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Note that the new QuickStatements Version has an annoying security feature implemented on regular user accounts: If you press "Run" you will receive loads of errors after the 90th edit. To avoid this you must use the "Run in background" option.

We hope we can get this obstacle removed, but for the time being we run the platform with Wikidata-settings. --Olaf Simons (talk) 12:24, 13 March 2023 (CET)

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• 7 Feb 2026 FactGrid is now running on MediaWiki 1.43. (Some post-upgrade maintenance and cleanup is still happening, and we may also enable some more extensions, as mentioned on the mailing list.) --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 20:03, 7 February 2026 (CET)
• 28 Jan 2026: New on FactGrid: We created a mailing list to allow communication outside FactGrid: join the community at https://www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/factgrid-community
• 27 Nov 2025: Anne Purschwitz and Olaf Simons, "Europe in Persecution; Concentration and Internment Camps of the Second World War in a Larger Context" Article on the EHRI blog about the FactGrid that started in 2024, https://t.co/uuQX3Ejjaw
• 25 Nov. 2025: A design study for the next generation FactGrid viewer (in German, but generously depicted) – on our blog: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/4216
• 8 Sept. 2025: An eery conversation about FactGrid with ChatGPT - on our blog: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/4118
• 7 Sept. 2025: New on our blog: Michael Wermke, "Knowledge, Networks, and Digital History: A FactGrid-Powered Study of 19th-Century Jewish Educators", https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/4082
• 4 Sept. 2025: The Arolsen team is presently importing a test data set of all the detainees of Dachau's concentration camp — some 160,000 items. It will be a challenge to spot "known" people in this mass. We are all curious how this will develop as we are considering to expand this input across the entire national socialist camp system with its 27 main camps and their numerous subsidies.
• 25 May 2024: New on our blog, post by Sven Jaros with data modelling challenges: "Modelling Premodern Political Entities — Case Studies from Eastern Europe" — https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/3642
• 18 Mar. 2024: New on our blog "A software that does Julian and Gregorian calendars — or why Wikibase is about to mess up two millennia of historical dates" — https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/3467.