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I was going through a module and came across this slide which links to Learning patterns/Six-account limit. Is this limit still applicable now that temporary accounts exist? Clovermoss (talk) 03:19, 17 November 2025 (UTC) Reply

@Clovermoss: Pure guesswork, but I think it still does, as it applies to the underlying IPs (the limit for temporary accounts is also six per day). You might get better answers at mw:Talk:Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 03:28, 17 November 2025 (UTC) Reply

Hello. Reminder: Please help to choose name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Thank you!

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Identifiable contradictions between Wikipedia articles of different languages and other Wikimedia pages is a phenomenon that could be used for improving accuracy, spotting errors, fixing outdatedness, improving categorization, and further things. It's a subject of ongoing research and development. Take a look at the new page about this and if you know of more types of examples, please add them to the page. Prototyperspective (talk) 15:20, 26 November 2025 (UTC) Reply

Link? So9q (talk) 04:24, 12 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

It's in the section header, Contradictions within Wikimedia projects. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:12, 12 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

A longer explaination is available here. In a nutshell: A user proposed to run a bot to mass import Chinese court documents to Chinese Wikisource. This will potentially results in 85 million new content pages be created in Chinese Wikisource. He is asking other Wikimedia community users and WMF opinions on that. This will also have an potential impact on Wikidata, since there is another user running a bot (MidleadingBot) to create an item for each pages, which will result in 85 million new items in Wikidata. GZWDer (talk) 12:58, 6 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

Interesting. I'm curious if personal identifiable information (PII) is planned to be scrubbed before upload? So9q (talk) 04:26, 12 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

85 million is not a normal scale. This is not what the website is for and likely would completely bring down wikimedia media files. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:15, 15 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

oh wait, I figured these were pdfs, but it seems they are only the OCR'ed content ? That is slightly better I guess. Still 85 million is a lot. It likely requires significant scaling up of the wiki, and moving it to a separate database cluster. And I'm not sure if Wikidata can scale that far as well at this moment. regardless, I think it is up to Wikidata project to determine if they even want that many entries. Even for journals and a few other categories people are already discussing about potentially splitting it off from Wikidata, and the added value of all those entries to them would be near 0. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:28, 15 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

+1, I started a discussion in the main Wikidata telegram channel with this as input. My view: Basically Wikidata has serious problems with scaling and the community and team have not been able to communicate well/effectively for years about it and come up with good solutions. (but this might be changing now which would be great!)

Interesting enough there are few Wikibases in or outside of Wikibase.cloud that have >1000 items what I have heard about.

It might be worth studying why Wikibase is so "slow" to take off despite being freely available and taking only minutes to set up.

Maybe new developments like federated values are needed? So9q (talk) 21:03, 15 December 2025 (UTC) Reply

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