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Welcome to my talk page !<br />

responsiveContent

Hi. Not sure if this is still maintained as is shown in the Gadgets section, but for some reason, the text looks very squeezed in. 1989 (talk) 03:04, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

:I haven’t looked at it for a while. I’ll see if I can make some time to investigate. —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 10:26, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
:I ran into the same issue. Width of the main content is capped so it shows about 35 characters per line. It may be related to the newish vector-2022 skin. I'm not sure if that was enabled automatically or if I did it at some point. Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 05:28, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
:1991 2601:243:C400:9F00:2466:F5FD:71AB:4701 ↗ (talk) 07:28, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
:Hey 41.122.90.174 ↗ (talk) 14:45, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of :Template:Documentation/link box ↗

30px|link= ↗:Template:Documentation/link box ↗ has been nominated for deletion ↗. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page ↗. User:GKFX<sup>talk</sup> 20:01, 14 January 2022 (UTC) User:GKFX<sup>talk</sup> 20:07, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Maybe for you?

Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Sticky table headers not working on iPhone ↗ is looking for someone who knows things about iPhones and web development. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:43, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Apple styling help

I see your notifications are disabled. Template talk:COVID-19 pandemic data/styles2.css#Missing borders on sticky row headers ↗ could use your help again, especially with the browser issues on Apple products. Jroberson108 (talk) 14:12, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
:Thanks for your help. Any ideas on the part about some borders missing between random sticky row headers? Jroberson108 (talk) 16:46, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Problem with Template:Unicode blocks

Hi, TheDJ. I've been having a problem I don't understand getting :Template:Unicode blocks ↗ to initially appear in collapsed state, and I noticed you recently made some changes to the template.

I've been trying to make Unicode character property ↗ a little more readable by having a couple of very large tables come up in collapsed state by adding a {{code|<nowiki>|state=mw-collapsed</nowiki>}} parameter to the templates that generate them. This works fine for the :Template:ISO 15924 script codes and related Unicode data ↗ invocation https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unicode_character_property&diff=prev&oldid=1077344496 ↗. However doing the same to the Unicode blocks template https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unicode_character_property&diff=next&oldid=1077344496 ↗ has no apparent effect; the table still appears in expanded form.

I have no idea if my edit would have been equally ineffective with the template version before your edits or not. It could be that the state parameter never worked on this template. Unfortunately I'm not too knowledgeable about template coding, so maybe you could take a look at the issue and tell me if there is a way to get the table to initially appear collapsed. Thanks, -- R. S. Shaw (talk) 00:06, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

:That was my bad, I broke something. —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 10:16, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your years of work on OSMdb and the tiles.wmflabs.org service

I just happened across the deprecation notice for the tiles.wmflabs.org service that you added back in Jan 2022, and wanted to drop a note of thanks for your long and hard work on that service (and OSMdb), as well as give people looking at this talk page a pointer to some of the other ↗ discussions ↗ about it. Thanks again. JesseW, the juggling janitor 03:03, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Regarding dataset for image provided in Wikimedia (File:PerrinPlot2.svg from Brownian motion on en.wikipedia.org)

Hi Derk-Jan, I am a PhD candidate at Columbia looking to use the dataset from Jean Perrin's 1909 paper which is depicted in the .svg file you had originally uploaded to the Brownian motion Wikipedia page.

Would you be able to point me to where this data was originally sourced from as I am looking to analyze it for my work but cannot seem to find it anywhere online. Also, I apologize if this is not the right place to message you, I am new to interacting with users on Wikipedia.

Thank you very much,
Kiran
KDGauthier (talk) 17:22, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

:It was an svg that someone had uploaded on top of the original gif file. On that day, this broke the image because an svg file was no longer allowed to have the fileextension gif, so i split it off into a new upload and deleted the offending file revision in the .gif entry. See also the log here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=&page=File%3APerrinPlot2.gif
:So there was originally a gif uploaded in 2007 by a user Kraus, who retrieved it from a page on the paper (''<nowiki>http://www.matpack.de/Info/images/Thermodynamics/PerrinPlot2.gif</nowiki> )'' then in 2009 <bdi>MiraiWarren</bdi> created an svg based on that gif, in 2010 i split it off into a separate entry and in 2015 the file was moved to Wikimedia Commons. That is as much as i know of it. —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 18:23, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Sort nowrap ↗

30px|link= ↗Template:Sort nowrap ↗ has been nominated for deletion ↗. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page ↗. 2406:3003:2077:1E60:C998:20C6:8CCF:5730 ↗ (talk) 16:02, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Respect

(if you've ever seen Last Week Tonight ↗, feel free to imagine John Oliver ↗'s voice as you read this.. I think it helps)<br/>I generally respect you. You are a good contributor and knowledgeable. Like any human, I get things wrong sometimes. Misjudge. Phrase an opinion more harshly than necessary. Usually it's deserved, but sometimes in hindsight I could've held back a bit more. It's a thin line to walk, but I don't always err on the side of caution. Those who do are often walked over. Simply dampening criticism across the board always makes things worse. So, and this applies to any situation, humanity has to try and reason with one another, as long as the other party is willing to listen, accept constructive criticism and -when appropriate- apologize.<br style="margin-bottom:0.5em"/>If you know me at all, you'd know I readily admit my mistakes and poor word choices if I'm made aware of those. Misinterpretation of my words happens every once in a while. If something turns out to be open to interpretation I'll often clarify or adjust them.<br style="margin-bottom:0.5em"/>I'm not easily offended. Some random anon calling me a cunt (it has happened) doesn't bother me, it makes me laugh. Even if a respected user would say something like "I hate your style, I think you're a cunt." I wouldn't be overly concerned. It's unfortunate, but only an opinion, and you can't always please everyone.<br style="margin-bottom:0.5em"/>And because I respect you, I'm actually offended by your triple-word order without punctuation. Phrasing it as an order -who are you, my boss?- is already severely disrespectful. Using only three words, not even attempting to engage in any meaningful constructive criticism is, whether you intended that or not, a recipe for escalation. Trolls often do it as a tactic to evoke a response. I'd have thought you knew better than that.<br style="margin-bottom:0.5em"/>But the icing on the cake is to do it with no punctuation whatsoever. Do you think <i>that</i> little of me? You can't be bothered to press shift or enter a period? If you want to criticize my actions or even my personality, put in the bloody effort. Be creative. Explain in detail how much you hate my guts. So please, if you must, just vent that anger and we'll both feel better. And now, this. <span id="Alexis_Jazz:1657123516950:User_talkBWLCLNTheDJ" class="BawlCmt">— <span style="color:#e08020">Alexis Jazz</span> (talk or ping me) 16:05, 6 July 2022 (UTC)</span>
:I ain't got time to be creative right now (burying a familymember today). I'm often critical of the foundation and there are many ways to do so. Yet these personal attacks are just you pushing people's buttons out of frustration in hopes of triggering a response. It's unnecessary and only further sours the relationship between employees and community without actually fixing problems. If I see this kind of behavior towards ppl who I consider to be friends, I damn sure will call it out and I don't care about you wikilawyering your way around it. My respect goes to people who build others up, and my respect is extremely quickly lost when ppl punch down at ppl who aren't free to respond to their attacks. —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 07:45, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
::(if you feel this is TLDR, at least read the last paragraph)<br/>I'm sorry for your loss.<br style="margin-bottom:0.5em"/>And, well, not a John Oliver fan I presume. I'm disappointed with your use of "ur", "u" and "r" in that reverted edit summary, but then again, you are saying clearly that you simply don't respect me and since I told you I don't like that sort of thing (outside memes) I guess I gave you free ammunition there so understandably you used it.<br style="margin-bottom:0.5em"/>I don't need people to respect me to respect them. I still respect your knowledge and contributions to the project. On a more personal level, I respect people who engage in conversation, who try to understand each another, who try to keep an open mind. There's no requirement to agree there, I can completely disagree with someone's opinion while respecting their point of view. Or the opposite: to agree with someone while thinking the way they arrived at their opinion is completely backwards.<br style="margin-bottom:0.5em"/>You are simply trying to protect friends from what you perceive as attacks. That's completely understandable. Whether they actually need or want your protection is an open question, but regardless, understandable. But even if you'd be right and I am simply the villain who has to be stopped (you wouldn't be unique in that), throwing in triple-word orders without punctuation isn't going to help. Or more accurately: that trick only works once. Because with it, you've largely burned my respect on the personal level.<br style="margin-bottom:0.5em"/>WMF employees would have to be more careful when responding, but they most assuredly <i>can</i> respond to attacks. Dealing with criticism and even attacks is par for the course if you work for the WMF. And certain responses to such "attacks" can definitely earn my respect. I'll hardly ever say something that should be taken personally anyway.<br style="margin-bottom:0.5em"/>I suppose that's what disappoints me the most: you took all this personally. Your decisions here may or may not be affected by your loss of a family member. If you even suspect your grief may be affecting your decisions here, I'd recommend staying offline for a few days, or at least away from forums/social media/wikis/etc. Not for me, for you. Talk with family/friends, maybe read a book, take a walk, listen to music that matches how you feel, or just sit in a room quietly. Or if you just feel like punching a pillow.. do it. If the latter is what you feel like, don't hold back. I don't know how you feel right now. But whatever works to process your emotions, you should do. I'm only suggesting, just giving advice. One thing I do know: wiki is rarely a good place to be when you're dealing with emotions. <span id="Alexis_Jazz:1657209900588:User_talkBWLCLNTheDJ" class="BawlCmt">— <span style="color:#e08020">Alexis Jazz</span> (talk or ping me) 16:05, 7 July 2022 (UTC)</span>

Message boxes

Thanks for that! I've included a brief summary ↗ and linked the article, which I think is probably better than quoting it to the point that people don't go and read it. Is it bad that of the "well-known names" I only really recognise half of them? And I was active back then, so you'd think I would. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.118em 0.118em 0.118em; class=texhtml">'''Adam Cuerden''' <sup>(talk)</sup><sub>Has about 8.1% of all FPs ↗</sub></span> 04:36, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Signpost fixes

I've been trying to put together a basic overview of how the Signpost works on a technical level, and have noticed you in the edit histories of many of the templates, fixing stuff that's broken and removing stuff that doesn't need to be there. Good work! '''jp'''×'''g''' 06:54, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

:Thx. I’ve made three distinct changes changes in the past. First, I implemented the new design a couple of years ago (2015?). This is the bigger changes I made to the templates. The interesting part here is that they had to be made in a way which would keep those templates working in older versions of articles. This is why sometimes you’ll see v2 templates in use (because changing the original version would break the old articles. I also made most pages mobile responsive. Things like the headers footers etc were all fixed width for a long long time. And then I’ve converted large parts to templatestyles, which simplifies the templates a lot compared to the earlier inline styles. —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 07:10, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Reference desk/header/nav/aux/sandbox ↗ is nominated for speedy deletion

As a follow up to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Obsolete Reference desk subpages ↗, I've nominated sandbox page that you've created – Wikipedia:Reference desk/header/nav/aux/sandbox ↗ – for speedy deletion. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:12, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

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MfD nomination of :Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start-end ↗

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Problems with responsiveContent

Hello, I just wanted to let you know that I had to turn off the responsiveContent ↗ gadget. It caused me problems when working on desktop. I had to disable it since when it was enabled, I was unable to correctly select wikisyntax (I'm usually directly editing the code). Blank space was selected and when I tried to delete it, the wikitext was deleted instead. --TadejM <sup>my talk</sup> 21:01, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

:Yeah, I'm not using it myself these days, so it's been a while since I checked it over. I'll take a look this weekend. Thx for the report ! —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 08:40, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

New message from Neveselbert

{{talkback|Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)|2=class="toccolours" does not render formatting in Vector 2022|ts=21:59, 23 January 2023 (UTC)}}
Hi DJ, could you please possibly have a look at this? Thanks, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk <b>·</b> contribs ↗ <b>·</b> email ↗) 21:59, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of :Template:Day/Mar-Dec ↗

30px|link= ↗:Template:Day/Mar-Dec ↗ has been nominated for deletion ↗. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page ↗. Gonnym (talk) 09:19, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikigoat

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Thank you for going the extra miles in your response to my request for review of the relevance of Wikipedia:Article size ↗. You get this goat in reward. I'm sure your time and effort seems more than worth it now 😉

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Non-free use rationale templates

Hi there, I know you've been busy lately but I wanted to know if you knew of a way to correct the display of {{tl|Non-free use rationale}} and {{tl|Non-free use rationale 2}} in Vector 2022 in the short term, just until you're able to get round to updating the code? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk <b>·</b> contribs ↗ <b>·</b> email ↗) 19:12, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

:Was the problem mostly that the caption didn't look like it did before ? —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 13:47, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
::Yes, though there's also the issue of {{tl|Non-free use rationale 2}}. I don't think they should both use the same TemplateStyles as the designs are different. [{{fullurl:Template:Non-free_use_rationale_2}}?useskin=vector This] is how that template appears in Vector legacy; as you can see, the line height is reduced as well as the caption at the top. I would prefer that to be retained in Vector 2022. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk <b>·</b> contribs ↗ <b>·</b> email ↗) 15:04, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
:::Why are the designs different ? Its generally a bad idea to have multiple styles for something which should essentially be the same. —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 15:07, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
::::That may be, but for whatever reason, they're different and I'd rather we be as conservative as possible in preserving the design, in the absence of a talkpage consensus to change it. I personally prefer the design of {{tl|Non-free use rationale 2}} for being more compact. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk <b>·</b> contribs ↗ <b>·</b> email ↗) 15:09, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
:::::Id rather we not be conservative. We've been conservative for a long time and thats part of why it's difficult to fix problems like this. We should challange past decisions and decide if they make sense. —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 15:11, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
::::::OK, well I would prefer if we could incorporate {{tl|Non-free use rationale 2}}'s line height and caption style into {{tl|Non-free use rationale/styles.css}}, if that's OK? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk <b>·</b> contribs ↗ <b>·</b> email ↗) 15:13, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
::::::Would that be alright, {{u|TheDJ}}? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk <b>·</b> contribs ↗ <b>·</b> email ↗) 17:05, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

responsiveContent gadget on v22

Hi. Could you disable User:TheDJ/responsiveContent on V22? It looks rather weird as my wife just shown me 😉 (e.g. on Kathe Koja ↗). You should probably change: MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition ↗. Cheers, Nux <small>(talk ↗)</small> 00:52, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Followup

Hello again, I'm just following up to check whether you're amenable to incorporating {{tl|Non-free use rationale 2}}'s line height and caption style into {{tl|Non-free use rationale/styles.css}}? Please confirm, thanks, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk <b>·</b> contribs ↗ <b>·</b> email ↗) 20:57, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

:I think its good like this, someone else can do the rest. —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 07:15, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Folded References

Hi,
I was going to install User:TheDJ/Folded_references, but there doesn't seem to that many users ↗. Is it worth a try? Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 10:38, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

:I haven't used it myself in over 6 years, no clue. —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 09:47, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Regarding {{t|sronly}}

Hello, I'm reaching out to you both because you're the last editor to update Template:Screen reader-only ↗ and because I've seen a lot of knowledgeable posts from you on the bowels on Wikipedia's software side. I noticed a bug in that template trying to use it to improve the accessibility for {{t|tooltip}}. There are several different types of rendering errors when the template is used within a link.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Screen_reader-only#Weird_rendering_bugs_if_used_inside_links ↗ I don't know if there is an easy fix for using the template within links, or if maybe it was never to meant to go inside a link and should generate some kind of warning message or category error. Regards, Rjjiii (talk) 18:20, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Quick note on :Wikipedia:Education program/sandbox ↗

About :Wikipedia:Education program/sandbox ↗, I tried nominating it for deletion for G6, but a reviewing admin actually looked and said they are waiting for you to look at it. But thinking about it again, I wonder if moving it to user space would be a better bet. That way you can work and people won't accidentally stumble on this page.
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Nomination for deletion of :Template:OpenDNS IP addresses ↗

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tunnel and OSM

Hello, do you think maplink support type=tunnel from OSM ? I don't feel it :(
{{Maplink|type=line|id=Q27830387|stroke-color=#000 |frame=yes |frame-width=130 |frame-height=160 |stroke-width=4}} Bouzinac (talk) 12:30, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

:See mediawikiwiki:Help:Extension:Kartographer/OSM#How_to_get_a_single_object_from_multiple_lines ↗ —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 13:25, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Response at the Teahouse

Hi - I was just writing a response to the Teahouse question about a page not showing up in search results when I saw your reply, but I was about to say something totally different and wanted to make sure I was correct first. I am under the impression that pages will only index once they have been patrolled through WP:NPP ↗ or once 90 days has passed since the creation of the article - the issue for that page is that it hasn't been patrolled, not that Google hasn't gotten around to it yet, no? Tollens (talk) 07:38, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

:(I suppose it doesn't really matter either way - the editor with the question can't make a review happen any sooner.) Tollens (talk) 08:12, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

RfC on the "Airlines and destinations" tables in airport articles

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Hi TheDJ, if you have a moment do you have any insight in to MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages ↗ section about the storage handling/purging of the wln ID numbers. — <span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span> <sup><span style="color:#009933;">Talk</span></sup> 15:16, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

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Regarding [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)&diff=prev&oldid=1184513256 this comment]: perhaps there should be a pool on how long until someone wonders why the image isn't visible on small screens ;-) I appreciate the effort spent to improve the layout (even if I'm unopinionated about having an image that my banner blindness will subsequently ignore). isaacl (talk) 22:17, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hi, thank you for your notice: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:Doc_Taxon&diff=prev&oldid=239243041

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Village pump thread on sticky header template update

Please have a look at this:

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At this edit ↗, you changed <code>class="nowrap"</code> to <code>class="tpl-para"</code> at {{tlx|para}}. What does that class do? and where is it defined?

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:tpl- prefix generally means TemplateStyles, so i probably moved the styling into trmplatestyles. —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 14:23, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
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:::Thanks, I wondered about that. I didn't find any use of it in user namespace, likely because no one knows that it exists (it isn't documented anywhere that I could find). Because it isn't used, I'm inclined to remove it.
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{{tq2|Whatever you do, don't forget about dark mode whenever you pick colors nowadays. it has to be legible in both, or you need additional colors for dark mode.}}

I wanted to ask you how I should proceed, once the discussion closes in favour of a color. How does dark mode work and how can I make sure not to inadvertently break it? FaviFake (talk) 09:37, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

:@FaviFake This is all described in Recommendations_for_night_mode_compatibility_on_Wikimedia_wikis ↗ —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 09:56, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
:But more importantly. You are mostly presenting black text on light colors in the discussion. For larger areas of text, people in dark mode will likely prefer light text on a darker tint color. So you need to decide what color scheme should be used in the night mode. —Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ (talk • contribs ↗) 10:00, 22 August 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.

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

'''Public-Interest content''': The Project Gayatri content expansion program brought 7,656 new articles on Indonesian Wikipedia ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': The research showcase will return on January 22 at 17:30 UTC ↗ with the theme "Celebrating 25 Years of Wikipedia and the Research Behind It".

'''Wikimedia Research Report''': The Wikimedia Foundation has published its 13th bi-annual Research Report ↗, highlighting the work completed during the first six months of this fiscal year.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Past issues of the bulletin for progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

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

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

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

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

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

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 2

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'''Highlights'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''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 ↗.

'''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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Questions for upcoming signpost piece

Hello, as a participant in the WMF annual planning discussion, I am hoping you can take some time to answer questions I made for a Signpost piece I am working on. Thanks! Czarking0 (talk) 15:57, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

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 ↗.

'''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 4

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'''Highlights'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''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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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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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 ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:04, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 04:21, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

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.

'''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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You may be eligible to vote in the U4C election

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I am contacting you because you previously voted in elections related to the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ↗. You may be eligible to vote in the current U4C election, which is open now and closes on 2 June 2026. You can find out more about the candidates and the election on the election page on Meta ↗, and from there you can access the vote itself. Your participation in these elections is important to the governance of Wikimedia communities, and your time spent learning about the candidates and voting is appreciated.

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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.

'''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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:31, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

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.

'''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

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'''Highlights'''

'''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>
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'''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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