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Request for comment (the future of Abstract Wikipedia)
[editovat | editovat zdroj]Apologies if this has not yet been translated into your wiki's language. Prosíme, pomozte s překladem do svého jazyka You are invited to voice your opinions in a request for comment about the future of Abstract Wikipedia. Děkujeme! Kowal2701 (talk) 24. 7. 2026, 14:24 (CEST)
- V skratke: Chcete, aby ešte bola Abstract Wikipedia alebo už nie? --Dušan Kreheľ (diskuse) 24. 7. 2026, 17:53 (CEST)
- Nikdy jsem příliš nepochopil, k čemu ten projekt vlastně slouží, respektive proč to potřebuje mít vlastní projekt. Přijde mi, že jde o jakýsi hybrid wikislovníku, wikidat a asi i něčeho dalšího. Uživatelská základna není zrovna velká, za poslední měsíc prý 136 aktivních editorů (velmi aktivních sotva desítky), od vzniku projektu v březnu 2026 na něm vzniklo sotva 2 tisíce jakýchsi stráneček. Viděl bych to docela skepticky. --V0lkanic (diskuze) 5. 8. 2026, 01:02 (CEST)
- Pokud jsem to dobře pochopil, tak je to hra pro Dennyho Vrandecice, aspoň tak to chápu já. :) Dokonce si dovedu představit, že to mělo dobrou myšlenku. Ale teď, v době brutálního rozvoje AI tenhle projekt podle mě ztratil smysl. Ty prachy by měla nadace sypat do vlastního pěkného modelu, který bude specializovaně tvořit pahýly článků dle informací, které má z Wikiprojektů. Navíc editovat Wikifunkce (a tím tuplem Abstract Wikipedii) bude schopno a ochotno editovat ... no jednotky lidí. Za mě je to zralý na konec. Ale počkám si, až k tomu dojdou sami.--frettie.net (diskuse) 5. 8. 2026, 16:18 (CEST)
- Já to vidím podobně a taky jsem se tak vyjádřil. Nejdřív jsem si pár editací zkusil. Edituje se to hodně těžkopádně, upravit něco v případě delších "článků" (kterých je jen pár) je praktick nemožné. Hlavně ale ten výsledek mimo angličtinu vypadá ve finále hodně bídně (třeba zrovna v češtině). --Jklamo (diskuse) 18. 8. 2026, 10:59 (CEST)
- Pokud jsem to dobře pochopil, tak je to hra pro Dennyho Vrandecice, aspoň tak to chápu já. :) Dokonce si dovedu představit, že to mělo dobrou myšlenku. Ale teď, v době brutálního rozvoje AI tenhle projekt podle mě ztratil smysl. Ty prachy by měla nadace sypat do vlastního pěkného modelu, který bude specializovaně tvořit pahýly článků dle informací, které má z Wikiprojektů. Navíc editovat Wikifunkce (a tím tuplem Abstract Wikipedii) bude schopno a ochotno editovat ... no jednotky lidí. Za mě je to zralý na konec. Ale počkám si, až k tomu dojdou sami.--frettie.net (diskuse) 5. 8. 2026, 16:18 (CEST)
- Nikdy jsem příliš nepochopil, k čemu ten projekt vlastně slouží, respektive proč to potřebuje mít vlastní projekt. Přijde mi, že jde o jakýsi hybrid wikislovníku, wikidat a asi i něčeho dalšího. Uživatelská základna není zrovna velká, za poslední měsíc prý 136 aktivních editorů (velmi aktivních sotva desítky), od vzniku projektu v březnu 2026 na něm vzniklo sotva 2 tisíce jakýchsi stráneček. Viděl bych to docela skepticky. --V0lkanic (diskuze) 5. 8. 2026, 01:02 (CEST)
- Jsem pro zachování. Je to skvělí nápad. Taky jsem to neznal, tak jsem se na to podíval, podle návodu jsem něco vložil. Myšlenka je opravdu dobrá. V Abstract Wikipedia se nepíší články, ale jen se zadávají položky z Wikidat, které se pak zobrazí v jednoduchých větách. A ty vzniklé věty se zobrazují v jazyku ve kterém máte mobil, tablet, nebo počítač. Je to skvělé využití wikidat a informací, které jsou tam uloženy. Na české Wikipedii již, na tomto principu něco podobného máme. Wikidata využíváme v infoboxech. Já bych navrhoval, aby Abstraktní Wikipedii needitovali lidé, ale aby ty informace z Wikidat přidával program autamaticky, také bych zlepšil vzhled jednotlivých stránek. Když se na projektu bude pokračovat a dotáhne se do konce, bude to zajímavé doplnění k Wikipedii.--Podroužek (diskuse) 13. 8. 2026, 05:52 (CEST)
- Když se na projektu bude pokračovat a dotáhne se do konce. No to je právě ono. To by vyžadovalo tímhle tempem ještě tak několik stovek let práce. --V0lkanic (diskuze) 15. 8. 2026, 21:50 (CEST)
- Ano, souhlas. Ve vývoji je už od roku 2020, od března 2026 ve stádiu "Beta". A výsledek pak vypadá nějak takhle (to je 6. nejdelší článek na AW). Za Nadaci na to pracuje 13 lidí, min. 5 mil. dolarů už tam proteklo (přesná čísla neznáme, požadavek na ně je jedním z bodů RfC).
- Ale asi je čas tuhle diskuzi přesunout někam jinam, tady v oznamovací lípě by se diskutovat němelo (a tolik lidí to tady nečte). --Jklamo (diskuse) 18. 8. 2026, 11:22 (CEST)
- Když se na projektu bude pokračovat a dotáhne se do konce. No to je právě ono. To by vyžadovalo tímhle tempem ještě tak několik stovek let práce. --V0lkanic (diskuze) 15. 8. 2026, 21:50 (CEST)
Registrujte se na Celorepublikového setkání
[editovat | editovat zdroj]V sobotu 17. října 2026 proběhne Celorepublikové setkání, které navazuje na Komunitní wikikonferenci. Více informací najdete na stránce wikikonference.cz. Prosíme všechny zájemce, kteří projevili předběžný zájem o účast, aby se registrovali závazně v tomto formuláři. Příprava programu proběhne v rámci večera Otevřená Wikimedia v úterý 22. září 2026 od 18:00 hodin. Děkujeme. --Pavel Bednařík (WMCZ) (diskuse) 11. 8. 2026, 17:18 (CEST)
- @Pavel Bednařík (WMCZ): Formulář mi hlásí: Potřebujete přístup. Požádejte o přístup nebo přepněte na účet s přístupem. --V0lkanic (diskuze) 11. 8. 2026, 18:16 (CEST)
- Chybka se vloudila. Už by to mělo být v pořádku. Díky za upozornění. --Pavel Bednařík (WMCZ) (diskuse) 12. 8. 2026, 05:19 (CEST)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 15
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Highlights
- Improving Account Creation process: As part of Account Creation Experiments an improved account creation form has been released. The form now provides live username validation, a clearer username policy popover, and a reveal password button. We also removed redundant elements and jarring warning messages, improved the form's information hierarchy, and aligned the design with Codex design system guidelines.
- Create charts from your own data: The new ChartWizard makes the Chart extension more beginner-friendly by allowing editors to create charts, such as bar and pie charts, without needing to use JSON. The ChartWizard is now available on Wikimedia Commons. Feedback on the new tool is welcome on the wish talk page.
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
- Worklist Feature Setup Workshop: Are you organizing or planning a Wikimedia editing event soon? Join one of these workshops (Aug 18 at 16:00 UTC and Aug 19 at 11:00 UTC) to set up the new worklist feature for your event. With this feature, organizers can list the specific articles their event will focus on, directly on the event page.
- Reading Lists to launch as full feature: The Reading Lists, a Community Wishlist item, will be launched in September as a full feature. Volunteer translator help is needed for string translations into a number of languages before the launch.
- Improving Commons' section headings: The table of contents on Wikimedia Commons file pages was improved to make it easier to understand a file page’s structure, navigate to specific sections, and share links to individual sections.
- From Abstract Wikipedia: An apple is a fruit and new experimental type: anonymous functions.
- Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment would test methods for email confirmation enforcement for new accounts to determine which approach is the most effective at driving email confirmation. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 32 and 33 include that Category pages will soon support sorting entries by the time they are added to a category to make it easier to find recently or long-standing categorized pages. See also the 43 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Protect
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- Don't blink: Representing Wikimedia at the United Nations’ Open Source Week and other latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
- Online Identity Verification: Anonymity is Important for Democracy and It’s Also at Risk.
Board and Board committee updates
See also: Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees: Reflections on Wikimania 2026.
Other updates
- Leadership: Wikimedia Foundation will welcome Rena Kokalari as new Chief People Officer from 1 September.
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The Signpost: 24 August 2026
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- In the media: Wikipedia editors save Sam Altman's life
- Recent research: Women in blue? Wikipedia's gender gap reverses in some areas
- Discussion report: Again and Again
- Traffic report: Look out, here comes the Spider-Man!
- On the bright side: The great outdoors
- Opinion: Are we embarrassed yet?
- Comix: WP:FAOWN
CEE Technical Village Pump
[editovat | editovat zdroj]Prosíme, pomozte s překladem do svého jazyka
The CEE Technical Village Pump is a new space for Wikimedia contributors and communities across the CEE region to request technical help, exchange solutions, and get support from experienced contributors.
To introduce the project and give a quick overview of how it works, we’ve prepared this short video.
The page is currently available in English. We’d like to make it accessible to communities across the region in their local languages, and we’d appreciate your help translating it.
Best regards, MediaWiki message delivery (diskuse) 26. 8. 2026, 11:09 (CEST)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 16
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Highlights
- Simplifying account creation: The Special:CreateAccount page has been simplified as part of ongoing work to modernize the account creation experience. Multiple account creation experiments show that a simpler form helps newcomers complete registration.
- Movement Ecosystem strategy: Deadline to provide feedback on the first version of the proposal are extended until Sep 30 to allow more time for community feedback and discussion.
- New format for the Community Wishlist: You can read the proposed ideas on Meta. This new process plans to improve how wishes are triaged, voted on, and prioritized in a way that is transparent and balanced across project families and language editions. Please let us know what you think will work well or if there are ways to make this proposal stronger. This consultation is open for two weeks.
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
- Improving page performance: In order to improve page performance, images now load when they are viewed. This means images that are lower down within an article will not load if a reader never scrolls to that part of the page, which may affect some image-related metrics.
- Android Reading list updates: Some of the recent Android releases include updates to the Saved feature. This first round of changes on the Android app include redesigning the "Saved" tab to include an "All articles" view, and remove the user-facing default "Saved" reading list.
- Reading list on desktop: Reading lists has been released on Chinese, Bengali, Czech, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. The feature is now available for logged-in users on those wikis.
- Event Registration tool: The Worklist feature for the Event Registration tool is now live on all Wikimedia wikis. With Worklist, event organizers can add the articles their event will focus on directly to the event page. The Worklist also powers Event Pathways which notifies other editors of the upcoming or ongoing event when they edit an article featured in the event’s Worklist.
- Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy: Wikimedia is participating in Round 33 of the Outreachy program that runs from December 2026 through March 2027. The deadline to submit projects on Phabricator is Sept 4 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by Sep 11.
- Latest experiments: A current experiment is testing to introduce a new content type in Apps home. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 34 and 35 include that a new Wikipedia in Bole has been created. See also the 58 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
- UwER Conference: In December, the Wikimedia Portugal and Wikimedia Foundation will be hosting a first-of-its-kind convening for users with extended rights. Applications to attend opened August 13 and will close on September 4.
Annual Goals Progress on Enable
See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Wikimedia Endowment: Updates from the July 2026 Wikimedia Endowment Board Meeting.
Annual Goals Progress on Protect
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
- Legal footer update: The Foundation had updated the Legal and Safety Contact Information on 300+ content wikis. The project adds a link to a Foundation-managed central page where people can find contact information to report illegal issues and serve official legal notices. This helps to resolve gaps if community-managed contact pages are missing or incomplete.
Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- Collaboration: UNESCO and Wikimedia Movement deepen their partnership at Wikimania 2026.
- Digitization: Bringing Balinese Manuscripts to Wikimania 2026.
- Language related projects: Read some key highlights from the latest edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
Board and Board committee updates
See also: Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- AffCom: The Affiliations Committee is extending the pause on new affiliate recognition until the affiliate recognition and funding model is further clarified.
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 17
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Highlights
- Data center switch: All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 23 at 14:00 UTC as part of a scheduled switchover to allow for essential maintenance and improvements. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes in advance.
- Baseline NPOV Policy: The public conversation regarding the proposed baseline NPOV policy for Wikipedias that do not yet have one has been concluded. Read the summary report and the updated baseline NPOV policy text and enforcement guidance here.
- Save the date. Wikimania 2027 will be taking place in Santiago, Chile, and online from August 18 to 21, with the theme "The Internet we want". See the Wikimania 2026 coverage highlights and a brief update on what's ahead.
- Chart extension is now beginner-friendly: Creating graphs and charts previously required manual JSON editing. In response to a Community wish to make the Charts extension more user-friendly, a new Visual mode for adding values has been introduced.
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
- Introducing TextMatch: Communities are shaping Suggestion Mode with TextMatch to create custom suggestions that are tailored to their own policies and writing conventions. Share your feedback.
- Visual editor becoming default: Design work on the user experience for visual editing for newcomers is underway. This follows visual editor becoming default on English Wikipedia following a community discussion.
- Community Wishlist 2027 consultation: The consultation on the proposed new Wishlist process is closing this week. This year's cycle plans for wish submissions in late October/early November, triage completed by late November, and voting in early to mid January. Share feedback in any language on the talk page.
- Improved Add a Link feature: Add a Link has been upgraded for English Wikipedia users with improved detection of links that have different capitalization. This will help reduce ambiguous suggestions caused by differences in capitalization in article titles, including articles about cultural goods.
- Wikipedia Android app: Latest release includes updates to the Saved feature, bringing the app’s saving experience closer to iOS and Web. The update redesigns the Saved tab with an “All articles” view, removes the default “Saved” reading list, renames reading lists to “Collections,” and modernizes the article-saving experience.
- Domain change for thumbnails: The domain of URLs for thumbnails is changing from
upload.wikimedia.orgtothumb.wikimedia.org. The old URLs will continue to work but MediaWiki will advertise the new domain instead. Original files, videos, and transcodes will still be served fromupload.wikimedia.org. - Reading lists rollout continues on desktop: Following the initial deployment to Bengali, Chinese, Czech, and Vietnamese Wikipedias, reading lists went live on Arabic, French, and Indonesian Wikipedias and will go live on English Wikipedia on Sep 14, with all remaining wikis following on Sep 28.
- New features of Pageviews Analysis: Several new features have been added to the Pageviews Analysis tool which allows users to compare pageviews across multiple pages. They include WikiNav which provides insights into how readers of Wikipedia explore the content, editing stats in Siteviews, the ability to lookup articles belonging to a WikiProject, and support for dark mode.
- Article guidance: As part of an A/B experiment, Article guidance is now available in Turkish and Simple English.
- Latest experiments: A current experiment for logged-out mobile readers on Bengali, Czech, English, Farsi, and Polish Wikipedias is testing whether simplifying the Minerva navigation bar improves reader retention. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Wikifunctions status updates: Thanks to all contributors, Wikifunctions has now reached 5,000 functions.
- Latest highlights from Tech News: Weeks 36 and 37 of Tech News include the Article guidance feature is now enabled by default for editors with less than 100 edits on Simple English and Turkish Wikipedia.
Annual Goals Progress on Enable
See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Affiliates and grant funding: Have your say on proposals establishing (1) a new model and set of expectations for movement affiliates; (2) new, connected requirements to determine eligibility for receiving Community Fund grants from the Wikimedia Foundation; and (3) updated criteria for affiliate recognition processes.
- Community Fund reflections: Read the reflections on the fiscal year 2025–2026 of the Rapid Fund and General Support Fund, covering $17.73 million across 427 grants in 90 countries, with 56.2% distributed outside North America and Northern & Western Europe.
Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- World of Wikipedia launches: The World of Wikipedia game has been released. It is an online collectible card game where players sort fact from fiction across Wikipedia articles to build their card library. The game is the latest experiment in reaching younger audiences through familiar formats, following Wikispeedia on Roblox and Which Came First? on the Wikipedia app.
Other updates
See also: Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Celebrate Women 2026: Read the impact of Celebrate Women 2026 as the campaign concluded with 112 events, 238,222 unreverted content edits and 2,499,773,577 bytes added.
- US staff union vote: On Sep 3, eligible Wikimedia Foundation staff in the United States voted in favor of union representation in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election.
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The Signpost: 16 September 2026
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- In the media: Shocking photos may be changed on Wikipedia
- Disinformation report: Have UN Secretary-General candidates manipulated Wikipedia?
- Recent research: Google's AI overviews may have reduced search engine referrals to English Wikipedia by 5%
- WikiConference report: The backwater symbiosis – reflections from Wiki Conference India 2026
- Traffic report: Heaven let your light shine down
- Serendipity: Wikipedia Family Mosh Pit
- On the bright side: Fantasy video games, hopeful science fiction, and the change of seasons
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 18
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Highlights
- Introducing the Wikipedia Starter Kit: The Foundation has launched a new Toolforge-hosted tool giving new and small language Wikipedia communities a guided pathway through essential onboarding tasks, activity indicators, and connections to the wider movement.
- Apply for a scholarship to Wikimania 2027: Scholarship applications are now open to attend Wikimania 2027 in Santiago. To help with preparing submissions, orientation sessions in Spanish, Portuguese, and English will be held starting the week of October 5. The final deadline is October 31.
- Reading Lists rolling out to all Wikipedias: Starting September 28, logged-in users on every Wikipedia will be able to save articles to a "read later" list using the bookmark icon, following successful rollouts on Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
- WikiCelebrate: WikiCelebrating Juan "BugWarp" Kulichevsky, who has contributed to Wikimedia projects since childhood and is passionate about sports photography and community building in Argentina and beyond.
- The 2026 appointment cycle is open now through 31 October 2026 for the Ombuds Commission (OC) and the Case Review Committee (CRC). You can learn more about the committees, the roles, and how to apply on the Committee Appointments page on Meta-wiki.
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
- Community Wishlist 2027: The Community Wishlist Process is now updated, taking into account the feedback received. Look out for the call for wish submissions towards the end of October.
- Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026: From Sep 18-20, Wikimedians, open-knowledge researchers, and free-culture advocates from Central and Eastern Europe gathered for the first time in Romania. Take a look at the novelties and history behind CEE Meeting.
- Increasing account creation: To convert more casual users into logged-in daily users, the evergreen account creation prompt is released into Beta / TestFlight for iOS and Android. Also, a new post-edit notice designed to encourage Temporary Account holders to register for a permanent account will now be released to all wikis. The new notice has proven to increase permanent account creation from 1.94% to 3.66%.
- VisualEditor is now the default at English Wikipedia: this wiki has now adopted VisualEditor as the default editor on both desktop and mobile web, following a sitewide discussion that found overwhelming consensus to make the change.
- Retesting image carousel: The image carousel experiment will be retested using three new versions of the design, updated based on community feedback. The team will assess results and determine with communities whether or not to proceed with the feature.
- Wikifunctions: Your code can now call back to the Wikidata fetch functions. Wikifunctions have deployed an initial capability by which a code Implementation (in JavaScript or Python) can call certain other Wikifunctions Functions, get back the result, and have it available for further processing.
- Latest experiments: A current experiment is testing whether offering a "generic guidance" path for Article Guidance that does not depend on a Wikidata match would increase the chances of more article creation attempts. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 38 and 39 include a Reader Growth experiment testing whether showing only part of an article at first on mobile, with a “Read more” button to reveal the rest, encourages people to keep reading. See also the 56 community-submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
- Suggestions for Transliterated Search: If you regularly use two different writing systems (such as Hindi and Latin alphabet), sometimes you accidentally type with the wrong one and need to switch to the right keyboard. Now, this gadget will be able to suggest query based on what you typed.
- Peer-to-peer learning program: Let’s Connect, a peer-to-peer learning program is shifting to a community-organized model.
- LLM Paste Check rolling out to Wikipedia: A new Edit Check will prompt editors who paste text likely copied from an external AI chatbot to consider whether it aligns with movement AI-use policies and decide whether to keep or remove it. It goes live as a default-on feature at English Wikipedia on Sep 24 and at all Wikipedias on Oct 8.
Annual Goals Progress on Enable
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- Wikidata bulk downloads now free via Wikimedia Enterprise: New beta API endpoints let anyone download full Wikidata snapshots and pull hourly batch diffs at no cost, opening up bulk access that previously required a paid tier.
- Accountability for Wikimedia production services: To ensure clear accountability for responding to incidents in Wikimedia production services, Wikimedia Foundation published the Service Catalog page. The page is the canonical source of service ownership for code deployed to the Wikimedia Foundation cluster. See also FAQ pages which contain more background details.
- Datacenter switchover has been postponed: The equinox exercise revealed capacity issues, preventing the switch of all services to the other datacenter. The process has been paused, prioritizing investigating that issue, to ensure that we continue to be able to serve our users reliably. A new exercise will be scheduled. Meanwhile, all traffic and edits continue to work as usual.
- Affiliates and grant funding: The conversations on the new proposed model, requirements and criteria continues until the end of next week with public calls on 1) Tuesday, September 29, 16:00-17:00 UTC on affiliate growth paths and Friday, October 2nd, 17:00-18:00 UTC on affiliate overlaps.
Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- AI literacy program: A new regional initiative in ASEAN was launched to support training and conversations around AI literacy, accountability, and Indigenous self-determination.
- Testing Google preferred sources: An experiment is proposed on English Wikipedia to run a temporary (2-week) notice asking readers who come from Google to set Wikipedia as a “preferred source” in Google. We would see if this causes people who use Google to visit Wikipedia more. If your language wiki is interested, please reach out on the project's talk page.
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Nový formát wikiškoly – začínáme už 13. října v 17:00 hodin
[editovat | editovat zdroj]Hezký den všem členům komunity, wikipedistům a wikimediánům. V úterý 13. října v 17:00 hodin chystáme spuštění nové podoby Večerní wikiškoly, která bude nově zahrnovat pestrý program (téma formátování, host, aktuality ze světa Wikimedia a komunity) a je otevřená širšímu okruhu zájemců, nejen seniorům. Abychom program zatraktivnili, zařadili jsme do programu také pravidelné „křeslo pro hosta“. Na prvním setkání se budete moci pobavit s Markem Blahušem (Blahma), nestorem české Wikipedie a pořadatelem brněnských wikisrazů. Prosím registrujte se na stránce Wikiškoly, ideálně do pátku 9. října 2026. Akce proběhne tentokrát na Zoomu, odkaz bude zaslán všem registrovaným. Těšíme se na viděnou! --Pavel Bednařík (WMCZ) (diskuse) 5. 10. 2026, 11:58 (CEST)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 19
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Highlights
- Community Wishlist: Community Wishlist is looking for volunteers to join their working group. You can find details on the goal of the group, roles and expectations, norms we'll follow, and how to sign up on this Meta-Wiki page.
- Human knowledge at stake: Wikimedia Foundation makes the case for human knowledge at the UN General Assembly and how scrapers are straining our infrastructure and the larger human knowledge ecosystem online.
- Joy of contributing: How a simple thanks fuelled one of our Wikimedians of the Year as they connect the community.
- PTAC technical topics: The Product and Technology Advisory Council calls for the community to suggest topics that it should consider and discuss with the Wikimedia Foundation. Submit your topic on the council’s talk page.
- Wikimania scholarship deadline extended: The deadline for Wikimania 2027 scholarship applications has been extended through the end of day on November 4, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth). This is to compensate for a pause in the application window on October 15, 2026 from 1pm to 6pm UTC, to allow for an upgrade to the LimeSurvey platform.
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
- OpenAI agent activities on Wikimedia projects: The Wikimedia Foundation have discovered some activity by “rogue” OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. These unauthorized bot activities included edits to our wikis, some unsuccessful attempts to exploit a public note-taking tool we host, and heavy traffic.
- Listening to Wikipedia: The Phase 1 experiment for Listening to Article intros within the Android app’s “For you” feed has been released into the Wikipedia Beta App. This experiment tests whether adding a listening format into the "For you" feed has the potential to deliver improvements in reader retention.
- Wikimedia Hackathon: The 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon will be taking place in person April 9-11, 2027 in Tirana, Albania. Scholarship applications are open until October 30.
- Bookmark button on mobile web: Logged-out Wikipedia users on mobile web will begin to see a bookmark button for saving articles to their reading lists instead of the current Watchstar button. When clicked, the bookmark button prompts users to log in or create an account to save an article for later, to encourage more readers to become account holders.
- Abstract Wikipedia piloting showing articles to readers: Three initial pilot communities are currently working with the team to explore using abstract articles on their Wikipedias: Malayalam, Dagbani, and Igbo.
- Simplifying account creation: An experiment has begun on Spanish, Arabic, English, and French Wikipedias to simplify the experience users encounter immediately after account creation. The test will explore whether removing friction from the current Welcome Survey helps new users understand what to do next more easily.
- Suggestions mode: It is now possible for communities to configure Edit Checks and Suggestions so that they are shown within additional namespaces, such as a
Draft:namespace. Feedback is welcome. - Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing a personalised module, called 'Review Changes', for Home which aims to introduce newer editors to the concept of reviewing the edits that other users are making. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 40 and 41 include users of default skins on desktop and mobile web will now be informed if the search results displayed come from page redirects. See also the 20 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
- Wikimedia Enterprise: Mantic Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Power AI Forecasting.
- Improving developers experience: Two new features has been shipped to improve developer experience: Spiderpig (deployment web interface) which allows developers to leave notes for each other about errors they see in the logs and Patchdemo, which now supports in-browser code editing, so developers can make quick changes without needing to push a new patch and recreate the demo.
- Strengthening infrastructure: To reduce the workload from non-pageview requests, the overall number of database queries per logged-out pageview has been reduced by 52%, from a baseline of 23 queries/pageview in August, to 11 queries/pageview today. Read more.
- Increasing test reliability: To reduce friction in post-merge validation and ultimately improve confidence in release decisions: Catalyst was proven to be a much more reliable environment to run daily Selenium tests (95.7% eventually green) compared with the beta cluster (79.1% over the same 10 suites). This gives confidence to automatically catch issues before they reach production.
Annual Goals Progress on Protect
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- Transparency Report: The latest Transparency Report has been published. Out of 953 requests for content alteration and takedown, only 2 requests were granted. The Foundation continues to prioritize the public interest and is guided by the content moderation policies the volunteer community has shaped over the past 25 years.
Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- Grantmaking: Two reflections on transferring ownership of Rapid Funds to Wikimedia organizations.
Board and Board committee updates
See also: Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Affiliations Committee: Wikimedia Affiliations Committee Has New Officers and Advisors. Read also the latest issue of the AffCom News to learn more about their work.
- Governance committees looking for volunteers: Ombuds Commission (OC) and Case Review Committee (CRC) welcome new volunteers to contribute to important work across the Wikimedia ecosystem. Applications will open until October 31. Learn more about the committees, the roles, and how to apply on the Metapage.
- Board of Trustees Elections Process: The Board has reviewed the feedback received since July on its elections process proposal, and thanks everyone who shared input on Wiki, in person, or directly with Trustees. Based on that feedback, the Governance Committee has moved away from the eligibility criteria approach and developed two new options for the 2027 selection process and beyond. We'd like your feedback again before deciding. Please read the proposal and share your feedback on the Meta-Wiki talk page by October 27.
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The Signpost: 13 October 2026
[editovat | editovat zdroj]- Obituary: Doug Weller
- In the media: A(I)pocalypses afoot
- WikiConference Report: WikiConference 2026 & the importance of in-person community
- News from Diff: OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
- On the bright side: Good people
- Op-ed: Who are our readers?
- Traffic report: This world is big and wild and half insane
- Comix: Fudging the numbers