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Battle of San Marino has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Pencilceaser123 (talk) 09:06, 24 October 2025 (UTC)
week leading up to 2025-10-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #702.
Discussions
Events
- Upcoming events:
- 🎉 Wikidata’s 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games…and a 📣surprise announcement (don’t miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list – anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community… a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem…the sky’s the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
- WikidataCon 2025, October 31 – November 2, make sure to register at the event page.
- SPARQL workshop (in German): “From Zero to SPARQL. Eine Einführung in die Abfrage von Wissensgraphen (Schwerpunkt Wikidata)”, 4 Nov 2025, 10-13, free and open to all, online via Zoom. more information and registration
- The scholarship deadline for Wikimania 2026 is approaching fast: 31st of October. Apply today if you want to attend on a scholarship.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos:
- Presentations: Will AI Erase Us Again? The Role of Wikimedia Communities. Talk by John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2025 (Slides)
Tool of the week
- Nemo is a new Wikidata query tool by User:Markus Krötzsch the tool can answer queries, extracts subsets, and perform analyses in ways that SPARQL alone can’t. It also lets you combine Wikidata with other data sources.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- start work (work in which this statement about a fictional entity begins to be valid)
- end work (work in which this statement about a fictional entity ceases to be valid)
- image resolution (pixel resolution of images generated or captured by this item (camera, software, etc))
- display device resolution (physical pixel resolution of an electronic display)
- firmware (firmware installed on this hardware)
- Newest External identifiers: MultimediaWiki page ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, QCC Code, Jamaica company ID, SEC Number, Thailand company ID, gosfilmofond.ru ID, Cambodian company ID, English solicitors ID, Caixin company ID, Nebraska Authors author ID, Kick username, Archivio Storico Ricordi partiture ID, Fantacalcio ID, Plant Ontology ID, L’Équipe athlete ID, RSQV ID, NRK topic ID, OpenITI author ID, Mellopedia ID, Liste unique des décorés ID, Deník tag ID, Interaktionsdatabasen ID, Adebiportal author ID, Biographische Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder ID, ISLRN, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, RIA Novosti person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion entry ID, Qalamger.kz author ID, Does the Dog Die? media ID, Organ Index ID, American Kennel Club ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- New External identifier property proposals to review: NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature Periodical ID, HarmonyOS NEXT APP ID, Rechtsinformationen des Bundes-ID, UNESCO Virtual Museum inventory ID, South Korean Business Registration Number, SetesdalWiki ID, Biography.com ID, Mackolik football manager ID, S1 No.1 Style actress ID, biserici.org church ID, RFC, Hudobné centrum IDs, FAIR Epigraphic Vocabularies ID, NVLI ID, SerBenfiquista.com players ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
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Development
- Wikidata in Wikipedia and co:
- We worked on making Wikidata change summaries in recent changes and watchlist on the other Wikimedia projects more understandable by adding icons. This will be rolled out soon (phab:T397258)
- We continued the improvements to the Databox module (phab:T400322, phab:T400318)
- Mobile statement editing: We continued working on editing references (phab:T405236) and did clean-ups for the beta release (phab:T405743)
- GraphQL: We continued work on including labels of linked entities in responses
- Dumps: We are looking into why dump generation is slower than it should be recently
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
Hey @Andrew Gray. Your wiki edit anniversary is today, marking 21 years of dedicated contributions to English Wikipedia. Your passion for sharing knowledge and your remarkable contributions have not only enriched the project, but also inspired countless others to contribute. Thank you for your amazing contributions. Wishing you many more wonderful years ahead in the Wiki journey. 🙂 –❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 08:11, 30 October 2025 (UTC)
Hello, Andrew Gray. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.
Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users’ IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.
How do temporary accounts work?
- When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user’s browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account’s name will follow the pattern:
~2025-12345-67(a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5). - All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
- A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
- As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
- There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
- There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.
Temporary account IP viewer user right
Impact for administrators
- It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won’t be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
- It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
- Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).
Rules about IP information disclosure
- Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67’s IP address is 192.0.2.1).
- Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if “reasonably believed to be necessary”. (e.g.
~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR
, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67) - See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can’t be said for more detailed guidelines.
Useful tools for patrollers
- It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options →
- This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
- Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
- Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account’s activity.
- The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.
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The 2025 WikiCup has come to an end. Our top scorers, based on the tournament point rankings (which can be seen here), are:
Our high scorers in the final round were:
The final round was very productive, and contestants had 2 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 106 good articles, 5 good topic articles, 178 article reviews, 76 did you know articles, and 9 in the news articles. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!
The top eight scorers will receive awards shortly. The following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. These prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field during the competition.
A special mention also goes to these users who scored the highest in a particular category in a single round:
Next year’s competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate. The WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2026 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!
On behalf of the judges, Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email):
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week leading up to 2025-11-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #703.
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Samoasambia
- New requests for permissions/Bot: langCodesBot – Task(s): Python script to automate the cleanup of deprecated language codes (e.g., kr) from Wikidata items. Delete or move labels, descriptions, and aliases based on comparisons with fallback and related languages. The script uses the Pywikibot framework to process each item and logs cases it skips due to data inconsistencies or ambiguity to a CSV file for manual review.
- New request for comments: Exhibition models by Hexatekin – This proposal focuses on standardizing models for art exhibitions. There is not a consistent data model used for art exhibitions that factors in parent-child relationships for traveling exhibitions, show series, or biennials, despite these being important and common types of events in international art history.
Events
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Tool of the week
The Wikidata Reference Validator by User:JosefAnthony helps check and replace broken or outdated references — keeping Wikidata’s knowledge verifiable and trustworthy. It checks whether external references are still accessible or offline, so we can ensure that every statement on Wikidata shows how we know what we know.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: Newegg item ID, Hardcore Gaming 101 game ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Luminous flux (Numerical value of the luminous flux emitted by a lighting device or light source, measured in lumens)
- anatomical structure in view (the anatomical structure in view in the photo, e.g. head, wing, habitus (body))
- anatomical view (view of an anatomical structure, e.g. ventral, dorsal, frontal)
- collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field)
- Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: BG IISDA org ID, BG NACID person ID, GCatholic former diocese ID, Grokipedia ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland ID, Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID, Davis Cup player ID 2025, Eiga.com drama ID, AntCat ID, Last Address ID, Disney+ browse ID, Japanese Film Database ID, Japan Location Database ID, Fight.ru fighters ID, IMI person id
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Showcase Items: perestroïka
(Q167634) – political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform - Showcase Lexemes:baseline (L46097) – English noun (ˈbeɪslaɪn) meaning “a starting point for comparison”, “a benchmark in budgeting”, or “a reference line in typography or surveying”
Development
- Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work on qualifiers and reference editing
- GraphQL: We are continuing the work on making labels of linked entities available in GraphQL (phab:T404692)
- Dumps: We are continuing to look into improvements for the dump process
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
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2025).
