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Action Required: Update templates/modules for electoral maps (Migrating from P1846 to P14226)

Hello everyone,

This is a notice regarding an ongoing data migration on Wikidata that may affect your election-related templates and Lua modules (such as Module:Itemgroup/list).

The Change:
Currently, many templates pull electoral maps from Wikidata using the property P1846, combined with the qualifier P180: Q19571328.

We are migrating this data (across roughly 4,000 items) to a newly created, dedicated property: P14226.

What You Need To Do:
To ensure your templates and infoboxes do not break or lose their maps, please update your local code to fetch data from P14226 instead of the old P1846 + P180 structure. A list of pages was generated using Wikimedia Global Search.

Deadline:
We are temporarily retaining the old data on P1846 to allow for a smooth transition. However, to complete the data cleanup on Wikidata, the old P1846 statements will be removed after May 1, 2026. Please update your modules and templates before this date to prevent any disruption to your wiki's election articles.

Let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with the query logic. Thank you for your help! ZI Jony using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:09, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

@ZI Jony Likely wrong place, see Project:Current issues instead. Malyacko (talk) 00:40, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

@Malyacko, the message was sent to all Project:VP as a general notification that, if P1846 using with a qualifier P180 and the value is Q19571328, then change to P14226. Thanks! Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 01:06, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

British English

Various pieces refer to BRITISH English, there is no such thing English is simply English, variations such as AMERICAN English etc serve to highlight local variations such as lorry or truck.

So please ensure English is referred to correctly. ~2026-21052-73 (talk) 18:39, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

Various pieces of what? Where? Please ensure to provide sufficient information. Malyacko (talk) 07:46, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Migrate wiki pages to Sharepoint

Hello,

We are having a private wiki site for our organisation. As of now they plan to move away from wiki to sharepoint. Do anyone know if there is an option to move wiki pages to sharepoint pages easily? has anyone did that?

Any idea will be appreciated.

GT Testergt1302 (talk) 11:41, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@Testergt1302 Sounds like a good question for the Sharepoint community in the Sharepoint support forum. :) Malyacko (talk) 00:42, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

How do I rename the Project: namespace?

On my wiki, the Project: namespace is called My wiki: for some reason. I want to rename it into something closer to my wiki's actual name. How do I do this? My wiki is MediaWiki version 1.44.5 Tang Empire (talk) 20:57, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

See Manual:$wgMetaNamespace. Tactica (talk) 21:13, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

Bad title broken namespace double redirects

On IMFDB (1.35.7 (87cfbeb) 21:55, 9 March 2024), our Special:DoubleRedirects shows several Project: namespace redirects originating from the early days of the site, when the site was named in a messy manner. Later on those pages were moved to (Main) namespace, and then back to a better named Project: namespace. However, these broken pages still show up in Special:DoubleRedirects (e.g. Imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database:Privacy policy (edit) →‎ Privacy policy →‎ IMFDB:Privacy policy) and Special:ListRedirects, even though currently

• The pages themselves cannot be accessed; linking this title as written produces a red link
• Trying to edit the page will "direct" you to "IMFDB:. guns in movies :(...):Privacy policy" (Note the lack of a space in the namespace; this is our normal Project: namespace name) instead, which, even if occupied with a new page, does not fix the broken title double redirects
• The "Talk:Imfdb :(...)" double redirects skip the above jank and go straight to bad title error.

Wuzh (talk) 17:54, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

You'll have to run namespaceDupes.php or cleanupTitles.php Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 22:29, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Removing Index.ph

how do I set up seo-friendly urls and remove index.php from my urls? ~2026-22504-09 (talk) 01:54, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Manual:Index.php Malyacko (talk) 16:06, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-22504-09 See Manual:Short URL for more info about how to have better URLs. Sam Wilson 05:49, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Change username

I want to change my username. How do I do this? I went to the Preferences -> user profile and the field is not editable. I clicked on the help icon and it said "Only trusted users can change your username."

So, can I become a trusted user and change it myself? WanjetJoy (talk) 03:33, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

@WanjetJoy The process and steps for changing your username are details on Changing_username. However, you have made 0 contributions on wikimedia related wikis, in those cases the easiest approach is to simply create a new account, and throw away the old account by removing the emailaddress from it and setting the password to something very complex and random, so that you cannot accidentally make use of it any longer. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 10:37, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

why is my portrait of hannah More Aehtnas not visible on Wikiecommons?

I have loaded the image up bit it is not included with the other Hannah More images Aehtnas (talk) 23:38, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

why do I have to wait for someone to request it? Aehtnas (talk) 23:39, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

@Aehtnas: You should ask about this on the Commons' village pump, not here. Sam Wilson 06:29, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

i thought anchors dont need to be translated , regression Parsoid ?

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T423812

On the EN page -> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_check/Tone_Check at beginning, in sentence "....French, Japanese, and Portuguese Wikipedias, following the positive results of the controlled experiment." the "controlled experiment" links to -> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_check/Tone_Check#User_experience_2 and the anchor is there correctly defined

Now take the FR translated page -> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_check/Tone_Check/fr

It is also expected the anchor to be -> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_check/Tone_Check/fr#User_experience_2 but this anchor does not exist (and i have to reintroduce manually the EN anchor in the EN page to be accessible from the FR page).

Instead the defined anchor is generated with a french translated title -> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_check/Tone_Check/fr#Expérience_utilisateur_2

and this is what we wanted to get rid of !

A fix has been made to avoid translation of anchors (to refer always with the EN section text on translated pages) and it improved a lot but it seems we have lost this functionality in the current version. Am I wrong ? . Thanks.

🚨 Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 12:59, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

request to have Special:Tags sorted by tag name

Better to have alphabetical order in first column of Special:Tags to find easily one's tag. Thanks. --🚨 Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 17:55, 19 April 2026 (UTC)