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Guild of Copy Editors – June 2026 Newsletter

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'''Election news:''' Nominations for the '''mid-year coordinator election''' ↗ ends at 23:59 on 15 June. Voting will last from 00:00 on 16 June to 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced on the election page.

'''April Blitz:''' 18 of the 21 editors who signed up for the '''April 2026 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ copy edited 122,993 words in 56 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''May Drive:''' 34 of the 66 editors who signed up for the May 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive ↗ copy edited 543,972 words in 211 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''June Blitz:''' Our '''June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ will start on 14 June and finish on 30 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted '''here''' ↗.

'''Progress report:''' As of 22:40, 11 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 132 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 1,691 articles.

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May 2026 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | This award is given in recognition of Vanderwaalforces for accumulating at least 100 points in the May 2026 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped review 14884 articles during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and helping reduce the backlog! – <span style="color:#5A4FCF">'''Dream'''Rimmer</span> <span style="color:#5A4FCF;">■</span> 15:57, 12 June 2026 (UTC)
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Your nomination of Ewuare ↗ has passed

Your good article nomination ↗ of the article Ewuare ↗ has <span class="nowrap">20px|alt=|link= ↗ </span>'''passed'''; congratulations! See '''Talk:Ewuare/GA1{{!}}the review page ↗''' for more information. If the article is eligible to appear ↗ in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it ↗ within the next seven days. Please also consider reviewing ↗ somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down.  <small>Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of TheNuggeteer</small> -- TheNuggeteer (talk) 09:22, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Task 2 for VWF bot needs a delay or error checking

I just ran across an error that was caused by VWF bot pertaining to Task 2 ↗, removing RfD daily subpage transclusions. The error was caused after a series of edits starting when Tavix closed the final open discussion on Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 May 8 ↗ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2026_May_8&diff=prev&oldid=1355794653 ↗; in response, the bot removed the subpage transclusion from Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion ↗ a few seconds later https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion&diff=prev&oldid=1355794680 ↗. However, approximately 3 minutes later, Tavix reopened the discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2026_May_8&diff=next&oldid=1355794653 ↗, but VFW bot never restored the transclusion on RfD, given the page now had an open discussion.

My recommendation here would be to do one of two things:
#This option is probably simpler but still leaves room for error: Add a 5 to 10 minute delay prior to VWF bot removing transclusions from RfD, potentially by first checking immediately to see if any discussions are still open (like it does now), but not remove the subpage translation until it checks a second time 5 to 10 minutes later.
#Check all RFD subpages in existence on a semi regular basis to see if any of them still have open discussions, and restore them when an open discussion is found. (This is obviously the alternative because this would require a lot of work from the bot.)

Either way, because of the bot's action, the aforementioned subpage has not been listed for almost a month now, which is obviously problematic. <span style="color:#AF601A;">'''''Steel1943'''''</span> (talk) 06:06, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

:@Steel1943 Damn, an entire month! That’s a huge mess. Okay, I know Tarvix closed it and caused the bot to malfunction, but I won’t blame Tarvix entirely; someone else did something like this previously.
:I’ll need to do a fix regarding this ASAP. Thank you, Steel! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 06:34, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

The DCWC is back!

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Hey Vanderwaalforces, the Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ is back for a third year, and '''sign-ups are now open ↗'''! The contest will run from 1{{nbsp}}July to 30{{nbsp}}September, and the objective remains the same: improve as many articles relating to developing countries as you can to help fight systemic bias on Wikipedia ↗.

Thanks to everyone who answered the call for coordinators, and please welcome the new faces on the coordinator team: the 2024 Gold Belt Buckle winner {{user|Generalissima}}; and the record-holder for most India-related submissions in 2024, {{user|Magentic Manifestations}}! Following feedback from last year, adjustments have been made to the scoring rules ↗; discussion can be found on the contest talk page ↗.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or contact one of the coordinators: {{user|Arconning}}, {{user|Generalissima}}, {{user|Magentic Manifestations}}, {{user|sawyer777}}, or {{user|TechnoSquirrel69}}. <small>(To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list ↗. Sent via MediaWiki message delivery.)</small> <span class="nowrap">—<span style="color: #0b541f;">'''TechnoSquirrel69'''</span></span> <small>(<span style="color: #0b541f;">'''talk'''</span>)</small> 16:00, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''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).

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'''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.

'''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>

'''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.

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Your nomination of Akengbuda ↗ has passed

Your good article nomination ↗ of the article Akengbuda ↗ has <span class="nowrap">20px|alt=|link= ↗ </span>'''passed'''; congratulations! See '''Talk:Akengbuda/GA1{{!}}the review page ↗''' for more information. If the article is eligible to appear ↗ in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it ↗ within the next seven days. Please also consider reviewing ↗ somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down.  <small>Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of A.Cython</small> -- A.Cython (talk) 04:01, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

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'''To accept or decline this invitation to review the article, visit WT:GARC#97 ↗.'''

<span style="color:blue;">Crest</span><span style="color: deeppink">falling</span> (talk/contribs ↗) 06:01, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of Ewuakpe ↗ is under review

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Your nomination of Ewuakpe ↗ has passed

Your good article nomination ↗ of the article Ewuakpe ↗ has <span class="nowrap">20px|alt=|link= ↗ </span>'''passed'''; congratulations! See '''Talk:Ewuakpe/GA1{{!}}the review page ↗''' for more information. If the article is eligible to appear ↗ in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it ↗ within the next seven days. Please also consider reviewing ↗ somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down.  <small>Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of BarntToust</small> -- BarntToust (talk) 20:43, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of Obanosa ↗ is under review

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WikiCup 2026 July newsletter

The third round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 June at 23:59 (UTC). As a reminder, good article nomination reviews ↗ now receive 10 points, while peer reviews ↗, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews ↗, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

Round 3 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; eight scored over 500; and thirteen scored over 300. The top three contestants had at least one featured article ↗ (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|MCE89}} with 1567 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography, as well as some article reviews

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Bgsu98}} with 1547 points, mainly from good articles, featured articles, featured lists, and a good topic about figure skating, along with 20 article reviews

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Reconrabbit}} with 1004 points, mainly from a high-multiplier featured article on European rabbit ↗ and several good articles, DYKs, and reviews

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|A.Cython}} with 1004 points, mainly from good articles about warfare, along with 22 article reviews

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Generalissima}} with 859 points, mainly from good and featured articles about rivers and East Asian topics

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here ↗. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 7 featured-topic articles, 117 good articles, 74 good-topic articles and more than 30 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 13 In the News ↗ articles, and they have conducted nearly 180 reviews. The tournament points table ↗ has been updated.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed ↗. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup ↗, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send ↗.</small> MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:49, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

June music

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Thank you for a steady flow of GAs above, and Ewuare ↗: great work! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:06, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

:Ah, thank you Gerda Arendt, {{xt|but sometimes I'm tired ;)}} hehe, anyway thanks for making Wikipedia a friendly space. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 21:42, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

The DCWC is open!

thumb|upright=1.2|See a {{nowrap|{{legend inline|ffb219}} "developing"}} or {{nowrap|{{legend inline|ff562f}} "least}} developed" country? Write about it to earn points! ↗

Hey Vanderwaalforces, the third annual Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ is now '''open for submissions'''. Welcome to the contest! You can now list your work at '''your submissions page''' ↗ to earn points ↗. We hope that you enjoy participating in this drive to fight Wikipedia's systemic bias ↗. If you haven't done so already, please review the following:

New to Wikipedia? Many experienced editors are part of this contest and willing to help; feel free to ask questions on the talk page ↗.

Got open nominations? List them at the review requests sidebar ↗.

Looking for a topic to work on? Check out suggested articles ↗ and eligible reviews ↗.

Not sure if your article qualifies? See the scoring rules ↗ for more information or contact a coordinator ↗.

Know someone else who might be interested? Sign-ups remain open ↗ throughout the contest, so don't hesitate to invite other editors!

On behalf of the coordinators, we hope you enjoy participating and wish you the best of luck! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page ↗ or ask one of the coordinators: {{noping2|Arconning}}, {{noping2|Generalissima}}, {{noping2|Magentic Manifestations}}, {{noping2|sawyer777}}, or {{noping2|TechnoSquirrel69}}. <small>(To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list ↗. Sent via MediaWiki message delivery.)</small> <span class="nowrap">—<span style="color: #0b541f;">'''TechnoSquirrel69'''</span></span> <small>(<span style="color: #0b541f;">'''talk'''</span>)</small> 00:00, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
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'''<span style="background:#4682B4; border:2px solid #4682B4; color:white; padding:2px;">A.Cython</span><span style="background:white; border:2px solid #4682B4; color:#4682B4; padding:2px;">(talk)</span>''' 23:30, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of Ogbebo ↗ is under review

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Your nomination of Osemwede ↗ is under review

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Your nomination of List of governors of Ebonyi State ↗ is under review

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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>
thumb|250px|With Sub-referencing editors can reuse and add details to a main reference. ↗

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

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

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

'''Range calculator''': The special page Special:RangeCalculator ↗ has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.

'''Captcha verification''': Abuse filters that are set to “require CAPTCHA verification” now also affect users ↗ with the <code>skipcaptcha</code> right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:54, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

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DYK for Akengbuda

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|text = On 10 July 2026 ↗, '''Did you know ↗''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''Akengbuda ↗''''', which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ''... that, when '''King Akengbuda ↗'''{{`s}} heir sent him grey hairs to urge his abdication, he replied with powdered chalk and salt to signify that the world was too pleasant for him to leave?'' The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Akengbuda ↗. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page <small>(Akengbuda ↗)</small>, and the hook may be added to the statistics page ↗ after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it ↗.
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