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Welcome to the 2026 WikiCup!
[edit]Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2026 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor, we hope the WikiCup will give you a chance to improve your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here, and a bot will set up your submissions page within one day, ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page.
For the 2026 WikiCup, the highest-ranking contestants will receive tournament points at the end of each round, and final rankings are decided by the number of tournament points each contestant has. This is the same scoring system that we had last year. If you're busy and can't sign up in January, don't worry: Signups are open throughout the year. To make things fairer for latecomers, the lowest-scoring contestants are no longer eliminated at the end of each round.
The first round will end on 26 February. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:38, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
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Thank you today for your share in Yamato class battleship, introduced (in 2009) as the largest, heaviest, and most heavily-armed battleships to ever grace the ocean"! - Happy new year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:31, 8 January 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks! A bunch of that credit goes to Climie.ca. :-) Ed [talk] [OMT] 01:57, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
- Acknowledged there ;) - Inviting you to check out "my" story (fun listen today, full of surprises), music (and memory), and places (pictured by me: the latest uploads) any day! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:44, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
- 20 January is the 100th birthday of David Tudor (see my story) and the 300th birthday of Bach's cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13, if we go by date instead of occasion as he would have thought, so see my story for last Sunday, and celebrate ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:33, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2025).
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- All general sanctions imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE) as a result of a recent RfC.
- Due to the result of a recent RFC, the administrator recall process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election, whichever is later.
- Changes to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy's disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE for more information.
Arbitration
- Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Asilvering, Girth Summit, Guerillero, HJ Mitchell, HouseBlaster, Izno, Sdrqaz, SilverLocust.
- The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been suspended.
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The Bugle: Issue 237, January 2026
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Books & Bytes – Issue 72
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Issue 72, November–December 2025
- Renewed partnerships
- Spotlight: Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science
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Suggestion
[edit]"Any accidental cross-pollination between the two accounts, such as forgetting to log out, etc"
One way to make sure you can always tell which account you're using is to set your preferences so that the two accounts have different skins. My logged-in UI is very visibly different from logged-out.
(Thank you re: the cat picture thing.) DS (talk) 20:54, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for the suggestion! Changing the entire skin is an easier solution than what I did have, which was to make my entire left sidebar grey-colored when logged into my WMF account. It's been years since I last confused the two accounts, but at one points it felt like my brain would occasionally shut off (or something) and look past the grey. Ed [talk] [OMT] 00:09, 6 February 2026 (UTC)
- DragonflySixtyseven, forgot to ping. Ed [talk] [OMT] 00:09, 6 February 2026 (UTC)
Selfref at Orangemoody
[edit]Regarding this had been discussed in 2015. Maybe you didn't see it on the talkpage. ☆ Bri (talk) 04:49, 7 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Bri: Thanks! As you surmised, I had not seen that discussion (or if I did, it was ten years ago). It looks like that involved a hatnote, which was separately removed by Theleekycauldron last month. I made that edit you linked because the see also section isn't a place for a self-referential link, especially one that's already in the article. That's where my thought process stopped. :-) Ed [talk] [OMT] 05:49, 7 February 2026 (UTC)
- Oh, I see it's in the External links section now. That's fine. Agree your delete was good, it should not be linked twice. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:23, 7 February 2026 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2026).
Administrator changes
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Arbitration
- Due to the result of a recent motion, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor's Arab-Israeli conflict topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2026 Steward elections started on 06 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC) and will end on 27 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process for current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
CS1 error on Sita Ramam
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WMF funding for photography
[edit]Hi Ed, congratulations on the various major life events noted on your Facebook over recent months! I hope everything is going really well for you and your family. Is it OK if I ask you a WMF-related question here? I'm going to be travelling to South Africa in June, and will visit the South African National Museum of Military History in Johannesburg. It's a government run museum and the South African government has better things to spend money on than military museums, and it appears to charge the equivalent of $A60 for a ticket with photography rights. Does the WMF have any funds available to reimburse costs like this? The coverage of the museum's collection at Commons is OK, but isn't extensive and is rather dated, especially as I understand that the museum has been recently refurbished and updated. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 23:53, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
- Hey Nick-D! Thanks very much. Life has indeed changed a wee bit. :-) I hope you're doing great as well!
- I have a few quick thoughts, but I have to stress that grants are outside what I do for the WMF. I may be wrong, and/or if needed I'd be happy to convey questions to colleagues.
- First off, I'd try Wikimedia Australia's grant program for volunteers. Looking at the documentation, I'm pretty sure they'd cover this? If they aren't game, perhaps the WMF WP:Resource support pilot would be an option. It's definitely aimed at getting resources for editors, and I wonder if they'd stretch that definition for a ticket to add material to Commons and Wikipedia. (I'll ask.) The regular WMF grants processes have minimums, so from what I understand I don't think they'd be able to support. Ed [talk] [OMT] 02:59, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you, this is helpful. Nick-D (talk) 03:11, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Nick-D: I checked on the resource pilot—this would indeed stretch that pilot's intent too far. If WMAU doesn't come through, let me know and I'll ask around for other options. :-) Ed [talk] [OMT] 15:51, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for checking. Nick-D (talk) 07:06, 26 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Nick-D: I checked on the resource pilot—this would indeed stretch that pilot's intent too far. If WMAU doesn't come through, let me know and I'll ask around for other options. :-) Ed [talk] [OMT] 15:51, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you, this is helpful. Nick-D (talk) 03:11, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
Chicago Women's History Month Edit-a-thon
[edit]Hello! This is Luiysia again. It was amazing seeing so many people come out for Wikipedia Day in January. For March, we will be hosting an edit-a-thon in honor of Women's History Month supporting Chicago woman writers.
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The edit-a-thon will be lasting all of March online, during which time you can contribute via the program's dashboard. On March 24th, we will be meeting in-person at Skunk Cabbage Books, in the Logan Square neighborhood, at 6:30 PM.
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The Bugle: Issue 238, February 2026
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WikiCup 2026 March newsletter
[edit]The first round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As some of you may have noticed, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP. This point increase has been retroactively applied to all good article reviews for which competitors have claimed points in this round. Peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.
Round 1 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and the top 16 contestants all scored more than 300 round points. The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:
Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1,467 round points, largely gained from 1 featured article, 5 featured lists, 15 good articles, and 42 FAC and GAN reviews;
Olliefant (submissions) with 1,246 round points, largely from 4 featured lists, 9 good articles, 2 featured topic articles, 4 did you know articles, and 75 FAC and GAN reviews;
Generalissima (submissions) with 1,095 round points, largely from 3 featured articles, 6 good articles, and 5 did you know articles;
MCE89 (submissions) with 848 round points, largely from 1 featured article, 8 good articles, 1 did you know article, and 32 FAC and GAN reviews; and
Rollinginhisgrave (submissions) with 838 round points, largely from 1 featured article, 8 good articles, 1 did you know article, and 14 FAC, GAN, and peer reviews.
The full scores for round 1 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 7 featured articles, 16 featured lists, 2 featured-topic articles, 168 good articles, 13 good-topic articles and more than 50 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 14 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 700 reviews. The tournament points table will be updated within the next few days.
Remember that any content promoted after 26 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:57, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2026).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
- A request for comment is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 in favour of handling such redirects through RfD.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
- Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
- The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2026 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09, AmandaNP, Barras, Count Count, M7, SHB2000, Teles and VIGNERON.
- An Unreferenced articles backlog drive is taking place in March 2026 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Books & Bytes – Issue 73
[edit]Issue 73, January–February 2026
- Four new partnerships
- User survey thanks
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Happy First Edit Day!
[edit] | Happy First Edit Day! Hi The ed17! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 18:35, 17 March 2026 (UTC) |  |
- Thanks for this reminder, DaniloDaysOfOurLives. 20 years! Ed [talk] [OMT] 19:40, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue 239, March 2026
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Guild of Copy Editors/Membership/News/2025 Annual Report
[edit]Guild of Copy Editors Annual Report
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Arbitration Case opened
[edit]You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SchroCat. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SchroCat/Evidence. Please add your evidence by April 15, 2026 at 23:59 UTC, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SchroCat/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Party Guide/Introduction. For the Arbitration Committee, DatGuyTalkContribs 10:36, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2026).
Administrator changes
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Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- The content of Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models has been updated following a request for comment. It now prohibits using LLMs to generate content, with exceptions for translation and copy-editing.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the GSCASTE extended-confirmed restriction in the Indian military history case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy has been amended accordingly.
- The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been closed.
- The arbitration case Maghreb has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.
Hi Ed, a typo needs your correction
[edit]Thanks for adding Wikifunctions to Template:Wikipedia's sister projects, but please edit it to correct a small typo with it being spelt Wikifuctions. Occono (talk) 10:39, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
- @Occono: Well, that's embarrassing. Thanks for pointing out the issue. Ed [talk] [OMT] 13:23, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
Weird
[edit]Doyle's comment remains in his/her edit summary: weird, eh? I might have taken it a jocular, but it's a slightly hard stretch. I hope you and your partner are both doing well. Tony (talk) 08:16, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
- @Tony1: Not just weird—a bit creepy! I don't know if you peeked at their contribs, but they edited your talk page as far back as last August. Congrats on attracting a fan club, I suppose. :-p Things are well (if tiring) and I hope it's all good for you as well! Ed [talk] [OMT] 15:21, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter
[edit]Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter
 Hello and welcome to the April 2026 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2025 coordinator election, incumbents Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and Wikieditor662 was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). December 2025 Blitz: 16 of the 31 editors who signed up for the December 2025 Copy Editing Blitz edited 116,064 words in 47 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. January Drive: 35 of the 55 editors who signed up for the January Backlog Elimination Drive edited 498,397 words in 183 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. February Blitz: 19 of the 23 editors who signed up for the February Copy Editing Blitz edited 83,969 words in 43 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. March Drive: 28 of the 48 editors who signed up for the March Backlog Elimination Drive edited 210,064 words in 87 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. April Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 12 to 18 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 09:10, 10 April 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 81 copyediting requests since 1 January 2026. The backlog of articles needing copyediting stands at 1,794 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wikieditor662. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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DYK nomination for Gaming Historian
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Hello! Your submission of Gaming Historian at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! EvanTech10 (talk) 14:34, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:38, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue 240, April 2026
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Nomination of Remember Me (Journey song) for deletion
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The article is being discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Remember Me (Journey song) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the AfD notice from the article until the discussion is closed.WikiCup 2026 May newsletter
[edit]The second round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 April. As a reminder for contestants who just joined or are unaware of recent changes to our round-points system, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP. Peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.
Round 2 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; nine scored over 500; and fourteen scored over 300. The top seven contestants had at least one featured article (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:
- MCE89 (submissions) with 1,333 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography
- Generalissima (submissions) with 1,169 points, mainly from good and featured articles related to shipping ethics controversy in fanfiction, waterways, and Gu Yanwu
- Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1,149 points, mainly from good articles, featured articles, and featured lists about figure skating, along with many article reviews and two good topics
- Olliefant (submissions) with 830 points, mainly from good and featured articles about television shows, episodes and media, along with nearly four dozen good and featured article reviews
Gommeh (submissions) with 827 points, mainly from good and featured articles related to Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail
The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 13 featured lists, 2 featured-topic articles, 106 good articles, 22 good-topic articles and more than 40 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 3 In the News articles, and they have conducted over 200 reviews. The tournament points table has been updated.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:49, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
Wikimedians of Chicago: May 2026 Meetup
[edit]Hello - this is Luiysia again with Wikimedians of Chicago! For May, we will be having a casual in-person meetup at Jackalope Coffee and Tea from 24 May 2026, from 2-4pm.
Here is the official meetup page, where you can register for the online and in-person edit-a-thon.
See you soon!
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2026).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
Technical news
- Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055).
- The autoconfirmed user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484).
Arbitration
- The arbitration case SchroCat has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
- Per a recent motion, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
- Per a recent motion, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
- The arbitration case Maghreb has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- The May 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ends May 5.
- The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions close on May 10.
- A new noticeboard for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions.
The Bugle: Issue 241, May 2026
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You may be eligible to vote in the U4C election
[edit]I am contacting you because you previously voted in elections related to the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). You may be eligible to vote in the current U4C election, which is open now and closes on 2 June 2026. You can find out more about the candidates and the election on the election page on Meta, and from there you can access the vote itself. Your participation in these elections is important to the governance of Wikimedia communities, and your time spent learning about the candidates and voting is appreciated.
-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk)
DYK for Gaming Historian
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On 25 May 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gaming Historian, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that, when it came time to close Gaming Historian, its creator released a swath of court documents from Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gaming Historian. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Gaming Historian), 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.
June 2026 GAN Backlog Drive
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2026).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the "persistent usage of large language models" has been included as a common reason for a block.
Technical news
- Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats: Bureaucrats without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119, T423120)
Arbitration
- The arbitration case SchroCat has been closed.
- The arbitration case Michael Jackson has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election closes on 1 June.
Books & Bytes – Issue 74
[edit]Issue 74, March–April 2026
- New partnership: Swissdox
- User survey results
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Guild of Copy Editors – June 2026 Newsletter
[edit]| Guild of Copy Editors June 2026 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the June 2026 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Election news: Nominations for the mid-year coordinator election ends at 23:59 on 15 June. Voting will last from 00:00 on 16 June to 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced on the election page. April Blitz: 18 of the 21 editors who signed up for the April 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 122,993 words in 56 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. May Drive: 34 of the 66 editors who signed up for the May 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited 543,972 words in 211 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. June Blitz: Our June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz will start on 14 June and finish on 30 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 22:40, 11 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 132 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 1,691 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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The Bugle: Issue 242, June 2026
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Wikimedians of Chicago Wiknic 2026!
[edit]Hello everyone! This is Luiysia again with Wikimedians of Chicago! For our July meetup, we will be having a Wiknic at Wicker Park on July 25th!
Here is the official meetup page, where you can see details and register for the event.
See you soon! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:46, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
WikiCup 2026 July newsletter
[edit]The third round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 June at 23:59 (UTC). As a reminder, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, while peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.
Round 3 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; eight scored over 500; and thirteen scored over 300. The top three contestants had at least one featured article (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:
- MCE89 (submissions) with 1567 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography, as well as some article reviews
- Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1547 points, mainly from good articles, featured articles, featured lists, and a good topic about figure skating, along with 20 article reviews
Reconrabbit (submissions) with 1004 points, mainly from a high-multiplier featured article on European rabbit and several good articles, DYKs, and reviews
A.Cython (submissions) with 1004 points, mainly from good articles about warfare, along with 22 article reviews- Generalissima (submissions) with 859 points, mainly from good and featured articles about rivers and East Asian topics
The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 7 featured-topic articles, 117 good articles, 74 good-topic articles and more than 30 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 13 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 180 reviews. The tournament points table has been updated.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:49, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2026).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified.
- A request for comment proposes an addendum for the Real name section of the Username policy.
Technical news
- The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created for any users to use to find an IP range. (phab:T268429)
- The "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts can be replaced with a preferred block duration stated on MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account. (phab:T427125)
Arbitration
- Following a series of motions, changes to the contentious topics procedure to restructure awareness have been implemented.
- The arbitration case Michael Jackson has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- The 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
- 10 candidates have been appointed to the U4C.
Congratulations from the Military History Project
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Books & Bytes – Issue 75
[edit]Issue 75, May–June 2026
- New partnerships: The Telegraph, Marg, The Tribune newspapers
- Tech tip: Expired partnerships
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The Bugle: Issue 243, July 2026
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2026).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the 30-day requirement for extended-confirmed status now begins after an account's first edit instead of its registration (T431060).
Technical news
- Inactive editors can now be removed as mentors at Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship automatically.
- The Suggested Edits' Revise Tone feature is now enabled. It encourages editors to identify and revise non-neutral language in articles.
Miscellaneous
- The Unreferenced articles August 2026 backlog drive is underway. Help to add references to 47,000 articles.
- The Articles for creation August 2026 backlog drive is under way. Help to review 4,500+ drafts.
