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Wikidata weekly summary #500
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
 * Item #500 is Citrus ×limon; Property #500 is exclave of; and Lexeme #500 is "കുടുംബം" - Malayalam for “family”.
 * “Roughly” 500 people were participants at WikidataCon 2021
 * Q207742 is about the natural number 500
 * Q560388 disambiguates "500" for Wikipedias in 14 languages.
 * The Roman numeral for 500 is "D"
 * Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 500
 * Wikidata was 500 days old on Friday 14 March 2014. It will be 500 weeks old on Tuesday 31 May 2022


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end after 27 December 2021 15:57 UTC)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
 * Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
 * Coolest Tools Awards on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #22, New Year
 * Past:
 * Wikidata. Lecture - master class in Russian is 16:07 GMT on Sunday 26th December 2021 (19:07 Moscow time) in Minsk Hackerspace. For those who are not familiar and want to know what it is.
 * WikidataCon 2021 (replay on YouTube)
 * Wikidata talks:
 * Improving Women's Biographies through Wikidata - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smiths. Inst.
 * A Wikidata university course? Lessons learned from featuring Wikidata in an elective course at TAU.
 * Linking Indian Local Self Government's Structured Data with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
 * Finding new pathways of collaborating for a sustainable Wikidata software development
 * How can we reimagine Wikidata from the margins? Conversation with Maryana Iskander
 * Wikidata at Texas A&M University Libraries: Enhancing Discovery for Dissertations
 * Wiki API Connector - Simplifying ETL workflows from open APIs to Wikidata/Commons
 * IG WIKIDATA HUB - The Journey towards building a WIKIDATA community in Nigeria
 * Integration of Wikidata 4OpenGLAM into data and information science curricula
 * Description from Wikidata on sister projects and concerns about vandalism
 * Knowledge Quality In Wikidata: Vandalism Insights and Data Collaborations
 * Shared Citations - A proposed citation management database for Wikimedia
 * Analyzing, visualizing and improving Wikidata using the Wolfram Language
 * Challenges and Lessons from a Pilot Project: Christian Hymns in Wikidata
 * Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world
 * Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry
 * A world in which 99% of Wikidata’s editors never come to Wikidata.org
 * Linking the Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database to Wikidata
 * Global templates: Towards a New Age of Cross-wiki Data Collaboration
 * From QRPedia to AudioQRPedia : how to improve QRPedia using Wikidata
 * Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments presentations and discussion
 * From Google Scholar to Wikidata: The RIDC NeuroMat Experience
 * Assessing the quality of sources in Wikidata across languages
 * IFLA Wikidata Working Group: Updates from the library field
 * A process to roundtrip Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine
 * Arrange river data in Taiwan by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
 * Look both ways: integrating Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
 * Wikidata in the Classroom: Updates from North America
 * Learning Wikidata in 8 Weeks as a Smithsonian Intern
 * Wikidata-based Narratives for Research and Education
 * Measuring Political Elite Networks with Wikidata
 * Sorting out industry classifications in Wikidata
 * Systematic Review Automation driven by Wikidata
 * The Lindy Effect in Wikidata User Retention
 * Non-binary Gender Identities in Wikidata
 * Measuring and monitoring data quality
 * Wikidata & Education: A Global Panel
 * Integrating Wikidata into education
 * Integrating Wikidata into education
 * Wikidata in Australia showcase
 * Wikidata and R: a perfect pair
 * Writing schemas for Wikidata
 * Overview of ontology issues
 * Wikidata and OCCRP
 * Wikibase talks:
 * Open meeting of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group and interactive roadmapping session
 * How can Wikimedia Deutschland enable an ecosystem of developers around Wikibase?
 * Wikibase as an infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs: The EU Knowledge Graph
 * "A Wikibase for what?" - diverse users at the edge of the graph
 * Wikibase lightning talks: data upload and extensions session
 * How to open Authority Control system - The GND & Wikibase
 * Wikibase Community User Group meeting and track roundup
 * Pre-launch Announcement and Preview of Wikibase.Cloud
 * Wikibase as RDM infrastructure within NFDI4Culture
 * Wikibase lightning talks: inspiration session
 * Wikibase for Citations on Wikipedia


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Why you need to understand Wikidata, no matter what field you’re in
 * Papers
 * Improving the Question Answering Quality using Answer Candidate Filtering based on Natural-Language Features
 * Algorithmic amplification of politics on Twitter
 * Videos
 * SPARQL queries on Wikidata - advanced level (in Italian) - YouTube
 * How to link items to Dagbani Wikipedia articles using databox by Dnshitobu - YouTube
 * Alias names in Wikidata - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS State of the Union, Dec 2021 now available.
 * If you are using the Modern Vector skin on Wikidata then search might break for you near the end of January for a few days. To fix it you can temporarily switch back to the Vector skin. A proper fix is being worked on in T275251.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
 * Wikibase Installation Survey
 * Wikibase Software Updating Survey
 * Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
 * Engineering Director
 * Full-Stack Developer


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: type host, CSS code
 * External identifiers: Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID, Irkipedia ID, Babesdirectory ID, Numelyo ID, ua-football.com player ID, soccerpunter.com player ID, pfl.uz player ID, PGM author ID, Irish Times profile ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Kinomania.ru film ID, bards.ru person ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, N64-Database ID, Channel One Russia show ID, Kanobu ID, Lambic.Info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, CH district ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie artist ID, Austrian school ID, DFIH business ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, Ruskino actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Joconde use ID, JSTOR artwork ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, MTBdata ID, All About Birds ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), GISAID identifier, oKino.ua actor ID, Library of Congress providers ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: documented files, start and end time in video, is an individual of a taxon, facilitates flow of, LKI ID, service hosted by, service hosted at, everyeye.it ID
 * External identifiers: Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Artland fair ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, Regroupement Québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, CNSflora ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, artchive person ID, nzs.si player ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, NLC Bibliography ID, PKULaw CLI Code, LGBT Info Wiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places that appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopaedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopaedia and the Store Norske Leksikon, (ordered by country) (source)
 * Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
 * UK parties since 1935 that have only ever been represented by a single MP (source)
 * Brazilians with most Wikipedia pages across languages (source)


 * Development
 * Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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January 2022 Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

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Wikidata weekly summary #501
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #23, Residence
 * Past:
 * Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * How to get Wikidata claims from Wikipedia sitelinks using Wikidata API ?
 * Videos
 * Working hour - Wikidata SPARQL querries (in Italian) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
 * Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
 * Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of triples, URL for freedom of information requests, official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy
 * External identifiers: Norgeshistorie ID, Numista mint ID, Austrian Street ID, F6S ID, EU Whoiswho ID, DFIH financier ID, Express Gazeta ID, All-Science Journal Classification Codes, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, Numista coin ID, Comparably company ID, Folketinget actor ID, Coub channel ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Index of Middle English Verse ID, Stack Exchange user ID, Listen Notes podcast ID, Casefile ID, ILAB ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database ID, CNSflora ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Artland artist ID, Genie media ID, Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: cantilever sign, yield rate, Stalin Memo ID, Name in Swedish government, reference image
 * External identifiers: FID ID, Labyrinth database ID, doollee.com playwright ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, people.su person ID, Biographe.ru ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Hermitage Museum ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, Tretyakov Gallery ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, ARCHER ID, Pipe Organ Database ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016


 * Query examples:
 * Map of New Zealand suburbs (source)
 * Graph of influences in the Age of Enlightenment (source)
 * Family names shared by astronauts (along with how often they occur in Wikidata) (source)
 * Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures) (source)
 * People awarded by the French Legion of Honour on Dec 31, 2021 (source)
 * Average height of people named Joe (Source)
 * Indian writers who died in 1961 (Source)


 * Development
 * Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:45, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

in friendship
Thank you for being around! - Happy new year, in friendship! - One of my pics was on the Main page, DYK, and even made it to the stats. - In this young year, I enjoyed meetings with friends in real life, and wish you many of those.

I imagine to make the Precious reminders automatic, - yes, I enjoy the morning round, but will not be here forerever. I known nothing about such things. First step: the date should probably be formatted better than just a month and year on top of a month and then the individual days. How, if we need to check if a day of a month is the same, and be able to calculate the difference in years? I think I better make the table one big thing, sortable by many factors. Or not? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:40, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

"Voluntary agency" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Voluntary agency and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 9 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Rubbish computer Ping me or leave a message on my talk page 14:04, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #502
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Ameisenigel, welcome!
 * New request for comments: Automated Manipulation and Calculation


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
 * Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on January 13th at 18:00 Central Europe Time (17:00 UTC/GMT), in this Jitsi room. This edition will be an open discussion without a specific theme: you can bring 1-2 Phabricator tickets that you really care about, and we will look at them together and see how we can add relevant information and triage them.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Review Wikimedia Foundation’s Linked Open Data Strategy 2021 and community discussion. Agenda, January 11th. |convert to local time!
 * Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours. Date: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 12 at 19:00 CEST (exceptionally on Wednesday)
 * The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC. This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools! Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #66 - YouTube, Facebook, January 15 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #92, January 16 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #24, Antonyms
 * Creating, maintaining and updating Shape Expressions as EntitySchemas in the Wikimedia ecosystem. International SWAT4HCLS Conference. 10 - 13 Jan 2022. Register!


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * An introduction to Observable for Wikidata users
 * 10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier
 * Videos
 * Introduction to the interwiki links between Wikidata and Wikipedia (in French) - YouTube
 * Exploring Wikipedia infobox from Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
 * WIkimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021
 * Implementing Wikidata in Educational Institutions — CEE Challenges and Opportunities - YouTube
 * Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
 * Wikidata automatization and integration with web resources - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Celtic Knot Conference (dedicated to underserved languages on the Wikimedia project, with a strong focus on Wikidata and lexicographical data) will take place online in 2022. You can help the organizers with giving input on topics you'd like to see at the conference. Feel free to fill in the survey before January 17.
 * The page Wikidata:WikiProject Duplicates/Wikipedia mergers has been created, in order to facilitate users when they find duplicate articles in a Wikipedia whose language is unfamiliar to them:
 * if you want to declare that you are available for merging duplicate articles in one or more given Wikipedias, please add your name to this page
 * if you want to find some user able to merge articles in a certain Wikipedia, you can see if there are already available users for that Wikipedia and contact them directly
 * New open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikidata/Wikibase teams)
 * Product Manager Wikibase Suite
 * Working student in International Software Collaboration
 * Post WikidataCon 2021
 * Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
 * Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
 * Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy, is an individual of taxon, reference image, associated cadastral district
 * External identifiers: Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID, WikiStrinda ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, NER portfolio ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, LocalWiki ID, Initiale ID, Joconde representation ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, Arthive person ID, Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, NT Place Names Register ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, MedlinePlus supplement identifier, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, everyeye.it ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: TV3 programme ID, Chief/Naa/Traditional ruler, results in quality, official jobs URL, relative, director of publication, Business valuation, 議案番号
 * External identifiers: Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016, New York Flora Atlas ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, NLC FL Sys. No., Senators of Spain (1834-1923), Finnish real property ID, TV3 video ID, OpenAlex ID, IRIS Sardinia IDs, CineCartaz, identifiant Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel, Numista type number, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, SPLC group ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, archive-ouverte Unige ID, Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali work ID, rus.team person ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID


 * Query examples:
 * Authors without field of work but with topic-tagged publications
 * Compound first names starting with "John" (and the number of uses on Wikidata) (Source)
 * Presidents of Brazil with the most awards (Source)
 * Locations of parishes across Scotland (Source)
 * Map of where Roman Catholic Popes were born (Source)
 * Birth place of people who are described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopedia and the Store Norske Leksikon (Source)
 * Various kinds of New Year's celebrations in the world (Source)
 * World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade (source) select decade on the right side
 * Non-English labels for a set of objects, with the names of the languages (source)


 * Development
 * Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder ready for release. Focusing on adding statistics.
 * Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older browser (T298001)
 * Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be ordered consistently across all Lexemes (T232557)
 * Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (T233520)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Looking back at 2021
 * Developments rolled out in 2021:
 * New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with the large number of edits on Wikidata
 * Query Builder to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
 * Item Quality Evaluator to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
 * Constraints Violations Checker is a small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
 * Curious Facts finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
 * Wikidata Map to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
 * Current Events to make it easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a lot on Wikidata
 * New entities in 2021:
 * Items Q104595000 (approx.) to Q110342868
 * Properties P9003 to P10223
 * Lexemes L400170 (approx.) to L625164


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:12, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-02
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg A  variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example,  will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the  URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like  or .
 * Octicons-tools.svg At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees.
 * The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed.
 * Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows.
 * The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Events
 * Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 18:00 UTC to  18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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