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2026

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The English Wiktionary crossed the ten-million-entry milestone, according to the method by which the Main Page's banner reports the total.^{(more at Special:Statistics)}
The ShowIDs gadget now supports linking Wikidata Lexeme IDs (L464896) & Lexeme Sense IDs (L464896-S1).

{{etymon}}, combined with the ShowIDs gadget, now displays a red box to distinguish from {{etymid}} (blue box).

{{col}} has replaced many column templates, including {{col-auto}}. The old templates will probably remain for now.

WMF has "had to interrupt the enwiki dump for 20241220 and delay the start of the enwiki dump on January 1st."
The new gadget ShowIDs has been added to display {{senseid}} and {{etymid}} IDs directly in pages.

For taxonomic-name linking there are now two distinct templates: {{taxlink}} (Now with more Lua!!!), which is for taxonomic names for which enwikt DOES NOT have an entry, used as before, eg, {{taxlink|Rosa noentry|species}}, and {{taxfmt}} (New!!!, with Lua!!!), to be used for taxonomic names for which enwikt DOES have an entry, used just as {{taxlink}}, eg, {{taxfmt|Rosa multiflora|species}}. {{taxfmt}} will soon (months) have been applied automagically to all taxonomic names that currently have some link and eventually (many months) even to all now-unlinked taxonomic names. At present this just addresses formatting (various configurations of italics) and makes searches easier. In the more distant future it may make other changes (improvements???) easier. The resulting taxon formatting should be the same for both templates, but categorization will be different, mostly effecting only those with an active interest in taxonomic names.

February 29: Following WT:RFM discussion, the Khanty (kca) and Mansi (mns) languages have been split into the Khanty and Mansi families, respectively, each consisting of three languages.