User talk:Cosmic840

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Temporary account IP viewer granted

Hello, Cosmic840. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:

• You must not share IP address data with someone who does not have the same access permissions unless disclosure is permissible as per guidelines listed at Foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy.
• Access must not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).

It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:

• When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
• Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
• Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with one or more IP addresses (using the CIDR notation format).

Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:24, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Rollback granted

Hi Cosmic840. After reviewing your request, I have enabled rollback on your account. Please keep the following things in mind while using rollback:

• Being granted rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle or Ultraviolet. It just adds a [rollback] button next to a page's latest live revision. It does not grant you any additional "status" on Wikipedia, nor does it change how Wikipedia policies apply to you.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear and unambiguous cases of vandalism only. Never use rollback to revert good faith edits. For more information about when rollback is appropriate, see Wikipedia:Rollback § When to use rollback.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war, and it should never be used in a content-related dispute to restore the page to your preferred revision. If rollback is abused or used for this purpose or any other inappropriate purpose, the permission will be revoked.
• Use common sense. If you're not sure about something, ask!

I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, and feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about appropriate use of rollback. If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin) and Wikipedia:Rollback. Good luck and thanks! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:22, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Pending changes reviewer granted

Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.

See also:

• Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes, the guideline on reviewing
• Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes#Requirements to accept an edit, when to accept an edit
  

* Pppery * _{in solidarity} 05:33, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

User page move

Sorry about the move of your user page called User:Cosmic840/Apple M7 (SoC). It was originally called User:Cosmic840/Apple M7 (chip), but I have later noticed that the M7 is also a coprocessor, which is already a chip. The purpose of the move was to make the title fully disambiguated to prevent confusion with the M7 coprocessor found alongside the A7. Slackintosh (talk) 19:24, 17 October 2026 (UTC)

Affiliations Committee News (April-September 2026)

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2026 is Wikimedia Affiliations Committee's 20th Anniversary

Affiliate Recognition and Derecognition: On August 26, the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) announced the extension of the pause on new affiliate recognition, which began in August 2025. The extension follows the Wikimedia Foundation's decision to extend the feedback period for the "Recognition and Funding for Movement Organizations" proposal, giving communities and affiliates more time to share input.

AffCom Movement Contributions: Throughout the past quarter, AffCom continued to engage in conversations across the Wikimedia Movement, particularly where discussions touched on the pause on recognition or where the committee’s experience could contribute to broader Movement conversations.

AffCom Administration: The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee has new Officers and Advisors

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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2026)

Candy store in Maryland, United States Hello, Cosmic840. The article for improvement of the week is: Confectionery store Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: General officer • Split of Christianity and Judaism Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 October 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2026-43

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

• To measure the impact of incorporating some community-requested features on logged-out reader retention, a test for Image Carousel will be pushed to logged-out readers. With the Image Carousel feature, readers browse community-uploaded images, selected by editors as relevant to specific articles. The test starts on November 20.
• An experimental notice will be pushed to 0.5% of logged-out mobile readers who come to English Wikipedia from Google, asking them to add Wikipedia as a Google Preferred Source. The test is to see if this notice increases reader retention and encourages people who use Google Search to visit Wikipedia more often. It will run from October 15–29 and will be assessed for its impact on retention and referrals.
• View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where Quarry returned an “Access denied” error when users tried to run SQL queries, preventing queries from running normally, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Due to a long-standing bug, applications that use the OAuth 2 client credentials flow to act on their owners’ behalf are treated as if they are logged out. This will be fixed for new applications registered on or after Monday, October 19. Some affected applications need to re-register.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• A proposal to hold the Wikimedia Hackathon every three years, with regional hackathons in between, has been shared. It explores making the event more accessible to technical communities in different regions. Share your feedback on the proposal’s talk page before November 6.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:35, 19 October 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #754

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.

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • wdlite v26.10.18 by rtnF
  • Growing Active Technical Contributors in ESEAP
  • Wiki Hour Initiative trains government agency on Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.
• 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:
  • Africa Wiki Women’s Wikidata 14th birthday celebration
  • Wikidata Editing - an introduction with Lepidoptera data
  • Sandbox Session September 2026 - The Wikidata Toolbox
  • Sandbox Session August 2026 - The Wikidata reference Validator Tool
• 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
• 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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Botched executions list
  • Québec governments duration
• 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!

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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2026)

Two aircraft mechanics servicing a rotary aircraft engine Hello, Cosmic840. The article for improvement of the week is: Mechanic Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Confectionery store • General officer Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 26 October 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

standford attack

can i take over making the article for that page since it seems like dink isnt active much?04:46, 26 October 2026 (UTC)~ Moratahoodclips (talk) 04:46, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #755

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.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Horcrux - RfP scheduled to end after 28 October 2026 13:29 (UTC)
  • NDG - RfP scheduled to end after 30 October 2026 18:09 (UTC)
• 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
• 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

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!

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Tech News: 2026-44

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

• An experiment launched on September 29 is testing article recommendations for new account holders who also identify as readers. By suggesting articles to read, similar to recommendations in the Wikipedia app for logged-in readers, the experiment aims to encourage new account holders to read and return to the website regularly, with the goal of increasing internal referrals by 1%. See the related Community Wishlist proposal.
• Several Wikimedia services were taken offline last week because of a security vulnerability in PHP. This is because they need to be updated before they are safe to put back online. This is not a problem just for the Wikimedia movement but affects a lot of websites. You can follow updates on Wikitech. Cloud VPS and Toolforge will take longer to bring back online. This is to make sure that applications which run on Cloud VPS or Toolforge are not affected. Tool developers can see updates and more information on the Cloud-announce mailing list.
• Last week we shared that to measure the impact of incorporating some community-requested features on logged-out reader retention, a test for the Image Carousel feature would be pushed to logged-out readers. Due to an issue, we will be restarting the test, but it will be live on October 26, not November 20 as initially announced.

Updates for editors

• A new bot detection system to better identify automated traffic that disguises itself as human visitors, is coming to the Wikimedia wikis. This might cause sudden changes to visitor statistics starting from 26 October, going back to 20 June 2026.
• The Score extension which renders musical notation inside wiki pages, has been temporarily disabled on all wikis due to a security issue. Affected pages will display a notice instead of musical scores, but the underlying code remains intact. No action is needed from editors, and a fix is in progress. A separate announcement will follow when the extension is re-enabled. Read more on Phabricator.
• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where CodeMirror syntax highlighter appears to have been enabled in error for existing editors has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, October 28 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Scholarship and sponsorship applications for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon will close on Friday, October 30th. Submit your application through Pretix before the deadline!

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 18:54, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

Really random question

Hello! I first want to say I love your profile and all the apple articles you have ready to make! The question I have for you is how you get the badges on the top right of your profile?

Sincerely,

Charlie CharlieRidesRollerCoasters (talk) 15:49, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

@CharlieRidesRollerCoasters The templates that are used is {{User:Cosmic840/TWM840}}, {{email user topicon}}, {{Topicon fakesemi}}, {{Autism topicon}} and also {{Statustop|around}}. Cosmic-840≈ ● ✒️ 08:58, 29 October 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! CharlieRidesRollerCoasters (talk) 12:58, 29 October 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 20

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on October 9. Please help translate.

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Mobile users can now edit with visual editors

Highlights

• Community Wishlist: The process for this year’s Community Wishlist has been published, incorporating community feedback. The wish submission process will end on November 8. The triage is expected to be completed by late November. Votes for wishes will start in January.
• Visual editor now on mobile: Editors can now easily access visual editor directly from the iOS and Android apps. This enables readers to make quick contributions while casually reading.
• Mobile editing for Wikidata: New and existing editors can now edit Wikidata statements on mobile devices. Please share your feedback and report bugs.
• Behind the scenes: What happened on 25 August as hundreds of edits were made to Dolly Parton's article on English and German Wikipedia – and why code stewardship and the Service Catalog matter.
• Security update: Due to a critical security advisory about the PHP language, many Wikimedia services are going to be affected. Events are developing rapidly. See this page for list of affected services and the most updated information.

Annual Goals Progress on Engage
See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia

The new Image Carousel treatment experience that will be tested

• Identifying LLM edits easily: LLM Paste Check is now available on all Wikipedias. The feature will notify editors using the visual editor when they paste text that is likely to have initially been copied from one of five external generative AI chatbots. Edits will also be tagged so that patrollers can review them more closely.
• The Future of Wikimedia Hackathon: A proposal to hold the Wikimedia Hackathon every three years, with regional hackathons in between has been shared. It explores making the event more accessible to technical communities in different regions. Share your feedback on the proposal’s talk page before November 6.
• Re-testing Image Carousel on readers: Starting November 20, a test for Image Carousel will run for logged-out readers. Readers will browse community-uploaded images, selected by editors as relevant to specific articles. It will measure the impact of incorporating some community-requested features on logged-out reader retention.
• Changes to Watchlist view: Moderator Tools will be removing the list view of the Watchlist and defaulting everyone to the changelog view. By defaulting to the changelog view, we are simplifying the codebase and avoiding the likelihood of missing bugs.
• Wikifunctions quarterly planning: For October–December 2026, Wikifunctions will focus on two main areas: working with pilot communities towards bringing abstract articles into their Wikipedias, and making it easier to create and edit articles on Abstract Wikipedia.
• Suggestion Mode: To encourage newcomers to publish their first suggestion when using Suggestion Mode, implementation of the publish prompt on mobile has been completed.
• Onboarding newcomers: To encourage new editors to make their first edit, the early onboarding A/B test went live.
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 42 and 43 include CodeMirror syntax highlighting was enabled by default for all logged out and newly registered users on the English Wikipedia. See also the 54 community-submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Enable
See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Open geospatial dataset now released: Wikimedia Enterprise has released an open geospatial dataset containing 17 million OpenStreetMap elements linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Wikivoyage, as Parquet and GeoParquet files on Hugging Face and Kaggle.
• Wikimedia Enterprise partnership: How CoMaps Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Bring Wikipedia to Their Offline Maps.

Annual Goals Progress on Protect
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Better bot detection: There is a new bot detection system for traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. There might be sudden changes to visitor statistics starting on 26 October and going back to 20 June. This is because we will now be better at finding automated traffic which is trying to hide that it is coming from bots.

Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers

• The Wikipedia Library: Datawrapper is now available in The Wikipedia Library. This is a data visualisation platform to create and publish responsive charts, maps, and tables. If you're a contributor who qualifies for TWL, please feel free to apply for access and make use of this tool.

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