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Different project comparisons

I want to create a subpage about the differences of certain community norms across different projects. So far, I have:

• Wikivoyage encourages original research
• Chinese Wikipedia runs banners encouraging use of social media like IRC, Discord and Telegram
• Italian Wikipedia requires editors have a month old account with at least 30 edits to create an AfD
• Danish Wikipedia's equivalent of AfD takes place on the article's talk page (kind've like how we do move discussions).
• The French Wikipedia has a message that freely licensed images are welcome in infoboxes of BLPs that do not have one. I wonder if this increases reader awareness that they can contribute.
• The Chinese Wikipedia requires 50 edits for someone to be autoconfirmed.

Talk page stalkers are strongly encouraged to pitch in if they know of anything. Thanks! Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 22:30, 17 February 2026 (UTC), last edited 12:39, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm not a French speaker (although I learned that in school), but while browsing other-language Wikipedia's, I have noticed that French Wikipedia uses CET/CEST (UTC+1/UTC+2) as their default for times on signatures, as most French speakers live at that time zone. And they have a different layout for talk page discussions saying when the last comment was, how many comments in the thread, and how many people have commented. Additionally, their equivalent of the teahouse also has tags at the top saying (using machine translation with some copyediting:)

• Une réponse a été apportée à cette question. An answer has been provided to this question.
• Requête en attente d'une réponse. (comment y répondre ?) This request is awaiting a response. (How to respond?)
• Cette question est hors sujet par rapport à la mission de cette page d'entraide. This question is off-topic in relation to the purpose of this help page.

JuniperChill (talk) 23:46, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Some of these comparisons can be found in main namespace articles about various Wikipedia editions like German Wikipedia. The German Wikipedia is the largest edition to use pending changes exclusively and translate Wikipedia articles by importing their edits. There's an old comparison page on them at User:Elian/comparison. There's also an old Signpost series called "interwiki report" which may be of interest to you. Graham87 (talk) 04:27, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

You can also find out more by poking around in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Series. Re the Danish Wikipedia putting AFD's on talk pages: that's how the English Wikipedia sometimes did things around 2004, though they've been moved to AFD subpages by now (see for example this revision of Wikipedia:Archived articles for deletion discussions/May-June 2004. But they seem to do deletion proposals on a subpage like us ... like da:Wikipedia:Sletningsforslag/Kristian Rem. Some things that other projects do are similarly holdovers of how we used to do them. Graham87 (talk) 04:35, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

@Graham87: Thanks for the correction! Was basing my original statements off some comments on Discord so I suppose that specific tidbit was wrong. I'll strike it. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 15:09, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

The Meta-wiki pages on the different projects, e.g. meta:English Wikipedia, tend to have a "unique qualities" section. Some of the entries are quite dated, though. Updating an improving them all might be a good place to record the information you're looking to document. Sdkb ^talk 19:16, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

I think what I'm looking for in total is a bit broader than unique qualities, but I'll try to update what is relevant as I come across it between both pages (there and mine). Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 19:43, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

En-WP allows some non-free use of pictures, many others (perhaps none? Take the language versions of Marian Ewurama Addy for example) WP:s don't. German WP has pending edits for almost everybody, I think. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:25, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

One of the things I notice a lot is that articles from smaller wikipedias tend not to have sourcing. I don't know if this is a desired norm or more like 'beggers can't be choosers', or whether some projects are just in a 'pre-2007' stage where it's normal for people to add their own knowledge to topics and not provide references (or if that's a chosen path given most knowledge in some societies is only recorded orally). Regardless I think inquiring about differences in norms between smaller and larger projects would be fruitful, makes me question whether mw:Reference Check is appropriate for all wikis Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 02:00, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

hi! i'm not sure if you're still looking into this or you have other norms in mind, but here's some info in case it's helpful. (some references are 'older' so things might have changed)

1. language wikis that skew toward specific countries tend to reflect national norms/values (though this doesn't work for languages common in multiple countries) (Konieczny & Lewoniewski, 2024). differences between language wikis are especially clear in comparisons of the same history articles (Bridgewater, 2017; Kubś, 2021; so many things written by Luyt), current events (Otterbacher, 2014) and the types of content disputes people have (Apic et al., 2011; Yasseri et al., 2014).

2. enwiki biographies usually include more info on people's personal lives and controversies; polish wiki biographies usually include more mentions of communist ideology and polish ethnicity (while omitting other ethnicities, at the time of the study), and polish bios tend to describe how people overcome personal hardship (which reflects certain polish values) (Callahan & Herring, 2011).

3. Jemielniak (2014) sometimes compares enwiki and polish wiki in his ethnography. (imo) one of the more interesting mentions is user talk pages (p. 92–96). on polish wiki, editors respond to each other using the other person's talk page, so conversations are split between those two pages. this is more convenient for the editors, but it means everyone else has a harder time following discussions. on enwiki, all replies are kept on one person's talk page and structured like a forum chat. this contributes to more questioning in enwiki RfAs, compared to polish wiki.

4. i've also been meaning to learn more about namuwiki (Kim, 2023) and baidu and hudong (Zhang, 2014). i think u.s. researchers tend to overemphasize laws and censorship in asia, but i wonder if different encyclopedia traditions are also involved. that's been on my back burner though.

5. i hope this was helpful or at least interesting to read! also, i'm sorry school/research is taking a million years on my end. turns out information infrastructure along with AI and questionable research studies have made things more complicated. but i'm still working through it and trying to think of practical ways to help. it's slow, but i'm getting it done! SmolPetra (talk) 04:31, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

@SmolPetra: I'm definitely still interested. Your observations of actual research done here make me curious if all of this is mentioned on the actual articles for these projects. I did some work on the Wikipedia article earlier this year to incorporate more secondary sourcing. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 12:26, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

hmm... it does seem like the Wikipedia article generally describes content biases under 'language editions' and 'reception'. but it also seems like secondary sources attribute bias more to editors than control of information (eg, book burning, incentivizing 24/7 news, monopolizing orgs...) and unfortunately, articles for other projects are very short (eg, Polish Wikipedia). lemme see if i can update Bibliography of Wikipedia with secondary coverage, and maybe i can expand on some shorter articles as a start SmolPetra (talk) 03:45, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

The kind of conversation that SmolPetra describes, alternating between the talk pages of the participants, was common in English Wikipedia when I first became involved, in 2006, and continued for I'm not sure how many years later. There were some editors who preferred to keep conversations together on one page, but in that situation, if you wanted to make sure the other person was aware you'd posted a reply, you had to go to their talk page and post a message telling them. Many editors, probably most, took the line that if you were going to have to post on the other editor's talk page anyway, you might as well just post your response to their message there. Things changed dramatically when pings were introduced, so that you could alert the other editor to a message on your talk page without needing to go to theirs. Keeping the conversation on one page then very quickly became almost universal. JBW (talk) 08:34, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@JBW: My understanding of early Wikipedia history is that there also used to be subpages of articles and talkpages? Daniel Quinlan has been around forever, maybe he knows what I'm talking about? Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 12:36, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Clovermoss, you might want to look at Meta:Wikipedia sociology. Additionally, you might reach out to WMF's Movement Communications Team to ask if they're already aware of or have internal documentation which compares wikis. Also, you could look into Meta:Research:Index. And if you're aware of practical real-world applications for synthesizing this information in an easily accessible way, and such a synthesis doesn't already exist, then I could see this becoming a small but formal research project and you might consider looking into requesting WMF grant funding for the work. ↠Pine (✉) 05:05, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@Pine: I was actually inspired to start this after a conversation with a WMF employee, some initial observations came from them. Still, it wouldn't hurt to ask around to see if anyone knows more. This is more of a casual side-project for me, so I wouldn't really want to request funding for it. If I was to work my way up to requesting grant money for the first time, it'd be for something like writing a book about the institutional history of the English Wikipedia. A lot of changes are scattered all over the place and word of mouth tidbits but I think it's valuable information. As you know, I have my own offline collection of useful links. I also keep track of what people tell me in that sense. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 13:23, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

More Chinese Wikipedia specialties: Without autoconfirmed, you can create pages, but you cannot publish an edit from the source editor without previewing it first. Many projects have very incomplete policies and guidelines when compared to enwiki (e.g. Meta doesn't have a rule against canvassing), but zhwiki doesn't – they've imported nearly all of our policies, with the same shortcuts too! So you can type "WP:CANVASS", with its Latin letters and wrong colon (: vs. ：), into the zhwiki search bar and be taken straight to their behavioral guideline on canvassing. In case you didn't know, you can also find local versions of policies using the Wikidata interlanguage links in the top right (new Vector) or left sidebar (old Vector).

Another point on which Wikipedias diverge is their attitude to orgnames. Some explicitly require them with a verification process, some allow them but have no verification process, some discourage them, some prohibit them, and some prohibit them but have a grandfather clause for accounts created before a certain date. Here's an example of a comparison I did for one long-term editor: Special:Diff/1333533304. Toadspike [Talk] 16:09, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

On Simple English, blue links are a full-on requirement for both GAs and VGAs (Very Good Articles, our version of Featured Articles/FAs). GAs there can get away with very few red links, but for VGAs, there can't be any red links left in the article at all. ShadowBallX (talk) 18:38, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

I don't know how many Wikipedia language editions have a draft namespace, but neither German nor Russian Wikipedia have one. I wouldn't be surprised if enwiki was the exception here.

What ruwiki does have is a separate namespace for their version of ArbCom (ru:Википедия:Арбитражный комитет). —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:46, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

German Wikipedia doesn't use infoboxes for articles about people – compare de:Jeanne d’Arc and Joan of Arc. This is similar to how it is done for some composers on enwiki – compare Gustav Mahler and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, more info at Wikipedia:WikiProject Composers#Biographical infoboxes. —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:52, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Zoomancer (18:46, 28 June 2026)

How do I start a new page? --Zoomancer (talk) 18:46, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

Hi Zoomancer. The guide you're looking for is here. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 20:32, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Apps Newsletter – Second Quarter of 2026

Hello, and welcome to the second Wikimedia Apps newsletter of 2026!

In this edition, we’ll walk you through the main updates, launches, experiments, and improvements in the Wikipedia mobile apps during March, April,May, and June.

iOS

Liquid Glass migration

A major focus this quarter was the transition to Apple’s new Liquid Glass design system.

The team completed extensive design, infrastructure, and implementation work, culminating in the release of Wikipedia iOS 8.0.0 with Liquid Glass support. This represented one of the largest visual updates to the app in recent years and required coordinated work across navigation, interface components, theming, and platform-specific behaviors.

The Apps team plans continued modernization of the app’s design system and navigation patterns.

Activity Tab

Following the successful rollout of the Activity Tab earlier this year, the team continued refining the experience based on user feedback.

One recurring theme was confusion around the relocation of reading history. Some users believed history had been removed or required an account to access.

To address this:

• Additional guidance was added explaining that History is now available within Search.
• Search from article view was updated to provide easier access to reading history.
• Ongoing improvements were made to onboarding and user education.

Games

Development continued on the new "Which Came First?" daily trivia game.

The game became available on 11 June 2026.

Other iOS improvements

Additional work this quarter included:

• hCaptcha instrumentation and rollout preparation.
• Explore Feed Refresh design and infrastructure work.
• Performance improvements and stability updates.
• Resolution of numerous bugs affecting search, reading lists, login flows, article viewing, donations, widgets, and accessibility.

Android

Hybrid Search

The Android team continued work on Hybrid Search, combining traditional keyword search with semantic search capabilities.

The experiment expanded to English, French, Portuguese, and Greek Wikipedias and completed its first MVP phase.

Results

• Increased search engagement.
• Stable retention.
• Strong signals supporting continued investment in semantic search experiences.

The experiment also generated valuable datasets and user insights that will guide future development.

Learnings

One key learning was that users need clearer explanations of how hybrid search works. Existing onboarding and provenance indicators were not sufficient at larger scale.

Games Hub

Android introduced a new Games Hub, providing a centralized location for games and interactive experiences within the app.

The hub lays the groundwork for future expansion of game-based engagement features, including the upcoming trivia experience.

Cross-platform

Explore Feed Refresh

One of the largest initiatives this quarter was the rollout of Phase 1 of the Explore Feed Refresh on Android.

The redesign introduces a new Home experience built around two primary feeds.

Community Feed

Community Feed

The Community Feed highlights curated Wikipedia and Wikimedia content, including:

• Featured Article
• Top Read
• In the News
• On This Day
• Picture of the Day

For You feed

For You Feed

The For You feed introduces personalized content through:

• Article recommendations based on selected interests.
• Because You Read recommendations.
• Continue Reading suggestions.

Additional improvements

Additional work included:

• New onboarding flows.
• Feed preference selection.
• Redesigned settings.
• Re-onboarding for existing users.
• Improved feed controls and personalization transparency.

The redesign was released through a holdout experiment, enabling the team to measure its impact while continuing iterative improvements.

Early learnings

• Users respond positively to structured onboarding.
• Topic selection can help personalize discovery experiences.
• Recommendation quality remains a critical factor for user trust and satisfaction.

The Explore Feed Refresh was then released to 50% of app users before being fully released to all users starting on 15 June 2026.

The refreshed experience is planned to launch in the Wikipedia iOS app during July 2026.

Wikipedia 25th Birthday Reading Challenge

Mock-up of the Wikipedia app Reading Challenge

This quarter we launched the Wikipedia 25th Birthday Reading Challenge across Android and iOS.

The challenge included:

• Challenge enrollment experiences.
• Daily reading goals.
• Reading streak tracking.
• Challenge completion flows.
• Home screen widgets.
• App Store and Play Store promotional events.
• CentralNotice promotion.
• Instrumentation and analytics support.
• Translation support across target languages.

Following launch, the team implemented several improvements based on early feedback and usage patterns, while resolving onboarding and widget-related issues.

Early results showed encouraging participation, increased account creation, positive community reception, and opportunities for continued iteration.

Year in Review learnings

Following the conclusion of the 2025 Year in Review experience, both teams completed a comprehensive analysis of the feature.

Key findings

• Both apps achieved an 86% return rate.
• Account creation increased significantly year over year.
• Approximately half of all new accounts during the campaign period were created through Year in Review.
• User satisfaction exceeded targets, with over 95% of surveyed users reporting neutral or positive experiences.
• Donations increased substantially, particularly among users exposed to personalized experiences.

Learnings

• Personalization significantly improves engagement.
• Logged-out users benefit from receiving limited personalized experiences.
• Account-gated personalization remains a strong driver of account creation.
• Users continue to request richer insights, improved sharing capabilities, and cross-platform statistics.

The findings will help shape future iterations of Year in Review and other personalized experiences within the apps.

Looking ahead

This quarter focused on launching major experiences while laying the groundwork for future growth.

The rollout of the Explore Feed Refresh, launch of the Reading Challenge, continued investment in Hybrid Search, and preparation for new games all reflect the team's broader focus on helping users discover, engage with, and contribute to knowledge in new ways.

We're excited to continue iterating on these experiences and look forward to sharing more updates in the next edition of the newsletter.

Thank you for reading!

~~ARamadan-WMF11:59, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

Question from Zoomancer (16:54, 29 June 2026)

Hi. Can I change my user name? --Zoomancer (talk) 16:54, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

@Zoomancer: Yes, it is possible, and there's a guide on that. But if you're not too attached to your current account, you can just create a new one under your desired username without going through all that. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 18:58, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

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	with purple-ish flower, of course. Beccaynr (talk) 03:40, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2026).

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• A request for comment asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified.
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• The "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts can be replaced with a preferred block duration stated on MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account. (phab:T427125)

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Question from DeepBlueCatShark (16:36, 2 July 2026)

Hi Hannah. I'm new to editing on Wikipedia. I have an interest in a specific page, for the USS Gunnel, a WWII submarine. I made some very minor edits (an apostrophe and a space) and changed a link from one that is no longer working to the new link for that reference. I saw there is a "talk" page for the actual Gunnel page. The last entry there was almost 20 years ago. Two questions:

1) Is there a way to see what other people, if anyone, are following the page and potentially contact them to coordinate improvements to the page?

2) One of the comments in the "talk" page from 19 years ago references the old external reference site. I'd like to "fix" that so it refers to the current, working external reference site, but it seems like poor practice to edit someone else's comment and make it look like it says something they didn't write (even though it is an undisputed correction). What is the etiquette /best practice here?

Thank you! DeepBlueCatShark --DeepBlueCatShark (talk) 16:36, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi DeepBlueCatShark. Thanks for asking me such thoughtful questions. So, you can't really tell who has a page on their watchlist for privacy reasons. It's pretty common for a lot of articles on fairly niche topics to not have that many pagewatchers or years between talk page threads, which is why I try to encourage people to be bold and fix problems directly when they can. In regards to the other comment, you could reply to it with the correct information, but it's unlikely the original commentor will come back to see it 19 years later. However, that could still be useful information for whoever reads it in the future. Hopefully that answers everything you were hoping to find out, but please let me know if you need further clarification. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 21:58, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick reply. I am doing some research and then will be bold and propose what I feel are reasonable and supportable edits and improvement and, on the outside chance anyone else ever reads this page, I'm happy to discuss any items that could be viewed differently. Thanks again! DeepBlueCatShark (talk) 02:56, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

You're invited to the Mentorship noticeboard

Hi, Clovermoss. You are cordially invited to the brand new Wikipedia:Mentorship noticeboard. I get the impression sometimes that we mentors are each toiling in our own cubbyhole or hamster wheel, quietly answering mentee questions with little to no interaction with other mentors. I think we have a lot to share and learn from each other, and I know it will make me feel better just having the opportunity to interact with you and other mentors there, and I hope it will for you, too. When you have a look, don't be surprised if part of it looks kinda familiar. I started out including a homebrew manual survey of Mentors' experiences and feelings, and then remembered your survey (though it took me a while to find Editor reflections as I thought it was on your Talk page, and I never knew it had a name). I threw out the homebrew version, and copied your idea. Anyway, I look forward to seeing you there, and hearing your thoughts! Mathglot (talk) 06:49, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi Mathglot, I appreciate you thinking of me and creating your own spinoff project. It's always great to find out I have inspired other people. It might take me a bit to actually get around to giving it a good look, but I plan to eventually. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 02:03, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello Clover! :)

What’s the start to a great relationship between a mentor and a newbie without a hi? Thank you for being my mentor and kudos to all the inevitable questions I have for you in the future! (InsertSuperCoolUsername) (talk) 01:15, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi (InsertSuperCoolUsername). Nice to hear from you. Feel free to come by anytime. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 01:16, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from JacquesBlindguydeBruyn (09:40, 6 July 2026)

Hi, I think I submitted a page for review, would you be able to assist me to check if it has been received? --JacquesBlindguydeBruyn (talk) 09:40, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi JacquesBlindguydeBruyn, I assume you are talking about your userpage? Let me know if you're talking about a different draft. I do not see that draft being officially submitted for review, but even if it was, I think it's incredibly unlikely to be accepted. Wikipedia has very specific standards for inclusion when it comes to creating new articles. Generally speaking, that is three reliable and independent sources that cover the subject in significant detail. Think newspaper articles instead of Medium posts. Hope that helps, Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 02:06, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from APSKH (03:45, 7 July 2026)

Hello. Please can you help me on how to get my link to open my account on Wikipedia --APSKH (talk) 03:45, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

@APSKH: I'm a bit confused about what you are referring to because you don't need to have a link to open an account. You're posting with an account right now. If you're talking about verifying the email in which you can reset your password, all those settings can be found at Special:Preferences. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 02:08, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

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Question from Sushetta on Albanian Air Force (17:59, 7 July 2026)

Hello, How i update this article? --Sushetta (talk) 17:59, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi Sushetta. If there are specific changes you'd like to make, I'd encourage you to be bold. The gist is that you need to cite reliable sources for any content you add and write in a neutral tone, but feel free to ask me further questions if you find anything confusing. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 02:10, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 19. Please help translate. This edition uses the new annual plan goals for this fiscal year (July 2026–June 2027).

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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
See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia

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 skipcaptcha 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
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• 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.

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Question from AnnaEwaMaria22 (08:31, 8 July 2026)

Hi Hannah, nice to meet you. I'm preparing my first material so I'll come back to you soon to ask for review and opinion. I would be happy if you could help me to start with good material. Have a good day. Regards. Anna --AnnaEwaMaria22 (talk) 08:31, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi AnnaEwaMaria22. There are some links on your talk page that will hopefully help you get a good start. I also have some more information here. I look forward to hearing from you in the future. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 22:43, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

July 2026 Wikimedia Café meetups regarding Wikimedia governance and options for reform

Hello! There will be two Wikimedia Café discussion opportunities in July. Both sessions will focus on Wikimedia governance, including possible follow-ups to the Movement Charter and options for reform. Participants may attend either or both Café sessions.

This month, to deconflict the Café meetups from Wikimania, the meetups will be held one day later than usual.

1. 26 July 2026 15:00 UTC (timestamp converter), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe
2. 27 July 2026 03:00 UTC (timestamp converter), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific

Please see the Café page for more information, including how to register!

↠Pine (✉) 03:10, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 July 2026

• News and notes: An exclusive club
  Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger gets a community ban for canvassing.

• In the media: Battle for a soul – who won?
  Commissars, winners and losers, blocks or bans, a Wiki red card, social engineering on wikis, and Swift action!

• Opinion: We need to innovate with Wikimedia decision-making
  Rules we can actually read, trust and change!

• Recent research: LLMs and NPOV, 20 years of user blocks, Esperanto and Volapük Wikipedias
  And other research findings.

• News from Diff: How to host Wikicurious in your own community
  The Wikicurious team shares their approach to Wiki-event organizing.

• Community view: CUNY Newmark Wikimedian-in-Residence Quarterly Brief – April to June 2026
  Quarterly update on the activities of the City University of New York's Wikimedian-in-Residence, Richard Knipel.

• Special report: Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act – for now
  A possible future recategorization by the UK Government remains an existential threat to Wikipedia.

• On the bright side: Fatherhood, weather, and diplomacy
  Father's Day, Canada Day, and the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence.

• Op-ed: A Layup Easy Proposal for Wikimedia at 25: Spend 25% of Donations on the Community
  If strategy priority 1.1 is supporting the community, can we not increase the support to the community? Increasing grantmaking to 25% of the budget would be a move toward equality in the movement.

• Traffic report: The grass was greener, the light was brighter
  We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of World Cup.

• Comix: schnozzed
  on lollerskates

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Question from Randevoir on Shijie, Anhui (06:55, 14 July 2026)

Hi, I need help on this article. How can I add info and citation on this article? Thank you in advance for helping me out. --Randevoir (talk) 06:55, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi Randevoir. There's a guide for adding references here. Let me know if you have any further questions. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 02:09, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from AnnaEwaMaria22 (13:00, 14 July 2026)

Hi, I would like to ask you for help and review my first article. What should I send you? I started to write it in my userpage as I understood from guidelines but it disapperaed. Luckily I have a copy on my device. It's overhelming me a bit. Another story is (I read all the policies) that I'm not sure about the conflict of interest. I'm working with a person that I want to write about here in Wiki but this publication is NOT paid because I am also a journalist, working as a volunteer in IWAK woman association, helping them to be widely visible to be able to achieve their goals and help other women. I would be greatful for help and recommendation. Regards. Anna --AnnaEwaMaria22 (talk) 13:00, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi AnnaEwaMaria22. If you're not being paid, but you know someone, you have a "regular" conflict-of-interest. There's a few more rules that need to be followed if you were being paid, but I believe you. The standard guide for anyone with a COI can be found here. From there, I'd suggest reading this guide for creating an article. The most important part is assessing whether or not the subject meets Wikipedia's guidelines for inclusion. Let me know if you have any further questions. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 02:12, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer and guidelines. I will go through and follow. Have a good day. ~2026-40022-52 (talk) 16:47, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I submitted the draft which meets the criteria and somebody almmost immediately declined it. I'm afraid of being a victim of Russian propaganda here because I'm writing about Ukrainian people. Could you please check it for me also? Thank you. AnnaEwaMaria22 (talk) 12:11, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi AnnaEwaMaria22, sorry for the delay. I've been busy for the past few days and I was unsure how to best approach your comment. I mean this in the nicest way possible, but I don't think Russia is involved in the decline of your draft. I understand why you would be concerned about such a thing because Russian propaganda and bot campaigns do exist, but I don't think that's what happening here. Your first concern seems to be the speed and I can provide an explanation for that. A lot of the people who are reviewing drafts are looking at a queue of thousands and thus look for "easy" passes or failures when a draft is submitted into that queue. Your draft was not immediately accepted due to concerns about notability. I don't read the languages in question and it's possible you're right and that the draft does meet our requirements. Even reviewers make mistakes. I think Piotrus speaks Polish so they may be able to provide more specific advice than me. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 01:35, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

I could offer a WP:30 if someone would link the draft in question, which I don't see has been done here, unfortunately. Is it about Draft:Mariya Terekhova? If so, I concur this is not a good article. Setting aside techical problems such as lack of hyperlinks and bolding suggested AI writing, she is mentioned in rather niche soruces, and more in passing than in the WP:SIGCOV. Regarding pl sources, https://www.rp.pl/biznes/art44065941-co-trzecia-polska-przedsiebiorczyni-chciala-miec-wlasna-firme-juz-wieku-20-lat-znamy-finalistki-xvii-edycji-konkursu-sukces-pisany-szminka is certainly not SIGCO; https://forsal.pl/wideo/obiektywnie-o-biznesie/wideo/11266643,wojna-zmienila-ich-plany-zamiast-podboju-usa-najpierw-zbudowaly-bizne.html is not just about her, it's an interview with her and her co-business owner about their business. Anyway, I am more concerned about this being a draft cobbled by AI with poor sources, ex. she is not mentioned in https://www.imd.org/news/start-up/imd-launches-initiative-on-responsible-reconstruction-starting-with-ukraine/ . I wouldn't publish this without a review by WP:AI noticeboard, and even then I concur WP:NBIO case is pretty weak (a businessperson covered in niche sources, mostly in passing) - I'd vote delete unless better sources were shown. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:10, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from Rebecca Ruddell (18:36, 14 July 2026)

I would like to create a page or article for a non profit I love. How do I do this? --Rebecca Ruddell (talk) 18:36, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi Rebecca Ruddell. My first piece of advice would be assessing whether or not this non-profit meets Wikipedia's guidelines for inclusion. If it does, your next step would be following this guide for creating an article. Let me know if you have any further questions. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 02:13, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from Keith Plex Barnhart (22:52, 16 July 2026)

Hello, Every time I drag a photo into the upload window, using the upload tab as instructed, I get a message that reads: "Safari Cant Find That Page." What am I doing wrong? --Keith Plex Barnhart (talk) 22:52, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi Keith Plex Barnhart, that sounds odd and there's probably some technical issue going on. I'm going to "ping" Sohom Datta to see if they have a better idea of what's going on. I have some guesses, but I don't want to sound more confident than I am. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 01:37, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

Hmm, that feels like a Safari/web browser problem in that it is trying to open the files as a URL (which it definitely should not be trying to do). I'd suggest using the "click and select files to upload" functionality, the browser's click and drag is sometimes dubious (alternatively if you put details about what exact OS I can try to reproduce how it exactly happens). Sohom (talk) 06:57, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello Clovermoss:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in August!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than a month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 August 2026 through 31 August 2026.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 5000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

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Hello, and I would like to add my book "Coral reef - Australian sites for learning environmental education" published by Lambert Academic Publishing in 2016 --Cstepath (talk) 14:30, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

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