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Wikidata weekly summary #701
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week leading up to 2025-10-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #700.
Discussions
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 7 - closed as approved.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- The next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session: Tuesday 14 Oct, 2025 from 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (click for your Time zone) WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No prior Wikidata experience required. More info on the Personal Pronouns event page.
- Upcoming LD4 Affinity Group sessions: Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9, at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 4pm UTC / 6pm CEST.
- Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour, join us in the Wikidata Telegram channel for our Quarterly roundup of what's been happening with Wikidata and Wikibase. If you can't make it, read the transcript later. Oct 15, 18:00 - 19:00 CEST (UTC 16:00 - 17:00).
- The Next Wikimedia Research Showcase is Wednesday, October 15, at 9:30 AM PT / 16:30 UTC. The theme is "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture". Watch via the YouTube stream.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Developing an enhanced dataset for the history of Photography - National Archives researchers used Wikidata during a hackathon to link people and places from 19th-century photographic copyright records, enriching the archive’s metadata through linked open data.
- Viusalisations of Philosophers Influence in history - Take a look if you're interested in the history of philosophy, temporal graphs, or Wikidata!
- Videos:
- (Spanish) How to identify and fill information gaps in Wikidata Tabernacle and Integrality - In preparation for Latin America month on Wikidata, this tutorial will introduce the Tabernacle and Intergraality tools.
- Curationist: 2024 Metadata Learning and Unlearning Summit - Curationist researches and debates on transitioning to a Wikidata/Wikibase style of schema for its images of digital open-access collections.
- Data Ethics and Open Science - At 19:00 of the video, Lambert Heller discusses using Wikidata, and later Wikibase for the NFDI4 Culture Proposal.
- Linked Open Data Location Identifiers for Pacific Archaeology - Hardy & Leclerc at the CAA Australia conference show how Wikidata identifiers enrich Kuden and Pacific island databses.
- Presentations: Slides for the Wikidata: Embedding Project Webinar presentation
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Useful is a UserScript by Magnus Manske that adds a box of quick "add statement" links to the right side of the page. Entity and phylogeny types, countries (location and citizenship). Also, tries to load and display a blurb from en or de Wikipedia.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The 2024 Wikidata Community Survey results are out! Read the full report on Commons: Wikidata Community Survey 2024 Report. If you have any thoughts or questions feel free to write on this discussion page: Wikidata talk:Usability and usefulness/2024-Community-Survey
- Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking feedback on the Mobile Editing Experience prototype, especially from contributors who edit right-to-left (RTL) languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, etc. We’ve already received helpful input from various editors, but feedback from RTL language communities is still missing. Your perspective is important to ensure the design works well for everyone. Please go to Beta Wikidata (in mobile view) to test the prototype with the instructions below and share your feedback on this talk page.
- Add "businessperson" as an occupation
- Add a start date to the relationship with A$AP Rocky and provide a reference
- Find the place of birth (Saint Michael) and open that page
- Add the coordinate location for Saint Michael
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- luminance (measured quantity of photometric brightness (luminous intensity per area))
- excluding work (work or narration for or in which this statement is false)
- intervener (name of a third-party group or person allowed to participate in a legal case)
- Newest External identifiers: NWO project ID, Vocabulary.com word ID, Fnac person ID, African Music Library band ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, Encyclopedia of Marxism ID, Kulturenvanteri place ID, Encyclopædia Universalis index ID, ISFDB award category ID, CCCA Canadian Art Database work ID, CCCA Canadian Art Database creator ID, CPU-World ID, AMNH entity ID
- New External identifier property proposals to review: NZ Charities Register Number, Memorial Book of Social Democracy-ID, Biographical Dictionary of Almería identifier, Operabase (additional) ID, NLAI ID, SIK-ISEA group ID, Wikimini article ID, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain entry ID, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts ID, Antique Chinese and Japanese Porcelain Dictionary and Glossary of Terms entry, Filmfriend Movie ID, Schulnummer Hessen, The Oxford Dictionary of Dance entry ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Showcase Items: Biodiversity Assessment of the Fishes of Saba Bank Atoll, Netherlands Antilles (Q15625490) - scholarly article by Williams, Jeffrey et al., 2010
- Showcase Lexemes: pukka (L339628) - English adjective (puh-kuh) that can mean "genuine", "highest class", or "complete"
Development
- Wikidata integration on Wikipedia and co:
- We finished work on adding an icon to changes coming from Wikidata in recent changes and watchlist (phab:T397258)
- We are finishing work on a new usage aspect for qualifiers and references so their use can be tracked separately. This will lead to less Wikidata changes showing up in recent changes and watchlist that don't actually affect the article (phab:T397258)
- We are continuing the work on improving Databox (phab:T400322)
- GraphQL: We are continuing to work on making labels of linked entities in the values of statements accessible (phab:T404692)
- Mobile statement editing: We have been working on showing the different value types (phab:T404684) and making references editable (phab:T405236)
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!
Tech News: 2025-42
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for Special:AccountSecurity, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the Account Security project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.
Updates for editors
- Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage. [1]
- This week, users at wikis where talk page Usability Improvements are already available by default (everywhere except the 12 wikis listed in T379264) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You can learn more about this change. [2]
- Users who have not verified their email address will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account. [3][4]
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see. [5]
Updates for technical contributors
- The Unsupported Tools Working Group has chosen Video2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months. Learn more on Meta.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:00, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 19
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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues
- Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Selection: Announcement of the final ballot for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election and more answers about the decision. Eligible voters can vote between October 8 – October 23.
- Wikipedia 25: Are you planning to organize events to celebrate Wikipedia's 25th birthday? The Wikimedia Foundation offers grants to support active Wikimedia groups in organizing short-term, low-cost projects to celebrate this milestone. Applications are open until November 1.
- WikiConference North America 2025: WikiConference North America will take place from October 16–19 in New York City, USA.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

- Mobile Editing: Insights on mobile web editing on Wikipedia in 2025 are now available. This report highlights that ~95% of IP mobile users editing via wikitext open the editor but make no changes at all, a vast untapped potential. It also pinpoints where contributors most often drop off.
- Dark Mode: Dark Mode user interface will be rolled out on all Wikimedia sites on October 29. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations.
- Community wishlist extension: The new Community Wishlist extension has been released. This will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances.
- Paste Check: 22 Wikis are now testing a new Edit Check feature, Paste Check, to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content.
- Tone Check: The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits.
- Search Suggestions: Search Suggestions was deployed on English Wikipedia. Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature is available on both desktop and mobile.
- Unsupported Tools Working Group: A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed to help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. The group has chosen Video2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.
- Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week 40 and 41 including about Sub-referencing – a new feature to re-use references with different details.
- Wikimedia Research Showcase: Don't miss the next Wikimedia Research Showcase, "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata's Role in Learning and Culture" taking place on October 15 at 16:30 UTC.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events
- Wikimania: Wikimania Nairobi has been featured in more than 100 stories across community platforms and international media outlets.
- Wikifunctions: Rich text is now available for embedded Wikifunctions calls across the 150 wikis where it’s enabled.
- WikiLearn: New Wikipedia online courses you can join to strengthen your Wikimedia editing skills.
- Human Rights: Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human: Wikimedia Foundation publishes a Human Rights Impact Assessment on the interaction of AI and machine learning with Wikimedia projects.
- Don't blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
- Digital Safety & Privacy: Frequently Asked Questions about Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Work.
- Transparency Report: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Latest Transparency Report.
- Privacy Policy: The Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy is getting a minor update in preparation for Temporary Accounts.
- Learning Clinic: Join the next Let's Connect Learning Clinic on the topic of "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool (Part 2)" taking place on October 20 at 17:00 UTC.
Foundation statements
- Knowledge integrity: Lessons from Wikipedia on the 3 building blocks of trustworthy information. This is part of the new series from the Wikimedia Foundation that explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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MediaWiki message delivery 14:50, 14 October 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #702
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week leading up to 2025-10-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #701.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Ternera - RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2025 16:10 (UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Rebot - Task: Make changes in w.wiki/Fed9, such as changing depicts (P180) = herbarium (Q181916) to herbarium specimen (Q61726742).
Events
- Upcoming:
- WikidataCon 2025: Have you seen the Program yet?
Available now on Pretalx, check now and plan your schedule. - 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit.
Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call. - The Dublin Core DCMI 2025 conference will take place in Barcelona, Oct 22-25.
- Presentation: Derivative Relationships and Bibliographic Families Among Creative Works: A Systematic Study of Their Application by the Wikidata Community from the FRBR and BIBFRAME Perspective
- Workshop by Jneubert on converting a complex web application into a large static site integrated with Wikidata
- Tutorial from Jelabra on shaping linked data and knowledge graphs.
- Wikidata Lab XLVII: Wiki Infographics, about a tool for data visualization. On October 21, 17 UTC.
- Wikimania 2026 Scholarships are open! Deadline is Friday, October 31st, 2025.
- Wikidata 13th birthday celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group on October 24 and 25, 2025
- WikidataCon 2025: Have you seen the Program yet?
- Past:
- Missed the Q4 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-10-15 (Q4 2025)
- Wikidata 13th birthday celebration in the WUGN Abuja Network
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: (Finnish) From Wikidata to GEO (AI) optimization? by Johanna Janhonen
- Videos:
- Genealogical tree creation with Wikidata - by Thimira Sahan
- (Chinese) Wikidata 13 週年聚會暨 OpenRefine 工作坊 - by Wikidata Taiwan
- (Spanish) Taller en línea: Introducción a Wikidata y Wikibase by bibliotecasUNAM
- Wikimedia Research Showcase: Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture
Tool of the week
- WikiLokal - The tool uses your device location to find Wikidata Items and Wikipedia articles within a 3 kilometre radius of your location. Created by User:Affandy Murad
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Project Chat:
- Help choose a name for the Abstract Wikipedia Project - combining WikiFunctions and Wikidata, a voting contest will run from Oct 20 - Nov 17, 2025.
- How can Wikidata be useful IRL if it has less data than Wikipedia? - an ongoing discussion touching on data scraping tools such as Harvest templates (github) and data consistency between Wikipedia and Wikidata in places such as Infoboxes.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes: organizational chart (image that displays the structure of this organization or government agency and the relationships and relative ranks of its parts and positions/jobs)
- Newest External identifiers: The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture entry ID, TechPowerUp CPU Specs Database ID, Catalogue of sundials ID, A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition entry ID, GPUZoo ID, NetEase Music album ID, Corporation Number in Canada, Biographical Dictionary of Almería identifier
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- image of outdoor seating (an image of the outdoor seating)
- Elo rating (rapid) (Current or historical Elo rating of a player in rapid time control chess games)
- ECHL profile ID (Id (number) used by ECHL on their website ehcl.com. URL takes a slug.)
- award category or rank ((qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank)
- public key (cryptographic public key (some ASCII encoding of it))
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Schulnummer Sachsen, Team Austria ID, IFES Election Guide ID, BNB agent ID, Arte de la Argentina ID, Democratic Memory Bank ID, Kicker competition ID, Soccer365.net team ID, LUDAP, Genbu.net ID, ztgd.com, ISTAMPIE entity, MIT Press edition id
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: List of Airports/Airstrips in Florida, USA
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject IDEA (translation tasks)
- WikiProject Highlights: Govdirectory South Korea was created.
- Showcase Items: Jagiellonian Library (Q24101) - library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków
- Showcase Lexemes: led (L762994) - Norwegian Nynorsk noun (leː) meaning "a joint between bones", "a movable body part", or "a generation"
Development
- Mobile statement editing: We made progress on support for more datatypes for editing.
- Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
- We are investigating an issue with infoboxes using data from Wikidata after some recent changes to usage tracking (phab:T407684)
- We are working on more improvements to the Databox module
- Ontology federation: We are starting to work on making it possible for other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as values in their statements. This expands on previous work around federated properties.
- Dumps: We have worked on fixing issues with the dumps that were failing recently. They should now be generated again and we continue to look into the cause.
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: Bahamas
- 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!
Tech News: 2025-43
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply. [6]
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed. [7]
Updates for technical contributors
- The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the
rest.phproute through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board. - Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. [8]
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:36, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #703
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week leading up to 2025-10-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #702.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Samoasambia - RfP scheduled to end after 27 October 2025 15:10 (UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Ternera - Closed as successful by Ymblanter (talk) 19:24, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
Events
- Upcoming events:
- 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
- WikidataCon 2025, October 31 - November 2, make sure to register at the event page.
- SPARQL workshop (in German): "From Zero to SPARQL. Eine Einführung in die Abfrage von Wissensgraphen (Schwerpunkt Wikidata)", 4 Nov 2025, 10-13, free and open to all, online via Zoom. more information and registration
- The scholarship deadline for Wikimania 2026 is approaching fast: 31st of October. Apply today if you want to attend on a scholarship.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos:
- (Spanish) Visualizaciones con el Servicio de Consultas de Wikidata
- (Spanish)¿Cómo identificar y completar vacíos de información en Wikidata? Tabernacle e integraality
- I Have 1000s of Items in Commons – What Do I Do Now?: Utilization Opportunities on Wikimedia Commons
- (Chinese [Trad]) 鏈結資料文獻翻譯賽德克語成果發表會 Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation
- Presentations: Will AI Erase Us Again? The Role of Wikimedia Communities. Talk by John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2025 (Slides)
Tool of the week
- Nemo is a new Wikidata query tool by User:Markus Krötzsch the tool can answer queries, extracts subsets, and perform analyses in ways that SPARQL alone can't. It also lets you combine Wikidata with other data sources.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- start work (work in which this statement about a fictional entity begins to be valid)
- end work (work in which this statement about a fictional entity ceases to be valid)
- image resolution (pixel resolution of images generated or captured by this item (camera, software, etc))
- display device resolution (physical pixel resolution of an electronic display)
- firmware (firmware installed on this hardware)
- Newest External identifiers: MultimediaWiki page ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, QCC Code, Jamaica company ID, SEC Number, Thailand company ID, gosfilmofond.ru ID, Cambodian company ID, English solicitors ID, Caixin company ID, Nebraska Authors author ID, Kick username, Archivio Storico Ricordi partiture ID, Fantacalcio ID, Plant Ontology ID, L'Équipe athlete ID, RSQV ID, NRK topic ID, OpenITI author ID, Mellopedia ID, Liste unique des décorés ID, Deník tag ID, Interaktionsdatabasen ID, Adebiportal author ID, Biographische Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder ID, ISLRN, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, RIA Novosti person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion entry ID, Qalamger.kz author ID, Does the Dog Die? media ID, Organ Index ID, American Kennel Club ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Responsable de departamento ()
- Lämningsnummer ({{Q|Q10498015}} is a database of archaeological monuments in Sweden, maintained by {{Q|Q631844}}. Each item in the database has an identifier containing the year of registration and a number, e.g. ''L1970:5203''.)
- number of comments per day ()
- Commonwealth Sport country code (Commonwealth Sport country code)
- operating humidity (humidity at which a device operates)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature Periodical ID, HarmonyOS NEXT APP ID, Rechtsinformationen des Bundes-ID, UNESCO Virtual Museum inventory ID, South Korean Business Registration Number, SetesdalWiki ID, Biography.com ID, Mackolik football manager ID, S1 No.1 Style actress ID, biserici.org church ID, RFC, Hudobné centrum IDs, FAIR Epigraphic Vocabularies ID, NVLI ID, SerBenfiquista.com players ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Map of pubs in Scotland (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kazakhstan
- Showcase Items:Lake Zanzibar (Q22530539) - lake in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada
Development
- Wikidata in Wikipedia and co:
- We worked on making Wikidata change summaries in recent changes and watchlist on the other Wikimedia projects more understandable by adding icons. This will be rolled out soon (phab:T397258)
- We continued the improvements to the Databox module (phab:T400322, phab:T400318)
- Mobile statement editing: We continued working on editing references (phab:T405236) and did clean-ups for the beta release (phab:T405743)
- GraphQL: We continued work on including labels of linked entities in responses
- Dumps: We are looking into why dump generation is slower than it should be recently
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!
Tech News: 2025-44
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
- Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed. [9]
Updates for technical contributors
- The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
- The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the Special:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page. [10]
- Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
- A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
- Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited. [11]
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:32, 27 October 2025 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 20
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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues
- Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection: Additional perspectives on current and future board selection processes.
- Global trends: We are seeing 8% declines in human page views on Wikipedia as some users don't directly visit Wikipedia to get information. Learn about this new user trend, how the Wikimedia Foundation anticipate these changes, and how you can help.
- WECUDI 2025: The second conference of Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures will be held from October 29–31 in Mexico City, Mexico.
- GLAM Conference: Wiki GLAM Culture and Heritage Conference (WGCHC) will take place on 30 October – 1 November in Lisbon, Portugal.
- WikidataCon 2025: WikidataCon 2025 will take place online from October 31 – November 2.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
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- Making it easier to say thanks: Users on most wikis will now have the ability to thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page.
- Account security: Improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. Another part of the project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity.
- Abstract Wikipedia: The naming contest for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing. Voting is now open until November 3.
- Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week 42 and 43 including the community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
- Wikimedia apps: The Wikipedia iOS App launched an A/B/C test of improvements to the Tabbed browsing feature into Beta for select regions & languages. Called “More dynamic tabs”, the experiment adds user-requested improvements and introduces article recommendations within the tabs overview, showing “Did you know” or “Because you read” content depending on how many tabs are open.
- CampaignEvents extension: Campaignevents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities.
- Event registration tool: Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
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- Digital safety: Explore how you can help make Wikimedia safer by taking our new self-paced course, Safety for Young Wikimedians.
- Wikimedia Core Curriculum: The Wikimedia Foundation has developed seven online video learning modules covering the core English Wikipedia policies. You are invited to use, adapt, and translate the course.
- Advocacy: The Wikimedia Foundation has signed onto a statement that calls on governments and UN bodies to keep discussions about the future of internet governance accessible to non-government actors like industry and civil society. This statement is part of ongoing joint advocacy with affiliates to influence UN discussions about the future of internet governance such as the Global Digital Compact campaign and WSIS+20 deliberations.
- GLAM: The Wikimedia Foundation and several affiliates have signed onto the Open Heritage Statement, which supports galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions) to have the legal rights they need to collect, preserve, and provide access to cultural heritage.
Foundation statements
- How Wikipedia works: Wikimedia Foundation responds to questions about how Wikipedia works.
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This Month in Education: October 2025
[edit]This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 10 • October 2025
- "WikiDonne Internship: Wikimedia Platforms for Open Education and Inclusive Culture!" winner at the Open Education Awards 2025
- A Proud Chapter in My Wikimedia Journey 🇳🇬: From Editor to Organizer
- Debating open science and scientific dissemination in Brazil
- Enhancing Academic Articles on Wikipedia with the State University of Jakarta
- India’s Students and Educators Lead the Way in the Wiki Science Competition 2025
- JDACA & Amman Arab University
- New starting page for Wikipedia users had been launched in September
- Teaching Evidence Synthesis Automation with the Wikipedia–Kaggle Dataset
- Wikimedia MKD’s Education Program activities for October
- Wikimedia Serbia prepares eight annual Edu Wiki camp
- Wikivoyage editathon in Peshkopia, Albania
Wikidata weekly summary #704
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week leading up to 2025-11-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #703.
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 by Hexatekin - 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 in the 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 in PUSC 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 week The Wikidata Reference Validator by User: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
Newest properties and property 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 on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- 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 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!
Tech News: 2025-45
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). [12]
- For users with "Automatically subscribe to topics" enabled in their preferences, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "Add topic" or "Reply" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time. [13]
- Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files. [14]
- Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. [15]
- Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish! [16]
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query. [17]
Updates for technical contributors
- Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means
/s/URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTMLclass="title-shortlink". The/s/URLs will keep working. [18] - On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces and SRE Service Operations teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
- MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025. [19]
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post.
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