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Wikidata weekly summary #727

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #726.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: ZI Jony (2) - RfP scheduled to end after 17 April 2026 13:09 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Nirmos Bot 3 - Task(s): Turn one or more consecutive hard (non-breaking) spaces into one regular space in Swedish descriptions.
  • Alex NB OT - Task(s): Correction of incorrectly specified links to population data sources containing wikitext artifacts with categories, which leads to incorrect categorization of articles.
  • Alex NB OT 2 - Task(s): Extract KCI article ID from P953 and add it to P14184.
  • ReNeuralAgent - Task(s): (1) add descriptions, (2) Latvian labels/descriptions, (3) 'retrieved from' and 'source URL' to unreferenced Statements, (4) missing aliases from external Identifier sources, (5) Geo coordinates, (6) external identifiers, (7) Population numbers, (8) remove 'dead sitelinks', (9) constraint violations.
• Open request for comment: Mass-editing policy is still open and requires your input.

Events

• Past: Missed the second quarter Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session transcript here: 2026-04-08 (Q2 2026)
• Current: (Spanish) Public Domain in Latin America 2026 - 1st edition of the campaign to improve public domain data for Latin America is running until 15 June.
• Upcoming events:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 14 April, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). QuickStatements is one of the most widely used tools in Wikidata, enabling users to upload and edit large volumes of structured data efficiently. Originally developed by Magnus Manske, the tool has become essential for institutions, researchers, and volunteers working with open data. The new QuickStatements 3.0, developed by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, introduces a modernized interface, improved performance, and new features shaped by community input, making it easier than ever to contribute high-quality data to the Wikimedia ecosystem. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/QuickStatements3
  • Art+Feminism is hosting a Community Hours session on April 17 to introduce their new Wikidata modules — don’t miss it!
  • digiS Workshop „Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung“ am 20.04. - (German), registration closes 16.04, takes place online (10:00 – 11:30 CEST), room link after registration.
  • Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - Wednesday, April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida.
  • Visibility of Communities in Nigeria 2.0: 17.04 - 25.04, (please register on the link). Help enrich Wikidata with cultural preservation, tourism and inclusive development data for items on South Nigerian communities.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (Spanish) Connecting: Basque documentary heritage on Wikipedia and Wikidata - a program to make Basque heritage data more visible, with events scheduled through April - June.
• Videos:
  • Live Wikidata Editing #120 with Jan Ainali and Abbe98
  • Can AI Replace Wikipedia? Jonathan Fraine & Raja Amelung Explain Why It Cannot - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan and Raja discuss why human knowledge and contribution to Wikipedia and Wikidata will always be important.
  • Interfacing with Wikidata for fun and profit - Yaron Koren
  • Introduction to Lexicographical data - By Chinonso Chidi
  • WMUK Wikidata Training (1/2) - Why & how to add data to Wikidata - a beginner-friendly introduction to Wikidata editing hosted by Dr. Martin Poulter.
  • WMUK Wikidata training (2/2) - Make your first Wikidata query using SPARQL - How to query Wikidata's vast store of knowledge using SPARQL.
  • Wikidata and personal pronouns (P6553) by Clair Kronk and Crystal Yragui - part of the Queering Wikipedia Conference (2025)
  • (Spanish) Queering the public domain using Wikidata and Wikipedia - with User:Hiperterminal.
  • (Spanish) Taller de OpenRefine por David Ramírez-Ordóñez (User:Hiperterminal) - a workshop on OpenRefine with a geder perspective.
  • Introducing lgbtDB: A Collaborative Queer Resource and Pilot Data Area by Clair Kronk.

Tool of the week

• HumansMap - a connection-visualiser and explorer app for 3 million notable humans, all data sourced from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for tool builders: EntitySchemas listening tour: The Wikidata team wants your feedback on EntitySchemas to improve data quality and discoverability. Share your experiences, pain points, and needs via the project talk page or this short Google form (including option for a 30-min video call).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ConLang Code Registry code (3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3)
  • ‎official roster page (URL of a team's official page about this player)
  • ‎value type of this mathematical property (type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects)
  • ‎Usenet newsgroup (Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
  • hardware is incompatible with (significant elements with which a computer hardware or electronic device is incompatible and which indicates a significant property of this hardware.)
  • Peh-oe-ji (writing system for Taiwanese Hokkien (Q36778) or other Southern Min (Q36495) language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
  • ‎heir apparent (person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
  • thumbtime (time for video thumbnail in seconds)
• Newest External identifiers: Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), ‎BERON lexeme ID, ‎Brussels BeStAddress street ID, ‎Brussels BeStAddress address ID, ‎Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID, Anarâš aavis topic ID, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID, TMDB award ID, Open Library Collection, ‎Ohio University ArchiveSpace subject ID, VAi Archiefhub agent ID, ‎PBA.com player ID, ‎IRIS UNIL author ID, IPRESS ID, GEMI Number, ‎StandardsMap ID, ‎Japanese Location Database ID, ‎IRDI, ‎Wendingen object ID, ‎Wendingen person ID, Oricon News ID, ‎JMRC person id (en), Rappels person ID, KCI journal ID, KCI publisher ID, BIORAB-Kaiserreich ID, BIORAB–WEIMAR ID, ‎Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID, Göteborgsalliansen player ID, ‎Fungal Names taxon ID, ‎Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID, ‎Brewver beer ID, Central Registration Number (Indonesian police), ‎UEA catalogue ID, ‎lit.link ID, kulturbase.no ID, KuLaDig-ID, Topplista artist ID, TV Drama Database program ID, ‎Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID, ‎Swedish National Archives ID, Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID, ‎PeeringDB facility ID, ‎Nişanyan Adlar ID, National Theatre in Prague performance ID, National Theatre in Prague artist ID, ‎JVID performer ID, CICAP Encyclopedia ID, ‎MJ character glyph name, member of the Azorean parliament ID, Master Ideographs Seeker character ID, ‎London Book Trades ID, ‎Kloekecode, ID Prix de Lausanne, ‎GDUNO ID, ‎fotbolltransfers.com ID, Foot Résultats player ID, ‎Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography ID, ‎DBNL country ID, ‎CROWCASS file number, ‎European Dictionary Portal ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType)
  • OpenType language system tag (identifier for a language (system) in OpenType)
  • tattoos (anatomical location of a tattoo that this person or character have)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: organization in cooperation with ISO ID, EDAM Ontology ID, FISH Evidence Thesaurus Identifier, FISH Thesaurus of Monument Types ID, ScriptSource script ID, ScriptSource language code, Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Max username, BE-monumen ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • List of sitelinked small items to a single Wiki (source) - example wiki: Maori Wikipedia
  • People who have herbarium specimens in Herbarium Dresdense (on a timeline) (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Collectors affiliated with the Herbarium Dresdense (DR)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/QuickStatements3 - don't forget to add yourself to the participants section if you plan to attend the 14.04 Zoom call.
  • Temples in Roman Britain/Data Model subpage was added.
  • Library and Information Science added subpages: Librarians dashboard, Indexers dashboard
• Newest database reports: Short Pages - A list of pages (mostly Items) that are very small, often appear completely blank. A review to judge whether they are suitable for deletion, victims of vandalism or require merging or expanding may be appropriate.
• Showcase Items: Baldur's gate II: Shadows of Amn - an isometric CRPG created with the Infinity engine, adapting the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition ruleset.
• Showcase Lexemes: spegnere (Italian verb) to turn off, switch off, extinguish.

Development

• The Wikibase Reuse Team is working on ensuring language fallback works on the GraphQL labels of linked entities functionality and improving the technical infrastructure behind wbsearchentities.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: is working on introducing metrics that help observe the impact of Recent Change related work. Work continues on improving the Diff (T419244, T419823)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: United Nations
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #728

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #727.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Yamato Shiya - RfP scheduled to end after 26 April 2026 11:10 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: ZI Jony 2 - Closed as successful

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #88 May 11 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Wikidata turns 14 this October, and it’s time to start thinking about birthday celebrations🥳. See the various ways in which you can participate.
  • Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida and requires registration (see link).
  • University of Central Illinois - How does data power Wikipedia and Wikidata? Discover how your data skills can make an impact. Join the two onsite sessions (April 21, follow the link for registration details). Module 1 - GLAM Wiki and the Wikimedia Ecosystem: Commons and Structured Data: 0930 - 1130 CDT - An overview of GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). Module 2 - Wikidata: Editing, Querying, Citations and GIS Applications, 1300 - 1500 CDT

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Women in Photography – Wikidata Workshop with LightBox Photo Library - to address the underrepresentation of women photographers in the Wikimedia Projects, this workshop brought tech reporters, librarians, researchers and photography enthusiasts to understand how Wikidata can unlock data silos and connect different projects (in the Wikiverse and external) to make data on women photographers more searchable.
  • Her Heritage Wiki Challenge: Art+Feminism in Ghana Month
  • No Signal? No Problem: Building the Dagbanli Dictionary for Offline Use, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
• Papers: Optimising university web visibility: strategies using Wikidata identifiers and statements in Webometrics rankings By Backory et al., (2026), this study analyses Webometrics rankings of universities, applying clustering algorithms (K-means, hierarchical clustering, fuzzy C-means, GMM, and DBSCAN) to identify which identifiers and statements the top-ranked institutions have in common on their Wikidata entities.
• Videos:
  • OKI Internship 2026 - Wikidata & Screening Test Preparation - Part of the Open Knowledge Initiative, hosted by Ankit V & Kasyap P.
  • Charted Roots - Genealogy and worldbuilding in Obsidian - includes an example of linking to Wikidata to quickly add location data to your visualised family history.

Tool of the week

• Depictor by Hay Kranen is a tool that add structured data statements to Wikimedia Commons using a game-like interface

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• What is Wikidata? - Library Carpentry is part of The Carpentries, a registered non-profit teaching foundational coding and data science skills. They recently updated their introductory course to Wikidata and knowledge graph concepts.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎ocremix.org game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • especially (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, but applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
  • independent of theory (theory that proves neither this proposition nor its negation)
  • EPBC conservation status (the conservation status from the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 assigned by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water)
  • part of discography (discography that this musical release is a part of)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Thai Government Agency GFMIS Code, Conlang Database ID, Plataforma Acácia, Observatório Terras Quilombolas, LMTA folkloro archyvo ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Rheinland-Pfalz, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID, Код Вестра, 19star performer ID, EM-DAT disaster number, ColBase ID, BIOSOP ID, BIOKAND ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Depthness of subway stations in meters (by Bouzinac)
• Newest database reports: Children of unborn parents, this list shows the child entity's birth date predates the parent entity's birth date: good candidates to check if the birth and relationship statements need correcting.
• Showcase Items: Haïlé Sélassié Ier - Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
• Showcase Lexemes: slide (L9704) - English noun (slaɪd) meaning "a photographic transparency", "a playground or gym apparatus", or "a mass movement of earth or snow"

Development

• The Wikibase Reuse team continued their work on ensuring language fallback works for labels of linked entities in GraphQL and on refactoring wbsearchentities
• The Wikidata team worked on explored how to reduce load for low data users T400325, fixed some bugs on the new mobile editing on Items T418110, T414454 and improved some error messages T417797, T412145

• In the WIT team, engineering continued working on the LilDiffCheck prototype

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: South Korea
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:04, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #729

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #728.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Yamato Shiya - Congratulations to our newest Admin!
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Chamiln17@FineWiki - Task/s: Read-only Wikidata entity cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.

Events

• Upcoming events: Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session — 28 April 2026 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. This session covers QuickStatements 3.0, the updated batch-editing tool for Wikidata, redeveloped by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, featuring a modern interface and improved performance. Watch the previous session recording: on youtube. More details: QuickStatements3

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The Gballi Browser: Designing for the Dagbanli Alphabet, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
  • Building Visibility for African Women on Wikimedia: The EmpowerHer Fellowship by Andikan Efiok Eduok.
• Papers:
  • Call for Edits Nearby: Open Archives Metadata from Saxony by J. Bemme & M. Munke (2026), latest paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data series.
  • (Deutsch) [PDF] Art History Loves Wiki 2026 | digital/local.collection loves wiki - report from ArtHist.net on the recent 3rd edition of the conference, held at the Museum Schnütgen, Köln, from 27 – 29 March.
• Videos:
  • Live Wikidata Editing, #121 with Jan Ainali and Abbe98.
  • (Español) Build with Wikimedia open data: APIs, SPARQL and visualization with Carla Toro Fernández, Director Technology WM Chile.
  • Every Airport Ever Built (1909-2024) - an animated map showing where and when airports were built. Powered by Wikidata and OurAirports.
  • (Catalan) Barcelona Free Software: How to use Wikidata to make public domain digital works visible?, User:Hiperterminal presents Paulina, discusses the work done in digitising collections and how to make public domain works visible.
• Notebooks: Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography? by User:PAC2

Tools of the week

• The Human History Atlas (WikiTime), a browser-based atlas that uses Wikidata and Wikipedia-sourced data to construct timelines and allows exploration of significant historical events.
• Wikilympians, a real-time list of all 153,412 known Olympic competitors with Wikidata and Wikipedia coverage statistics

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikibase Suite 7.0 and Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.0.0 have been launched! It brings Wikibase closer to feature parity with Wikidata. Here's what's in the latest release:
  • Echo Extension: User activity alerts and notifications.
  • Discussion Tools Extension: Set of tools to enhance discussion pages.
  • Temporary Accounts: The support for temporary accounts without IP address exposure has been added. It will, however, remain disabled by default, in line with Wikibase Cloud.
  • Grouped External Identifiers (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310898): External identifiers are now grouped on entity pages for better readability.
  • “Mul” (multi-language) support: Adds support for multi-language values.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • perspective (point of view for an image of an object, for example an anatomical structure (ventral, dorsal, frontal))
  • Bavarian natural monuments ID (identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt)
  • ‎audio version of text (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).)
  • ‎motive (verified reasoning behind an action)
  • ‎award category or rank ((qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎BE-monumen ID, Team Norway athlete ID, ‎Kantonsspital St.Gallen author ID, ‎Consumer Rights Wiki article ID, Central Registration Number (Indonesia Military), ‎Conlang Database ID, EM-DAT disaster number, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID, ‎EDAM Ontology ID, ‎Turkey province ID, Kvinnehistorie.no topic ID, CNVD-ID, GiveSendGo fundraising ID, radiko person ID, Wikiparfum brand ID, ‎Turkey district ID, OSDev article ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • different from property (This property is to be distinguished from the other property)
  • SELL rating (classification in the Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs rating system)
  • time expansion (factor by which a recording's duration has been extended or compressed relative to the original real-time event, without pitch correction; values greater than 1 indicate time expansion (e.g. 10 = ten times longer than real life, pitch lowered tenfold); values less than 1 indicate time compression (e.g. 0.1 = ten times shorter, pitch raised tenfold); 1 = real-time)
  • Parental Advisory System rating (content rating for coin-operated video games)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: CINEFOX film ID (reproposal), CINEFOX parson ID (reproposal), VK video ID, Brew TV, CycleBase cyclist ID (new), Royal Australian Air Force service number, Files of the Reich Chancellery ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: List of treaties/truces in the time by Bouzinac
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Occupations for enriching items occupation (P106), occupation (Q12737077) with data verified from official national occupation classification systems.
• Newest database reports: Without Claims by Site - this report will list how many Wikidata Items have 0 Statements, with a linked Wiki Article/page. Click reports/all items for a per wiki list, and consider expanding.
• Showcase Items: Okazaki fragments - short DNA sequences synthesized discontinuously during DNA replication
• Showcase Lexemes: transfer (L29733) - English noun/verb (ˈtræns.fɜːr) meaning "to move from one place to another", "a sports team member moving to another team", or "a ticket allowing continuation of a journey"

Development

• Query Service: It is now possible to download query results in Wikidata Query Service that include coordinates as KML & GPX (GeoJSON has been available since last year). Text from the first column in the results is used as the value for naming POIs. Thanks again to Atom.oil.2 for the patch. (phab:T414376)
• The Wikidata team continued working on a prototype to make WikiProjects more visible (phab:T420907) and made the new Wikidata mobile UI use auto-resizing text areas instead of single-line text inputs, in order to make longer values easier to edit (phab:T414420)
• The Wikidata Integrations team now has a working prototype of LilDiffCheck, injecting wikidata changes into recent changes only if there was a change on the wikipedia html (phab:T421390)
• Language fallback will be available this week on the labels of linked entities functionality in GraphQL (phab:T413655)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus: field of work
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:27, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #730

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #729.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Chamiln17@FineWiki - Task: This bot performs a read-only cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.
• Other: better tools to support constraints implied by properties like disjoint union of

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 (online, June 19 to 21). A community gathering focused on making WikiProjects more useful, visible, and alive. Propose a session (deadline for proposals: May 26, 2026) or register now.
  • Language Diversity Conference - Call for Submissions ends 15 May 2026.
  • Wikidata Community Summit 2026 @ COSCUP - Call for Proposals ends May 9, 2026.
  • LIC Photo Walking Tour + Wikipedia & Wikidata Workshop - May 16, 12:30 - 16:00 EDT (UTC-4). A historical walking tour of Long Island City, New York, concluding with a Wiki-skills workshop at LaGuardia. Registration on the event link.
• Ongoing: COORDINATE ME 2026 - a Wikidata competition for geolocatable content has just started and ends 31 May 2026. Visit the link for details on how to participate.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Visualised Blog metadata through SPARQL queries - ChristianMahnke blog.
  • Mozilla Common Voice Meets Wikidata (How the Dagbanli Dictionary Got Audio Usage Examples)
  • Wiki Loves Mother Tongue 2026 in the Igbo Community
  • EduWiki Workshop Highlights Practical Uses of Wikimedia Commons in Education
  • Recap: Wiki for Human Rights, LGBTIQ+ Nigeria, February and March Training
  • The new Art+Feminism’s Wikidata Modules are here!
• Videos:
  • Panel on Wikidata and public domain in Colombia (Spanish): on April 24th, the National Library of Colombia, The Cultural Network of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia, Wikimedia Colombia and Fundación Conector discussed about digital heritage and Wikidata, its challenges and opportunities for collaboration.
  • Wikibase - an introduction by Jason Evans (Open Data Manager, National Library of Wales). Produced by the Wikimedian in Residence channel, University of Edinburgh.
  • A uMap based on Wikidata - a use-case of Holy Wells located in Ireland, associated with female Saints, powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
  • Wikifunctions in practice: Reusable Logic for Wikimedia - Presentation given by Toby Hudson (User:99of9) at the Wikiconference Australia 2026.
  • Mentor Me! Session 3A - This in-person and hands-on session is provided by the Wikimedia Tyap User Group, and continues in the following sessions: Mentor Me! Session 3B and Mentor Me! Session 3C. Led by Gwakhap D. Anthony, it will cover how to document languages with Wikidata lexemes.
• Africa Wiki Women:
  • Linking images from Commons to Wikidata and Wikipedia - how images are used across the Projects with examples documenting African Women.
  • Newbies Monthly Meetup for Africa Wiki Women - further training and introductory skills for Wikidata and how it interacts with the other Wikimedia Projects.
  • EditHer Africa Contest (April) - a beginner-friendly hands-on Wikidata item creation guide and launch of the monthly contest, with a focus on African Women in Works and Leadership.

Tool of the week

• OpenHistory – interactive historical atlas of 21k+ Wikidata-sourced historical events, polities, and territories on a timeline+map. SPARQL-driven pipeline, MIT/CC BY-SA. (GitHub)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WikiTrivia - the webgame about putting historical events in the correct order recently got a huge update, thanks to creator Tom Watson.
• Wikimedia API's / Rate limits - new rate limits are being added for all Wikimedia projects, to ensure sustainable use to the REST an ACTION API's. If you operate a bot and it has recently started producing an error message for producing too many API requests, please consult the linked MediaWiki page and amend your bot as needed.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: ‎meta-category for (topic or class of items covered by the lowest categories in this meta-category's hierarchy)
• Newest External identifiers: KISTI article ID, FISH Monument Types Thesaurus ID, FISH Evidence Thesaurus ID, Organization in cooperation with ISO ID, ScriptSource script code, ‎ScriptSource language code, Tube8 performer ID, Bundestag Group Minutes ID, Westra code, Myrotvorets ID, ‎Irish State Administration Database Unit ID, Hessische Parlamentarismusgeschichte Abgeordneten-ID, YouPorn performer ID, ‎GFMIS Agency Code, ‎Royal Australian Air Force service number, ‎Plataforma Acácia ID, ‎Observatório Terras Quilombolas ID, BIOSOP ID, BIOKAND ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • (found) liable of (tort or civil wrong a person or organization was found liable of)
  • DMCA takedown policy URL (DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown policy or submitting page of this hosting site or UGC (User Generated Content) distributor)
  • 18 U.S.C. § 2257 policy URL (age requirement documentation URL statement of this website or company)
  • monolingual text name properties ((with an associated language code) name by which a subject is recorded in a database, mentioned as a contributor of a work, or is referred to in a particular context)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Gidrologicheskaya Izuchennost Code, QBWiki article ID, Dijital İstanbul ID, NaPTAN stop area code, Identifiant Cairn d'un éditeur, Darwin Correspondence person ID, ACM Digital Library institution ID, SensCritique person ID, National Archives of Japan Digital Archive ID, VGs drapsoversikt ID, Semanticscience Integrated Ontology ID, Senkyo.com, Objectif plumes author pages, Maoyan personage ID, critify.de publication ID, BookNotification author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Script style of manuscript Qur'ans
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Early Modern Silesia
  • Tango
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Ontology has gathered a list of potential projects for the second offering of the Wikidata Ontology course, and has published a subpage to discuss the future of Ontology Classes and Properties.
• Newest database reports: Unmarked Supercentenarians - this list displays humans who do not have a claim supercentenarian (Q1200828) (or alleged supercentenarian (Q106991708)), but the difference between their Date of Birth and Date of Death is greater than 110 years.
• Showcase Items: Raiders of the Lost Ark - a 1981 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, and John Rhys-Davies.
• Showcase Lexemes: gje (L2205) - Norwegian verb (jeː) meaning "to give", "to perform/hold", or "to diminish in strength"

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We continued fixing issues uncovered in testing
• WikiProjects: We are working on adding links to the sidebar of Items to lead people to the respective WikiProjects for that Item. This way we hope to help people more easily find data modelling documentation as well as other editors interested in the same topic.

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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This Month in GLAM: April 2026

This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue IV, April 2026 Headlines From the team: How the GLAM Community Can Shine in the 2026–27 Annual Plan Albania report: International Roma Day 2026 in Tirana, Albania Argentina report: WikiConf Argentina and GLAM projects Asia report: Documenting and citing oral knowledge in audio and video Australia report: WikiCon Australia, ICIP, Orphan works and Trans-Tasman partnerships Brazil report: Wikimedia Brasil publishes book on the power and challenges of free knowledge Colombia report: We celebrate Public Domain Day with an expert panel / Celebramos el día del dominio público con un Panel de expertas Italy report: Ongoing and New GLAM-Wiki Projects New Zealand report: Women in Wartime event at Auckland Museum & an update for WiR NZBSI Nigeria report: Wikimedia Commons Upload Campaign North Macedonia report: Wikimedia MKD in Action: Digitization, Wikisource and Educational Workshops Poland report: GLAM-Wiki Developments: Residencies, Partnerships and Audiovisual Heritage Serbia report: April in Wikimedia Serbia Switzerland report: Le Donne di Villa Massimo UK report: A tenth-century Quran and Islamic Art in Urdu USA report: Wiki MIT launches and US meetups Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Update on the BHL Annual Meeting 27 April - 1 May & BHL Day Memory of the World report: Eight new articles on MoW inscriptions Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata Platform Newsletter - May 2026

This is the 6th issue of our monthly newsletter! The next issue will be published in May 2026.

• Backend replacement and architectural design proposals: For the past few months, we've shared learnings from our investigations into backend replacement, and today we are sharing our recommendations for a new RDF database to replace and accompanying technical architecture for the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). These documents outline the selected direction and how the new architecture is designed to improve scalability while making future backend changes easier.

We are inviting feedback from the Wikidata community and other WDQS users until 25th May 2026, particularly on:

1. Any important considerations we may have missed
2. How your WDQS use cases, tools, or workflows may be affected

We encourage you to share feedback on the migration discussion page. You can also join our upcoming office hour (Next tomorrow, May 12th) to ask questions and discuss your use cases.

To help identify higher-risk areas, we have created a page to track high-impact use cases and tools. This page is not intended to catalogue all WDQS usage, but to highlight complex or critical cases that may require additional attention.

• Blazegraph Migration Office Hour (May session): Our next Blazegraph Migration Office Hour will take place on Tuesday, 12 May 2026 (Tomorrow) at 16:00 UTC. This session is focused on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of WDQS. Whether you have questions, need clarification, or want to discuss how your use case may be affected. You can register for the session via the event page.

In preparation, we encourage you to add questions, feedback, or migration-related support needs to this etherpad. This helps us shape the agenda and focus on the most relevant topics during the session.

Udehb-WMF (talk) 14:34, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #731

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-11. Missed the previous one? See issue #730.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: AAU Research NLP Bot 1 - Task(s): Querying Wikidata for entities and relations and paths between them. From 1-hop until 3-hops.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: MarisDreshmanisBot (formerly ReNeuralAgent Bot) has been approved after a community intervention, see the discussion here.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 will take place between 19 - 21 June.
    WikiProjects are crucial to improving data quality and onboarding newcomers to specific areas of Wikidata. This event is the place for all editors to discover WikiProjects, find ones to join, learn about their modelling practices and how to improve the content and tools of your favourite WikiProjects. Register here to get any news or updates about this new Wikidata X Days event. The Call for Proposals is open! If you have an idea for a session, please submit it here by 26 May.
  • Wikidata Live Editing, 11 May
  • AI Bridges Symposium is taking place at Senate House, University of London across 28 and 29 May. (Free) Registration for this on-site event closes 21 May. The event will begin with introductions to Wikidata, Wikibase, connecting AI with Wikidata and follow on day 2 bringing the full ecosystem together for dialogue, debate, and collaborative action.
• Ongoing: Coordinate Me 2026 - edit items with a P625 (coordinate location) from the focus countries and be in the running for a prize. Ends 31 May 2026.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Building Wikimedia tools in Northern Nigeria: launch of Arewa TechCom through the Arewa Wikimedia Hackathon 2026
  • Editing wikibase.world (a MediaWiki site), with Jules (an AI agent) by Addshore.
  • Libraries as AI Infrastructure: The African Edition - reflections on overlooked African contributions to linked data and AI infrastructure, highlighting Wikibase-powered projects African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) and Nigeria’s Semantic Name Authority Recognition (SNAR). By Stuart Michael Edelenbos
  • Tabakalera promotes open access to cultural knowledge by linking their medialab catalogue to Wikidata
  • The Stoa: a Review for Digital Classics - report on Linked Pasts 11 - Epigraphic Data in Wikidata, from Ontology to Practice
  • Technical tinkering for CommonsDB at the WM Hackathon by Ainali.
  • Ezra Brand - Introducing a New Index of Biblical, Talmudic, and Medieval Jewish Figures - Wikidata helps index and categorise Jewish figures into distinct periods.
  • (Deutsch) ArtHist: New Art-Historical Resource on the Web and TIB Blog: Embossed story – the Meistersiegel-Wiki is online are both articles about the new Meistersiegel Wikibase instance.
• Papers: Volume 12,2 of Digital Classics Online contains many papers regarding the use Wikidata and Wikibase in the field of Classics:
  • Hypotheseis, a Database of Named Entities Surrounding Greek Rhetorical Exercises by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
  • Altinum: a Wikidata Project for Digital Epigraphy and Prosopography by Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini
  • The NIKAW Project: An Infrastructure of Texts, Entities and Language Models to Study the Circulation of Knowledge in the Ancient World by Margherita Fantoli
• Videos:
  • OpenDataDEx - Exploring Supreme Court Rulings in Wikidata, for The Knowledge Commons project. Try it out for yourself: Open Data Explorer
  • Wikidata: Introduction and Basics - an introductory session provided by WMUG Uganda.
  • (Arabic) Introduction to Wikidata hosted by Michel Bakhni for the channel: Wikimedia group for those interested in Islamic civilization
• Presentations:
  • (Deutsch) Wikidata in Museums, Archives and Libraries
  • White Paper (PDF) - Wikidata Days and Wikicite (2025) - Open bibliographic metadata in practice, what was learned in Bern and what libraries and the community can do next.

Tool of the week

• Open Data DEx Explorer - "an interactive graph visualizer of semantic Open Data. Relationships are discovered heuristically and a graph structure created in real time, allowing navigation and insight into raw data without building formal ontologies."Read more on The Knowledge Commons blog, by Michelle Tomlyn.
• GapMap.Wiki - explore knowledge gaps between different language Wikipedia's. GapMap identifies Wikipedia articles that exist in many languages but missing from the target, helping editors prioritize which articles to translate or create. No AI is used, just comparing publicly available databases.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editors can now edit all datatypes directly in the mobile view. To help improve this new interface, Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for volunteers (especially editors from Right-to-left languages) for UX testing sessions. Participants will be compensated for their time. Sign up here (greatquestion) and learn more on the project page: Mobile editing of statements

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎energy density (amount of energy extractable from a substance (e.g. in a combustion engine) per unit of volume or of mass)
  • ‎Parental Advisory System rating (content rating for coin-operated video games)
• Newest External identifierss: Cyprus company ID, ‎DBNL title ID, ShotOnWhat film ID, ‎Shinmei database ID, ‎ColBase ID, Lubimyczytać version/edition ID, Files of the Reich Chancellery ID, ‎Darwin Correspondence person ID, ‎Gidrologicheskaya Izuchennost Code, ‎Brew TV movie ID, National Archives of Japan Digital Archive ID, PlayStation Trophies trophy ID, Tax Identification Number (Spain), ‎19star actor ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review: concentration camp prisoner number (registration or prisoner number assigned to a person in camps operated under Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1945)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: ID für Kulturdenkmale in Lübeck, Datenbank-ID für Kulturdenkmale in Lübeck, Prime Video URL ID, Prime Video GTI, Portable Antiquities Scheme record ID, Identifiant d'un(e) éditeurice dans le DEF19 2.0, Apple TV parson ID, CINEMATODAY film ID, Verfassungsblog author ID, Blätter author ID, EGAFD film ID, Museum of Canadian Music artist ID, Museum of Canadian Music work ID, BGAFD film ID, Movielens ID, Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon ID, parliament.scot member ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Astronauts members of Space Missions
  • All Horses in Wikidata
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Horse Racing : On topics relating to horse racing.
  • Project William & May Law School EMCO - to create and enhance entities for persons and corporate bodies related to the law school, for use in the library's metadata and archival work.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project GovDirectory: How to use QuickStatements 3.0 to add data to GovDir
  • Ontology Course: Projects Offering 2 - Modelling Dictionary Usage Labels in Wikidata, Roots and Rhythms: Modelling music as cultural heritage.
• Showcase Items: Catch Me If You Can - a 2002 film by Steven Spielberg starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. A dramatic re-telling of the life and exploits of serial confidence man Frank Abegnale Jr., ironically the events of the film were later found to be mostly fabricated.

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We are continuing to improve the UX and fix issues uncovered in testing
• Making WikiProjects more visible: We are working on adding links to the sidebar menu of Items to make it easier for people to find the WikiProject(s) associated with an Item, find like-minded people and learn about data modelling conventions etc in that particular area
• Query Service: The service is being hit quite heavily and the Wikidata Platform team is working on blocking scrapers and misbehaving tools
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing our experiment to further reduce the amount of Wikidata changes that show up on Recent changes and Watchlist but don't actually change the article. Specifically we are looking at checking if there is any difference in the rendered article before and after the change coming from Wikidata

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus: public universities
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #732

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #731.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • PatsaBot 1 - Task/s: Add sitelink from Template:Taxonomy/* on thwiki to same entry from enwiki and update Thai description from generic template format to "แม่แบบอนุกรมวิธาน" (taxonomy template).
  • MarisDreshmanisBot 2 - Task/s: Create occupation Q-items and add native-language labels on existing occupation Q-items from 33 state-issued national occupation classifiers (165 national registries, 154 countries, ~30,000 new Q-items, ~120,000 native labels across 53 languages).
  • ias-kbase - Task/s: Read-only bulk entity lookups for an internal knowledge graph project. Fetches labels, claims, and sitelinks from Wikidata and intro-paragraph extracts from English Wikipedia. No writes.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Reminder: Propose a session for WikiProject Days 2026. Your proposal can be just one or two sentences. Suggestions include topics on how to use WikiProjects to connect with others and improve data modelling, how to revive a neglected WikiProject, and what makes a good WikiProject. Propose a session now. Deadline Sunday May 24.
  • Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting the 2026 Data Visualization Competition from 10th to 31st May 2026. We welcome visualization and essay submissions from Indonesian participants on various topics ranging from Indonesian history to biological diversity.
  • The three-hundred online Wikidata meetup in Swedish, May 24
  • Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond, a workshop on-site at the Digital Humanities Lab (C2003), University Hamburg, 27 May, 14:15 – 15:45 CEST. Registration (via link).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Easy way to add images to Wikipedia & Wikidata items, with WikiShootMe and Mapillary
• Papers:
  • Wikidata and authority files: reconciliation and cooperation procedures by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo: an overview of the interactions between Wikidata and library authority files and of the usage of Wikibase by library authority files up to July 2025
  • Institutional practices in gender recording: an analysis of National Libraries by Novaes de Mendonça, and Ana Carolina Simionato Arakaki: contains references to Wikidata and its interconnection with library authority files
  • Modellizzazione delle conoscenze: Thesaurus Nuovo soggettario e Wikidata, due strumenti a confronto by Elena Cencetti, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo and Elisabetta Viti (in Italian): a detailed comparison of Wikidata and the Nuovo soggettario Thesaurus as knowledge organization systems, with a case study regarding the reconciliation with Wikidata of a group of terms of the Nuovo soggettario Thesaurus regarding photography
• Videos:
  • Curating shared knowledge about artifacts on Wikidata with Till Grallert, it explores how the Jarāʾid project used Wikidata to build a multilingual, open knowledge graph of pre-1930 Arabic periodicals.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #122 with User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what they are doing and why they do it.
  • Every Major Oil and Gas Pipeline in History Mapped - a visualisation utilising Wikidata, OpenStreetmap, Wikipedia and Global Energy Monitor.
• Presentations
  • La fabrique collective des histoires queer dans les communs numériques. Presentation by John Samuel and panel, 2e Rencontres du Reseau Jeune Recherche LGBTQI+, Université Lyon 1, 12 May 2026

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Property Explorer is a tool by user Steven Liu. The tool is used for exploring Wikidata properties
• securitybaseline use Wikidata to get the domain names for institutions

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• MapRoulette Challenge (Chile): Improve heritage-related items around Santiago, Chile, linking them to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
• The Wikidata Platform team has published its backend replacement recommendation and accompanying technical architecture for the migration of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from Blazegraph. Feedback is invited until May 25th 2026, especially on potential gaps and impacts on advanced use cases. Wikidata community members and WDQS users are also encouraged to help identify high-impact tools and workflows that may need attention on this page. Feedback can be shared on the Migration talk page or during the next office hour. See the WDP team newsletter for more details

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • contains cadastral area (cadastral area that is wholly or partly contained by a municipality)
  • algebraic closure (‎algebraic closure of the field)
  • real closure (real closure of the formally real field)
  • eusocial caste (specialized type of an eusocial animal)
  • Wikimedia Commons content descriptor (Wikimedia Commons content descriptor which applies to this media file)
  • ‎time expansion (factor by which a recording's duration has been extended or compressed relative to the original real-time event, without pitch correction.)
  • ‎SELL rating (French video game content rating (1999–2003))
  • age requirement documentation URL (URL for a website's statement of compliance with U.S. legal record-keeping requirements related to visual depictions of actual sexually explicit conduct)
  • maximum vehicle length (maximum authorized length for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • maximum vehicle width (maximum authorized width for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • maximum vehicle weight (maximum authorized weight (tonnage / gross vehicle weight) for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (load limit))
  • maximum vehicle height (maximum authorized height for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (regulatory limit from signage))
  • ‎independent of theory (theory that proves neither this proposition nor its negation)
  • ‎gender-neutral form of label (form of name or title with no assumption of gender)
  • subject named as (monolingual text) (with an associated language code) name by which a subject is recorded in a database, mentioned as a contributor of a work, or is referred to in a particular context)
  • alternative name (monolingual text) (with an associated language code) qualifier for alternative name(s), given for a subject in a database entry, or preserved in references (even these are no longer the preferred name)
  • ‎CWSAC classification (Level of military significance for American Civil War battles as defined by the 1993 Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) report.)
  • DMCA takedown policy URL (DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown policy or submitting page of this hosting site or UGC (User Generated Content) distributor)
  • election result map (map that displays the result of this election)
  • ‎paid-up capital (portion of a company’s issued share capital that has been paid by shareholders)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎19star actor ID, ACM Digital Library institution ID, Stockholm public transport stop ID, Go2Senkyo.com politician ID, SensCritique person ID, Census of Italian Architecture since 1945, CINEFOX film ID, ‎CINEFOX person ID, Cultural heritage Database-ID in Lübeck, Dijital İstanbul cultural property ID, VG homicide ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme record ID, ‎EGAFD film ID, Cairn.info publisher ID, ‎BGAFD film ID, ‎Apple TV person ID, Blätter author ID, ‎critify.de publication ID, Semanticscience Integrated Ontology ID, Prime Video ID, Objectif plumes author ID, ‎Museum of Canadian Music artist ID, ‎Museum of Canadian Music work ID, Lübeck Culturul heritage ID, Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural heritage ID, DEF19 2.0 publisher ID, MovieLens movie ID, Verfassungsblog author ID, QueenBallers player ID, NaPTAN stop area code, CycleBase cyclist ID (new), ‎Book Notification author ID, ‎Prime Video GTI, ‎parliament.scot member ID, Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon ID, Goodreads genre ID, ‎Giant Bomb Wiki ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to reviews:
  • contributed to narrative universe (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
  • Grokipedia page title (page title used in a Grokipedia article URL)
  • especially (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, but applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
  • Common Vulnerability Scoring System score (Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score)
  • Depicts taxon (depicts taxon)
  • Still taken from the film (Still taken from the film)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: StaphBase ID, Geohashing wiki page, identifiant d'un fonds au catalogue collectif de France, Oireachtas bill ID, Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number, European System of Accounts ID (Germany), Identifiant d'un éditeur sur OpenEdition, Natalie ID, AV CHANNEL actress ID, Mineral Resources Data System deposit ID, Wikimedia Phabricator project, AWA artist ID, Rakuten Music artist, recochoku artist ID, identifiant AnnuSéries d'une série télévisée

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Library of Congress occupations by Label and Lccn no. (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Malaysia / Wiki x K-pop 2026 Datathon
  • Project Occupations / Roadmap
  • Project LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group / SummerCoworking
• Newest database reports: Children born after Mothers death date

Development

• Tighter connection of the Wikibase Ecosystem: We've been working on making it possible to use Wikidata Items (and later from other Wikibase instances) as values in statements on other Wikibase instances. You can now try it out on a demo system or set up your own test instance to give it a try. More details in the announcement.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are continuing the work on showing less irrelevant changes on recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co by trying to determine if an edit from Wikidata actually changed the rendered article or not
• Mobile statement editing:
  • We worked on reducing the load for users with limited data
  • We are continuing to fix issues uncovered in testing
• Making Wikiprojects more visible: We are getting ready for testing of the prototype. We'll be adding links to the respective Wikirojects on Item pages in the tools menu to make it easier for people to find the corresponding Wikiprojects. This is based on statements already on the Item such as specific external IDs.

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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