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Wikidata weekly summary #727

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''' 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 ↗ (<nowiki>3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3</nowiki>)

*‎official roster page ↗ (<nowiki>URL of a team's official page about this player</nowiki>)

*‎value type of this mathematical property ↗ (<nowiki>type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects</nowiki>)

*‎Usenet newsgroup ↗ (<nowiki>Usenet newsgroup associated with the item</nowiki>)

*hardware is incompatible with ↗ (<nowiki>significant elements with which a computer hardware or electronic device is incompatible and which indicates a significant property of this hardware.</nowiki>)

*Peh-oe-ji ↗ (<nowiki>writing system for Taiwanese Hokkien (Q36778) or other Southern Min (Q36495) language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.</nowiki>)

*‎heir apparent ↗ (<nowiki>person designated to take on royal position after death of subject</nowiki>)

*thumbtime ↗ (<nowiki>time for video thumbnail in seconds</nowiki>)

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 ↗ (<nowiki>identifier for a script in OpenType</nowiki>)

*OpenType language system tag ↗ (<nowiki>identifier for a language (system) in OpenType</nowiki>)

*tattoos ↗ (<nowiki>anatomical location of a tattoo that this person or character have</nowiki>)

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 ↗.

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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.

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Experienced editors are invited to test ↗ the Article guidance ↗ feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available ↗. Also, after reviewing the outlines ↗, please provide feedback on the project talk page ↗. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video ↗ explaining the feature.

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On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel ↗ page to create new pages with custom content models ↗, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights ↗ for the status of your wiki. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248294 ↗

The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment ↗ to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382856 ↗

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Tools and bots that access the Notifications API ↗ (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>action=query&meta=notifications</nowiki></code></bdi>) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421991 ↗

Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T422544 ↗

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Tech News: 2026-17

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After two years of development, {{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}} ↗, also known as CodeMirror 6 ↗, is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other benefits ↗ to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer Bhsd ↗ who developed many of the new features, including code folding ↗, autocompletion ↗, and linting ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259059 ↗

A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design. Download the latest version ↗ and explore the update.

'''Updates for editors'''

Reading lists ↗ is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias.

An experiment which explores extending Page Previews to mobile web ↗ will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps. Read more about this experiment and others ↗.

On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't confirmed their email addresses ↗ can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it. Learn more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421366 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:15}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:15|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184857 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

As part of the promotion of CodeMirror ↗ from a beta feature, all users will use CodeMirror ↗ instead of CodeEditor ↗ for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419332 ↗

The <code>mirrors.wikimedia.org</code> service for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute. You can read more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416707 ↗

The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>image</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>oldimage</nowiki></code></bdi> table will be removed from wikireplicas ↗. If your tools or queries access <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>image</nowiki></code></bdi> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>oldimage</nowiki></code></bdi> directly, please update them to use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>file</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>filerevision</nowiki></code></bdi> table before 28 May. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28741 ↗

Following the recent implementation of global API rate limits on unidentified traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue efforts to ensure fair use of infrastructure ↗ by applying global limits to identified API traffic beginning the last week of April. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits ↗ and Frequently Asked Questions ↗.

The Attribution API ↗ is now available as a beta ↗. The API fetches information for crediting Wikimedia articles and media files wherever they are used. Reference documentation is available through the REST Sandbox special page available on all Wikimedia wikis (such as the REST sandbox on English Wikipedia ↗). Share your feedback on the project talk page ↗.

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''' 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 ↗ (<nowiki>point of view for an image of an object, for example an anatomical structure (ventral, dorsal, frontal)</nowiki>)

*Bavarian natural monuments ID ↗ (<nowiki>identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt</nowiki>)

*‎audio version of text ↗ (<nowiki>The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).</nowiki>)

*‎motive ↗ (<nowiki>verified reasoning behind an action</nowiki>)

*‎award category or rank ↗ (<nowiki>(qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank</nowiki>)

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 ↗ (<nowiki>This property is to be distinguished from the other property</nowiki>)

*SELL rating ↗ (<nowiki>classification in the Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs rating system</nowiki>)

*time expansion ↗ (<nowiki>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</nowiki>)

*Parental Advisory System rating ↗ (<nowiki>content rating for coin-operated video games</nowiki>)

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 ''<small>(P106)</small>'' ↗, occupation ''<small>(Q12737077)</small>'' ↗ 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 ↗.

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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! ↗

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Tech News: 2026-18

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'''Updates for editors'''

There is a change in how new users are autoconfirmed that will improve anti-vandalism protection. Currently, users who have had an account for a few days and made a few edits are automatically added to the {{int:group-autoconfirmed}} ↗ group. This configuration tends to be exploited by some vandals, who create accounts and start to use them only after some time. To mitigate this, the configuration will be updated next week so that – for the purpose of becoming autoconfirmed – the account age will be counted from their first edit, instead of registration date. The numeric value of the age threshold will remain the same. This change will be deployed only to wikis which require at least one edit as part of the autoconfirmation conditions. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418484 ↗

All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the "automatically enable most beta features" option in their preference can now use the reading lists ↗ beta feature to save articles for later reading. This helps organize reading interests in one place for convenient access.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the issue where infobox images have huge padding in Firefox, has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423676 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

As a reminder, the global API rate limits will be applied this week to identified API traffic. This is to help ensure fair use of infrastructure ↗. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, including the actual rate limits, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits ↗ and Frequently Asked Questions ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055 ↗).

The autoconfirmed ↗ user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484 ↗).

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The arbitration case ''SchroCat ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.

Per a recent motion ↗, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue ↗ are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.

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The arbitration case ''Maghreb ↗'' has been closed.

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Wikidata weekly summary #730

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''' 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 ↗ (<nowiki>topic or class of items covered by the lowest categories in this meta-category's hierarchy</nowiki>)

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 ↗ (<nowiki>tort or civil wrong a person or organization was found liable of</nowiki>)

*DMCA takedown policy URL ↗ (<nowiki>DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown policy or submitting page of this hosting site or UGC (User Generated Content) distributor</nowiki>)

*18 U.S.C. § 2257 policy URL ↗ (<nowiki>age requirement documentation URL statement of this website or company</nowiki>)

*monolingual text name properties ↗ (<nowiki>(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</nowiki>)

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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Tech News: 2026-19

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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'''

The Article guidance ↗ team invites experienced editors of pilot Wikipedias ↗—Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Turkish, Simple English, Spanish, and French—to help translate and adapt sample outlines ↗. These outlines will guide editors in creating clear, well-structured, and policy-compliant articles when using the feature ↗ once it is launched in May 2026. Simple instructions ↗ on how to translate and adapt the outlines are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ has published draft recommendations ↗ on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the recommendation until May 8th on the talk page ↗.

The number of available thumbnail size preferences in MediaWiki is being reduced to three standardized options—Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px), as part of ongoing efforts to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. As a result, existing preferences will be mapped to the nearest new size (for example, smaller selections like 120px or 150px will render at 180px, while larger ones like 300px or 360px will render at 400px). The preferences interface will soon be updated to reflect these changes, and users who wish to opt out or provide feedback can do so. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424909 ↗

From now on, even when a permission expires automatically, users will receive an Echo notification similar to the standard notification for permission changes. There is a difference between this and Global reminder bot ↗ in that the latter reminds users a week ''before'' the rights are due to expire, so that they can renew the rights.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the problem where the ULS language selector in Special:Translate ↗ would scroll vertically when it shouldn't, has been resolved. Previously, when users opened the "Translate to English" dropdown and typed certain inputs, the dialog would scroll vertically by a few pixels even when there was enough space to display all results. The dropdown no longer shifts unnecessarily when filtering languages. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358864 ↗

The Global Watchlist ↗, which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page, continues to improve. For example, watchlists for Wikibase sites such as Wikidata ↗ now support EntitySchema ↗ elements for better tracking. The Live Updates mode now refreshes the special page every 60 seconds to comply with the updated global API rate limits ↗ for improved real-time responsiveness. Additionally, a directionality bug that displayed links as "changes 3" instead of "3 changes" in mixed-direction lists has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415450 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424422 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418091 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The second phase of global API rate limits ↗ has been rolled out to reduce the impact of AI crawlers ↗ and ensure fair, sustainable access to Wikimedia resources, prioritising human and mission-aligned traffic. Limits ↗ have been shifted from per-hour to per-minute, producing smoother traffic patterns and more predictable API load. Community users are not expected to be affected, and no action is required. Early indications show some User-Agent-based requestors are adjusting behaviour, and around 64% of automated API traffic has been identified. Monitoring continues, and Wikimedia Enterprise remains available for commercial support.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:41, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #731

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''' 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'''.<br>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 ↗ (<nowiki>amount of energy extractable from a substance (e.g. in a combustion engine) per unit of volume or of mass</nowiki>)

*‎Parental Advisory System rating ↗ (<nowiki>content rating for coin-operated video games</nowiki>)

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 ↗ (<nowiki>registration or prisoner number assigned to a person in camps operated under Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1945</nowiki>)

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.

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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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Tech News: 2026-20

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'''Weekly highlight'''

Community Tech has published new guidance ↗ explaining how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The documentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals by clarifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond vote counts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact on the community when determining which wishes move forward.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new Share Card feature ↗ that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles or selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking back to the original article to help expand readership and article discovery. The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of readers on Arabic, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to better understand reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin the week of May 18 and run for four weeks.

The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the 25-day reading challenge ↗ into Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encouraging users to complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen. The challenge officially begins May 11.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:17}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:17|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax highlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being turned on, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425286 ↗

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New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

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thumb|400px|New Page Review queue November 2025 - May 2026 ↗

'''Backlog update'''

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

'''2024 and 2025 NPP Awards'''

74px|left ↗{{no ping|JTtheOG}} was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.
{{no ping|Hey man im josh}} and {{no ping|MPGuy2824}} won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

{{no ping|BoyTheKingCanDance}}, {{no ping|Rosiestep}}, {{no ping|SunDawn}}, and {{no ping|Vanderwaalforces}} were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame ↗ for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

'''January–February backlog drive'''

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to {{no ping|JTtheOG}}, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

'''May backlog drive'''

An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026 ↗.

'''PageTriage'''

An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed ↗ to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket ↗ if you're interested in following along.

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Wikidata weekly summary #732

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''' 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 ↗ (<nowiki>cadastral area that is wholly or partly contained by a municipality</nowiki>)

*algebraic closure ↗ (<nowiki>‎algebraic closure of the field</nowiki>)

*real closure ↗ (<nowiki>real closure of the formally real field</nowiki>)

*eusocial caste ↗ (<nowiki>specialized type of an eusocial animal</nowiki>)

*Wikimedia Commons content descriptor ↗ (<nowiki>Wikimedia Commons content descriptor which applies to this media file</nowiki>)

*‎time expansion ↗ (<nowiki>factor by which a recording's duration has been extended or compressed relative to the original real-time event, without pitch correction.</nowiki>)

*‎SELL rating ↗ (<nowiki>French video game content rating (1999–2003)</nowiki>)

*age requirement documentation URL ↗ (<nowiki>URL for a website's statement of compliance with U.S. legal record-keeping requirements related to visual depictions of actual sexually explicit conduct</nowiki>)

*maximum vehicle length ↗ (<nowiki>maximum authorized length for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment</nowiki>)

*maximum vehicle width ↗ (<nowiki>maximum authorized width for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment</nowiki>)

*maximum vehicle weight ↗ (<nowiki>maximum authorized weight (tonnage / gross vehicle weight) for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (load limit)</nowiki>)

*maximum vehicle height ↗ (<nowiki>maximum authorized height for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (regulatory limit from signage)</nowiki>)

*‎independent of theory ↗ (<nowiki>theory that proves neither this proposition nor its negation</nowiki>)

*‎gender-neutral form of label ↗ (<nowiki>form of name or title with no assumption of gender</nowiki>)

*subject named as (monolingual text) ↗ (<nowiki>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</nowiki>)

*alternative name (monolingual text) ↗ (<nowiki>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</nowiki>)

*‎CWSAC classification ↗ (<nowiki>Level of military significance for American Civil War battles as defined by the 1993 Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) report.</nowiki>)

*DMCA takedown policy URL ↗ (<nowiki>DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown policy or submitting page of this hosting site or UGC (User Generated Content) distributor</nowiki>)

*election result map ↗ (<nowiki>map that displays the result of this election</nowiki>)

*‎paid-up capital ↗ (<nowiki>portion of a company’s issued share capital that has been paid by shareholders</nowiki>)

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 ↗ (<nowiki>''(no English description proposed yet)''</nowiki>)

*Grokipedia page title ↗ (<nowiki>page title used in a Grokipedia article URL</nowiki>)

*especially ↗ (<nowiki>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)</nowiki>)

*Common Vulnerability Scoring System score ↗ (<nowiki>Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score</nowiki>)

*Depicts taxon ↗ (<nowiki>depicts taxon</nowiki>)

*Still taken from the film ↗ (<nowiki>Still taken from the film</nowiki>)

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 ↗.

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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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Tech News: 2026-21

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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'''

The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. The feedback period will be open until May 22. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''

An experiment to show Reading Lists ↗ to logged-out readers on mobile web will launch on May 18 across German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu Wikipedias, and will run for one month. The effort supports broader goals of helping readers save and organize articles for later reading, while encouraging habits that could lead to future Wikipedia contributions.

To support a bookmark button in the Reading List beta feature, the "Tools > Action" menu has been updated to display icons, including the watch star indicator that helps editors identify temporarily watched articles. The icons now also match those used on mobile, improving consistency across platforms. The change is currently limited to the actions menu and mainly affects editors with privileged user rights. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T426008 ↗

Suggestion Mode ↗ was released as an A/B test ↗ for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias ↗. The experiment will measure the impact that Suggestion Mode has on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. The experiment will also evaluate the feature's impact on editor retention, and monitor changes in revert and block rates.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue in the Wikipedia Android app where images could sometimes fail to load after opening a recommended reading list notification, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418231 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

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.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

On English, French, Japanese, and a few other Wikipedias, there was a trial of hCaptcha ↗, a third-party bot detection service. The trial showed that hCaptcha effectively detects and deters some bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards ↗ signals to look into. Because the results were positive, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis over the next few weeks. See the hCaptcha project page ↗ for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections. Learn more ↗.

The latest Community Tech update is now available, with progress across several Community Wishlist initiatives, including Reading Lists expansion from the mobile app to the website, new language support for "Who Wrote That" and the Personal Dashboard, improvements to 3D rendering and Charts, and upcoming work on talk page sorting, audio playback, and editing workflows. The update also shares current priorities, wishlist status trends, and opportunities for community feedback on future focus areas and the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026–2027 Annual Plan. Read the full newsletter for details ↗.

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''' Discussions '''

New requests for permissions/Bot: Skolkoll-bot 1 ↗ - '''Task(s)''': Adding Skolverket identifiers and source URLs to Swedish school items

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗: Wikicafé May Edition: ''De Wikidata à Wikipédia abstraite : promesses et illusions du savoir structuré (From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: Promises and Illusions of Structured Knowledge)'', Presentation by Jsamwrites, May 26, 2026 at 13:00 ↗ video link ↗, organized by DMontagne en résidence.

''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''

Papers: Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini ↗, Pietro Ortimini ↗, and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo ↗, ''Wikibase and Wikidata for Greek and Latin Epigraphy: Modelling, Analysing, and Making Reusable Linked Open Data'' ↗

Videos: Monica Berti ↗ and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, ''Wikidata Queries for Greek and Latin Philology'' ↗ (SunoikisisDC, Summer 2026); slides on Commons ↗ + video on Youtube ↗; for more information, cf. the WikiProjects Antiquity/Pauly-Wissowa ↗ and LAGL ↗

''' Tool of the week '''

LexeMap ↗ - is a lexeme coverage mapper that audits Wikidata lexeme data across languages. It runs live SPARQL queries against Wikidata and cross-references against Wiktionary to identify gaps in lexicographical data.

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

Starting May 28, 2026, the <code>Special:EntityData</code> page will no longer support the PHP‑serialized format (e.g <code>.php</code> URLs). Affected requests will return HTTP errors. Please switch to a stable format like JSON (example: <code>Q42.json</code>). The change is already active on test and beta wikis. (full announcement ↗)

''' Newest properties ↗ and property proposals ↗ to review '''

Newest External identifiers: ‎SIK-ISEA document ID ↗, identifiant d'un fonds au catalogue collectif de France ↗, ‎StaphBase ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

*PCBS Locality code ↗ (<nowiki>Locality Code of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics</nowiki>)

*nameplate image ↗ (<nowiki>image of a name-plate or similar identifying plate of the subject</nowiki>)

*photographer ↗ (<nowiki>photographer</nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant Bibliothèques patrimoniales de Paris ↗, CUEAnexo ↗, Enciclopedia Católica Wikitólica ID ↗, Adult Film Database film series ID ↗, Adult Film Database studio ID ↗, Satker ID ↗, Inaproc Instance ID ↗, British Libray catalogue ID ↗, Swedish-Danish Dictionary ID ↗, Roller-results.com skater ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples: People born at the sea ↗ (source ↗)

Newest database reports ↗: List of items with links to Wiktionary main space. ↗

Showcase Items ↗: Boeing(Q66) ↗

''' Development '''

Mobile statement editing:

* We continued working on reducing the page size to make it easier on mobile data plans

* We are improving how error messages are shown

Making WikiProjects more visible: We are continuing the work on getting it ready for a first rollout.

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 ↗.

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Tech News: 2026-22

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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'''

Following a successful account creation experiment ↗, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session. The updated experience is designed to encourage account creation more clearly, while still allowing users to edit with temporary accounts. Results from the experiment showed a significant increase in account creation, with a 27% relative lift among users shown the updated message. As expected, as more people funnel into account creation, temporary accounts decreased by a relative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424595 ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA) enabled. Members of these groups will be unable to disable the last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the next few weeks, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. Notably, this applies to bureaucrats. See the linked tasks for deployment schedules. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423119 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423120 ↗

WMDE Technical Wishes ↗ will run an A/B test ↗ on 10 wikis ↗, testing potential improvements for Reference Previews ↗. The experiment will run for ~2 weeks at the end of May / beginning of June and will affect 10% of desktop readers on the participating wikis.

After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an Image Browsing ↗ beta feature for all Wikipedias on mobile on May 25. This means that anyone who has all beta features on by default will start to see this feature, and others can check the box to turn it on in their preferences. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article's images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article's carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, three dimensional STL files were being rendered incorrectly by the media viewer 3D extension which is now fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416723 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

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Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats ↗: Bureaucrats ↗ without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119 ↗, T423120 ↗)

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Wikidata weekly summary #734

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''' Discussions '''

New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 13 ↗ - '''Task/s:'''

* Per Project Chat ↗, replace "''estauxunidense''" in Asturian descriptions with "''d'Estaos Xuníos''". Example manual edits here ↗ and here ↗.

* Also adds a default label, per d:Help:Default values for labels and aliases#When should I use default values for labels and aliases? ↗ and remove redundant labels in the simplest cases.

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

* Temporaer Haus: OpenDataMonday ↗, today, 1 June, 19:30 - 22:00 CEST, Augsburger Str. 23-25, 89231 Neu-Ulm.

* WikiKult Netzwerktreffen 2026: “Wikidata in Kulturerbeinstitutionen” ↗, 11-12th June, Wikimedia Deutschland. German-speaking event for people working with Wikidata in the cultural heritage sector. Open to experienced contributors and newcomers alike.

* Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey ↗, 11 June 17:00 - 18:00 CEST, online (English with German translation) – Keynote by Jason Evans.

* (Deutsch) Workshop // Wikibases, Knowledge Graphs und Wikidata ↗, Tue 14 July, 10:00 - 13:00 CEST. Participation is for project members, Zentral Institut staff, and interested guests, on-site at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte. See link for registration details.

* Doing Migration History with Digital Methods: Beyond a Database - Wikibase as Research Infrastructure for Migration Prosopography ↗ Summer University at the German Historical Institute Paris, 8, rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris, 23 June 16:00 CEST.

* WikiProjects Days 2026 - preparing the Program ↗ - watch this space next week for the first edition of the Event Program or register ↗ to be notified of updates.

''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''

Blogs:

* ''Behind the QIDs ↗'' by User:Niryhpr

* ''Improving the interconnection between Wikidata and the CERL Thesaurus'' ↗ by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo ↗, also presented (in Italian) in Videos.

* Digitally mapping the Philippines’ historical markers ↗ by Eugene Alvin Villar.

Papers:

* A data-driven analysis of automotive model evolution and technological lineage using Wikidata and Python network visualization ↗ by P. Trunova (2026).

* (Italiano) De Catulo a Wikidata ↗ by Nusch et al. (2026).

Videos:

* Adding lifting stones to Wikidata ↗ - OSM for History Buffs

* (O'zbekcha) Participate in the Interlingual Relations Marathon and win! ↗ - Oʻzbekcha Vikipediyadagi (ukwiki) has over 12,000 articles missing a sitelink...time to change that.

* (Italiano) Wikidata and Library Catalogs: Building and Enabling a Digital Resources Network ↗ by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo

Presentations:

* ''De Wikidata à Wikipédia abstraite : promesses et illusions du savoir structuré ↗ (From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: Promises and Illusions of Structured Knowledge)'', Presentation by Jsamwrites, May 26, 2026, Wikicafé May Edition ↗, organized by DMontagne en résidence. (video ↗)

* DARIAH-EU WG DHwiki - A first year of activity ↗ by D. Lindemann and G. Candela (2026).

''' Tool of the week '''

Wikidata Recent Changes API ↗: This API lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed.

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

On 31 May, item '''Q140000000 ↗''' ("Maxx", about a cinema in Delmenhorst, Germany) was created.

Feedback wanted: To support improving Wikidata integration on the Programs & Events Dashboard, the EduWiki Hub invites Wikidata organizers, trainers, and contributors to share suggestions on metrics, tracking features, and workflows you would like to see in the dashboard. In addition, try out the new Advanced Search share your thoughts on the Dashboard talk page. (full announcement ↗)

''' Newest properties ↗ and property proposals ↗ to review '''

Newest General datatypes:

* found liable for ↗ (<nowiki>tort or civil wrong a person or organization was found liable of</nowiki>)

* ‎PCBS Locality code ↗ (<nowiki>Locality Code of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics</nowiki>)

Newest External identifiers: AV CHANNEL actress ID ↗, AWA artist ID ↗, CUE/Anexo ↗, ‎Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number ↗, Catholic Encyclopedia Wikitólica ID ↗, European System of Accounts ID (Germany) ↗, OpenEdition Publisher ID ↗, ‎Mineral Resources Data System deposit ID ↗, ‎Natalie ID ↗, ‎Oireachtas bill ID ↗, Rakuten Music artist ID ↗, recochoku artist ID ↗, ‎Adult Film Database film series ID ↗, ‎Adult Film Database studio ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

* category's topic is member of the class ↗ (<nowiki>qualifier for use with {{p|14387}} and {{P|4224}} to describe certain sets of categories</nowiki>)

* applicable Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons ↗ (<nowiki>the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property</nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: School ID of the Department of Education, Philippines ↗, Beeld en Geluid series identifier ↗, DAM artist ID ↗, DAM song ID ↗, Joysound artist ID ↗, Joysound song ID ↗, K-MIB performer ID ↗, DUGA actress ID ↗, Chilean Museums Registry ID ↗, Sokmil actress ID ↗, Filmmakers Person ID ↗, Model Mayhem ID ↗, OCHA Place Code ↗, Sri Lanka NGO Secretariat Registration Number ↗, Sri Lanka Company Registration Number ↗, AV CHANNEL director ID ↗, DUGA director ID ↗, AllMyLinks ID ↗, AV CHANNEL maker ID ↗, thegamerdex.com game ID ↗, MyDirtyHobby ID ↗, Fontaines de Belgique ID ↗, Wikiparfum fragrance ID ↗, Canadian Trademark Registration Number ↗, DMM director ID ↗, Pantheon.World ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples: Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize ↗

Newest WikiProjects ↗: Project Sri Lanka ↗ for editors who would like to focus on adding materials for Sri Lanka <small>''(Q854)''</small> ↗.

WikiProject Highlights:

* Project Govdirectory added Cape Verde subpage ↗

* Project P244 maintenance progress ↗ - a manually-updated progress tracker, is there a way to automate it?

Newest database reports ↗: Identified duplicates ↗ - this list shows items that most likely need merging but cannot due to conflicting sitelinks.

Showcase Items ↗: Q140000000: Wikidata's 140 Millionth Item ↗

''' Development '''

Mobile editing of statements:

* We fixed how we handle statements with deleted Properties (phab:T402619 ↗)

* We improved the behaviour when using the browser's back button (phab:T414454 ↗)

* We continued working on improving the way error responses are shown (phab:T423613 ↗)

* We addressed issues found in testing

Improving the visibility of WikiProjects: We added support for finding the associated WikiProject of an Item based on statements on the Item

GraphQL:

* We are working on expanding the data available through search. Specifically we are including all Item data in search result nodes (phab:T427389 ↗) and extending the query by Item and Property value to return all Item data (phab:T416885 ↗)

* We are improving the documentation.

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 ↗.

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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: Nigeria ↗

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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Tech News: 2026-23

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'''Updates for editors'''

The Reader Experience team ↗ is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists ↗ feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment ↗ was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.

The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 ↗ of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:18}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:18|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage ↗, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424048 ↗

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Wikidata weekly summary #735

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''' Discussions '''

RfC: Mass editing policy ↗: The community is currently voting on a proposed policy to regulate mass edits on Wikidata. More input is needed to reach a broad consensus. Please review the proposal and join the discussion/vote on the RFC page.

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

* '''WikiProjects Days 2026''' - see the first version of the program! ↗ The online event takes place during the weekend of June 19 - 21. Register ↗ for updates and access links.

* Mezi bajty 0 ↗ - meetup of the Czech Wikidata community in Prague and online, 10th June 17:00 - 19:00 CEST (in Czech, Slovak, English)

* GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei) SPARQL Workshop| ↗, 17th July 17:00 - 19:30 CEST (in German) - workshop from the German National Library on use of their SPARQL-endpoint for the GND (Gemeinsamer Normdatei) national authority file for wikidata users and wikipedians.

* (Deutsch) Workshop: Make Research Software Findable using the Software Marketplace Wikidata ↗ - August 18, 14:00 – 16:00 Uhr (CEST), Zoom-link on registration.

* '''Blazegraph Migration Office Hour (June session) ↗''' will take place on Tuesday, 9 June 2026 (Tomorrow) at 16:00 UTC ↗. This office hour 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, add questions, feedback, or migration-related support needs to this etherpad ↗.

Ongoing: Wiki Loves Pride 2026 (Meta) ↗ is ongoing and now has a dedicated Wikidata subpage: Event: Wiki Loves Pride 2026 ↗.

''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''

Blogs:

* (日本語/Japanese) [Practice drill: SPARQL basics to make and learn - Let's master Wikidata Query Service ↗ by Shoku_pan_65. Page offers AI translations.

* Behind the <P812: academic major> Property ↗ by rtnf.

* Adding Visual Context to the Dagbanli Dictionary: How the University of Ghana HCI Lab Dataset Powered our Sentence Matching System ↗. Diff post by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan.

Papers:

* Volume 16, Issue 5 of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out! ↗ - includes 7 papers on Wikidata topics.

* Rosetta Statements: simplifying FAIR knowledge graph construction with a user-centred approach ↗ - Vogt et al., (2026)

* (Русский/Russian) Automated Analysis and Visualization of Geographic Data on Global Volcanoes Based on the Wikidata Semantic Graph ↗ - by Мария Паландер (2026).

* Speaker Mining: FAIR Data on Public Broadcasts for Question Answering ↗ by Wittenborg et al., (2026)

Videos:

* (Español) Wikidata for Climate Change, Wikipedia for Sustainable Futures ↗ by Daniel Canedo, a workshop on using Wikidata to record linked open data from extreme weather events.

* (Svenska) Merge Wikidata samma som ↗ by Magnus Sälgö. What to do when you find duplicate Wikidata Items pointing at the same location on OpenStreetMap.

* (Español) EntreWikis - Hacerwiki: Progress of Free Knowledge Projects in Colombia ↗ - Colombian Art in Open Data: training and infrastructure on Wikidata

* (Français) Wikidata for research and teaching ↗ by Pascal Martinolli. Introduces Wikidata basics, SPARQL, practical examples of data visualisation, enriching research data and exploring the opportunities and limitations of linked open personal data.

* (Français) Literature review: FAIR data sharing | FAIR Data Spring 2026 ↗ - Presentation slides ↗, given by Adélie Ranville on their experiences organizing and sharing data using Zenodo, DOI, Zotero, Wikidata, and OpenRefine.

* (Deutsch) Building a shared knowledge infrastructure: a federated wikibase for video and podcasts ↗ hosted by Tim @BorgNetzWerk.

''' Tool of the week '''

AutoSuggestSitelink ↗: New features available. See the update post on Project Chat ↗

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

The WMF Wikidata pltaform team monthly newsletter (June edition) ↗ is out

Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's occupation articles ↗

Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's articles about fields of knowledge ↗

''' Newest properties ↗ and property proposals ↗ to review '''

Newest General datatypes::

*trailer of ↗ (<nowiki>works that this trailer video represents</nowiki>)

*‎EPBC conservation status ↗ (<nowiki>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</nowiki>)

Newest External identifiers: ‎Joysound artist ID ↗, ‎Joysound song ID ↗, DUGA performer ID ↗, Sri Lanka Company Registration Number ↗, Wikimedia Phabricator project PHID ↗, ‎Indonesian government work unit ID (satker ID) ↗, ‎DAM artist ID ↗, ‎British Library catalogue ID ↗, ‎OCHA Place Code ↗, Philippines ‎School ID ↗, ‎Swedish-Danish Dictionary ID ↗, Filmmakers actor ID ↗, Chilean Museums Registry ID ↗, Sri Lanka NGO Secretariat Registration Number ↗, Beeld & Geluid series ID ↗, ‎INAPROC instance ID (Indonesia) ↗, DUGA director ID ↗, AV CHANNEL maker ID ↗, AV CHANNEL director ID ↗, AllMyLinks ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

*applicable Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons ↗ (<nowiki>the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property</nowiki>)

*IAU member ID (new) ↗ (<nowiki>ID of members in the International Astronomical Union (IAU) ↗.</nowiki>)

*height above ground level ↗ (<nowiki>a property intended to indicate the height of any objects from the ground</nowiki>)

*Storm intensity classification ↗ (<nowiki>category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585)</nowiki>)

*service status ↗ (<nowiki>the operational status of something like ship or building</nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: PTS News Network topic ID ↗, OTOTOY ID ↗, identifiant EU sanctions tracker ↗, OpenParlData ID ↗, Catholica.cz ID ↗, KSW person ID ↗, KSW organization ID ↗, KSW place ID ↗, Myludo ID ↗, Identifiant dans La Basa ↗, PurplePort ID ↗, Sokmil idol ID ↗, Hancinema company ID ↗, LinkMe ID ↗, Netmath Glossary ID ↗, Sokmil director ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples:

* Table of civic tech organizations with details ↗ (source ↗)

* Timeline of legalisation of same-sex marriage ↗ (source ↗)

Schema examples: Nazareth Padilla Montero <small>''(Q139959656)''</small> ↗ has been added as a showcase example of human (E10) ↗

Newest WikiProjects ↗:

* Project Civic Tech ↗ - for anyone developing datasets about civic resources in cities, and discuss best practices for Wikidata collaboration in civic tech.

* Project AI Cleanup ↗ - for reporting, monitoring and combatting edits and contributions from LLM and AI sources.

* Project: Whos who in marine taxonomy? ↗ - inititated by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS ↗), this project will document and enrich entities of the persons who have described marine species.

WikiProject Highlights:

* Project LGBT ↗ added an Abstract Wikipedia subpage.

* Project Roads ↗ added a subpage for Greece National roads with highly-visual tables.

* Wiki x K-Pop datathon 2.0 ↗ - there is still some work to do to reach the goal on modelling the album: BABYMONSTER.

Newest database reports ↗: Deleted Wikidata entities that are connected to Commons files structured data (SDC) ↗

Showcase Lexemes ↗: kafuni ↗ - Dagbanli noun that translate to "fan" in English

''' Development '''

The team was involved in workshops last week so there are no updates.

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 ↗.

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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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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'''

Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content. https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/enhanced-free-api ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

The refreshed Explore Feed ↗, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: ''Community'' and ''For You''. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the ''For You'' tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.

The Which came first? ↗ daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements ↗.

Sub-referencing ↗, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis ↗ and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages ↗ in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips ↗, which may require updates ↗ to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews ↗ do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the ''cite-tracking-category-ref-details'' tracking category ↗ as a hidden category using <code><nowiki>__HIDDENCAT__</nowiki></code> (or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848 ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425662 ↗

The Page Previews experiment ↗ on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.

The user interface icon library ↗ will be updated later this week or next week ↗. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.

The Universal Language Selector ↗ (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features ↗ in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427171 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The function signature for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink()</nowiki></code></bdi> has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page');</nowiki></code></bdi> use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });</nowiki></code></bdi>. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses of <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>addPortletLink()</nowiki></code></bdi> and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427945 ↗

'''Community Wishlist discussion''': Product & Technology introduced changes ↗ meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions ↗ about a proposed direction for the wishlist ↗ from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates ↗.

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Wikidata weekly summary #736

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''' Discussions '''

Request for comments: The discussion about reforming Wikidata's notability policy is ongoing. There is now a new proposal waiting for your feedback ↗.

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

* WikiLoves Pride 2026 ↗ - six fortnightly editing sessions to add, expand and translate LGBTQ+ content on the Wikimedia projects.

* WikiProjects Days 2026 ↗ is taking place this coming weekend, 19-21 June. Check out the daily program...<small>(click UTC for your local timezone)</small>

** Day 1 ↗ / Friday, 19.06, 17:00 UTC ↗ - 20:00 UTC ↗

** Day 2 ↗ / Saturday, 20.06, 10:00 UTC ↗ - 18:00 UTC ↗

** Day 3 ↗ / Sunday, 21.06, 14:00 UTC ↗ - 18:00 UTC ↗

* Click here -> Register ↗ <- for access links to the event.

''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''

Blogs:

*Preserving Pride, Across Languages ↗ : From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: A New Way to Think About Knowledge

* Visibility of Communities in Nigeria on Wikidata 2.0: Expanding Digital Representation for Nigerian Communities ↗

* The Year’s First Quarter with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group ↗ - Expanding partnerships and contributions to Wikidata, Wikipedia and other sister projects.

* Introducing the Wiki Afrodemics Mentorship Project Cohort 1 ↗ - A pan-african and guided multilingual training on Wikipedia editing, Wikidata contribution, and resource mobilisation.

* Amplifying Women’s Stories and Indigenous Knowledge: Feminism and Folklore 2026 in the Igbo Community ↗ - Improving the representation of women and cultural heritage in Igbo language on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiquote.

* A Reflection on What I Learned at My First International Women’s Day Celebration ↗ - Celebrating and documenting women activists and politicians on Wikipedia and Wikidata.

* Three Tools that bring digital botany within reach ↗ (spoiler: One of them is Wikidata) - article available in DE, ES, FR, JA, PT and ZH-CN.

Papers: Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata ↗ by Grallert et al., (2026). As digital humanities tools proliferate, this paper argues that Wikidata can help connect the research landscape by documenting, citing and connecting tool registries.

Videos:

* OSM / Lifting Stones in Wikidata ↗ - a video tutorial on mapping lifting stones on OpenStreetMap, using two examples from County Kilkenny, Ireland.

* Mapping Every Wonder on Earth ↗ - animated visualisation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites recorded in Wikidata.

* 2025: Tales of Discovery ↗ - Museums and Heritage channel mentions how Wikidata is being used as a bridge between several sites and projects for 3D modelling ships, wrecks and other artifacts from maritime history.

* Mentor Me! Session 6 ↗ with Jinoy Tom Jacob, who will show us how to use OpenRefine to batch edit Wikidata and the Commons.

''' Tool of the week '''

BisikBekasi ↗ : Community-curated knowledge base where local data items are integrated ↗ with Wikidata items.

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

The Newcomer Dashboard ↗ will be deployed to Wikidata pending on-wiki configuration by Admins. The dashboard aims to provide guidance, helpful links, and mentorship opportunities for new editors.

Guido Gezelle on Wikidata: networking in map ↗ - this project created 5 visualisations produced from Wikidata on the poet Guido Gezelle.

''' Newest properties ↗ and property proposals ↗ to review '''

Newest General datatypes:

*print matrix state ↗ (<nowiki>in printmaking, a stage of development of the relief matrix after a permanent modification</nowiki>)

*body modification ↗ (<nowiki>deliberate altering of the human anatomy for non-medical reasons that this person or fictional character has undergone</nowiki>)

Newest External identifiers: Roller-results.com skater ID ↗, Wikiparfum fragrance ID ↗, EU sanctions tracker subject ID ↗, Maoyan celebrity ID ↗, CINEMATODAY film ID ↗, DMM director ID ↗, Model Mayhem ID ↗, ‎DAM song ID ↗, OpenParlData ID ↗, ‎IAU member ID ↗, PurplePort ID ↗, LinkMe ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

*Vistonline ↗ (<nowiki>Agenzia italiana di visti consolari e legalizzazione documenti, con sede a Roma</nowiki>)

*Natural science/Taxon footprint ↗ (<nowiki>Taxon footprint</nowiki>)

*Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number ↗ (<nowiki>Unique identification number assigned to a school by the Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka, used in the annual school census and official examinations (G.C.E. O/L, A/L)</nowiki>)

*sport title ↗ (<nowiki>link to sport title (like master of sports or yokodzuna), besides chess and martial arts titles</nowiki>)

*dual notion in category theory ↗ (<nowiki>dual notion in category theory</nowiki>)

*penalty shootout kicked by ↗ (<nowiki>Indicates the person who took an individual penalty kick during a penalty shoot-out.</nowiki>)

*Finnish educational institution ID ↗ (<nowiki>Five-digit identification number for Finnish educational institutes assigned by Statistics Finland.</nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant d'une personne sur ZicTrad ↗, Skeivopedia ID ↗, Artistas Visuales Chilenos ID ↗, Mathlib declaration ID ↗, FES digital collections person ID ↗, BBC Bitesize topic ID ↗, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) ↗, Sceneweb artwork ID ↗, Sceneweb production ID ↗, regjeringen.no government ID ↗, regjeringen.no ministry ID ↗, regjeringen.no politician ID ↗, Maoyan film ID ↗, Identifiant livres-cinema.info d'un auteur ↗, National Operator Code (UK) ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

WikiProject Highlights:

* Wiki x K-pop 2026: Datathon 3.0 ↗ a.k.a the ICONIC BY MISTAKE EDITING party.

* Ontology Course 2 / GLAM Authority Entity Ontology in Wikidata ↗

Newest database reports ↗: Thanks Log ↗ - who's thanking who and on what.

Showcase Items ↗: 2026 FIFA World Cup (Q5020214) ↗ - in the United States, Mexico and Canada in 2026

Showcase Lexemes ↗: alikaali (L720932) ↗ - Dagbanli noun (derived from ha <--ar) which can mean soothsayer, judge or Muslim scholar

''' Development '''

Ontology federation: The development team is looking for people to give feedback on the new feature that allows editors on other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as statement values. (more details ↗)

GraphQL:

* We extended the searchItems field so that developers can now get all Item data immediately from the search results (phab:T416885 ↗)

* We are working on the ability to get only best ranked statements (phab:T428138 ↗)

MCP: The Wikidata MCP has been extended. You can now also use an MCP for other Wikibase instances. (more details ↗)

Wikibase Cloud: We are looking into making it possible to log into Wikibase Cloud instances with your Wikidata account to make it easier for Wikimedians to contribute on Cloud instances.

Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:

* We are planning the migration of the entity usage table to a new database cluster to handle increased usage of Wikidata's data across the Wikimedia projects.

* We are continuing our work to decrease the number of irrelevant changes coming from Wikidata that show up in Wikipedia's recent changes and watchlist. Specifically we are evaluating a prototype that looks at the rendered article before and after the change and determines if anything actually changed in the article before adding an entry to recent changes and watchlist.

Mobile editing of statements:

* We are improving support for RTL languages.(phab:T360854 ↗, phab:T427655 ↗, phab:T427658 ↗, phab:T427661 ↗, phab:T428246 ↗)

* We started fixing multiple UI layout and spacing issues, including mandatory fields, value fields, snak types, references, and add-statement button usability (phab:T428766 ↗, phab:T428761 ↗, phab:T428759 ↗, phab:T428450 ↗)

* We are improving the server-side rendering (phab:T409827 ↗)

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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Tech News: 2026-25

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'''Weekly highlight'''

The Reader Growth team ↗ has launched an Image Browsing ↗ beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use <code>class=notpageimage</code> excluding it from thumbnail previews, or <code>class=noviewer</code> excluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word <code><nowiki>__NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__</nowiki></code>. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page ↗.

Wikitables ↗ can now be sorted in descending order ↗ on the first click by adding <code dir=ltr>data-sort-order="desc"</code> to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398416 ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

The Article guidance ↗ feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature ↗ gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page ↗. Example outlines ↗ that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section ↗ of the project page.

Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account ↗ with the block duration they want. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427125 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:41}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:41|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement ↗ of the long standing user-agent policy ↗. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.

The roll out of global API rate limits ↗ is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.

The API Portal wiki ↗ will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org ↗. Learn more on the project page ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey ↗ that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server ↗.

The Latin American Wikimedia Conference ↗ will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship ↗ to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).

Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page ↗ and register there ↗. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.

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Wikidata weekly summary #736

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''' Discussions '''

Open request for adminship: Ziv ↗ - RfP scheduled to end after 24 June 2026 19:26 (UTC)

New requests for permissions/Bot: Nabbot 1 ↗ - Task: Adding Turkish descriptions for scientific articles

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

* The Wikimania 2026 program ↗ has been revealed, go bookmark your favourite sessions.

* Physical Training; Improving Health Articles in Africa ↗ - 21 June, 10:00, University of Ibadan.

* The WikiIndaba Call for Proposals ends June 30th ↗ - don't forget to submit your Wikidata-sessions.

* Sessions of the WikiProjects Days 2026 event will shortly be available on Commons: Presentations ↗ / Videos ↗

''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''

Blogs:

* WikiTiddler; Tiddlywiki as a live Wikidata frontend ↗ - if you run a TiddlyWiki instance, you can now run queries to the Wikidata Query Service and convert the results to Tiddlers.

* TIB: What do we mean when we talk about AI and open knowledge? ↗ - Lozana Rossenova details their experiences at the AI+Bridges Symposium.

Papers:

* How to use Wikibase for Mixed-Methods Research ↗, a book published by F. Bailo, E. Booth, and J. Williams

* Wikimedia as a Platform for Evidence Synthesis: Quantifying Bias and Literature Coverage in Crowd-Sourced Knowledge Graphs ↗ by D. Mietchen, and J. Dearborn, (2026).

* From Wikidata to Smart Tourism: A Reproducible Pipeline Based on AI and Fuzzy Logic for Interpretable Multi-Category Classification of Points of Interest ↗ - This paper develops a reproducible pipeline that converts Wikidata POIs into an interpretable tourism taxonomy, enabling multi-category classification and personalized smart tourism applications. By Kontogianni et al., (2026)

Videos:

* Name Suggestion Index Explained: How OpenStreetMap Standardizes Brands ↗

* EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-06-04) ↗

* Using the Duplicity and WD Fist Tools to edit Wikidata ↗

* Unlocking Data through Semantic Linking ↗, presented at ENDORSE 2025 by Thora Hagen. Experiences using 19th-century German encyclopedias, demonstrating how semantic enrichment via Wikidata can reveal fascinating patterns.

* (Deutsch) From your pocket to the knowledge graph: SquirrelBase ↗ is a Wikibase instance that functions as a semantic metadata and reference platform. Make 3D smartphone captures of cultural assets, artworks, and ephemeral structures FAIR.

''' Tool of the week '''

MotusArtium ↗ : Wikidata GraphQL showcase application for exploring and understanding art movements (alpha version). GraphQL queries used ↗

As seen during WikiProjects Days 2026 - Classification.js ↗, visualise parent classes and identify incorrections, detect superclass tree loops. To use, click ''Activate'' and copy the two lines into your Common.js page.

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

Reminder: Try Ontology Federation to import Items from Wikidata to your Wikibase instance. Share your feedback in the linked survey. (full announcement ↗)

A session at WikiProjects Days 2026 was devoted to general-purpose tools for WikiProjects. A new page under the main Wikidata tools page was created with a list and description of these tools. Take a look at Wikidata:Tools/WikiProjects ↗ and add any missing tools.

''' Newest properties ↗ and property proposals ↗ to review '''

Newest General datatypes:

*meteorological intensity classification ↗ (<nowiki>category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585)</nowiki>)

*perfumer ↗ (<nowiki>person who created a perfume</nowiki>)

*‎dual notion (category theory) ↗ (<nowiki>dual of the concept in category theory</nowiki>)

External identifiers: catholica.cz ID ↗, ‎Skeivopedia ID ↗, Mathlib Declaration ID ↗, Annuséries series ID ↗, FES digital collections person ID ↗, ‎BBC Bitesize topic ID ↗, Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number ↗, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) ↗, OTOTOY artist ID ↗, livres-cinema.info author ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

*Visual style ↗ (<nowiki>the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work)</nowiki>)

*Gmedia rating (video games) ↗ (<nowiki>Video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system ({{Q|Q28717438}})</nowiki>)

External identifiers: altinget.se person ID ↗, Il cinema ritrovato film ID ↗, Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID ↗, some properties for category theory ↗, Farzonagon ID ↗, TV Guide film ID ↗, Letterboxd Writer ID ↗, d Hits artist ID ↗, 1SCREEN Person ID ↗, 1SCREEN movie ID ↗, Fantia ID ↗, 17LIVE ID ↗, CFLapedia player ID ↗, Model-Kartei.de ID ↗, U-NEXT Parson ID ↗, U-NEXT Video ID ↗, H-NEXT Parson ID ↗, ABEMA Video ID ↗, FOD Parson ID ↗, LRT topic ID ↗, FOD Video ID ↗, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID ↗, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID ↗, belarusenc.by ID ↗, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID ↗, socrealizm.com.ua person ID ↗, Pacelli edition person ID ↗, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number ↗, Writing Systems Technical Resources script code ↗, Répertoire des films classés film ID ↗, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID ↗, Sri Lankan Parliament member ID ↗, Kanal Architecture entry ID ↗, Web The Television Parson ID ↗, Web The Television Work ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Showcase Items ↗: ship (Q11446) ↗ - large buoyant watercraft

''' Development '''

We enabled links to WikiProjects in the sidebar and added links to WikiProjects Music, Medicine, Datasets, sum of all paintings, and elections (T422935 ↗, T422935 ↗)

We added a floating “add statement” button that makes it easier to add statements without looking through the existing statements (T417641 ↗, T428450 ↗).

We’re working on making sure that users can tell when statements exist before they add new ones (T424009 ↗).

We made some layout fixes to wbui2025 / MEX (T428766 ↗, T428761 ↗, T428759 ↗, T427658 ↗, T428853 ↗).

We refactored error handling (T423613 ↗).

We’re refactoring the server-side rendering so we don’t need separate .less style files (T409827 ↗).

We’re working on the interaction between scrollable values and indicator icons (T425974 ↗).

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 ↗.

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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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'''Weekly highlight'''

Growth features ↗ are now available at Wikidata ↗. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured ↗), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.

'''Updates for editors'''

The special page {{#special:RangeCalculator}} ↗ has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268429 ↗

Sub-referencing ↗ is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ ↗ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan ↗ for the next deployment steps. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428902 ↗

Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100974 ↗

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'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the <code>skipcaptcha</code> right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. The <code>skipcaptcha</code> right will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402595 ↗

Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API ↗ has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox ↗.

The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org ↗. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427537 ↗

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'''Meetings and events'''

Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code ↗ and Outreachy ↗. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community ↗.

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Tech News: 2026-27

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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'''

As part of the Account Creation Experiments ↗, the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428220 ↗

After a successful experiment ↗, logged-in users who did not confirm their email address ↗ when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the Account Security ↗ project. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428292 ↗

An update to Search ↗ is refining how the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>-prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> behaves when used to exclude results. Previously, using <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>-prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> with negation could unintentionally broaden search results by adding the namespaces included in the search scope, leading to confusing behavior for users expecting a straightforward exclusion filter. With the update, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>-prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> will now strictly exclude matching page titles as intended and may display a warning if the relevant namespace has not been explicitly selected. The behavior of <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> without negation however remains unchanged. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427443 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:33}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:33|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where reviewers using the Page Curation toolbar were not automatically subscribed to talk page discussions they started has now been fixed. Reviewers will now receive notifications when someone replies to those discussions. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329346 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the user-agent policy ↗. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. This is a follow up to the announcement made in the 2026/25 issue of Tech News ↗.

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Wikidata weekly summary #738

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''' Discussions '''

New requests for permissions/Bot:

* TopDevsBot ↗ - Task/s: Create new items for software-development, design, and consulting companies from source data: topdevs.ai

* SonalBot ↗ - Task/s: Reference Gardener (archive dead reference links) + Welcome Bot (welcome new users)

New request for comments: WM Commons: Policy update for AI content ↗ - this RfC will seek opinions on the use and allowance of AI-generated and modified content. This can have downstream impacts on Wikidata.

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

* 2026 Chiayi Streetview Workshop ↗ July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Tâi-uân tôo-su-sik, Chiayi, Taiwan.

* OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #90 July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245) ↗.

''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''

Blogs:

* Lobid Blog: NWBibBot – Making a regional bibliography visible in Wikipedia with help from Wikidata ↗

* Tech News (WMDE) Knowledge wants to be found ↗ - We interview Tim Wittenborg about the WissKomm Wiki ↗, from the Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology in TIB Hannover.

* Bridging Open Knowledge And Digital Rights: Reflections From DRIF 2026 And The Wikimedia Community ↗

Papers: MathModDB: A Database for Mathematical Models ↗ - The Mathematical Models Database (MathModDB), deployed on the MaRDI Portal within Germany’s National Research Data Infrastructure, provides researchers with a curated knowledge graph that organizes scattered mathematical models, formulas, and assumptions, connects to related tools like MathAlgoDB and MaRDMO, and demonstrates practical use through cases such as plasma physics modeling. By Fiedler et al., (2026)

Videos:

* WikiProjects Days 2026 - recordings now on Commons ↗, if you missed the event or want to recap what was discussed, individual session recordings are now available from the Event program.

* Jason Evans: Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey ↗

''' Tool of the week '''

Altilunium Panoply ↗ : A lightweight Wikibase alternative for creating collaborative knowledge bases, written as a single PHP file ↗ with no dependencies.

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027 ↗: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July. A Q&A clinic will be held on 1 July at 15:00 UTC (join here ↗).

Growth features ↗ are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship, Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).

''' Newest properties ↗ and property proposals ↗ to review '''

Newest External identifiers: ‎Taiwan Central News Agency news topic ID ↗, ‎Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID ↗, ‎Sceneweb artwork ID ↗, ‎Sceneweb production ID ↗, Fantia ID ↗, Finnish educational institution ID ↗, ‎altinget.se person ID ↗, Il cinema ritrovato film ID ↗, TV Guide film ID ↗, FOD person ID ↗, LRT topic ID ↗, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID ↗, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID ↗, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

*subdiscipline of ↗ (<nowiki>less specific academic discipline</nowiki>)

*has garden ↗ (<nowiki>Object is a {{Q|1107656}} related to this {{Q|16222597}}</nowiki>)

*ranking by ↗ (<nowiki>issuer of a ranking</nowiki>)

*linguistic group ↗ (<nowiki>group of people who share the same language, regardless of their ancestry or ethnicity</nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: Pure Adult actress ID ↗, Taiwan Central News Agency News tag id ↗, Pure Adult studio ID ↗, Natural science/GBIF taxon ID ↗, Digitaler Portraitindex person ID ↗, torial ID ↗, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID ↗, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID ↗, Samtrafiken-vehicle-id ↗, Sundsvall Municipality opendata ID ↗, Nakamura Kikaku ID ↗, KBS News topic ID ↗, GIGA actress ID ↗, Zen Pictures actress ID ↗, Identifiant d'une personne sur Autoroc ↗, La Grange ID ↗, Rakuten Books author ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples: Roles and contributions of ? in Fictional Universes and Media franchises ↗ (source ↗)

Schema examples: it's World Cup time so here's 2 soccer/football-related EntitySchemas.

* E404:Swedish Soccer Player ↗ and E183:Chilean Women's Football Players ↗

Newest WikiProjects ↗:

* WikiProject Logic ↗

* WikiProject Roots and Rhythms ↗

WikiProject Highlights: GovDirectory has opened a Madagascar ↗ page.

Showcase Items ↗: Lionel Messi ↗ - 6 World Cups, scoring in the last 7 consecutive matches.

''' Development '''

Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:

* We are continuing to evaluate the prototype for reducing the number of unnecessary edits from Wikidata that show up in watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co. The approach is to look at the diff of the rendered article before and after the change from Wikidata is made. If there is no difference then the change is probably not relevant for that article. We are collecting a sample to further understand how it performs.

* To continue to address Wikidata's scaling issues, we are planning the migration of entity usage tables to the X1 cluster.

Mobile editing of statements:

* We implemented more feedback from testing of the new mobile front-end. Specifically we worked on making it clearer when a statements already exist that the editor is trying to add to the Item.

* Additionally, we made minor improvements to the look and feel of the mobile front-end.

REST API:

* REST search routes now take apihighlimits right into account (phab:T428032 ↗)

* We are starting to work on Lexeme support (phab:T429572 ↗, phab:T429332 ↗)

GraphQL:

* We added support for requesting “best statements” for a given Property (phab:T428138 ↗)

* We are working on adding support for negation in Property value pair filters (phab:T429580 ↗)

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Govdirectory weekly focus country: Poland ↗

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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The special page Special:RangeCalculator ↗ has been created for any users to use to find an IP range. (phab:T268429 ↗)

The "indefinitely" button in Special:Block ↗ for temporary accounts can be replaced with a preferred block duration stated on MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account ↗. (phab:T427125 ↗)

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Following a series of motions ↗, changes to the contentious topics procedure ↗ to restructure awareness ↗ have been implemented.

The arbitration case ''Michael Jackson ↗'' has been closed.

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Tech News: 2026-28

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'''Updates for editors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:34}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:34|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T429769 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

In preparation for Celebrate Women campaign ↗ planned for March 2027, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Content Enablement team ↗ has launched a 22-question survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ (anyone who identifies as a woman) across Wikimedia projects. The survey takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 20 July 2026. The questions ↗ are also available on-wiki for review in advance.

The Score extension ↗ now supports rendering music scores as SVG images in addition to PNG, addressing a long-standing feature request ↗ and resolving historical image quality issues. Both formats are now provided to clients, with PNG in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>src</nowiki></code></bdi> attribute and SVG in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>srcset</nowiki></code></bdi> attribute.

The new Parsoid ↗ parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis ↗, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. It was enabled on French Wikipedia, bringing total progress to covering 78.9% of Wikipedia page views. Rollout to English Wikipedia desktop will progress through this week.

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'''In depth'''

The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap blog post ↗ is now live. It highlights the projects, sessions, and social activities from this year’s event, and shares initial plans for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 13:54, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #739

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''' Discussions '''

Closed request for adminship:

*1Veertje ↗ - '''Closed as Successful'''

*Ziv ↗ - '''Closed as Successful'''

New requests for permissions/Bot:

*gov-wikidata-match 1 ↗ - '''Task/s:''' Link existing GOV (historical gazetteer) building-like objects to existing Wikidata building-like objects.

*AgenticCommonsBot 1 ↗ - '''Task/s:''' Add Open Library ID <small>(P648)</small> ↗ (OpenLibrary author ID) to Wikidata items about people, only where the OpenLibrary author and the Wikidata person have been confirmed to be the same individual, with a source on every statement.

Closed request for permissions/Bot:

*JigildikBot ↗ - '''Approved'''

*SonalBot ↗ - '''Approved'''

*ias-kbase ↗ - '''Approved'''

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

* The Wikidata Platform (WDP) monthly office hour ↗ takes place '''tomorrow''', {{zonestamp|2026-07-07 16:00|7th July at 16:00 UTC}}. These office hours are focus on the Blazegraph migration work, and the team is inviting all community members to join the discussion. ''Register via the event page ↗''

* The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST (in your timezone ↗), 08th July 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.

* Sandbox sessions: Wikidata Reference Validator Tool - improving Wikidata references ↗ - Aug 15, 17:00 - 18:00 UTC.

* Wiki Education + AASLH: Documenting America with Wikidata ↗, a collaboration between Wiki Education and the American Association for State and Local History is offering six hour-long meetings held weekly to introduce attendees to Wikidata and improve content for Wikidata and Wikipedia on American history. Registration ends: July 17, 23:59 Pacific Time (PT)

''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''

Blogs: (fr) Le point sur la diversité de genre dans les articles ↗ in *Regards sur l'actualité du mouvement Wikimedia*

Papers:

* Spatiotemporal-Heuristic A* Search for Pruning - Historical Influence and Succession Paths in Wikidata - Paper ↗, by Michael James Liman (2026).

* Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models - Paper ↗ by Chepurova et al., (2026).

Videos: (Español) Introduction to Wikidata ↗ - Dr. Claudia De Souza and Prof. Dinah Wilson Fraites introduce Wikidata with Spanish-slides.

''' Tool of the week '''

Zelph ↗: Offers powerful analysis capabilities for the complete Wikidata knowledge graph while remaining adaptable for any semantic domain.

World Cup Heights ↗: An interactive data‑viz app that shows the heights of FIFA World Cup players, arranged so you can quickly compare teams, positions, and overall height distributions.

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027 ↗: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July.

The Wikidata Platform team has published the 8th issue of its monthly newsletter ↗. This edition includes updates on the migration of WDQS backend away from Blazegraph, including a transition into the next phase '''Initial Implementation (pilot) phase''' following completion of the '''installation phase'''. This update also include some Documentation on Query Rewrites the team will like the Wikidata community and all WDQS users to help review and leave feedbacks. ''see WDP monthly newsletter ↗ for more details''

''' Newest properties ↗ and property proposals ↗ to review '''

Newest General datatypes:

*prisoner number ↗ (<nowiki>number or identifier assigned to a prisoner, to be used as a qualifier for P2632 (place of detention)</nowiki>)

*photographer ↗ (<nowiki>person who took this photograph</nowiki>)

*‎Gmedia rating (video games) ↗ (<nowiki>video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system</nowiki>)

*visual style ↗ (<nowiki>the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work)</nowiki>)

*garden ↗ (<nowiki>garden of this subject</nowiki>)

*objects (category theory) ↗ (<nowiki>the precise objects of the category (category theory)</nowiki>)

*morphisms ↗ (<nowiki>the precise morphisms of the category (category theory)</nowiki>)

*terminal object ↗ (<nowiki>the precise terminal object of the category (category theory)</nowiki>)

*initial object ↗ (<nowiki>the precise initial object of the category (category theory)</nowiki>)

*products (category theory) ↗ (<nowiki>the precise products of the category (category theory)</nowiki>)

*coproducts (category theory) ↗ (<nowiki>the precise coproducts of the category (category theory)</nowiki>)

*isomorphisms ↗ (<nowiki>the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory)</nowiki>)

*monomorphisms ↗ (<nowiki>the precise monomorphisms of the category (category theory)</nowiki>)

*epimorphisms ↗ (<nowiki>the precise epimorphisms of the category (category theory)</nowiki>)

*regular monomorphisms ↗ (<nowiki>the precise regular monomorphisms of the category (category theory)</nowiki>)

*regular epimorphisms ↗ (<nowiki>the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory)</nowiki>)

*left adjoint ↗ (<nowiki>the left adjoint of the functor</nowiki>)

*enriched over ↗ (<nowiki>the base monoidal category, bicategory, etc. of the enriched category</nowiki>)

*monoidal category operation ↗ (<nowiki>the “tensor product” bifunctor of the monoidal category</nowiki>)

*2-morphisms ↗ (<nowiki>the precise 2-morphisms of the 2-category</nowiki>)

*taxon footprint ↗ (<nowiki>image of a footprint of this taxon</nowiki>)

Newest External identifiers: Sri Lankan Parliament member ID ↗, ‎Taiwan Central News Agency news tag ID ↗, Model-Kartei.de ID ↗, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID ↗, Web The Television work ID ↗, Web The Television person ID ↗, U-NEXT person ID ↗, U-NEXT video ID ↗, Sokmil director ID ↗, Sokmil idol ID ↗, socrealizm.com.ua person ID ↗, Répertoire des films classés film ID ↗, ‎regjeringen.no ministry ID ↗, ‎regjeringen.no politician ID ↗, Objectif plumes work ID ↗, National Operator Code (UK) ↗, ‎Extended Defence of Britain Database ID ↗, Pacelli edition person ID ↗, Myludo game ID ↗, MyDirtyHobby ID ↗, Maoyan film ID ↗, ‎Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number ↗, Letterboxd writer ID ↗, KSW organization ID ↗, KSW person ID ↗, KSW place ID ↗, 1SCREEN movie ID ↗, 1SCREEN Person ID ↗, ‎Artistas Visuales Chilenos propertyvalue ID ↗, ‎Canadian Trademark Registration Number ↗, occitanica.eu ID ↗, Hancinema company ID ↗, ZicTrad person ID ↗, H-NEXT Person ID ↗, FOD video ID ↗, Farzonagon ID ↗, d Hits artist ID ↗, ABEMA video ID ↗, 17LIVE ID ↗, ‎regjeringen.no government ID ↗, Pure Adult actress ID ↗, Pure Adult studio ID ↗, ‎GBIF taxon ID ↗, Digital portrait index person (GND) ID ↗, torial username ↗, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID ↗, CatDat category ID ↗, CatDat functor ID ↗, CatDat category property ID ↗, CatDat functor property ID ↗, ‎Samtrafiken-vehicle ID ↗, GIGA actress ID ↗, Zen Pictures actress ID ↗, Olyrix artist ID ↗, AutorÒc 16-18 author ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review::

*dielectric strenght ↗ (<nowiki>maximum electric field a material can withstand before electrical breakdown occurs</nowiki>)

*about page URL ↗ (<nowiki>URL to the official about page</nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: Rakuten Books author ID ↗, Rakuten TV adult Person ID ↗, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki ↗, Le GRoG ID ↗, NHK On Demand Program ID ↗, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID ↗, GCD character ID ↗, Identificador de agente econômico na ANCINE ↗, 1SCREEN Program ID ↗, Architectenregister-id ↗, LUDAP ID ↗, TakaWiki ID ↗, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID ↗, BiDünyaFilm film ID ↗, CNUC code ↗, Steady username ↗, NHK ONE Program ID ↗, SongLyrics.com song ID ↗, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID ↗, ClayArena shooter profile ID ↗, Open Collective ID ↗, Anobii author ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Development '''

The development team are at an offsite retreat this week.

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: France ↗

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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