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Administrators' newsletter – October 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2026).
Administrator changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the good article criteria have been amended to add accessibility requirements.
- Following an RfC, late signatures added to administrator recall petitions after 720 hours from opening are reverted or struck and do not count towards the threshold, even if the petition has not yet been formally closed.
- The post-May 2026 administrator elections RfCs concluded with consensus for election monitors to curate blatantly inappropriate questions after posting, and to remove or merge true duplicates, clearly marking merged questions. Calls for candidates will include advisory guidance that users with less than one year’s experience or 5,000 edits generally lack a realistic chance of success.
Technical news
- Interface administrators no longer need to specify the
ResourceLoaderoption in the definitions for gadgets on MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition as gadgets are always loaded throughResourceLoader. (T298199) - The
list=abusefiltersAPI module now supportsformatversion=2and includes breaking changes to its responses. In particular, theactionsproperty is now a JSON array rather than a string, regardless of the format version. Maintainers of user scripts and other code using this module should check compatibility and update their code as needed. (T435828)
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Gun control 2 has been closed.
Obituaries
- Doug Weller passed away on 30 September 2026. Doug Weller began editing Wikipedia in 2006 and became an administrator in 2008, making nearly 275,000 edits over two decades. He served on the Arbitration Committee from 2015 through 2018 and was also a longtime CheckUser and Oversighter.
Miscellaneous
- The October 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from September 29 to October 19. The call for candidates ends October 5.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2026 Arbitration Committee elections is opened and closes on 8 October.
- The Good Article Nominations backlog drive has begun and is scheduled to end on November 3.
Wikidata weekly summary #752
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-10-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #751.
week leading up to 2026-10-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #751.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- SaadBot - Task/s: A read-only (no edits) entity lookups for an academic research project building a relation triplet extraction (RTE) dataset from web text.
- OKA bot - Tasks: Improve Wikidata items using authoritative open datasets, e.g., national mapping data and reference works: add sources, fill gaps, create missing items and report conflicts from the Swisstopo dataset and its subsets.
- FoxfindingBot - Task/s: Passively enrich existing Wikidata games with gog.com metadata
- Wahl.de Bot - Task/s: Keep mandate data of German parliamentary members current. Edits to end date (P582), successor/replaced by (P1366), start time (P580), parliamentary term (P2937)retrieved and sourced from official sources.
- New request for comments: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Split needed from Q4167836: Split Wikimedia category (Q4167836) into two items, because one is for MediaWiki non-main namespace (Q35252665) and the other is for Wikimedia project page (Q14204246)
Events
- Upcoming events:
- On October 9 ends up the early-bird registration with its reduced fees for MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2026, November 11-13, at Jožef Stefan Institute (Q5918873). The program is already set up!
- Wikidata's 14th birthday (Q139103554) in Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2026, 24 Oct 2026.
- (Deutsch) Wikidata Writing Workshop, takes place Saturday, 31 October, 10:00 to 13:00 CEST at the Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, Obere Vorstadt 6, 5000 Aarau.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- (Deutsch) Domus – an open data project on the history of houses - Wikidata and FactGrid Wikibase combine to help build a map visualiser.
- WikiNusantara 2026: a second chance in Makassar
- N-RICH: a new Wikimedia Project to explore Wikidata as a connective layer for UK cultural heritage infrastructure
- Videos:
- (Short) Schomburg Center’s 2026 Wikidata Edit-a-thon during the New York Black and African Literature Festival
- RLUK DSF | Linked data and the research library - explores how libraries are engaging with linked data (including Wikidata) and what this means for metadata creation, management, and discovery.
- Wikidata 14th Birthday Celebration stream with Africa Wiki Women.
- AI BRIDGES Open Forum meeting, the September 2026 meeting, showcasing updates from the DARIAH’s DHWiki working group on Wikibase.
- Exploring networks of artists and scientists with the Wikidata Query Service.
- (Spanish) What does Wikidata contribute to open library data? with Elena Sánchez Nogales.
- LD4 Conference streams:
- Sessions 1 / Building more complete and linked GLAM datasets: The Smithsonian’s (In)Visible Women’s Project
- Sessions 2, incl.
- Sessions 4 including Finding where to contribute on Wikidata with Dustpan and Broomstick. Wikidata is mentioned throughout the stream.
- Sessions 5 / Reduced Fuzziness in Semantic Kompakkt 3D Object Viewer through Extensive Data Modelling in Wikibase
- Sessions 9 / Using Wikidata to Improve the Visibility of African Women in Open Knowledge
- Sessions 10 / From Sounds to Solidarity: Jazz, Student Protests, and Wikidata
- Wikidata Affinity Group: Working with Corporate Bodies for EMCO
Tool of the week
- Mergers & Acquisitions: A Wikidata Merge Assistant, a new web app that surfaces possible duplicate items from Wikidata and provides a simple interface for evaluating the candidate pairs and merging them together or marking them as different.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- disjoint with (instances of this type cannot be simultaneously instances of that type)
- contribution URL (URL of a page explaining how to participate in or contribute to a project or organization)
- atomic radius (measured or calculated radius of an atom of a chemical element)
- covalent radius (radius of an atom of a chemical element when covalently bonded)
- Van der Waals radius (radius of an imaginary hard sphere representing the distance of closest approach for a non-bonded atom)
- External identifiers: Tric Trac game ID, Techniques de l'Ingénieur author ID, Stereo Ve Mono release ID, Sky programme ID, Sky series ID, Scent Base perfumes ID, Register of British Slave Traders person ID, Onderwijstermen Taalunie ID, NZPCN legacy ID, Biopsa ID, Writers at Risk database ID, LEO-BW person (GND) ID, Leipziger Biographie ID, Jersey HER Reference, Isle of Man Registered Building No., Holy See cardinal biography ID, Google Search profile handle, Filmbaze people ID, China Railway Pinyin code, belarusenc.by ID, BLL-Ontology concept ID, IFWiki article, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage designer ID, Eldoblatge original actor ID, Eldoblatge original dub actor ID, Drag France directory ID, OrthodoxWiki ID (French), Le Maitron author ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage glossary ID, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage material ID, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage object type ID, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage technique ID, Brussels Inventory of Natural Heritage taxon ID, WE League manager ID, WE League player ID, ArchaMap ID, Womens German Basketball Bundesliga Player ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- 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)
- school of martial arts (school or style of martial arts this person studied)
- External identifiers: YouSaid person ID, Demko ID, Niconico Pedia article ID, Scholastica scholar ID, Hannah Arendt edition person ID, AbeBooks author ID (2), Identifiant dans Calames, identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du Centre Delavouët
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Schema examples: ICH item(E379) - schema for a Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage item in the international lists or national inventories.
- Newest WikiProjects: EastEnders (TV series) - a project for the BBC soap opera.
- Newest database reports: The EntitySchema Directory
Development
- REST API: Continuing the work on adding support for lexicographical data, specifically creating a statement, Form and Sense on a Lexeme
- Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into raising the entity usage limit. We are setting up monitoring to see how much it can reduce the amount of Recent Changes entries triggered from Wikidata.
- Mobile editing of statements: We continued addressing the remaining UX issues, including RTL and Kartographer issues
- hCaptcha: We are planning the support for it to Wikibase-specific pages like Special:New Item
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: Tanzania
- 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!
This Month in GLAM: September 2026
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Wikidata weekly summary #753
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-10-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #752.
week leading up to 2026-10-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #752.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- DERDAKI ILIAS - RfP scheduled to end after 13 October 2026 11:19 (UTC)
- Aue Nai - RfP scheduled to end after 15 October 2026 02:58 (UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- OKA bot 2 - Tasks: Two additional datasets for the (already approved task of OKA bot). For each entry, the bot finds the matching item, adds the identifier if it is missing, and adds the facts the entry states, each referenced to the entry.
- MisovalkoProfileBot - Task: A narrowly scoped source-verification and, only if approved, existing-item update process for Q97454550.
- RegularBot 4 - Task/s: Create new items from Wikipedias.
- GZWDer (flood) 7 - Task/s: Import data from external sources in comply with the recently approved Wikidata:Mass-editing policy.
- GZWDer (flood) 8 - Task/s: Adding mul labels and aliases; cleanup existing labels in certain cases. No edits to other people's biographies, invented conference items, undocumented private engagements, unsupported future appearances, or promotional link dumps.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot, all closed as successful: MamouriBot, OKA bot, Rebot, Rebot 2, Rebot 3, Rebot 4
- New request for comments: Requests for comment/has part (P527) for european political alliances (Q127603408) - Q127603408 (European political alliance) was created as a subclass of Q60170135 (political alliance) for european parties. While Q60170135 allows using has part(s) (Property:P527), they were reverted, with "Members are not "parts".
- Closed request for comments:
- Mass-editing Policy - Consensus reached, the policy will be implemented.
- External Identifier sorting - No consensus
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wikidata Query Service Days commences 17 October, until 23 October, make sure to register for access.
- See the full program, sessions will repeat for different timezones
- Wikidata's 14th Birthday is coming, 29 October. Join the Birthday call and see what presents have been prepared, and see what community events are happening near you.
- Wikidata Days in Africa 2026
- Dates, location and scholarships are open for: Wikimania 2027
- Dates and location for next Wikimedia Hackathon has been announced and scholarship applications are open: Wikimedia Hackathon 2027 * Previous event:
- If you missed the quarterly Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour, you can find the transcript here.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: P101 - field of work by rtnF
- Videos:
- Access to Memory (AtoM) with Wikidata links.
- Lightning Talk Wikilokal Exploring Wikimedia Around You with Affandy Murad, it combines information from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, and Nominatim within a 3-kilometer radius.
- RDA Wikibase Cloud Sandbox Demonstration: Creating an Account and Logging In - demonstrates account creation and login process for Crystal Yragui's Wikibase cloud instance: A sandbox for students at University of Washington information school as they learn Official RDA cataloging.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Reference Validator - A tool which helps validate external references of Wikidata items to check if their links are still accessible or now offline. This matters because we want to ensure that we have solid references for statements in Wikidata, so we can demonstrate how we know what we know
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata talk:Mass-editing policy has been accepted and is now in effect.
- Wikifunctions Status Update 2026-09-25 (The Mayor of Paris) and Wikidata's spread across Wikipedias.
- Editing Wikidata statements on mobile devices is officially launching soon!
The beta is ending, from October 14, all editors will be able to edit all datatypes from mobile devices.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- disambiguated by (Links a Wikibase Lexeme to a general disambiguation page, such as a [[Q4167410|Wikipedia disambiguation page]].)
- biome (biome in which a geographical area is wholly or partly located, according to a documented ecological classification)
- External identifiers: Bibliothèque nationale de Tunisie ID, Mappola ID, On Think Tanks ID, Beeld & Geluid program ID, Le Random subject ID, RETE ID, identificativo Corago di un evento, AVN company ID, AVN person ID 2, swissNAMES3D ID, THB Wiki ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum-id
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Current collections of Astrolabes by the Lahore astrolabists (relevant English Wikipedia article)
Development
- Mobile statement editing: We fixed a few remaining issues before the full roll-out to everyone later this week.
- hCaptcha support: We planned how to integrate support for hCaptcha in the Wikibase-related pages.
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are collecting feedback from the first wikis about removing the language link change entries from Recent changes and watchlists.
- We are collecting data to determine how much we can increase the entity usage limit.
- REST API: We are continuing to add support for Lexeme editing to the REST API.
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!
