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Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes

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Hello everyone, the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your Watchlists and Recent Changes lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the Wikidata:Glossary for further explanations.

The upcoming change is scheduled for 17.07.2025, between 1300 - 1500 UTC. The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below: An edit sum entry on Wikidata, labels display alongside their P- and Q-no.'s

These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.

Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.

Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this project task page. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicated Talk page.

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Temporary accounts will be rolled out soon

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Hello, we are the Wikimedia Foundation Product Safety and Integrity team. We would like to announce that we plan to enable temporary accounts for this wiki in the week of September 1.

Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.

Why we are building temporary accounts

Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.

Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.

How temporary accounts work

Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.

What does this mean for different groups of users?

For logged-out editors

  • This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
  • If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users who meet the relevant requirements will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.

For community members interacting with logged-out editors

  • A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
  • Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.

For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki

  • For patrollers who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users who meet the requirements will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (Special:IPContributions). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to the IP Info feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
  • For admins blocking logged-out editors:
    • It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
    • It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
  • Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.

Our requests for you, and next steps

  • If you know of any tools, bots, gadgets etc. using data about IP addresses or being available for logged-out users, you may want to test if they work on testwiki or test2wiki. If you are a volunteer developer, read our documentation for developers, and in particular, the section on how your code might need to be updated.
  • If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
  • Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
  • Look at our previous message about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.

To learn more about the project, check out our FAQ – you will find many useful answers there. You may also look at the updates (we have just posted one) and subscribe to our new newsletter. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!

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Nutze dein Mitspracherecht: Stimm über das Kuratorium 2025 ab!

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Hallo allerseits,

die Abstimmungsphase der Wahl zum Kuratorium 2025 ist jetzt eröffnet. Die Kandidierenden bewerben sich um zwei (2) Sitze im Kuratorium.

Um deine Wahlberechtigung zu prüfen, gehe bitte zur entsprechenden Informationsseite.

Erfahre durch ihre Bewerbungstexte und Kandidaturvideos mehr über die Kandidierenden.

Wenn du so weit bist, gehe zur SecurePoll-Wahlseite, um abzustimmen.

Die Abstimmungsphase läuft vom 8. Oktober um 00:00 UTC bis zum 22. Oktober um 23:59 UTC.

Beste Grüße

Abhishek Suryawanshi
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Hilf uns, den Namen des neuen Projekts der Abstrakten Wikipedia zu bestimmen

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Hallo! Bitte hilf mit, einen Namen für das neue Wiki-Projekt der Abstrakten Wikipedia zu finden. Dieses Projekt wird ein Wiki sein, das es Benutzern ermöglicht, Funktionen aus Wikifunctions und Daten aus Wikidata zu kombinieren, um Sätze in natürlicher Sprache in allen unterstützten Sprachen zu generieren. Diese Sätze können dann von jeder Wikipedia (oder anderswo) verwendet werden.

Es wird zwei Abstimmungsrunden geben, denen jeweils eine rechtliche Überprüfung der Kandidaten folgt. Die Abstimmungen beginnen am 20. Oktober und 17. November 2025. Unser Ziel ist es, Mitte Dezember 2025 einen endgültigen Projektnamen auszuwählen. Wenn du teilnehmen möchtest, dann erfahre mehr im Meta-Wiki und stimme jetzt ab. Danke!

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Suche nach Freiwilligen für mehrere Komitees der Wikimedia-Bewegung

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Jedes Jahr, in der Regel von Oktober bis Dezember, suchen mehrere Komitees der Wikimedia-Bewegung nach neuen Freiwilligen.

Erfahre mehr über die Komitees auf den jeweiligen Seiten im Meta-Wiki:

Die Bewerbungsphase für die Komitees startet am 30. Oktober 2025. Sie endet für das Affiliations-Komitee am 11. Dezember 2025 und für die Ombudskommission sowie das Fallprüfungskomitee am 11. Dezember 2025. Erfahre, wie du dich bewirbst, indem du die Ernennungsseite im Meta-Wiki besuchst. Bitte melde dich mit etwaigen Fragen auf der Diskussionsseite oder über E-Mail an cst@wikimedia.org.

Für das Komitee-Unterstützungsteam

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Erinnerung: Hilf uns, den Namen des neuen Projekts der Abstrakten Wikipedia zu bestimmen

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Hallo! Erinnerung: Bitte hilf mit, den Namen für das neue Wiki-Projekt der Abstrakten Wikipedia zu wählen. Die Abstimmung über die Finalisten beginnt heute. Die Finalisten für den Namen sind: Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki. Wenn du teilnehmen möchtest, dann erfahre mehr im Meta-Wiki und stimme jetzt ab. Danke!

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Feminism and Folklore 2026 starts soon

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Invitation to Organize Feminism and Folklore 2026

Dear Wiki Community,

We are pleased to invite Wikimedia communities, affiliates, and independent contributors to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2026 writing competition on your local Wikipedia.

The international campaign will run from 1 February to 31 March 2026 and aims to improve coverage of feminism, women’s histories, gender-related topics, and folk culture across Wikipedia projects.

About the Campaign

Feminism and Folklore is a global writing initiative that complements the Wiki Loves Folklore photography competition. While Wiki Loves Folklore focuses on visual documentation, this writing campaign addresses the gender gap on Wikipedia by improving encyclopedic content related to folk culture and marginalized voices.

What Can Participants Write About?

Communities can contribute by creating, expanding, or translating articles related to:

  • Folk festivals, rituals, and celebrations
  • Folk dances, music, and traditional performances
  • Women and queer figures in folklore
  • Women in mythology and oral traditions
  • Women warriors, witches, and witch-hunting narratives
  • Fairy tales, folk stories, and legends
  • Folk games, sports, and cultural practices

Participants may work from curated article lists or generate new article suggestions using campaign tools.

How to Sign Up as an Organizer

Organizers are requested to complete the following steps to register their community:

  1. Create a local project page on your wiki (see sample)
  2. Set up the campaign using the CampWiz tool
  3. Prepare a local article list and clearly mention:
    • Campaign timeline
    • Local and international prizes
  4. Request a site notice from local administrators (see sample)
  5. Add your local project page and CampWiz link to the Meta project page
Campaign Tools

The Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced tools to support organizers and participants:

  • Article List Generator by Topic – Helps identify articles available on English Wikipedia but missing in your local language Wikipedia. The tool allows customized filters and provides downloadable article lists in CSV and wikitable formats.
  • CampWiz – Enables communities to manage writing campaigns effectively, including jury-based evaluation. This will be the third year CampWiz is officially used for Feminism and Folklore.

Both tools are now available for use in the campaign. Click here to access the tools

Learn More & Get Support

For detailed information about rules, timelines, and prizes, please visit the Feminism and Folklore 2026 project page.

If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out via:

Join Us

We look forward to your collaboration and coordination in making Feminism and Folklore 2026 a meaningful and impactful campaign for closing gender gaps and enriching folk culture content on Wikipedia.

Thank you and best wishes,

Feminism and Folklore 2026 International Team


Stay connected:  

Invitation to Host Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 in Your Country

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Hello everyone,

We are delighted to invite Wikimedia affiliates, user groups, and community organizations worldwide to participate in Wiki Loves Folklore 2026, an international initiative dedicated to documenting and celebrating folk culture across the globe.

About Wiki Loves Folklore

Wiki Loves Folklore is an annual international photography competition hosted on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign runs from 1 February to 31 March 2026 and encourages photographers, cultural enthusiasts, and community members to contribute photographs that highlight:

  • Folk traditions and rituals
  • Cultural festivals and celebrations
  • Traditional attire and crafts
  • Performing arts, music, and dance
  • Everyday practices rooted in folk heritage

Through this campaign, we aim to preserve and promote diverse folk cultures and make them freely accessible to the world.

Project page on Wikimedia Commons

Host a Local Edition

As we celebrate the eight edition of Wiki Loves Folklore, we warmly invite communities to organize a local edition in their country or region. Hosting a local campaign is a great opportunity to:

  • Increase visibility of your region’s folk culture
  • Engage new contributors in your community
  • Enrich Wikimedia Commons with high-quality cultural content

Sign up to organize:

If your team prefers to organize the competition in either February or March only, please feel free to let us know.

If you are unable to organize, we encourage you to share this opportunity with other interested groups or organizations in your region.

Get in Touch

If you have any questions, need support, or would like to explore collaboration opportunities, please feel free to contact us via:

  • The project Talk pages
  • Email: support@wikilovesfolklore.org

We are also happy to connect via an online meeting if your team would like to discuss planning or coordination in more detail.

Warm regards,

The Wiki Loves Folklore International Team

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Jährliche Überprüfung des Universal Code of Conduct und der Durchsetzungsrichtlinien

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Ich möchte euch gerne darüber informieren, dass die jährliche Überprüfungsphase für den Universal Code of Conduct und die Durchsetzungsrichtlinien nun begonnen hat. Ihr könnt bis zum 9. Februar 2026 Änderungsvorschläge einreichen. Dies ist der erste von mehreren Teilschritten, die im Rahmen der jährlichen Überprüfung unternommen werden. Weitere Informationen und eine Diskussion, an der ihr teilnehmen könnt, finden sich auf der UCoC-Seite auf Meta.

Das Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ist eine globale Gruppe, die sich für eine gerechte und einheitliche Umsetzung des UCoC einsetzt. Diese jährliche Überprüfung wird vom U4C geplant und durchgeführt. Weitere Informationen und die Aufgaben des U4C findet ihr in der U4C-Satzung.

Bitte leitet diese Informationen an andere Mitglieder aus eurer Community weiter, wo immer dies angemessen ist.

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Migration zu Parsoid

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Hallo zusammen! Ich freue mich, euch mitteilen zu können, dass als nächster Schritt des Projekts Parser-Vereinheitlichung Parsoid bald als Standard-Renderer für Artikel in deinem $wiki aktiviert wird. Wir erhöhen schrittweise die Anzahl der Wikis, die Parsoid verwenden, mit der Absicht, es zum Standard-Wikitext-Parser für die nächste langfristig unterstützte Version von MediaWiki zu machen. Dadurch werden unsere Wikis für Autoren, Leser und Tools zuverlässiger und konsistenter und die Entwicklung zukünftiger Wikitext-Funktionen wird einfacher.

Wenn dies deinen Arbeitsablauf stört, mache dir keine Sorgen! Du kannst dies immer noch über eine Benutzereinstellung deaktivieren oder Parsoid auf der aktuellen Seite über das Werkzeuge-Untermenü deaktivieren, wie in der Dokumentation zur Erweiterung:ParserMigration beschrieben.

Es stehen weitere Informationen zu unserer Einführungsstrategie zur Verfügung, einschließlich der Tests, die durchgeführt werden, bevor wir Parsoid für ein neues Wiki aktivieren.

Um Fehler und Probleme zu melden, sieh dir bitte unsere Dokumentation zu bekannten Problemen an und wenn du einen neuen Fehler findest, erstelle bitte ein Phab-Ticket und markiere das Team Content Transform im Phabricator.

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Request for Comment: VisualEditor automatic reference names

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Hi, I’m Johannes from Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team. Apologies for writing in English. Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen! We are considering to work on Community Wishlist/W17: Improve VE references' automatic names and reuse. This has been a long-term issue for wikitext editors (see e.g. en:WP:VisualEditor/Named references) which has been among the top-voted wishes in several Community Wishlist Surveys, e.g. 2017, 2019, 2022 or 2023.

We would like your input on the solutions proposed on our project page: m:WMDE Technical Wishes/References/VisualEditor automatic reference names. We are considering several options, which can be combined if desired by the community.

  • Changing the default pattern for automatically generated reference names (currently ":n", e.g. ":0", ":1"...) to use the reference type instead (e.g. "book_reference-1").
  • Providing a simple mechanism for communities to configure a different default name.
  • Generating automatic reference names based on the domain name (if it’s a web citation).
  • Generating automatic reference names based on template parameters (e.g. "title" or "last"+"first") – defined by the community.

Visit our project page to read about our proposal in detail and share your thoughts on metawiki.

Please note: We will only implement a solution if there’s clear consensus among the global community. Our intention is not to build the perfect solution, but to find a simple and lean one that alleviates the pain caused by auto generated names. We are aware that some experienced VisualEditor users might prefer an option to manually change reference names in VisualEditor, but such a UX intervention is difficult to achieve across reference types and thus out of scope for our team, we can only improve the auto-naming mechanism. We are happy about suggestions for improving certain details of the proposed solutions. Any other feedback and alternative proposals are also welcome – even though it’s out of scope for us, it might still be relevant for future work on this topic.

Please support us interpreting consensus by clearly indicating your opinion (e.g. by using support/neutral/oppose templates). We are aware of en:WP:NOTVOTE, but given that we are facilitating this discussion with users from different wikis, potentially commenting in their native language, clearly indicating your position helps us avoid misunderstandings.

Thank you for participating!

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Join the sixth Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy Month on Wikipedia!

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Join our campaign!

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Dear Wikipedians!

Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the MFA of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has launched the sixth edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st April until 30th April 2026.

The initiative aims to promote knowledge about Ukrainian culture abroad by creating and improving Wikipedia articles in multiple languages. This year marks the sixth edition of the campaign, which will focus on contemporary culture, making today’s artistic voices and practices more visible to international audiences.

🧩How to participate?

Choose an article from the suggested list → Write an article in your language, or improve an existing one according to the rules → Add your contribution to the contest page and calculate your points → Win prizes and receive a certificate of participation → Become a promoter of truthful knowledge about Ukraine.

🧩Check our main page for more information.

If you are interested in coordinating long-term community engagement for the campaign and becoming a local ambassador, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know your interest.

If not, then we encourage you to translate the landing page of the contest and banner into your own language.

Also, we set up a banner to notify users of the possibility to participate in this challenge!

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Action Required: Update templates/modules for electoral maps (Migrating from P1846 to P14226)

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Hello everyone,

This is a notice regarding an ongoing data migration on Wikidata that may affect your election-related templates and Lua modules (such as Module:Itemgroup/list).

The Change:
Currently, many templates pull electoral maps from Wikidata using the property P1846, combined with the qualifier P180: Q19571328.

We are migrating this data (across roughly 4,000 items) to a newly created, dedicated property: P14226.

What You Need To Do:
To ensure your templates and infoboxes do not break or lose their maps, please update your local code to fetch data from P14226 instead of the old P1846 + P180 structure. A list of pages was generated using Wikimedia Global Search.

Deadline:
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Request for comment (global AI policy)

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Apologies for writing in English. Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen A request for comment is currently being held to decide on a global AI policy. Danke! MediaWiki message delivery (dischkrian) 02:57, 26. Apr. 2026 (CEST) [Antwort]

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Jetzt bei den U4C-Wahlen 2026 abstimmen

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Die stimmberechtigten Wähler werden gebeten, an der Wahl des Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee 2026 teilzunehmen. Weitere Informationen - einschließlich einer Prüfung der eigenen Stimmberechtigung, Informationen zum Abstimmungsprozess, Kandidateninformationen und einem Link zur Abstimmung - findest du auf Meta auf der Informationsseite der Wahlen 2026. Die Abstimmung endet am 2. Juni 2026 um 00:00 Uhr UTC.

Bitte stimme ab, wenn dein Konto stimmberechtigt ist. Die Ergebnisse werden bis zum 14. Juni 2026 vorliegen.

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Survey (proposed direction for Wishlist)

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You are invited to voice your opinion on a new community-proposed direction for the Community Wishlist. Danke! MediaWiki message delivery (dischkrian) 05:07, 29. Mai 2026 (CEST)[Antwort]