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Ewuare (also Ewuare the Great or Ewuare I) was the Oba (king) of the Benin Empire from 1440 until 1473. Ewuare became king in a violent coup against his brother Uwaifiokun which destroyed much of Benin City. After the war, Ewuare rebuilt much of the city of Benin, reformed political structures in the kingdom, greatly expanded the territory of the kingdom, and fostered the arts and festivals. He left a significant legacy and is often considered the first King of the Kingdom of Benin. (Full article...)
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Barbara Winston Blackmun (June 29, 1928 – July 6, 2018) was an American art historian, professor, and museum director. Blackmun was an expert on Beninese art. She taught art at the San Diego Mesa College from 1971 to 2010, where she was made an emerita professor. (Full article...)
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Esigie (also spelt Oseigie), originally known as Osawe, was the son of Oba Ozolua, who reigned in the late 15th century, and his second wife, Queen Idia. He was the sixteenth Oba who ruled the medieval Benin Kingdom, now Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria from c. 1504 – c. 1550. Works of art commissioned by Esigie are held in prominent museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum. (Full article...)
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Anambra State, located in the South East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, has been governed by a succession of military governors, administrators, and elected governors since its formation on 3 February 1976, when the former East Central State was divided into Anambra and Imo. This action was part of a nationwide state-creation reform under the military regime of Murtala Mohammed. Before 1976, the area lay within the Eastern Region. After the regional system was dissolved on 27 May 1967 by Yakubu Gowon during the Nigerian Civil War, the Eastern Region was split into East Central State, Rivers State, and South-Eastern State. East Central State covered much of the Igbo-speaking area until its division in 1976. During that period, Ukpabi Asika served as administrator until 1975, followed by Anthony Ochefu until the state's dissolution. The capital, Enugu, became capital of the newly formed Anambra State and later of Enugu State. From its creation in 1976, Anambra State was governed by military appointees: John Atom Kpera (1976–1978) and Datti Sadiq Abubakar (1978–1979). With the advent of the Second Republic in October 1979, Jim Nwobodo of the Nigerian Peoples Party (NPP) served as the first civilian governor from October 1979 to October 1983, succeeded briefly by Christian Onoh of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN). Military rule returned by the end of 1983, and between 1984 and 1992 the state was led by Allison Madueke (1984–1985), Samson Omeruah (1985–1987), Robert Akonobi (1987–1990), and Herbert Eze (1990–1992), with Joseph Abulu serving briefly in 1991. (Full article...)
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Akwa Ibom State, located in the South South geopolitical zone of Nigeria, has been governed by a succession of military governors, administrators, and elected governors since its creation in 1987. Before 1987, it formed part of the Eastern Region until the military dissolved Nigeria's regional structure in 1967. Following the reorganisation, the area became part of the newly created South-Eastern State on 27 May 1967. The South-Eastern State, comprising the present-day states of Akwa Ibom and Cross River, remained under military rule until Nigeria's brief civilian transition in 1979. In 1976, under the Murtala Mohammed administration, South-Eastern State was renamed Cross River State. (Full article...)
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Abia State, located in the South East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, has been governed by a succession of military governors, administrators, and elected governors since its creation in 1991. Before 1991, the area lay within the Eastern Region. After the regional system was dissolved on 27 May 1967 by Major-general Yakubu Gowon during the Nigerian Civil War, the Eastern Region was split into East Central State, Rivers State, and South-Eastern State. East Central State covered much of the Igbo-speaking area until its division on 3 February 1976 under the military regime of Murtala Mohammed. During the East Central State period, Ukpabi Asika served as administrator until 1975, followed by Anthony Ochefu until the state's dissolution to form Anambra and Imo states. From its creation in 1976, Imo State was governed by military appointees: Ndubuisi Kanu (1976–1977), Adekunle Lawal (1977–1978), and Sunday Ajibade Adenihun (1978–1979). With the advent of the Second Republic in October 1979, Samuel Mbakwe of the Nigerian Peoples Party (NPP) served as the first civilian governor from October 1979 to December 1983. Military rule returned by the end of 1983, and between 1984 and 1992 the state was led by Ike Nwachukwu (1984–1985), Allison Madueke (1985–1985), Amadi Ikwechegh (1986–1990), and Anthony Oguguo (1990–1992). (Full article...)
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Adamawa State, located in the North East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, has been governed by a succession of military governors, administrators, acting governors, and elected governors since its creation on 27 August 1991. Before 1991, the area formed the northern portion of the former Gongola State, with Yola serving as the capital. When the military government of Ibrahim Babangida split Gongola into Adamawa and Taraba states, the last military governor of Gongola, Abubakar Salihu, continued briefly as Adamawa's first military governor until the inauguration of civilian rule in January 1992. During the short-lived Third Republic, Abubakar Saleh Michika of the National Republican Convention (NRC) became the first elected civilian governor of Adamawa State, serving from 2 January 1992 until the November 1993 coup. Military rule then returned, and the state was administered successively by Gregory Agboneni (1993–1994), Mustapha Ismail (1994–1996), Joe Kalu-Igboama (1996–1998), and Ahmadu Hussaini (1998–1999). (Full article...)
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Rivers State, located in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, has undergone political transformations, influenced by colonial, military, and civilian administrations. Rivers State was originally part of the Eastern Region before Nigeria's independence in 1960. During the colonial era, British officials governed the region until Nigeria's first military coup in 1966, which led to the abolition of the regional system. In 1967, military leader Yakubu Gowon created Rivers State, which remained under military rule until the brief return to civilian governance in 1979. However, another coup in 1983 reinstated military control until Nigeria's full transition to democracy in 1999. (Full article...)
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Enugu State, located in the South East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, has been governed by a succession of military governors, administrators, and elected governors since its creation in 1991. Before 1991, the area lay within the Eastern Region. After the regional system was dissolved on 27 May 1967 by Yakubu Gowon during the Nigerian Civil War, the Eastern Region was split into East Central State, Rivers State, and South-Eastern State. East Central State covered much of the Igbo-speaking area until its division on 3 February 1976 under the military regime of Murtala Mohammed. During the East Central State period, Ukpabi Asika served as administrator until 1975, followed by Anthony Ochefu until the state's dissolution to form Anambra and Imo states. The capital of the dissolved state, Enugu, became the capital of the newly formed Anambra State and later of Enugu State. From its creation in 1976, Anambra State was governed by military appointees: John Atom Kpera (1976–1978) and Datti Sadiq Abubakar (1978–1979). With the advent of the Second Republic in October 1979, Jim Nwobodo of the Nigerian Peoples Party (NPP) served as the first civilian governor from October 1979 to October 1983, succeeded briefly by Christian Onoh of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN). Military rule returned by the end of 1983, and between 1984 and 1992 the state was led by Allison Madueke (1984–1985), Samson Omeruah (1985–1987), and Robert Akonobi (1987–1990). (Full article...)
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<onlyinclude>This is a list of all individuals who have governed Bayelsa State, Nigeria either as administrators or elected governors. Bayelsa State was formed in 1996 from part of Rivers State. (Full article...)

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Ewuare scheduled for TFA

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This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for October 16, 2026. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 2026, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/October 2026. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Z1720 (talk) 20:02, 26 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Z1720 Interesting blurb... why is the Oba not italicised and literally translated as in the article? Vanderwaalforces (talk) 20:57, 26 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Oda isn't italicised in Oba of Benin, so I assumed it was a term that has been adopted into the English language and thus wouldn't be italicised (like kimono). It can be italicised if there is a good reason for it. As for the translation, it was taken out because there was a wikilink to the term and blurbs have to be under 1,025 characters, so I made an editorial decision to remove it (among lots of other information). It looks like it can be added back in without going over the 1,025 character limit. Feel free to edit the blurb as you see fit. Z1720 (talk) 21:12, 26 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
Because of the LLM concerns and the mainspace block, this article has been swapped out from TFA for tomorrow. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 19:53, 15 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

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VWF bot didn't add an RfD log page

Latest comment: 27 days ago6 comments3 people in discussion

Looks like the bot failed to add the new RfD log page for several hours; I had to add it manually. Not entirely sure what is going on here - my guess is that I ended up creating it (instead of the bot) because I nominated something in the window between the rollover of the new day and the bot making the page, and then the bot didn't notice that it needed to transclude it on the main page?

Also, while I'm here - there's been at least two cases recently (I can find the diffs if you're curious but I don't have them easily to hand) where someone closed the last open nomination on a page, the bot removed that transculsion from the main page, and then the closer changed their mind an hour or later and reopened it, orphaning that page. Any chance the bot could check, say, the last week's worth of closed log pages for any still-open pages to guard against this genre of problem? Not sure how difficult it would be to build this in.

Thanks for running the bot, by the way, I know I just came here to complain but it's so much nicer not to have to think about removing old log pages manually. Rusalkii (talk) 04:17, 6 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Rusalkii Thank you. I restarted the bot and it worked as it should today. For the other case where people close and decide to change their mind, Jay first asked that the bot's removal time be delayed, but I knew within me that that might not even fix the problem. I will looking into doing something like a check but not now because of the whole situation I have IRL right now. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:07, 7 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, of course, it's not frequent enough to be a big deal. Rusalkii (talk) 18:52, 7 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Vanderwaalforces: VWF bot failed to add the Sept 12 RfD log page today as well Duckmather (talk) 23:18, 12 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Duckmather Thanks for notifying me; this looks like a Toolforge automation issue as opposed to a problem with my program, so I’ll continue to keep an eye. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 11:47, 13 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

It happened again on Oct 13. Duckmather (talk) 16:46, 16 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Ahenzae

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On 12 September 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ahenzae, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that, according to tradition, King Ahenzae lost the Kingdom of Benin's royal coral beads to a palace priest through repeated games of dice? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ahenzae. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (Ahenzae), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

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Promotion of Idia

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Congratulations, Vanderwaalforces! The article you nominated, Idia, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, FrB.TG (talk) via FACBot (talk) 11:06, 13 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Idia's FA status

Latest comment: 1 month ago6 comments3 people in discussion

Congratulations on Idia making it to FA status. It was quite long, but we'll take it as long as it's detailed. I did take a look at Ohuan, and will take another look when I have time.

I hope you've had a fine weekend so far. Best, MSincccc (talk) 12:29, 13 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

@MSincccc And Idia would not achieve that without your always helpful comments and suggestions. Thank you so much and I look forward to your feedback re Ohuan.

My weekend was indeed fine, I hope yours was too? Vanderwaalforces (talk) 15:27, 13 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Preparing for tomorrow. And then to sneak out time after lessons and classes for FAC, my Wiki projects and other stuff.

Good luck with the Ohuan FAC. MSincccc (talk) 15:42, 13 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Congratulations! And a woman ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:32, 13 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

I have two topics in today's OTD corner - check out story and music, I decided for Verdi (the conductor who said "I love all of Verdi" and conducted by heart) over Bach because that cantata sits on sort of the wrong date ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:31, 22 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Bach composed a cantata for today's feast, performed 300 years ago. This time the main page has it on the right date. I nominated it for GA ;) - Also waiting for a review: Maureen Jones (on WP:ITNN), - someone said the article isn't good enough for the main page. We could change that! Already arrived there: Bryan Kelly and his fun Magnificat. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:43, 29 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

OK, so not templated but AI concerns on some recent edits - see ANI.

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I haven't looked into this, so I'm merely the messenger at this stage with no view on this. But to let you know that you are being discussed on the AI Noticeboard, where any comments you have would be most welcome. ChrysGalley (talk) 18:06, 13 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Guild of Copy Editors – September 2026 Newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors – September 2026 Newsletter

Hello, and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June.

Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed TNM101 to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as lead coordinator, and Miniapolis, Mox Eden and GoldRomean return as coordinators. We said goodbye to Wikieditor662 and thank them for their service. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here.

Reviewing system: The Guild is adopting a new system of scoring copy edit reviews. A point will be given for each review, and barnstars for reviewing will be awarded. These changes will take effect from this month's drive, and we encourage experienced copy editors to sign up for reviewing. For more details, see here.

June 2026 blitz: 18 of the 20 editors who signed up for the June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 69,606 words comprising 30 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 17

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on August 28. Please help translate.

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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.

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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.
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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.org to thumb.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 from upload.wikimedia.org.
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Annual Goals Progress on Enable
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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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MediaWiki message delivery 01:53, 16 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Four Award

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		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Ogbebo. —⁠TechnoSquirrel69 (talk) 16:31, 20 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Books & Bytes – Issue 76

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The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 76, July–August 2026

New partnership: The Chronicle of Higher Education
New Partnership Manager joins the team
Spotlight: TWL page on Meta

Read the full newsletter

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GA circle

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Hello! I noticed that you have signed up for WP:GACIRCLE. I am also interested in this, with the article Otvet. The article is mostly finished in my opinion, sources are exhausted, copyediting has been performed, etc. So, I think that it is ready for GAN. However, Donner60 has said that he will look over the page (as he was the one who gave it that B-class rating) and I want to wait for him to see if I need any major reworks. Even though I cannot submit the article currently, I hope that we can form a nice circle and confirm spots. I am happy to review any article, preferably the Croatian Bloc (coalition) one, but honestly, the shorter the article, the better, as I do not have a lot of time. I will not be able to review all of next week, and maybe next weekend I can try, but time is not in abundance. I will crosspost this to both other users who have signed up for the circle. What do you think? NotRealShady7 7 7 (customer service) 21:48, 25 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

just realized I don't meet the criteria for GARC, well, its too bad I guess. NotRealShady7 7 7 (customer service) 01:24, 26 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Thefakeslimshady777 Oh no, I’d encourage you to keep contributing; I’ll be more than happy to collaborate with you in a circle someday. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 06:18, 26 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

yea I'm getting a GA mentor now, that should do it, we might get that circle going NotRealShady7 7 7 (customer service) 15:31, 26 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

October 2026 Administrator Elections – Schedule

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The October 2026 administrator elections are set to proceed.
We plan to use the following schedule:
- September 29 – October 5: Candidate sign-up
- October 8–12: Discussion phase
- October 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase
If you have any questions, concerns, or thoughts before we get started, please ask at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.

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October 2026 Administrator Elections – Call for Candidates

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The administrator elections process has officially started! Qualified editors are encouraged to find at least one experienced nominator. Self-nominations are also allowed. Please review instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2026/Candidates.

Here is the schedule:

September 29 – October 5: Nominations phase (we are here)
October 8–12: Discussion phase
October 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed. However, in practice, few candidates succeed without ~10K edits, some content creation, no recent behavioral issues, and a nominator.
Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for admin elections candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.

Ask any questions about the process at the talk page. Later, a user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.

If you are interested in the process, please make sure to watchlist the appropriate pages. A watchlist notice will be added when the discussion phase opens, and again when the voting phase opens.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 18

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on 15 September. Please help translate.

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
See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

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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MediaWiki message delivery 01:50, 30 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Ohen scheduled for TFA

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This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for November 14, 2026. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 2026, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 2026. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be left there. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Z1720 (talk) 02:14, 30 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hey, due to the concerns of LLM use, outlined below, I decided to pull this article from the TFA queue. When those concerns are resolved this may be rescheduled. Z1720 (talk) 00:24, 26 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

TFA!

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Thank you today for Independence Day (Nigeria), introduced: "Independence Day is an annual public holiday in Nigeria observed on 1 October to mark the country's independence from the United Kingdom in 1960. It is observed nationwide with official ceremonies, military parades, cultural displays, and public events. The holiday's origins are linked to Nigeria's constitutional developments under British colonial administration."! Enjoy your first TFA day! Two more scheduled, that's amazing! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 1 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Gerda Arendt I cannot thank you enough for your kindness. You have a special place in my heart. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 12:59, 1 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Blushing: you just thanked me much more than enough! - What do you think about becoming a member of WP:QAI, also known as the cabal of the outcast (discouraged ...). It takes a signature, and virtual flowers are the reward. (You are already a member by what you do.) - I'm just updating an article, John Bröcheler, and then will turn to your FAC, promised. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:06, 1 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Oh, I didn’t know it’s something I could sign up for: done! Looking forward to your ever helpful feedback ;) Vanderwaalforces (talk) 13:12, 1 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Precious anniversary

Precious
One year!

Nice coincidence? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:44, 1 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

It’s one year already? Wow! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 12:58, 1 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

welcome to QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:19, 1 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

My story is about a plea for peace premiered 90 years ago. It was already my story in 2023. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:11, 2 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Women: today Irene Butter (don't miss the short video in her story and article), yesterday Tabea Zimmermann for her 60th (I was in the audience for that concert in 2023, long video), and some day Ileana Cotrubaș again, whose article became GA today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:09, 9 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

WP:GARC: Invitation to review Blade (Honkai)

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Hello, you have been paired at good article review circles to review Blade (Honkai). At the same time, another user will be reviewing the article you nominated. Please wait 24 hours or until all users have accepted their nomination before starting your review in case a user in your circle decides to decline their invite.

To accept or decline this invitation to review the article, visit WT:GARC#138.

In solidarity, Gommeh ^{(talk 🎮 sign)} 19:44, 1 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Your nomination of Ozolua is under review

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Your good article nomination of the article Ozolua is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jishara -- Jishara (talk) 11:28, 2 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

DCWC awards!!!

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Retracted awards

~~The Developing Countries~~

~~WikiContest Gold Belt Buckle~~

		~~The Nigeria Barnstar of National Merit~~
		~~For your 20 Nigeria-related articles submitted to the DCWC, I present you with this barnstar! ... sawyer * any/all * talk 21:51, 2 October 2026 (UTC)~~Reply

On behalf of the coordinators, thank you so much for participating in the 2026 DCWC and congratulations on earning the gold belt buckle! We hope to see you next year! ... sawyer * any/all * talk 21:51, 2 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

		~~The Anti-Systemic Bias Barnstar~~
		Hey Vanderwaalforces, thank you for participating in this year's Developing Countries WikiContest! For your outstanding contributions — which earned you a record-breaking 1535 points — here's a well-deserved barnstar. Congratulations, and we hope to see you around next year! —⁠TechnoSquirrel69 (talk) 04:00, 3 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hey VWF, after a discussion among the DCWC coordinators about the evidence presented at this AI noticeboard section, we've regretfully decided to disqualify you from this year's contest. Your awards are retracted, and I've struck them above. Please let me know if you have any questions. —⁠TechnoSquirrel69 (talk) 05:13, 21 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Retirement

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I am retiring from Wikipedia. Wikipedia was built on the philosophy of curiosity leading to discovery. I believe this is why I was attracted in the first place. I'm stepping back while I still remember what the curiosity felt like. Thank you for your contributions! All messages on my talk page are welcome. CostalCal (talk) 02:54, 3 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Your nomination of Ozolua is on hold

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Your good article nomination of the article Ozolua has been placed on hold, as the article needs some changes. See the review page for more information. If these are addressed within 7 days, the nomination will pass; otherwise, it may fail. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jishara -- Jishara (talk) 03:47, 5 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Your nomination of Ozolua has passed

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Your good article nomination of the article Ozolua has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Please also consider reviewing somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jishara -- Jishara (talk) 18:08, 6 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

October 2026 Administrator Elections – Discussion Phase

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The discussion phase of the October 2026 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

October 8–12: Discussion phase (we are here)
October 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase
Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2026/Discussion phase.

On 13 Oct, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for.

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:05, 8 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

New cross-language page link: Benin Altar Tusk

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A new page Benin Altar Tusk on the Hausa Wikipedia has been linked to the page Benin Altar Tusk, which you created, via Wikidata (Q122930070).

You will not be notified about future links to pages you created. To opt in to these notifications, follow the opt-in instructions.

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AI Cleanup investigation

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:AI noticeboard regarding an AI cleanup investigation which may be related to you. Sorry, I know you know about this but since you were not properly notified I'm doing it now. Dr vulpes (Talk) 00:30, 12 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

October 2026 Administrator Elections – Voting Phase

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The voting phase of the October 2026 administrator elections has started and will continue until 19 October 2026 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2026/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

October 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase (we are here)
Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote has a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements are similar to those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for a few days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall candidates must achieve 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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September 2026 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition of Vanderwaalforces for accumulating at least 10 points in the September 2026 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped review 14549 articles and 3163 redirects during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and helping reduce the backlog! Max (talk) 16:27, 13 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 19

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on September 25. Please help translate.

Screenshot of the Thanks feature.

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

Prototype Video of Listening to 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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MediaWiki message delivery 21:30, 13 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

October 2026

Latest comment: 16 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing certain namespaces ((Article)) for continued use of LLMs based on evidence presented at Wikipedia:AI_noticeboard/Vanderwaalforces to prevent further disruption.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then submit a request through the unblock wizard or through your talk page. Alternatively, add the following text directly to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Dclemens1971 (talk) 12:24, 14 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi Vanderwaalforces, I'm sorry, but based on the above I had to disqualify you from the WikiCup. Per WP:WC/SCO: If through the WikiCup any participants are hurting the encyclopedia (whether through abusing the rules/systems, creating a negative atmosphere, or whatever else), they will be removed from the Cup.. This includes widespread use of LLMs, which is against Wikipedia policy per WP:EPAI. – Epicgenius (talk) 14:00, 18 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Per the consensus on the general matter at Wikipedia_talk:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers#Should_NPP_right_be_revoked_when_editor_is_found_to_have_used_LLMs?, I've removed the new page patroller flag from your account. If you return to Wikipedia in the future, are unblocked from articlespace, and interested in contributing at NPP again, you should feel free to re-request the permission. Dclemens1971 (talk) 21:57, 27 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

October thanks

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Thank you for improving article quality in October! - miss you -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:37, 22 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

DCWC closing update

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Three weeks ago, the 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest came to a close! After three months of competition, we have our winners. OpalYosutebito (submissions) comes in third with 525 points earned from a large series of good articles about pandas. Vestrian24Bio (submissions), with an immense number of submissions relating to cricket, comes in second with 1040 points. And our runner-up from last year makes their way to the top of the podium: Simongraham (submissions) takes gold with 1065 points, coming from another round of good articles about African jumping spiders!

The award for the most countries covered goes, once again, to Simongraham (submissions) who submitted articles under 30 flags! Vestrian24Bio (submissions) tops the chart for the most quality articles (23 good articles). Kisseran (submissions) and OpalYosutebito (submissions) tie for the award for most submissions under a single country; both made 14 submissions related to China. The award for most submissions related to women goes to GreenLipstickLesbian (submissions) with 12 biographies about women. We also have a tie for the most reviews! Both Dragonhawk12 (submissions) and Simongraham (submissions) submitted 23 reviews each for the category!

Multiple DCWC records were also broken! Simongraham (submissions) set the new record for the most total points, with 1100. Vestrian24Bio (submissions) set two inaugural records, earning the contest's first featured and good topics. GreenLipstickLesbian (submissions) submitted 29 In the news entries, 12 more than the previous record.

Among the participants' contributions were six FAs, five FLs, 132 GAs, and a number of DYKs, ITNs, and reviews of every kind—far more than last year! Regardless of your level of participation, every contestant can be proud to have contributed to a major step in countering the systemic bias on Wikipedia. Every year, millions of readers and editors around the globe use Wikipedia to educate themselves and communicate with others about parts of the world that often receive less attention than they deserve. Thank you for participating in the contest and contributing to this effort. The DCWC will return next year, and we look forward to seeing your contributions again! However, before that...

We need your feedback! Join the conversation on the talk page to discuss your reflections on the contest (even if you didn't participate!) and help us make it better.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), Generalissima (talk · contribs), Magentic Manifestations (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) —⁠TechnoSquirrel69 (talk) 04:49, 23 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Good article reassessment for Esigie

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Esigie 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. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:09, 28 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Good article reassessment for Ovonramwen

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Ovonramwen 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. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:12, 28 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Joe Acha

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The article Joe Acha has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Presumptive removal of LLM-generated content, see Wikipedia:AI noticeboard/Vanderwaalforces. Feel free to reinstate by following the procedures for disputing presumptive removal of LLM-generated content.

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Proposed deletion of Daniel Okungbowa

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Proposed deletion of Eghosa Osaghae

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Proposed deletion of Peter Okebukola

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 20

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

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

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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Notification of administrators without tools

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Notification of administrators without tools

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WikiCup 2026 November newsletter

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The 2026 WikiCup has come to an end. Our top scorers, based on the tournament point rankings (which can be seen here), are:

Generalissima (submissions) with 1077 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1046 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
MCE89 (submissions) with 762 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
A.Cython (submissions) with 606' tournament points
Vestrian24Bio (submissions) with 537 tournament points
Reconrabbit (submissions) with 349 tournament points
BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 297 tournament points
Arconning (submissions) with 183 tournament points

Our three high scorers in the final round, who each got over 1,000 points, happen to all be among the top 8 as well:

Generalissima (submissions) with 2846 round points from 40 good articles, 4 pieces of featured content (including 2 featured articles), 11 DYK articles, and various reviews.
Bgsu98 (submissions) with 2603 round points from 43 good articles, 5 pieces of featured content (1 featured article and 4 featuyred lists), and various reviews.
Vestrian24Bio (submissions) with 1141 round points from 20 good articles, a good topic, a featured list, and 30 good article reviews.

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 29 featured articles, 8 featured lists, 1 featured picture, 150 good articles, 43 good topic articles, 189 article reviews, 28 did you know articles, and 4 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 over the course of the competition.

Generalissima (submissions) wins the following prizes:
- The featured article prize, for 12 featured articles.
- The featured picture prize, for submitting the only featured picture for the second year in a row.
- The good article prize, for 82 good articles.
Bgsu98 (submissions) wins the following prizes:
- The featured list prize, for 21 featured lists.
- The featured content reviewer prize, for 72 featured article reviews.
Vestrian24Bio (submissions) wins the following prizes:
- The featured topic prize, for 8 pages in featured topics.
- The good topic prize, for 26 pages in good topics.
- The good article reviewer prize, for 84 good article reviews.
BabbaQ (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 9 ITN pages.
BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 47 DYK pages.

A special mention also goes to these users who scored the highest in a particular category in a single round:

A.Cython (submissions), for 20 good-topic articles in round 5.
Olliefant (submissions), who withdrew during the competition but who had 38 featured-content reviews in round 2. Olliefant also had 43 good article reviews in round 1.
The Robot Parade (submissions), for 5 ITN pages in round 1.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate. We are also looking for an experienced editor to help write the bimonthly newsletter. If you would like to help write next year's newsletters, please contact Epicgenius at his talk page.

The WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2027 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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WikiCup 2026 November newsletter (update)

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In our November 2026 newsletter, there was a mistake in calculating the final tournament point rankings (which have been updated here). We regret the error.

Generalissima (submissions) with 1461 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1302 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
Vestrian24Bio (submissions) with 793 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
MCE89 (submissions) with 762 tournament points
A.Cython (submissions) with 606 tournament points
BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 425 tournament points
Reconrabbit (submissions) with 349 tournament points
Arconning (submissions) with 183 tournament points

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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November music

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story · music · places

November begins with a Bach cantata that ends with a love duet (see story) in which he invites to the wedding and she quotes a bridal song. You know because you reviewed it, - thank you for that! - Judith Blegen was on the same page until recently, and I hope to see Marisa Manchado there soon. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:09, 3 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

In case you look: Herbert Blomstedt, remembered here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:11, 10 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Good article reassessment for Owodo

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Owodo 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. Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:13, 5 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free image File:The Last Days at Forcados High School Cover 2013.jpg

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Proposed deletion of Wazobia

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disambiguation page but all links go to same place

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 21

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on October 24. Please help translate.

Highlights

Joy of contributing: The different ways in which joy shows up across Wikimedia movement: from music, sweets and weddings to Baby Globe.
Protecting open knowledge: The Wikimedia Foundation has filed an amicus brief to protect open knowledge in a major copyright case involving OpenAI and Microsoft.
Security update: Many Wikimedia tools were taken offline 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. Follow the work on Wikitech.
Wikipedia Year in Review 2026: This year's Wikipedia Apps Year in Review is in progress and you can help make it available in more languages to readers around the world by helping with translations. Here's how:
- Android: Open Android translations. Under the Untranslated tab, search for yir.
- iOS: Open iOS translations. Under the Untranslated tab, search for year-in-review.

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

Around the Globe in ESEAP: Connecting 32 geographic areas and 64 language editions of Wikipedia across East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. See how the region is creating spaces for active editors to build relationships.
Notifications Experiment: In the coming weeks, the first of two notifications experiments on Android will be launched. The experiment will test whether personalized Discover reading list notifications will encourage them to return to the app. The three-week experiment will include English Wikipedia readers who have opted in to notifications. Learn more and share your feedback on the project page.
Reading recommendations: An ongoing experiment is testing article recommendations for new account holders who also identify as readers. This aims to encourage new account holders to read and return to the website regularly, with the goal of increasing internal referrals by 1%. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
New search experiment: The first of four experiments in Phase 2 of Semantic Search 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. Feedback is welcome on the project’s discussion page.
Share Cards: 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.
Wikifunctions: Exploring how Abstract Wikipedia serve both contributors and readers well.
Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 44 and 45 include the default renderer for math formulas has changed. See also the 59 community-submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Enable
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New Toolforge features: As part of Tools Platform's work to improve the reliability of Toolforge-hosted tools, two new platform features are launched: (1) Toolforge alerts let tool maintainers receive email notifications when any of their tools is encountering a common error condition; (2) Toolforge extended logging capabilities let tool maintainers retrieve logs for events like job creation, deletion or deployment failure, with a new CLI toolforge logs, at the same time that they retrieve their job logs.
Release of Foundation and Endowment annual audit reports: The Foundation has released its annual audit reports (audited financial statements) covering July 2025 - June 2026 for both the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment. The annual financial report for Wikimedia Enterprise for the same period has also been released. Read key takeaways from the reports on Diff and FAQs for both the Foundation and the Endowment on Meta-Wiki.

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.

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

GLAM: Collaboration with Tunisia’s Cultural Heritage Institutions through GLAM Wiki Days Tunisia 2026.
The Wikipedia Library: Discover new and continuing partnerships in The Wikipedia Library including
- The Chronicle of Higher Education, a leading resource for independent journalism, career development, and academic analysis.
- Datawrapper for editors to create charts, maps, and tables for Wikimedia projects.
- Adam Matthew Digital, Springer Nature and E-Yearbook.
- Work also continues to make sure Citoid does not get blocked by publishers who are starting to block bot traffic to manage the impact of scraping. In September, we worked with Reuters and the Library of Congress to allowlist Citoid. You can track our progress with other publishers on Phabricator.

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