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April editathons at Women in Red

January 2020 at Women in Red

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Postcard from the Coast #1

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<big>''Sunday 6 September: Blackball''</big>
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|'''Welcome''' to the West Coast Wikipedian at Large project! This is your first weekly postcard with updates on what's been happening and ideas for things to do. • Yesterday I '''drove from Nelson to Blackball''' down the Inangahua River ↗ valley, taking plenty of photos (see my uploads ↗), through Lyell ↗, New Creek ↗, Inangahua Junction ↗ (sic), Oweka ↗, Rotokahu ↗, Larrys Creek ↗, Cronadun ↗, Waitahu ↗, and Reefton ↗ to visit the museum in Blacks Point ↗, then on to Formerly the Blackball ↗ Hilton. Lots of these places need an article, improvements, or photos. • '''Inangahua''' is actually three localities: Inangahua Landing ↗, Inangahua Junction ↗ (munted by the 1968 earthquake ↗), and Inanguahua ↗ proper where most people live – the article's a bit confused. • This week I'll be in '''Greymouth''' giving a talk to heritage folks ↗ and another to tourism operators ↗, and running an edit-a-thon on Saturday ↗. It would be great for people to take a look at the Grey District library system ↗ who'll be hosting the edit-a-thon and see what Wikidata coverage is like. Libraries and museums are on the Art page of the project. • I had a really good '''Afghan''' ↗ in Reefton (right) and realised the article is terrible. Research needed! And more photos, if anyone wants an excuse to bake. • '''Housekeeping''': please do note your contributions on the daily Progress Report: prizes for quality, quantity, and anything else I like. User:Schwede66 has been powering ahead. There's room to add a little more to the To Do list, but I want every red link blue by the end of October – plenty to do already! Thank you all. • Take care — Giantflightlessbirds
|thumb|Afghan biscuit|Afghan ↗ from the Broadway Tearooms and Bakery (Future Dough Co), [[Reefton ↗]]
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Postcard #2

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|'''Hello all''' from Greymouth! There are now a dozen of you from Australia and New Zealand signed up to help, which is wonderful. • The last week has seem some '''great work''', especially from Schwede66, MurielMary, and DrThneed, busily creating categories, stubs, and some really nice articles like Hokitika Clock Tower ↗ • This last week I'll been in '''Greymouth,''' and gave a talk to the library staff ↗, spoke to half a dozen tourism operators ↗, and had a great edit-a-thon on Saturday ↗, where the partcipants were so keen they organised another one in two weeks! • Check out Axel's reorganisation of the Greymouth category ↗ and see if there are photos that need articles. • The '''Greymouth ↗''' article needs work, a gallery of historic buildings, and more references from news media and books. • Plenty of '''old buildings''' in the list to work on • Siobhan wants Wikidata for all NZ '''reserves''', and I would like all '''tracks and walkways''' in Wikidata too, like the Rapahoe Range Scenic Reserve and Elizabeth Point Walkway – I took a bunch of photos there yesterday • Some of our new ↗ articles ↗ have been '''flagged''' (wrongly) because there weren't enough references yet; not to worry, but help if you can. I'm digging through local archives here for good sources. Here's a Google drive ↗ of local news stories by the way. • There'll be lots more '''photos going up''' in the next week so watch this space. In the meantime keep an eye on my uploads ↗, photos from History House Museum ↗, and more from the Grey District Library ↗ to see of there's something you can use. • '''Housekeeping''': please do remember to jot down your contributions on the daily Progress Report, just so others can see and help out. Thank you all for you hard work! • Take care — Giantflightlessbirds
|alt=|thumb|The Greymouth Clock Tower ↗ on a typical West Coast day ↗
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Postcard #3

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|'''Hi''' from Westport ↗! The ridiculously nice weather has largely continued. According to Wikipedia the Holcim cement works is here, but I'm pretty sure it '''closed''' in 2016. Work needed on that article! • One result of appearing on Seven Sharp ↗ is that Tourism New Zealand and the Glacier tourism folks are now interested in chatting. Watch this space, I may be headed '''south''' soon. • MurielMary and DrThneed have been helping with the West Coast '''artists''' list ↗, many thanks – I may have more print sources for bios. The Yvonne Rust book ↗ is good. • There's been some great '''teamwork''' this past week, with Canley and Schwede66 sorting out all the West Coast heritage buildings in Wikidata without photos ↗, and me running round Westport with my camera taking pics of them ↗. • About half the '''Stewart Nimmo''' photos are uploaded, and keep an eye on my uploads ↗ for more. Look for inventive uses: I added one to the selfie ↗ article. • I'll be working on Denniston Plateau ↗, the ''Westport News'' ↗, Becky Manawatu ↗, EPIC Westport ↗, the Kawatiri Coastal Trail ↗, Granity ↗, and Barrytown ↗; '''all help appreciated'''. • This week I have a few more days at Westport and will do a day trip to Granity, then down to '''Hokitika''' on Friday for 10 days to work with the Museum and heritage groups. So do tackle '''Westport''' content this week; I can ask the ''Westport News'' for clippings if you need more sources. • '''Housekeeping''': add what you do to the daily Progress Report, so we can all see and help! • Take care — Giantflightlessbirds
|alt=|thumb|I happened to catch the c:Category:Westport Duck Dive Race|2020 Westport Duck Dive Race ↗ on Sunday ↗
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Postcard #4

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|'''Greetings''' from sunny Hokitika! The fine weather I've had for the last few weeks finally broke and it's been '''driving hail and wind''' today. • Last week in Westport was fun, talking to many local historians and photographers, and the ''Westport News ↗'' (rewritten article) • Saturday I ran a workshop ↗ in Hokitika, yesterday a second one in Greymouth. One newbie improved the '''Dave McKenzie''' (runner) ↗ article and squealed when her changes showed up instantly in Google. Another ran out to take photos of the '''Pioneers' Memorial''' (right), and Schwede66 created an article that very night • This week I'd love help with '''Hokitika-area articles''': sculptures of Hokitika, buildings of Hokitika, Guy Menzies ↗, ''Hokitika Guardian ↗'' (am meeting them tomorrow to get better sources), whitebait ↗ (the NZ aspect), Kaniere ↗, Lake Kaniere ↗, pounamu ↗, Lake Mahinapua ↗, Hokitika Gorge ↗, ''The Luminaries ↗'', and the Hokitika River ↗. This is a list brainstormed with the locals at the workshop, heartily recommend doing this. • There are more '''photos by Stewart Nimmo''' of Lake Brunner ↗ and Reefton ↗ (including the artist {{Q|Q99304897}}, who's on our list. • It would be super helpful of somebody to look at the Hokitika area on WikiShootMe ↗ and check the locations of rivers, hills, etc against NZ Topo Map ↗ or the NZGB Gazetteer ↗. • Dr Thneed wanted a photo through the altar window of St James Church, Franz Josef ↗, and that same day Paora supplied one ↗. Great teamwork, folks – it's been so nice to watch you collaborate. • '''Housekeeping''': keep noting your contributions on the daily Progress Report. Thank you all for your hard work. • Stay warm and dry! — Giantflightlessbirds
|alt=|thumb|Westland Pioneers' Memorial ↗. Continually has its finger stolen. Lost an entire arm once, was redubbed ''Venus de Hokitika''. ↗
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Postcard #5

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|'''Kia ora f'''rom Hokitika! Tomorrow I pack up the car and head to Greymouth to present to Development West Coast ↗ our previous month's work, before heading '''south''' • Yes, Glacier Country are supplying accommodation in '''south Westland''' – Ōkārito ↗, Franz Josef ↗, and Fox ↗ – for the next two weeks. Possibly because I mouthed off to the media ↗ that Fox Glacier's entry is so short who would want to stay there? • So '''this week''' it's Ōkārito ↗ (splitting the article into settlement and lagoon), kōtuku ↗, spoonbills ↗, the {{Q|Q99767675}}, rowi ↗, Franz Josef glacier ↗ (and NZ glacier photos in general glacier articles), historic buildings thereabouts, etc • I uploaded lots of Stewart Nimmo photos ↗ of the '''Haast''' area, and have some '''Paparoa''' ones by Jase Blair ↗ coming soon. • Pakoire noticed that '''{{Q|Q99836010}}''' needs an article – can we collaborate on one? He's def notable and we need more coverage of Māori from the Coast. • Also '''women''': see the Westland women in the WikiProject Hokitika Museum ↗ Google doc and Hokitika Museum Google drive ↗. • Last week I '''wrote or improved''' articles about Hokitika Museum ↗, Lake Kaniere ↗, History House Museum ↗, Lake Mahinapua ↗, and Westland District Library ↗. Error check, cleanup etc welcome. It's great to be able to work from folders and scrapbooks stuffed full of newspaper clippings! • '''Housekeeping''': Thank you all for collaborating and filling in gaps, especially with historic buildings. Paora has been doing some great work. Please keep letting me know of any photos you need taking on the spot. • Take care — Giantflightlessbirds
|alt=|thumb|Gorgeous Lake Kaniere ↗. Yes, it really does look like this. ↗
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Postcard #6

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|'''Gidday''' from Franz Josef/Waiau ↗! Deserted tourist town, everything's a bit pricey, but there are '''kea''' circling over the main street which makes up for a lot • I just spent three days in '''Ōkārito''', wrote articles about pakihi ↗ and Ōkārito lagoon ↗, and took/was given a lot of photos of Kōtuku and hiking trails. A dearth of printed sources on Ōkārito ↗ but there are enough photos and info to make at least sections/galleries for '''buildings''' like {{Q|Q79300924}}, {{Q|Q79303038}}, and {{Q|Q79309599}} on its article • There are too many photos of Franz Josef glacier ↗! It would be great to make a '''curated gallery''' of the most useful ones on its Commons page ↗. Also finding and uploading good photos from DigitalNZ ↗ and the Macmillan Brown A. C. Graham Collection ↗ would help heaps • Local '''heritage''' sites that need articles: the Hendes Gallery ↗, Defiance Hut ↗, Chancellor Hut ↗ • I'll be spending Tuesday in the West Coast Wildlife Centre ↗, looking at '''baby kiwi''' and improving Haast Tokoeka ↗ and Rowi ↗ articles • Great to see a new Fayne Robinson ↗ article from Pakoire, and Maida Bryant ↗ from MurielMary; Paora's been beavering away on lists of mayors • '''Housekeeping''': do reach out to any of the team for a hand if some random editor knocks you back or makes trouble. Don't let them rattle you! We're here to help each other. • Take care and be kind — Giantflightlessbirds
|alt=|thumb|In a few decades the Waiho River ↗ bed will be higher than Franz Josef. Won't that be fun! ↗
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Postcard #7

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<big>''Friday 23 October:Reefton''</big>
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|'''Kia ora koutou''' from Reefton ↗! • We're in the '''last few days''' of the project, so time to wrap up loose ends. • Most of the last week I was based in in '''Fox Glacier''', organising photo uploads from Fox Glacier Guiding of the glacier itself ↗ and Chancellor Hut ↗, check them out • I've also photographed hiking trails and worked on articles about the West Coast Wildlife Centre ↗, Lake Gault ↗ and Lake Matheson ↗ • Here in '''Reefton''' I'm improving the article about the town ↗, have found info on the Inangahua County Library for DrThneed, and am writing about the Reefton Distillery ↗ • There are photos of all of Reeftons's historic buildings (and I've added a few), but '''no articles''' about the Reefton Courthouse ↗ or the Reefton School of Mines ↗, and the Reefton Power Station ↗ article could do with work • Since I last wrote DrThneed has been hard at work on libraries, there's a nice Donovan's Store ↗ article from Gertrude206, much-needed improvements to pounamu ↗ by Pakoire, and Paora's been super-industrious with historic buildings but most importantly managed to produce a photo of the '''giant sandfly of Pukekura''' ↗ • '''Housekeeping''': I'm sending out prizes kindly donated by Development West Coast and Friends of Waiuta ↗ to those of you who've worked hardest on the project, so if I ask for a postal address that's why. But even if you just signed up to get these postcards, that's fine too! • '''Thank you all''' for making a wonderful project work; I've never coordinated a team effort like this, and I think it's potentially a model for other edit-a-thons. Its been great fun. And I hope this has inspired you to keep chipping away, improving the coverage of New Zealand's beautiful West Coast. Ka kite ano, — Giantflightlessbirds
|alt=|thumb|This horse trough outside the mansion of local mining capitalist wins the "Silliest Heritage" award in the category West Coast. ↗
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Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon - April 22nd - 2PM EST

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Sure We Can ↗ and the Environment of New York City Task Force ↗ invite you to join us for:

2022 Earth Day Edit-a-thon ↗ 2pm - 4pm EST (April 22nd) online via Zoom and in person

This Edit-a-Thon is part of a larger Earth Day celebration, hosted by Brooklyn based recycling and community center Sure We Can, that runs from 1PM-7PM and is open to the public! See this flyer for more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGr4FyuqEa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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-- Environment of New York City Task Force ↗

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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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? ↗"

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* 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.

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* 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'

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* 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! ↗

Wikidata weekly summary #610

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 '''

Open request for adminship: ZI Jony (2) ↗ - RfP scheduled to end after 17 April 2026 13:09 (UTC)

New requests for permissions/Bot:

* Nirmos Bot 3 ↗ - Task(s): Turn one or more consecutive hard (non-breaking) spaces into one regular space in Swedish descriptions.

* Alex NB OT ↗ - Task(s): Correction of incorrectly specified links to population data sources containing wikitext artifacts with categories, which leads to incorrect categorization of articles.

* Alex NB OT 2 ↗ - Task(s): Extract KCI article ID from P953 ↗ and add it to P14184 ↗.

* ReNeuralAgent ↗ - Task(s): (1) add descriptions, (2) Latvian labels/descriptions, (3) 'retrieved from' and 'source URL' to unreferenced Statements, (4) missing aliases from external Identifier sources, (5) Geo coordinates, (6) external identifiers, (7) Population numbers, (8) remove 'dead sitelinks', (9) constraint violations.

Open request for comment: Mass-editing policy ↗ is still open and requires your input.

''' Events '''

Past: Missed the second quarter Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session transcript here: 2026-04-08 (Q2 2026) ↗

Current: (Spanish) Public Domain in Latin America 2026 ↗ - 1st edition of the campaign to improve public domain data for Latin America is running until 15 June.

Upcoming events ↗:

* Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group ↗ session 14 April, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). QuickStatements is one of the most widely used tools in Wikidata, enabling users to upload and edit large volumes of structured data efficiently. Originally developed by Magnus Manske, the tool has become essential for institutions, researchers, and volunteers working with open data. The new QuickStatements 3.0, developed by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, introduces a modernized interface, improved performance, and new features shaped by community input, making it easier than ever to contribute high-quality data to the Wikimedia ecosystem. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/QuickStatements3 ↗

*Art+Feminism is hosting a Community Hours session on April 17 to introduce their new Wikidata modules — don’t miss it! ↗

* digiS Workshop „Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung“ am 20.04. ↗ - (German), registration closes 16.04, takes place online (10:00 – 11:30 CEST), room link after registration.

* Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata ↗ - Wednesday, April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida.

* Visibility of Communities in Nigeria 2.0 ↗: 17.04 - 25.04, (please register on the link). Help enrich Wikidata with cultural preservation, tourism and inclusive development data for items on South Nigerian communities.

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

Blogs: (Spanish) Connecting: Basque documentary heritage on Wikipedia and Wikidata ↗ - a program to make Basque heritage data more visible, with events scheduled through April - June.

Videos:

* Live Wikidata Editing #120 ↗ with Jan Ainali and Abbe98

* Can AI Replace Wikipedia? Jonathan Fraine & Raja Amelung Explain Why It Cannot ↗ - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan and Raja discuss why human knowledge and contribution to Wikipedia and Wikidata will always be important.

* Interfacing with Wikidata for fun and profit ↗ - Yaron Koren

* Introduction to Lexicographical data ↗ - By Chinonso Chidi

* WMUK Wikidata Training (1/2) - Why & how to add data to Wikidata ↗ - a beginner-friendly introduction to Wikidata editing hosted by Dr. Martin Poulter.

* WMUK Wikidata training (2/2) - Make your first Wikidata query using SPARQL ↗ - How to query Wikidata's vast store of knowledge using SPARQL.

* Wikidata and personal pronouns (P6553) by Clair Kronk and Crystal Yragui ↗ - part of the Queering Wikipedia Conference (2025) ↗

* (Spanish) Queering the public domain using Wikidata and Wikipedia ↗ - with User:Hiperterminal ↗.

* (Spanish) Taller de OpenRefine por David Ramírez-Ordóñez ↗ (User:Hiperterminal ↗) - a workshop on OpenRefine with a geder perspective.

* Introducing lgbtDB: A Collaborative Queer Resource and Pilot Data Area ↗ by Clair Kronk.

''' Tool of the week '''

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

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

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

Newest General datatypes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newest External identifiers: Algeria Press Service tag ID (English) ↗, Algeria Press Service tag ID (French) ↗, ‎BERON lexeme ID ↗, ‎Brussels BeStAddress street ID ↗, ‎Brussels BeStAddress address ID ↗, ‎Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID ↗, Anarâš aavis topic ID ↗, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID ↗, TMDB award ID ↗, Open Library Collection ↗, ‎Ohio University ArchiveSpace subject ID ↗, VAi Archiefhub agent ID ↗, ‎PBA.com player ID ↗, ‎IRIS UNIL author ID ↗, IPRESS ID ↗, GEMI Number ↗, ‎StandardsMap ID ↗, ‎Japanese Location Database ID ↗, ‎IRDI ↗, ‎Wendingen object ID ↗, ‎Wendingen person ID ↗, Oricon News ID ↗, ‎JMRC person id (en) ↗, Rappels person ID ↗, KCI journal ID ↗, KCI publisher ID ↗, BIORAB-Kaiserreich ID ↗, BIORAB–WEIMAR ID ↗, ‎Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID ↗, Göteborgsalliansen player ID ↗, ‎Fungal Names taxon ID ↗, ‎Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID ↗, ‎Brewver beer ID ↗, Central Registration Number (Indonesian police) ↗, ‎UEA catalogue ID ↗, ‎lit.link ID ↗, kulturbase.no ID ↗, KuLaDig-ID ↗, Topplista artist ID ↗, TV Drama Database program ID ↗, ‎Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID ↗, ‎Swedish National Archives ID ↗, Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID ↗, ‎PeeringDB facility ID ↗, ‎Nişanyan Adlar ID ↗, National Theatre in Prague performance ID ↗, National Theatre in Prague artist ID ↗, ‎JVID performer ID ↗, CICAP Encyclopedia ID ↗, ‎MJ character glyph name ↗, member of the Azorean parliament ID ↗, Master Ideographs Seeker character ID ↗, ‎London Book Trades ID ↗, ‎Kloekecode ↗, ID Prix de Lausanne ↗, ‎GDUNO ID ↗, ‎fotbolltransfers.com ID ↗, Foot Résultats player ID ↗, ‎Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography ID ↗, ‎DBNL country ID ↗, ‎CROWCASS file number ↗, ‎European Dictionary Portal ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

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

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

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

New External identifier property proposals to review: organization in cooperation with ISO ID ↗, EDAM Ontology ID ↗, FISH Evidence Thesaurus Identifier ↗, FISH Thesaurus of Monument Types ID ↗, ScriptSource script ID ↗, ScriptSource language code ↗, Extended Defence of Britain Database ID ↗, Max username ↗, BE-monumen ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples:

* List of sitelinked small items to a single Wiki ↗ (source ↗) - example wiki: Maori Wikipedia

* People who have herbarium specimens in Herbarium Dresdense (on a timeline) ↗ (source ↗)

Newest WikiProjects ↗: Collectors affiliated with the Herbarium Dresdense (DR) ↗

WikiProject Highlights:

* LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/QuickStatements3 ↗ - don't forget to add yourself to the participants section if you plan to attend the 14.04 Zoom call.

* Temples in Roman Britain/Data Model ↗ subpage was added.

* Library and Information Science ↗ added subpages: Librarians dashboard ↗, Indexers dashboard ↗

Newest database reports ↗: Short Pages ↗ - A list of pages (mostly Items) that are very small, often appear completely blank. A review to judge whether they are suitable for deletion, victims of vandalism or require merging or expanding may be appropriate.

Showcase Items ↗: Baldur's gate II: Shadows of Amn ↗ - an isometric CRPG created with the Infinity engine, adapting the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition ruleset.

Showcase Lexemes ↗: spegnere ↗ (Italian verb) to turn off, switch off, extinguish.

''' Development '''

The Wikibase Reuse Team is working on ensuring language fallback works on the GraphQL ↗ labels of linked entities functionality and improving the technical infrastructure behind wbsearchentities ↗.

Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: is working on introducing metrics ↗ that help observe the impact of Recent Change related work. Work continues on improving the Diff (T419244 ↗, T419823 ↗)

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

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

Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above ↗.

Govdirectory weekly focus country: United Nations ↗

Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities ↗ in one or two sentences.

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

Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.

Help write the next summary! ↗

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''' Discussions '''

Open request for adminship: Yamato Shiya ↗ - RfP scheduled to end after 26 April 2026 11:10 (UTC)

Closed request for adminship: ZI Jony 2 ↗ - Closed as successful

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

* OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #88 May 11 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245) ↗.

* Wikidata turns 14 this October, and it’s time to start thinking about birthday celebrations🥳. See the various ways in which you can participate ↗.

* Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata ↗ - April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida and requires registration (see link).

* University of Central Illinois - How does data power Wikipedia and Wikidata? ↗ Discover how your data skills can make an impact. Join the two onsite sessions (April 21, follow the link for registration details). '''Module 1''' - GLAM Wiki and the Wikimedia Ecosystem: Commons and Structured Data: 0930 - 1130 CDT - An overview of GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). '''Module 2''' - Wikidata: Editing, Querying, Citations and GIS Applications, 1300 - 1500 CDT

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

Blogs:

* Women in Photography – Wikidata Workshop with LightBox Photo Library ↗ - to address the underrepresentation of women photographers in the Wikimedia Projects, this workshop brought tech reporters, librarians, researchers and photography enthusiasts to understand how Wikidata can unlock data silos and connect different projects (in the Wikiverse and external) to make data on women photographers more searchable.

* Her Heritage Wiki Challenge: Art+Feminism in Ghana Month ↗

* No Signal? No Problem: Building the Dagbanli Dictionary for Offline Use ↗, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan

Papers: Optimising university web visibility: strategies using Wikidata identifiers and statements in Webometrics rankings ↗ By Backory et al., (2026), this study analyses Webometrics rankings of universities, applying clustering algorithms (K-means, hierarchical clustering, fuzzy C-means, GMM, and DBSCAN) to identify which identifiers and statements the top-ranked institutions have in common on their Wikidata entities.

Videos:

* OKI Internship 2026 - Wikidata & Screening Test Preparation ↗ - Part of the Open Knowledge Initiative, hosted by Ankit V & Kasyap P.

* Charted Roots - Genealogy and worldbuilding in Obsidian ↗ - includes an example of linking to Wikidata to quickly add location data to your visualised family history.

''' Tool of the week '''

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

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

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

Newest External identifiers: ‎ocremix.org game ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

*especially ↗ (<nowiki>qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, but applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012)</nowiki>)

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

*EPBC conservation status ↗ (<nowiki>the conservation status from the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 assigned by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water</nowiki>)

*part of discography ↗ (<nowiki>discography that this musical release is a part of</nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: Thai Government Agency GFMIS Code ↗, Conlang Database ID ↗, Plataforma Acácia ↗, Observatório Terras Quilombolas ↗, LMTA folkloro archyvo ID ↗, Kulturdenkmal-ID Rheinland-Pfalz ↗, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID ↗, Код Вестра ↗, 19star performer ID ↗, EM-DAT disaster number ↗, ColBase ID ↗, BIOSOP ID ↗, BIOKAND ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples: Depthness of subway stations in meters ↗ (by Bouzinac)

Newest database reports ↗: Children of unborn parents ↗, this list shows the child entity's birth date predates the parent entity's birth date: good candidates to check if the birth and relationship statements need correcting.

Showcase Items ↗: Haïlé Sélassié Ier ↗ - Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974

Showcase Lexemes ↗: slide (L9704) ↗ - English noun (slaɪd) meaning "a photographic transparency", "a playground or gym apparatus", or "a mass movement of earth or snow"

''' Development '''

The Wikibase Reuse team continued their work on ensuring language fallback works for labels of linked entities in GraphQL ↗ and on refactoring wbsearchentities ↗

The Wikidata team worked on explored how to reduce load for low data users T400325 ↗, fixed some bugs on the new mobile editing on Items T418110 ↗, T414454 ↗ and improved some error messages T417797 ↗, T412145 ↗

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

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

''' Weekly Tasks '''

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

Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above ↗.

Govdirectory weekly focus country: South Korea ↗

Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities ↗ in one or two sentences.

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

Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.

Help write the next summary! ↗

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April 29: WikiWednesday NYC Salon

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Wikidata weekly summary #729

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''' Discussions '''

Closed request for adminship: '''Yamato Shiya ↗''' - Congratulations to our newest Admin!

New requests for permissions/Bot: '''Chamiln17@FineWiki ↗''' - '''Task/s:''' Read-only Wikidata entity cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.

''' Events '''

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

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

Blogs:

* The Gballi Browser: Designing for the Dagbanli Alphabet ↗, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan

* Building Visibility for African Women on Wikimedia: The EmpowerHer Fellowship ↗ by Andikan Efiok Eduok.

Papers:

* Call for Edits Nearby: Open Archives Metadata from Saxony ↗ by J. Bemme & M. Munke (2026), latest paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data series.

* (Deutsch) [PDF] Art History Loves Wiki 2026 | digital/local.collection loves wiki ↗ - report from ArtHist.net on the recent 3rd edition of the conference, held at the Museum Schnütgen, Köln, from 27 – 29 March.

Videos:

* Live Wikidata Editing, #121 ↗ with Jan Ainali and Abbe98.

* (Español) Build with Wikimedia open data: APIs, SPARQL and visualization ↗ with Carla Toro Fernández, Director Technology WM Chile.

* Every Airport Ever Built (1909-2024) ↗ - an animated map showing where and when airports were built. Powered by Wikidata and OurAirports.

* (Catalan) Barcelona Free Software: How to use Wikidata to make public domain digital works visible? ↗, User:Hiperterminal ↗ presents Paulina, discusses the work done in digitising collections and how to make public domain works visible.

Notebooks: Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography? ↗ by User:PAC2

''' Tools of the week '''

The Human History Atlas (WikiTime) ↗, a browser-based atlas that uses Wikidata and Wikipedia-sourced data to construct timelines and allows exploration of significant historical events.

Wikilympians ↗, a real-time list of all 153,412 known Olympic competitors with Wikidata and Wikipedia coverage statistics

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

Wikibase Suite 7.0 and Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.0.0 have been launched! It brings Wikibase closer to feature parity with Wikidata. Here's what's in the latest release:

* Echo Extension ↗: User activity alerts and notifications.

* Discussion Tools Extension ↗: Set of tools to enhance discussion pages.

* Temporary Accounts ↗: The support for temporary accounts without IP address exposure has been added. It will, however, remain disabled by default, in line with Wikibase Cloud.

* Grouped External Identifiers (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310898): External identifiers are now grouped on entity pages for better readability.

* “Mul” (multi-language) support: Adds support for multi-language values.

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

Newest General datatypes:

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

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

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

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

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

Newest External identifiers: ‎BE-monumen ID ↗, Team Norway athlete ID ↗, ‎Kantonsspital St.Gallen author ID ↗, ‎Consumer Rights Wiki article ID ↗, Central Registration Number (Indonesia Military) ↗, ‎Conlang Database ID ↗, EM-DAT disaster number ↗, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID ↗, ‎EDAM Ontology ID ↗, ‎Turkey province ID ↗, Kvinnehistorie.no topic ID ↗, CNVD-ID ↗, GiveSendGo fundraising ID ↗, radiko person ID ↗, Wikiparfum brand ID ↗, ‎Turkey district ID ↗, OSDev article ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

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

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

*time expansion ↗ (<nowiki>factor by which a recording's duration has been extended or compressed relative to the original real-time event, without pitch correction; values greater than 1 indicate time expansion (e.g. 10 = ten times longer than real life, pitch lowered tenfold); values less than 1 indicate time compression (e.g. 0.1 = ten times shorter, pitch raised tenfold); 1 = real-time</nowiki>)

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

New External identifier property proposals to review: CINEFOX film ID (reproposal) ↗, CINEFOX parson ID (reproposal) ↗, VK video ID ↗, Brew TV ↗, CycleBase cyclist ID (new) ↗, Royal Australian Air Force service number ↗, Files of the Reich Chancellery ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples: List of treaties/truces in the time ↗ by Bouzinac ↗

Newest WikiProjects ↗: WikiProject Occupations ↗ for enriching items occupation ''<small>(P106)</small>'' ↗, occupation ''<small>(Q12737077)</small>'' ↗ with data verified from official national occupation classification systems.

Newest database reports ↗: Without Claims by Site ↗ - this report will list how many Wikidata Items have 0 Statements, with a linked Wiki Article/page. Click ''reports/all items'' for a per wiki list, and consider expanding.

Showcase Items ↗: Okazaki fragments ↗ - short DNA sequences synthesized discontinuously during DNA replication

Showcase Lexemes ↗: transfer (L29733) ↗ - English noun/verb (ˈtræns.fɜːr) meaning "to move from one place to another", "a sports team member moving to another team", or "a ticket allowing continuation of a journey"

''' Development '''

Query Service: It is now possible to download query results in Wikidata Query Service that include coordinates as KML & GPX (GeoJSON has been available since last year). Text from the first column in the results is used as the value for naming POIs. Thanks again to Atom.oil.2 for the patch. (phab:T414376 ↗)

The Wikidata team continued working on a prototype to make WikiProjects more visible (phab:T420907 ↗) and made the new Wikidata mobile UI use auto-resizing text areas instead of single-line text inputs, in order to make longer values easier to edit (phab:T414420 ↗)

The Wikidata Integrations team now has a working prototype of LilDiffCheck, injecting wikidata changes into recent changes only if there was a change on the wikipedia html (phab:T421390 ↗)

Language fallback will be available this week on the labels of linked entities functionality in GraphQL (phab:T413655 ↗)

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

''' Weekly Tasks '''

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

Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above ↗.

Govdirectory weekly focus: field of work ↗

Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities ↗ in one or two sentences.

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

Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.

Help write the next summary! ↗

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Women in Red – May 2026

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'''Online events:'''

''New'': Countries starting with G and H ↗ <big>|</big> Women's scientific works ↗ <big>|</big> Religion and Spirituality ↗

''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗

'''Announcements from other communities:'''

''Contest'': Destubathon of the Americas ↗

'''Tip of the month:'''

Struggling to find scientific works to write about? Start with review articles or textbooks,{{br}} which may highlight influential studies, theories or methods by women.

'''Other ways to participate:'''

Become a member ↗. You can always opt-out of notifications ↗.

Join the conversations on our talkpage ↗.

Help us plan future events ↗ and add any general ideas on developing the project.

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Wikidata weekly summary #730

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''' Discussions '''

New requests for permissions/Bot: Chamiln17@FineWiki ↗ - Task: This bot performs a read-only cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.

Other: better tools to support constraints implied by properties like disjoint union of ↗

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

* WikiProjects Days 2026 ↗ (online, June 19 to 21). A community gathering focused on making WikiProjects more useful, visible, and alive. Propose a session ↗ (deadline for proposals: May 26, 2026) or register now.

* Language Diversity Conference ↗ - Call for Submissions ends 15 May 2026.

* Wikidata Community Summit 2026 @ COSCUP ↗ - Call for Proposals ends May 9, 2026.

* LIC Photo Walking Tour + Wikipedia & Wikidata Workshop ↗ - May 16, 12:30 - 16:00 EDT (UTC-4). A historical walking tour of Long Island City, New York, concluding with a Wiki-skills workshop at LaGuardia. Registration on the event link.

Ongoing: COORDINATE ME 2026 ↗ - a Wikidata competition for geolocatable content has just started and ends 31 May 2026. Visit the link for details on how to participate.

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

Blogs:

* Visualised Blog metadata through SPARQL queries ↗ - ChristianMahnke blog.

* Mozilla Common Voice Meets Wikidata (How the Dagbanli Dictionary Got Audio Usage Examples) ↗

* Wiki Loves Mother Tongue 2026 in the Igbo Community ↗

* EduWiki Workshop Highlights Practical Uses of Wikimedia Commons in Education ↗

* Recap: Wiki for Human Rights, LGBTIQ+ Nigeria, February and March Training ↗

* The new Art+Feminism’s Wikidata Modules are here! ↗

Videos:

* Panel on Wikidata and public domain in Colombia ↗ (Spanish): on April 24th, the National Library of Colombia, The Cultural Network of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia, Wikimedia Colombia and Fundación Conector discussed about digital heritage and Wikidata, its challenges and opportunities for collaboration.

* Wikibase - an introduction by Jason Evans ↗ (Open Data Manager, National Library of Wales). Produced by the Wikimedian in Residence channel, University of Edinburgh.

* A uMap based on Wikidata ↗ - a use-case of Holy Wells located in Ireland, associated with female Saints, powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.

* Wikifunctions in practice: Reusable Logic for Wikimedia ↗ - Presentation given by Toby Hudson (User:99of9 ↗) at the Wikiconference Australia 2026.

* Mentor Me! Session 3A ↗ - This in-person and hands-on session is provided by the Wikimedia Tyap User Group, and continues in the following sessions: Mentor Me! Session 3B ↗ and Mentor Me! Session 3C ↗. Led by Gwakhap D. Anthony, it will cover how to document languages with Wikidata lexemes.

Africa Wiki Women:

* Linking images from Commons to Wikidata and Wikipedia ↗ - how images are used across the Projects with examples documenting African Women.

* Newbies Monthly Meetup for Africa Wiki Women ↗ - further training and introductory skills for Wikidata and how it interacts with the other Wikimedia Projects.

* EditHer Africa Contest (April) ↗ - a beginner-friendly hands-on Wikidata item creation guide and launch of the monthly contest, with a focus on African Women in Works and Leadership.

''' Tool of the week '''

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

WikiTrivia ↗ - the webgame about putting historical events in the correct order recently got a huge update, thanks to creator Tom Watson.

Wikimedia API's / Rate limits ↗ - new rate limits are being added for all Wikimedia projects, to ensure sustainable use to the REST an ACTION API's. If you operate a bot and it has recently started producing an error message for producing too many API requests, please consult the linked MediaWiki page and amend your bot as needed.

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

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

Newest External identifiers: KISTI article ID ↗, FISH Monument Types Thesaurus ID ↗, FISH Evidence Thesaurus ID ↗, Organization in cooperation with ISO ID ↗, ScriptSource script code ↗, ‎ScriptSource language code ↗, Tube8 performer ID ↗, Bundestag Group Minutes ID ↗, Westra code ↗, Myrotvorets ID ↗, ‎Irish State Administration Database Unit ID ↗, Hessische Parlamentarismusgeschichte Abgeordneten-ID ↗, YouPorn performer ID ↗, ‎GFMIS Agency Code ↗, ‎Royal Australian Air Force service number ↗, ‎Plataforma Acácia ID ↗, ‎Observatório Terras Quilombolas ID ↗, BIOSOP ID ↗, BIOKAND ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

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

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

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

*monolingual text name properties ↗ (<nowiki>(with an associated language code) name by which a subject is recorded in a database, mentioned as a contributor of a work, or is referred to in a particular context</nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: Gidrologicheskaya Izuchennost Code ↗, QBWiki article ID ↗, Dijital İstanbul ID ↗, NaPTAN stop area code ↗, Identifiant Cairn d'un éditeur ↗, Darwin Correspondence person ID ↗, ACM Digital Library institution ID ↗, SensCritique person ID ↗, National Archives of Japan Digital Archive ID ↗, VGs drapsoversikt ID ↗, Semanticscience Integrated Ontology ID ↗, Senkyo.com ↗, Objectif plumes author pages ↗, Maoyan personage ID ↗, critify.de publication ID ↗, BookNotification author ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples: Script style of manuscript Qur'ans ↗

Newest WikiProjects ↗:

* Early Modern Silesia ↗

* Tango ↗

WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Ontology has gathered a list of potential projects ↗ for the second offering of the Wikidata Ontology course, and has published a subpage to discuss the future of Ontology Classes and Properties ↗.

Newest database reports ↗: Unmarked Supercentenarians ↗ - this list displays humans who do not have a claim ''supercentenarian (Q1200828)'' (or ''alleged supercentenarian (Q106991708)''), but the difference between their Date of Birth and Date of Death is greater than 110 years.

Showcase Items ↗: Raiders of the Lost Ark ↗ - a 1981 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, and John Rhys-Davies.

Showcase Lexemes ↗: gje (L2205) ↗ - Norwegian verb (jeː) meaning "to give", "to perform/hold", or "to diminish in strength"

''' Development '''

Mobile statement editing: We continued fixing issues uncovered in testing

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

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

''' Weekly Tasks '''

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

Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above ↗.

Govdirectory weekly focus country:

Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities ↗ in one or two sentences.

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

Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.

Help write the next summary! ↗

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Wikidata weekly summary #731

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''' Discussions '''

New requests for permissions/Bot: AAU Research NLP Bot 1 ↗ - Task(s): Querying Wikidata for entities and relations and paths between them. From 1-hop until 3-hops.

Closed request for permissions/Bot: MarisDreshmanisBot ↗ (formerly ''ReNeuralAgent Bot'') has been approved after a community intervention, see the discussion here ↗.

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

* '''WikiProjects Days 2026 ↗''' will take place between '''19 - 21 June'''.<br>WikiProjects are crucial to improving data quality and onboarding newcomers to specific areas of Wikidata. This event is the place for all editors to discover WikiProjects, find ones to join, learn about their modelling practices and how to improve the content and tools of your favourite WikiProjects. '''Register here ↗''' to get any news or updates about this new Wikidata X Days event. The '''Call for Proposals''' is open! If you have an idea for a session, please '''submit it here ↗''' by '''26 May'''.

* Wikidata Live Editing ↗, 11 May

* AI Bridges Symposium ↗ is taking place at ''Senate House, University of London'' across 28 and 29 May. (Free) Registration for this on-site event closes 21 May. The event will begin with introductions to Wikidata, Wikibase, connecting AI with Wikidata and follow on day 2 bringing the full ecosystem together for dialogue, debate, and collaborative action.

Ongoing: Coordinate Me 2026 ↗ - edit items with a P625 ''(coordinate location)'' ↗ from the focus countries and be in the running for a prize. Ends 31 May 2026.

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

Blogs:

* Building Wikimedia tools in Northern Nigeria: launch of Arewa TechCom through the Arewa Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 ↗

* Editing wikibase.world (a MediaWiki site), with Jules (an AI agent) ↗ by Addshore.

* Libraries as AI Infrastructure: The African Edition ↗ - reflections on overlooked African contributions to linked data and AI infrastructure, highlighting Wikibase-powered projects African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) and Nigeria’s Semantic Name Authority Recognition (SNAR). By Stuart Michael Edelenbos

* Tabakalera promotes open access to cultural knowledge by linking their medialab catalogue to Wikidata ↗

* The Stoa: a Review for Digital Classics - report on Linked Pasts 11 - Epigraphic Data in Wikidata, from Ontology to Practice ↗

* Technical tinkering for CommonsDB at the WM Hackathon ↗ by Ainali.

* Ezra Brand - Introducing a New Index of Biblical, Talmudic, and Medieval Jewish Figures ↗ - Wikidata helps index and categorise Jewish figures into distinct periods.

* (Deutsch) ArtHist: New Art-Historical Resource on the Web ↗ and TIB Blog: Embossed story – the Meistersiegel-Wiki is online ↗ are both articles about the new ''Meistersiegel'' Wikibase instance.

Papers: Volume 12,2 ↗ of Digital Classics Online ↗ contains many papers regarding the use Wikidata and Wikibase in the field of Classics:

* ''Hypotheseis, a Database of Named Entities Surrounding Greek Rhetorical Exercises'' ↗ by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo ↗

* ''Altinum: a Wikidata Project for Digital Epigraphy and Prosopography'' ↗ by Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini ↗

* ''The NIKAW Project: An Infrastructure of Texts, Entities and Language Models to Study the Circulation of Knowledge in the Ancient World'' ↗ by Margherita Fantoli ↗

Videos:

* OpenDataDEx - Exploring Supreme Court Rulings in Wikidata ↗, for The Knowledge Commons project. Try it out for yourself: Open Data Explorer ↗

* Wikidata: Introduction and Basics ↗ - an introductory session provided by WMUG Uganda.

* (Arabic) Introduction to Wikidata ↗ hosted by Michel Bakhni for the channel: ''Wikimedia group for those interested in Islamic civilization''

Presentations:

* (Deutsch) Wikidata in Museums, Archives and Libraries ↗

* White Paper (PDF) - Wikidata Days and Wikicite (2025) ↗ - Open bibliographic metadata in practice, what was learned in Bern and what libraries and the community can do next.

''' Tool of the week '''

Open Data DEx Explorer ↗ - ''"an interactive graph visualizer of semantic Open Data. Relationships are discovered heuristically and a graph structure created in real time, allowing navigation and insight into raw data without building formal ontologies."''Read more on The Knowledge Commons blog ↗, by Michelle Tomlyn.

GapMap.Wiki ↗ - explore knowledge gaps between different language Wikipedia's. GapMap identifies Wikipedia articles that exist in many languages but missing from the target, helping editors prioritize which articles to translate or create. No AI is used, just comparing publicly available databases.

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

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

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

Newest General datatypes:

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

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

Newest External identifierss: Cyprus company ID ↗, ‎DBNL title ID ↗, ShotOnWhat film ID ↗, ‎Shinmei database ID ↗, ‎ColBase ID ↗, Lubimyczytać version/edition ID ↗, Files of the Reich Chancellery ID ↗, ‎Darwin Correspondence person ID ↗, ‎Gidrologicheskaya Izuchennost Code ↗, ‎Brew TV movie ID ↗, National Archives of Japan Digital Archive ID ↗, PlayStation Trophies trophy ID ↗, Tax Identification Number (Spain) ↗, ‎19star actor ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to review: concentration camp prisoner number ↗ (<nowiki>registration or prisoner number assigned to a person in camps operated under Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1945</nowiki>)

New External identifier property proposals to review: ID für Kulturdenkmale in Lübeck ↗, Datenbank-ID für Kulturdenkmale in Lübeck ↗, Prime Video URL ID ↗, Prime Video GTI ↗, Portable Antiquities Scheme record ID ↗, Identifiant d'un(e) éditeurice dans le DEF19 2.0 ↗, Apple TV parson ID ↗, CINEMATODAY film ID ↗, Verfassungsblog author ID ↗, Blätter author ID ↗, EGAFD film ID ↗, Museum of Canadian Music artist ID ↗, Museum of Canadian Music work ID ↗, BGAFD film ID ↗, Movielens ID ↗, Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon ID ↗, parliament.scot member ID ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples:

* Astronauts members of Space Missions ↗

* All Horses in Wikidata ↗

Newest WikiProjects ↗:

* Project Horse Racing ↗ : On topics relating to horse racing.

* Project William & May Law School EMCO ↗ - to create and enhance entities for persons and corporate bodies related to the law school, for use in the library's metadata and archival work.

WikiProject Highlights:

* Project GovDirectory: How to use QuickStatements 3.0 to add data to GovDir ↗

* Ontology Course: Projects Offering 2 ↗ - Modelling Dictionary Usage Labels in Wikidata, Roots and Rhythms: Modelling music as cultural heritage.

Showcase Items ↗: Catch Me If You Can ↗ - a 2002 film by Steven Spielberg starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. A dramatic re-telling of the life and exploits of serial confidence man Frank Abegnale Jr., ironically the events of the film were later found to be mostly fabricated.

''' Development '''

Mobile statement editing: We are continuing to improve the UX and fix issues uncovered in testing

Making WikiProjects more visible: We are working on adding links to the sidebar menu of Items to make it easier for people to find the WikiProject(s) associated with an Item, find like-minded people and learn about data modelling conventions etc in that particular area

Query Service: The service is being hit quite heavily and the Wikidata Platform team is working on blocking scrapers and misbehaving tools

Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing our experiment to further reduce the amount of Wikidata changes that show up on Recent changes and Watchlist but don't actually change the article. Specifically we are looking at checking if there is any difference in the rendered article before and after the change coming from Wikidata

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

''' Weekly Tasks '''

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

Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above ↗.

Govdirectory weekly focus: public universities ↗

Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities ↗ in one or two sentences.

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

Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.

Help write the next summary! ↗

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Wikidata weekly summary #732

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''' Discussions '''

New requests for permissions/Bot:

*PatsaBot 1 ↗ - '''Task/s:''' Add sitelink from Template:Taxonomy/* ↗ on thwiki to same entry from enwiki and update Thai description from generic template format to "แม่แบบอนุกรมวิธาน" (taxonomy template).

*MarisDreshmanisBot 2 ↗ - '''Task/s:''' Create occupation Q-items and add native-language labels on existing occupation Q-items from 33 state-issued national occupation classifiers (165 national registries, 154 countries, ~30,000 new Q-items, ~120,000 native labels across 53 languages).

*ias-kbase ↗ - '''Task/s:''' Read-only bulk entity lookups for an internal knowledge graph project. Fetches labels, claims, and sitelinks from Wikidata and intro-paragraph extracts from English Wikipedia. No writes.

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

* Reminder: Propose a session for WikiProject Days 2026 ↗. Your proposal can be just one or two sentences. Suggestions include topics on how to use WikiProjects to connect with others and improve data modelling, how to revive a neglected WikiProject, and what makes a good WikiProject. Propose a session now ↗. Deadline Sunday May 24.

* Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting the 2026 Data Visualization Competition ↗ from 10th to 31st May 2026. We welcome visualization and essay submissions from Indonesian participants on various topics ranging from Indonesian history to biological diversity.

* The three-hundred online Wikidata meetup in Swedish ↗, May 24

* Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond ↗, a workshop on-site at the Digital Humanities Lab (C2003), University Hamburg, 27 May, 14:15 – 15:45 CEST. Registration (via link).

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

Blogs: Easy way to add images to Wikipedia & Wikidata items, with WikiShootMe and Mapillary ↗

Papers:

* ''Wikidata and authority files: reconciliation and cooperation procedures'' ↗ by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo ↗: an overview of the interactions between Wikidata and library authority files and of the usage of Wikibase by library authority files up to July 2025

* ''Institutional practices in gender recording: an analysis of National Libraries'' ↗ by Novaes de Mendonça, and Ana Carolina Simionato Arakaki: contains references to Wikidata and its interconnection with library authority files

* ''Modellizzazione delle conoscenze: Thesaurus Nuovo soggettario e Wikidata, due strumenti a confronto'' ↗ by Elena Cencetti ↗, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo and Elisabetta Viti ↗ (in Italian): a detailed comparison of Wikidata and the Nuovo soggettario Thesaurus ↗ as knowledge organization systems, with a case study regarding the reconciliation with Wikidata of a group of terms of the Nuovo soggettario Thesaurus regarding photography

Videos:

* Curating shared knowledge about artifacts on Wikidata ↗ with Till Grallert, it explores how the Jarāʾid project used Wikidata to build a multilingual, open knowledge graph of pre-1930 Arabic periodicals.

* LIVE Wikidata editing #122 ↗ with User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what they are doing and why they do it.

* Every Major Oil and Gas Pipeline in History Mapped ↗ - a visualisation utilising Wikidata, OpenStreetmap, Wikipedia and Global Energy Monitor.

Presentations

*La fabrique collective des histoires queer dans les communs numériques ↗. Presentation by John Samuel and panel, 2e Rencontres du Reseau Jeune Recherche LGBTQI+, Université Lyon 1, 12 May 2026

''' Tool of the week '''

Wikidata Property Explorer ↗ is a tool by user Steven Liu. The tool is used for exploring Wikidata properties

securitybaseline ↗ use Wikidata to get the domain names for institutions

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

MapRoulette Challenge (Chile) ↗: Improve heritage-related items around Santiago, Chile, linking them to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.

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

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

Newest General datatypes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*subject named as (monolingual text) ↗ (<nowiki>with an associated language code) name by which a subject is recorded in a database, mentioned as a contributor of a work, or is referred to in a particular context</nowiki>)

*alternative name (monolingual text) ↗ (<nowiki>with an associated language code) qualifier for alternative name(s), given for a subject in a database entry, or preserved in references (even these are no longer the preferred name</nowiki>)

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

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

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

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

Newest External identifiers: ‎19star actor ID ↗, ACM Digital Library institution ID ↗, Stockholm public transport stop ID ↗, Go2Senkyo.com politician ID ↗, SensCritique person ID ↗, Census of Italian Architecture since 1945 ↗, CINEFOX film ID ↗, ‎CINEFOX person ID ↗, Cultural heritage Database-ID in Lübeck ↗, Dijital İstanbul cultural property ID ↗, VG homicide ID ↗, Portable Antiquities Scheme record ID ↗, ‎EGAFD film ID ↗, Cairn.info publisher ID ↗, ‎BGAFD film ID ↗, ‎Apple TV person ID ↗, Blätter author ID ↗, ‎critify.de publication ID ↗, Semanticscience Integrated Ontology ID ↗, Prime Video ID ↗, Objectif plumes author ID ↗, ‎Museum of Canadian Music artist ID ↗, ‎Museum of Canadian Music work ID ↗, Lübeck Culturul heritage ID ↗, Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural heritage ID ↗, DEF19 2.0 publisher ID ↗, MovieLens movie ID ↗, Verfassungsblog author ID ↗, QueenBallers player ID ↗, NaPTAN stop area code ↗, CycleBase cyclist ID (new) ↗, ‎Book Notification author ID ↗, ‎Prime Video GTI ↗, ‎parliament.scot member ID ↗, Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon ID ↗, Goodreads genre ID ↗, ‎Giant Bomb Wiki ID ↗

New General datatypes property proposals to reviews:

*contributed to narrative universe ↗ (<nowiki>''(no English description proposed yet)''</nowiki>)

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

*especially ↗ (<nowiki>qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, but applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012)</nowiki>)

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

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

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

New External identifier property proposals to review: StaphBase ID ↗, Geohashing wiki page ↗, identifiant d'un fonds au catalogue collectif de France ↗, Oireachtas bill ID ↗, Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number ↗, European System of Accounts ID (Germany) ↗, Identifiant d'un éditeur sur OpenEdition ↗, Natalie ID ↗, AV CHANNEL actress ID ↗, Mineral Resources Data System deposit ID ↗, Wikimedia Phabricator project ↗, AWA artist ID ↗, Rakuten Music artist ↗, recochoku artist ID ↗, identifiant AnnuSéries d'une série télévisée ↗

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples: Library of Congress occupations by Label and Lccn no. ↗ (source ↗)

WikiProject Highlights:

* Project Malaysia / Wiki x K-pop 2026 Datathon ↗

* Project Occupations / Roadmap ↗

* Project LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group / SummerCoworking ↗

Newest database reports ↗: Children born after Mothers death date ↗

''' Development '''

Tighter connection of the Wikibase Ecosystem: We've been working on making it possible to use Wikidata Items (and later from other Wikibase instances) as values in statements on other Wikibase instances. You can now try it out on a demo system or set up your own test instance to give it a try. More details in the announcement ↗.

Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are continuing the work on showing less irrelevant changes on recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co by trying to determine if an edit from Wikidata actually changed the rendered article or not

Mobile statement editing:

* We worked on reducing the load for users with limited data

* We are continuing to fix issues uncovered in testing

Making Wikiprojects more visible: We are getting ready for testing of the prototype. We'll be adding links to the respective Wikirojects on Item pages in the tools menu to make it easier for people to find the corresponding Wikiprojects. This is based on statements already on the Item such as specific external IDs.

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

''' 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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May 27: WikiWednesday NYC Salon, focus on wiki+law school and wiki+ai

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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC ↗ community for our '''WikiWednesday Salon ↗''' at Prime Produce ↗ in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan ↗, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

Featuring this salon, a presentation on on whether Wikipedia can replace law school. And also, a facilitated group discussion on the proper place of AI in the wiki-verse.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct ↗ and Photography Policy ↗.

Meeting info:

Wednesday, May 27 '''WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce ↗ (optional RSVP on-wiki ↗)'''.

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Wikidata weekly summary #733

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''' Discussions '''

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

''' Events '''

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

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

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

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

''' Tool of the week '''

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

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

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

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

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

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

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

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

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

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

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

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

Showcase Items ↗: Boeing(Q66) ↗

''' Development '''

Mobile statement editing:

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

* We are improving how error messages are shown

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

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

''' 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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Women in Red - June 2026

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''New'': LGBTQ+ women ↗ <big>|</big> Alphabet run: Countries starting with I, J, K and L ↗

''Article improvement campaign'': Orphaned women ↗

''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗

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'''Announcements from other communities:'''

Eiffel women ↗

'''Tip of the month:'''

Consider contributing to two of our monthly events at once, and improve coverage <br/>of LGBTQ+ women by de-orphaning their articles.

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Become a member ↗. You can always opt-out of notifications ↗.

Join the conversations on our talkpage ↗.

Help us plan future events ↗ and add any general ideas on developing the project.

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Wikidata weekly summary #734

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''' Discussions '''

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

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

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

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blogs:

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

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

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

Papers:

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

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

Videos:

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

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

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

Presentations:

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

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

''' Tool of the week '''

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

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

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

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

Newest General datatypes:

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

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

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

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

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

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

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

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

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

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

WikiProject Highlights:

* Project Govdirectory added Cape Verde subpage ↗

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

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

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

''' Development '''

Mobile editing of statements:

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

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

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

* We addressed issues found in testing

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

GraphQL:

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

* We are improving the documentation.

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

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

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Govdirectory weekly focus country: Nigeria ↗

Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities ↗ in one or two sentences.

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

Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.

Help write the next summary! ↗

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Wikidata weekly summary #735

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''' Discussions '''

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

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

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

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

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

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

* '''Blazegraph Migration Office Hour (June session) ↗''' will take place on Tuesday, 9 June 2026 (Tomorrow) at 16:00 UTC ↗. This office hour is focused on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of WDQS. Whether you have questions, need clarification, or want to discuss how your use case may be affected. You can register for the session via the event page ↗. In preparation, add questions, feedback, or migration-related support needs to this etherpad ↗.

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

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

Blogs:

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

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

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

Papers:

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

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

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

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

Videos:

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

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

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

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

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

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

''' Tool of the week '''

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

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

Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's occupation articles ↗

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

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

Newest General datatypes::

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

*‎EPBC conservation status ↗ (<nowiki>the conservation status from the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 assigned by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water</nowiki>)

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

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples:

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

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

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

Newest WikiProjects ↗:

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

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

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

WikiProject Highlights:

* Project LGBT ↗ added an Abstract Wikipedia subpage.

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

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

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

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

''' Development '''

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

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

''' 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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Wikidata weekly summary #736

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''' Discussions '''

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

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blogs:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Videos:

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

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

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

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

''' Tool of the week '''

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

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

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

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

Newest General datatypes:

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

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

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

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

WikiProject Highlights:

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

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

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

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

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

''' Development '''

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

GraphQL:

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

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

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

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

Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:

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

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

Mobile editing of statements:

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

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

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

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

''' Weekly Tasks '''

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

Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above ↗.

Govdirectory weekly focus country:

Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities ↗ in one or two sentences.

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

Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.

Help write the next summary! ↗

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June 24: WikiWednesday NYC Salon, Pride Month Edition

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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC ↗ community for our '''WikiWednesday Salon ↗''' at Prime Produce ↗ in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan ↗, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

This month's salon is a special Pride Month ↗ edition. Help us contribute to the Wiki Loves Pride ↗ global campaign and discuss how we can better represent LGBTQ+ issues on Wikimedia platforms.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct ↗ and Photography Policy ↗.

Meeting info:

Wednesday, June 24 '''WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce ↗ (optional RSVP on-wiki ↗)'''.

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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 ↗.

''' 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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Speedy deletion ↗ nomination of :Category:Taxa named by Tetsuo Sakai ↗

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A tag has been placed on :Category:Taxa named by Tetsuo Sakai ↗ indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category ↗, a category redirect ↗, under discussion at Categories for discussion ↗, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion ↗.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may '''contest the nomination''' by visiting the page ↗ and removing the speedy deletion tag.   <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">'''''L'''''iz</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">'''''Read!''''' ↗ '''''Talk!'''''</sup> 16:46, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

July 2026

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''New'': Crime & law ↗ <big>|</big> Alphabet run: Countries starting with M ↗

''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗

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Women in Red celebrates its 11 Year Anniversary on July 18!

Eiffel women ↗

Developing Countries WikiContest ↗

'''Tip of the month:'''

Working on a group of linked articles? Have you thought about creating a navigation box ↗ for the footer of those pages?

'''Other ways to participate:'''

Become a member ↗. You can always opt-out of notifications ↗.

Join the conversations on our talkpage ↗.

Help us plan future events ↗ and add any general ideas on developing the project.

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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 ↗.

''' 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: 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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July 10: Free Culture Friday / Wiki Loves Fútbol Watch Party

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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC ↗ community for our '''Free Culture Friday / Wiki Loves Fútbol World Cup Watch Party ↗''' at Prime Produce ↗ in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan ↗. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

This special event will feature starting at 1:30 pm a Wikimedia Foundation ↗ meet-and-greet bringing together local staff and community, and then at 3 pm a Wiki Loves Fútbol ↗ watch party and edit-a-thon for the {{Q|137545497}}.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct ↗ and Photography Policy ↗.

Meeting info:

Friday, July 10 '''Free Culture Friday / World Cup Watch Party @ Prime Produce ↗ (optional RSVP on-wiki ↗)'''.

:''1:30 pm – 3:00 pm'' (Wikimedia Foundation staff + community meet-and-greet)

:''3:00 pm – 7:00 pm'' (Wiki Loves Fútbol ↗ Watch Party + Edit-a-thon)

: (Prime Produce ↗, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan ↗)

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--Wikimedia New York City Team ↗ via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:58, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #739

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''' Discussions '''

Closed request for adminship:

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

*Ziv ↗ - '''Closed as Successful'''

New requests for permissions/Bot:

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

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

Closed request for permissions/Bot:

*JigildikBot ↗ - '''Approved'''

*SonalBot ↗ - '''Approved'''

*ias-kbase ↗ - '''Approved'''

''' Events '''

Upcoming events ↗:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Papers:

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

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

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

''' Tool of the week '''

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

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

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

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

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

Newest General datatypes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New General datatypes property proposals to review::

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

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

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

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Development '''

The development team are at an offsite retreat this week.

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

''' Weekly Tasks '''

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

Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above ↗.

Govdirectory weekly focus country: France ↗

Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities ↗ in one or two sentences.

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

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