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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-44

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en:National Day of Bhutan

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National Day of Bhutan (Dzongkha: རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དུས་ཆེན་; Wylie: rgyal yongs dus chen) known as Gyalyong Düchen is a major national event celebrated annually on 17 December in the Kingdom of Bhutan

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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!

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The Signpost: 1 November 2026

• News and notes: AELECT5 concludes, a Wikimedian arrested for treason, and updates to GANs and FARs
  Nine new admins, three arrests, and a lot of GAN RFCs.

• Recent research: How Wikipedians use (or don't use) LLMs; experienced editors contribute more to "underproduced" articles than newbies
  And other new research findings.

• Disinformation report: Better bots or bothersome baby borgs?
  Have the Borg landed on Wikipedia?

• In the media: Stop the internet, I was deleted
  Can toeing the line stop the apocalypse?

• News from Diff: Why Wikimedia Is Speaking Up in a Major AI Copyright Case
  When AI companies use copyrighted information, does it qualify as fair use?

• By the numbers: Wikipedian Nobel Prize 2026
  Which language versions of Wikipedia had biographies of laureates before Nobel announcements?

• On the bright side: Gone fishing
  Touring Thailand, exploring iridescence, and translating prairie dog.

• Traffic report: October, and the articles are stripped bare
  Lots of deaths, Indian movies, and monsters. Happy Halloween!

• In focus: Two Roles, One Wikimedia Education Ecosystem
  What happens when different approaches to Wikimedia education connect?

• Comix: Inactivity
  Zounds!

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-45

The winner this Translation of the week is

en:AI washing

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AI washing is a deceptive marketing tactic that consists of promoting a product or a service by overstating the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and the integration of it. Companies often involve in the practice to mislead customers to boost their offerings, and to secure funding from investors. The practice raises concerns regarding transparency, and legal issues.

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - October 2026 Newsletter

This is our sixtieth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, 9, 10, 13, 15 and 17.

News

• World Malaria Day 2026: Promoting Public Health on Malaria on Wikipedia and Wikidata (SDG 3)
• How Wiki Loves Earth’s images expressed love in 2026 (SDG 15)
• Climate Change and Free Knowledge: Workshops for Editing Urgent Issues (SDG 13)
• From India to Uzbekistan: How Butterflies Brought Wikipedians Together (SDG 15)
• My WikiGap 2026 Journey in Uganda: Amplifying women’s stories through Wikimedia (SDG 5)
• Contributing plant-related knowledge to the Wikiverse - How and why to collaborate (SDG 15)

Events

• Upcoming

• 11 November: 24hr editathon for COP31 (SDG 13)

• On-going:

• Maritime Silk Road Edit a Thon (SDG 17)

• Past:

• Writing Wikipedia in ASL (SDG 10)
• Query Service Days 2026 (SDG 9)

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2026).

Administrator changes

• A412
• Bridget
• Bsherr
• Dreamyshade
• Ethmostigmus
• Iseult
• R Prazeres
• Tenshi Hinanawi
• TonySt
• Vermont

• Dennis Brown
• Queen of Hearts

• Ckatz
• SQL

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, election to ArbCom now requires at least 60% support. Successful candidates normally serve two-year terms, with one-year terms retained for filling vacancies. Proposals to change the election rules may now be added throughout the year and discussed on the talk page; formal discussion remains in September.
• Following an RfC, first-time reviewers’ reviews require an experienced reviewer’s check, and GA requirements now include alt text and accessible tables. Featured articles may receive GA status during removal discussions if they meet GA criteria. Backlog drives will run every five months, with a points leaderboard and awards for the top five participants.

Miscellaneous

• Self-nominations for the Arbitration Committee are open until 11 November 2026.
• Ongoing backlog drives: Copy editing, Unreference articles

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Wikidata weekly summary #756

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-11-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #755.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Horcrux - Closed as successful
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • CampaignCommsBot - Task/s: Add missing factual, sourced statements (identifiers, official website, party, candidacy, offices held, verified social accounts, freely licensed image) to existing items about US political candidates who use CampaignComms. Paid editing disclosed below.
  • Karlb42Bot - Task/s: Create a first sense with item for this sense (P5137) on lexemes that have no senses, when the item's label or alias in the lexeme's language equals the lemma.
  • PeneBot 1 - Task/s: Add ِPersian Wikipedia sitelinks to existing Wikidata items for French communes
  • AcervoFilmicoBot - Task/s: Create items for Mexican fiction television films (later also feature films), longer than 70 minutes, that have an IMDb ID but no Wikidata item.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Mezi bajty 1 - meetup of the Czech Wikidata community in Prague and online, 11th November 17:00 - 19:00 CET (in Czech, Slovak, English)
  • Hands-on workshop: Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond for students and researchers. 19 November 14:15 - 15:45 CET at the DH Lab, Philturm (C2003), University of Hamburg.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The intersection of OpenStreetMap and Wikidata by rtnF
  • (Deutsch) Wikidata turns 14 and creates new ways for free knowledge
  • My Two Favorite Holidays Collided: Halloween + Wikidata Day - The Stark Report and organising birthday celebrations at Wikidata NYC Day.
• Videos:
  • Query Service Days 2026 (Playlist) - catch up on any missed sessions
  • Wikidata. Wiki, data, or neither? by Marcin Cieślak, drawing on five years worth of observations of the Ionian Wikithon and LOD research to invite attendees to build a shared stance on teaching open data's value.
  • Vandalism Detection Systems for Wikipedia and Wikidata by Mykola Trokhymovych. Presents two projects designed to aid patrolling and vandalism detection including Graph2Text designed for Wikidata.
  • Epistemic Practices Behind Wikidata’s Ontology Evolution with Marcin Roszkowski. Wikidata's Ontology can and does change, who shapes and makes those decisions? This talk explores that.
  • Data, Science, and Technology Talk Show 2026: Data Reuse: (AI) reusing Wikidata’s data - (this session is in English but has a Bahasa Indoesian introduction) Alan Ang (WMDE) discusses how Wikidata is being reused in the development of AI.
  • Repertory of Colonial Plunder from the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab. Explores issues that arise from encoding looted cultural heritage items on digital data platforms, with three exemplary cases.
  • RDA Wikibase Cloud Sandbox Demonstration 2: Creating "Stub" WEMI Entities with Access Points - create initial linked data entities for a work, expression, manifestation, and item associated with a single-part manifestation.
  • RDA Wikibase Cloud Sandbox Demonstration 3: Describing Manifestations Pt. I - describe a single-part manifestation.
• Presentations: Query Service Days 2026 - slides for all presentations are on Commons

Tool of the week

• wd-provenance : A tool that analyzes Wikidata item provenance, historical edits, deleted facts, and active contributor rankings by parsing its revision history.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • ‎part of the observance of (holiday or observance during which this tradition is observed, this item is used, or this story or story element is commemorated)
    • ‎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)
  • External identifiers: ‎IBA cocktail ID, IT History Forum Data Archive ID, BGA numeric ID, BGA ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology equipment ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Politicômetro (politician identifier on the Politicômetro website)
    • Derived from language (language from which a lexeme is directly derived, when the source lexeme is unknown or not yet available on Wikidata)
    • Yaayuwee ethnobotanical use (category of traditional use of a plant taxon by the Yaayuwee people of Garoua-Boulaï, Cameroon {{!}} fr=catégorie d'usage traditionnel d'une plante par le peuple Yaayuwee de Garoua-Boulaï)
    • reuses footage from (audiovisual work from which this work incorporates pre-existing moving-image footage)
    • name on ballot (name used on the ballot for an election)
  • External identifiers: VSCO username, Docker Hub namespace, il Palio.Siena.it Palio ID, il Palio.Siena.it jockey ID, il Palio.Siena.it person ID, ilpalio.org jockey ID, ilpalio.org Palio ID, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Belarus) ID, VLKK given name ID, Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames ID, Austriasoccer.at football players ID, HKeL ID, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Library authority ID, Sraidainm ID, RNAL registration number, KEIBA.GO.JP horse ID, 2Day Chrono-Wiki ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae
  • Project GovanStones
  • Project Irish Round Towers
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Epigraphy - new data model, workshop and taster session.

Development

• REST API:
  • We added the ability to add Forms and Senses to a Lexeme when creating a Lexeme
  • We are working on modifying an existing Lexeme
• hCaptcha: We are continuing to adapt the UI and APis for the upcoming rollout of hCaptcha
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are doing usability tests for a new filter option for Recent changes and Watchlist to filter out changes to sitelinks
• Mobile UI: We are addressing small issues that came up after the rollout for everyone

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: 2026-45

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

• Many Wikimedia tools were taken offline last week because of a security vulnerability in PHP. This affected many websites worldwide. Toolforge and Cloud VPS have been back up since October 22. Many important tools have been gradually restored. Some tools need the respective volunteer maintainers to restart them. Others still need to upgrade to a patched PHP version. Some tools were using older versions of PHP which are not supported by the recent security patches. They will require maintainers to upgrade to a more recent version. This might require additional effort. You can follow the work on Wikitech.

Updates for editors

• A new optional search experiment is running in the Wikipedia Android and iOS apps for Arabic, French, and Japanese Wikipedias. Participating readers can search inside articles and open quoted passages directly in their source articles, no answers or summaries are generated. This is the first of four experiments in Phase 2 of Semantic Search. It began on October 22 and runs for 20 days. Feedback is welcome on the project’s discussion page.
• The Future Audiences team is planning to bring Share Cards to Wikipedia on mobile. This feature gives users the option to share a visually appealing card with friends, based on the article they are reading. The card contains the article’s title, image, opening text, and related attribution, and links back to the article for full reading. Editors are invited to try out this feature by adding ?useformat=mobile&sharecard=1 to any article URL from October 29 to November 8. Share any thoughts on the project talk page and report any bugs on Phabricator.
• The default renderer for math formulas will change on November 2. After the change, the server sends the formula as MathML, and your browser uses MathJax to show it. This is the last step towards the Mathoid/RESTBase deprecation process, for sustainability and security reasons. You can ask questions or report problems.
• Do you have an idea for a new feature, or a bug that needs fixing? Submit your suggestion for the community wish list by November 8!
• View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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