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

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:
We are temporarily retaining the old data on P1846 to allow for a smooth transition. However, to complete the data cleanup on Wikidata, the old P1846 statements will be removed after May 1, 2026. Please update your modules and templates before this date to prevent any disruption to your wiki's election articles.

Let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with the query logic. Thank you for your help! ZI Jony using MediaWiki message delivery (tauk) 17:11, 3 Apryle 2026 (UTC)

Request for comment (global AI policy)

Apologies for writing in English. Please help translate to your language A request for comment is currently being held to decide on a global AI policy. Thank ye! MediaWiki message delivery (tauk) 00:58, 26 Apryle 2026 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth!

(in Inglis) Hi folks - Just a wee note to let you know that Wiki Loves Earth is currently ongoing, running from 1 May - 30 June this year. It's an international photo competition that looks to capture images of protected natural areas across the world, including their flora and fauna. You can find out more about the competition, and how to take part, over on Commmons. Sara Thomas (WMUK) (tauk) 10:49, 19 Mey 2026 (UTC)

Writin Drive August 2026

(in Inglis) Join us for the August 2026 Writin Drive - we're celebrating 6 years of these events, and it will be the last one we do for a while. We're holding 2 x zoom sessions - one on Monday 17 August and another on Thursday 20 August, or you can edit any time during the week! Mair info and sign up details here. Sara Thomas (WMUK) (tauk) 09:41, 20 Mey 2026 (UTC)

Vote now in the 2026 U4C election

Eligible voters are asked to participate in the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee election. More information–including an eligibility check, voting process information, candidate information, and a link to the vote–are available on Meta at the 2026 Election information page. The vote closes on 2 June 2026 at 00:00 UTC.

Please vote if your account is eligible. Results will be available by 14 June 2026. -- In cooperation with the U4C,

Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17:14, 27 Mey 2026 (UTC)