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'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...
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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
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18:57, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
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'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.
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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)
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Migration to Parsoid
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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)
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Meaning
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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
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16:53, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
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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
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16:55, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
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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
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17:10, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
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Proposal
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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)
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Courtesy link:
w:Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
.-
FusionSub
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16:34, 25 May 2025 (UTC)
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Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes
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(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
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12:46, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
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What is shortcut interwiki of simple english
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Ex)ko》korean,en》English
메지로 아르당
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05:01, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
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simple.
MathXplore
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05:36, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
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Wikifunctions will be deployed on your wiki on 2025-10-01
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More languages
Please help translate to your language
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
Sannita (WMF)
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11:05, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
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Upcoming Dark Mode user interface rollout for anonymous Wikimedia sites users
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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!
UOzurumba (WMF)
02:08, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
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Have your say: vote for the 2025 Board of Trustees
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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
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Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
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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!
--
User:Sannita (WMF)
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11:44, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
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Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
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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:
Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
Ombuds commission (OC)
Case Review Committee (CRC)
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,
MKaur (WMF)
14:14, 30 October 2025 (UTC)
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Reminder: Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
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Hello
. Reminder: Please help to choose name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:
Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki
. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki.
Thank you!
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User:Sannita (WMF)
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A new layout proposal
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I'd like to suggest a new layout. It would look more or less likes as presented below. For the entry 'start' (based on the current version):
Meanings
change
countable noun
(1)
the
beginning
of
something
in
place
or
time
(2)
movement
in
reaction
to
surprise
(3)
surprise
often
not
pleasant
verb
(4)
do
something
for
the
first
time
(5)
make
machine
begin
to
work
(6)
move
in
surprise
Pronunciations
change
UK
IPA
key
[stɑːt]
US
IPA
key
[stɑɹt]
Audio (UK)
file
Audio (US)
file
Examples
change
(1)
We
went
back
to
the
start
(2)
surprised
him
and
he
gave
start
(3)
She
gave
him
quite
start
(4)
They
started
the
race
in
first
place
(5)
will
start
the
car
(6)
When
touched
his
arm
he
started
Synonyms
change
(1)
beginning
outset
square one
drawing board
introduction
(2)
jump
(3)
surprise
scare
(4)
begin
introduce
(5)
start up
turn on
initialize
(6)
flinch
Antonyms
change
(1)
finale
(1, 4)
end
finish
(4)
end
finish
terminate
complete
finalize
conclude
(5)
shut down
turn off
cut
(1-6) A word that is synonym for 'start' in all the meanings above
Collocations
change
Inflection
change
etc.
Note some things:
At the moment, I mostly just want to learn your opinion as to whether introducing a new layout is possible at all. I don't insist it has to look exactly as above
Similar layouts are used, for example, on German and Polish wiktionaries
We could use some templates in this layout e.g. instead of headers
I wanted to paste this temple into my personal page and share you a link to it, so that you could see it as a normal page, but I apparently got blocked
:/
Some advantages of the layout above:
We avoid repeating information thanks to using brackets ( )
A reader can easily check any word that is not familiar with thanks for using square brackets [[ ]]
Not using full stops . is more correct: they should be used after a sentence (e.g. We went back to the start.) not after a noun phrase (e.g. the beginning of something in place or time.)
Not using capitalisation is more correct: it should be used at the beginning of a sentence (e.g. We went back to the start.) not at the beginning of a noun phrase (e.g. The beginning of something in place or time)
Using definitions that act as equivalents (e.g. 'the beginning of something in place or time') is more helpful for a learner than using full sentences (e.g. 'A start is the begging of something in place or time.)
What do you think in general? Is it an idea worth to consider?
Aemitami
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17:16, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
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Hi, there, Aemitami. You will probably want to hear from people who are on here more than me, such as the active
Administrators
, but I will say a few things.
I like your energy and your desire to contribute in a meaningful way. As a rule of thumb, it is probably a good idea to do more than create 3 new entries on a single day, so that you get to know the community and its workings better, before suggesting a major change like this. Logically, things are generally done the way they are for a reason, though certainly there is room for change when there are good reasons to do so. Either way, consensus would be needed for a change like this to be implemented, so keep that in mind. On the other hand, due to the small size of the community here, consensus can be reached more easily here than on larger projects.
That said, I see both pros and cons to your suggestion. You will likely get significant pushback on some of your points. Also, I don't think I'm alone in feeling that pronunciation should not split the definitions from their examples.
Finally, you may note that this community, since it's quite a small one, responds slowly, so don't be surprised if any further comments or responses take a while. Consider writing on the most active users' (and administrators') talk pages for, possibly, a faster response.
Please don't let this stop you from contributing further in ways that match the current rules. We can always use the help!
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Cromwellt
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23:22, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
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Annual review of the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines
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I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 9 February 2026. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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21:02, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
Site logo wrong
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The site logo says Wiktionary. That is a different site. It needs to say Simple Wiktionary.
Jidanni
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01:47, 27 January 2026 (UTC)
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HTML page
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They all say Wiktionary. That is a different site. They need to say Simple Wiktionary.
When people Google something these titles cause them to be misled.
Jidanni
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01:54, 27 January 2026 (UTC)
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