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October 2026 Wikimedia Café: legal issues on Commons, and WMF Board selection process

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The Bugle: Issue 246, October 2026

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D look at four works on Australian and Canadian subjects Timeline: This month in military history

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My revisions

Hi you seem to be changing additions I have mad havong read Jim Baggotts book. My additions are in good faith although they may be mistaken. Please inform me where and why I'm am wrong Thanks george MLP Updater (talk) 22:08, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. So Hahn was informed on the night of 7 August, after the BBC broadcast, not two months before. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:22, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

I think the Bomb was dropped just after midnight on the 6th UK Summer time so they were told later on the sixth. MLP Updater (talk) 10:18, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Since you have the book and I don't: does it have footnotes? If so, where is it taking this from? The bit about Hahn being told before supper comes from Groves but he goes on to claim that Hahn felt suicidal, which has been debunked. If you want to work on the Operation Epsilon article (and I encourage you to do so), you'll need to get hold of a copy of Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:24, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Yes there are footnotes and references but not for that statement. The book was published 15 years ago an mentions Hahn's state of mind.

I have less life expectancy than the books and projects I am already involved with but thank you for the heads up. MLP Updater (talk) 10:22, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

ACR statistics

Hi, I hope that things are going well. I'm writing an op-ed for the next edition of the Bugle with some suggestions for revitalising the ACR process. I'd like to illustrate how things have slowed down with statistics, but it looks like there isn't a log of nominations over time I can use to develop this. I can pull something together using previous editions of the Bugle (e.g. comparing 2025 to 2019), but are you aware of any statistics here that already exist? Regards, Nick-D (talk) 08:46, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

No, I don't think we keep them. I was thinking you might look at the A-class showcase but note that articles are removed when promoted to FA. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:06, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I might add that kind of tracking to my list of suggestions! Nick-D (talk) 10:28, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-44

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

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• An experiment launched on September 29 is testing article recommendations for new account holders who also identify as readers. By suggesting articles to read, similar to recommendations in the Wikipedia app for logged-in readers, the experiment aims to encourage new account holders to read and return to the website regularly, with the goal of increasing internal referrals by 1%. See the related Community Wishlist proposal.
• Several Wikimedia services were taken offline last week because of a security vulnerability in PHP. This is because they need to be updated before they are safe to put back online. This is not a problem just for the Wikimedia movement but affects a lot of websites. You can follow updates on Wikitech. Cloud VPS and Toolforge will take longer to bring back online. This is to make sure that applications which run on Cloud VPS or Toolforge are not affected. Tool developers can see updates and more information on the Cloud-announce mailing list.
• Last week we shared that to measure the impact of incorporating some community-requested features on logged-out reader retention, a test for the Image Carousel feature would be pushed to logged-out readers. Due to an issue, we will be restarting the test, but it will be live on October 26, not November 20 as initially announced.

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New cross-language page links (2026-10-31)

Anne Beaumanoir (Q30451735), a page you created:

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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 9

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 30 September

Volume 4 — Issue 9
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News On 3 September, BepiColombo started its insertion into Mercury's orbit. Andøya Space was the launch pad of the first West European orbital launch on 5 September. SMILE, the European Space Agency and Chinese Academy of Sciences' joint heliophysics mission, began scientific operations on 23 September.
Article of the month Sakigake Sakigake (さきがけ; lit. 'pioneer', 'pathfinder'), known before launch as MS-T5, was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the US or the Soviet Union. It aimed to demonstrate the performance of the new launch vehicle, test its ability to escape from Earth gravity, and observe the interplanetary medium and magnetic field. Sakigake also served as a reference probe for Halley's Comet. Early measurements would be used to improve the mission of the Suisei probe launched several months later. Sakigake was developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science for the National Space Development Agency (both of which are now part of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA). It became a part of the Halley Armada together with Suisei, the Soviet Vega probes, the ESA Giotto and the NASA International Cometary Explorer, to explore Halley's Comet during its 1986 sojourn through the inner Solar System.	Image of the month Hubble Extreme Deep Field The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (HXDF), released on September 25, 2012, is an image of a portion of space in the center of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image. Representing a total of two million seconds (about 23 days) of exposure time collected over 10 years, the image covers an area of 2.3 arcminutes by 2 arcminutes, or about 80% of the area of the HUDF. This represents about one thirty-two millionth of the sky. Long-time readers will recognize this image from the July 2021 issue of The Downlink. The explanatory text is excerpted from the original article.
Members New Members: none Number of active members: 206. Total number of members: 466. September Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Pallas-1 — no payload (1 Sep. at 02:00) (success) SpaceX Starship — 26 Starlink (28 Sep. at 12:48) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 30 September 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 13 27 36 62 3 141 B 17 80 201 248 12 558 C 42 172 617 921 2 98 1,852 Start 14 134 1,025 2,751 561 4,485 Stub 3 191 1,972 365 2,531 List 11 117 111 250 1 50 540 Category 1,310 1,310 Disambig 47 47 File 276 276 Portal 54 54 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 44 154 1,261 1,461 Template 536 536 Other 1 36 37 Assessed 104 568 2,246 6,372 3,756 1,089 14,135 Unassessed 1 125 126 Total 104 568 2,246 6,373 3,756 1,214 14,261 Monthly Changes Since August 2026, there is one more Mid-importance, nine more Low-importance, eight more NA-importance, and 78 more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 96 new articles. There are also two more GA-class, four more B-class, 14 more C-class, 34 more Start-class, and 18 more Stub classes articles.
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WikiCup 2026 November newsletter

The 2026 WikiCup has come to an end. Our top scorers, based on the tournament point rankings (which can be seen here), are:

1. Generalissima (submissions) with 1077 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
2. Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1046 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
3. MCE89 (submissions) with 762 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
4. A.Cython (submissions) with 606' tournament points
5. Vestrian24Bio (submissions) with 537 tournament points
6. Reconrabbit (submissions) with 349 tournament points
7. BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 297 tournament points
8. Arconning (submissions) with 183 tournament points

Our three high scorers in the final round, who each got over 1,000 points, happen to all be among the top 8 as well:

1. Generalissima (submissions) with 2846 round points from 40 good articles, 4 pieces of featured content (including 2 featured articles), 11 DYK articles, and various reviews.
2. Bgsu98 (submissions) with 2603 round points from 43 good articles, 5 pieces of featured content (1 featured article and 4 featuyred lists), and various reviews.
3. Vestrian24Bio (submissions) with 1141 round points from 20 good articles, a good topic, a featured list, and 30 good article reviews.

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 29 featured articles, 8 featured lists, 1 featured picture, 150 good articles, 43 good topic articles, 189 article reviews, 28 did you know articles, and 4 in the news articles. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

The top eight scorers will receive awards shortly. The following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. These prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field over the course of the competition.

• Generalissima (submissions) wins the following prizes:
  • The featured article prize, for 12 featured articles.
  • The featured picture prize, for submitting the only featured picture for the second year in a row.
  • The good article prize, for 82 good articles.
• Bgsu98 (submissions) wins the following prizes:
  • The featured list prize, for 21 featured lists.
  • The featured content reviewer prize, for 72 featured article reviews.
• Vestrian24Bio (submissions) wins the following prizes:
  • The featured topic prize, for 8 pages in featured topics.
  • The good topic prize, for 26 pages in good topics.
  • The good article reviewer prize, for 84 good article reviews.
• BabbaQ (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 9 ITN pages.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 47 DYK pages.

A special mention also goes to these users who scored the highest in a particular category in a single round:

• A.Cython (submissions), for 20 good-topic articles in round 5.
• Olliefant (submissions), who withdrew during the competition but who had 38 featured-content reviews in round 2. Olliefant also had 43 good article reviews in round 1.
• The Robot Parade (submissions), for 5 ITN pages in round 1.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate. We are also looking for an experienced editor to help write the bimonthly newsletter. If you would like to help write next year's newsletters, please contact Epicgenius at his talk page.

The WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2027 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!

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WikiCup 2026 November newsletter (update)

In our November 2026 newsletter, there was a mistake in calculating the final tournament point rankings (which have been updated here). We regret the error.

1. Generalissima (submissions) with 1461 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
2. Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1302 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
3. Vestrian24Bio (submissions) with 793 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
4. MCE89 (submissions) with 762 tournament points
5. A.Cython (submissions) with 606 tournament points
6. BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 425 tournament points
7. Reconrabbit (submissions) with 349 tournament points
8. Arconning (submissions) with 183 tournament points

On behalf of the judges, Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email):

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The Signpost: 1 November 2026

• News and notes: AELECT5 concludes, a Wikimedian arrested for treason, and updates to GANs and FARs
  Nine new admins, three arrests, and a lot of GAN RFCs.

• Recent research: How Wikipedians use (or don't use) LLMs; experienced editors contribute more to "underproduced" articles than newbies
  And other new research findings.

• Disinformation report: Better bots or bothersome baby borgs?
  Have the Borg landed on Wikipedia?

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  Can toeing the line stop the apocalypse?

• News from Diff: Why Wikimedia Is Speaking Up in a Major AI Copyright Case
  When AI companies use copyrighted information, does it qualify as fair use?

• By the numbers: Wikipedian Nobel Prize 2026
  Which language versions of Wikipedia had biographies of laureates before Nobel announcements?

• On the bright side: Gone fishing
  Touring Thailand, exploring iridescence, and translating prairie dog.

• Traffic report: October, and the articles are stripped bare
  Lots of deaths, Indian movies, and monsters. Happy Halloween!

• In focus: Two Roles, One Wikimedia Education Ecosystem
  What happens when different approaches to Wikimedia education connect?

• Comix: Inactivity
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Tech News: 2026-45

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• Many Wikimedia tools were taken offline last week because of a security vulnerability in PHP. This affected many websites worldwide. Toolforge and Cloud VPS have been back up since October 22. Many important tools have been gradually restored. Some tools need the respective volunteer maintainers to restart them. Others still need to upgrade to a patched PHP version. Some tools were using older versions of PHP which are not supported by the recent security patches. They will require maintainers to upgrade to a more recent version. This might require additional effort. You can follow the work on Wikitech.

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• A new optional search experiment is running in the Wikipedia Android and iOS apps for Arabic, French, and Japanese Wikipedias. Participating readers can search inside articles and open quoted passages directly in their source articles, no answers or summaries are generated. This is the first of four experiments in Phase 2 of Semantic Search. It began on October 22 and runs for 20 days. Feedback is welcome on the project’s discussion page.
• The Future Audiences team is planning to bring Share Cards to Wikipedia on mobile. This feature gives users the option to share a visually appealing card with friends, based on the article they are reading. The card contains the article’s title, image, opening text, and related attribution, and links back to the article for full reading. Editors are invited to try out this feature by adding ?useformat=mobile&sharecard=1 to any article URL from October 29 to November 8. Share any thoughts on the project talk page and report any bugs on Phabricator.
• The default renderer for math formulas will change on November 2. After the change, the server sends the formula as MathML, and your browser uses MathJax to show it. This is the last step towards the Mathoid/RESTBase deprecation process, for sustainability and security reasons. You can ask questions or report problems.
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• View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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Bot issue

Hi there, There seems to be an issue with MilHistBot. Apparently it has been changing page assessments that had been done by human users. The problem was raised here. It probably needs to be adjusted. Cheers, Psychloppos (talk) 15:07, 5 November 2026 (UTC)

Hello. Your bot seems to be malfunctioning again. I guess it should be fixed. Thanks, Psychloppos (talk) 14:03, 6 November 2026 (UTC)

In general, it produces page assessments that contradict those of human users. Its mode of operation should probably be rethought. Thanks in advance, Psychloppos (talk) 14:09, 6 November 2026 (UTC)

Hmm. The Bot has to perform the MilHist assessment. If it doesn't match the existing assessment, it will cause the article to be marked for reassessment. That should be fine. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:31, 7 November 2026 (UTC)

Maybe it would be better to disable to bot's ability to revert human users ? Thanks. Psychloppos (talk) 08:49, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Hi, here is another example of the bot's problems: here, it assessed a page that had already been assessed, presumably by a human other. It shouldn't normally do that. Psychloppos (talk) 17:27, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

The page had not been assessed, which is why the Bot assessed it. I have a new version to address your concern but have not put it online yet. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:07, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

On the contrary, it had been assessed as Start (presumably by a human) and the bot reassessed it as C, effectively superseding a human user. This probably needs to be fixed. Thanks, Psychloppos (talk) 20:13, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

And it will be once I put the new version online. The human did not perform the MilHist assessment, leaving that to the Bot. @MSGJ: Is there a category for when the shell differs from the MilHist assessment? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:24, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

The new version is now online. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:36, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

There is no category to track differences. Projects which have opted out (like Milhist) or expected to maintain their own assessments. It's only when the project class is missing that it will default to the PIQA class — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:35, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

The project class will always be missing, as MilHist has adopted PIQA. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 17:56, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

FACbot issue

Hi Hawkeye, sorry to bug you - it looks like there may be an issue with FACbot's new task. It doesn't seem to be notifying people that their articles have been scheduled for TFA, or updating future main date when an article is scheduled. I see that it notified Harizotoh9 that Archie MacLaren had been scheduled, but Harizotoh9 isn't the FA nom, they're the TFAR nom. No one else seems to have been notified about any of the articles on the December TFA schedule, and the only other article that's had its maindate updated is Chilean cruiser Esmeralda. I'm not sure if this is intended behavior because of the trial period (if so, sorry to bother you). ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:32, 5 November 2026 (UTC)

I have not put the new job into production yet; I have a minor issue regarding the processing of tables, but it will catch up when I run it. This must have occurred on a test run. I thought we had agreed that the TFAR nominator was the person to notify; they are here whereas the FAC nominator from ten years ago may no longer be around. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:55, 5 November 2026 (UTC)

Ah, no problem, didn't realize it was just a test run. I can do manual notifications in the mean time.

It looks like the discussion at the bot request wasn't fully clarified, which is my bad. Wehwalt said it should be the FAC nom, which was my understanding as well. The majority of TFAs don't have a formal TFAR, so if we only advised the TFAR nom, 80-90% of TFAs would go up without any notification at all. That being said, if it's possible, I don't see a reason not to notify both the FAC and TFAR nom when there is a TFAR from someone other than the FAC nominator. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:04, 6 November 2026 (UTC)

I will do another run - it will help if you don't update manually so I have something to process. I created a notification template, so if you want to change the message, you can do it; it will not require changing the bot. I can notify both the FAC nominator and the FAC nominator. It is a small change. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:16, 6 November 2026 (UTC)

Thanks a million! Tech editors like yourself keep this place running and I cannot overstate how much I appreciate you taking the time. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 14:22, 6 November 2026 (UTC)

They all seem to be done already, so we will have to wait until the January nominations go up. I could do a special run sending notifications to the user talk pages. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:30, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, what all seems to be done already? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:12, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

I have processed all the December nominations. All the FAC and TFA nominators should have been informed, and the maindates have all been updated. There was an issue with articles that had already appeared on the main page, so I had to add some extra instructions to cater for this. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:24, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Gotcha. Thanks again :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:50, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

@TFA coordinatorsUser:Wehwalt User:Z1720 User:AirshipJungleman29 User:Premeditated Chaos: The new bot run is still in trial, so it won't run automatically. If you put up a new lot of nominations, ping me and I will initiate a semi-automated run. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:28, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Hawkeye. I plan to schedule January around November 25, after I return from holiday. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:27, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

New cross-language page links (2026-11-06)

Discovery of nuclear fission (Q1344449), a page you created:

• A new page Penemuan fisi nuklir on the Indonesian Wikipedia

Nello Carrara (Q1975490), a page you created:

• A new page Nello Carrara on the Indonesian Wikipedia

High Explosive Research (Q28733116), a page you created:

• A new page High Explosive Research on the Spanish Wikipedia

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Tech News: 2026-46

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

Weekly highlight

• The Wikipedia Apps team is preparing to launch Year in Review in early December. Year in Review gives app users a personalized recap of how they read and engaged with Wikipedia throughout the year. The team is looking for volunteers to help make it available in as many languages as possible. Translators can contribute through translatewiki.net. For Android, search for yir under the "Untranslated" tab, and for iOS, search for year-in-review under the "Untranslated" tab.
• The Article guidance feature that helps editors create articles that follow a Wikipedia’s policies, is now available on all Wikipedias. Administrators and interface admins can configure and expose it for editors to use via Special:CommunityConfiguration/ArticleGuidance. A configuration guide is available. Visit the project talk page to ask any questions.

Updates for editors

• Following the release of Reading Lists to all Wikipedias in September, logged-in users will soon be able to organize articles saved in their lists into customizable categories. This will enable readers to create collections and revisit saved articles based on their interests, potentially encouraging frequent visits to Wikipedia. The update will roll out to all Wikipedia users between November 9 and 16.
• The Wikipedia Apps team is preparing to launch the first of two notification experiments for English Wikipedia readers on Android who have opted in to notifications. The three-week experiment will send notifications suggesting personalized Discover reading lists which are collections of Wikipedia articles recommended based on articles the reader has previously viewed. The goal is to understand whether these recommendations help readers discover relevant content and encourage them to return to the app. No action is required, and users can manage their notification preferences in the app settings. Learn more and share feedback.
• A bug in the Global Watchlist was causing the page to fail to load for users who have unseen changes on Wikimedia Commons. The bug has now been fixed. If you temporarily removed commons.wikimedia.org from your personal Global Watchlist settings due to the bug, you can restore it there.
• A new Beta feature called "Home" will be deployed to 10 Wikipedias for a limited test. This new feature aims to replace Special:Homepage for newcomers, with additional modules planned for the future to improve upon the current experience. If you want to participate in the test, please sign up. "Home" will be released to all users later this month.
• On English and Russian Wikipedias, Source Verification is now available as an experimental Suggestion for experienced editors within Suggestion Mode. It uses an LLM hosted on LiftWing to try to check whether a cited source supports the claim it’s attached to. To try it out, please see these testing instructions. If you are at another language Wikipedia and your community is interested in trying it out, please express your interest.
• View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where dates passed as blank parameters to functions in wikitext were incorrectly interpreted using the month-day-year format instead of the day-month-year format, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting on 1 December 2026, hCaptcha will be required for edits made via the API by non-autoconfirmed users. If your tool, gadget, or user script makes edits on behalf of newcomer users, see how to update it.
• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new Toolforge standards committee members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations close on 22 November 2026.
• Toolforge has introduced two new beta features. "Toolforge alerts" send email notifications when a tool becomes unavailable, returns errors, or restarts frequently. "Extended logging" makes it easier to investigate problems by providing logs for events such as job creation, deletion, and deployment failures through the toolforge logs command. Both features are opt-in and help tool maintainers become aware of and resolve problems with their tools more quickly. Maintainers can enable alerts and learn how to access extended logs. They are also encouraged to try the features and provide feedback.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• A proposal to change how we currently organize the Wikimedia Hackathon has been shared. It explores making the event more accessible to technical communities in different regions. Share your feedback on the proposal’s talk page; the deadline has been extended to November 13th.

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November 2026 Wikimedia Café: the Newcomer homepage & Home experience

The Wikimedia Foundation's Contributor teams are migrating the Newcomer homepage to a new experience called Home. This page will evolve with users, introducing them to new personalized opportunities based on their interests, and helping them develop into experienced contributors.

In November 21–22 sessions of the Wikimedia Café, Kirsten Stoller (senior product manager, Growth) and Sam Walton (senior product manager, Moderator Tools) will share an overview of this feature, plans for its future, and demos of interactive prototypes which we can explore together.

A quote which I hope will inspire your attendance or at least good wishes, from Grace Hopper: "The most important thing I've accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people. They come to me, you know, and say, 'Do you think we can do this?' I say, 'Try it.' And I back 'em up. They need that. I keep track of them as they get older and I stir 'em up at intervals so they don't forget to take chances."

This month's schedule:

• Session A: 21 November at 16:00 UTC (timestamp converter), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe
• Session B: 22 November at 04:00 UTC (timestamp converter), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific

Please see the Café page for more information, including how to register!

Attendees of the Café are encouraged to bring a favorite beverage. (In the eternal words of Captain Picard, "Tea, Earl Grey, hot.")

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༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 23:43, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2026

This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue X, October 2026 Headlines From the team: Global GLAM Calls and Upcoming Conferences Albania report: GLAM, Education & Community Highlights – September–October 2026 Australia report: WikiProject Library and Information Science Botswana report: Botswana Joins Wiki Loves Monuments for the First Time Brazil report: Wikimedia Brasil announces list of selected winners for the 2026 Wiki Loves Monuments awards Czech Republic report: Renewed partnership with Charles University launched Egypt report: Capturing & Documenting the Unseen: GLAM Egypt October Recap France report: Unicorns, Science Festival and Birds Germany report: Wikidata and Webarchiving Italy report: ItWikiCon and the Turano Archaeological Survey New Zealand report: Auckland War Memorial Museum updates Philippines report: PhilWiki Community celebrates Bikol Wikisource's 2nd birthday with Open GLAM Day at Bicol Guerilla Museum Poland report: Polish Wikipedia at 25, a New University Partnership and Open Knowledge in the Age of AI Serbia report: October in Wikimedia Serbia Switzerland report: Workshop Digital Archives, National Museum in Prangins, DaSCHCon, UN Library and Archives Tunisia report: GLAM Wiki Days Tunisia 2026 UK report: Mughal scientific instruments + Gazette wind-down Content Partnerships Hub report: Content Partnerships Hub: October updates and new stories on Diff Memory of the World report: A dozen new articles Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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