Pigsonthewing
Joined 16 October 2003
Latest comment: 11 hours ago by MediaWiki message delivery in topic Wikidata weekly summary 741
| This is a Wikipedia user talk page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user whom this page is about may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original talk page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pigsonthewing. |
|
Talk to me, Andy Mabbett
edit- If you post a message on this page, I'll reply on this page to avoid fragmenting the discussion.
- If I've left you a message on your talk page, I will be watching it, so please reply there rather than here (but do feel free to drop a copy of {{Talkback}} here).
- If appropriate, I will move discussion from here to the relevant article's talk page, so that anyone interested can join in.
- If you want to start a new discussion thread, please start it at the bottom of the page. Better still, use the "new section" tab next to the "edit this page" tab, or the link at the foot of this section, either of which will do that automatically.
- Please do not make links from within section headings.
- Inaccessible HTML (coloured text, "small" tags, etc.) will be removed from this page on sight. Broken heading or list structures will be fixed.
- Please sign and date your entries, by inserting four tildes (~~~~) at the end if needed.
- Start a new discussion.
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12
edit
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).
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
- 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
skipcaptcharight, 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
See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- 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
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- 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
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- 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
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
Subscribe or unsubscribe · Receive the bulletin by email · Help translate
For information about the Bulletin and to read previous editions, see the project page on Meta-Wiki. If you have feedback or suggestions about the bulletin, let us know at foundationbulletin@wikimedia.org. For questions about the Wikimedia Foundation's work, contact us!
This Month in GLAM: June 2026
edit
| ||||||
The Signpost: 13 July 2026
edit- 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
Tech News: 2026-29
editLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Revise Tone helps newcomers identify passages in Wikipedia articles that may contain non-encyclopedic language and encourages them to consider revising the tone. The feature was A/B tested on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias, where newcomer task completion rates increased by 38.7% compared to the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis, configurable via Community Configuration. The plan is to release Revise Tone to more wikis.
- The community configuration that allows automatic removal of inactive mentors based on configurable criteria will be enabled on Thursday 16, on some wikis to keep mentor lists up to date. Mentors are experienced contributors who opt in to help new users on-wiki through the Growth Features. Administrators can now prepare the settings via Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship; they will take effect starting Thursday.
View all 38 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some users of the Wikipedia Android app were logged out immediately after signing in, preventing them from staying logged in and editing pages, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Editing a page via user scripts or gadgets was causing watchlist labels that the user had assigned to that page to reset. This has now been fixed.
- To work around a Safari bug (see phab:T425211), on Parsoid-enabled wikis, wikilink hrefs now use absolute urls instead of protocol-relative urls. REST API output remains unchanged and continue to use protocol-relative urls. Gadgets, user scripts, bots, and CSS might need to be adapted if they relied on the presence of protocol-relative urls in wikilink hrefs.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Wikimedia Foundation’s Experiment Platform Team has published a blog post reflecting on its first year of structured experimentation. It highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes. Read more.
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
Wikidata weekly summary #740
edit
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #739.
week leading up to 2026-07-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #739.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: GA Kevin - RfP scheduled to end after 14 July 2026 18:40 (UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Nabbot 2 - Task: Translating English descriptions to Turkish using a predefined dictionary mapping.
- AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to items about people, where the OpenLibrary author and Wikidata person are the same individual, when every statement is sourced.
- EquipboardBot - Task: Add Equipboard artist ID (P6912) to Wikidata items for musicians, sourced from Equipboard's own database of public artist identifiers.
- Call for Participation in Improving Constraints
- Just about any aspect of constraints is in scope, from rewriting existing bots to expanding the power of property constraints to adding new kinds of constraint. If you are interested, sign up in WikiProject Property Constraints/improving.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wikimania 2026 is fast approaching. Taking place 21 - 25 July in Paris, France. Can't attend? Register for a ticket to the virtual event and watch sessions online.
- Interested in Wikibase Ontology Federation? Join the July 14 call, see the Cleaning Task Force page for more details.
- Previous events:
- The 3rd Quarter Wikidata + Wikibase office hour was held. The transcript is available to read:
Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2026 07 08
- The 3rd Quarter Wikidata + Wikibase office hour was held. The transcript is available to read:
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Behind Better Data: Inside Wikidata’s First WikiProjects Days
- Africa Wiki Challenge 2026 in the Ghanaian Pidgin Community: Documenting “Water for Life” Through Wikimedia Projects
- Reflecting on progress and planning ahead: Dagbani Wikimedians User Group holds its last quarter team meeting
- EduWiki Workshop: Combining PETScan and Generative AI for Smarter Wikipedia Editing
- Why Computational Historians need Wikidata - a substack article by Jim Clifford
- Papers
- A Demonstration of WikiRAG: An Evidence-based Link Prediction for Wikidata with Retrieval Augmented Generation - WikiRAG is an interactive framework that combines automated link prediction with retrieval‑augmented generation and human validation to reliably complete knowledge graphs like Wikidata by generating candidate links, retrieving supporting evidence, and enabling users to confirm and export validated triples. By Sabu, et al., (2026)
- Videos
- Using Open Refine by Wikimedia Australia, Paul Duchesne presents "Using OpenRefine" during WikiCon Australia 2026, (National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra).
- Let’s Get Mappy - making maps on Wikimedia platforms by Wikimedia Australia, Alex Lum presents how location (pushpin) maps, locator maps, and interactive "slippy" local maps end up on Wikipedia, and how infoboxes, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap works together to generate them
- (繁體中文/zh-TW) Tutorial on Editing Temple Data for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons - recording of a workshop (July 5) on Tutorial on Editing Temple Data for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, held by Wikimedia Taiwan Community and OSM Taiwan.
- Open data tools for cultural heritage 2nd session in the workshop series “Open Data to Strengthen Online Cultural Heritage,” held March 24, 2026, and organized by the National Library of Uruguay (BNU), Wikimedians of Uruguay, Datysoc, and Data Uruguay.
- GLAMs and Citizen Science Encouraging and Enabling Participation - Siobhan Leachman presents "citizen science workflows" (BHL, iNaturalist, Bionomia, Wikidata) to show how GLAM's can empower citizen scientists to reuse their collections.
Tool of the week
- rudof can be used as a command line tool or can be embedded as a library using cargo. It can be used to validate RDF data represented with different syntaxes like Turtle, NTriples, to name a few. As well as RDF data available through SPARQL endpoints like Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A Project Chat discussion on the new Mentorship features. Self-enrollment has been enabled with the following requirements - account age: 365 days, edits: 500.
- There is also a proposal to add an advisory message to new accounts that create multiple items.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Rakuten TV adult person ID, KBS News topic ID, Rakuten Books author ID, PTS News Network topic ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, La Grange person ID, Fontaines de Belgique ID, NHK On Demand program ID, 1SCREEN program ID, LUDAP ID, Bianco keyword ID, Architectenregister ID, ClayArena shooter profile ID, Sundsvall Municipality opendata beach ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- relocated from (Object is the original or former {{Q|17334923}} of the permanently relocated {{Q|16222597}})
- OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType)
- transforms from (this fictional or mythical entity transforms from that form)
- Korean Classification of Administrative Districts (code assigned to an administrative district of South Korea in the Korean Classification of Administrative Districts)
- External identifiers: Anobii book ID, Google Maps Place ID, Viberate Artist ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage style ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage designer ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, Deltarune Wiki article ID, INAPP OA author ID, CNR-IRIS ID, AnimeOshi anime ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal Artist ID, CIDIM Artist ID, Operabook Artist ID, Mizan al-Arab poet ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, OpenStreetMap data item ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, A World Made by Travel person ID, Scent Base notes ID, radio.net IDs, Scent Base perfumer ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Items only connected to Telugu Wikipedia (source) - change the language code 'te' to make it work with any other Wikipedia
- Schema examples: French historic monument (E269) - With Wikimania taking place in the French Capital, you can use this entity schema if you feel inspired to or expand items on French monuments.
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Project Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - a Chinese-animated television franchise.
- (Français) Project Orthodox Christianity
- Project SUNY Libraries EMCO
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Project Govdirectory Poland added several new subpages detailing coverage and progress on State, Local Agencies and Marshall's Offices.
- Project Property Constraints added a subpage: Improving - a call for participation, as a result of discussions during WikiProjects Days 2026.
- Newest database reports: Most sitelinked Items (with statements)
Development
- Blazegraph migration: We are continuing to prepare the Query UI, Query Builder, constraint checks, etc for the migration to QLever (phab:T425618)
- Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are investigating some Lua modules to find ones responsible for a lot of unnecessary entries in Watchlist and Recent changes on Wikipedia and co (phab:T429366)
- GraphQL: Added support for negation in property value pair filters (phab:T429580)
- REST API: We are working on the first pieces of support for Lexemes: retrieving a full Lexeme (phab:T429332)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Bugle: Issue 243, July 2026
edit
|
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 13:15, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary 741
edit Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #740.
week leading up to 2026-07-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #740.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- RupumpedBot - Task/s: When an Item on a Kenyan river has a Swahili label but no English version, this bot will derive an English label and description.
- William Avery Bot 14 - Task/s: Change values of url properties in mainspace that link to http://web.archive.org/ to use the https protocol (requested at Bot requests#Make HTTPS for Wayback Machine recurrent)
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wikimania is about to begin. Whether you're attending on-site or virtually, plan your sessions so you don't miss any.
- Full program / Wikidata-only program
- Get your virtual ticket
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #91 Aug 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
- Force11 webinar: Metadata for all with Wikidata will look at three novel applications, WikiCite, the Trans Music Achive and the Pratt Institute. Held online August 26, 13-14:00 UTC. Please register for the access link.
- Wikimania is about to begin. Whether you're attending on-site or virtually, plan your sessions so you don't miss any.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Calling Wikifunctions for der, die, das
- How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata
- Altilunium Panoply v26.7.19 : In this latest release, the external Wikidata connection logic has undergone a major architectural overhaul to improve internal trace mapping.
- Videos:
- (Svenska) Strategic inclusion of library data on Wikidata - first recorded at Digikult 2019, with Alicia Fagerving.
- (Français) I’ll explain how Wikidata works! (Livestream recording), User:Lyokoï will introduce Wikidata and its concepts and the fundamentals of editing.
- (繁體中文/zh-TW) Wikivoyage Guidelines for editing Temple information
- How to use Wikibase for Mixed Methods Research, with Francesco Bailo. Recorded at SICSS Melbourne 2026 (Summer Institute in Computational Social Science).
- Games: Webwoven - a new game has surfaced, powered by Wikidata. Race from start to finish in as few connections as possible. Already includes Leaderboards, daily challenges and multiplayer. Sure to be a hit at future Wikidata events.
Tool of the week
- wikivibes is a tool by Magnus Magnus that play public domain music from Commons, tracked by Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Jobs:
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- about page URL (URL to the official about page)
- External identifiers: Western Orthodox Wiki ID, Steady publication ID, Open Collective ID, Guide du Rôliste Galactique ID, CNUC code, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, CNR-IRIS author ID, Anobii Book ID, Anobii author ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, TakaWiki numeric page ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal artist ID
- General datatypes: none
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- autoptic examination (time of last direct examination of the inscribed object)
- Tabular data series (A tabular data series in Commons that models the given concept)
- data series (A data series about the given topic.)
- incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
- former operator (entity, company, military service, or organisation which is notable for previously operated the item, aircraft, vehicle, or other equipment)
- número de la plaza (square number)
- External identifiers: PISAI ID, Ko-fi page ID, Scent Base brand ID, Etsy shop name, Overcast podcast ID, Grillplatser.nu ID, Criticker Film ID, HAND ID, Open Language Archives Community language code, identifiant Ciel d'oc d'une publication, ODiD ID, Generic/Numero de Registre Tributari, UntitledDb People ID, MissEvan drama ID, MissEvan sound ID, MissEvan ID, MissEvan voice actor ID, Fmfenxiang FM ID, Fmfenxiang sound ID, Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Development
- Wikidata Query Service: We are working on adapting the Query Service UI to get it ready for the move to QLever
- Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing to fix small issues found in testing
- Lexemes: We are continuing the work on adding support for Lexemes to the REST API
- Sustainability:
- We are preparing the migration of some database tables on the client wikis that track the usage of Wikidata's data in articles on Wikipedia and co
- We are further investigating how many changes from Wikidata that currently get sent to Wikipedia and co don't actually lead to a change in the article to be able to reduce these cases further
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!