to link them to me. ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 20:08, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
:::@AnonLionCavalier83 Why do you think like that? Haoreima (talk) 20:12, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
::::Cause you said I'm "notable" for editing. What do you mean by "notable" than? ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 20:14, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
::::@AnonLionCavalier83 How is that "notable" relevant to "Meitei organization" and "Arambai Tenggol", which you have just mentioned? I don't understand. Could you explain properly? Haoreima (talk) 20:17, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
:::::Never mind. Usually, groups Meiteis or Koirengs have a tribal organization that speaks for them. Take Kuki Inpi ↗ for example.
:::::These organizations sometimes respond to something in their Wikipedia they don't like. When you said I am "notable" for this, I was under the impression some Meitei religious organization disliked my edits.
:::::When you meant "notable" did you just mean two people disliked my edits? ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 20:21, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
::::::@AnonLionCavalier83 What made you state {{highlight|"... Meitei religious organization disliked my edits."}}? Why do you think so? Haoreima (talk) 20:25, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
:::::::I just wanna know what do you mean by I am "notable" for editing there? Notable as in what, I am famous for it? ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 20:34, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
::::::::Notable for what is already written in full sentence in the earliest written edit. Please check there. Haoreima (talk) 20:37, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
:::::::::? Huh? ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 20:39, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
:::::::::you know what never mind. Happy editing, and peace ~ AnonLionCavalier83 (talk) 20:40, 8 July 2026 (UTC)