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A1Cafel (talk) 15:25, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
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Mr. Lechkar (talk) 16:29, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
Hi Yacàwotçã, you have recently used {{Section resolved}} at COM:AN/U. This is as of now without effect. I've opened a discussion about this, see Commons talk:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems#Archival of resolved sections. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 11:27, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-48
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Animal-made art consists of works by non-human animals, that have been considered by humans to be artistic, including visual works, music, photography, and videography. Some of these are created naturally by animals, often as courtship displays, while others are created with human involvement.
There have been debates about the copyright status of these works, with the United States Copyright Office stating in 2014 that works that lack human authorship cannot have their copyright registered at the US Copyright Office.
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Wikidata weekly summary #707
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week leading up to 2025-11-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #706.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- News2DataBot - Task(s): Check for new, unlinked articles on Polish Wikinews and create relevant Items.
- WikidataLiteraryWorksMetaDataUpload - Task(s): Upload metadata for literary works from research project.
- New request for comments: The Exhibition Models RfC was split into 2 Schema proposals: Exhibition Concept and Exhibition Manifestation.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Upcoming LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session on 25 November 2025: Join the community-driven effort led by WikiProject Personal Pronouns to improve pronoun data modeling and ethics in Wikidata. This is part of a three-session series (Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9) focused on implementing new best practices. No prior Wikidata experience required. Join at 17:00 UTC. Event page.
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 - Hosted in Milan, Italy, scholarships are now open, apply on Pretix.
- Art+Feminism & Whose Knowledge? - A conversation on building a feminist data future, Dec 5, 2025, 13:00 UTC (Time zone converter).
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Presentations: Wikidata as a challenge for rule systems (Declarative AI 2025 Conf.) - Slides / Recording
- Papers: Snapshot of bibliographic metadata from Wikidata for all Arabic periodicals published worldwide before 1930 - Project Jarāʾid, by T. Grallert, (2025).
- Videos:
- An introduction to Wikidata and its use for librarians and researchers; slides available on Commons
- WikidataCon 2025 Session Playlists (YouTube):
Day 1 (31.10) / Day 2 (01.11) / Day 3 (02.11) - Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature - By Dr Thneed
- Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate
- Towards Linked Data Fluency: Takeaways from a Wikidata Workflow Pilot Program
- Enhancing authority files through SPARQL federated queries - Thomas Kerboul and the Bibliothèque de Genève improved person data by comparing Wikidata and IdRef, with manual checks preventing ID mix-ups.
- (Spanish) Inspiring Women: Layla Michán - Wikidata and research - Dr. Aguirre (UNAM) discusses Wikidata as a collaborative research tool and shared experiences in the “Women Who Inspire” series.
Tool of the week
- Timetrail is a website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations.
- The redesigned WikiProvenance is now live, featuring a new front end and backend for exploring and comparing Wikidata provenance information. Try examples like Johann Sebastian Bach or Human vs. City and Paris vs. London. Explore it here: https://wikiprovenance.toolforge.org/
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- LDF endpoint retirement considered: The unstable and low-traffic LDF endpoint may be retired to reduce maintenance effort and unnecessary load on WDQS. If your workflow depends on it and you would hate to see it go, please let the Wikidata development team know at Wikidata talk:Data access.
- WDQS Legacy endpoint deprecation: The legacy endpoint (
query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be fully decommissioned on 7 January 2026. Please migrate tools and workflows to the supported endpoints:query.wikidata.org(Main) orquery-scholarly.wikidata.org(Scholarly). Assistance is available on the Data Access and Request a Query pages. - Insights from Data Governance Research Process 2025: Results of the research to better understand how the communities currently think about which data and communities are best served by Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud or Wikibase Suite respectively.
- Abstract Wikipedia naming contest: Help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project which is provisionally known as Abstract Wikipedia. The second phase of voting is now open until December 1.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: CUIT, REGAFI id, Hong Kong company ID, California Entity Number, Mã số doanh nghiệp, InfoconDB series ID, InfoconDB conference ID, Biography.com ID, Hudobné centrum person ID, Hudobné centrum group ID, FAIR Epigraphic Vocabularies ID, NVLI ID, SerBenfiquista.com players ID, BG IISDA org ID, BG NACID person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland ID, Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID, National cultural monument of Czechia ID, Davis Cup player ID since 2025, Eiga.com drama ID, Last Address ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- parliamentary group leader (the identity of the leader of a parliamentary group)
- SignWriting transcription (representation in SignWriting)
- free height (vertical distance from the floor level to the lowest obstruction in the ceiling of an indoor or outdoor space)
- thumbtime (Time for video thumbnail in seconds)
- Credibly accused of (entity (person or organization) that has been credibly accused of a crime or serious misconduct, but is not (yet) convicted)
- New External identifier property proposals to review:: CHZZK streamer ID, FC Barcelona players ID, Qalamos person ID, KISTI conference ID, KaraokeTexty.cz artist ID, KaraokeTexty.cz song ID, DLSite dōjin circle ID, DLSite person ID, DLSite work ID, Showlabs ID, DEUMM Online ID, Kvinnehistorie.no persons ID, Foot Résultats player ID, Manga-DB person ID, Manga-DB publisher ID, Manga-DB magazine ID, Slekt og Data cemetery ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Bookbindings - share metadata and images from the currently offline Database of Bookbindings at the British Library
- Irish Traditional Music:Projects - aims to systematically create and enhance Wikidata items for people profiled in the 2024 edition of Fintan Vallely's The Companion to Irish Traditional Music.
- Basketball: Western Illinois Leathernecks Women's
- WikiProject Highlights: Lost Media/Subpages - aim to list all media lost to time in Wikidata
- Showcase Items: arXiv (Q118398) - online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
- Showcase Lexemes: Bogucin (L1405411) - Polish proper noun (bɔˈɡu.t͡ɕin) meaning "village in Greater Poland", "village in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship", or "village in Lublin Voivodeship"
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- 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!
Tech News: 2025-48
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Last week, the Wikimedia Search Team recreated the "DWIM" (Do What I Mean) gadget functionality server-side, for Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. This feature adds cross-keyboard suggestions to the standard search-box suggestions. For example, searching for cxfcnmt on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions for счастье ("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week. [1]
- Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools. This requires that the "Enable editing tools in source mode" preference be set. [2]
- Campaign events extension – the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as Collaborative contribution to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed. [3]
Updates for technical contributors
- Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill the recruitment survey. [4]
- The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for
format=xml&xlst={stylesheet}will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026). [5] - The WDQS legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (https://query.wikidata.org/ - Main graph or https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ - Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review the Data Access and Request a Query pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 22
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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

- Board election: The 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees vote has elected two new trustees, Bobby Shabangu (Bobbyshabangu) and Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), who will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2025.
- Wikipedia 25: Wikipedia is turning 25 and it’s time to party! Register now for Wikipedia’s 25th virtual birthday bash on 15 January at 16:00 UTC.
- Wikimedia Hackathon: The 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon will be taking place in person May 1 - 3, 2026 in Milan, Italy. Scholarship applications are open until November 28.
- Language Community: The next language community meeting will be held on November 28 at 16:00 UTC.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Tech News: Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 46 and 47: Wikimedia Foundation is experimentating with reading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later; One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau.
- Wikifunctions: The second round of voting for naming the wiki with abstract content is kicking off with six name proposals to vote for.
- Reference check: The A/B test for reference check has begun on English Wikipedia and will run until December 17. This is a feature which prompts new editors to add citations before they publish an edit adding content to an article.
- Image browsing: Wikimedia Foundation is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, is taking place on on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting a small number of users.
- CampaignEvents extension: Campaign events extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. The extension offers tools for running and coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations. These features include Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List, plus a new feature, Collaborative contribution, which helps organizers and participants see the impact of their collaborative activities. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
- Dark Mode: Dark mode is now available on all Wikimedia projects for all anonymous users! This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. Learn how to activate this feature.
- Wikimedia Apps: The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
- Usability Improvements: Improvements for talk pages is being rolled out. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in “Show discussion activity.”
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events
- Wikipedia 25 Press toolkit: Wikimedia Foundation is providing press toolkit as guidance and resources to Wikimedia volunteers and affiliates to spread the word about Wikipedia’s 25th birthday to local and regional media.
- Language and Internationalization: Read some key highlights from the October 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
- Information integrity: Wikimedia Project from South America Selected by the UNESCO Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change Fund.
- The Wikipedia Library: The Wikipedia Library team attended the CEE Meeting 2025 celebrated a new partnership with Times of Malta.
- Understanding movement organizers: Wikimedia Foundation concluded a literature review on organizers in the Wikimedia movement focused on capturing their personas, motivations, and impact in order to highlight best practices and opportunities for further support.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Wikimedia Enterprise: Reef Media uses Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API to Fact Check and Verify Sources.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Affiliations Committee: Draft recommendations on three strategic areas that need continuous consideration to best support Wikimedia affiliates.
Foundation statements
- Lessons from Wikipedia: The latest edition from the series explores the art of disagreement and how Wikipedia navigates disputes.
- Artificial Intelligence: In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable. This explainer shows how human-created knowledge isn’t replaceable.
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Rodrigo (talk) 00:55, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
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CMBGAMER 2018 (talk) 03:03, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
Can you please add categories to you older uploads?
[edit]Many of these here: [6], however, there appears to be 100's more without categories, (only hidden categories).
It will make it easier for people to find these photos for their use. Thank you, -- Ooligan (talk) 08:07, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
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This Month in Education: November 2025
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Volume 14 • Issue 11 • November 2025
- Auckland Museum's Wiki Summer Student Programme is back for 2025 & 2026
- Edu Wiki camp 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia
- Wikidata na Escola: estudantes da zona rural de Minas Gerais contribuem com dados sobre mulheres negras brasileiras
- 190 students from Oteitza Lizeoa create 48 articles on the history of the Basque Country for Txikipedia in one day
- 2nd International Congress Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures – WECUDI
- Africa and Proud Leads Wiki Classroom Project Across Three Nigerian States
- November 2025November 2025/Annual Czech Wiki Conference took place on Saturday, Nov 8th
- EduWiki Meetup at GLAM Wiki Conference 2025
- Highly productive autumn education activities in Macedonia
- Kannada Wikipedia Asian Month 2025: Edit-a-thon & Workshop Highlights from Loyola College, Karnataka
- Kosovo Wikivoyage Editathons in Gjakova and Krusha e Madhe
- Ukrainian educators create open lesson plans based on the «Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom» course
- United Architects of the Philippines Student Auxiliary – University of Nueva Caceres joins Wikisource Training
- Videos on Teaching Experiences with Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, and OSM
- Wiki as a tool for technological empowerment of indigenous knowledge
- Wiki Science Competition in Albania and Kosovo
- Wiki Workshop 2026 Call for Contributions
- Wikipedia Contribution with Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences Students in Kosovo
- Impact of Wikimedia Rwanda Wiki Clubs in Growth of Wikimedia User Group Rwanda Community
The Signpost: 1 December 2025
[edit]- News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!
- Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
- Traffic report: It's a family affair
- Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust
- From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."
- Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan
- Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025
- Comix: Madness
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-49
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The term "halachic state" (Hebrew: מְדִינַת הֲלָכָה Medīnat Hălāḵā) refers to a sovereign state that endorses Judaism in an official capacity and governs by Jewish religious law. It has been a subject of discussion among Orthodox Jews, particularly with regard to modern Israel, which, although a Jewish state, is not classified as a theocracy.
(Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikidata weekly summary #708
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week leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #707.
Discussions
- A Project Chat discussion (here) on mul / fallback language for Labels, Descriptions and Aliases has continued on Help Talk: Default values for labels and aliases
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Mark your calendars
- Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map
February 2 & April 20 (German) / June 2 (French), 2026. Workshops are on-site and online, registration mandatory (closes January 20). - Citizen Technology Community Gathering and Taiwan Translation Launch of Linked Open Data Documents December 7 Time: 13:30-16:50 UTC+8 at West District (Q707524) Xi Project
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #83 December 8 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
- Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map
- Mark your calendars
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Papers: Benchmarking SPARQL Engines on Wikidata Queries - Four open-source SPARQL engines were benchmarked on Wikidata, with QLever fastest, Blazegraph slower, and all showing SPARQL standard deviations. By Peter F. Patel-Schneider (2025).
- Videos:
- Records in Contexts (RiC) Wikibase Working Session - Regine Heberlein of the (SAA) Description Section Steering Committee hosts a workshop on Wikibase implementation of the Records in Context Conceptual Model (RiC-CM).
- Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate - Follow along as WMDE's Lukas Werkmeister expands Items of Berlin Stoelpersteine.
- Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature - by Dr Thneed
Tool of the week
- Prix Littéraires lists French-speaking literary prizes and their recipients, also computing statistics (see also WikiProject)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Nov 27: The Wikibase Community User Group met for a Wikibase Live Session and to discuss the Federated Values demonstration.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: Federal Taxpayer Registry ID, WDSF athlete ID, TikTok numeric user ID, USGS Publication ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- concurring opinion by (judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court agreeing with the majority's final decision but providing different or additional reasons)
- audio version of text (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).)
- Hong Kong fire alarm level (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
- overnight stays (number of tourists that stay overnight at a place)
- specimen determiner (person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
- collection date (the date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
- position holder name string (name of person holding a position)
- Crowdfunding target (target goal of this Crowdfunding campaign)
- image sensor format (shape and size of a digital camera's image sensor)
- random page URL (link to random page on website)
- translates from (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Twitter broadcast ID, Petal Maps Place ID, MJ character glyph name, Mastercaller player ID, dartn.de player ID, darts1.de player ID, pdpa.co.uk player ID, Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID, Theaterencyclopedie-identificatiecode, Buy Me a Coffee username, GoFundMe ID, Identifiant Maitron d'une biographie (nouvelle version), Michaelis Portuguese-English properties, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name slug, FCC ID Database company ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Objects bearing the handwriting of Moses Maimonides (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Uzbekistan, Natural History Specimen Data Model
- Newest database reports: Popular Items without Claims - these are the most-connected or linked Items that do not have any Statements.
- Showcase Items: The Walt Disney Company (Q7414) - American multinational mass media company
- Showcase Lexemes: Showcase Lexemes: девочка (L103836) - Russian noun (dʲɪˈvot͡ɕkə) meaning "female child", "affectionate address to a woman", or "female organism"
Development
- Mobile editing of statements:
- We have added editing support for more data types (entity IDs, geographical shapes and tabular data).
- It is now available as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org. You can enable it here.
- Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are rolling out improvements to the Databox Lua module to a number of Wikipedias to make it easier to have out-of-the-box Wikidata-powered infoboxes
- Ontology federation: We are making progress with making it possible to use Wikidata Item's as statement values in other Wikibase instances
- GraphQL: We are continuing the work on the prototype, focusing on getting data from a batch of Items
- Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is working on benchmarking of different replacement options for Blazegraph, the software powering the Wikidata Query Service
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.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Togo
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- 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!
Tech News: 2025-49
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
- The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator.
- Add a link will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF).
View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed. [7]- Two new wikis have been created:
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.
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