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Administrators' newsletter – September 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2026).

- Speedy deletion criteria G15 has been renamed from "LLM-generated pages without human review" to "Unambiguously LLM-generated pages" and has an additional sign of detection added to it following a RfC.
- The September 2026 New Pages Patrol backlog drive is ongoing. Help tackle the 30,000+ article backlog!
- This week's article for improvement will be added to the Main Page to try converting readers into editors following a RfC.
Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!
[edit]Voting for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open! A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. You can vote here. Voting closes at 23:59 UTC on 29 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:18, 15 September 2026 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 17
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Highlights
- Data center switch: All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 23 at 14:00 UTC as part of a scheduled switchover to allow for essential maintenance and improvements. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes in advance.
- Baseline NPOV Policy: The public conversation regarding the proposed baseline NPOV policy for Wikipedias that do not yet have one has been concluded. Read the summary report and the updated baseline NPOV policy text and enforcement guidance here.
- Save the date. Wikimania 2027 will be taking place in Santiago, Chile, and online from August 18 to 21, with the theme "The Internet we want". See the Wikimania 2026 coverage highlights and a brief update on what's ahead.
- Chart extension is now beginner-friendly: Creating graphs and charts previously required manual JSON editing. In response to a Community wish to make the Charts extension more user-friendly, a new Visual mode for adding values has been introduced.
Annual Goals Progress on Engage
See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia

- Introducing TextMatch: Communities are shaping Suggestion Mode with TextMatch to create custom suggestions that are tailored to their own policies and writing conventions. Share your feedback.
- Visual editor becoming default: Design work on the user experience for visual editing for newcomers is underway. This follows visual editor becoming default on English Wikipedia following a community discussion.
- Community Wishlist 2027 consultation: The consultation on the proposed new Wishlist process is closing this week. This year's cycle plans for wish submissions in late October/early November, triage completed by late November, and voting in early to mid January. Share feedback in any language on the talk page.
- Improved Add a Link feature: Add a Link has been upgraded for English Wikipedia users with improved detection of links that have different capitalization. This will help reduce ambiguous suggestions caused by differences in capitalization in article titles, including articles about cultural goods.
- Wikipedia Android app: Latest release includes updates to the Saved feature, bringing the app’s saving experience closer to iOS and Web. The update redesigns the Saved tab with an “All articles” view, removes the default “Saved” reading list, renames reading lists to “Collections,” and modernizes the article-saving experience.
- Domain change for thumbnails: The domain of URLs for thumbnails is changing from
upload.wikimedia.orgtothumb.wikimedia.org. The old URLs will continue to work but MediaWiki will advertise the new domain instead. Original files, videos, and transcodes will still be served fromupload.wikimedia.org. - Reading lists rollout continues on desktop: Following the initial deployment to Bengali, Chinese, Czech, and Vietnamese Wikipedias, reading lists went live on Arabic, French, and Indonesian Wikipedias and will go live on English Wikipedia on Sep 14, with all remaining wikis following on Sep 28.
- New features of Pageviews Analysis: Several new features have been added to the Pageviews Analysis tool which allows users to compare pageviews across multiple pages. They include WikiNav which provides insights into how readers of Wikipedia explore the content, editing stats in Siteviews, the ability to lookup articles belonging to a WikiProject, and support for dark mode.
- Article guidance: As part of an A/B experiment, Article guidance is now available in Turkish and Simple English.
- Latest experiments: A current experiment for logged-out mobile readers on Bengali, Czech, English, Farsi, and Polish Wikipedias is testing whether simplifying the Minerva navigation bar improves reader retention. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Wikifunctions status updates: Thanks to all contributors, Wikifunctions has now reached 5,000 functions.
- Latest highlights from Tech News: Weeks 36 and 37 of Tech News include the Article guidance feature is now enabled by default for editors with less than 100 edits on Simple English and Turkish Wikipedia.
Annual Goals Progress on Enable
See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Affiliates and grant funding: Have your say on proposals establishing (1) a new model and set of expectations for movement affiliates; (2) new, connected requirements to determine eligibility for receiving Community Fund grants from the Wikimedia Foundation; and (3) updated criteria for affiliate recognition processes.
- Community Fund reflections: Read the reflections on the fiscal year 2025–2026 of the Rapid Fund and General Support Fund, covering $17.73 million across 427 grants in 90 countries, with 56.2% distributed outside North America and Northern & Western Europe.
Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- World of Wikipedia launches: The World of Wikipedia game has been released. It is an online collectible card game where players sort fact from fiction across Wikipedia articles to build their card library. The game is the latest experiment in reaching younger audiences through familiar formats, following Wikispeedia on Roblox and Which Came First? on the Wikipedia app.
Other updates
See also: Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Celebrate Women 2026: Read the impact of Celebrate Women 2026 as the campaign concluded with 112 events, 238,222 unreverted content edits and 2,499,773,577 bytes added.
- US staff union vote: On Sep 3, eligible Wikimedia Foundation staff in the United States voted in favor of union representation in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election.
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Question from Spacefaringfaerie (04:48, 23 September 2026)
[edit]Hello! What are good guidelines on what I should write after making an edit? How detailed do I need to be? Thank you! Your profile is cool! --Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 04:48, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Spacefaringfaerie thanks! I take it you're asking about WP:EDITSUMMARIES? I'd follow that link and read about it there. Let me know if you have follow-up questions :) CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 04:52, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks! That is helpful! I'm also assuming it's a skill honed with time and with seeing others edits Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 05:03, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
Question from Spacefaringfaerie (05:30, 23 September 2026)
[edit]Hello! May I ask how to remove a header that says there are no sources cited, and change the name of a page to reflect an update to the name of the item the article addresses please? --Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 05:30, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Spacefaringfaerie section tags may simply be deleted when the issue they raised is resolved. If you're using visual editor, just click on them and delete. If you're using source editor, it requires you to understand what the template is named; templates are indicated by double curly brackets in source editor. As for changing the title of a page, we call that moving. See WP:MOVE for details on how to do that. I'm always happy to double check your work if you're not sure you've done something right. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 06:14, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
Question from Spacefaringfaerie (03:14, 24 September 2026)
[edit]Hello! Thank you for answering the previous questions. I am updating the page of someone who passed today, and there is the notice that it is a biography of a living person (blp). As this person is no longer living, how/does that be changed? The page in question is Kathy Mar. I'm also concerned because I don't have an official "source" for her passing but it has been widely shared and is known in the filker community. It is not inaccurate. Should I wait to change that until there is an obituary posted by her husband (who shared that she passed)? I am not sure there will be an official obituary. --Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 03:14, 24 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Spacefaringfaerie the WP:BLP policy applies to both the living and the recently dead, so the template can probably stay for a bit. As for a source, we tend towards the lax on death sourcing, but a link to a post or an obituary is standard. Like, we'd probably even accept a Facebook post if that's all there was? Though Facebook is not a reliable source. But if you have only word of mouth, then that is truly WP:OR and just can't be verified at all, so we can't include it. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 04:39, 24 September 2026 (UTC)
- There's a Facebook post, but I am not sure if it is public view or if it is only visible because I am in a group where it was shared. Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 04:54, 24 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Spacefaringfaerie there isn't a requirement that a source be accessible to all, only that the source could be accessed by others. Citing a book doesn't require it to be on the Internet. Still...a closed FB group rides the line. I'd give it a week or two to see if an obituary gets published, and if not, then ... probably rely on the FB post. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 04:58, 24 September 2026 (UTC)
- I cannot figure out how to link the post where her partner Dean says she passed, both in terms of getting just that link from Facebook and citing it into the "died" box on Wikipedia. This is the link to her page, if that is helpful: https://www.facebook.com/kathy.mar.9 Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 05:24, 24 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Spacefaringfaerie it doesn't hurt to try putting that in as a citation, but I can't guarantee it would stand up to scrutiny. Still, sometimes, its the best we have. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 03:04, 25 September 2026 (UTC)
- I cannot figure out how to link the post where her partner Dean says she passed, both in terms of getting just that link from Facebook and citing it into the "died" box on Wikipedia. This is the link to her page, if that is helpful: https://www.facebook.com/kathy.mar.9 Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 05:24, 24 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Spacefaringfaerie there isn't a requirement that a source be accessible to all, only that the source could be accessed by others. Citing a book doesn't require it to be on the Internet. Still...a closed FB group rides the line. I'd give it a week or two to see if an obituary gets published, and if not, then ... probably rely on the FB post. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 04:58, 24 September 2026 (UTC)
- There's a Facebook post, but I am not sure if it is public view or if it is only visible because I am in a group where it was shared. Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 04:54, 24 September 2026 (UTC)
Question from Wteue6eeue6w on Multinational Force in Lebanon (21:15, 24 September 2026)
[edit]Zdidye --Wteue6eeue6w (talk) 21:15, 24 September 2026 (UTC)
Question from Rehan khan tu on Magic: The Gathering video games (21:35, 24 September 2026)
[edit]300 help me --Rehan khan tu (talk) 21:35, 24 September 2026 (UTC)
Hello, I just made my first edit. Should it show in my profile? --Oldblue18 (talk) 18:36, 25 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Oldblue18 you can find your contributions at Special:Contributions/Oldblue18. I don't see any other than this question, so it doesn't look like your edit went through. What were you trying to edit? CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 18:38, 25 September 2026 (UTC)
- You are right, it didn't register. I was trying to rewrite the first paragraph of the article on Nipple Sparing Mastectomy (NSM) Oldblue18 (talk) 18:42, 25 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Oldblue18 hmmm, not sure why it didn't take. I've left some general tips for you on your talkpage that you can peruse. As for the edit in particular, sometimes it will get saved locally and will be restored when you reopen the editor? So that's worth a try. Otherwise, I can try to troubleshoot why it didn't work. If you can't recover that edit, try making a small edit, like fixing a single typo, and see if that takes. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 18:45, 25 September 2026 (UTC)
- I figured it out. I hadn't published the changes. My edit is in. Thanks. Oldblue18 (talk) 18:55, 25 September 2026 (UTC)
- You are right, it didn't register. I was trying to rewrite the first paragraph of the article on Nipple Sparing Mastectomy (NSM) Oldblue18 (talk) 18:42, 25 September 2026 (UTC)
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 18
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Highlights
- Introducing the Wikipedia Starter Kit: The Foundation has launched a new Toolforge-hosted tool giving new and small language Wikipedia communities a guided pathway through essential onboarding tasks, activity indicators, and connections to the wider movement.
- Apply for a scholarship to Wikimania 2027: Scholarship applications are now open to attend Wikimania 2027 in Santiago. To help with preparing submissions, orientation sessions in Spanish, Portuguese, and English will be held starting the week of October 5. The final deadline is October 31.
- Reading Lists rolling out to all Wikipedias: Starting September 28, logged-in users on every Wikipedia will be able to save articles to a "read later" list using the bookmark icon, following successful rollouts on Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
- WikiCelebrate: WikiCelebrating Juan "BugWarp" Kulichevsky, who has contributed to Wikimedia projects since childhood and is passionate about sports photography and community building in Argentina and beyond.
- The 2026 appointment cycle is open now through 31 October 2026 for the Ombuds Commission (OC) and the Case Review Committee (CRC). You can learn more about the committees, the roles, and how to apply on the Committee Appointments page on Meta-wiki.
Annual Goals Progress on Engage
See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia
- Community Wishlist 2027: The Community Wishlist Process is now updated, taking into account the feedback received. Look out for the call for wish submissions towards the end of October.
- Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026: From Sep 18-20, Wikimedians, open-knowledge researchers, and free-culture advocates from Central and Eastern Europe gathered for the first time in Romania. Take a look at the novelties and history behind CEE Meeting.
- Increasing account creation: To convert more casual users into logged-in daily users, the evergreen account creation prompt is released into Beta / TestFlight for iOS and Android. Also, a new post-edit notice designed to encourage Temporary Account holders to register for a permanent account will now be released to all wikis. The new notice has proven to increase permanent account creation from 1.94% to 3.66%.
- VisualEditor is now the default at English Wikipedia: this wiki has now adopted VisualEditor as the default editor on both desktop and mobile web, following a sitewide discussion that found overwhelming consensus to make the change.
- Retesting image carousel: The image carousel experiment will be retested using three new versions of the design, updated based on community feedback. The team will assess results and determine with communities whether or not to proceed with the feature.
- Wikifunctions: Your code can now call back to the Wikidata fetch functions. Wikifunctions have deployed an initial capability by which a code Implementation (in JavaScript or Python) can call certain other Wikifunctions Functions, get back the result, and have it available for further processing.
- Latest experiments: A current experiment is testing whether offering a "generic guidance" path for Article Guidance that does not depend on a Wikidata match would increase the chances of more article creation attempts. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 38 and 39 include a Reader Growth experiment testing whether showing only part of an article at first on mobile, with a “Read more” button to reveal the rest, encourages people to keep reading. See also the 56 community-submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
- Suggestions for Transliterated Search: If you regularly use two different writing systems (such as Hindi and Latin alphabet), sometimes you accidentally type with the wrong one and need to switch to the right keyboard. Now, this gadget will be able to suggest query based on what you typed.
- Peer-to-peer learning program: Let’s Connect, a peer-to-peer learning program is shifting to a community-organized model.
- LLM Paste Check rolling out to Wikipedia: A new Edit Check will prompt editors who paste text likely copied from an external AI chatbot to consider whether it aligns with movement AI-use policies and decide whether to keep or remove it. It goes live as a default-on feature at English Wikipedia on Sep 24 and at all Wikipedias on Oct 8.
Annual Goals Progress on Enable
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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Women in Red - October 2026
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--Rosiestep (talk) 17:24, 30 September 2026 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hello, I am working on my first ever wikepedia article "Heart of the Sunrise" adding some context and citations. I noticed however under the "Live Versions" tab the previous author makes an assertion that a band called LCD Soundsystem played a tribute to "Heart of the Sunrise" in their final performance. I assume its true considering the name of the song on the song list was "Tired/Heart of the Sunrise - Live at Madison Square Garden" but there are no other sources actually talking about this the Wikipedia page is the only source asserting that. Should I delete the sentence or is it fine to just leave with a comment or something? --Azisik (talk) 18:20, 1 October 2026 (UTC)
- @Azisik if you can't find a source for it, and it has no source, it probably shouldn't be included. Sometimes you can include something and put a citation needed tag (using Template:CN). But the particular issue here strikes me as original research. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 19:15, 1 October 2026 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2026).

- Following an RfC, the good article criteria have been amended to add accessibility requirements.
- Following an RfC, late signatures added to administrator recall petitions after 720 hours from opening are reverted or struck and do not count towards the threshold, even if the petition has not yet been formally closed.
- The post-May 2026 administrator elections RfCs concluded with consensus for election monitors to curate blatantly inappropriate questions after posting, and to remove or merge true duplicates, clearly marking merged questions. Calls for candidates will include advisory guidance that users with less than one year’s experience or 5,000 edits generally lack a realistic chance of success.
- Interface administrators no longer need to specify the
ResourceLoaderoption in the definitions for gadgets on MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition as gadgets are always loaded throughResourceLoader. (T298199) - The
list=abusefiltersAPI module now supportsformatversion=2and includes breaking changes to its responses. In particular, theactionsproperty is now a JSON array rather than a string, regardless of the format version. Maintainers of user scripts and other code using this module should check compatibility and update their code as needed. (T435828)
- The arbitration case Gun control 2 has been closed.
- Doug Weller passed away on 30 September 2026. Doug Weller began editing Wikipedia in 2006 and became an administrator in 2008, making nearly 275,000 edits over two decades. He served on the Arbitration Committee from 2015 through 2018 and was also a longtime CheckUser and Oversighter.
- The October 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from September 29 to October 19. The call for candidates ends October 5.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2026 Arbitration Committee elections is opened and closes on 8 October.
- The Good Article Nominations backlog drive has begun and is scheduled to end on November 3.
uploaded document
[edit]hey i have uploaded a document and it said it would be on a review and i am wondering how can i track the progress Justfacts123 (talk) 08:59, 8 October 2026 (UTC)
- @Justfacts123 I don't see that you've made any edits? What did you upload and where? CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 18:21, 8 October 2026 (UTC)
Question from Stephen Garold (10:01, 8 October 2026)
[edit]- Note: Stephen Garold's mentor Oshwah is away.
Hello Oshwah,
I created a page about Canadian-British actor, musician and filmaker Kenton Hall some days ago, but another editor tagged it ai-generated due to some messy text phrasing from a draft machine translations tool i used before (I apologize).
I checked all the facts and references, rewritted in sandbox later by my own hand and searched the sourced without using an AI.
Since I can't edit right now due to my semi-rest, could you please take a look at my text, verify its quality, or help me update the page if anything doesn't comply with the guidelines? I really do not want to see this page to keep the AI-Generated tag.
Thanks. --Stephen Garold (talk) 10:01, 8 October 2026 (UTC)
- @Stephen Garold well AI translator use is AI use, which we regulate fairly strictly; see WP:LLMTRANSLATE. Though I don't see any foreign language sources in the article so I'm a bit confused as to what you were translating? CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 18:24, 8 October 2026 (UTC)
- Hi @CaptainEek,
- English is not my native language, but ukrainian is.
- I sometimes used Google Translate to help express my own drafts and thoughts into english, rather than translating foreign-language sources. I did it for first.
- At the time, I didn't realize that Google Translate now utilizes Gemini, thats why it's inserts LLM formatting artefacts behind the scenes. From that moment i decided to cut usage of this instrument and tackle grammar on my own, even if it isn't perfect.
- Thanks for clarifying! Stephen Garold (talk) 19:31, 8 October 2026 (UTC)
- And I forgot to clarify: I actually found about a connect between Google Translate and Gemini a bit earlier and was already in the process of phasing it out. Now I write all of my texts only with my own thoughts to make sure I strictly follow the Wikipedia guidelines. Stephen Garold (talk) 19:39, 8 October 2026 (UTC)
