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Requesting to add Iban language into Diff
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Hi, I would like to be able to write Diff posts in the Iban language. This is the detail of the language:
Native name: Jaku Iban
ISO 639-2: iba
Thank you in advance
Song GK
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23:45, 27 July 2025 (UTC)
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Song GK
, I just saw this request and apolgoize for not responding sooner. Is this something you would still like us to add? Happy to do so if the desire is still there! :)
Chris Koerner (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him]
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17:07, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
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Yes, would really love it if you add it. No worries about the late response :)
Song GK
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23:48, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
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Great! I have added Jaku Iban to Diff. You can now write in (and translate to) Jaku Iban. Look for
the Language menu on the sidebar
when writing a post. :)
Chris Koerner (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him]
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15:17, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
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Traffic stats
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In a Discord discussion about the ongoing Wikinews controversy, I was told about Diff. How much traffic does Diff get? How many people visit, and what are the most popular posts?
AtUkr
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20:05, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
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In 2025 Diff saw about 256,000 visitors with 590,000 views. For context, our primary audience are folks involved in the movement. The top 5 most viewed posts in 2025 are:
How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
New User Trends on Wikipedia
Get ready to rock 'n' scroll: Here are the English Wikipedia's ten longest featured articles
[We really need to write a new one of these!]
Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2025
Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human: Wikimedia Foundation publishes a Human Rights Impact Assessment on the interaction of AI and machine learning with Wikimedia projects
These stats should be taken with a grain of salt. We've seen an increase in automated traffic that (AI crawlers and the like) in the last calendar year that has skewed some of these statistics. We don't track people, so these stats are devices, which means they're not a 1:1. There's also a very long tail of blog post, in which many posts see traffic, but do not make the "popular" list. For additional context, in 2025 we published nearly 2,000 blog posts from hundreds of individual authors across the movement.
Chris Koerner (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him]
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17:06, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
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Blogpost Credits
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The following discussion is closed.
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A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
Dr. Muzammil raised concerns regarding proper author attribution for WMF blog posts, a position that was endorsed by five fellow Wikipedians. The Diff blog team responded promptly by correcting the anomaly and encouraged the blog post author to continue and expand his efforts in studying Wikimedia communities and high-profile community members across the world.
Dear @
Asaf
, @
Chris Koerner
and other members of the blog team!
Over the years, I have written 35 blog posts for the Wikimedia Foundation. Except for the India Community Consultation post, which was genuinely co-authored by me and Asaf, none of the other blogs were authored or coauthored by anyone else.
I really appreciate people like Carlos who helped me with my work initially.
During the period when my only focus was to contribute WMF blogs, Samir Sharbaty—who was hired later—primarily edited blog posts that were researched and written entirely by me. However, in several instances, his name was placed before mine, and in some cases after mine, as a co-author. Subsequently, Ed Erhart also followed the same pattern. This attribution does not accurately reflect the nature of contribution.
Additionally, prolonged delays in editorial responses significantly constrained my ability to profile other Wikipedians and Wikimedia communities in a timely manner.
I therefore respectfully request that the unnecessary authorship credits—specifically the names of Samir Sharbaty and Ed Erhart—be removed from my WMF/Diff blog posts, where their role was limited to editorial assistance. It was I who spotted high ranking contributors, events, projects, prepared questionnaires and writeups based on the questionnaires.
It is also shameful that the WMF staff did not shy away from claiming coauthorship of even obituary blogs I wrote!
I also request you to provide details to any person I can reach out to in publishing some of the important blogs which remained unpublished because enormous delays such as my blog on WMF-NIH Collaboration.
Appended: List of my blogposts and along with those blogposts where needlessly blog team members (Ed & Samir) added their names:
No.
Blog details
Date of Posting WMF Blog
Credits
Wikimedia Projects in Urdu: Unleashing the Latent Potential
(Urdu Wikipedia Community Blog)
May 15, 2014
Dr. Muzammil
Samskrita Bharati and Sanskrit Wikipedia: The journey ahead
(Sanskrit Wikipedia Community Blog)
June 9, 2014
Dr. Muzammil
Wikipedia for Schools Project
June 20, 2014
Dr. Muzammil
A Survey of Esperanto Wikipedians
July 10, 2014
Dr. Muzammil
Two shades of Wikipedia in Punjabi
(Eastern & Western Wikipedia Community Blog)
August 8, 2014
Dr. Muzammil
A Focused Approach for Maithili Wikipedia
(Maithili Wikipedia Community Blog)
September 8, 2014
Dr. Muzammil
WMF-India Community Consultation 2014
(coauthored with
Asaf Bartov
November 13, 2014
Dr. Muzammil & Asaf Bartov
Hindi Wiki Sammelan (Conference): Bringing together dispersed Wikipedians
(Hindi Wikipedia Community Blog)
March 3, 2015
Dr. Muzammil
“My community’s goals drive me”: Tahir Mahmood
(#1 Urdu Wikipedian)
June 28, 2015
Dr. Muzammil
10
“Be bold, be patient and be kind”: Richard Farmbrough
(English Wikipedian)
September 11, 2015
Dr. Muzammil
11
Indic projects depend on each other: Ahmed Nisar
October 12, 2015
Dr. Muzammil
12
Doteli Wikipedia makes significant progress
(Doteli Wikipedia Community Blog)
November 4, 2015
Dr. Muzammil
13
Community Digest—Marc Venot and the potential of a new pivot language for Europe
(#1 Ido Wikipedian)
November 17, 2015
Dr. Muzammil + Ed Erhart
why?
14
Community digest: Urdu Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles
(Urdu Wikipedia Community Blog)
January 21, 2016
Dr. Muzammil + Ed Erhart
why?
15
Looking at Wikidata and the future: Gerard Meijssen
(Wikidata)
February 8, 2016
Dr. Muzammil
16
Tireless and dedicated: Justin Knapp
(English Wikipedian)
March 14, 2016
Dr. Muzammil
17
A Cross-continent Wikipedian
(Urdu Wikipedian from Czech Republic)
April 4, 2016
Dr. Muzammil
18
Interview of leading Esperanto Wikipedian Dietrich Michael Weidmann
May 2, 2016
Dr. Muzammil
19
Team effort in developing the Khowar Wikipedia
May 27, 2016
Dr. Muzammil
20
Seeing great potential in the Sindhi Wikipedia: Mehtab Ahmed
(Sindhi Wikipedian)
June 18, 2016
Dr. Muzammil
21
“Building a free and really ‘neutral’ encyclopedia”: Özkan Poyraz
(Turkish Wikipedian)
August 8, 2016
Samir Elsharbaty
why?
& Dr. Muzammil
22
Remembering Deceased Wikipedian: Khalid Mahmood
(#1 Western Punjabi Wikipedian)
October 31, 2016
Ed Erhart
why?
& Dr. Muzammil
23
“I knew that once I started, I wouldn’t be able to stop writing”: Başak Tosun
(Turkish Wikipedian)
January 23, 2017
Dr. Muzammil & Samir Elsharbaty
why?
24
Sharing Indian culture with the world through Wikipedia: Ashish Bhatnagar
(#1 Hindi Wikipedian)
April 12, 2017
Dr. Muzammil & Samir Elsharbaty
why?
25
“India is of crucial importance”: An interview with Jimmy Wales
(Founder of Wikipedia)
May 24, 2017
Dr. Muzammil
26
A ‘couple’ of Telugu-language Wikimedians: T Sujatha and Sri Ramamurthy
August 31, 2017
Ed Erhart
why?
& Dr. Muzammil
27
Applying for a Wikimania scholarship next year? Here are some tips from the committee that oversees them
October 20, 2017
Dr. Muzammil
28
Remembering veteran English Wikipedian John Cameron Deas who passed away last year
December 22, 2017
Dr. Muzammil & Samir Elsharbaty
why?
29
Bringing Myanmar to the world: Kyi Phyo Htet
(#1 Burmese Wikipedian)
February 15, 2018
Dr. Muzammil & Samir Elsharbaty
why?
30
The more you contribute to Wikipedia, the more knowledge you gain: Ted Yoo
(#1 Korean Wikipedian)
June 4, 2018
Dr. Muzammil & Samir Elsharbaty
why?
31
An interview with Muhammad Ameen Akbar from Urdu Wikipedia
October 28, 2019
Dr. Muzammil
32
How playwright, professor, and Wikimedian Aziz Kingrani contributes his expertise in preserving Sindhi heritage to the Wikimedia movement
December 19, 2019
Dr. Muzammil
33
Remembering Muid Latif, Project Lead for Creative Commons Malaysia
August 3, 2020
Dr. Muzammil
34
Interview with Basque Wikipedian User:Gartxoak (Mikel F. Arroiabe)
September 11, 2020
Dr. Muzammil
35
Wikipedian Valdis Pīrāgs on the growth of Latvian Wikipedia
October 26, 2020
Dr. Muzammil
Dr. Muzammil
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06:50, 27 December 2025 (UTC)
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This is very weird. I thought such co-authoring used to happen only in the broken academia. @
Mayur-WMF
/@
RAdimer-WMF
/@
AAlikhan (WMF)
/@
RASharma (WMF)
; @
Hindustanilanguage
is one of the very trusted members of the Urdu language community, and has formerly been an admin and a bureaucrat on Urdu Wikipedia. Playing around with him to give credits to others isn't anyway appropriate and should be investigated.
signed,
Aafi
(talk)
03:40, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
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Aafi
Agree —
Veritasphere
(Talk!)
04:21, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
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In the capacity of a Teacher, a Trainer and a Wikipedian, I attribute this absolute attiude of pilferage,by the psuedo and easy going Co contributors, as an act liable to be admonished. In long run it may even termitize the basics of the noble concept of Wikimedia Foundation, besides bringing the morale of @
Hindustanilanguageto
the nought level.It is also alarming as Admins, Observers please intervene
Drcenjary
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14:39, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
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I agree with the concern raised above. This is also standard practice in reputable news portals and editorial platforms, where the original writer is credited as the sole author, while subsequent editorial input is acknowledged separately as ‘Edited by’ or ‘Updated by’. Co-authorship is used only when multiple individuals have substantively written the piece.
Khaatir
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08:22, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
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Hindustanilanguage
Faranjuned
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13:40, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
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This is absolutely weird and should be investigated. How a user can claim the editorial rights id the sole word was done by the actual author.it should be investigated and the appropriate action should be taken by the concerned team.
Faismeen
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07:27, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
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Muzammil Sahab @
Hindustanilanguage
is a senior, active, and experienced member of the Wikipedia community. Especially on Urdu Wikipedia, countless users have benefited from his scholarly contributions and guidance, which are truly commendable.
Such actions regarding credit in the blogs and articles written by him are unacceptable. We strongly urge the Wikipedia community to stand with Muzammil bhai in this matter, because if this can happen to him today, it can happen to any other contributor tomorrow.
With a sense of responsibility, we are raising our voice and formally registering our protest so that such practices are stopped and do not continue in the future.
Faranjuned
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13:48, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
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(Moving Chris' Comment below for clarity in communication)
Hi Dr. Muzammil, I'm sorry for the upset this has caused. I have looked into this. The most recent post with co-authors was over 7 years ago, and these were all published on
blog.wikimedia.org
. That site shut down in 2018, and its post archive was included in
diff.wikimedia.org
, where you see them now. There’s a note at the bottom of each clarifying that they were published under different editorial standards.
On spot-checks via the Internet Archive, it appears the staff editors' names were indeed included at the time of publishing. This is not a recent change and was not done to take any sort of credit from you! This is how the posts appeared when they were first published between 7 and 11 years ago.
I'm seeing that these broadly fall into two types of posts: community digests where you wrote a section of the post and Ed/Samir wrote other sections of the post (where we should not change the authors, as the sections are distinct), and interviews where the article text notes that you did the interviews and Ed/Samir worked on the post.
For example, the
most recent such article
includes at the bottom: "Interview by Muzammiluddin Syed" and "Profile by Samir Elsharbaty". If this does not accurately reflect their contributions, we'd be happy to change this, and we likewise want to emphasize that this was by no means an intentional change in who receives credit. These are how these posts appeared when they were first published years ago.
Going forward if you have any questions about Diff, the current active community blog, please leave them
on the talk page for Diff
. I almost missed seeing this after coming back from the new year break!
Chris Koerner (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him]
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15:08, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
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Dear
Chris Koerner
Thank you for your comment, “If this does not accurately reflect their contributions, we'd be happy to change this.” I appreciate that openness.
What affected me most was, first, the issue of authorship credits, and second, what felt like an unnecessarily elitist approach—such as the response that “we are busy with other projects”—which led to avoidable delays in publishing several of my research-based blog posts. As a frustrated volunteer, this ultimately led me to abandon my pledge of showcasing 100 of the Wikimedia Foundation’s most dedicated volunteers.
With no ill feeling or bad blood, I respectfully request the removal of Ed’s and Samir’s names from the blog posts where they are currently listed as authors. Based on my review, this applies to blog numbers 13, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, and 30 above.
Any support provided by Ed or Samir in terms of editing or posting is comparable to the assistance you yourself offered in posting my obituary blog post on
Muid Latif
, and does not, in my view, constitute authorship which is showcased on the top of the writeups.
Additionally, I have a few unpublished blog posts such as the one on the NIH–WMF collaboration, which I had mentioned earlier. I would appreciate it if this could be published without any authorship dispute.
Thank you for your consideration, and my thanks to you and all your team members—including Ed and Samir—for their support.
--
Dr. Muzammil
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18:36, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
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Dr. Muzammil, No worries. Let’s get this figured out.
I’ve removed Ed or Samir’s names from the following blog posts
you’ve identified
. The few other posts do have contributions from other authors in the by line. As they are digests with contributions from Ed or Samir (or others); in the form of collecting and assembling those parts. Your name remains in the by line and in the section you were the sole contributor to.
As for any unpublished blog posts you are working on, we're happy to help you thorough the submission process. It's been a while since we last worked together on publishing something! As a reminder you can
log in and submit your posts directly
Chris Koerner (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him]
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22:01, 8 January 2026 (UTC)
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Dear
Chris Koerner
Thank you for addressing most of my concerns. There are
two more blogposts
which need remedial action:
I request you to kindly review the editing history of this draft blog post:
I switched to Ido Wikimedia because it’s a language that goes into several fundamentals of thinking
by Marc Venot
draft
editing history
).
Please compare this with the published Diff blog post as it exists now:
Digest: Marc Venot — potential pivot language
Based on this comparison, do you see any evidence of co-authorship? The published article substantially retains the original author’s ideas, structure, and narrative, while later edits appear to be editorial in nature.
For your reference, I am sharing an analysis conclusion generated by Microsoft Copilot:
Someone who merely edits a Meta draft for publication on Diff is not entitled to claim coauthorship. They can be acknowledged as an editor, but authorship remains with the person whose words and ideas form the article. Coauthorship would only be appropriate if the editor contributed substantial new content or analysis.
Similar conclusions have been reached through other online analysis tools and plagiarism-detection software. In light of this, I respectfully request that this anomaly be corrected and that my name be retained as the sole author.
Another blog post that requires correction is:
Urdu Wikipedia reaching 100,000 articles
[1]
For your information, the primary inputs for this post were drawn from:
the commemorative page on Urdu Wikipedia (
[2]
),
related talk pages, and
social media posts by Urdu Wikipedians.
Producing a blog post for such a milestone requires proficiency in Urdu, sustained engagement with the community, and the ability to synthesize dispersed inputs into a concise narrative. This approach is consistent with my earlier Diff blog post on the completion of 50,000 articles on Urdu Wikipedia:
Unleashing the latent potential
That post was based on my self-initiated Skype call with Urdu Wikipedians (
[3]
and a fixed agenda (
[4]
).
In addition, my long-standing engagement with the Urdu Wikipedia community includes:
interviews of Urdu Wikipedians on Diff:
Tahir Mahmood
Ahmed Nisar
Ameen Akbar
representing Urdu Wikipedia at WikiConference India 2016 (
[5]
);
raising technical concerns such as the autocorrection of numbers on Urdu Wikipedia (
[6]
).
Status as
9th highest editor
(including 4 bots) and occasional highest statistical performer such as 303 articles out of 1,067 articles in the recently concluded
Wikipedia Asian Month 2025 on Urdu Wikipedia
Given this background, and considering that my very first Diff blog post followed a similar community-digest format, I do not see a basis for co-authorship in this case. I therefore request that the authorship of the blog post
Urdu Wikipedia reaching 100,000 articles
be corrected accordingly, because it was actually authored by me only.
Thank you for your time and consideration. --
Dr. Muzammil
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11:19, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
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Hindustanilanguage
: Both posts you link (
this from 2015
this from 2016
) are community digests and include more than only the content that you wrote. There is no question that you wrote your section: your name appears under the relevant section as its sole author.
In both posts, however, there is a second section titled "In brief". This section was written by Ed, whose name is listed under it. Because the post includes are two sections written by different people, both names are included in the overall post byline. The content of the post specifies who wrote what.
There are
many such community digests
from this era and authors of all sections, not just the first section, are credited in the byline. We cannot remove the editors of other sections from the byline: all authors are listed.
RAdimer-WMF
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16:29, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
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Thank you Chris Koerner and Rae Adimer for your instant support and encouragement. --
Dr. Muzammil
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15:27, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
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Adding links to recent article
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Dear all. I would like to ask for help. I need to add links to
my article
being recently published on DIFF. How can I proceed please? Thanks for your kind help.
Pavel Bednařík (WMCZ)
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17:01, 28 January 2026 (UTC)
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Hi
Pavel
. I love this blog post. Such a great initiative and outcomes. :) Let us know what words you want to be links, and what the links are, and we can make updates to the post for you. You can email us (diff
wikimedia.org or reply here).
Chris Koerner (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him]
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20:20, 28 January 2026 (UTC)
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English Language filter broken
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When I try to select English language, it keeps switching me to
(Esperanto)
Shushugah
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19:18, 5 April 2026 (UTC)
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Edit: this is now fixed.
Shushugah
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21:18, 5 April 2026 (UTC)
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How strange. Was it a cookie or browser setting?
Chris Koerner (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him]
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14:53, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
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