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Barnstars

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== As of ==
Hi Samuel, you might want to do some research on the 'As of' feature, it's a way of tracking time sensitive information. The link to 'As of' redirects, so it is transparent to the user, but you can go to the 'As of 2001' page to see statements that were true that year, updating as necessary. Yours, Troll Silent, Troll Deep 15:31, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

Greeting

I just wanted to say hello -- I saw you added a middle name to the Jacques Barzun ↗ article (the very first article I ever wrote here, as I recall) and was glad to know someone had stopped by. :-) Your blog looks interesting -- I was a graduate student in religious history (the English Reformation, specifically) for several years, and one of my fellow students had a brother taking his PhD in religious history at Notre Dame. I'm sure our interests will allow us to intersect in the future here, and I'm looking fo
rward to it. Happy editing
, Jwrosenzweig 15:43, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

Name

As far as I can tell, the man's name is Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie ↗. He's often given as Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie, which means the whole thing is what his name is. They are not alternative names. john 02:36, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

No need to move him, as he's apparently known as "Compton Mackenzie". Stick with best known name - we don't have Tony Blair at Anthony Charles Lynton Blair ↗, after all. I already fixed the article text. john 02:41, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

East German Myths

Right on with the East German myths page. Looks like someone just pasted in a list of complaints or something, eh?

I made minor changes to the first part of it before looking down and seeing a total dog's breakfast... --Krupo 23:49, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

Various

<s>This is how you strike through text</s> (Click "edit this page" to see the markup).

Also, I think perhaps you should have a go at rewriting the Catholocism section of Original sin ↗. I agree that it could use some work, and I think you'd do a good job on it.

Acegikmo1 15:58, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I find calling the 'Leather Pride Flag' "Not notable" rather insulting. (I marched in the San Francisco Pride parade this year as part of the Leather contingent). Pride Flags are very important to the communities they represent.

Dlloyd 22:39, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

UCC/UUA congregations

Are any of the UCC/UUA congregations jointly affiliated due to not accepting the split way back when? I know there are some UCC/UUA congregations that hold joint membership because of congregational mergers, and some because of intentional joint affiliation from the start of the congregation (after the split). I question whether any are from maintaning joint affiliation from the time of the Unitarian/Congregational split. But I have an open mind. I'm trying to put together a list of UCC/UUA congregations and their reasons for and history of joint affiliation. - UtherSRG 23:04, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

:I've sent an email to both the UCC and UUA for a list of congregations jointly affiliated with both associations a couple of days ago. I heard back today from the UUA that they are compiling the list.... seems that different staff groups have different parts of the information. Just FYI. - UtherSRG 16:33, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

List of Samanthas

Good job being pro-active and boldly editing, but in the future when moving VfD-listed pages, could you also move the "/page name" VfD vote page to the new article name, and edit the VFD page itself to reflect these moves, too to avoid confusion between whether Samantha ↗ or List of Samanthas ↗ was listed for deletion. Davodd 13:13, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

HIM changes not following WikiProject Albums recommendations

<del>Please review Talk:HIM (band) ↗. -KeyStorm 14:22, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)</del>

<del>Please, check out Talk:HIM (band) ↗, again. It seems I unintentionally ignored your comment, sorry. -KeyStorm 17:51, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)</del>

Following User:RedWolf's advice ↗, your changes have been reverted in order to accomplish the WikiProject Albums guidelines. --KeyStorm 21:38, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your support on "Catholicism"!

I do appreciate it, I was beginning to feel a little like a voice in the wilderness -- wondering if I was alone in finding that "The Evil Empire"/"Criticisms of Catholicism" just really irredeemable. (The vandalism of the talk page was just the last straw, really.) -- Antaeus Feldspar 02:02, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:The vandal apparently has the username User:ClarityMS07 and is once again vandalizing Catholicism ↗. Can you help again? -- Antaeus Feldspar 02:36, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Note: adding re-posting relevant content is not vandalism. I am not a 'vandal'.--ClarityMS07 14:29, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:He is now blaming his vandalism of the talk page on a sockpuppet who just happened to share the same IP address over a period of 47.5 hours during which neither of them edited any other page from that address. MattWilkes may also be a sockpuppet, since that user never edited a single page before making an appearance to take ClarityMS07's side in the revert war. -- Antaeus Feldspar 02:40, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hello. We haven't actually met before, but I think I should inform you of a recent development on the "Vandalism in progress" page which may have affected your articles.

About an hour ago, I attempted to report an act of vandalism on the Louis Riel ↗ page, in the "Current Alerts" section. Unfortunately, as I was doing this I accidentally deleted an important section of the "Vandalism in progress" main page -- possibly accounting for some of the confusion which other users have be reported in the last hour.

I believed that I've fixed the situation now. Please note that this was the result of a misinterpretation on my part, and not a deliberate act of vandalism. I apologize for any inconvenience that my actions may have caused. (Please also note that it took me almost an hour to identify and solve the problem.)

You may wish to review your recent contributions to the "Vandalism in progress" page, to ensure that everything you intended to write ended up in its proper place. CJCurrie 02:11, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

True Cross ↗

I see that you have introduced yourself at the entry with a notice ''The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed''— after a single edit back in July and without a single remark among the Discussion. I see no reason why a subject just because it is Christian cannot also be truthful in its history (hard to achieve at Wikipedia, however), so I look forward to cooperating with you in making a fully-detailed and ''accurate'' entry on this interesting subject. Do you have access to Cyril of Jerusalem ↗'s ''Catacheses,'' for quotes on his story of the finding, which appears to be the earliest? That would be a help. Wetman 07:18, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Red-link recovery

Howdy and many thanks for your work on that list of mis-punctuated links. The list's pretty much completed now - I'll be generating a new version of it in due course, taking all the lessons learned from the last one into account. In the meantime, if you enjoyed working through the list (or at least found it a worthwhile distraction), you may want to have a look at the similar list of plural discrepancies which highlights red-links that might be red because they (or the article they are aiming for) are improperly pluralised. Again, thanks for your efforts - award yourself a wikimedal for janitorial services ↗ if you haven't already got one! - TB 11:29, 2004 Nov 8 (UTC)

Public Theater

Your original entry was tagged incorrectly. Once known as Joseph Papp's Public Theater, the name of this organization reverted to Public Theater after his death. It is so designated at the entrance of the building. Had you initially used the proper tag, there would have been no duplicate article created, since I would have discovered one existed when I searched for "Public Theater" - unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't ignore "A" and "The" and therefore I received the response that no such item existed. TOM 13:58, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license ↗ all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons ↗ Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 License ↗s or into the public domain ↗ if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL ↗, but it allows '''other projects''', such as WikiTravel ↗, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 ↗ Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "'''<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki>'''" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace ↗. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "'''<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki>'''" with "'''<nowiki>{{MultiLicensePD}}</nowiki>'''". If you only prefer using the GFDL ↗, I would like to know that too. ''Please let me know'' what you think at my '''talk page'''. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment ↗| talk)

Wikipedians who blog

Hi! if you have a moment, could you please see m:Wikinews and blogs ↗ to comment? We're interested in learning how Wikinews ↗ can work with bloggers; what they might be interested in, how they can take advantage of Wikinews, how they can contribute through their blogs, etc. Thanks! Amgine ↗/<sup>talk ↗</sup>

Republics

Need your help and/or advice. The British Wikipedian Republican Party sought fit to delete Wikinfo:Classical definition of republic ↗ from Wikipedia. There is a terrible brouhaha at Talk:Republic ↗. They won't even allow an external link! SimonP really doesn't know what he is doing. They deleted the Classical definition of republic and created mixed government ↗ and politeia ↗ instead. The official title of mixed government is a Republic and the Romans translated "politiea" as Republic. And then to top it off the new article Classical republicanism ↗ doesn't refer to the Classical republics of Crete, Sparta, Solonic Athens, or Rome but to Machiavelli's ideology. How can that be when Venice in the 13th century instituted a mixed government and called herself a "Republic".

With Jwrosenwieg and Kim Bruning there was a tacit agreement a year ago to have republic ↗ be the modern meaning and a [Classical definition of republic] to describe the ancient republics of Hellas and Rome and their influence. To say the least the "Republic section" is all messed up. We need some clarification. I have new information but User:Snowspinner won't let me bring this back up for undelete. (I do grant that a little bit of the Classical definition is original but the rest is not.) I will not let Sparta be called anything but a republic! I will not let the British wikipedian modern republicans strip Sparta, (my heritage and roots) of her rightful name. She is a Classical republic and needs to be called such! At the least, where is the damage in having an external link?WHEELER 15:29, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Monsignor

Someone removed your dispute notice on monsignor ↗. I just wanted to make sure you were aware of it and ask if you still dispute the article. Pmadrid 22:21, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ratzinger Photo

Not sure why you think claiming that a photo of Ratzinger while he member of the the ''Hitlerjugend'' (Hitler Youth) in the section discussing his activities during WWII is a "lie", but your removal and trying to sweep the facts under the rug does neither you, nor the truth any good. Only meticulous adherence to the facts and a full airing of those facts (including the relevant photos of the period) are going to allow people to be fully informed and cognizant of the historical facts involved. Lestatdelc 04:15, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

:I may have removed it in the process of working on the text, i'm doing my best to keep up. I think accurate text takes precedence over an optional photo. Your comments are completely inappropriate. I haven't called anything a lie. You should apologize.--Samuel J. Howard 04:22, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

::My apologies... the edit that accused the photo of being a lie was 19:59, Apr 19, 2005 165.123.190.42 (?Pre-WWII and Wartime - POV, trying to insinuate a lie)

::And yours was directly beneath it:

::(cur) (last) 19:59, Apr 19, 2005 Samuel J. Howard (?Pre-WWII and Wartime - removing out of place sentence)

::And in the page history I must have clicked on your name by mistake thinking the "it is a lie" comment was yours when it was the anonymous editior above yours. Mea culpa. Lestatdelc 04:28, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

:::Apology accepted. I definitely think that picture should be in there. (Although I wonder if it is a flak uniform not a HJ uniform. (could in fact be both, he was an auxialliary to the flak as a helper so he may have worn HJ uniform when w/the flak))--Samuel J. Howard 04:44, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

::::The thing I noted was the pin on the hat, being a Hitlerjugend pin, in addition this ↗ reprpduction Hitlerjugend uniform for older teens looks like what Ratzinger was wearing in the photo.

Ratzinger's father

:Thank you for your recent addition of the quotation from the London Sunday Times. A direct citation from a relatively reputable source looks better than bald assertion of the "staunchly anti-Nazi" claim. I fully support your current revision of that paragraph. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 04:45, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

== Nouvelle theologie ==

:Ok, why did you want "nouvelle theologie" inserted? I didn't see a reason on the talk page. <nowiki></nowiki> — Rickyrab | Talk 05:53, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

::I'm okay.... you could've said, "wait a minute or two and I'll put it on the discussion page".... that's all... :) <nowiki></nowiki> — Rickyrab | Talk 06:03, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Opus Dei ↗

Thank you, Samuel, for working on the massive task of revising the Opus Dei article towards NPOV. I hope the various versions of this article will meet in the middle to create an excellent and well-polished NPOV article. -- The Anome 08:58, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, too, for your masterly introduction of the metaphor: "The Cardinals and the Padres are different, but [they are] both still baseball teams." into the Opus Dei discussion. It is such moments of brilliance that make editing Wikipedia so rewarding. --Theo (Talk) ↗ 14:42, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks again for all your help, Samuel. Do you still intend to continue editing the Opus Dei article? I would like to know how make the article more neutral. I'd like to know your plans and your response to my explanation for the rearrangement. Please give some feedback. Lafem 08:31, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Licence to kill

I have reinstated the licence to kill (concept) ↗ article on the grounds that I could not find reference to it going through the Articles for deletion ↗ process. There was a VFD nomination a year ago but the archive clearly states that consensus was not reached, contrary to a comment in your edit summary saying it was. Based on the comments on the talk page it would appear that the decision to delete the content and turn it into a redirect to the movie occurred only yesterday (June 5) whereas the VFD process usually takes a couple of weeks and I could find no nomination (I check there regularly). If in fact there was a VFD vote and I missed it, then please accept my apologies and feel free to revert my changes (please post a link to the discussion to the article's talk page). But clearly there is a difference of opinion as to the validity of the article in question, in which case the community should vote on it. Thanks. 23skidoo 13:53, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Protestantism ↗

Please let us know ''specifically'' what your complaint is with the article, and why you believe it ought to be disputed; your comments were a bit vague. Thanks. KHM03 12:27, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Also, please let me know here, on the Protestantism talk page, or on mine, what caused you to be offended; and, I will work with you to correct what I've done. Mkmcconn <small>(Talk)</small> ↗ 19:29, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Help in revision

Greetings! I am trying to translate the article Brazilian vote-for-cash scandal from Portuguese to English. The article is very detailed and it was complimented on some journalists was complimented on some journalists http://observatorio.ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/blogs/codigoaberto.asp ↗. I would like to have some help from an English speaker so he can revise some parts of the text. I will appreciate any help or comments. If you can participate I will be very gratefull. If you can help me, please go to User:Carlosar/draft and do some editions. Thank you very much! --Carlosar 12:17, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Opus Dei article for feature article

Hi Samuel, I found out that you have been very helpful in revising the Opus Dei article. Can you be so kind as to check if it is already worthy of being nominated as feature article? Thank you so much. Thomas S. Major 07:19, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Battles of Sangju and Chungju ↗

There was nothing to merge. Chungju Campaign ↗ is an exact duplicate of the content at that article. Johnleemk | Talk 05:14, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Ecclesia Dei

You edited :Category:Icclesia Dei ↗ to set :Category:Priestly Society of Saint Peter ↗ as a sub-category instead of a parent cat. I don't know much about the subject, but shouldn't :Category:Priestly Society of Saint John Mary Vianney ↗ and :Category:Society of St. Pius X ↗ be moved as well ? -- Ze miguel 16:29, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
: Right, I'm even more confused now :) I'll let you and other experts sort it out. Cheers. -- Ze miguel 16:48, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

The undeletion vote on Template:User No Marxism ↗

Hi! I see you have been using this template on your user page. In case you haven't voted yet, make sure you don't miss the vote on the issue, whether to ''undo'' its deletion or not Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Userbox_debates#User_No_Marxism ↗.Constanz - Talk ↗ 14:09, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

List of people who were who were non adherents of the Dharmic religions to be cremated

In case you didn't notice, List of people who were who were non adherents of the Dharmic religions to be cremated ↗ (not its original name) has been proposed for deletion. NickelShoe (Talk) 15:00, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
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Traditionalist Catholic ↗

Would you like to comment on a new move proposal? Dominick <sup>(TALK)</sup> ↗ 15:55, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Conservative_notice_board ↗

Hello, I noticed that you identify as a conservative Wikipedian. So I would like to invite you to post any conservative issues you might have over at the new project page, Wikipedia:Conservative_notice_board ↗. Thanks. --Facto 05:53, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Roger Langley

I've never heard of your Roger Langley ↗ and top search engine results ↗ bring up the person I was looking for: Roger Langley, top member of the Prisoner ↗ Appreciation society. The Prisoner DVD box set even has a forward by him. What do you think of me redirecting Roger Langley ↗ to The Prisoner ↗ ? also your current page has nothing but your userpage linking to it. --Indolences 01:56, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Tiny Rascal Gang

First of all, please put new posts at the BOTTOM of talk pages so others can find them. Second of all, if you think that the deletion and salting ↗ was in error, I would suggest opening a discussion at deletion review ↗. <span style="color:green">Ten Pound Hammer</span> <small>and his otters</small> • <sup>(Broken clamshells ↗•Otter chirps ↗)</sup> 00:38, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Youngren ↗

Um, I don't know how to do searches for Google news for more than the past month, apparently. I just looked on Google News for the name. How would I search for more than the past month? <span style="font-family:Comic sans;"><span style="color:green">Corvus cornix</span><sub>''<span style="color:Green">talk</span>''</sub></span> 05:00, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. <span style="font-family:Comic sans;"><span style="color:green">Corvus cornix</span><sub>''<span style="color:Green">talk</span>''</sub></span> 06:36, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Robert Pelton Sibley

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Robert Pelton Sibley obituary

Hi, yes please I would be interested to see the obituary. Springnuts (talk) 18:02, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Burgon Society

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List of Deerfield Alumni

Hello, I notice you seem to have removed J. Spencer Robertson, founder of PAVE Academy in Brooklyn from the list of Deerfield alumni. I have replaced him on the list, as I can't imagine a better case for notability than founding a charter school in Brooklyn in this environment. I will write an entry for him when I get around to it. Regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 03:59, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Franciscan third order

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Anthony de Mello ↗

Hi Samuel. You may want to comment on the discussion at this article. I think some sort of expansion would be helpful, but we need a way ahead. --Bermicourt (talk) 15:59, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

The Mission Continues

The request for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Mission Continues ↗ was withdrawn. It would be appropriate, as DGG suggested, to add into the The Mission Continues ↗ article, where appropriate, citations to the materials that you found which convinced DGG of the topic's notability. Thanks. --Bejnar (talk) 18:02, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Samuel J. Howard!

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Levan Songulashvili (Article)

Dear Jahaza,
Levan Songulashvili is one of the most important and significant artist of Georgia. Even several days ago he was nominated for the Georgian Public Broadcaster's grand award The Best Artist of The Year. He deserves and it is important to be an article about the artist on Wikipedia.
I improved the article and please, check it out and let me know if there is anything else to do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levan_Songulashvili

Sincerely, GeorgianArtCenter (talk) 01:49, 8 January 2016 (UTC)GeorgianArtCenter

Housing in the United Kingdom

Hi. You have previously shown interest in NPOV issues and I would be grateful for your input on this article Housing in the United Kingdom ↗. See also the Talk page. Many thanks. Tomintoul (talk) 12:36, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Please comment at this RfC

Your input is requested by an editor at RfC on the 'Veganism' article ↗ 13:55, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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Welcome to the Canon Law Taskforce ↗! :)

Hi Jahaza! I just wanted to welcome you to the Canon Law Taskforce! I'm Canon Law Junkie, its founder (and I suppose, it's "leader"). Just message me if you have any questions, suggestions, or ideas for collaboration. If you would like help with a particular canon law article, I have lots of good books and sources in my personal library, which are always good for reliable references. Again, welcome! <span style="font-family:Old English text MT;"> Canon Law Junkie </span>§§§ <span style="font-family:Old English text MT;">Talk</span> 19:10, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Ardmore Presbyterian Church ↗

Just a return heads up, I have nominated the article for deletion ↗. No hard feelings and I'm always happy to be proven wrong :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) ↗ 23:05, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Notre Dame

Thank you so much for your contribution to the projects, in particular the recent dispute over location. The NotreDame WikiProject has a lot of potential but unfortunately few people working on it right now, so I wanted to thank you once more for your work. Best! Eccekevin (talk) 19:44, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

St. John the Beloved Seminary ↗

Instead of deletion, I redirected this stub to the main article, American National Catholic Church ↗. I am not a member of that denomination, but I have a friend who is a member. Bearian (talk) 20:50, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Mesenger

Facebook Lucia Lapinova (talk) 08:16, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

ND seal

Hi there! As a member of the Notre Dame project, I'd invite you over to take a look at a current disagreement taking place over the ND seal. Traditionally, and all over campus, the seal is colored, but another user has brought up that he would like to see it in black and white. Please take a look at the discussion here and chime in if you would like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:University_of_Notre_Dame#The_Seal

Best, Eccekevin (talk) 23:07, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

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Walter E. Washington Convention Center

Hi, noticed you rolled back some edits I made on the Walter E. Washington Convention Center ↗ page. Just clarifying -- the convention center collection is arguably the largest public collection of art outside of a museum in Washington. Your counterexamples are important but slightly incorrect - the Pentagon is not located in Washington, DC (it's in Virginia), and the GSA Collection/Congressional Collections are not always considered public art collections as the vast majority of that art is not accessible even when not in storage, as the pieces are located in private offices and non-public government buildings. Multiple sources cite the Convention center as having the largest convention center collection in the country and the largest public collection in DC outside of a museum (or one of the largest): DCist piece ↗, DC Convention Center ↗, and DC's tourist info site ↗. I think it's definitely arguable that it's ''one'' of the largest public collections in DC, and it's definitely also arguable that the Congressional Collection and GSA Collection count as public, but I do think it's an interesting/important fact that a convention center has a contemporary art collection large enough to be ''considered'' one of the largest public collections in DC. Don't want to just undo your edits without explaining, but I'm going to adjust the text to say it's "one of" the largest public collections in DC, and add the DCist piece as citation. Let me know if that makes sense! --19h00s (talk) 14:28, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael A. Elliott ↗

I don't appreciate the tone of the your comment at this discussion. I would invite you to remember to assume good faith ↗. I found it defamatory and misleading as it suggested that I have a history of inappropriate or improper AFDs - I don't. Please don't confused AFDs contested with not understanding or following the process. I have edited on 'pedia a long time - probably not as long as you - so if you had looked at my history, you'd see that I am fairly competent. This was clearly a ill-judgment on my behalf given the weight of opposing views and my lack of understanding of NPROF. My history is not of making spurious deletion requests. On the projects I work on, I have a history of making solid improvements and AFDs based on an assessment of criteria that are relevant. Please don't make casting aspersions or assumptions about my editing credentials or quality when I (to my knowledge) have not interacted with you before, and aside from perhaps viewing my contribution/AFD history know little about me. If you choose not to respond to this then you are welcome to not do so, that is in your gift, however please don't tarnish/defame or malign me in discussions for making a mistake. <span style="color:#01260d">>></span> <span style="color:#01260d">'''Lil-unique1'''</span> <span style="color:#01260d">'''('''</span><span style="color:#08752d">'''talk'''</span><span style="color:#01260d">''')'''</span> — 23:45, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

:Sorry, but apparently you don't understand AGF either. It requires that we assume that your edits are ''attempting'' to be productive, in other words that they're not malicious. It doesn't exempt them from criticism when they are bad.Jahaza (talk) 23:50, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
::By all means criticise the edits not not the editor. However saying "judging by their history" suggests I have an issue with AFDs or competency - which I don't. To say so is defamatory. What I have learnt from the experience, and been schooled on very clearly, is I probably don't know enough about NACADEMIC to get involved in such articles and will give them a wide birth. Sorry but I found your tone/style condescending. Ill judged AFD and concerns about academic articles from me, but I leave the situation not exactly feeling some aspects of bitten ↗ from you. I wouldn't want an editor I have interacted with to feel like I've belittled them or somehow suggested their incompetent because they have misunderstood something. Not really in the community spirit is it? <span style="color:#01260d">>></span> <span style="color:#01260d">'''Lil-unique1'''</span> <span style="color:#01260d">'''('''</span><span style="color:#08752d">'''talk'''</span><span style="color:#01260d">''')'''</span> — 00:25, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

AfDs

Given your interest in the subject area, I invite you to look over these AfDs: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atziluth ↗, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beri'ah ↗, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yetzirah ↗, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Assiah ↗. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 19:46, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

:Thanks, I'm working through the list.Jahaza (talk) 19:47, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Short descriptions

These should not be treated like the standfirsts of news articles that further explain the subject - they should briefly categorize the subject, in fewer than 40 characters. See WP:SHORTDESC ↗. Modify short descriptions all you like (within the guidelines), but please don't revert shortening efforts to prior short description versions that quite clearly violate all of the basic requirements. Iskandar323 (talk) 19:58, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

:You're going to have to tell me which one you're objecting to. It's also important that they be accurate. Inaccuracy also violates the basic requirements. Jahaza (talk) 20:00, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
::Well it was originally the Musar movement ↗ one, which weighs in at 71 characters and is clearly verbose, but Musar literature ↗ too now (58 characeters). Iskandar323 (talk) 20:03, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Thomas Yarborough

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Striking your comments

Hello! I saw that you used <nowiki><strike>text</s></nowiki> to strike your comments here ↗. Since HTML5 ↗, the use of <nowiki><s></nowiki> has been deprecated. To help reduce lint errors ↗, you can use <nowiki><s>text</s></nowiki> instead. Thanks!<span id="HouseBlaster:1662411726058:User_talkFTTCLNJahaza" class="FTTCmt"> House Blaster ↗<sup>talk</sup> 21:02, 5 September 2022 (UTC)</span>

Your logic and statements for the undoing of clear logic bothers me.

See the very bottom:

Are you affiliated with the Roman Catholic religion? Of their suspected and known crimes, they violate:

18 U.S. Code § 35 - Imparting or conveying false information

18 U.S. Code § 371 - Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States

18 U.S. Code § xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

18 U.S. Code § 2441- War crimes

18 U.S. Code § xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<nowiki>https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-108publ458</nowiki>

Some additional:

18 U.S. Code Chapter 37 - ESPIONAGE AND CENSORSHIP

§ 793. Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information

§ 794. Gathering or delivering defense information to aid foreign government

§ 795. Photographing and sketching defense installations

§ 796. Use of aircraft for photographing defense installations

§ 797. Publication and sale of photographs of defense installations

§ 798. Disclosure of classified information

18 U.S. Code Chapter 43 - FALSE PERSONATION

§ 911. Citizen of the United States

18 U.S. Code Chapter 45 - FOREIGN RELATIONS

§ 951. Agents of foreign governments

§ 952. Diplomatic codes and correspondence

§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments

§ 957. Possession of property in aid of foreign government

§ 958. Commission to serve against friendly nation

§ 960. Expedition against friendly nation

§ 961. Strengthening armed vessel of foreign nation

§ 962. Arming vessel against friendly nation

§ 964. Delivering armed vessel to belligerent nation

§ 965. Verified statements as prerequisite to vessel’s departure

§ 966. Departure of vessel forbidden for false statements

§ 967. Departure of vessel forbidden in aid of neutrality

18 U.S. Code Chapter 47 - FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS

§ 1001. Statements or entries generally

§ 1002. Possession of false papers to defraud United States

§ 1028. Fraud and related activity in connection with identification documents, authentication features, and information

§ 1028 A. Aggravated identity theft

§ 1029. Fraud and related activity in connection with access devices

§ 1030. Fraud and related activity in connection with computers

§ 1031. Major fraud against the United States

§ 1034. Civil penalties and injunctions for violations of section 1033

§ 1035. False statements relating to health care matters

§ 1036. Entry by false pretenses to any real property, vessel, or aircraft of the United States or secure area of any airport or seaport

§ 1037. Fraud and related activity in connection with electronic mail

§ 1038. False information and hoaxes

§ 1039. Fraud and related activity in connection with obtaining confidential phone records information of a covered entity

§ 1040. Fraud in connection with major disaster or emergency benefits

18 U.S. Code Chapter 73 - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

§ 1501. Assault on process server

§ 1505. Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees

§ 1510. Obstruction of criminal investigations (1950=<>=1954)

§ 1512. Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant

§ 1513. Retaliating against a witness, victim, or an informant

§ 1519. Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy

18 U.S. Code Chapter 113B - TERRORISM

§ 2332b. Acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries

§ 2332e. Requests for military assistance to enforce prohibition in certain emergencies

§ 2332f. Bombings of places of public use, government facilities, public transportation systems and infrastructure facilities

§ 2339. Harboring or concealing terrorists

§ 2339A. Providing material support to terrorists

§ 2339C. Prohibitions against the financing of terrorism

18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 - TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

§ 2385. Advocating overthrow of Government

§ 2386. Registration of certain organizations

§ 2387. Activities affecting armed forces generally

§ 2388. Activities affecting armed forces during war (1935-1945)

§ 2389. Recruiting for service against United States

§ 2383. Rebellion or insurrection

18 U.S. Code Chapter 41 - EXTORTION AND THREATS

§ 877. Mailing threatening communications from foreign country

§ 878. Threats and extortion against foreign officials, official guests, or internationally protected persons

I am not sure if you are aware, or if you're aware, then it makes sense; but the Roman Catholics have a history of terrorism that spans nearly 2000 years.

Catholic Numbers:

Let's put it this way. They claim there are 68,000,000 Roman Catholics in the USA. In a weighted average; they have performed 699,236.5 baptisms per since 1960. That equates to: 41,954,190. If we once again establish a weighted average for funerals, we arrive to 404,455 per year. which means 24,267,300 have since passed.This leaves 17,686,890 left. We then can subtract the 30 million that had since left; the 14 million that came into the U.S. as a foreigner, as well as the 4 million additional converts which equals: 5,686,890.

They claim they have 68,000,000 Roman Catholics in their population in the USA: They claim 17.3% of their population goes to church every week; add an additional 5.4% for the biweekly and monthly claims. That's 22.7%. That is 15,436,000 in their congregations per week. They have an average fire-code capacity limit of 240.12 per parish: surveys state that church goer attendance is 38%; meaning the Catholic Church would have a weekly attendance of 3,025,521. Which is believable' but doesn't fit with the claim from statistics that they are filling up only 20% of their capacities. 20% of their capacity is 1,592,379.792; which 22.7% is 1,807,351; if we perform the inverse of 38% to include church goers; we come to 4,190,473 and 4,756,186 respectively.

No matter the method used; I just performed the above from memory; it won't sound professional because I have more important thing to do.

4,082,975

4,756,540

4,222,510

5,170,000

5,360,736

_____________

5,686,890.

How can you say you're filling only twenty percent your parish, while having so many members that they just flocked to do whatever their captive does. Sorry. I fell asleep while typing. I think I made my point clear enough.

As far as the world wide population; the weighted average neared 12,320,000 or so were baptized per year; multiply by 60 years; 12,320,000 multiply by 60. It equals 739,200,000; and that is for most Christians by the way. Let's say no one has died for 90 years nor left the church. Multiply that by 90 and it is 1,108,800,000.

There is absolutely zero possible way for the Roman Catholics to ever have 1.3 billion; not sure what their year book is; but even if it had the name every member; the book with very large pages, and very small font would be over 4.3 million pages long. Oryzo (talk) 05:16, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
:{{re|Oryzo}} This has got to be the funniest and least self-aware legal threat I have ever seen. Never seen someone accused of "terrorism" for disagreeing with someone a tad too confident in their TI-84. A shame we won't see more of you. ~ Pbritti (talk) 05:22, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

A note

Since we know each other from elsewhere, I wanted to keep it very straight-shooting with you without coming across as cross: please refrain from using phrases like "your editing is very aggressive" and "I get that you don't like this section" (particularly when an editor says ↗ they think said section could exist!) as these fail AGF ↗ standards. Other than that, I appreciate your efforts in returning to regular contribution to address the ever-growing AfD backlog. ~ Pbritti (talk) 04:39, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Your comments at WP:ANI

I think your recent comments are a bit unfair. I think the recipe for getting past my objections is quite simple: don't challenge WP:RS/AC ↗ (if there happens to be one) and use WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV ↗ for evangelical/traditionalist positions. tgeorgescu (talk) 23:29, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

:Sorry, I don't think my comments are unfair at all. When have you actually actively included evangelical/traditionalist positions in articles? When have you mentored new contributors on how to do that instead of baiting them? Jahaza (talk) 23:31, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

::Well, now that you say it, I will put that large on my talk page, first to be seen. tgeorgescu (talk) 23:40, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Not postnominals

Thanks for pointing out the the "Jr." and "Sr." after names in sports articles are college years, not postnominals. Wouldn't it be better to spell those out, "junior", "senior", etc., to avoid that obvious ambiguity? I did that in one, but then saw there's a lot, so I stopped. Dicklyon (talk) 18:27, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

:I tend to agree that it might be better to spell them out, but I'm not an active maintainer of college sports article and I wouldn't want to presume on that community's consensus. Jahaza (talk) 18:44, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

I just went through the rest of my comma edits on articles with "ball" or "soccer" in the title, and reverted and otherwise fixed a bunch. Hopefully that finishes that category of error. Thanks for your help, and let me know if you see any more. Dicklyon (talk) 21:37, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

It seems that my "slow" edits are as error prone as my "fast" ones. Thanks for checking and fixing. Still got 150 or so to check/fix. Dicklyon (talk) 04:08, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Also, my slowness in fixing up things may be attributable to my Mom's funeral trip and my wife's resulting Covid. Life goes on, slowly. Dicklyon (talk) 04:29, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

December 2022

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:@Elizium23, you should know better. First, WP:DTR ↗, ''especially'' with a "welcome" template. Second, I wrote an edit summary that did "give a valid reason for the removal". Jahaza (talk) 05:32, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

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:You need to stop or this is going to be an issue. Jahaza (talk) 05:45, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Green Door COI?

Hi! Am I missing a COI declaration somewhere? Horse Eye's Back (talk) 19:29, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Woodrow Wilson ↗

How is the statement "Wilson's administration escalated the discriminatory policies against African Americans." ungrammatical? Do you have any other sources that assert Wilson's policies of discrimination and exclusion escalated actions taken by T. Roosevelt and Taft? As I noted and cited in my edit, Roosevelt dined with Booker T. Washington shortly after taking office and stood up for African American federal employees. This appears to be a huge contrast with Wilson's actions and policies. As I noted, I don't think we should mislead readers. The assertion you restored is contradicted by sources such as this one ↗ which states and provides examples of how Wilson changed their policies. See also here ↗. FloridaArmy (talk) 14:47, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Palackal

Hey, saw you were {{Diff2|1168754800|adding}} what material you could find on Joseph J. Palackal ↗ to that article (good work scrounging the ministerial stuff up) but I noticed you used the ''very'' deprecated term "Latin rite". As Latin rite ↗ is a redirect to Latin liturgical rites ↗ and "Latin rite" is not the canonical term for the Latin Church ↗, try to stay away from using it outside of quotations or references to the liturgical rite. Additionally, Palackal becoming a parochial vicar isn't mentioned in the article you referenced (though I found a bulletin ↗ that does; I'll add it). ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:07, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

:I added the bulletin and the diocesan newspaper. Jahaza (talk) 21:11, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
::Excellent! Thank you! Interesting dude, looking forward to hearing more about him should his efforts succeed (barring more of the self-latinizing shenanigans doesn't get in the way). ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:19, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
:::Saw your edit and agree that there's probably merit to noting his ministry is in a Latin parish. Were we able to figure out if he's biritual? I would certainly ''assume'' it, but if we could source it, I think it would add some interesting color to his biography as someone simultaneously pushing for the resuscitation of the Syriac Christian tradition. ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:41, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

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2023 Conflict of interest notice with Deerfield Academy ↗

Hey @Jahaza, I know you have been an active editor in watching the page for Deerfield Academy ↗, but many of your previous edits have been largely dedicated to promoting the reputation of the school, and we've had a discussion over such edits before. You might want to look over Wikipedia Conflict of interest policy ↗, which prohibits editing related to {{tq|yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships}}. You might also be familiar with WP:BOOSTER ↗, which describes the possible Conflict of Interest arising from being an alumnus or affiliate of an educational institution, which in turn might lead to the additional of excessive and promotional material that is against WP:PROMOTION ↗.

Do you have any connection with Deerfield Academy ↗? Note that WP:COI ↗ covers financial relationships, so being donor or benefactor to an institution is a conflict of interest and falls under the policy. GuardianH (talk) 19:15, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
: {{Reply|GuardianH}} I attempted to discreetly raise this issue back in January (see section "Green Door COI?" above) but received no response. {{Ping|Jahaza}} you will have to deal with this eventually, I'd advise you to do it today. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 19:48, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::Yes, @Horse Eye's Back, your exceptionally rude method of interacting, which you have continued today, received no response. Jahaza (talk) 22:53, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::Rude? I didn't mean to be, I've been honest and frank with you. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 22:57, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:@GuardianH you consistently misrepresent policy in your comments. Financial relationships such as being a donor (a word that does not appear on the page) are not, in fact, an absolute conflict of interest. Rather, "How close the relationship needs to be before it becomes a concern on Wikipedia is governed by common sense." Jahaza (talk) 22:53, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::Additionally, your comment, "many of your previous edits have been largely dedicated to promoting the reputation of the school" is a violation of WP:AGF ↗. Jahaza (talk) 22:54, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::Its relevant because if you're an alumnus you have a material interest in the reputation of your alma mater, thats the heart of why you have a COI with the schools you've attended and related topics like your thesis advisor for higher level degrees. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 22:59, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::::As far as I can tell, there is in fact no such policy regarding COI and schools one has attended.
::::It's a violation of AGF not because it wouldn't be relevant if "many of your previous edits have been largely dedicated to promoting the reputation of the school," but because it assumes bad faith by supposing that my edits have been "dedicated to promot[ion]," which they haven't. Jahaza (talk) 23:06, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::::You are correct that they should have added "appear to" in between "edits" and "have" but you would appear to be deflecting. Do you or do you not have a COI in regards to the topic Deerfield Academy? Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:08, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::::::I am in complaince with the actual COI policy. Jahaza (talk) 23:09, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::::::Would you like to see if the COI noticeboard agrees? Thats generally what is done when there's a disagreement on whether a COI is obvious. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:15, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::::::::The noticeboard has actually taken the opposite position several times. But you using it as a threat is another example of the way your comments come off as very rude and agressive. Jahaza (talk) 23:20, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::::::::Its not a threat, its what happens when a consensus can't be reached on a talk page. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:23, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::::::::::Yeah, it is a threat. If it wasn't, you'd just do it, you wouldn't threaten it. Jahaza (talk) 23:28, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::::::::::Its not a threat, why would I escalate until its clear that a consensus can't be reached on the talk page? We aren't there yet. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:30, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::::::::::::You're done here. Take it to the noticeboard if you want, but I don't need you to post here anymore. Jahaza (talk) 23:35, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::::::::::::Will do, noticeboard will be open within the hour. I will of course be required to post here when I do but otherwise I will stay away. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:37, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::And what of the possible COI which arrises from "being an alumnus or affiliate of an educational institution" or is being a donor your only relationship with the school? Horse Eye's Back (talk) 22:57, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::I don't know what you're quoting, but it's not a search string that appears on Wikipedia. Jahaza (talk) 23:07, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::::Before today. Jahaza (talk) 23:08, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::::Its in the OP. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:08, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::::But it doesn't appear in any policy regarding COI or previous discussions. Jahaza (talk) 23:10, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::::::It was the question you were asked and WP:PROMOTION ↗ was linked. WP:BOOSTER ↗ was even included in case you needed an explainer. See in particular point four of WP:PROMOTION: "Self-promotion. It can be tempting to write about yourself or projects in which you have a strong personal involvement. However, remember that the standards for encyclopedic articles apply to such pages just like any other. This includes the requirement to maintain a neutral point of view, which can be difficult when writing about yourself or about projects close to you." Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:15, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::::::Again, WP:BOOSTER ↗ is not a policy, my contributions don't fall afoul of WP:PROMOTION ↗ or WP:COI ↗ and being an alumnus is not ''per se'' a COI and therefore not something that has to be disclosed. If you want to establish such a policy, you will have to do it somewhere other than my talk page. Jahaza (talk) 23:19, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::::::::Here's the problem though... If the failure to maintain a neutral point of view is so obvious that your undisclosed COI has been identified by multiple editors you've run afoul of WP:PROMOTION and WP:NPOV ↗. Clearly you have some sort of extremely strong connection to the subject, whether that be employment, attendance, support, or something else. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:23, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::::::::Or those (two) editors are just wrong about whether the edits violate NPOV. Jahaza (talk) 23:27, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::::::::::They could be, but you'd need to get consensus for that. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:29, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::::::::::There have been other editors involved. Jahaza (talk) 23:29, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
::::::::::::Who? They don't appear to have contributed to the current discussion. Is there a previous discussion about a potential COI between you and Deerfield Academy?Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:31, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
:::::::::::::That wasn't the question, which was whether the edits violated NPOV. Jahaza (talk) 23:35, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

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Thanks for your comment

Hey Jahaza,
Thanks for your message on the ANI thread about the West Side (San Francisco) article. It really helped to see someone actually refer to policy and point out the issues with how things were being removed. I’ve gone ahead and added citations to the article just to appease even though most are utterly redundant.Thanks again for taking the time to weigh in. Goldrock95 (talk) 22:18, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 14

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Wikimania 2025''': Register to join virtually ↗ the 20th Wikimania taking place from August 6-9 ↗. The programme ↗ has highlights from across Wikimedia projects and communities including the reveal of who will be this year's Wikimedians of the year. ↗

'''Strengthening a neutral point of view''': An overview of NPOV policies across Wikipedia projects, shows that 153 Wikipedias out of 342 (45%) don’t have easily accessible guidance on neutrality. The research was conducted to help understand how neutrality is ensured in our projects. and to provide an opportunity for peer learning across project communities. Read the full research and join the conversation ↗.

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

'''Tech News''': See all the 60 community-submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks ↗ in Tech News week 29 ↗ and 30 ↗. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool ↗ was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate ↗.

'''Temporary Accounts''': After the rollout of temporary accounts ↗ on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, we are monitoring the impact of this change, and preparing for the next deployments. See the full project update ↗.

'''Add a link''': Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" ↗ to newcomers, as opposed to keeping it open to more experienced editors as well. "Add a link" helps newcomers to start editing ↗, so restricting the feature to them enables Administrators to cater the feature to that specific group, which they can do via the Community Configuration ↗ feature.

'''Digital Safety''': PEN America shares 5 tips for bolstering your safety and privacy online ↗.

'''Amicus brief''': Our amicus brief in Patterson v. Meta ↗: Defending free speech and the open internet in another Section 230 legal case.

'''UK Online Safety Act''': Court hearings for the Wikimedia Foundation's challenge to the UK Online Safety Act "Categorisation Regulations" ↗ happened on July 22 and 23. A verdict is not expected until August.

'''Advocacy sessions''': Collaborate for change at these policy advocacy sessions at Wikimania 2025 ↗.

'''Public-Interest content''': Expanding Indonesian Wikipedia with Public-Interest Content through Project Gayatri ↗.

'''The Wikipedia Test''': Learn how to use the Wikipedia Test ↗, a tool to protect the public interest internet.

'''Equity Fund''': As it closes, the Equity Fund has announced its final round of grants ↗ to six past grantees. It will also be providing four "Connected Grants" to movement organizations who will pair closely with one of the grantees to collaborate together.

'''Don't blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Content Translation''': Translators who use the Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool ↗ can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Regions" filter.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions now has a new kind of Types ↗: Wikidata-based enumerations, also known as light-weight enumerations.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

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

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Annual plan''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the Foundation's annual plan ↗ for next year virtually in their quarterly meeting ↗. You can read more about the goals for next year ↗ and a summary of the continuous conversations ↗ that shaped the plan.

'''Board selection''': The Elections Committee shared a list of the all eligible candidates ↗. As there are more than 10 eligible candidates, a shortlisting process ↗ is currently taking place. Representatives of Wikimedia movement affiliates that are currently compliant ↗ with their reporting obligations can participate in the shortlisting process. Learn more about this process and next steps on Meta ↗.

'''Foundation statements'''

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

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:02, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Deletion Of Broda Amos Page

I didn't get what you mean by Independent source on the page. Can you please enlighten me more? Mccoy Jonas (talk) 21:19, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

:Sources for articles need to be reliable and independent of the subject of the article. Sites like IMDB, which anyone can edit, or related Instagram, Youtube, or Medium pages generally won't meet that standard. You can read more at Wikipedia:Independent sources ↗ and Wikipedia:Reliable sources ↗. Additionally, editors who have a conflict of interest regarding an article generally should refrain from editing it, such as if the article is about themselves, their family, their work (films, books, etc.), or if they are paid to edit an article. See WP:COI ↗ for more information. Jahaza (talk) 21:36, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
::the page is still a work in Progress. I'm still working on it. I understand what you are saying Mccoy Jonas (talk) 21:39, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

August 2025

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 :Curelom and cumom ↗, you may be blocked from editing ↗. ''We don't include material that was written only by WP:PROFRINGE ↗ sources.'' jps (talk) 22:43, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

:@ජපස You need to let the discussion happen and not try to bludgeon people who disagree with you with inappropriate warning templates. Not to mention your violation of WP:AGF ↗ by using templates in contradiction of WP:UWLEVELS ↗. Jahaza (talk) 22:48, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 15

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

'''Wikimania Nairobi''': Catch up on missed sessions of Wikimania 2025 by checking session pages in the program ↗. These links will be replaced by Commons links when the uploads are finished.

'''Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2025''': The Wikimedian of the Year awards ↗ give us an opportunity to pause, taking a moment to recognize people who make our mission possible. Learn about all of this year's winners ↗.

'''Highlights:''' Daily highlights from Wikimania:

* Day 1 - Celebrating 20 years of Wikimania ↗,

* Day 2 - Technology in a changing world ↗,

* Day 3 - Connecting with communities in Africa ↗,

* Day 4 - Bringing generations together ↗.

'''Product and Tech''': Wikimania 2025 sessions about Product and Tech ↗ you can watch, with links to the recordings.

'''Affiliate Strategy''': Wikimania 2025 Brings Affiliate Strategy Recommendations into Focus ↗.

'''Twentieth edition of Wikimania''': Celebrating humans who make Wikipedia possible. ↗

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

'''Tech News''': Some of the latest update from Tech News week 31 ↗, 32 ↗, and 33: ↗ The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads ↗ to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16; The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts ↗ in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.

'''Collaborative Contributions''': Share your comments ↗ on Collaborative Contributions ↗. This project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis.

'''PTAC''': The Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ published a set of proposed experiments ↗ the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals ↗ are welcomed until August 22.

'''Watchlists and Recent Changes''': The Foundation will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages over the next few months. Please read the latest update ↗, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish ↗ on the topic.

'''Wikifunctions''': The Foundation is working on demonstrating functions that generate sentences and fragments in several languages ↗. This is a considerable step towards creating text for Abstract Wikipedia.

'''Wikimedia Futures Lab''': The Wikimedia Futures Lab ↗ is a process and convening co-designed by the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland that will help us all learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses. You can apply now to join ↗ the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Language and Internationalization''': Read about language support for new languages and other highlights from the July 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗.

'''Language Community:''' The next language community meeting will be held on August 29 at 15:00 UTC ↗.

'''UK Online Safety Act''': The High Court of Justice has dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation's challenge to the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations ↗. While the decision does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we hoped for, the Court’s ruling ↗ emphasized the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia is protected as the OSA is implemented.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

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

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Church of the Annunciation (Minneapolis) ↗

I see that you have experience creating articles. I was wondering what your thoughts are regarding notability. While WP:BLP1E ↗ only exists about BLPs, it seems like the same principle applies, as it seems the church is only known because of the shooting ([WP:NINI]]) and it should be merged over to the shooting itself. I am bringing it here as it seems you have long term experience and wanted to see what you were thinking first before I discussed it more broadly. <span style='color:DarkOrange'>'''Tigger'''</span>'''Jay''' <span style="font-size:85%;color:Purple">(talk)</span> 04:08, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 16

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Wikimedia Futures Lab''': Apply ↗ before Sep 4 to join The Wikimedia Futures Lab ↗, the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts, to learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses.

'''Wikimania 2026''': The theme and date for Wikimania 2026 ↗ have been decided: Liberté, Équité, Fiabilité (Freedom, Equity, Reliability). This edition will take place in Paris, from July 21 to July 25, 2026.

'''Tech News''': Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 34 ↗ and 35 ↗: An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki and English Wikipedia for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September; Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains ↗ page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration ↗ list page. This makes it easier to find.

'''Spread Wikilove, thank comments''': A new improvement was added to the "Discussion tools ↗" Beta feature ↗; it is now possible to thank a user for their comment ↗. This new feature is released for a 3-months long test.

'''Community Wishlist''': Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles ↗ was updated. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish ↗.

'''Wikipedia Mobile Apps:''' The Android app team has launched a new experiment ↗ in Italy that lets logged-out readers of Italian and English Wikipedia set their own donation reminders based on how often they read. This new approach responds to feedback from donors who say their motivation to give is tied to their reading habits. Instead of one-size-fits-all banners, readers can now choose reminders that fit their own usage, all while keeping their privacy intact.

'''Wikipedia 25''': To celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday ↗, the Wikimedia Foundation is adding several resources to the Wikipedia 25 Meta-Wiki hub ↗.

'''The Wikipedia Library''': Collections from Dow Jones & Company ↗, including the The Wall Street Journal ↗, are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliate recognition''': The recognition of new User Groups, Chapters, and Thematic Organizations is paused ↗ until March 31, 2026.

'''Board of Trustees selection''': The voting period for the upcoming Board selection process ↗ will now open on October 8 and close October 23.

'''New Board member''': Wikimedia Foundation welcomes incoming Board Trustee Mayree Clark ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:13, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Chen

I have explained the rationale on talk:Edward M. Chen ↗. '''Guy ↗''' <small>(help! ↗ - typo?)</small> 08:59, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks

I always forget the policy is to link fair use media from talk pages and just get into the habit of typing "<small><small>(do)</small></small> ↗ 15:20, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
:I would obviously very much appreciate your guidance on this by reply, either here or on my talk page. '''Ref''' <small><sup>(chew)</sup></small><small><small>(do)</small></small> ↗ 00:07, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 70

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* Africa Intelligence

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Romanus Cessario Obituary Source

Hey, thanks for adding that note on the Cessario article. I've never seen a WP policy stating that obits are unreliable -- Could you possibly point me to where that's stated as the case? I use obits a lot for factual genealogical info in articles and so would appreciate knowing for the future. Maximilian775 (talk) 02:33, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

External links on lists of high schools

Unfortunately, no they are not appropriate. Whether they are of the form Lamar County High School ↗ or Lamar County High Schoolhttps://lamarcountyk12.com/en-US/lchs-vernon-a6308c81 ↗, it's the same effect. Your reversion has re-introduced ''54 links to primary websites for these schools''. This is directly against WP:NOTLINKFARM ↗. I'm not going to immediately revert, WP:BRD ↗ and all, but there is no justification I can imagine for introducing such a mass link farm into the article. --Hammersoft (talk) 23:36, 5 October 2025 (UTC) Hammersoft (talk) 23:36, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
:I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Schools#"List of high schools in <state>" articles and link farms ↗ and you're of course welcome to contribute. --Hammersoft (talk) 23:45, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 19

'''Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Selection''': Announcement of the final ballot ↗ for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election and more answers about the decision ↗. Eligible voters can vote between October 8 – October 23 ↗.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Are you planning to organize events to celebrate Wikipedia's 25th birthday ↗? The Wikimedia Foundation offers grants to support active Wikimedia groups in organizing short-term, low-cost projects to celebrate this milestone. Applications are open until November 1 ↗.

'''WikiConference North America 2025''': WikiConference North America ↗ will take place from October 16–19 in New York City, USA.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''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 ↗''</small>
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'''Mobile Editing''': Insights on mobile web editing ↗ on Wikipedia in 2025 are now available. This report highlights that ~95% of IP mobile users editing via wikitext open the editor but make no changes at all, a vast untapped potential. It also pinpoints where contributors most often drop off.

'''Dark Mode''': Dark Mode ↗ user interface will be rolled out on all Wikimedia sites on October 29. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations.

'''Community wishlist extension:''' The new Community Wishlist extension has been released ↗. This will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances.

'''Paste Check''': 22 Wikis are now testing ↗ a new Edit Check feature, Paste Check ↗, to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content.

'''Tone Check''': The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check ↗. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits.

'''Search Suggestions''': Search Suggestions was deployed on English Wikipedia ↗. Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature is available on both desktop and mobile.

'''Unsupported Tools Working Group''': A new Unsupported Tools Working Group ↗ has been formed to help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. The group has chosen Video2Commons ↗ as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.

'''Tech News''': Read updates from Tech News week 40 ↗ and 41 ↗ including about Sub-referencing ↗ – a new feature to re-use references with different details.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': Don't miss the next Wikimedia Research Showcase, "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata's Role in Learning and Culture" taking place on October 15 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Wikimania''': Wikimania Nairobi has been featured in more than 100 stories across community platforms and international media outlets ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': Rich text is now available for embedded Wikifunctions calls ↗ across the 150 wikis where it’s enabled.

'''WikiLearn''': New Wikipedia online courses ↗ you can join to strengthen your Wikimedia editing skills.

'''Human Rights''': Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human: Wikimedia Foundation publishes a Human Rights Impact Assessment ↗ on the interaction of AI and machine learning with Wikimedia projects.

'''Don't blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Digital Safety & Privacy''': Frequently Asked Questions ↗ about Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Work.

'''Transparency Report''': Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Latest Transparency Report ↗.

'''Privacy Policy''': The Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy ↗ is getting a minor update ↗ in preparation for Temporary Accounts.

'''Learning Clinic''': Join the next Let's Connect Learning Clinic on the topic of "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool (Part 2)" taking place on October 20 at 17:00 UTC ↗.

'''Foundation statements'''

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

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 20

'''Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection''': Additional perspectives on current and future board selection processes ↗.

'''Global trends''': We are seeing 8% declines in human page views on Wikipedia as some users don't directly visit Wikipedia to get information. Learn about this new user trend ↗, how the Wikimedia Foundation anticipate these changes, and how you can help.

'''WECUDI 2025''': The second conference of Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures ↗ will be held from October 29–31 in Mexico City, Mexico.

'''GLAM Conference:''' Wiki GLAM Culture and Heritage Conference (WGCHC) ↗ will take place on 30 October – 1 November in Lisbon, Portugal.

'''WikidataCon 2025''': WikidataCon 2025 ↗ will take place online from October 31 – November 2.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''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 ↗''</small>

thumbtime=0:10|thumb|The naming contest for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing. ↗

'''Making it easier to say thanks''': Users on most wikis will now have the ability to thank a comment directly ↗ from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page.

'''Account security''': Improvements to account security ↗ and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. Another part of the project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity ↗.

'''Abstract Wikipedia''': The naming contest ↗ for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing. Voting is now open until November 3 ↗.

'''Tech News''': Read updates from Tech News week 42 ↗ and 43 ↗ including the community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Wikimedia apps''': The Wikipedia iOS App launched an A/B/C test of improvements to the Tabbed browsing feature ↗ into Beta for select regions & languages. Called ''“More dynamic tabs”'', the experiment adds user-requested improvements and introduces article recommendations within the tabs overview, showing “Did you know” or “Because you read” content depending on how many tabs are open.

'''CampaignEvents extension:''' Campaignevents extension ↗ will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: ''Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List''. For this rollout, Invitation List ↗ will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities.

'''Event registration tool:''' Autoconfirmed users on small ↗ and medium wikis ↗ with the extension can now use Event Registration ↗ without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.

'''Digital safety''': Explore how you can help make Wikimedia safer by taking our new self-paced course, Safety for Young Wikimedians ↗.

'''Wikimedia Core Curriculum''': The Wikimedia Foundation has developed seven online video learning modules ↗ covering the core English Wikipedia policies. You are invited to use, adapt, and translate the course.

'''Advocacy''': The Wikimedia Foundation has signed onto a statement ↗ that calls on governments and UN bodies to keep discussions about the future of internet governance accessible to non-government actors like industry and civil society. This statement is part of ongoing joint advocacy with affiliates to influence UN discussions about the future of internet governance such as the Global Digital Compact campaign ↗ and WSIS+20 ↗ deliberations.

'''GLAM:''' The Wikimedia Foundation and several affiliates have signed onto the Open Heritage Statement ↗, which supports galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions) to have the legal rights they need to collect, preserve, and provide access to cultural heritage.

'''Foundation statements'''

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

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 21

'''Wikimania 2027''': Santiago, Chile is announced as the location for Wikimania 2027 ↗. The annual conference returns to Latin America after more than 10 years, following previous editions in Buenos Aires (2009) and Mexico City (2015).

'''Wikidata recognized as a Digital Public Good''': Wikidata became the second Wikimedia project to be officially recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance ↗.

'''Tech News''': Read updates from Tech News week 44 ↗ and 45 ↗ including the community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Activity Tab''': The Wikipedia Android app expands the new Activity tab ↗ to all users. It offers a complete view of your Wikipedia activity: reading time, saved articles, edits, and donation history (for known donors). This change aims to make Wikipedia a more engaging experience for readers and contributors alike, while keeping all personal data private and stored locally on your device.

'''Tabbed browsing''': Tabbed browsing ↗ is now available on the Wikipedia App for iOS. Tabs will let you keep more than one article open at a time, making it easier to explore complex topics, follow links without losing your place, and pick up where you left off.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': Autoconfirmed users on small ↗ and medium wikis ↗ with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration ↗ without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.

'''Image browsing''': The Wikimedia Foundation launched image browsing ↗, an experiment that puts images on top of your Wikipedia article reading journey, on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

'''Temporary accounts''': Temporary Accounts ↗ are now enabled on 1,000+ projects including English Wikipedia.

'''Abstract Wikipedia naming contest''': The first round of “abstract content wiki” naming vote has ended ↗ and the first legal review had begun to determine the 6 names that will make it to the second round on November 17.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions is now deployed across 12 Wiktionaries and 4 Wikipedias ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

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'''Privacy in Wikipedia research''': The Wikimedia Foundation published Privacy in Public: Navigating Research, Personal Data, and Safety on Wikipedia ↗, a whitepaper which guides researchers in navigating privacy of Wikipedia editors in their research. Read the highlights and key takeaways for researchers and Wikipedians ↗.

'''Digital Safety''': The Wikimedia Foundation is launching Digital Safety Office Hours ↗ to explore how to stay safe digitally, what does digital safety mean, what extra precautions can Wikimedians take. The first session will take place on November 28 at 9 AM and 7 PM UTC. Check out also our Digital Safety Resources Center ↗ to learn practical tips and tools you can use immediately.

'''Volunteer roles for movement governance''': The Movement governance committees are seeking new volunteers to support essential and high-impact work across the Wikimedia ecosystem. The current appointment cycle is open for the AffCom ↗, Ombuds Commission ↗, and Case Review Committee ↗. Applications for these committees will remain open until December 11. The team will host a community conversation on November 26 ↗, at 3 AM UTC.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Wikimedia Core Curriculum''': Want to learn how to edit Wikipedia? – A new '''free''' self-paced course, all in video with subtitles ↗, is available from the Wikimedia Foundation!

'''Foundation statements'''

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

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>
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'''Board election:''' The 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees vote ↗ has elected two new trustees, Bobby Shabangu ↗ (Bobbyshabangu ↗) and Michał Buczyński ↗ (Aegis Maelstrom ↗), who will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2025.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikipedia is turning 25 and it’s time to party! Register now for Wikipedia’s 25th virtual birthday bash ↗ on 15 January at 16:00 UTC.

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': The 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon ↗ will be taking place in person May 1 - 3, 2026 in Milan, Italy. Scholarship applications are open ↗ until November 28.

'''Language Community:''' The next language community meeting ↗ will be held on November 28 at 16:00 UTC.

'''Tech News''': Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 46 ↗ and 47: ↗ Wikimedia Foundation is experimentating with reading lists on mobile web ↗, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later; One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': The second round of voting for naming the wiki with abstract content is kicking off with six name proposals to vote for ↗.

'''Reference check''': The A/B test for reference check ↗ has begun on English Wikipedia and will run until December 17. This is a feature which prompts new editors to add citations before they publish an edit adding content to an article.

'''Image browsing''': Wikimedia Foundation 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, is taking place on on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting a small number of users.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': Campaign events extension ↗ is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. The extension offers tools for running and coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations. These features include ''Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List'', plus a new feature, Collaborative contribution ↗, which helps organizers and participants see the impact of their collaborative activities. Join the upcoming learning session ↗ to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.

'''Dark Mode:''' Dark mode is now available on all Wikimedia projects for all anonymous users! This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. Learn how to activate this feature ↗.

'''Wikimedia Apps''': 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.

'''Usability Improvements:''' Improvements for talk pages ↗ is being rolled out ↗. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences ↗ in “Show discussion activity.”

'''Wikipedia 25 Press toolkit''': Wikimedia Foundation is providing press toolkit ↗ as guidance and resources to Wikimedia volunteers and affiliates to spread the word about Wikipedia’s 25th birthday to local and regional media.

'''Language and Internationalization''': Read some key highlights from the October 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗.

'''Information integrity''': Wikimedia Project from South America Selected by the UNESCO Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change Fund ↗.

'''The Wikipedia Library''': The Wikipedia Library team attended the CEE Meeting 2025 celebrated a new partnership with Times of Malta ↗.

'''Understanding movement organizers''': Wikimedia Foundation concluded a literature review ↗ on organizers in the Wikimedia movement focused on capturing their personas, motivations, and impact in order to highlight best practices and opportunities for further support.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Reef Media uses Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API to Fact Check and Verify Sources ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliations Committee''': Draft recommendations ↗ on three strategic areas that need continuous consideration to best support Wikimedia affiliates.

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Lessons from Wikipedia''': The latest edition from the series explores the art of disagreement and how Wikipedia navigates disputes ↗.

'''Artificial Intelligence''': In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable ↗. This explainer shows how human-created knowledge isn’t replaceable.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 23

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''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 ↗.

'''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.

'''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 ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Audit Report''': Key takeaways from the Foundation’s audit report ↗ for fiscal year 2024-2025.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise Financial Report ↗ for fiscal year 2024-2025.

'''Annual Plan Progress''': A look back at progress made against the plan during the second half of our fiscal year. ↗ Up to date regular updates are included in the Foundation Bulletin.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Sister Projects Task Force''': Results of the consultation about Wikispore and Wikinews ↗: No immediate changes should be made to Wikispore's current technical setup and archive all editions of Wikinews, preserving their content.

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Wikipedia's unique revenue model''': How is Wikipedia funded ↗ and how does the Wikimedia Foundation use donations to Wikipedia ↗?

'''Most read articles:''' Wikipedia’s most-read articles of 2025 ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 04:50, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Raoul Corriveau

Greetings. What is your source for the apparent Latin form of his full name? There does not appear to be any source for this online. If that is his full name in Latin then his name in French is probably "Joseph Real Raoul Corriveau" according to my research about this. The name "Real" (with an accent mark) is apparently a common French-Canadian middle name. I suggest that the Latin name needs to be properly referenced if it's going to be included in the article. Best wishes, Quizical (talk) 22:45, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

:The source is linked at the end of the sentence with a properly formatted citation and has been since before you removed [the name]. Jahaza (talk) 23:01, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
::I did not remove the citation. And any information inside brackets which is referenced should also include the citation for it inside the brackets, not at the end of a sentence, as per the MOS regarding this. Quizical (talk) 23:13, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
:::The point is that the citation is already in the article if you're willing to expend a little effort rather than rules lawyering. Jahaza (talk) 23:23, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 1

'''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.

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'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''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 ↗''</small>

'''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.

'''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.

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'''Board of Trustees''': Wikimedia Foundation welcomes two new Board Trustees ↗ Bobby Shabangu and Michał Buczyński.

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Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee

I reverted your short description for the Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee because

1) WP:SDNOTDEF ↗ specifically says not to use time-specific adjectives like "former"

2) It was ''not'' part of the University of Wisconsin, but closed when it merged with the University of Wisconsin

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:please do not fragment discussions. Continue if necessary at Rublamb --Jahaza (talk) 03:53, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
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Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee

Proposal for name changes or merges require discussion, please start the talk page section with reasons.Naraht (talk) 03:45, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

:I did start the discussion. Please follow the "discuss" link. Additionally, new sections should go at the bottom of this page, not the top, and should be proper sections. Jahaza (talk) 04:10, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: Jason Zengerle ↗ has been accepted

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Books & Bytes – Issue 72

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Renewed partnerships

Spotlight: Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 2

'''Annual planning''': The Annual Plan ↗ is the Wikimedia Foundation’s description of what we hope to achieve in the coming year. This is a time of urgency and focus for the Wikimedia projects and we invite you to shape this plan together with us. ↗

'''Year 2 of PTAC''': As it reached its first year, Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) shared a retrospective and proposed future improvements ↗.

'''Account security''': All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA), providing a simple and secure way ↗ to log in.

'''Wikifunctions''': An overview of the quarterly plan (January–March) ↗ and how it connects to the broader goals for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions.

'''Tech News:''' Latest updates from Tech News week 03 ↗, 04 ↗ and 05 ↗ include unregistered contributors on blocked IPs can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block ↗ by creating a temporary account.

'''Collaborative contributions''': Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a learning session ↗ to share new releases around collaborative contributions ↗ and discuss future project ideas.

'''Structured task''': The Revise Tone Structured Task ↗ is now live in A/B testing on pilot wikis: English, Arabic, Portuguese, and French Wikipedia. It helps new editors improve promotional language in existing articles through a quiz style onboarding experience and a guided in article suggestion.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>
thumb|"The Birthday Cake Song" is an original song created for Wikipedia's 25th Birthday, performed by the WikiChoir, featuring Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons content. ↗

'''Wikimania 2026''': Call for sessions ↗ is open until March 1.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best with docuseries, time capsule, and more ↗.

'''Virtual celebration''': In case you missed it, over 10,000 people have watched the virtual celebration ↗ that brought together generations of Wikimedians ↗, featured an ode to the talk page ↗, a dramatic reading of a real talk page ↗, a Magnetikpunk song dedicated to Wikipedia ↗, a passing of the cake baton from Maryana to Bernadette ↗, "The Birthday Cake Song" ↗ and more. All of it written and performed by humans of Wikimedia.

'''Birthday mascot''': Meet the Wikimedian ↗ whose casual sketch inspired Wikipedia’s 25th birthday mascot.

'''Legal''': Learn about two recent submissions advocating the need for proportionality in Brazil’s new online child safety law ↗.

'''Policy:''' The Global Advocacy team shared a report from digital policy organization InternetLab about the intersection between the open knowledge movement and public interest journalism ↗.

'''Global Resource Distribution Committee''': Refreshed Funding Principles ↗ are ready for review.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br /><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Solving puzzles together''': A final reflection from Maryana Iskander ↗.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Mistral AI and Wikimedia Enterprise announced a new strategic partnership ↗.

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Finding refs for AfD

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 3

'''Wikipedia Library''': Wikipedia Library gained new content partnerships ↗, restored access to the British Newspaper Archive, and added an Arabic language academic resource with more than 7 million records.

'''Gender gap''': The Celebrate Women 2026 ↗ campaign will run from March 1–31 to advance the achievements of the women’s rights and gender equity movement globally.

'''Annual Planning''': The Annual Plan ↗ is the Wikimedia Foundation’s description of what we hope to achieve in the coming year. We invite you to shape this plan ↗ together with us. Between now and the end of June 2026, we will have continuous conversations ↗ about how global trends may shape our future, how we can experiment, adapt and respond together.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br /><small>''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 ↗''</small>

'''Patrolling improvements''': A new feature available on Special:Contributions ↗ shows temporary accounts ↗ that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming.

'''Wikifunctions''': How Abstract Wikipedia articles can be integrated ↗ into Wikipedia language editions to enable Wikipedians to write an abstract article once and have it available in many languages.

'''Suggestion Mode''': A new Beta Feature for the VisualEditor, Suggestion Mode, ↗ is now available on English Wikipedia ↗ for experienced editors. This features proactively suggests actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, such as "add citation", "improve tone", or "fix an ambiguous link".

'''WDQS Blazegraph Migration''': As part of the migration away from Blazegraph (the current backend of the Wikidata Query Service), an initial evaluation of open-source triple store candidates has been completed ↗. Using the published evaluation methodology ↗, performance, stability, and compatibility was assessed.

'''Tech News:''' Latest updates from Tech News week 06 ↗ and 07 ↗ include the new Watchlist labels ↗ feature that allows logged-in contributors to organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows. They also link to the 44 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Funding Principles''': The interim Global Resource Distribution Committee ↗ (GRDC) has published a first version of the Funding Principles ↗ which guides the broader grantmaking ecosystem across the Wikimedia Movement. Share your feedback in the Discussion ↗ page.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Celebrating 25 years of Wikipedia in Warsaw ↗.

'''Responsible AI''': Why the Global Index on Responsible AI ↗ matters for Wikimedians.

'''Open Knowledge''': Why the Open Knowledge Movement and Public Interest Journalism must unite forces ↗. Shared principles and interdependence, points of convergence and the path forward.

'''Journalism Awards:''' Applications for the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards ↗ are now open until March 1. Presented by the International Center for Journalists in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, the awards seek to recognize African journalists whose reporting helps close knowledge gaps about Africa on Wikipedia.

'''UN General Assembly''': Wikimedia Foundation was invited to speak at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) hall about Wikipedia’s role in global digital governance ↗.

'''Advocacy''': Wikimedia Foundation has adopted new and updated policies ↗ regarding the use of banners, logo changes, and blackouts on the projects, particularly for advocacy purposes. Specifically, the new "Use of Wikimedia sites for advocacy purposes" ↗ policy, and updates to the guidelines for CentralNotice usage ↗ and requesting wiki configuration changes ↗. The policies establish clearer processes for advocacy activities, and require notification of Foundation staff for some proposed uses of the Wikimedia sites.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Futures Lab''': Reflections from a Wikimedian ↗ who attended the Wikimedia Futures Lab ↗.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 4

'''Birthday mode''': This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. The feature is available for all Wikipedias to customise through Community Configuration until 6 April 2026. So far 17 Wikipedias ↗ have joined in the fun.

'''Wikipedia's 25th birthday party celebrated on Commons''': Content from the January 15th global birthday party selected as Media of the day ↗.

'''Etherpad cleanup''': For security and performance reasons, all current pads on Wikimedia’s Etherpad ↗ instance, the web-based "ephemeral" editor for real-time collaborative document editing, will be permanently deleted after 30 April ↗. We will continue running this Etherpad instance to support events and other short-term collaboration, but will be periodically deleting data going forward. If you have content in Etherpad you want to keep, please create local backups, as data will be permanently deleted and will not be able to be recovered.

'''Activity tab''': Wikipedia iOS app has rolled out the improved Activity tab ↗ to all users in version 7.9.0. A/B test results showed increased account creation among users with access to the feature. Updates include enhanced editing impact insights, module customization, and relocation of History into the Search tab.

'''Reference Check''': The feature Reference Check ↗ has been deployed to all Wikipedias. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop (or acknowledge/explain why they did not) and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.

'''Semantic search''': The Foundation has launched a limited Android mobile app experiment ↗ that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic ↗ and keyword queries. The Phase 1 beta ↗ is now live on Greek Wikipedia. The goal is to understand whether combining meaning-based retrieval with keyword search helps readers find information more effectively. Testing will expand to English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias in March.

'''Navigation experience''': The Foundation will run an experiment ↗ for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

thumb|right|Screenshot of the current prototype of Abstract Wikipedia, showing a two sentence article about Kolkata. ↗

'''Site notices''': Site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice ↗ and MediaWiki:Anonnotice ↗) now will render on all platforms, not just on the desktop site. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed.

'''Tech News''': Latest updates from Tech News week 08 ↗ and 09 ↗ include the new “Edit full page” button for people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor. They also link to the 40 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Wikifunctions''': Abstract Wikipedia is going to have its public preview within the next few weeks, here is the preview ↗.

'''Gender gap''': The Celebrate Women 2026 ↗ is coming! The Wikimedia Foundation will host a kick-off celebration that will work as a welcome session for both organizers and participants on March 5 at 13:00 UTC ↗.

'''Language''': New edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗ highlights new feature developments and improvements in various language-related technical projects ↗.

'''Let’s Connect Learning Clinic''': Watch the recordings of past learning clinics ↗ about Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday Tool and Strengthening Local-Language Admin Communities.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': You can watch the recording ↗ of this month research showcase whose theme is about "AI and Communities ↗".

'''Hubs''': Lessons from hub pilots ↗.

'''Banners & logo policies''': Wikimedia Foundation has adopted new and updated policies regarding the use of banners, logo changes, and blackouts ↗ on the projects, particularly for advocacy purposes.

'''Digital Safety''': The next edition of Digital Safety Office Hours ↗ will be on Mar 27 at 9:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC. The session will explore practical threat modelling: a structured way to think about risks, assess your exposure, and make informed choices.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Ecosia Enriches Search Results and AI Answers with Wikimedia Enterprise ↗.

'''Human centered AI''': Members of the Wikimedia Enterprise team presented on "Wikipedia in the Age of AI and Bots ↗" at the seminar of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

'''Inclusive AI''': Advancing Open, Inclusive AI with Free and Open Knowledge at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''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 ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Books & Bytes – Issue 73

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Four new partnerships

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 5

'''Supporting readers''': For most of its history, Wikipedia did not have to worry about attracting readers. But with the way people search for information changing, there is a drop in the number of readers which is impacting the number of accounts created and contributions to our sites. Have a look at some of the ongoing and planned work to support reader experience. ↗

'''Server switch''': All wikis will be read-only ↗ for a few minutes on March 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests ↗, which happen twice a year ↗.

'''Tools improvement''': The PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group ↗ continued improvements to Video2Commons ↗ in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas ↗, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads.

'''Wikipedia 25 Grants''': The celebration continues! The Wikimedia Foundation offers Wikipedia 25 Birthday Funds ↗ to communities planning Wikipedia’s 25th birthday events with funding between USD 1,000–2,000. Apply before March 31.

'''Experiments''': The Foundation is frequently conducting experiments to help learn what features will be most effective and valuable to the projects. The list of experiments in Product and Technology ↗, tracks upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments as well as their rationale. For example, the tracker shares that one upcoming experiment, Reader to Contributor Baseline ↗, will measure how many readers create contributor accounts and whether the rate differs depending on how people arrived to the site.

'''Article guidance''': Help less experienced editors by filling out a questionnaire on this page ↗ (available in 7 languages). The Foundation are looking particularly for experienced Wikipedia editors from these pilot wikis ↗. Your answers will help customize guidance for less experienced editors while creating an article ↗.

'''Wikifunctions:''' You can now create Functions that will show a citation in their output. ↗

'''Editing feature''': Suggestion Mode ↗ is available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines.

'''Paste Check''': Paste Check ↗ is now available at all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation.

'''Mobile experience''': The user menu in the top corner for all mobile users is standardized ↗ so that it is closer to the desktop experience to improve the user interface for readers.

'''Two-factor authentication''': For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March ↗.

'''Tech News''': Latest updates from Tech News week 10 ↗ and 11 ↗ include the new GraphQL API has been released as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). They also link to the 50 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

thumb|right|200px|WikiCelebrates Mervat. ↗ ↗

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''WikiCelebrate''': Celebrating Mervat ↗, one of the most experienced and dedicated contributors to Arabic Wikipedia.

'''Wikimedia ecosystem''': The pilot on the ecosystem of Wikimedia organizations ↗ has published a draft proposal for a Future Affiliate Landscape ↗. It welcomes your review and feedback ↗.

'''Fundraising''': The Fundraising Report 2024–2025 has now been published ↗ on meta.

'''International Women's Day 2026:''' Women, visibility, and the future of trusted knowledge on Wikimedia ↗.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Wiki Loves Earth 2025''': See the winners ↗ from the 13th annual edition of the globe-trotting photo contest.

'''Wikimania 2026''': While most Wikimania program submissions are closed, the research track is open until March 31 ↗. It accepts proposals from both professional researchers and Wikimedians.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''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 ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Grounded in the Stars

There were ''223'' redlinked categories on today's run of Special:WantedCategories ↗ — which means that I do not have a responsibility to spend five to ten minutes investigating each individual redlink to figure out whether it's just a misspelled or misworded version of a category that actually does exist. If I spend five minutes on each category, then I can only deal with 12 categories in an hour, and if I spend ten minutes on each category, then I can only deal with ''six'' categories per hour, meaning it would take me between 18 and 36 hours to clean up the entire list — meaning I'd have no time left to do ''anything'' else.

That's an amount of time nobody has any right to demand that any other editor has to put into a necessary but incredibly boring cleanup task. I'm entitled to get the list cleaned up in the ''shortest'' amount of time possible, and nobody has any right to demand that I make it my full time job.

So if I don't ''already'' know that the category is a misspelling of a category that I ''already'' know exists at another spelling ''just by sight alone'', then it simply isn't my responsibility to spend five to ten minutes investigating it instead of simply removing it and moving on. Bearcat (talk) 05:01, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

:You don't have any obligation to cleanup the list. Redlinked categories aren't a problem per se. Do it accurately. Besides, the whole point of *wanted* categories is that you may need to *create* a category, so that requires investigation. It's not just a list for removal. Jahaza (talk) 05:25, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 6

'''Supporting the mobile experience''': The Foundation is starting conversations with communities to explore how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps ↗. The goal is to understand how to better support both new and experienced editors, and how the app can guide users to the right editing tools. Your input is welcome. Join the discussion ↗!

'''Wikimania 2026''': Registration for Wikimania 2026 ↗ is opening soon from the end of March to May 1. Like other Wikimedia events this year, we are introducing a "request for invitation" process, with trust and safety checks conducted prior to confirming in-person attendance. Our priority is to create a safe environment for connection, collaboration, and shared learning.

'''Around the Puzzle Globe in the CEE region''': On March 23 almost 60 Wikimedians took part in the CEE-Catch up ↗- a meeting for Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As a part of continuous conversations ↗ we have with the communities around the Foundation's annual plan, participants discussed the global trends related to Readers and Contributors in their regional context. The meeting was also an opportunity to connect with the new Foundation CEO, Bernadette Meehan, who is meeting communities around the puzzle globe ↗ to listen, learn and engage with the communities.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br /><small>''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 ↗''</small>

'''Crawlers:''' The Foundation is now detecting and blocking billions of bot requests ↗ that don’t follow our robot policy, such as aggressive scrapers, to make sure our resources go towards serving human readers. In the coming months we’ll be working on better detection of rapidly changing bot behavior and better API infrastructure.

'''Moderator tools for newer editors''': Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to an early version of Special:PersonalDashboard ↗. It introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.

'''Account creation on mobile''': Mobile editors at several wikis ↗ are now presented with a simplified logged-out warning message, which encourages them to create an account or log in. This test is part of our ongoing effort to enhance the account creation experience on mobile ↗ and increase participation.

'''Verification email redesign:''' The verification email sent to new accounts ↗ that add an email address during signup has been redesigned. When tested on English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the same-week email verification rate increased from 41.6% to 45.9%.

'''Retaining notification history''': Wikimedia site users can export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool ↗. This will ensure that users retain important notifications and avoid losing them based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced ↗.

'''Tech News''': Latest highlights from Tech News weeks 12 ↗ and 13 ↗ include the update that Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys as a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. See also the 64 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Experiments''': Check out the list of experiments in Product and Technology ↗ to see all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments. One new experiment that just went live is the "Improve the logged-out warning message on mobile web," which aims to reduce the sense of friction or alarm when users encounter the logged-out warning upon editing.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

right|thumb|200px|Screenshot of the Microtask generator tool. ↗

'''Digital rights and free knowledge''': Wikimedia Foundation staff and Wikimedians from across the movement will contribute to important conversations on AI governance, information integrity, and equitable access to knowledge at RightsCon 2026 ↗ from May 5–8. Join the conversation virtually ↗.

'''Microtask Generator''': Learn more about the Microtask Generator ↗, a tool which identifies content quality gaps in Wikipedia articles and suggests tasks for editors to address within a dashboard. Users can input lists of articles for analysis, or get recommendations based on article categories. Ideal for edit-a-thons and other article improvement drives.

'''WikiLearn''': Discover the latest edition of WikiLearn News ↗ where you can find the latest online learning opportunities to take your editing skills to new heights.

'''Diff Event calendar''': The event calendar on Diff is now redirected ↗ to the list of events on Meta-wiki ↗. This list pulls in all events that are open to all wikis.

'''Grantmaking Strategy''': The GRDC has identified the key challenges that will inform the design of the new Grantmaking Strategy ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br /><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Audit report''': Highlights from the Wikimedia Endowment’s fiscal year 2024-2025 audit report ↗.

'''Enterprise partnerships''': Wikimedia Enterprise announced new partnerships. Together with Firecrawl to reform how AI agents access the world’s largest online repository of human knowledge ↗ and with Aligned AI to develop Ethical AI products for families by providing Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Endowment Board''': Welcoming Nataliia Tymkiv to the Wikimedia Endowment Board of Directors ↗.

'''Affiliate recognition''': Affiliations Committee extended the pause on new affiliate recognition to September 1, 2026 ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''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 ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 7

'''Community Wishlist update''': This monthly update covers ↗ how 44 wishes were fulfilled, 17 are in progress, and 15 more will start work soon. It includes completion of work on Watchlist labels ↗, which allow users to add labels to items in their watchlist to help with managing and filtering; fixing a bug with preview page feature ↗; indexing of Commons on Google & DuckDuckGo search ↗; and a wish simplifying the insertion of maths formulas ↗ in articles. You can submit, vote on, and subscribe to wishes ↗ here.

'''Goal setting for edit-a-thons''': The CampaignEvents extension ↗ now includes a new group goal-setting feature ↗, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. This feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Join the Connection Learning Session ↗ on April 14 at 16:00 UTC to learn more about this feature and new ways to promote events and campaigns to editors.

'''Collaboration with the United Nations''': Learn how the Foundation engages with the United Nations ↗ to secure our collective voice and protect free knowledge.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗''' <br /><small>''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 ↗''</small>

right|thumb|150px|Design mock for mobile page previews. ↗

'''Navigating articles on mobile''': The Foundation is launching an experiment ↗ to test how to make it easier and more intuitive for readers to navigate through articles on mobile. To do this, we want to test Mobile Page Previews. ↗ This experiment will go live the week of April 20 and will run for four weeks.

'''Editing tools for new editors''': Tone Check ↗ was deployed on French, Japanese, and Portuguese Wikipedia ↗ as a default-on feature for editors who have published 100 or fewer edits locally. When promotional or subjective language is added, users are prompted to consider "neutralizing" the tone of the edit.

'''Managing watchlist labels''': The new watchlist labels ↗ feature is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the "watchstar" (or watch link, for skins that don’t have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': See all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗. A new experiment that just went live is one which aims to establish a baseline retention rate ↗ for logged-in readers.

'''Latest Wikifunctions''': Check out the partial list ↗ of the 102 new functions created last week – likely the first week we have exceeded 100.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 14 ↗ and 15 ↗ include an ongoing A/B test ↗ running on 10 Wikipedias to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. See also the 68 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Community discussions on Semantic Search''': The Wikimedia Foundation, in collaboration with the CEE Hub, hosted a discussion session on Semantic Search ↗ for members of the CEE Youth Group.

'''Don't Blink!''': This month's highlights from the Global Advocacy team ↗ include how the Wikimedia Foundation co-presented alongside the Internet Archive at the State of the Net conference.

'''Digital rights and inclusion''': Take a look at the sessions ↗ that Wikimedians and allied partners will lead during Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) ↗ 2026.

'''Manuscript preservation''': The Wikimedia Foundation supported volunteer-lead workshops ↗ to write Balinese Wikipedia articles about palm-leaf manuscripts (''lontar'') from the Leiden University Library collection.

'''Youth content creators''': Wikimedia Indonesia, together with the Wikimedia Foundation, delivered an introductory session on Wikipedia ↗ for young content creators representing all 11 ASEAN member states.

'''Legal and Safety Contacts''': The Wikimedia Foundation has created a single "Legal and Safety Contacts" page ↗, to be linked in the footer of each wiki page. This will ensure that everyone has access to accurate and up to date Legal contact information. Insertion of the new links on different wikis will be done in stages, based on assessment of legal risk and necessity.

'''Building shared principals for the internet as a public good:''' The Global Advocacy team published a blog ↗ with the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE ↗) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF ↗) summarizing a workshop that brought together digital rights advocates from Latin America to dream of a "digital utopia."

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''
<br /><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikidata API''': Wikidata’s structured knowledge is now available ↗ through Wikimedia Enterprise.

'''Annual Planning and global trends''': Join the America APP call ↗ on April 21 at 18:00 UTC. This meeting is an opportunity for the Latin American community to ensure that the region's voice helps shape the Wikimedia Foundation's work and priorities for the next fiscal year. The call will be in Spanish with interpretation into Portuguese and English. The last meeting ↗ between Wikimedia EDs and Foundation staff was dedicated to discuss global trends too. More discussions are happening on-wiki ↗ and in community spaces ↗ around different regions and projects.

'''Futures Lab:''' The world is changing around us. As the Wikimedia movement navigates this moment over a hundred Wikimedians from different Wikimedia projects came together to deepen our understanding of how these trends are impacting our people and projects at the Wikimedia Futures Lab. ↗

'''Fundraising Hub:''' The Wikimedia Foundation has launched Fundraising Hub ↗ on English Wikipedia. The first discussion you can participate in is about distributing fundraising banner on English Wikipedia throughout the year.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''
<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Ombuds Commission''': Announcement of the 2026 Ombuds Commission ↗, the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the Privacy Policy, the Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy, the CheckUser Policy and the Oversight Policy.

'''Wikinews closure''': All Wikinews editions will be closed ↗ and switched to read-only mode on May 4. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 8

'''Annual Planning''': The Wikimedia Foundation published the draft Annual Plan ↗ for the coming fiscal year (2026–2027) which will focus on four main goals that directly respond to the external trends. The goals include increasing our reach, deepening engagement, protecting our projects and building speed and resilience to enable the change needed to respond to the internet being at an inflection point. Feedback welcome on the talk page ↗ and many other places ↗.

'''Global conversation''': A global conversation about the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan ↗ will take place on May 7 at 5:00 PM UTC.

'''Sustainable reuse of Wikimedia content''': The Attribution API ↗ is now in beta ↗. It makes it easier to credit Wikimedia content fairly wherever it is used. It provides all information required by the Wikimedia Attribution Framework ↗ in a single, well-structured and easy-to-use endpoint, simplifying attribution for off-wiki reuse. Share your feedback on the project talk page ↗.

'''Feedback on Article guidance''': Experienced editors are invited to test ↗ the Article guidance ↗ feature. This tool helps less-experienced editors create structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Review the outlines ↗ and share your feedback on the project talk page ↗. Check out the step-by-step ↗ and video ↗ instructions.

'''Games Hub available on Android''': The Games Hub is live in the Wikipedia app for Android. This new feature offers a space for users to find all available games ↗ in one place, explore archives, and get updates on new games. It currently includes ''Which Came First? ↗'', with more games coming soon.

'''Update to Wikipedia app for iOS''': A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS has rolled out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple’s latest “Liquid Glass” visual design. Download the latest version ↗ and explore the update.

'''Confirming email addresses''': On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven’t confirmed their email addresses ↗ now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Confirming the email address ↗ helps users restore account access if they lose it and receive messages about their accounts. It also provides an easy option to communicate with other users off-wiki if they choose. As of early 2026, about 62.9% of all registered Wikimedia user accounts ↗ that have an email set had not confirmed it.

'''Testing mobile web page previews''': Mobile page previews ↗ experiment was launched on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page previews are pop-ups that show a thumbnail, a lead paragraph, and a link to the full article to improve content discovery. It is already available on desktop and in the apps.

'''Account creation experiment''': Account creation experiment ↗ is live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia targeting 10% of logged-out mobile web users. It looks at whether adding a button to create accounts in the mobile web header boosts new registrations and increases mobile users contributing to the wikis.

'''Experimenting with Hybrid Search on mobile apps''': The Hybrid Search Phase 1 experiment ↗ on the Wikipedia Android app has concluded. It tested a combined keyword and meaning-based search methods to meet various information needs. The team is analyzing data and feedback, and will share insights and next steps soon.

right|thumb|150px|Top read element on the current Explore Feed on Android ↗

'''Latest experiments''': See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗. One upcoming experiment ↗ is testing a refreshed Explore Feed to make it easier for readers to discover interesting content and visit Wikipedia app more often.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions crossed 4,000 functions, with subtracting two complex numbers ↗ as the 4,000th function. Also, Abstract Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles. The article about the famous Indian Brahmin Chanakya ↗ marked this milestone.

'''Reading lists now a beta feature''': New accounts are now opted into Reading lists ↗ by default on all Wikipedia wikis. This brings the "Save pages" feature to the web, which has been popular in mobile apps. For users in the beta, a "Save page" (bookmark) button appears in the toolbar on every page. The watch/unwatch (star) option moves to the tools menu. The "Watchlist" button in the top navigation shifts to the user menu. A new "Saved pages" button takes its place. In June, the feature will be available to all users and a user preference will be added to choose between two sets of buttons: Watch + Watchlist or Save + Saved list. The other set will be in the tool and user menus.

'''Structured Contents''': Article Images and Lists now in Structured Contents payloads ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 16 ↗ and 17 ↗ include CodeMirror 6 being promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. See also the 45 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Wikimedia Research Fund submissions in review:''' The submission period for this year's Wikimedia Research Fund ↗ is now closed. The technical and internal reviews of the proposals ↗ have begun.

'''Events and conferences''': Take a look at the different community events happening later this year: ESEAP Conference ↗ (May 15-17), WikiConference India ↗ (Sep 4-6), WikiConference North America ↗ (Sep 24-27), Language Diversity Conference ↗ (Oct 2 to 4), Queering Wiki ↗ (Oct 23-25), WikiArabia ↗ (Nov 6-8).

'''Around the puzzle globe in the America region''': More than 60 people joined America call ↗ to discuss the annual plan and the global trends impacting the movement. Participants came from across the region, and the audience included a mix of affiliates from LATAM, online contributors, and users with extended rights.

'''Transparency Report:''' The Wikimedia Foundation published a transparency report ↗ covering July to December 2025.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board selection process''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members ↗. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation and share your ideas on the talk page ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''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 ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 9

'''Community Protection''': Wikimedia Foundation secured Indonesian government’s commitment ↗ to user safety, privacy, and content integrity ahead of administrative registration in Indonesia.

'''Stronger protections against bots''': Wikimedia Foundation is replacing our CAPTCHA with a new approach ↗ to detect bad-faith activities without making things harder for users.

'''Transparency Report:''' The Wikimedia Foundation has published its latest Transparency Report ↗. This provides an overview of the work to protect Wikimedia projects and support the volunteer communities who handle the majority of content requests. Our users trust us to protect their identities against unlawful disclosure, and we take this responsibility seriously, granting only 1 of 30 requests for disclosure we received from July to December 2025.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''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 ↗''</small>

right|thumb|150px|Mock-up of the Wikipedia app reading challenge. ↗

'''Reading Challenge''': As part of the 25th birthday celebrations, Wikipedia Mobile Apps launched a limited-time feature, the 25-day reading challenge with Baby Globe ↗. This challenge encourages a daily habit of reading one Wikipedia article. The goal is to motivate users to come back to the app regularly.

'''Latest experiments''': One upcoming experiment ↗ is introducing the Incident Reporting System (IRS) to help contributors easily find the right place to seek help when facing harassment or other issues. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Change in how new users are autoconfirmed''': The account age for autoconfirmed users ↗ will now start ↗ from their first edit, not the registration date. This is to avoid exploitation by vandals. This change will only apply to wikis that require at least one edit for autoconfirmation.

'''Organized Reading lists''': All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the “automatically enable most beta features” option can now use the reading lists ↗ beta feature. This lets you save articles for later reading and keep it organized in one place for easy access.

'''Thumbnail size preferences''': Default thumbnail size preference for article content is now limited to three sizes ↗: Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px). This change aims to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. Current preferences will shift to the nearest new size.

'''Wikifunctions''': To make the development of Abstract Wikipedia visible, the Foundation is requesting your input ↗: which metrics about Abstract Wikipedia pages do you deem important?

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 18 ↗ and 19 ↗ include improvements on Global Watchlist ↗. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Planning''': We welcome your feedback ↗ on the main talk page ↗ for the 2026–2027 draft Annual Plan and many other places ↗ for the coming fiscal year.

'''Wikimania''': Wikimania is a joyful event. It is a chance to celebrate our community and projects, share ideas and information, build connections among Wikimedians, and inspire and develop future projects. If you and your community are interested in hosting Wikimania in 2028 and 2029 submit an expressions of interest ↗.

'''Community Conferences''': The Foundation is supporting 15 strategic, diverse, and critical convenings ↗ taking place in 2026 and 2027, bringing together approximately 1800 Wikimedians across various regions, themes, and language communities.

'''Don't blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Wiki Loves Monuments''': The winners of the 2025 Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest are announced ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': How CivicLens Uses Wikidata APIs to Make Civic Data More Accessible ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Wikinews closure''': All Wikinews have been closed ↗ and switched to read-only mode. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.

'''Affcom News''': Read the latest issue of AffCom News (January-March 2026) ↗ to learn more about the latest news about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee ↗.

'''Model for affiliates to support contributors through tools''': The Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ has published draft recommendations ↗ on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space.

'''Grantmaking''': The Global Resource Distribution Committee closed their request for feedback on three initial questions about grantmaking ↗, and published their monthly update for April ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br /><small>''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 ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Books & Bytes – Issue 74

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

'''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 ↗.

'''Digital Public Goods''': The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member ↗ of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).

'''Better bot detection''': A trial of hCaptcha ↗ on several Wikipedias, including English, French, and Japanese, showed it can effectively detect and deter bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards ↗ signals to look into. Based on these results, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis. See the project page ↗ for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''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 ↗''</small>

right|thumb|200px|Example of the Attribution Framework recommendations. ↗

'''A better way to give credit''': The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API ↗ makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.

'''Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge''': The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge ↗, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.

'''Account security''': The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions ↗ can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication ↗. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.

'''Incident reporting form''': The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia ↗ of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.

'''Encouraging account creation''': Following a successful account creation experiment ↗, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change ↗ will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.

'''Wikimedia Android App''': The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 ↗ of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: ''Community,'' featuring refreshed Explore content, and ''For You,'' with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The ''For You'' feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.

'''Better discovery of images''': The Image Browsing ↗ beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely ↗.

'''Reading Lists feature''': The Foundation is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists ↗ feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment ↗ was launched on May 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.

right|thumb|200px|A design mockup of what the share card looks like. ↗

'''Testing Suggestion Mode''': Suggestion Mode ↗ was released as an A/B test ↗ for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias ↗. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.

'''Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references''': References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions ↗, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations ↗. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.

'''Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia:''' The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20 ↗, 21 ↗, 22 ↗, 23 ↗ include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature ↗ that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Tech blog moved to Diff''': The migration of the Techblog to Diff ↗ is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.

'''What’s new in the Wikipedia Library''': Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''New course on WikiLearn''': A free self-paced online course ↗, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers ↗” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.

'''Wiki Mentor Africa:''' The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit ↗ brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.

'''Let's Connect Learning Clinic''': If you missed it, you can now watch the recording ↗ of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.

'''Community Conferences''': Registration for WikiConference North America ↗ and Queering Wiki Conference ↗ is now opened. Call for Speakers ↗ for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Sharing the Form 990s:''' The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights ↗ on Form 990 for the Foundation ↗ and Form 990 for the Endowment ↗ on Meta-Wiki.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade ↗ across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.

'''Structured Contents''': How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia ↗ to Markdown with Python.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board selection process''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members ↗. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC ↗, and share your ideas on the talk page ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''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 ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11

'''Community Wishlist''': Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future. ↗

'''Simplifying account creation:''' The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process ↗ to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making "Create Account" icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.

'''New U4C members elected:''' The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members ↗ and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

'''Wikimania conference program''': The Wikimania 2026 program is now live ↗! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your "must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket ↗ here, if you haven't signed up yet.

'''Neutral Point of View''': A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard ↗ for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion ↗ open until July 15, 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''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 ↗''</small>

thumb|250px|Screenshot showing the Explore Feed refresh in the Wikipedia app (from the Community tab entry point) ↗

'''App Explore feed''': The redesigned App Explore feed ↗, now called "Home", has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.

'''Wikipedia games''': 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.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis ↗ and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.

'''Article guidance''': The Article guidance ↗ feature is 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. 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.

'''Mobile Page Previews''': The Page Previews experiment ↗ on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. 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.

'''Wikifunctions''': You can now add images ↗ to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.

'''Wikidata''': The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service ↗ (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline ↗.

'''Growth features:''' Growth features are now available at Wikidata ↗!''' ''' Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration, but this update enables access to Mentorship (if configured ↗), Impact, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).

'''Mentors' management''': The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors ↗. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.

'''Collaborative''' '''Contributions''': If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides ↗. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 ↗ and 25 ↗ include how the user interface icon library ↗ is being updated. ↗ Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Digital Safety''': Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. ↗ It'll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It's focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.

'''Don't Blink''': Read the latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.

'''Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model''': Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee ↗ (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) ↗ met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise ↗ to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''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 ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikipedia's 25th birthday was celebrated with various projects designed to grow awareness and support for Wikipedia and the people who make it possible. This includes the virtual birthday event on January 15, which garnered 10,000 live viewers and 15,000 reactions. Find more details on all related projects and results in the program report ↗.

'''Sustainable use of Wikimedia infrastructure''': A valid user-agent string will now 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.

'''Increasing account creation''': The experiment ↗ providing direct access to “Create account” and “Log in” actions on mobile increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality. The feature will now be rolled out to all wikis ↗ on mobile web.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Engage ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗''</small>
thumb|250px|With Sub-referencing editors can reuse and add details to a main reference. ↗

'''Add A Link''': The Foundation deployed Add A Link ↗ as a default-on suggestion within Suggestion Mode ↗. It is now launched on all wikis to all editors who have opted in to the Suggestion Beta Feature.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, the new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, was deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions.

'''Wikifunctions''': Check out the 71 new functions ↗ with implementations to get a taste of what functions have been created.

'''Range calculator''': 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.

'''Captcha verification''': Abuse filters that are set to “require CAPTCHA verification” now 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.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing two variations of a "thank you" badge shown to donors after a recent donation to deepen the relationship between donors and the Wikimedia movement. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Account security on private wikis''': Two-factor authentication ↗ will become mandatory for user accounts on private wikis. This will protect private information from being exposed by an account with a compromised password.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 26 ↗ and 27 ↗ include users will now get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. See also the 65 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Team Challenges''': The core organizing team for Wikimania is introducing Team Challenges ↗, a different approach to Wikimania Hackathon. This year, Wikimedians and professionals from other fields will join forces to undertake one of the 2026 technical challenges.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Enable ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Research newsletter ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': A look at the 2026 edition of Wikimedia Hackathon ↗ which brought together 216 participants from 29 countries building, collaborating, and shaping the future together.

'''Wikimedia Hubs''': The Hub Fund ↗ will pause funding for new pilots ↗ in fiscal year 2026–2027 to align with the work on the Ecosystem of Movement Organizations and the Global Resource Distribution Committee. Existing pilots in transition will be offered an additional year of funding.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Protect ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Open Knowledge And Digital Rights''': Wikimedians shared their reflections ↗ on how Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum reinforced the role of our movement within broader digital rights conversations.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Reach ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Readers ↗''</small>

'''Journalism Award''': Wikimedia Foundation announced ↗ three journalists from Africa as recipients of the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, ↗ run in partnership with the International Center for Journalists ↗ (ICFJ). The awards celebrate the essential role journalists play in creating well-researched articles that volunteer editors can use as source materials to develop content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. In total, 320 submissions were received from 40 African countries.

'''Other Movement-curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''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 ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗''</small>

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