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Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

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Greetings!

The AfroCine Project ↗ invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content ↗ about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section ↗ to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

'''''Overall winner'''''

*1st - $500

*2nd - $200

*3rd - $100

'''''Diversity winner''''' - $100

'''''Gender-gap fillers''''' - $100

'''''Language Winners''''' - up to $100*

We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here ↗. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)}}

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

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Greetings!

The AfroCine Project ↗ core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema ↗ Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section ↗ of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

'''''Overall winner'''''

*1st - $500

*2nd - $200

*3rd - $100

'''''Diversity winner''''' - $100

'''''Gender-gap fillers''''' - $100

'''''Language Winners''''' - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here ↗. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)}}

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Invitation to Local Wikimania Event in San Francisco this Friday

Hi!

Wikimania is happening and hopefully you're enjoying the sessions. While it's fairly last minute, you're warmly invited to participate in the local Wikimania-themed meetup in the Wikimedia Foundation office this Friday (tomorrow!). You will have to register in advance, but we would love to see more people from the WikiSalon community participate! For more information and registration, please check out meta:Wikimania 2022/San Francisco Meetup ↗.

The event will involve hacking, teaching, learning, and celebrating and we'll have snacks. We will have the opportunity to watch live sessions at Wikimania together in the afternoon. The rest of the day we'll have opportunity to participate in the hackathon, and we may have some on-demand workshops/learning sessions.

In case we run out of space, it's first-come-first-serve so let us know soon! Hope to see you there.

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On behalf of the Bay Area Wiki Salon team and Bittakea ↗,
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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

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Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter ↗ finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of ''The Signpost'' ↗. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

'''Awards''': Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to {{Noping|MPGuy2824}}), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to {{no ping|John B123}} for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page ↗. Check out the new Hall of Fame ↗ also.

'''Software news''': {{Noping|Novem Linguae}} and {{Noping|MPGuy2824}} have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here ↗. The reviewer report ↗ has also been improved.
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There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".

Reminder: ''an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more.'' (from the NPP tutorial ↗)

Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.

This user script puts a link to the feed in your top toolbar.

'''Backlog''':80px|left ↗ Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive ↗ to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!
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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

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The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to {{noping|WaddlesJP13}} who led with 2084 points. See this page ↗ for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.
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{{no ping|Onel5969}} won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. {{no ping|Rosguill}} led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page ↗ and the Hall of Fame ↗. Congratulations everyone!

'''Minimum deletion time''': The previous WP:NPP ↗ guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR ↗). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed ↗ are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

'''New draftify script''': In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page ↗. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js ↗ or vector.js file from <code>User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js</code> to <code>User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js</code>

'''Redirects''': Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide ↗, this checklist ↗, and spend some time at WP:RFD ↗.

'''Discussions with the WMF''' The PageTriage open letter ↗ signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches ↗ in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as {{noping|Novem Linguae}} and {{noping|MPGuy2824}} have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference ↗ with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

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'''Redirect drive''': In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with '''23851''' reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to '''0''' (momentarily). Congratulations to {{Noping|Hey man im josh}} who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by {{noping|Meena}} and {{noping|Greyzxq}} with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page ↗ for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

'''Redirect autopatrol''': All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here ↗.

'''WMF work on PageTriage''': The WMF Moderator Tools team ↗, consisting of {{noping|Samwalton9 (WMF)|label1=Sam|JSherman (WMF)|label2=Jason|SCardenas (WMF)|label3=Susana}}, and also some patches from {{noping|Jon (WMF)|label1=Jon}}, has been hard at work updating PageTriage ↗. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test ↗ where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed ↗, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR ↗ when we are ready for beta testers.

'''Articles for Creation (AFC)''': All new page reviewers are now '''automatically approved''' for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP ↗ like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script ↗, visit Special:Preferences ↗, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed ↗, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR ↗. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional ↗, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

'''Pro tip''': Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG ↗? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST ↗ 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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Wikidata weekly summary #608

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''' Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary! '''

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

''' Discussions '''

* Open request for adminship: EPIC ↗ (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)

* New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot ↗. Tasks:

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

''' Events ↗ '''

* Upcoming: Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! ↗ "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.

* Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122: Rock-forming minerals ↗

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

* Blogs

** African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course ↗ --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.

* Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs ↗ by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.

* Videos

** Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) ↗ --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.

** Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph ↗ --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.

** Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata ↗ --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.

** No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler ↗ --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.

** Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing ↗ (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis ↗

* Notebooks

** Map of K-Pop Idols ↗ --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.

** Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today ↗ --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.

** The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards ↗ --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.

** Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree ↗ --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.

** State of statues in the US ↗ --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.

** An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame ↗ --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.

''' Tool of the week '''

* Cersei ↗ - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).

* Wikidata:Zotero/Cita ↗ - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) ↗ information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff'''

* Job opening: Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer ↗ to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network ↗.

''' Did you know? '''

* Newest properties ↗:

** General datatypes: none

** External identifiers: ‎WHDLoad database ID ↗, Shanghai Library movie ID ↗, ‎PCSX2 Wiki ID ↗, KRS number ↗, ‎Twitch numeric channel ID ↗, ‎RPCS3 Wiki ID ↗, ‎Black Games Archive ID ↗, ‎Citra compatibility database ID ↗, ‎DraCor ID ↗, ORBi article ID ↗, ‎IGN wiki article ID ↗, ‎AreWeAntiCheatYet ID ↗, ‎RPGFan game ID ↗, ‎Arcade Hub ID ↗

* New property proposals ↗ to review:

** General datatypes:

***Laws of Malaysia URL ↗ (<nowiki>Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia</nowiki>)

***production manager ↗ (<nowiki>manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget</nowiki>)

** External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID ↗, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID ↗, HistoriaGames series ID ↗, Kemono Games game ID ↗, Internet Game Database event ID ↗, GamesMeter ID ↗, Walk Score ID ↗, Malaysia company new number ↗, Am Faclair Beag ID ↗, xemu compatibility database ID ↗, Sofascore player ID ↗, GameGear.jp ID ↗, RPGWatch IDs ↗, Team England ID ↗, TORCH taxon ID ↗, ScummVM ID ↗, Abandonware France IDs ↗

* Query examples:

** Distribution of the different tram gauges in Germany ↗ (source ↗)

** Scale of stampedes reported on Wikidata ↗ (source ↗)

** Timeline of the Christmas movies ↗ (source ↗)

** Christmas traditions around the world ↗ (with pictures) (source ↗)

* Newest WikiProjects ↗: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up ↗ - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

* Newest database reports ↗: children of dead mothers ↗ - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child

* Showcase Items ↗: Esperanto (Q143) ↗ - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof

* Showcase Lexemes ↗: L1222568 (বড়দিন) ↗ - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'

''' Development '''

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

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

''' Monthly Tasks '''

* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

* Comment on property proposals: all open proposals ↗

* Contribute to a Showcase item ↗.

* Help translate ↗ or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!

* Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.

* Help write the next summary! ↗

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Wikidata weekly summary #609

''' Discussions '''

* Open request for adminship: WikiBayer ↗ (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)

* Closed request for adminship: EPIC ↗ (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/

* New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot ↗ . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776 ↗, now only partially online available.

''' Events ↗ '''

* Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours ↗ will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) 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.

* Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist ↗

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

* Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs ↗. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.

* Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata ↗. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.

''' Tool of the week '''

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

''' Did you know? '''

* Newest properties ↗:

** General datatypes: none

** External identifiers: Shamela book edition ID ↗, ‎HistoriaGames series ID ↗, ‎Schnittberichte.com title ID ↗, ‎Kemono Games game ID ↗, ‎Internet Game Database event ID ↗, Xemu compatibility database ID ↗, ‎GamesMeter game ID ↗, ‎GameGear.jp ID ↗, Walmart product ID ↗, Swissubase person ID ↗, RPGWatch game ID ↗, RPGWatch company ID ↗, RPGWatch press ID ↗, ‎Indie DB company ID ↗, ‎NIWA article ID ↗, turismoroma.it place ID ↗, ‎ScummVM ID ↗, ORBi author ID ↗, Abandonware-France video game series ID ↗, Abandonware-France video game compilation ID ↗, Abandonware-France person ID ↗, Abandonware-France company ID ↗, Abandonware-France magazine ID ↗, Abandonware-France award ID ↗, Kanjipedia word ID ↗, Moviefone movie ID ↗, South African NPO number ↗, ‎Nigerian registered company ID ↗, Abandonware-France video game ID ↗, ‎AFJV directory ID ↗

* New property proposals ↗ to review:

** General datatypes:

***Nonprofit Status ↗ (<nowiki>Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to nonprofitStatus ↗ from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.</nowiki>)

***International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ↗ (<nowiki>{{Q|2976602}} for {{Q|163740}} created by the {{Q|193727}} and adapted by the {{Q|1065}}.</nowiki>)

***creative director ↗ (<nowiki>person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result</nowiki>)

***television judge ↗ (<nowiki></nowiki>)

** External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID ↗, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID ↗, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID ↗, nebula channel id ↗, Deutsche Bahn station number ↗, ISzDb series ID ↗, BG localisation unit ID ↗, Cathopedia article ID ↗, Native Plants Hawaii ID ↗, Taiwan Biographical Database ID ↗, Penstemon Database ID ↗, Wikisage ID ↗

* Query examples:

** Visual artists whose works will enter the Public Domain in Mexico on January 1, 2024 ↗ (source ↗)

** Top music album languages found on Wikidata right now ↗ (Week 52, 2023) (source ↗)

** Western composers until the end of the Renaissance ↗ (source ↗)

* Newest database reports ↗: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates ↗

* Showcase Items ↗: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) ↗ - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.

* Showcase Lexemes ↗: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) ↗ - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.

''' Development '''

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

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

''' Monthly Tasks '''

* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

* Comment on property proposals: all open proposals ↗

* Contribute to a Showcase item ↗.

* 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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Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer ↗ (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/

New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9 ↗. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

''' Events ↗ '''

Upcoming:

* The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours ↗ will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) 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.''

* Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024 ↗

* Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management ↗ (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).

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

Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? ↗ by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.

Papers

* Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) ↗ "scientific article published in 2023" (paper in Italian) ↗ - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.

* Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata ↗ by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model

* LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation ↗ by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.

* Quantifying Americanization: ↗ Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.

Videos

* Map Kerala Initiative ↗ is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.

* This video on Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions ↗ shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.

Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline ↗ - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) ↗ property in Wikidata.

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata ↗ prematurely. Read their joint statement here ↗.

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

Newest General datatypes:

* Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL ↗ (<nowiki>URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website</nowiki>)

* (Montana Plant Life URL ↗ (<nowiki>URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website</nowiki>)

*‎plate(s) ↗ (<nowiki>plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made</nowiki>)

Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID ↗, ‎MilliBase taxon ID ↗, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID ↗, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID ↗, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID ↗, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID ↗, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID ↗, ‎The Criterion Collection spine number ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

* Water bottle volume ↗ (<nowiki>Volume of the water bottle</nowiki>)

* Is it metric? ↗ (<nowiki>To check if it's a metric.</nowiki>)

* Anti-Cheat software used ↗ (<nowiki>anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game</nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID ↗, Joseph Smith Papers person ID ↗, Team Scotland ID ↗, Globoplay ID ↗, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID ↗, National Natural Parks System ID ↗, Commonwealth Games Australia ID ↗, Adventure-Treff game ID ↗, TouchArcade game ID ↗, Mod.io ID ↗, The Models Resource game ID ↗, The Models Resource entity ID ↗, tourist information point number ↗, Jinji Koshinjyo ID ↗, Bandcamp track ID ↗

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples:

* Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu ↗ according to Appel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture ↗ (source ↗)

* Map of running/out of service railway stations in France ↗

* Bridges in the UK with photos ↗ (source ↗)

* Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly) ↗ (source ↗)

Newest WikiProject ↗: Podcast Episodes 2024 ↗ - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.

Newest database report ↗: children of unborn parents ↗

Showcase Item ↗: Helsinki (Q1757) ↗ - capital and most populous city of Finland

Showcase Lexeme ↗: Allah korusun (L1226849) ↗ - Turkish for 'God forbid'

''' Development '''

IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968 ↗)

Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660 ↗)

Wikibase REST API:

* We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041 ↗)

* We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039 ↗)

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

''' Weekly Tasks '''

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above ↗.

Comment on property proposals: all open proposals ↗

Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above ↗.

Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Ologies ↗

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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''' Discussions '''

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

''' Events ↗ '''

Past

* Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-01-17 ↗

* PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki ↗ - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page

Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop ↗ > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register ↗ for the Workshop.

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

Blogs

* Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023 ↗

* Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective ↗ --> interview with Epìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.

Papers

* The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) ↗ (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023)) (paper in Italian) ↗ - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata

* The evolution of authority work in SBN. From origins to Alphabetica and future prospects (Q124289388) ↗ (Italian title: L’evoluzione dell’''authority work'' in SBN. Dalle origini ad Alphabetica e prospettive future) (paper in Italian) ↗ - deals with the evolution of the authority work in the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN), with many references to Wikidata

* Biological Pathway Abstractions: From 2D drawings to Multidimensional Linked Data ↗ > this thesis by Andra Sachinder Waagmeester discusses the utility of using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for Life Sciences.

Videos

* "From Wiki to Digital Humanities - Establishing a Literature Index Network" Symposium ↗(Taiwanese) from Wang Shiqing. A scholar of Taiwanese history, this symposium explores linking their historical and academic research with Wikidata.

* Semantic MediaWiki Con 2023

** AskWikidata ↗: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. Want to try? (Google Colab) ↗

** Fixing Wikidata: by viewing it as a series of tables ↗ by Yaron Koren, who challenges that Wikidata can become more useful with more structured editing and querying practices.

''' Tool of the week '''

Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus ↗: WikiFlix ↗ for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes ↗ for audio.

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:

* Software Engineer, Wikidata ↗

* Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects ↗

* Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects ↗

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

Newest General datatypes:

*underlying structure ↗ (<nowiki>an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost</nowiki>)

*working memory type ↗ (<nowiki>specifies the type of working memory of this data object</nowiki>)

*production manager ↗ (<nowiki>manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production</nowiki>)

*simulate ↗ (<nowiki>the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real</nowiki>)

*Philippine middle name ↗ (<nowiki>maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name</nowiki>)

Newest External identifiers: ‎ISzDb series ID ↗, IFTTT service ID ↗, National-Football-Teams.com team ID ↗, Moviefone person ID ↗, Commonwealth Games Australia athlete ID ↗, Team Scotland athlete ID ↗, Kicker team ID ↗, goalzz.com team ID ↗, vesti.kz team ID ↗, ‎Am Faclair Beag ID ↗, tourist information point number ↗, Alexandria.dk person ID ↗, Babelio serial ID ↗, Moviebuff ID ↗, RCS number ↗, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID ↗, Vazhaju Word ID ↗, Stage ↗, Qué series ver ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

*If non-metric ↗ (<nowiki></nowiki>)

*civil rank ↗ (<nowiki>non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire</nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: PhoneScoop phone ID ↗, TopKar ID ↗, IFOPT stop identifier ↗, Flashback lexicon ID ↗, Letterboxd director ID ↗, Letterboxd user ID ↗, HbVar ID ↗, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry ↗, HistoryMakers Digital Archive Maker ID ↗, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID ↗, Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID ↗, Code de la collectivité territoriale ayant les compétences départementales ↗, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples:

* Distance between the birthplace of UK ministers and London ↗ (source ↗)

* Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize ↗

* People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap ↗

Newest WikiProjects ↗: WikiProject Media art ↗ - to work together with initiatives archiving media art and find common best practices.

Newest database reports ↗: Count of Senseless Lexemes per language ↗

Showcase Items ↗: Mona Lisa (Q12418) ↗ - oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci

Showcase Lexemes ↗: grilldress (L1131949) ↗ - track suit for grilling in Bokmål

''' Development '''

IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807 ↗, phab:T352006 ↗) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730 ↗)

Wikibase REST API:

* We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039 ↗)

* We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685 ↗)

* We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644 ↗)

mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release

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

Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge ↗: Cinematography

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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''' Discussions '''

New requests for permissions/Bot:

* DifoolBot 4 ↗ Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.

* Bot Bozze ↗ Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.

New request for comments: Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English ↗ - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.

''' Events ↗ '''

Past: The Lexicodays 2024 ↗ was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are here c:Category:Lexicodays 2024 ↗. More will be added as they become available.

Upcoming:

* The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours ↗ will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) 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.''

* Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024 ↗

* Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe. Register here ↗!

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

Blogs

* Querying for audio on Wikidata ↗ - This blog post discusses using SPARQL queries on Wikidata to find audio recordings, focusing on musical compositions and their associated genres.

* Stories from the anti-disinformation repository: Why Wikimedia is an antidote to disinformation ↗ - The blog post highlights how Wikidata, as a central storage repository, plays a crucial role in countering disinformation by providing reliable, structured data for Wikimedia projects and beyond.

* Diff Blog: Imagining a Wikidata future for librarians together ↗ - the sixth and final blog post from the LD42023 conference. Silvia Gutiérrez (WMF) and Giovanna Fontenelle (WMF) document the results of the collaborative session on building a bridge between the Library-Wikidata community and WMF.

* Census IDs are Now Wikidata External Identifiers ↗

* Library Knowledge as Linked Data: A Wikidata Approach ↗: Contributing to a shared data commons. David Erlandson describes the experiences of using Wikidata for the pilot Program for Cooperative Cataloging to "accelerate the movement towards ubiquitous identifier creation and identity management at the network level".

Papers

* Mapping the Past: Geographically Linking an Early 20th Century Swedish Encyclopedia with Wikidata ↗ - This paper describes the extraction of location entries from a prominent Swedish encyclopedia and sheds light on selection and representation of geographic information in the Nordisk Familjebok. By A. Ahlin, A. Myrne & P. Nugues.

* Papers from the just-ended Wiki Workshop 2024 ↗

** Do LOD Conventions Impede the Representation of Diversity? The Case of Disabled Actors in DBpedia and Wikidata? ↗

** SPARQL for LIS Analytics: Exploring Gender Representation amongst PCC Wikidata Pilot Participant ↗

** Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph-Linguistic Fusion ↗

** Wikidata Quality Toolkit: Entity Schema Generator Demonstration (tool demonstration)

Videos

* Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Enable Equitable and Validated Generative AI ↗ - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan Fraine and Lydia Pintscher ↗ show how Wikidata can be used to provide well-cited information and how semantic search can augment generative AI inference. Presented at the Open Source GenAI & ML Summit.

*Wikidata Editing LIVE at Lexico Days 2024 ↗ - User:Abbe98 ↗ and User:JanAinali ↗ are back for another session of live-editing, focused on lexicographical data, during the Lexico Days 2024 event that took place this last weekend, June 28 - June 30.

* Get more out of Wikidata with Resonator ↗ - Rachel Hendrick and Gary Price of LibTech Tools walk through Resonator and point out the best ways to use it. Resonator is available on ToolForge ↗.

* Knowledge Integrity: Reliability- Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph Linguistic Fusion ↗ - Diego (WMF) ↗ and Mykola Trokhmovych showcase their work on building a model to help Wikidata editors identify edits that require patrolling, as part of the [Wiki Workshop 2024 ↗.

* Inclusion of Communities: Using Wikibase to Leverage Community Sourced Data Initiatives ↗ - Erin Yunes talks about their work in using Wikibase Cloud as part of the Compel project (COmputer Music Preservation Electronic Library).

* (es) ¿Cómo fortalecer el dominio público con Wikidata? ↗ - This Wikitools Workshop hosted by Jorge Gemetto is on Paulina ↗, a tool for exploring and accessing public domain information on authors and their works.

''' Tool of the week '''

Automatic Structuring of text for Wikidata ↗ - User:BrokenSegue ↗ introduces their new tool.

User:Zvpunry/CreateNewItem ↗ - This is a User script to easily add a new Item while editing a Statement and noticing that the desired Item is missing.

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

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

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

Newest General datatypes:

*showrunner ↗ (<nowiki>person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show</nowiki>)

*music mood ↗ (<nowiki>qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording</nowiki>)

*coin edge ↗ (<nowiki>image or images that show the edge of a coin</nowiki>)

*ozone depletion potential ↗ (<nowiki>relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11</nowiki>)

Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID ↗, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new) ↗, Flown From the Nest person ID ↗, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID ↗, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID ↗, A Dictionary of Zoology ID ↗, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID ↗, Seret film ID ↗, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number ↗, Paleobiology database reference ID ↗, PNG School Code ↗, Téarma ID ↗, IMAIOS entity ID ↗, Naturalis Repository ID ↗, English-Spanish Dictionary ID ↗, Vikidia article ID ↗, thisisbasketball.be player ID ↗, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID ↗, Oqaasersiorfik ID ↗, MNAHA person ID ↗, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID ↗, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID ↗, Tropicos person ID ↗, He Pātaka Kupu ID ↗, vehicle keeper marking (VKM) ↗, ‎AllGame style ID ↗, FC Metz player ID ↗, MoFo ID ↗, ‎itch.io numeric ID ↗, filmas.lv film ID ↗, ‎filmas.lv person ID ↗, ‎filmas.lv studio ID ↗, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new) ↗, Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new) ↗, Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new) ↗, Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new) ↗, Spanish-English Dictionary ID ↗, Norwegian National Museum producer ID ↗, ‎Burgenwelt ID ↗, Irish-English Dictionary ID ↗, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID ↗, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID ↗, danskfodbold.com player ID ↗, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID ↗, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID ↗, ‎Canadian Great War Project person ID ↗, English-Irish Dictionary ID ↗, PMC journal ID ↗, Census ID ↗, Douban personage ID ↗, Avibase person ID ↗, Brezhoneg21 ID ↗, European Education Thesaurus ID ↗, ‎Cineuropa distributor ID ↗, ‎Cineuropa production company ID ↗, OpenCitations Meta ID ↗, IGN franchise ID ↗, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID ↗, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID ↗, Devri ID ↗, Cambridge University Press ID ↗, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID ↗, Personnel Records of the First World War ID ↗, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID ↗, NooSFere publisher ID ↗, Plex person key ↗, BHMPI OBJ ID ↗, Index Fungorum person ID ↗, stiga.trefik.cz player ID ↗, UNIBO professor ID ↗, Cineuropa international sales agent ID ↗, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

*number of local branches ↗ (<nowiki>number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level</nowiki>)

*KANAL inventory ID ↗ (<nowiki>inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL</nowiki>)

*Tüik mahalle id ↗ (<nowiki>Identifier of neighborhoods <small>({{q|Q17051044}})</small> in Turkey in TÜİK <small>({{q|Q1375058}})</small> database</nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID ↗, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID ↗, Elonet company ID ↗, Numista issuer ID ↗, Overcast episode ID ↗, Metamath statement label ↗, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID ↗, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID ↗, Il Nuovo DOP ID ↗, FEI horse ID ↗, Google Play author ID ↗, identifiant d'une personne sur Archelec ↗, Standard Ebooks ID ↗, Lojas com História ID ↗, RGALI person ID ↗, RGALI organization ID ↗, Hebrew Academy term ID ↗, milononline.net entry ID ↗, KANAL identifier ↗, LAGL author ID ↗, Alle Burgen ↗, FC Krasnodar player id ↗, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English ID ↗, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID ↗, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID ↗, Manhom Arabic Profile ID ↗, GOArt databas ↗, ArchWiki article ↗, Star Wars.com ↗, identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb) ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples:

* Number of people who are both politicians and musicians by political spectrum ↗ (source ↗)

* Lexeme coverage of Indonesian languages ↗

* UK MPs and their office start/end years ↗ (source ↗)

Newest WikiProjects ↗: Inuktitut ↗ - This is the space to organize work to assure that the sum of all knowledge and the supporting infrastructure for necessary services are available in Inuktitut (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, Inuktitut).

Newest database reports ↗: Merge candidates based on same pattern ↗

Showcase Items ↗: Montblanc (Q761735) ↗ - town in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia

Showcase Lexemes ↗: gbuɣi (L725113) ↗ - Dagbanli verb, translates to "vomiting" and "sprouting"

''' Development '''

EntitySchemas:

* We worked around an issue where EntitySchema pages were no longer considered “content” and had become unsearchable (phab:T368010 ↗)

* We prepared for the release of the new datatype on July 2nd.

mul language code: We are working on the last remaining blocker before rolling out the first stage to Wikidata (phab:T362917 ↗)

Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to rework API errors (phab:T366911 ↗, phab:T366239 ↗)

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

Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge ↗:

Govdirectory weekly focus country: Argentina ↗

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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''' Discussions '''

New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 ↗ - of (P642) ↗ has spent 3 years marked as''deprecated''. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427) ↗?

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

* Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers ↗. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC

* Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at 9am PT / 16:00 UTC ↗ to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack here ↗. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.

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

Blogs

* Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata ↗ - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."

* (German) Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm ↗: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.

* REST in Rust ↗ by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"

Videos

* Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases ↗. Put together by Valerie

* Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities ↗

* (Chinese) Open Data Day Taiwan 2025 ↗: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event ↗ page

* Wikidata as an Open Data Resource ↗: Ian Watt at Open Source SG

* Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective ↗: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.

''' Tool of the week '''

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

An update regarding the WDQS backend ↗ has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.

Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025 ↗. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.

The Wikidata Vector Database ↗ prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saade{{@}}wikimedia.de

Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite ↗ (all genders)

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

Newest General datatypes:

*OAI formatter ↗ (<nowiki>formatter to generate ID compatible with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting services</nowiki>)

*AI-generation prompt ↗ (<nowiki>exact prompt that was used to generate this AI-generated media or work</nowiki>)

*data analysis method ↗ (<nowiki>methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information</nowiki>)

Newest External identifiers: Wikishire article ID ↗, HelloAsso organization ID ↗, Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise person ID ↗, Graceful17 entity ID ↗, ‎Game Input Database ID ↗, DRTV ID ↗, Calindex person ID ↗, Historia Hispánica ID ↗, ‎TERMDAT ID ↗, Kulturdatenbank ID ↗, DDLC entry ID ↗, Chinese Basketball Association player ID ↗, ‎Captain Coaster coaster ID ↗, Memoria Chilena ID ↗, Jamendo track ID ↗, MikuWiki article ID ↗, ‎ZOOM Platform product ID ↗, Clio-online researcher ID ↗, Clio-online organization ID ↗, ‎SteamDB tech ID ↗, ‎Big Fish Games game ID ↗, Clio-online web resource ID ↗, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID ↗, Newsweek topic ID ↗, booru tag ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

*watercraft prefix ↗ (<nowiki>prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations</nowiki>)

*accused ↗ (<nowiki>person or organization who has been accused of carrying out this harmful, illegal, or immoral act without having received a criminal conviction or where the accused have been acquitted in a court of law</nowiki>)

*applies to volume ↗ (<nowiki>volume of the item (usually edition of a work) to which the claim applies</nowiki>)

*oxygen endurance ↗ (<nowiki>The maximum time a submarine, spacecraft or enclosed vehicle can sustain life using its onboard oxygen supply.</nowiki>)

*Coefficient of thermal expansion ↗ (<nowiki></nowiki>)

*fracture toughness ↗ (<nowiki></nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID ↗, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID ↗, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID ↗, Kosovo NGO registration number ↗, Yale LUX ID ↗, geraldika.ru symbol ID ↗, Swimcloud swimmer ID ↗, CACI company ID ↗, VD 16 ID ↗, World Higher Education Database ID ↗, Qur'an Wiki article ID ↗, JSIC code ↗, Macrotransactions game ID ↗, Landtag Tirol person ID ↗, NexusMods mod ID ↗, Thunderstore game ID ↗, SideQuest app ID ↗, IndExs Exsiccata ID ↗, National Academy of Engineering member ID ↗, DGO ID ↗, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID ↗, Audiovisual Identity Database page ↗, Encyclopaedia of Islam (Arabic edition) ID ↗, Rodovid family ID ↗, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID ↗, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples:

* Location of fire stations in Spain ↗ (source ↗)

* Oldest known individual per taxon ↗ (pre-20th century) (source ↗)

Newest WikiProjects ↗: AncientMaths ↗

WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland ↗ in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations ↗, and on cividata.org ↗. Help expanding it!

Newest database reports ↗: German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category ↗ (source ↗)

Showcase Items ↗: Perm (Q915) ↗ - city in Russia

Showcase Lexemes ↗: Knoten (L298686) ↗ - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."

''' Development '''

Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126 ↗)

Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483 ↗)

Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021 ↗)

Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200 ↗)

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

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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'''Discussions'''

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

'''Events'''

Upcoming events ↗:

* AAFRennes2025, 26-28 Mars 2025 ↗

* 5-6 April & 12 April: Scholia Hackathon ↗

* Wikidata and Sister Projects ↗ to take place '''May 29 - June 1'''. Please send us your session ideas, we still have lots of space for proposals. This is a great chance to highlight the benefits of Wikidata use in other WM projects. See Talk page ↗ for proposals.

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

Blogs

* Enhance Your Wikibase With Extensions ↗

* Editing Lexemes with your little finger ↗

* Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition ↗ by Jean-Fred

Thread: Who wins in a Wikipedia race between GPT-4.5, o1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and @OpenAI's new Computer-Using Agent? ↗

'''Tool of the week'''

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

'''Other Noteworthy Stuff'''

Mobile Editing of Statements ↗ - You have been asking for the ability to edit statements from mobile devices for years, this project will make editing statements on Wikidata Items more accessible and user-friendly for mobile users. Sign up to participate in prototype testing and interviews with our UX team ↗

Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite ↗ (all genders)

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

Newest properties ↗:

* General datatypes:

**data analysis method ↗ (<nowiki>methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information</nowiki>)

* External identifiers: booru tag ↗, Steam Group numeric ID ↗, Kompass company ID ↗, ‎Macrotransactions game ID ↗, Thunderstore game ID ↗, ‎JSR package ID ↗, ‎GitLab topic ID ↗, Amazon Music track ID ↗, Crunchyroll artist ID ↗, SideQuest app ID ↗

New property proposals ↗ to review:

* General datatypes:

**levels ↗ (<nowiki>levels, maps, episodes, chapters or stages of this video game</nowiki>)

**Scilit scholar ID ↗ (<nowiki>author identifier on {{Q|77125337}}</nowiki>)

**وزن صرفي عربي ↗ (<nowiki>A feature to adjust the pattern of Arabic words in lexemes</nowiki>)

**باب صرفي للأفعال العربية الثلاثية المجردة ↗ (<nowiki>Morphology of the Arabic triliteral verbs</nowiki>)

**land degradation ↗ (<nowiki>The amount of land that is degraded by an object. Mainly for infrastructure projects</nowiki>)

**Research projects that contributed to this data set ↗ (<nowiki>This property allows to identify research projects that they have contributed to or created an item</nowiki>)

**Platform height ↗ (<nowiki>platform height above the top of the rail (or above the road for buses)</nowiki>)

**extended by (addons for this item) ↗ (<nowiki>Class of software this software is extended by</nowiki>)

* External identifiers: Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID ↗, Delfi.ee theme ID ↗, identifiant Dezède d'un individu ↗, SeqCode Registry ID ↗, Openalfa street ID ↗, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID ↗, A Dictionary of Education entry ID ↗, TDKIV wikibase ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

'''Did you know?'''

Query examples:

* 2024 Population Census in Uganda ↗ (source ↗)

WikiProject Highlights:

*Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal/Liste des artistes de la collection ↗

Showcase Items ↗: Cinderella (Q15046091) ↗ - 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

Showcase Lexemes ↗: страсть (L166968) ↗ - Russian noun that can mean "love", "passion", "desire", or "suffering."

'''Development'''

Wikibase REST API: We finished work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126 ↗) and started on the one for Properties (phab:T386377 ↗)

Vector 2022 skin: We fixed a number of the remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039 ↗) and sitelink positioning (phab:T316797 ↗)

Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search in other entity types (Properties, Lexemes, EntitySchemas) besides Items (phab:T321543 ↗)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here ↗. If you want to help, you can also have a look 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! ↗

Anything to add? Please share! :)

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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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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 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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Tech News: 2026-26

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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 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''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 ↗

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

'''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 ↗.

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

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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 ↗)

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: 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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Tech News: 2026-28

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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'''

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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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 ↗

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