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'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...
[change]Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project. The Wikidata item sitelink currently found under the General section of the Tools sidebar menu will move into the In Other Projects section.
We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2.
More information can be found on the project page.
We welcome your feedback and questions.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:57, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.
[change]Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:29, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
Migration to Parsoid
[change]Hello everyone! I am glad to inform you that as the next step in the Parser Unification project, Parsoid will soon be turned on as the default article renderer on your Wiktionary. We are gradually increasing the number of wikis using Parsoid, with the intention of making it the default wikitext parser for MediaWiki's next long-term support release. This will make our wikis more reliable and consistent for editors, readers, and tools to use, as well as making the development of future wikitext features easier.
If this transition disrupts your workflow, don’t worry! You can still opt out through a user preference or turn Parsoid off on the current page using the Tools submenu, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation.
There is more information about our roll-out strategy available, including the testing done before we turn on Parsoid for a new wiki.
To report bugs and issues, please look at our known issues documentation and if you found a new bug please create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.
Please help translate to your language
C. Scott Ananian (Parsoid technical lead) 20:48, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Meaning
[change]Hello, is there a pidgin version of this site? It is not my native language but sometimes it helps me for learning when I have trouble understanding. I read the pidgin Bible sometimes and also the pidgin edition of BBC from time to time. I think I have some kind of aphasia likely but people think I am just making fun. I keep losing my accounts so I just use my address instead but I worry I will be banned for not following the rules. I don't really get the rules at lot of the time. Please advise. 74.102.207.128 (talk) 16:53, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- It says a rule tells what is right and wrong. But how to know ahead of time? The help does not help. 74.102.207.128 (talk) 16:55, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- Also, I have seen that when you make an account you get a mentor. Can you get a mentor without an account? Can I use my user page to create a list of entries I want to monitor? 74.102.207.128 (talk) 17:10, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Proposal
[change]Proposal to move Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (from simple wiki) to simple wiktionary. It is mainly just stating the definition of the word, which should be wiktionary's function. A discussion had already begun at simple wikipedia. Adding this here for this community's view.--Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 03:08, 25 May 2025 (UTC)
- Courtesy link: w:Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.-FusionSub (talk) 16:34, 25 May 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes
[change](Apologies for posting in English, you can help by translating into your language)
Hello everyone, the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your Watchlists and Recent Changes lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the Wikidata:Glossary for further explanations.
The upcoming change is scheduled for 17.07.2025, between 1300 - 1500 UTC.
The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:
These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.
Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.
Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this project task page. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicated Talk page.
Thank you, - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:46, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
What is shortcut interwiki of simple english
[change]Ex)ko》korean,en》English 메지로 아르당 (talk) 05:01, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
- simple. MathXplore (talk) 05:36, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
Wikifunctions will be deployed on your wiki on 2025-10-01
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Hi all, we want to let you know that Wikifunctions is coming to your project soon! When enabled, you will be able to call functions from your project, and integrate them in your articles.
A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output. Think of adding up two numbers, or converting miles into metres, or calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. This is usually done with templates that are complicated to create or to import. With Wikifunctions, you will be able to do this with just a couple of clicks!
Please check out these tutorials for more details. You’re also invited to create functions that you find useful, or ask for help from the Wikifunctions community.
We would like to invite you to contribute to Wikifunctions, by translating the existing functions labels into your language, so that more users in your community can more easily reuse them on the project. You can also translate the messages for the Wikifunctions interface on TranslateWiki (here for VisualEditor messages, and here for the Wikifunctions interface proper).
Of course, we are happy to help in case there are questions or difficulties, and we are ready to listen to your feedback. Please ping me directly in case of necessity or reach out to me on my talk page.
Upcoming Dark Mode user interface rollout for anonymous Wikimedia sites users
[change]Hello Wikimedians,
Apologies if this message is not in your language. Please help translate to your language.
The Reader Experience team will launch the Dark mode feature for anonymous users on all Wikimedia sites, including yours, on October 29, 2025.
Dark mode is an option that allows users to view pages in light-coloured text, and icons on a dark background. Once it is available for anonymous users, they can enable it when using various devices. More information on ways to enable it can be found on this page. Given many pages are still not compatible with dark mode this will be an opt-in feature and not automatically apply to pages.
Dark mode requires modifications to content pages and templates, and since our initial launch in July 2024, we have been working with communities and helping them prepare for dark mode. Before the rollout, it is essential that template authors and technical contributors test dark mode and read this page to learn how to make pages Dark mode-ready and address any compatibility issues found in templates.
We will fix most color compatibility issues only on the most-viewed pages on projects with over 5 million monthly page views. Technical contributors with an account should opt into dark mode currently using preferences or settings and test pages and seek help before the release to ensure everything complies before the enablement.
If you have any questions or need help, please contact the Reader Experience team for support.
Thank you!
Have your say: vote for the 2025 Board of Trustees
[change]Hello all,
The voting period for the 2025 Board of Trustees election is now open. Candidates are running for two (2) seats on the Board.
To check your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.
Learn more about them by reading their application statements and watch their candidacy videos.
When you are ready, go to the SecurePoll voting page to vote.
The vote is open from October 8 at 00:00 UTC to October 22 at 23:59 UTC.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair, Elections Committee
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:49, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
[change]Hello. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Thank you!
Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
[change]Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.
Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:
Applications for the committees open on October 30, 2025. Applications for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on December 11, 2025. Learn how to apply by visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cst
wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.
For the Committee Support team,