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Add topicLatest 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
- Recurrent item View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain. [1]
Updates for technical contributors
- In preparation for Celebrate Women campaign planned for March 2027, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Content Enablement team has launched a 22-question survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ (anyone who identifies as a woman) across Wikimedia projects. The survey takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 20 July 2026. The questions are also available on-wiki for review in advance.
- The Score extension now supports rendering music scores as SVG images in addition to PNG, addressing a long-standing feature request and resolving historical image quality issues. Both formats are now provided to clients, with PNG in the
srcattribute and SVG in thesrcsetattribute. - The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. It was enabled on French Wikipedia, bringing total progress to covering 78.9% of Wikipedia page views. Rollout to English Wikipedia desktop will progress through this week.
- Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap blog post is now live. It highlights the projects, sessions, and social activities from this year’s event, and shares initial plans for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon.
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week leading up to 2026年07月06日. Missed the previous one? See issue #738.
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship:
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- gov-wikidata-match 1 - Task/s: Link existing GOV (historical gazetteer) building-like objects to existing Wikidata building-like objects.
- AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task/s: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to Wikidata items about people, only where the OpenLibrary author and the Wikidata person have been confirmed to be the same individual, with a source on every statement.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- JigildikBot - Approved
- SonalBot - Approved
- ias-kbase - Approved
Events
- Upcoming events:
- The Wikidata Platform (WDP) monthly office hour takes place tomorrow, . These office hours are focus on the Blazegraph migration work, and the team is inviting all community members to join the discussion. Register via the event page
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST (in your timezone), 08th July 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Sandbox sessions: Wikidata Reference Validator Tool - improving Wikidata references - Aug 15, 17:00 - 18:00 UTC.
- Wiki Education + AASLH: Documenting America with Wikidata, a collaboration between Wiki Education and the American Association for State and Local History is offering six hour-long meetings held weekly to introduce attendees to Wikidata and improve content for Wikidata and Wikipedia on American history. Registration ends: July 17, 23:59 Pacific Time (PT)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: (fr) Le point sur la diversité de genre dans les articles in *Regards sur l'actualité du mouvement Wikimedia*
- Papers:
- Videos: (Español) Introduction to Wikidata - Dr. Claudia De Souza and Prof. Dinah Wilson Fraites introduce Wikidata with Spanish-slides.
Tool of the week
- Zelph: Offers powerful analysis capabilities for the complete Wikidata knowledge graph while remaining adaptable for any semantic domain.
- World Cup Heights: An interactive data‐viz app that shows the heights of FIFA World Cup players, arranged so you can quickly compare teams, positions, and overall height distributions.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July.
- The Wikidata Platform team has published the 8th issue of its monthly newsletter. This edition includes updates on the migration of WDQS backend away from Blazegraph, including a transition into the next phase Initial Implementation (pilot) phase following completion of the installation phase. This update also include some Documentation on Query Rewrites the team will like the Wikidata community and all WDQS users to help review and leave feedbacks. see WDP monthly newsletter for more details
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- prisoner number (number or identifier assigned to a prisoner, to be used as a qualifier for P2632 (place of detention))
- photographer (person who took this photograph)
- Gmedia rating (video games) (video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system)
- visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
- garden (garden of this subject)
- objects (category theory) (the precise objects of the category (category theory))
- morphisms (the precise morphisms of the category (category theory))
- terminal object (the precise terminal object of the category (category theory))
- initial object (the precise initial object of the category (category theory))
- products (category theory) (the precise products of the category (category theory))
- coproducts (category theory) (the precise coproducts of the category (category theory))
- isomorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
- monomorphisms (the precise monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
- epimorphisms (the precise epimorphisms of the category (category theory))
- regular monomorphisms (the precise regular monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
- regular epimorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
- left adjoint (the left adjoint of the functor)
- enriched over (the base monoidal category, bicategory, etc. of the enriched category)
- monoidal category operation (the "tensor product" bifunctor of the monoidal category)
- 2-morphisms (the precise 2-morphisms of the 2-category)
- taxon footprint (image of a footprint of this taxon)
- Newest External identifiers: Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, Taiwan Central News Agency news tag ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, Web The Television work ID, Web The Television person ID, U-NEXT person ID, U-NEXT video ID, Sokmil director ID, Sokmil idol ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Répertoire des films classés film ID, regjeringen.no ministry ID, regjeringen.no politician ID, Objectif plumes work ID, National Operator Code (UK), Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Myludo game ID, MyDirtyHobby ID, Maoyan film ID, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Letterboxd writer ID, KSW organization ID, KSW person ID, KSW place ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, Artistas Visuales Chilenos propertyvalue ID, Canadian Trademark Registration Number, occitanica.eu ID, Hancinema company ID, ZicTrad person ID, H-NEXT Person ID, FOD video ID, Farzonagon ID, d Hits artist ID, ABEMA video ID, 17LIVE ID, regjeringen.no government ID, Pure Adult actress ID, Pure Adult studio ID, GBIF taxon ID, Digital portrait index person (GND) ID, torial username, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, CatDat category ID, CatDat functor ID, CatDat category property ID, CatDat functor property ID, Samtrafiken-vehicle ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Olyrix artist ID, AutorÒc 16-18 author ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review::
- dielectric strenght (maximum electric field a material can withstand before electrical breakdown occurs)
- about page URL (URL to the official about page)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Rakuten Books author ID, Rakuten TV adult Person ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, Le GRoG ID, NHK On Demand Program ID, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, GCD character ID, Identificador de agente econômico na ANCINE, 1SCREEN Program ID, Architectenregister-id, LUDAP ID, TakaWiki ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID, BiDünyaFilm film ID, CNUC code, Steady username, NHK ONE Program ID, SongLyrics.com song ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, ClayArena shooter profile ID, Open Collective ID, Anobii author ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Development
- The development team are at an offsite retreat this week.
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: France
- 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 Signpost: 13 July 2026
[edit ]- News and notes: An exclusive club
- In the media: Battle for a soul - who won?
- News from Diff: How to host Wikicurious in your own community
- On the bright side: Fatherhood, weather, and diplomacy
- Traffic report: The grass was greener, the light was brighter
- Comix: schnozzed
Latest 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.
- Recurrent item 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. [2]
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. [3]
- 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. [4]
- Recurrent item 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.
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MediaWiki message delivery 16:11, 13 July 2026 (UTC) Reply
week leading up to 2026年07月13日. 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!
week leading up to 2026年07月20日. 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!
Latest 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
- The Reader Experience team has incorporated community feedback around the placement of watchstar and watchlist buttons for the Reading Lists beta feature, which would allow for saving articles for later reading – a wishlist item to bring the functionality to web. Editors are invited to enable the beta feature to test it out and share their thoughts.
- Suggestion Mode offers edit suggestions within the VisualEditor for improving Wikipedia articles. All suggestions are community-configurable. The TextMatch feature is a way for volunteers to create custom local suggestions. The feature searches in articles for strings of text, and now includes support for regular expressions. This gives volunteers greater precision and flexibility over the kinds of local suggestions they can create. Note: Suggestions can be targeted based on the edit count of the person editing as well as other aspects of the page. You can find examples from other communities for inspiration, including TextMatches that detect: typos, grammar-errors, potential advertisements, clichés, incorrect dash or hyphen usage, non-specific time keywords, outdated names, and more. Any feedback is appreciated.
- Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the SVG Translate tool could use an outdated version of a file, causing existing translations to be overwritten when new ones were uploaded, has now been fixed. Overall, in the last quarter from April – June 2026 about 337 community tasks were resolved by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Updates for technical contributors
- On Parsoid-enabled wikis, Parsoid now renders a maximum of 1,250 images per page. A new tracking category, "media-limit-reached", will be soon made available to identify pages where this limit is reached, making it easier to find content whose media output may have been restricted during rendering. See phab:T430854 for more information and to provide feedback.
- Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 05:47, 21 July 2026 (UTC) Reply
week leading up to 2026年07月27日. Missed the previous one? See issue #741.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- AuntuBot - Task/s: Per the approved bot request at commons:Commons:Bots/Requests/AuntuBot, I am in the process of uploading approximately 50,000 issues of the Bangladesh Gazette to Wikimedia Commons. We need to a parent Wikidata item for each specific issue/volume to import and organize these files on Bengali Wikisource. Note that AuntuBot has already been granted a bot flag on Wikimedia Commons for the file uploads.
- Rebot 2 - Task/s: We recently created the new property perspective (P14345) (Wikidata:Property proposal/anatomical view). With Rebot, I plan to move:
- About 570 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a property
- About 1400 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a qualifier of image (P18)
- Rebot 3 - Task/s: Import 1389 instances of taxon author citation (P6507) from this Catalan Wikipedia list, compiled by bot from the articles.
- Rebot 4 - Task/s: The task consists in changing these 1072 items. It has to change creator (P170) to the new property photographer (P14574). Also there are 1000+ items in which the property should be used as a qualifier.
- Openpep - Task/s: Maintenance of Politically Exposed Person (PEP) data on Wikidata for Thai government officials. Specifically:
- Creating new Wikidata items for Thai politicians not yet in the database
- Adding P39 (position held) claims with proper qualifiers (P580 start time, P582 end time, P2937 legislative term for legislators, P1365/P1366 replaces/replaced by, P1545 series ordinal)
- Adding P102 (member of political party) with date qualifiers
- Adding P569 (date of birth), P106 (occupation), P21 (sex or gender), P19 (place of birth), P1559 (name in native language)
- Setting and correcting labels, descriptions, and aliases
- Removing incorrect claims and deduplicating
- Adding social media profiles (P2003 Instagram, P2013 Facebook, P11705 Facebook numeric ID)
- DutchFixer - Task/s: Reformat Dutch verb forms that are listed as past tense (Q1994301), participle (Q814722) to simply use past participle (Q12717679)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Vladimir Terentyev used the set of names for every dish from Wikidata -- labels and aliases in every language -- along with restaurant data from OpenStreetMap to develop a world map of dish names, attempting to answer the research question: "Where does plov end and biryani begin, and who really draws these borders?"
- Giving Open Source Hardware a Place on Wikidata
- Simplified entry of complex data into Wikibase
- Grateful and Growing: Reflecting on My Wiki Afrodemics Fellowship, Pilot Cohort
- Papers: DivinWD: Exploring the Diversity of Scientific Publications in Wikidata - DivinWD is a large open-source dataset of over 23 million triples and 1.2 million scholarly articles (2010–2024), integrating Wikidata with five bibliographic sources and gender data to enable transparent diversity analyses in science while documenting biases and infrastructural limitations. By Saletti et. al., (2026)
Tool of the week
- OWL Places, the Wikidata-OpenStreetMap matching tool, can now add OpenStreetMap IDs to Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- dielectric strength (electric field strength that causes electrical breakdown of an insulating material under specified test conditions)
- still taken from the audiovisual work (image comes from the given audiovisual work)
- External identifiers: Operabook artist ID, MPA certificate number, Deltarune Wiki article ID, A World Made by Travel person ID, UntitledDb person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Fediverse app (Fediverse platform of the instance or address)
- Fediverse instance URL (Ferdiverse instance of/about the subject)
- reference amount (Amount of the food that contains a particular quantity of a nutrient.)
- Qidian Book ID ()
- External identifiers: Garance item ID, Kinorating, IGN producer, Fediverse address, Music & Opera artist ID, LFL player ID, Soccer365.net tournament ID, kicker.de coach ID, BeSoccer team ID, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID, SofaScore tournament ID, Foot Mercato club ID, Lithuanian movie register ID, Foot Mercato referee ID, BeSoccer referee ID, Kicker.de referee ID, Soccer365.net referee ID, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID, Soccer365.net stadium ID, MFL player ID, Okko movie ID, RIA Novosti organization ID, OpenParliamentTV person ID, OpenParliamentTV organization ID, OpenParliamentTV term ID, Camping.se ID, classicalive artist ID, Chess Games tournament ID, Chess.com tournament ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, Flemish educational institution number, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, Lulu spotlight ID, RPGnet Index ID, EU Treaties and Agreements database ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Development
- The team were at Wikimania this past week so not much development happened.
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!
Latest 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
- Wishlist item Content Translation now supports dark mode, fulfilling a Community Wishlist request. This brings the tool in line with the accessibility features available in the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins, helping reduce visual fatigue for users translating content. [5]
- DiscussionTools' source mode and the 2017 wikitext editor will now offer autocomplete for links (
[[), templates ({{), HTML and parser tags (<), and magic words (__), making it quicker and easier to insert links, templates, and other wiki markup while editing. [6] - The Readers Growth team has concluded its experiment with mobile page previews and will not roll out the feature. Page Previews are a pop-up bottom sheet that appears when readers tap a blue link, showing a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and an option to open the article. The experiment showed flat retention and negative indicator metrics, suggesting that mobile web readers preferred navigating directly to linked articles rather than using page previews.
- The Reader Experience team has seen encouraging early results from the Reading Lists feature, with 93% of participating users reporting that it was useful. Reading Lists help active readers save articles for future reading and support their learning goals on Wikimedia projects. The team plans further improvements before expanding the feature to more users.
- The Explore Feed Refresh initiative was tested with new and casual Wikipedia app readers. The refreshed feed helps readers discover new and relevant content. After a 10.5% increase in engagement with the feed, Wikimedia Apps team has decided to scale the Home Feed redesign to iOS with the learnings from the Android release applied.
- Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where subject names in the Article Guidance feature were displayed with incorrect capitalization on French Wikipedia, has now been fixed. Subject names will now follow the correct capitalization rules for the language. [7]
Updates for technical contributors
- After running several Account Creation Experiments to improve registration completion rates, a new version of the username field on Create Account has been rolled out. It includes a popover summarizing the username policy to provide clearer guidance during account creation. As part of this change, the messages
createacct-helpusernameandcreateacct-username-helpthat several communities have configured will no longer be used. If communities want to customize the guidance shown in the new popover, they can instead edit the following messages:createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet1,createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet2, andcreateacct-username-policy-popover-bullet3. [8] - Later this week, the CodeMirror syntax highlighter will offer themes. The themes can be picked from a dropdown menu in the full CodeMirror preferences dialog. For wikitext, available themes are default, colorblind-friendly (previously the colorblind preference option on Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing) and no-highlighting. For code languages (i.e., CSS/JavaScript/JSON/Vue/Lua), there are several themes available. These same themes will eventually be available for wikitext, too. [9]
- From now on, wikis can restrict editing in the "User" namespace to only the page owner and certain user groups. Read the configuration documentation to learn more.
- Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Latest 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
- The Reader Experience team has developed a patch demo that wraps the page toolbar onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, which can occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths. [10]
- The Reader Experience team is planning to launch Reading Lists, a Community Wishlist item, which is currently available to try in beta, as a full feature in September. Before then, volunteer translator help is needed for string translations into a number of languages. The feature supports reading and learning goals on Wikipedia.
- Next week, the table of contents on Wikimedia Commons file pages will be improved by consolidating the file page table of contents with the page table of contents. This will make it easier to understand a file page’s structure, navigate to specific sections, and share links to individual sections. [11]
- Recurrent item View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some TIFF images failed to load after clicking their thumbnail, causing a broken image to be displayed instead of the full-size image, has now been fixed. [12]
Updates for technical contributors
- The variable and function selector in AbuseFilter has been updated to support search and autocomplete. It will allow filter maintainers to find the desired variable or function more quickly. [13]
- The MJPEG and VP8 formats are removed from the video player. The MP4 format (MPEG-4 Part 2) is added instead, which provides higher quality videos to older iPhone devices. It may take a few weeks to retroactively update all existing videos. The default format for modern devices stays the same (VP9/WebM). [14]
- Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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