• Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here:What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:Balyozbot. Tasks:

1. Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the templatew:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
2. Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.

• Events
  • Upcoming:Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122:Rock-forming minerals

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
  • Papers:Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
  • Videos
    • Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
    • Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
    • Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
    • No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
    • Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, byEpìdosis
  • Notebooks
    • Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
    • Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
    • The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
    • Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
    • State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
    • An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.

• Tool of the week
  • Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
  • Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, usingcites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening:Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) fundedPrototype Open Knowledge Network.

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers:‎WHDLoad database ID,Shanghai Library movie ID,‎PCSX2 Wiki ID,KRS number,‎Twitch numeric channel ID,‎RPCS3 Wiki ID,‎Black Games Archive ID,‎Citra compatibility database ID,‎DraCor ID,ORBi article ID,‎IGN wiki article ID,‎AreWeAntiCheatYet ID,‎RPGFan game ID,‎Arcade Hub ID
  • Newproperty proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
      • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
    • External identifiers:Schnittberichte.com ID,National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID,HistoriaGames series ID,Kemono Games game ID,Internet Game Database event ID,GamesMeter ID,Walk Score ID,Malaysia company new number,Am Faclair Beag ID,xemu compatibility database ID,Sofascore player ID,GameGear.jp ID,RPGWatch IDs,Team England ID,TORCH taxon ID,ScummVM ID,Abandonware France IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Distribution of the different tram gauges in Germany (source)
    • Scale of stampedes reported on Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
    • Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
  • NewestWikiProjects:WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
  • Newestdatabase reports:children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
  • Showcase Items:Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
  • Showcase Lexemes:L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship:EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from theQ119949776, now only partially online available.

• Events
  • Upcoming: The nextWikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in theWikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123:Ologist

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers:Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
  • Videos:WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.

• Tool of the week
  • WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers:Shamela book edition ID,‎HistoriaGames series ID,‎Schnittberichte.com title ID,‎Kemono Games game ID,‎Internet Game Database event ID,Xemu compatibility database ID,‎GamesMeter game ID,‎GameGear.jp ID,Walmart product ID,Swissubase person ID,RPGWatch game ID,RPGWatch company ID,RPGWatch press ID,‎Indie DB company ID,‎NIWA article ID,turismoroma.it place ID,‎ScummVM ID,ORBi author ID,Abandonware-France video game series ID,Abandonware-France video game compilation ID,Abandonware-France person ID,Abandonware-France company ID,Abandonware-France magazine ID,Abandonware-France award ID,Kanjipedia word ID,Moviefone movie ID,South African NPO number,‎Nigerian registered company ID,Abandonware-France video game ID,‎AFJV directory ID
  • Newproperty proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
      • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ({{Q|2976602}} for {{Q|163740}} created by the {{Q|193727}} and adapted by the {{Q|1065}}.)
      • creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
      • television judge ()
    • External identifiers:SERNEC taxon ID,Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID,Rhineland-Palatinate school ID,nebula channel id,Deutsche Bahn station number,ISzDb series ID,BG localisation unit ID,Cathopedia article ID,Native Plants Hawaii ID,Taiwan Biographical Database ID,Penstemon Database ID,Wikisage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Visual artists whose works will enter the Public Domain in Mexico on January 1, 2024 (source)
    • Top music album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 52, 2023) (source)
    • Western composers until the end of the Renaissance (source)
  • Newestdatabase reports: Merge candidates:Identical birth and death dates
  • Showcase Items:Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
  • Showcase Lexemes:ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.

• Development
  • The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship:WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
• New requests for permissions/Bot:So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The nextWikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in theWikidata Telegram group.The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024
  • Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
• Papers
  • Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) "scientific article published in 2023"(paper in Italian) - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.
  • Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model
  • LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
  • Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
• Videos
  • Map Kerala Initiative is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
  • This video onBiodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.
• Notebooks:Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using thepoint in time (P585) property in Wikidata.

Tool of the weekMap your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).

Other Noteworthy StuffWikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the projectSoftware Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statementhere.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
  • (Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
  • ‎plate(s) (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
• Newest External identifiers:Abandonware-France book ID,‎MilliBase taxon ID,Monasticon Hibernicum database ID,Rhineland-Palatinate school ID,Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID,Enciclopedia di Roma street ID,Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID,‎The Criterion Collection spine number
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Water bottle volume (Volume of the water bottle)
  • Is it metric? (To check if it's a metric.)
  • Anti-Cheat software used (anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:turismo.marche.it place ID,Joseph Smith Papers person ID,Team Scotland ID,Globoplay ID,DoblajeVideojuegos game ID,National Natural Parks System ID,Commonwealth Games Australia ID,Adventure-Treff game ID,TouchArcade game ID,Mod.io ID,The Models Resource game ID,The Models Resource entity ID,tourist information point number,Jinji Koshinjyo ID,Bandcamp track ID

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu according toAppel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture (source)
  • Map of running/out of service railway stations in France
  • Bridges in the UK with photos (source)
  • Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly) (source)
• NewestWikiProject:Podcast Episodes 2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.
• Newestdatabase report:children of unborn parents
• Showcase Item:Helsinki (Q1757) - capital and most populous city of Finland
• Showcase Lexeme:Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish for 'God forbid'

Development

• IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
• Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
  • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Comment on property proposals:all open proposals
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:Ologies
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New request for comments:Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

Events

• Past
  • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log:Telegram office hour 2024-01-17
  • PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
• Next:Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation,register for the Workshop.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023
  • Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective --> interview withEpìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.
• Papers
  • The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023))(paper in Italian) - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata
  • The evolution of authority work in SBN. From origins to Alphabetica and future prospects (Q124289388) (Italian title: L’evoluzione dell’authority work in SBN. Dalle origini ad Alphabetica e prospettive future)(paper in Italian) - deals with the evolution of the authority work in the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN), with many references to Wikidata
  • Biological Pathway Abstractions: From 2D drawings to Multidimensional Linked Data > this thesis by Andra Sachinder Waagmeester discusses the utility of using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for Life Sciences.
• Videos
  • "From Wiki to Digital Humanities - Establishing a Literature Index Network" Symposium(Taiwanese) from Wang Shiqing. A scholar of Taiwanese history, this symposium explores linking their historical and academic research with Wikidata.
  • Semantic MediaWiki Con 2023
    • AskWikidata: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm.Want to try? (Google Colab)
    • Fixing Wikidata: by viewing it as a series of tables by Yaron Koren, who challenges that Wikidata can become more useful with more structured editing and querying practices.

Tool of the week

• Wikimedia Commons based streaming services byMagnus:WikiFlix for movies and the companion toolWikiVibes for audio.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
  • working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
  • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
  • simulate (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
  • Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
• Newest External identifiers:‎ISzDb series ID,IFTTT service ID,National-Football-Teams.com team ID,Moviefone person ID,Commonwealth Games Australia athlete ID,Team Scotland athlete ID,Kicker team ID,goalzz.com team ID,vesti.kz team ID,‎Am Faclair Beag ID,tourist information point number,Alexandria.dk person ID,Babelio serial ID,Moviebuff ID,RCS number,Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID,Vazhaju Word ID,Stage,Qué series ver ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • If non-metric ()
  • civil rank (non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:PhoneScoop phone ID,TopKar ID,IFOPT stop identifier,Flashback lexicon ID,Letterboxd director ID,Letterboxd user ID,HbVar ID,MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry,HistoryMakers Digital Archive Maker ID,Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID,Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID,Code de la collectivité territoriale ayant les compétences départementales,Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Distance between the birthplace of UK ministers and London (source)
  • Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
  • People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap
• NewestWikiProjects:WikiProject Media art - to work together with initiatives archiving media art and find common best practices.
• Newestdatabase reports:Count of Senseless Lexemes per language
• Showcase Items:Mona Lisa (Q12418) - oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
• Showcase Lexemes:grilldress (L1131949) - track suit for grilling in Bokmål

Development

• IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807,phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
  • We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
  • We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
• mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Participate inthis week's Lexeme challenge: Cinematography
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • DifoolBot 4 Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.
  • Bot Bozze Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
• New request for comments:Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.

Events

• Past: TheLexicodays 2024 was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are herec:Category:Lexicodays 2024. More will be added as they become available.
• Upcoming:
  • The nextWikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in theWikidata Telegram group.The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024
  • Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe.Register here!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Querying for audio on Wikidata - This blog post discusses using SPARQL queries on Wikidata to find audio recordings, focusing on musical compositions and their associated genres.
  • Stories from the anti-disinformation repository: Why Wikimedia is an antidote to disinformation - The blog post highlights how Wikidata, as a central storage repository, plays a crucial role in countering disinformation by providing reliable, structured data for Wikimedia projects and beyond.
  • Diff Blog: Imagining a Wikidata future for librarians together - the sixth and final blog post from the LD42023 conference. Silvia Gutiérrez (WMF) and Giovanna Fontenelle (WMF) document the results of the collaborative session on building a bridge between the Library-Wikidata community and WMF.
  • Census IDs are Now Wikidata External Identifiers
  • Library Knowledge as Linked Data: A Wikidata Approach: Contributing to a shared data commons. David Erlandson describes the experiences of using Wikidata for the pilot Program for Cooperative Cataloging to "accelerate the movement towards ubiquitous identifier creation and identity management at the network level".
• Papers
  • Mapping the Past: Geographically Linking an Early 20th Century Swedish Encyclopedia with Wikidata - This paper describes the extraction of location entries from a prominent Swedish encyclopedia and sheds light on selection and representation of geographic information in the Nordisk Familjebok. By A. Ahlin, A. Myrne & P. Nugues.
  • Papers from the just-ended Wiki Workshop 2024
    • Do LOD Conventions Impede the Representation of Diversity? The Case of Disabled Actors in DBpedia and Wikidata?
    • SPARQL for LIS Analytics: Exploring Gender Representation amongst PCC Wikidata Pilot Participant
    • Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph-Linguistic Fusion
    • Wikidata Quality Toolkit: Entity Schema Generator Demonstration (tool demonstration)
• Videos
  • Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Enable Equitable and Validated Generative AI - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan Fraine andLydia Pintscher show how Wikidata can be used to provide well-cited information and how semantic search can augment generative AI inference. Presented at the Open Source GenAI & ML Summit.
  • Wikidata Editing LIVE at Lexico Days 2024 -User:Abbe98 andUser:JanAinali are back for another session of live-editing, focused on lexicographical data, during the Lexico Days 2024 event that took place this last weekend, June 28 - June 30.
  • Get more out of Wikidata with Resonator - Rachel Hendrick and Gary Price of LibTech Tools walk through Resonator and point out the best ways to use it. Resonator is available onToolForge.
  • Knowledge Integrity: Reliability- Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph Linguistic Fusion -Diego (WMF) and Mykola Trokhmovych showcase their work on building a model to help Wikidata editors identify edits that require patrolling, as part of the [Wiki Workshop 2024.
  • Inclusion of Communities: Using Wikibase to Leverage Community Sourced Data Initiatives - Erin Yunes talks about their work in using Wikibase Cloud as part of the Compel project (COmputer Music Preservation Electronic Library).
  • (es)¿Cómo fortalecer el dominio público con Wikidata? - This Wikitools Workshop hosted by Jorge Gemetto is onPaulina, a tool for exploring and accessing public domain information on authors and their works.

Tool of the week

• Automatic Structuring of text for Wikidata -User:BrokenSegue introduces their new tool.
• User:Zvpunry/CreateNewItem - This is a User script to easily add a new Item while editing a Statement and noticing that the desired Item is missing.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The second iteration of theWikidata:Open Online Course has begun. Class will continue until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
  • music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
  • coin edge (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
• Newest External identifiers:Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID,Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new),Flown From the Nest person ID,Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID,A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID,A Dictionary of Zoology ID,A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID,Seret film ID,Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number,Paleobiology database reference ID,PNG School Code,Téarma ID,IMAIOS entity ID,Naturalis Repository ID,English-Spanish Dictionary ID,Vikidia article ID,thisisbasketball.be player ID,poblesdecatalunya.cat ID,Oqaasersiorfik ID,MNAHA person ID,Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID,Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID,Tropicos person ID,He Pātaka Kupu ID,vehicle keeper marking (VKM),‎AllGame style ID,FC Metz player ID,MoFo ID,‎itch.io numeric ID,filmas.lv film ID,‎filmas.lv person ID,‎filmas.lv studio ID,Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new),Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new),Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new),Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new),Spanish-English Dictionary ID,Norwegian National Museum producer ID,‎Burgenwelt ID,Irish-English Dictionary ID,Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID,Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID,danskfodbold.com player ID,DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID,DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID,‎Canadian Great War Project person ID,English-Irish Dictionary ID,PMC journal ID,Census ID,Douban personage ID,Avibase person ID,Brezhoneg21 ID,European Education Thesaurus ID,‎Cineuropa distributor ID,‎Cineuropa production company ID,OpenCitations Meta ID,IGN franchise ID,Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID,Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID,Devri ID,Cambridge University Press ID,Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID,Personnel Records of the First World War ID,Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID,NooSFere publisher ID,Plex person key,BHMPI OBJ ID,Index Fungorum person ID,stiga.trefik.cz player ID,UNIBO professor ID,Cineuropa international sales agent ID,Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
  • KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
  • Tüik mahalle id (Identifier of neighborhoods <small>({{q|Q17051044}})</small> in Turkey in TÜİK <small>({{q|Q1375058}})</small> database)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID,Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID,Elonet company ID,Numista issuer ID,Overcast episode ID,Metamath statement label,Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID,Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID,Il Nuovo DOP ID,FEI horse ID,Google Play author ID,identifiant d'une personne sur Archelec,Standard Ebooks ID,Lojas com História ID,RGALI person ID,RGALI organization ID,Hebrew Academy term ID,milononline.net entry ID,KANAL identifier,LAGL author ID,Alle Burgen,FC Krasnodar player id,Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English ID,Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID,Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID,Manhom Arabic Profile ID,GOArt databas,ArchWiki article,Star Wars.com,identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb)

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Number of people who are both politicians and musicians by political spectrum (source)
  • Lexeme coverage of Indonesian languages
  • UK MPs and their office start/end years (source)
• NewestWikiProjects:Inuktitut - This is the space to organize work to assure that the sum of all knowledge and the supporting infrastructure for necessary services are available in Inuktitut (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, Inuktitut).
• Newestdatabase reports:Merge candidates based on same pattern
• Showcase Items:Montblanc (Q761735) - town in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia
• Showcase Lexemes:gbuɣi (L725113) - Dagbanli verb, translates to "vomiting" and "sprouting"

Development

• EntitySchemas:
  • We worked around an issue where EntitySchema pages were no longer considered “content” and had become unsearchable (phab:T368010)
  • We prepared for the release of the new datatype on July 2nd.
• mul language code: We are working on the last remaining blocker before rolling out the first stage to Wikidata (phab:T362917)
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to rework API errors (phab:T366911,phab:T366239)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Participate inthis week's Lexeme challenge:
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:Argentina
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New request for comments:Time to deprecate P642 -of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as anobsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)?

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
  • Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at9am PT / 16:00 UTC to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slackhere. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."
  • (German)Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.
  • REST in Rust by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"
• Videos
  • Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases. Put together by Valerie
  • Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities
  • (Chinese)Open Data Day Taiwan 2025: more details and program agenda on theWikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page
  • Wikidata as an Open Data Resource: Ian Watt at Open Source SG
  • Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.

Tool of the week

• Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Anupdate regarding the WDQS backend has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.
• Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.
• The Wikidata Vector Database prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saadewikimedia.de
• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team:Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting services)
  • AI-generation prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate this AI-generated media or work)
  • data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
• Newest External identifiers:Wikishire article ID,HelloAsso organization ID,Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise person ID,Graceful17 entity ID,‎Game Input Database ID,DRTV ID,Calindex person ID,Historia Hispánica ID,‎TERMDAT ID,Kulturdatenbank ID,DDLC entry ID,Chinese Basketball Association player ID,‎Captain Coaster coaster ID,Memoria Chilena ID,Jamendo track ID,MikuWiki article ID,‎ZOOM Platform product ID,Clio-online researcher ID,Clio-online organization ID,‎SteamDB tech ID,‎Big Fish Games game ID,Clio-online web resource ID,Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID,Newsweek topic ID,booru tag
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations)
  • accused (person or organization who has been accused of carrying out this harmful, illegal, or immoral act without having received a criminal conviction or where the accused have been acquitted in a court of law)
  • applies to volume (volume of the item (usually edition of a work) to which the claim applies)
  • oxygen endurance (The maximum time a submarine, spacecraft or enclosed vehicle can sustain life using its onboard oxygen supply.)
  • Coefficient of thermal expansion ()
  • fracture toughness ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID,Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID,Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID,Kosovo NGO registration number,Yale LUX ID,geraldika.ru symbol ID,Swimcloud swimmer ID,CACI company ID,VD 16 ID,World Higher Education Database ID,Qur'an Wiki article ID,JSIC code,Macrotransactions game ID,Landtag Tirol person ID,NexusMods mod ID,Thunderstore game ID,SideQuest app ID,IndExs Exsiccata ID,National Academy of Engineering member ID,DGO ID,The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID,Audiovisual Identity Database page,Encyclopaedia of Islam (Arabic edition) ID,Rodovid family ID,Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID,Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Location of fire stations in Spain (source)
  • Oldest known individual per taxon (pre-20th century) (source)
• NewestWikiProjects:AncientMaths
• WikiProject Highlights: New country page forPoland inWikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and oncividata.org. Help expanding it!
• Newestdatabase reports:German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category (source)
• Showcase Items:Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
• Showcase Lexemes:Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
• Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
• Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
• Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:Request for admin flag for MsynBot - From 2021 through 2024, this bot has implemented the 2019 RfC “semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items” by maintaining page protections based on the outcome,d:Wikidata:Protection policy#Highly used items. The admin flag got lost due to bot inactivity but the bot operation could be resumed immediately if the admin flag is given back.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • AAFRennes2025, 26-28 Mars 2025
  • 5-6 April & 12 April:Scholia Hackathon
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects to take placeMay 29 - June 1. Please send us your session ideas, we still have lots of space for proposals. This is a great chance to highlight the benefits of Wikidata use in other WM projects. SeeTalk page for proposals.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Enhance Your Wikibase With Extensions
  • Editing Lexemes with your little finger
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition byJean-Fred
• Thread: Who wins in a Wikipedia race between GPT-4.5, o1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and @OpenAI's new Computer-Using Agent?

Tool of the week

• Lexica - a mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile Editing of Statements - You have been asking for the ability to edit statements from mobile devices for years, this project will make editing statements on Wikidata Items more accessible and user-friendly for mobile users.Sign up to participate in prototype testing and interviews with our UX team
• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team:Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newestproperties:
  • General datatypes:
    • data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
  • External identifiers:booru tag,Steam Group numeric ID,Kompass company ID,‎Macrotransactions game ID,Thunderstore game ID,‎JSR package ID,‎GitLab topic ID,Amazon Music track ID,Crunchyroll artist ID,SideQuest app ID
• Newproperty proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • levels (levels, maps, episodes, chapters or stages of this video game)
    • Scilit scholar ID (author identifier on {{Q|77125337}})
    • وزن صرفي عربي (A feature to adjust the pattern of Arabic words in lexemes)
    • باب صرفي للأفعال العربية الثلاثية المجردة (Morphology of the Arabic triliteral verbs)
    • land degradation (The amount of land that is degraded by an object. Mainly for infrastructure projects)
    • Research projects that contributed to this data set (This property allows to identify research projects that they have contributed to or created an item)
    • Platform height (platform height above the top of the rail (or above the road for buses))
    • extended by (addons for this item) (Class of software this software is extended by)
  • External identifiers:Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID,Delfi.ee theme ID,identifiant Dezède d'un individu,SeqCode Registry ID,Openalfa street ID,The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID,A Dictionary of Education entry ID,TDKIV wikibase ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • 2024 Population Census in Uganda (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal/Liste des artistes de la collection
• Showcase Items:Cinderella (Q15046091) - 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
• Showcase Lexemes:страсть (L166968) - Russian noun that can mean "love", "passion", "desire", or "suffering."

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We finished work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126) and started on the one for Properties (phab:T386377)
• Vector 2022 skin: We fixed a number of the remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039) and sitelink positioning (phab:T316797)
• Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search in other entity types (Properties, Lexemes, EntitySchemas) besides Items (phab:T321543)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship:Samoasambia
• New requests for permissions/Bot:langCodesBot - Task(s): Python script to automate the cleanup of deprecated language codes (e.g., kr) from Wikidata items. Delete or move labels, descriptions, and aliases based on comparisons with fallback and related languages. The script uses the Pywikibot framework to process each item and logs cases it skips due to data inconsistencies or ambiguity to a CSV file for manual review.
• New request for comments:Exhibition models byHexatekin - This proposal focuses on standardizing models for art exhibitions. There is not a consistent data model used for art exhibitions that factors in parent-child relationships for traveling exhibitions, show series, or biennials, despite these being important and common types of events in international art history.

Events

• Past:
  • Happy Birthday, Wikidata 🎉! We celebrated Wikidata’s 13th birthday with a community call to unveil presents and play games. Check out the replay of the event and the cool gifts people made:Wikidata:Thirteenth Birthday/Presents & messages
  • WikidataCon: You can catch up on the recordings and slides inthe program
  • Wikidata Workshop at ISWC: You can catch up on the published papers on the website.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Building an Internet for Everyone: Wikidata Recognized as a Digital Public Good
  • Enriching Wikidata with AuthorityBox. An interview with Stefano Bargioni
    • examples of AuthorityBox can be seen inPUSC catalogue,URBE catalogue (code),Keratsini-Drapetsona catalogue; cf. also Stefano Bargioni,From Authority Enrichment to AuthorityBox. Applying RDA in a Koha environment (2020)
  • Exploring Nairobi and Building a Global Network: The Inspiring Wikimania@20 Experience
  • Supercharging Cultural Institution Collections with Wikidata
• Videos:
  • Por qué el conocimiento libre importa más que nunca | Gustavo Candela | Jornadas Anuales 2025
  • Wikidata Ontology Course | A NotebookLM Deep Dive
  • Odia Wikimedians User Group Celebration of the 13th Wikidata Birthday
  • Como utilizar o OpenRefine para cadastrar artigos científicos na Wikidata? - WikiTutoriais #05
  • Supercharging Cultural Institution Collections with Wikidata [October 2025]
  • ¿Cómo es la ontología de Wikidata?
  • Wikidata @13 celebration by the Tyap Wikimedians

Tool of the weekThe Wikidata Reference Validator byUser:JosefAnthony helps check and replace broken or outdated references — keeping Wikidata’s knowledge verifiable and trustworthy. It checks whether external references are still accessible or offline, so we can ensure that every statement on Wikidata shows how we know what we know.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance
• Wikimedia chapters are providing scholarships for Wikimania 2026. Apply here if you're interested:Wikipedia:Förderung/Wikimania/English

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers:‎Newegg item ID,‎Hardcore Gaming 101 game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Luminous flux (Numerical value of the luminous flux emitted by a lighting device or light source, measured in lumens)
  • anatomical structure in view (the anatomical structure in view in the photo, e.g. head, wing, habitus (body))
  • anatomical view (view of an anatomical structure, e.g. ventral, dorsal, frontal)
  • collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field)
  • Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:BG IISDA org ID,BG NACID person ID,GCatholic former diocese ID,Grokipedia ID,The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland ID, Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID,Davis Cup player ID 2025,Eiga.com drama ID,AntCat ID,Last Address ID,Disney+ browse ID,Japanese Film Database ID,Japan Location Database ID,Fight.ru fighters ID,IMI person id

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of ~12.000 western European tram stops among their respective networks
  • Count of Wikipedia articles about UNESCO Memory of the World inscriptions
• Showcase Items:perestroïka (Q167634) - political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform
• Showcase Lexemes:baseline (L46097) - English noun (ˈbeɪslaɪn) meaning "a starting point for comparison", "a benchmark in budgeting", or "a reference line in typography or surveying"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work on qualifiers and reference editing
• GraphQL: We are continuing the work on making labels of linked entities available in GraphQL (phab:T404692)
• Dumps: We are continuing to look into improvements for the dump process

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

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Discussions

• Other: Draft policy fortemporary account IP viewers. What requirements should be set for this user right?

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:Introducing the Unicode Inflection Library Technical Preview Release : The Unicode Inflection Library leverages comprehensive lexicons from Wikidata to support standardized, multilingual grammatical transformations for global software applications.
• Videos:
  • Art+Feminism Celebrates Wikidata!
  • Day 5_Using WikiData with Spyral Notebook and Project Presentation
  • Wikidata and Wikipedia training for Art+Feminism 2025 in Uganda
  • What are Wikidata WikiProjects, and why should you join one? Watchthis great explainer from the #LevelingUpDays2024 to see how these communities work together! Then, find your project:Wikidata:WikiProjects

Tool of the week

• User:Difool/WikidataCleanup.js: gadget allowing to do, in one click, a wide series of cleanups in an item: normalize labels, descriptions, and aliases (double spaces, certain Unicode characters), remove weak references, remove weakly referenced dates when they have lower precision than a strongly referenced date and downgrade unnecessary preferred ranks; about the general issue of redundancies in Wikidata, you can checkWikiProject Redundancy
• Ghanasupremecases is a webapp that dynamically pulls and displays over 2,000 Supreme Court of Ghana cases from Wikidata, allowing users to access case details linked directly to Wikidata items. The goal is to make African legal data more open, structured, and discoverable, and to demonstrate how Wikidata can serve as a foundation for national-level legal archive

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Temporary accounts rollout: Starting November 12, the community will see logged‑out edits handled through temporary accounts instead of IPs, prompting tool and bot checks.
• Help shape the future WikidatCon! If you attendedWikidataCon 2025, please take 10 minutes to share your feedback inthis anonymous GDPR-compliant survey (sslsurvey)

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • operating humidity (humidity at which a device operates)
  • collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field)
  • Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.)
• Newest External identifiers:CACI company ID,AEK Football player ID,Sultanlar Ligi player ID,BeWeb historical or artistic asset ID,SofaScore sports team ID,FootballFakts.ru football match ID,Kicker sports match ID,BDFutbol match ID,Foot Mercato / Fichajes / Fussball Transfers player ID,‎Disney+ browse ID,‎Filmarks ID,Memorial Book of Social Democracy-ID,NLAI ID,Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain ID,The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts ID,Antique Chinese and Japanese Porcelain Dictionary and Glossary of Terms entry,Filmfriend movie ID,Hesse School ID,The Oxford Dictionary of Dance entry ID,Saxony School ID,NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature periodical identifier,NZ Charities Register Number,IFES Election Guide ID,Arte de la Argentina ID,Democratic Memory Bank ID,Kicker competition ID,Soccer365.net team ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • time of deposition (date or point in time when an archaeological object or assemblage was buried, hidden, lost, or otherwise deposited.)
  • readiness (readiness)
  • greenhouse gases emissions (amount of greenhouse effect emited by a given company or industry sector)
  • neuter form of label (neuter form of name or title)
  • current season ({{TranslateThis| an identifier for the team's current season<!-- | xx = descriptions in other languages --> }})
  • flag carrier of (country of which the airline is the flag carrier)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:BFXC authority ID,BWB-nummer,Schulnummer Brandenburg,Encyclopedia of Shinto ID,Power Thesaurus ID,WDSF person ID,Blu-Ray.com film ID,Japanese Law Translation ID,USGS Publication ID,Afrikaregisteret ID,National cultural monument of Czechia ID,Admirable Façades styles ID,Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID,Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID,Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID,TikTok User ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:Map of all places related to persons with layers by property of the place (source)
• WikiProject Highlights: Passionate about highlighting women's achievements?WikiProject Women is dedicated to creating and improving data about women worldwide. Help close the gender gap in knowledge!#WikidataWikiProjects
• Showcase Items:Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (Q1136251) - cultural landscape in South Africa
• Showcase Lexemes:fold (L4479) - English verb (foʊld) meaning "to bend over on itself", "to mix ingredients gently", or "to fail or give in"

DevelopmentThe development team were involved in roadmap planning meetings so not much happened in the past week.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:Paraguay
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Che-W-bot - Task(s): Possible duplicate of the bot below.
  • CheWikibot - Task(s): Import new articles created on Chechen Wikipedia (ce.wiki) to Wikidata.
  • DDResearchBot - Task(s): This bot will facilitate adding structured, cited data from trusted integrity sources to Wikidata forDewey Digital.
• Closed request for comments:
  • Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks - While there is a general agreement for admins to block /64, no consensus to add to the blocking Policy was reached.
  • Proposal to better document featured SPARQL queries - Consensus was reached and a vote is planned.
  • Gender neutral Labels for occupations/positions in French - Majority support for using male and female forms in French labels and aliases, gender-neutral descriptions, and completing male/female label properties.
  • Items for videos of online platforms that represent notable Items - No consensus could be reached.
  • Should Labels of interlanguage links from other Wikipedia Projects? - There is general support to import labels, however there are concerns about the import as an Alias.
  • Signed Statements - No consensus could be reached.
  • Use of dates in descriptions of items regarding humans - Dates on Wikidata are community-specific; add only to disambiguate, don’t remove, and format per language conventions.
• Project chat:Proposal:Prohibiting LLM-generated content
• Other:
  • Wikidata:Temporary account IP viewer - users who may view IP addresses associated with temporary accounts.
  • Wikidata:Self-promotion - an essay on creating an Item about yourself, your organisation, or your work is a form of self-promotion and is strongly discouraged. Feel free to update this page.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikidata Days: IWUG and WAFTAI - A 4 day edit-a-thon beginning November 26, 2025, for Cameroonian and Nigerian educational institutions.
  • WikiLatih Wikidata - November 21, 08:50am (WIB), learning around Wikidata: how to reuse data and edit Items. Organised by the Faculty of Science and Technology Universitas Airlangga.
• Just missed it:First steps in Wikidata for the Wikimedia LGBT Community - two introductory workshops for English, French and Spanish Wikipedians with an interest in learning Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:GLAM Netherlands report The joint Radboud–Maastricht project Open Topstukken concluded at the Dutch National Library, showcasing 30 digitized collection highlights enriched with Linked Open Data via Wikidata and supported by new tools, documentation, and visualizations to enhance digital accessibility and interoperability.
• Videos:
  • (Spanish)Mujeres que Inspiran: Layla Michán - Wikidata e investigación (Women who inspire. Wikidata & research)
  • Wikidata Workshop: Improving African Authors and Books Items
  • (Spanish)Enriquecer, reutilizar y modelar datos y metadatos usando Wikidata. Tomás Saorín Pérez (Enrich, reuse, and model data and metadata using Wikidata.)
  • Guide to the Wikidata Notability Policy
  • Wikidata: Wikimedia's knowledge graph in a world of generative AI
  • (Portuguese)O que saber antes de editar no Wikidata (What to know before editing on Wikidata)
  • (Portuguese)Para além da Wikipédia: como os dados estruturados conectam saberes (Beyond Wikipedia: how structured data connect knowledge)

Tool of the week

• ArchiveExternaLinks is a UserScript byPoro26. The UserScript automates the archiving of all external links present in an item, whether they appear in statements, references or identifiers. For each external link, the script automatically adds an archive link [archive], similar to what is done on Wikipedia for web sources cited in references

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • data collection method (scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject)
  • time of deposition (point in time when an archaeological object or assemblage was buried, hidden, lost, or otherwise deposited)
  • Commonwealth Sport country code (code for countries participating in Commonwealth Sport events)
• Newest External identifiers:Japanese Film Database ID,GCatholic former diocese ID,Myanmar Company Registration Number,Team Austria athlete ID,‎ECHL.com player ID,‎Genbu.net ID,ISTAMPIE ID,HarmonyOS NEXT APP ID,Federal Legal Information ID,UNESCO Virtual Museum inventory ID,South Korean Business Registration Number,‎Lämningsnummer,‎Mackolik football manager ID,Biserici.org church ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:role in naming (the role the namesake played in relation to this item, i.e. why the item is named after the namesake)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Korea Heritage Service Heritage Portal ID,Lubimyczytać version/edition ID,UEA catalogue ID,CRA program account number,PL-AED,Yandex Object Answer ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Towns named after Alexander the great
  • Heritage added to the Memory of the World International Register in 2025 (newly added data)
• NewestWikiProjects:WikiProject LGBTQ History - aims to improve and organize data related to the history, people, places, events, and organizations that have contributed to LGBTQ+ experiences across time and geography.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • 👩🔬Passionate about highlighting women's achievements? WikiProject Women is dedicated to creating and improving data about women worldwide. Help close the gender gap in knowledge!WikiProject Women
  • 🗳️ Interested in democracy and political data? Join WikiProject Elections to model data about elections, candidates, and results from around the globe. Make electoral data open and accessible!WikiProject Elections
  • 🏛️ How do you find info on government institutions? WikiProject Govdirectory has a structured data model for that! Help improve data about public agencies on Wikidata.WikiProject Govdirectory
  • 🎵 Into music? From classical to K-pop, WikiProject Music needs your expertise to harmonize data on songs, artists, and releases. Join the band!WikiProject Music
  • 🧬 Your skills can help model lifesaving data. WikiProject Medicine works on structured data for diseases, drugs, clinical trials, and anatomy. Join a project that matters.WikiProject Medicine
  • 🔍 Interested in how knowledge itself is structured? WikiProject Ontology delves into the fundamental classes and properties of Wikidata. Shape the backbone of the knowledge graph!WikiProject Ontology
• Showcase Items:Aboriginal Australians (Q12060728) - First Nations people of Australia
• Showcase Lexemes:ਦਿਮਾਗ਼ (L1078947) - Punjabi noun (dɪ.mäːɣ) meaning "brain (organ)", "intellect/mind", or "understanding/consciousness"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are working on editing statements that link to other entities in their value (phab:T403974,phab:T409149)
  • We enabled mobile statement editing as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org (phab:T407737)
• GraphQL prototype: We finished the work on making labels of linked entities available (phab:T404692)
• Dumps: We are continuing to work on making the dump process more robust

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

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Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • News2DataBot - Task(s): Check for new, unlinked articles onPolish Wikinews and create relevant Items.
  • WikidataLiteraryWorksMetaDataUpload - Task(s): Upload metadata for literary works from research project.
• New request for comments: TheExhibition Models RfC was split into 2 Schema proposals:Exhibition Concept andExhibition 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 at17:00 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:
  • Impact of Wikipedia and Wikidata on ChatGPT search results
  • Wikidata as an authority data source for private collectors
  • (German)Environmental and climate reference in large knowledge databases. Wikipedia, Wikidata and environmental portals in comparison
• 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 availableon 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 likeJohann Sebastian Bach orHuman vs. City andParis 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 atWikidata 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 theData Access andRequest 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.

Newestproperties andproperty 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 onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Videogames in the wrong genre (source)
  • People buried in Italian (or subregion) cemeteries (source)
• NewestWikiProjects:
  • 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 listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!