Wikidata weekly summary #736
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #735.
week leading up to 2026-06-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #735.
Discussions
- Request for comments: The discussion about reforming Wikidata's notability policy is ongoing. There is now a new proposal waiting for your feedback.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- WikiLoves Pride 2026 - six fortnightly editing sessions to add, expand and translate LGBTQ+ content on the Wikimedia projects.
- WikiProjects Days 2026 is taking place this coming weekend, 19-21 June. Check out the daily program...(click UTC for your local timezone)
- Click here -> Register <- for access links to the event.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Preserving Pride, Across Languages : From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: A New Way to Think About Knowledge
- Visibility of Communities in Nigeria on Wikidata 2.0: Expanding Digital Representation for Nigerian Communities
- The Year’s First Quarter with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group - Expanding partnerships and contributions to Wikidata, Wikipedia and other sister projects.
- Introducing the Wiki Afrodemics Mentorship Project Cohort 1 - A pan-african and guided multilingual training on Wikipedia editing, Wikidata contribution, and resource mobilisation.
- Amplifying Women’s Stories and Indigenous Knowledge: Feminism and Folklore 2026 in the Igbo Community - Improving the representation of women and cultural heritage in Igbo language on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiquote.
- A Reflection on What I Learned at My First International Women’s Day Celebration - Celebrating and documenting women activists and politicians on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Three Tools that bring digital botany within reach (spoiler: One of them is Wikidata) - article available in DE, ES, FR, JA, PT and ZH-CN.
- Papers: Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata by Grallert et al., (2026). As digital humanities tools proliferate, this paper argues that Wikidata can help connect the research landscape by documenting, citing and connecting tool registries.
- Videos:
- OSM / Lifting Stones in Wikidata - a video tutorial on mapping lifting stones on OpenStreetMap, using two examples from County Kilkenny, Ireland.
- Mapping Every Wonder on Earth - animated visualisation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites recorded in Wikidata.
- 2025: Tales of Discovery - Museums and Heritage channel mentions how Wikidata is being used as a bridge between several sites and projects for 3D modelling ships, wrecks and other artifacts from maritime history.
- Mentor Me! Session 6 with Jinoy Tom Jacob, who will show us how to use OpenRefine to batch edit Wikidata and the Commons.
Tool of the week
- BisikBekasi : Community-curated knowledge base where local data items are integrated with Wikidata items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Newcomer Dashboard will be deployed to Wikidata pending on-wiki configuration by Admins. The dashboard aims to provide guidance, helpful links, and mentorship opportunities for new editors.
- Guido Gezelle on Wikidata: networking in map - this project created 5 visualisations produced from Wikidata on the poet Guido Gezelle.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- print matrix state (in printmaking, a stage of development of the relief matrix after a permanent modification)
- body modification (deliberate altering of the human anatomy for non-medical reasons that this person or fictional character has undergone)
- Newest External identifiers: Roller-results.com skater ID, Wikiparfum fragrance ID, EU sanctions tracker subject ID, Maoyan celebrity ID, CINEMATODAY film ID, DMM director ID, Model Mayhem ID, DAM song ID, OpenParlData ID, IAU member ID, PurplePort ID, LinkMe ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Vistonline (Agenzia italiana di visti consolari e legalizzazione documenti, con sede a Roma)
- Natural science/Taxon footprint (Taxon footprint)
- Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number (Unique identification number assigned to a school by the Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka, used in the annual school census and official examinations (G.C.E. O/L, A/L))
- sport title (link to sport title (like master of sports or yokodzuna), besides chess and martial arts titles)
- dual notion in category theory (dual notion in category theory)
- penalty shootout kicked by (Indicates the person who took an individual penalty kick during a penalty shoot-out.)
- Finnish educational institution ID (Five-digit identification number for Finnish educational institutes assigned by Statistics Finland.)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant d'une personne sur ZicTrad, Skeivopedia ID, Artistas Visuales Chilenos ID, Mathlib declaration ID, FES digital collections person ID, BBC Bitesize topic ID, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), Sceneweb artwork ID, Sceneweb production ID, regjeringen.no government ID, regjeringen.no ministry ID, regjeringen.no politician ID, Maoyan film ID, Identifiant livres-cinema.info d'un auteur, National Operator Code (UK)
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Wiki x K-pop 2026: Datathon 3.0 a.k.a the ICONIC BY MISTAKE EDITING party.
- Ontology Course 2 / GLAM Authority Entity Ontology in Wikidata
- Newest database reports: Thanks Log - who's thanking who and on what.
- Showcase Items: 2026 FIFA World Cup (Q5020214) - in the United States, Mexico and Canada in 2026
- Showcase Lexemes: alikaali (L720932) - Dagbanli noun (derived from ha <--ar) which can mean soothsayer, judge or Muslim scholar
Development
- Ontology federation: The development team is looking for people to give feedback on the new feature that allows editors on other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as statement values. (more details)
- GraphQL:
- We extended the searchItems field so that developers can now get all Item data immediately from the search results (phab:T416885)
- We are working on the ability to get only best ranked statements (phab:T428138)
- MCP: The Wikidata MCP has been extended. You can now also use an MCP for other Wikibase instances. (more details)
- Wikibase Cloud: We are looking into making it possible to log into Wikibase Cloud instances with your Wikidata account to make it easier for Wikimedians to contribute on Cloud instances.
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are planning the migration of the entity usage table to a new database cluster to handle increased usage of Wikidata's data across the Wikimedia projects.
- We are continuing our work to decrease the number of irrelevant changes coming from Wikidata that show up in Wikipedia's recent changes and watchlist. Specifically we are evaluating a prototype that looks at the rendered article before and after the change and determines if anything actually changed in the article before adding an entry to recent changes and watchlist.
- Mobile editing of statements:
- We are improving support for RTL languages.(phab:T360854, phab:T427655, phab:T427658, phab:T427661, phab:T428246)
- We started fixing multiple UI layout and spacing issues, including mandatory fields, value fields, snak types, references, and add-statement button usability (phab:T428766, phab:T428761, phab:T428759, phab:T428450)
- We are improving the server-side rendering (phab:T409827)
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!
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Tech News: 2026-25
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Reader Growth team has launched an Image Browsing beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use
class=notpageimageexcluding it from thumbnail previews, orclass=noviewerexcluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word__NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page. - Wikitables can now be sorted in descending order on the first click by adding
data-sort-order="desc"to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged.
Updates for editors
- The Article guidance feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
- Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account with the block duration they want.
View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will 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.
- The roll out of global API rate limits is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.
- The API Portal wiki will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server.
- The Latin American Wikimedia Conference will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).
- Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page and register there. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.
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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #253 is out: The or not the, this is (the?) question
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we present you a delicate question regarding grammatical framework, we talk about our next events and about the results of our latest online meetings, we discuss news about Types, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:34, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 June 2026
- From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism
Pointing the way to your contribution to The Signpost!
- News and notes: Community Tech development team disbanded
And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.
- Disinformation report: PR for the people?
Or, "PR using PR for PR"?
- Recent research: Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
And other new research publications.
- In the media: Who won a 14th century battle and who won the 2026 Iran war?
Media take issue with portrayals of recent and medieval history on Wikipedia. Plus a team supporting Wikipedians gets dissolved, and a few other things.
- Community view: Putting the Wish into the Wishlist
A history of the Wikimedia community's request process to Foundation developers.
- In focus: A global standard for Neutral Point of View
Wikipedians are commenting on a proposed global standard for neutral point of view.
- On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth
Nice things around the world.
- Op-ed: Breathe, Don’t Panic, there is a different story about Wikimedia + AI futures
We can build a strategy about AI that doesn't just center on readers; there are still plenty of humans to write the encyclopedia and work on diverse global knowledge.
- Opinion: Wikimedia Foundation staff develop union and Wikimedia user community reacts
Why should editors support the Wiki Workers United union drive? Lessons the Wikimedia movement can learn from other labor struggles.
- Technology report: Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts
WMF disbands Community Tech, sparking community backlash over the future of the Wishlist and concerns about unionization.
- Traffic report: 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
Horror movies and Michael Jackson dominate theaters in the lead-up to the World Cup.
- WikiConference report: Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026
Outreach staff of Wikimedia chapters host a global discussion.
- Comix: Take your turn
In a maze of twisty little edits, all alike.
- Humour: Group of banned T-shirt makers comes out of hiding to sell new Wikipedia-themed merchandise
It ain't WikiProject United Nations, but you will find some PUNs.
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Wikidata weekly summary #736
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #736.
week leading up to 2026-06-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #736.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Ziv - RfP scheduled to end after 24 June 2026 19:26 (UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Nabbot 1 - Task: Adding Turkish descriptions for scientific articles
Events
- Upcoming events:
- The Wikimania 2026 program has been revealed, go bookmark your favourite sessions.
- Physical Training; Improving Health Articles in Africa - 21 June, 10:00, University of Ibadan.
- The WikiIndaba Call for Proposals ends June 30th - don't forget to submit your Wikidata-sessions.
- Sessions of the WikiProjects Days 2026 event will shortly be available on Commons: Presentations / Videos
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- WikiTiddler; Tiddlywiki as a live Wikidata frontend - if you run a TiddlyWiki instance, you can now run queries to the Wikidata Query Service and convert the results to Tiddlers.
- TIB: What do we mean when we talk about AI and open knowledge? - Lozana Rossenova details their experiences at the AI+Bridges Symposium.
- Papers:
- How to use Wikibase for Mixed-Methods Research, a book published by F. Bailo, E. Booth, and J. Williams
- Wikimedia as a Platform for Evidence Synthesis: Quantifying Bias and Literature Coverage in Crowd-Sourced Knowledge Graphs by D. Mietchen, and J. Dearborn, (2026).
- From Wikidata to Smart Tourism: A Reproducible Pipeline Based on AI and Fuzzy Logic for Interpretable Multi-Category Classification of Points of Interest - This paper develops a reproducible pipeline that converts Wikidata POIs into an interpretable tourism taxonomy, enabling multi-category classification and personalized smart tourism applications. By Kontogianni et al., (2026)
- Videos:
- Name Suggestion Index Explained: How OpenStreetMap Standardizes Brands
- EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-06-04)
- Using the Duplicity and WD Fist Tools to edit Wikidata
- Unlocking Data through Semantic Linking, presented at ENDORSE 2025 by Thora Hagen. Experiences using 19th-century German encyclopedias, demonstrating how semantic enrichment via Wikidata can reveal fascinating patterns.
- (Deutsch) From your pocket to the knowledge graph: SquirrelBase is a Wikibase instance that functions as a semantic metadata and reference platform. Make 3D smartphone captures of cultural assets, artworks, and ephemeral structures FAIR.
Tool of the week
- MotusArtium : Wikidata GraphQL showcase application for exploring and understanding art movements (alpha version). GraphQL queries used
- As seen during WikiProjects Days 2026 - Classification.js, visualise parent classes and identify incorrections, detect superclass tree loops. To use, click Activate and copy the two lines into your Common.js page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Reminder: Try Ontology Federation to import Items from Wikidata to your Wikibase instance. Share your feedback in the linked survey. (full announcement)
- A session at WikiProjects Days 2026 was devoted to general-purpose tools for WikiProjects. A new page under the main Wikidata tools page was created with a list and description of these tools. Take a look at Wikidata:Tools/WikiProjects and add any missing tools.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- meteorological intensity classification (category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585))
- perfumer (person who created a perfume)
- dual notion (category theory) (dual of the concept in category theory)
- External identifiers: catholica.cz ID, Skeivopedia ID, Mathlib Declaration ID, Annuséries series ID, FES digital collections person ID, BBC Bitesize topic ID, Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), OTOTOY artist ID, livres-cinema.info author ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
- Gmedia rating (video games) (Video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system ({{Q|Q28717438}}))
- External identifiers: altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, some properties for category theory, Farzonagon ID, TV Guide film ID, Letterboxd Writer ID, d Hits artist ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, Fantia ID, 17LIVE ID, CFLapedia player ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, U-NEXT Parson ID, U-NEXT Video ID, H-NEXT Parson ID, ABEMA Video ID, FOD Parson ID, LRT topic ID, FOD Video ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, belarusenc.by ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Writing Systems Technical Resources script code, Répertoire des films classés film ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID, Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, Kanal Architecture entry ID, Web The Television Parson ID, Web The Television Work ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Showcase Items: ship (Q11446) - large buoyant watercraft
Development
- We enabled links to WikiProjects in the sidebar and added links to WikiProjects Music, Medicine, Datasets, sum of all paintings, and elections (T422935, T422935)
- We added a floating “add statement” button that makes it easier to add statements without looking through the existing statements (T417641, T428450).
- We’re working on making sure that users can tell when statements exist before they add new ones (T424009).
- We made some layout fixes to wbui2025 / MEX (T428766, T428761, T428759, T427658, T428853).
- We refactored error handling (T423613).
- We’re refactoring the server-side rendering so we don’t need separate .less style files (T409827).
- We’re working on the interaction between scrollable values and indicator icons (T425974).
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!
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Tech News: 2026-26
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.
Updates for editors
- 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.
- Sub-referencing is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan for the next deployment steps.
- Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the
skipcaptcharight, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. Theskipcaptcharight will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis. - Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox.
- The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community.
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11
Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 5. Please help translate.
Highlights
- Community Wishlist: Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future.
- Simplifying account creation: The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making "Create Account" icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.
- New U4C members elected: The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Wikimania conference program: The Wikimania 2026 program is now live! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your "must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket here, if you haven't signed up yet.
- Neutral Point of View: A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion open until July 15, 2026.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- App Explore feed: The redesigned App Explore feed, now called "Home", has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.
- Wikipedia games: The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia’s “On This Day” content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first.
- Reusing references: Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.
- Article guidance: The Article guidance feature is being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
- Mobile Page Previews: The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link.
- Wikifunctions: You can now add images to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.
- Wikidata: The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline.
- Growth features: Growth features are now available at Wikidata! Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration, but this update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).
- Mentors' management: The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.
- Collaborative Contributions: If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more.
- Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 and 25 include how the user interface icon library is being updated. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Digital Safety: Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. It'll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It's focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.
- Don't Blink: Read the latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.
- Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model: Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Enterprise: SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: 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
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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #254: Working on Functions, together
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we report on new collaborative patterns emerging in our community, we discuss news in Types, we share some events that relate to Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia at Wikimania 2026, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on July 6, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 09:58, 27 June 2026 (UTC)