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Tech News: 2026-42
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Weekly highlight
- Starting October 13, wikis can change the default pattern for auto-generated reference names in VisualEditor (currently
<ref name=":1" />). They will be able to use human-readable, content-based reference names that are more helpful to contributors using the source editor (e.g.<ref name="Miller2026-1" />). VisualEditor reference name patterns can be defined using MediaWiki system messages, JSON, templates and modules (more information). Admins can enable these changes via community configuration. This is a community wish implemented by WMDE Technical Wishes. - Sub-referencing is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to English Wikipedia on October 14 and to remaining Wikimedia Foundation wikis by end of October (likely October 21). The FAQ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. This is a long-standing community wish implemented by WMDE Technical Wishes.
Updates for editors
- Moderator Tools will be removing the list view of the Watchlist and defaulting everyone to the changelog view. Previously, there were two versions of how the Watchlist is shown to mobile web users: the list view, where editors could see watched articles in a list format, and the changelog view, where editors could see changes to watched articles in a log format, controlled by a user's Advanced Mobile Control settings. This has created issues for code-base maintenance: two different displays means two sets of code to manage. By defaulting to the changelog view, we are simplifying the codebase and avoiding the likelihood of missing bugs.
- The Wikipedia Android app is testing a way to listen to article introductions in the “For you” feed. A text-to-speech model reads the existing article text aloud without rewriting it or adding any content. The 30-day experiment will begin in the Wikipedia Beta app during the third week of September, then move to the regular Wikipedia Android app in October for a limited group of eligible users. A small portion of app users (those with English feeds and at least one topic interest) will have access to the feature. This experiment is part of broader efforts to give app readers options in how they consume content in order to deepen engagement and user retention. Learn more and share feedback.
- CodeMirror syntax highlighting was enabled by default for all logged out and newly registered users on the English Wikipedia on September 14. With no signs of adverse effects, the same change is being proposed to be made globally across all wikis in a few weeks. If you have concerns or feedback, or if your wiki would like to opt out, please see the help page.
- Wikidata mobile statement editing of all datatypes will be officially launched on October 13, when it will be removed from Wikidata beta features and become available to all editors. Users can report bugs and share feedback.
- Last week, language link changes were removed from Recent Changes and Watchlist feeds on Wikivoyage, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikiquote and Wiktionary. As no adverse effects have been observed, the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects plans to roll out this change globally to all Wikipedias. This is scheduled for October 13 at 07:00 UTC, after which editors will no longer see when a link to another language version of a page is added, removed, or changed in its Wikidata item. Editors who rely on these notifications can read more on the project page and share feedback or ask to opt out their wiki on the talk page.
View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where accidentally touching the graph while scrolling on the Pageviews tool on mobile could unintentionally zoom in has now been fixed. Click-and-drag zoom is now disabled on touch devices.
Updates for technical contributors
- There are three major changes coming to dumps: the legacy content dumps deprecated in January 2026 will now be sunset, the replacement MediaWiki Content File Exports will be delayed to implement a “safety buffer”, and they are now also available as 7zip-compressed files. Users will need to switch the URL they download their dump from. For more information, timeline and migration instructions, see Legacy content dumps sunset.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Wikimedia Foundation discovered unauthorized activity by OpenAI agents on Wikimedia projects, including edits to wikis, attempts to exploit a public note-taking tool, and heavy automated traffic. Read the blog post on Diff for more details about the activity and the Foundation’s response.
Meetings and events
- Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon! We’ll be meeting in lovely Tirana, Albania for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon from April 9–11, 2027. Scholarship and staff sponsorship applications are currently being accepted through Pretix and will close on October 30, 2026. General registration will open in January 2027.
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Actualités techniques n° 2026-43
modifierDernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Pour mesurer l'impact de l'intégration de certaines fonctionnalités demandées par la communauté sur la rétention des lecteurs non connectés, un test pour carrousel d'images sera proposé aux lecteurs non connectés. Avec la fonctionnalité du carrousel d'images, les lecteurs parcourent des images téléchargées par la communauté, sélectionnées par les éditeurs comme pertinentes pour des articles spécifiques. Le test commence le 20 novembre.
- Un avis expérimental sera affiché à 0,5 % des lecteurs mobiles déconnectés qui viennent sur Wikipédia en anglais depuis Google, leur demandant d’ajouter Wikipédia en tant que Source Préférée de Google. Le test vise à voir si cet avis augmente la fidélisation des lecteurs et encourage les personnes utilisant Google Search à visiter Wikipédia plus souvent. Il se déroulera du 15 au 29 octobre et son impact sur la fidélisation et les recommandations sera évalué.
- Voir les 26 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière. Par exemple, un problème où Quarry renvoyait une erreur « Accès refusé » lorsque les utilisateurs essayaient d’exécuter des requêtes SQL, empêchant le fonctionnement normal des requêtes, a maintenant été corrigé.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
En raison d’un bug de longue date, les applications qui utilisent le flux de credentials client OAuth 2 pour agir au nom de leurs propriétaires sont traitées comme si elles étaient déconnectées. Cela sera corrigé pour les nouvelles applications enregistrées à partir du lundi 19 octobre. Certaines applications concernées devront se réenregistrer. - Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
Rencontres et évènements
- Une proposition visant à organiser le Hackathon Wikimedia tous les trois ans, avec des hackathons régionaux entre-temps, a été partagée. Elle explore comment rendre l'événement plus accessible aux communautés techniques dans différentes régions. Partagez vos avis sur la page de discussion de la proposition avant le 6 novembre.
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Wikidata weekly summary #754
modifier
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-10-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #753.
week leading up to 2026-10-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #753.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- OKA Bot 3 - Task/s: Reference works and registers, like Task 2 (Historical Dictionary of Switzerland and Store norske leksikon). Each item-linked entry, adds statements, references, sources where value is same and missing identifiers.
- UBZH Videothek Bot - Task/s: Add external identifiers of films and film directors/people to existing items (from film catalogue of the University Library of Zurich: UZH, Videothek database).
- EZBIDsBot - Task/s: Adding EZB ID, ZDB ID, website URL, Print ISSN, and Online ISSN from EZB dataset where they are missing in Wikidata.
- Closed request for comments: Schema Virtual tour - the RfC has been inactive since 2025, but discussion can continue on a dedicated page: Schema Proposals/Virtual Tour
Events
- Upcoming events:
- The Query Service Days is currently ongoing! We still have many great sessions left so don't miss out, especially if you use SPARQL, {{Wikidata List}} or the query service (WDQS) in anyway...here's some helpful links:
- Register to get access to the live-sessions
- See the full program, including links to the previous sessions and recordings.
- Wikidata's 14th Birthday is approaching soon...see what events are planned on the Calendar or near you on the Map.
- Rutgers University is holding 2 Wikidata Edit-A-Thons, open to all students, faculty, staff and community members. No Wikidata experience is required.
- Newark Activists, Artists, Academics edit-a-thon, Oct 19, 12:00 - 14:00 EDT
- Black Bibliograohy edit-A-Thon, Oct 21, 12:00 - 16:00 EDT
- Drop in and Wikidata (Oct), a community call and live session will take place 29 Oct, 19:00 pm – 20:30 pm AEDT
- The Query Service Days is currently ongoing! We still have many great sessions left so don't miss out, especially if you use SPARQL, {{Wikidata List}} or the query service (WDQS) in anyway...here's some helpful links:
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Papers:
- Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography?, The Signpost, October 13, 2026
- Using Wikidata to find duplicates in the Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) - Librarians used Wikidata queries to identify and resolve duplicate records in the Library of Congress Name Authority File, improving 1,559 Wikidata items and reporting 166 duplicate records for deletion over six months. By Muratsubaki, (2026).
- Videos:
- Datasets: A dataset comparing Wikipedia biographies count to UN birth estimates by country, gender, and language edition". Codeberg, 2026-07-12, https://codeberg.org/pac2/biographies-vs-births
Tool of the week
- Script newentity.js Generates new items (including lexemes) from the given JSON object. The tool was created by User:GZWDer
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Upcoming changes to XML dumps
- Mobile statement editing, now available to all editors
- Wikimania scholarships
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- European Legislation Identifier (EU) (EU legislation identifier for documents published by the EU, its member states and other (non-EU) countries)
- External identifiers: YouSaid person ID, StoryGraph book ID, Scholastica scholar ID, Ohio Entity Number, Lrytas.lt topic ID, ISDCF studio identifier, ISDCF facility identifier, Calames archives ID, Hannah Arendt edition person ID, Climate Policy Radar Topics, E-CRIS.SR ID, Demko ID, Delfi.lt topic ID, Beeld & Geluid program ID, Baza osób polskich ID, BallotReady person ID, swissNAMES3D ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan article (A reference to an article in the printed National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan, identified by its volume and page number.)
- juvenile form of (taxon (or taxa) of which instances of this item may be juveniles)
- development code (code assigned by a company or research organisation to a drug substance or product during development, before or alongside its nonproprietary name)
- part of the observance of (holiday or observation on which this tradition is observed, this item is used, or with which this character is associated)
- External identifiers: ID závodiště podle českého Jockey Clubu, German War Memorial Website ID, ERef Bayreuth ID, EPub Bayreuth ID, Kansallinen Liiga player ID, SPL person ID, Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias ID, The Session composer ID, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021 ID, Filmoteket, Ecocard ID, Kanalregister, IBA cocktail ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Schema examples: (E208) SPARQL endpoint - entity schema of entities with SPARQL endpoint.
- Newest WikiProjects: Project Lukion taulukot - aims to develop a source-based, mul vocabulary of secondary-school science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) (uses Finnish reference work Lukion taulukot as its starting corpus).
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Project GovDirectory have added an Estonian subpage.
- Project Library and Information Services added a Statistics subpage.
- Project Ethnomusicological descriptors from the University of Turin added an Instruments subpage.
- Newest database reports: Wikidata Query Help - with many database reports using the Query Service as a source, this will be a helpful page for the planned migration.
Development
- Mobile editing of statements: We set the new mobile statement editing UI live for all mobile users
- REST API: We are finishing the work on being able to add Senses to existing Lexemes (phab:T432569)
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- Wikidata entities used in this page in the Page Information (example) and Edit source views will now render with their local-language labels (in addition to their QID/PIDs) so it is easier to understand which Items, Properties, etc are used in an article (phab:T440430)
- We are continuing to investigate the impacts of raising the entity usage limit (phab:T441306)
- We are protyping wireframe versions of a new filter on Recent changes and Watchlist for Language Links under "Wikidata Edits" in Active Filters (phab:T441388)
- hCaptcha: We started implementation work for hCaptcha on Wikidata.org (phab:T426089)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #755
modifier Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-10-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #754.
week leading up to 2026-10-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #754.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Chemobot - Task/s: Add german substance name in existing wikidata entries.
- KnutuxBot - Task/s: Add "described by source" (P1343) statements citing the 1925 gazetteer Lietuvos apgyventos vietos (Q141805965) to about 14,000 existing Lithuanian settlement and rural-district (valsčius) items, with page, name-as-printed and Wikisource-URL qualifiers.
- AipAerobot - Task/s: Add described at URL (P973) (described at URL) to aerodrome items that carry ICAO airport code (P239) (ICAO code), pointing to that aerodrome's page on aip.aero, qualified with language of work or name (P407) (language of work or name).
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: all closed as successful - EZBIDsBot, Alex NB OT, Wahl.de Bot, FoxfindingBot and OKA bot 2
Events
- Upcoming events:
- 🎂 Wikidata turns 14 on 29 October! Join an event, add a birthday gift, or hop on the birthday call at 17:00 UTC (see in your own time zone). Find everything here: Wikidata Fourteenth Birthday. Share with #Wikidata14 or #WikidataBirthday. See you Thursday 🥳
- AI-BRIDGES project invites organisations to submit questions for Wikidata
- Wikidata Day NYC 2026 - this meetup is at capacity, but anyone is welcome to join the livestream. See event for details.
- (Deutsch) Share research – Basics for the participation in the Wikiverse using the example of the Gotha Research Library, a free webinar via Zoom taking place 25 November 14:00-14:30 CEST.
- Past Events: Query Service Days 2026 - catch up on all recorded sessions from the Event page.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: The Art of Information "From Wikidata to Axiell Collections: Automating Geographic Data for Museum Collections"
- Papers:
- [preprint] “A Dictionary Without Its Own Database: Building an Offline-First Dagbanli Dictionary on Wikidata Lexemes” (zenodo). Describes the Dagbanli Dictionary, reporting data-quality findings from linking recorded speech to Lexemes and noting that two-thirds of Lexemes have only one Form and some frequent words are missing from Wikidata entirely. By Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
- AC-IQuAD: Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata
- Videos:
- Wikidata Workshop: Black Artists on Wikidata Project - by Wiki Activate Africa, aims to improve representation and visibility of Black artists, creatives, and cultural practitioners in global digital knowledge ecosystem.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #126 Wikidata Query Service Days 2026 - User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 will do some livestreaming (in English), and discuss how to adapt the queries of WikiProject Govdirectory and the thought process behind it.
- Canvas vs SVG: drawing a Wikidata graph No. 10 from the "Building smollerGraph" series.
- EMCO Wikidata Community of Practice autumn meeting (Part 2)
- (zh-TW/Chinese) Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2026 - part of the Fourteenth Birthday events
Tool of the week
- A Wikidata Merge Assistance By connorshea web-based tool designed to help editors find, evaluate, and resolve duplicate items on Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Castles QA is a tool to see which data properties are still missing in Wikidata in the domain of castles, palaces and fortresses. Feedback welcome!
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- martial arts style (school or style of martial arts this person studied or practiced)
- has language or spelling variant (the (multilingual) label of the linked item is a a language, spelling or etymological variation of the label of this item)
- biome (biome in which a geographical area is wholly or partly located, according to a documented ecological classification)
- juvenile form of (instances of the subject item are juveniles of one of these class(es) of organisms)
- development code (code assigned by a company or research organisation to a drug substance or product during development, before or alongside its nonproprietary name)
- External identifiers: RETE ID, Tabularius entity ID, On Think Tanks Directory ID, Mappola ID, GBIF occurrence key, NicoNicoPedia article ID, German War Memorial ID, ERef Bayreuth ID, EPub Bayreuth ID, AbeBooks author ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum ID, Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon, AVN company ID, AVN person ID, SPL person ID, Victorian Heritage Overlay Number, Centre Delavouët catalog author ID, The Session composer ID, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021 ID, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (2007) ID, Filmoteket ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- accumulated cyclone energy (sum of the squared maximum sustained winds at 6-hour intervals of a tropical cyclone, a tropical cyclone season, or a time period, where the winds at that particular point in time are at least gale-force (34 knots or higher), in units of 10 kilo-square-knots (unit implied))
- full work formatter URL (formatter URL for the web page containing this work; URI template from which "$1" can be automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items. If the site goes offline, set it to deprecated rank. If the formatter URL changes, add a new statement with preferred rank.)
- Key or index image (Secondary image which acts as an index or key to the contents of the subject image)
- External identifiers: The Montessorians ID, FEI Horse ID, IT History Forum Data Archive ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology equipment ID, Historical East German Biographies ID, TURKPATENT geographical indication ID, BGA ID, MEMO ID, Hong Kong Jockey Club horse ID, Der Spiegel sports data ID, GitHub Advisory Database ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Japanese Ethnic Group Claims
- Schema example: (E257) Politician - simple schema for validating a politician (occupation = Q82955)
Development
- hCaptcha support: We've added hCaptcha support to Special:Set* forms and started implementing support on Special:NewItem/Special:NewProperty forms
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are verifying that not bundling entity usages reduces the amount of unnecessary changes coming from Wikidata in the Recent changes and Watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T440856)
- We are conducting interviews and prototype testing on wireframe versions of a new filter for language link changes under "Wikidata Edits" in the filters on Recent changes and Watchlist
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!
Actualités techniques n° 2026-44
modifierDernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
En lumière cette semaine
- Une expérience lancée le 29 septembre teste actuellement les recommandations d'articles destinées aux nouveaux titulaires de compte qui se définissent également comme des lecteurs. En suggérant des articles à lire, à l'instar des recommandations proposées dans l'application Wikipédia aux lecteurs connectés, cette expérience vise à encourager les nouveaux titulaires de compte à lire et à revenir régulièrement sur le site, dans le but d'augmenter de 1 % le nombre de visites provenant de liens internes. Consultez la proposition correspondante dans la liste de souhaits de la communauté.
- Plusieurs services Wikimédia ont été mis hors ligne la semaine dernière en raison d’une [faille de sécurité de niveau 1 avec PHP]. En effet, ils doivent être mis à jour avant de pouvoir être remis en ligne en toute sécurité. Ce problème ne concerne pas uniquement le mouvement Wikimédia, mais touche de nombreux sites web. Vous pouvez suivre l'évolution de la situation sur Wikitech. La remise en ligne de Cloud VPS et de Toolforge prendra plus de temps. Cette précaution vise à garantir que les applications fonctionnant sur Cloud VPS ou Toolforge ne soient pas affectées. Les développeurs d'outils peuvent consulter les mises à jour et obtenir plus d'informations sur la liste de diffusion Cloud-announce.
- La semaine dernière, nous vous avons annoncé que, afin de mesurer l'impact de l'intégration de certaines fonctionnalités demandées par la communauté sur la fidélisation des lecteurs non connectés, un test portant sur la fonctionnalité Image Carousel serait déployé auprès de ces derniers. En raison d'un problème, nous allons relancer le test, mais celui-ci sera mis en ligne le 26 octobre, et non le 20 novembre comme annoncé initialement.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Un nouveau système de détection des bots visant à mieux identifier le trafic automatisé qui se fait passer pour des visiteurs humains va être mis en place sur les wikis Wikimédia. Cela pourrait entraîner des variations soudaines des statistiques de fréquentation à partir du 26 octobre, avec un effet rétroactif jusqu'au 20 juin 2026.
- L'extension Score, qui permet d'afficher des partitions musicales au sein des pages wiki, a été temporairement désactivée sur tous les wikis en raison d'un problème de sécurité. Les pages concernées afficheront un message d'avertissement à la place des partitions, mais le code sous-jacent reste intact. Aucune action n'est requise de la part des contributeurs, et un correctif est en cours d'élaboration. Une annonce distincte sera publiée lorsque l'extension sera réactivée. Pour en savoir plus, consultez Phabricator.
- Voir les 18 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière. Par exemple, le problème lié à l'activation par erreur du surlignage de syntaxe CodeMirror dans les éditeurs existants a été résolu.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- Tous les wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes le mercredi 28 octobre 2026 à 15 h 00 UTC. Cette opération est nécessaire pour les tests de basculement de secours des serveurs du centre de données, qui ont lieu deux fois par an. Pendant cette bascule, tout le trafic des sites web de Wikimédia est redirigé d’un centre de données principal vers le centre de données de secours afin de tester la disponibilité et d’éviter toute interruption de service, même en cas d’urgence.
- Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
Rencontres et évènements
- Les candidatures aux bourses et aux parrainages pour le Hackathon Wikimedia 2027 prendront fin le vendredi 30 octobre. Envoyez votre candidature via Pretix avant la date limite !
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