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Hi User:MartinPoulter! I am really grateful for your suggestions and help in alining the page of European Partnership for Democracy ↗ with the community standards. I have adopted all the change you adviced. Let me know how I can improve it again or if it's ready to be approved. Best regards,
Coffeebreak12 17:14, 12 November 2021 (UTCC)

Wikidata weekly summary #608

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

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

''' Discussions '''

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

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

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

''' Events ↗ '''

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

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

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

* Blogs

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

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

* Videos

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

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

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

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

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

* Notebooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

''' Tool of the week '''

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

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff'''

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

''' Did you know? '''

* Newest properties ↗:

** General datatypes: none

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

* New property proposals ↗ to review:

** General datatypes:

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

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

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

* Query examples:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

''' Development '''

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

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

''' Monthly Tasks '''

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

* Comment on property proposals: all open proposals ↗

* Contribute to a Showcase item ↗.

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

* Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.

* Help write the next summary! ↗

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''' 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! ↗

Wikidata weekly summary #612

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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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Wikidata weekly summary #634

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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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Wikidata weekly summary #672 (correct version!)

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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! ↗

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Rollback

I did an edit in UK political parties article, following the general policy of Wikipedia: " if an article appears biased, edit its wording to make it more neutral, or add balancing material that corrects the bias".
You promptly rolled it back. Thereby you amplify the common view that Wikipedia is heavily left wing biased and strongly policed by left wing activists.
I suggest you rollback the rollback and have a decent un-biased markings as edited. Wideseen (talk) 12:26, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
Labelling Reform as "far right" is not serious, it's a mainstram party maybe becoming the largest UK party carrying the PM. The "far right" predicate is only valid seen from an extreme far left viewpoint.

:For transparency, discussion about improvements to the List of political parties in the United Kingdom ↗ needs to take place on Talk:List of political parties in the United Kingdom ↗, not here and definitely not in private email. I don't know what "a decent un-biased markings" means. If you dispute how Wikipedia describes Reform UK ↗, then you need to make that argument on Talk:Reform UK ↗, and you need to use verifiable facts. Your own personal feelings, however strongly held, do not constitute a reasoned argument. MartinPoulter (talk) 20:49, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #727

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''' Discussions '''

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

New requests for permissions/Bot:

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

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

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

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

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

''' Events '''

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

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

Upcoming events ↗:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Videos:

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

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

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

* Introduction to Lexicographical data ↗ - By Chinonso Chidi

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

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

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

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

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

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

''' Tool of the week '''

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

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

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

Newest General datatypes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New General datatypes property proposals to review:

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

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

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

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

You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

Query examples:

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

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

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

WikiProject Highlights:

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

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

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

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

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

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

''' Development '''

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

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

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

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

Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above ↗.

Govdirectory weekly focus country: United Nations ↗

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

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

Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.

Help write the next summary! ↗

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 7

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'''Highlights'''

'''Community Wishlist update''': This monthly update covers ↗ how 44 wishes were fulfilled, 17 are in progress, and 15 more will start work soon. It includes completion of work on Watchlist labels ↗, which allow users to add labels to items in their watchlist to help with managing and filtering; fixing a bug with preview page feature ↗; indexing of Commons on Google & DuckDuckGo search ↗; and a wish simplifying the insertion of maths formulas ↗ in articles. You can submit, vote on, and subscribe to wishes ↗ here.

'''Goal setting for edit-a-thons''': The CampaignEvents extension ↗ now includes a new group goal-setting feature ↗, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. This feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Join the Connection Learning Session ↗ on April 14 at 16:00 UTC to learn more about this feature and new ways to promote events and campaigns to editors.

'''Collaboration with the United Nations''': Learn how the Foundation engages with the United Nations ↗ to secure our collective voice and protect free knowledge.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗''' <br /><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

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'''Navigating articles on mobile''': The Foundation is launching an experiment ↗ to test how to make it easier and more intuitive for readers to navigate through articles on mobile. To do this, we want to test Mobile Page Previews. ↗ This experiment will go live the week of April 20 and will run for four weeks.

'''Editing tools for new editors''': Tone Check ↗ was deployed on French, Japanese, and Portuguese Wikipedia ↗ as a default-on feature for editors who have published 100 or fewer edits locally. When promotional or subjective language is added, users are prompted to consider "neutralizing" the tone of the edit.

'''Managing watchlist labels''': The new watchlist labels ↗ feature is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the "watchstar" (or watch link, for skins that don’t have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': See all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗. A new experiment that just went live is one which aims to establish a baseline retention rate ↗ for logged-in readers.

'''Latest Wikifunctions''': Check out the partial list ↗ of the 102 new functions created last week – likely the first week we have exceeded 100.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 14 ↗ and 15 ↗ include an ongoing A/B test ↗ running on 10 Wikipedias to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. See also the 68 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Community discussions on Semantic Search''': The Wikimedia Foundation, in collaboration with the CEE Hub, hosted a discussion session on Semantic Search ↗ for members of the CEE Youth Group.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''
<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''Don't Blink!''': This month's highlights from the Global Advocacy team ↗ include how the Wikimedia Foundation co-presented alongside the Internet Archive at the State of the Net conference.

'''Digital rights and inclusion''': Take a look at the sessions ↗ that Wikimedians and allied partners will lead during Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) ↗ 2026.

'''Manuscript preservation''': The Wikimedia Foundation supported volunteer-lead workshops ↗ to write Balinese Wikipedia articles about palm-leaf manuscripts (''lontar'') from the Leiden University Library collection.

'''Youth content creators''': Wikimedia Indonesia, together with the Wikimedia Foundation, delivered an introductory session on Wikipedia ↗ for young content creators representing all 11 ASEAN member states.

'''Legal and Safety Contacts''': The Wikimedia Foundation has created a single "Legal and Safety Contacts" page ↗, to be linked in the footer of each wiki page. This will ensure that everyone has access to accurate and up to date Legal contact information. Insertion of the new links on different wikis will be done in stages, based on assessment of legal risk and necessity.

'''Building shared principals for the internet as a public good:''' The Global Advocacy team published a blog ↗ with the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE ↗) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF ↗) summarizing a workshop that brought together digital rights advocates from Latin America to dream of a "digital utopia."

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''
<br /><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikidata API''': Wikidata’s structured knowledge is now available ↗ through Wikimedia Enterprise.

'''Annual Planning and global trends''': Join the America APP call ↗ on April 21 at 18:00 UTC. This meeting is an opportunity for the Latin American community to ensure that the region's voice helps shape the Wikimedia Foundation's work and priorities for the next fiscal year. The call will be in Spanish with interpretation into Portuguese and English. The last meeting ↗ between Wikimedia EDs and Foundation staff was dedicated to discuss global trends too. More discussions are happening on-wiki ↗ and in community spaces ↗ around different regions and projects.

'''Futures Lab:''' The world is changing around us. As the Wikimedia movement navigates this moment over a hundred Wikimedians from different Wikimedia projects came together to deepen our understanding of how these trends are impacting our people and projects at the Wikimedia Futures Lab. ↗

'''Fundraising Hub:''' The Wikimedia Foundation has launched Fundraising Hub ↗ on English Wikipedia. The first discussion you can participate in is about distributing fundraising banner on English Wikipedia throughout the year.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''
<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Ombuds Commission''': Announcement of the 2026 Ombuds Commission ↗, the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the Privacy Policy, the Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy, the CheckUser Policy and the Oversight Policy.

'''Wikinews closure''': All Wikinews editions will be closed ↗ and switched to read-only mode on May 4. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.

'''Other Movement-curated newsletters & news'''
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Wikidata weekly summary #728

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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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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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''' 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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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 9

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'''Community Protection''': Wikimedia Foundation secured Indonesian government’s commitment ↗ to user safety, privacy, and content integrity ahead of administrative registration in Indonesia.

'''Stronger protections against bots''': Wikimedia Foundation is replacing our CAPTCHA with a new approach ↗ to detect bad-faith activities without making things harder for users.

'''Transparency Report:''' The Wikimedia Foundation has published its latest Transparency Report ↗. This provides an overview of the work to protect Wikimedia projects and support the volunteer communities who handle the majority of content requests. Our users trust us to protect their identities against unlawful disclosure, and we take this responsibility seriously, granting only 1 of 30 requests for disclosure we received from July to December 2025.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

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'''Reading Challenge''': As part of the 25th birthday celebrations, Wikipedia Mobile Apps launched a limited-time feature, the 25-day reading challenge with Baby Globe ↗. This challenge encourages a daily habit of reading one Wikipedia article. The goal is to motivate users to come back to the app regularly.

'''Latest experiments''': One upcoming experiment ↗ is introducing the Incident Reporting System (IRS) to help contributors easily find the right place to seek help when facing harassment or other issues. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Change in how new users are autoconfirmed''': The account age for autoconfirmed users ↗ will now start ↗ from their first edit, not the registration date. This is to avoid exploitation by vandals. This change will only apply to wikis that require at least one edit for autoconfirmation.

'''Organized Reading lists''': All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the “automatically enable most beta features” option can now use the reading lists ↗ beta feature. This lets you save articles for later reading and keep it organized in one place for easy access.

'''Thumbnail size preferences''': Default thumbnail size preference for article content is now limited to three sizes ↗: Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px). This change aims to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. Current preferences will shift to the nearest new size.

'''Wikifunctions''': To make the development of Abstract Wikipedia visible, the Foundation is requesting your input ↗: which metrics about Abstract Wikipedia pages do you deem important?

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 18 ↗ and 19 ↗ include improvements on Global Watchlist ↗. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''Annual Planning''': We welcome your feedback ↗ on the main talk page ↗ for the 2026–2027 draft Annual Plan and many other places ↗ for the coming fiscal year.

'''Wikimania''': Wikimania is a joyful event. It is a chance to celebrate our community and projects, share ideas and information, build connections among Wikimedians, and inspire and develop future projects. If you and your community are interested in hosting Wikimania in 2028 and 2029 submit an expressions of interest ↗.

'''Community Conferences''': The Foundation is supporting 15 strategic, diverse, and critical convenings ↗ taking place in 2026 and 2027, bringing together approximately 1800 Wikimedians across various regions, themes, and language communities.

'''Don't blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Wiki Loves Monuments''': The winners of the 2025 Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest are announced ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': How CivicLens Uses Wikidata APIs to Make Civic Data More Accessible ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Wikinews closure''': All Wikinews have been closed ↗ and switched to read-only mode. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.

'''Affcom News''': Read the latest issue of AffCom News (January-March 2026) ↗ to learn more about the latest news about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee ↗.

'''Model for affiliates to support contributors through tools''': The Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ has published draft recommendations ↗ on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space.

'''Grantmaking''': The Global Resource Distribution Committee closed their request for feedback on three initial questions about grantmaking ↗, and published their monthly update for April ↗.

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Thank you for the help

Hello MartinPoulter. I wanted to thank you for reading the Lawrence Weston Wind Turbine ↗ article, which I primarily wrote, and editing it to improve the overall quality and cohesiveness. I keep trying to improve my writing skills on Wikipedia but it is clear that I still have a lot to work on as some grammatical errors still make their way through the cracks, to which I apologise. If it isn't too much trouble, can I ask for some advice to help me improve my writing in the future. All the best, <span style="font-family:Impact;color: #ffb93c">Captain</span><span style="font-family:Impact;color: #b06ad4">Galaxy</span> 15:36, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

:Hi @Captain Galaxy. Amazing work on that article! I learned a lot and it's of interest because I live not too far from the wind turbine. The only things I've found wrong with it are grammatical errors which are easy to fix. You've done the difficult work and now pedants like me can tweak smaller details. My advice is to check that everything punctuated as a sentence actually is a sentence and to watch out for the same thing being stated multiple times, e.g. "the council approved the project... deciding it was worth pursuing" (paraphrase of your text) doesn't really say more than "the council approved the project". I've found these exercises by another veteran Wikipedian incredibly useful in cutting down my overly wordy style. Best wishes, MartinPoulter (talk) 10:46, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

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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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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June 2026 GAN Backlog Drive

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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.

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Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.

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DYK for Palermo Quran

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|text = On 3 June 2026 ↗, '''Did you know ↗''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''Palermo Quran ↗''''', which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ''... that the '''Palermo Quran ↗''' ''(detail pictured)'' has been described as "the single most important artifact so far known to survive from Muslim Sicily"?'' The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Palermo Quran ↗. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page <small>(here's how, Palermo Quran ↗)</small>, and the hook may be added to the statistics page ↗ after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it ↗.
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:Thanks Martin, what a great article. Whonting (talk) 07:05, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
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: Thank you, great to see something that interesting on DYK! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:19, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
: Yesterday was the former German Unity Day, installed when unity was just a dream. I had a story to match, and today, it's another one, with music by Bach ↗ and Mendelssohn ↗ to match, - a DYK hook 15 years ago, which seems like from a different world. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:01, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

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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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

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'''Highlights'''

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

'''Digital Public Goods''': The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member ↗ of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).

'''Better bot detection''': A trial of hCaptcha ↗ on several Wikipedias, including English, French, and Japanese, showed it can effectively detect and deter bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards ↗ signals to look into. Based on these results, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis. See the project page ↗ for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

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'''A better way to give credit''': The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API ↗ makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.

'''Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge''': The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge ↗, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.

'''Account security''': The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions ↗ can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication ↗. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.

'''Incident reporting form''': The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia ↗ of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.

'''Encouraging account creation''': Following a successful account creation experiment ↗, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change ↗ will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.

'''Wikimedia Android App''': The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 ↗ of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: ''Community,'' featuring refreshed Explore content, and ''For You,'' with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The ''For You'' feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.

'''Better discovery of images''': The Image Browsing ↗ beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely ↗.

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

right|thumb|200px|A design mockup of what the share card looks like. ↗

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

'''Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references''': References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions ↗, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations ↗. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.

'''Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia:''' The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20 ↗, 21 ↗, 22 ↗, 23 ↗ include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature ↗ that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''Tech blog moved to Diff''': The migration of the Techblog to Diff ↗ is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.

'''What’s new in the Wikipedia Library''': Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''New course on WikiLearn''': A free self-paced online course ↗, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers ↗” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.

'''Wiki Mentor Africa:''' The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit ↗ brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.

'''Let's Connect Learning Clinic''': If you missed it, you can now watch the recording ↗ of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.

'''Community Conferences''': Registration for WikiConference North America ↗ and Queering Wiki Conference ↗ is now opened. Call for Speakers ↗ for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Sharing the Form 990s:''' The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights ↗ on Form 990 for the Foundation ↗ and Form 990 for the Endowment ↗ on Meta-Wiki.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade ↗ across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.

'''Structured Contents''': How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia ↗ to Markdown with Python.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board selection process''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members ↗. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC ↗, and share your ideas on the talk page ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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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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''' 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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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11

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[[File:Baby Globe in Paris.gif|thumb|150px|The Wikimania program is now live ↗!]]

'''Community Wishlist''': Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future. ↗

'''Simplifying account creation:''' The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process ↗ to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making "Create Account" icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.

'''New U4C members elected:''' The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members ↗ and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

'''Wikimania conference program''': The Wikimania 2026 program is now live ↗! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your "must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket ↗ here, if you haven't signed up yet.

'''Neutral Point of View''': A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard ↗ for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion ↗ open until July 15, 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

thumb|250px|Screenshot showing the Explore Feed refresh in the Wikipedia app (from the Community tab entry point) ↗

'''App Explore feed''': The redesigned App Explore feed ↗, now called "Home", has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.

'''Wikipedia games''': The Which came first? ↗ daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia’s “On This Day” content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis ↗ and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.

'''Article guidance''': The Article guidance ↗ feature is being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page ↗. Example outlines ↗ that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section ↗ of the project page.

'''Mobile Page Previews''': The Page Previews experiment ↗ on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link.

'''Wikifunctions''': You can now add images ↗ to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.

'''Wikidata''': The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service ↗ (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline ↗.

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

'''Mentors' management''': The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors ↗. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.

'''Collaborative''' '''Contributions''': If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides ↗. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 ↗ and 25 ↗ include how the user interface icon library ↗ is being updated. ↗ Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''Digital Safety''': Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. ↗ It'll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It's focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.

'''Don't Blink''': Read the latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.

'''Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model''': Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee ↗ (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) ↗ met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise ↗ to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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This Month in Education: June 2026

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<span style="font-weight:bold; color:#00A7E2; font-size:1.4em; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> Volume 15 • Issue 6 • June 2026</span>

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Wikipedia Editathon at Dinajpur Govt. College: Empowering Graduate Students in the Open Knowledge Movement ↗

Wikimedia Serbia prepares for Edu Wiki camp 2026 ↗

Wiki Digi-Youth Clubs pilot explores challenge-based learning across three countries ↗

Why the EduWiki Hub Starter Kit Matters for the Future of Education ↗

Portuguese Universities adopt free knowledge tools: Wikipedia is the favorite ↗

Translating on Wikipedia used as extra – credit assignment in University of Prishtina, Kosovo ↗

Strengthening Wikimedia Education Through Community Learning and Digital Literacy Initiatives ↗

Small Group, Big Impact: Building Skills Through the Wikimedia Volunteer Focus Group in Botswana ↗

"25x25 Project – Celebrating Wikipedia" in Córdoba, Argentina ↗

Mapping and gathering educational activities on Wiki in Brazilian universities ↗

Growing Wiki Education in the Philippines: Highlights from Bikol WikiConference 2026 ↗

From Mentee to Builder: Six Months in the EduWiki Hub Mentorship Program ↗

EduWiki Hub publishes its first Community Newsletter ↗

Click, Capture, and Contribute: Scaling Open Knowledge Through Mobile Photography ↗

Education in Action: Limkokwing School Adoption Program 2026 and Wikimedia Learning Outcomes ↗

Impact of Wiki Digi youth Clubs initiative in education of Rwanda ↗

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Yabu Meizan GAN

Hi. I see your Good Article nomination on Yabu Meizan ↗ has been dormant for almost a week now. Just checking in to see if you're still interested in responding to the comments left on the GAN. Thanks in advance! <span style="font-family:cursive;color:darkblue;cursor:help"><span>Alexeyevitch</span><sup>(talk)</sup></span> 11:42, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

:Hi. I've only just seen that there is a review! Not sure how I missed it. I will definitely have time to respond and make improvements to the article not today but in the next few days. Thanks so much {{ping|EmergentAnarchy|Alexeyevitch}} MartinPoulter (talk) 12:16, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

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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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 ↗!

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12

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'''Highlights'''

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikipedia's 25th birthday was celebrated with various projects designed to grow awareness and support for Wikipedia and the people who make it possible. This includes the virtual birthday event on January 15, which garnered 10,000 live viewers and 15,000 reactions. Find more details on all related projects and results in the program report ↗.

'''Sustainable use of Wikimedia infrastructure''': A valid user-agent string will now be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement ↗ of the long standing user-agent policy ↗. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.

'''Increasing account creation''': The experiment ↗ providing direct access to “Create account” and “Log in” actions on mobile increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality. The feature will now be rolled out to all wikis ↗ on mobile web.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Engage ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗''</small>
thumb|250px|With Sub-referencing editors can reuse and add details to a main reference. ↗

'''Add A Link''': The Foundation deployed Add A Link ↗ as a default-on suggestion within Suggestion Mode ↗. It is now launched on all wikis to all editors who have opted in to the Suggestion Beta Feature.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, the new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, was deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions.

'''Wikifunctions''': Check out the 71 new functions ↗ with implementations to get a taste of what functions have been created.

'''Range calculator''': The special page Special:RangeCalculator ↗ has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.

'''Captcha verification''': Abuse filters that are set to “require CAPTCHA verification” now also affect users ↗ with the <code>skipcaptcha</code> right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing two variations of a "thank you" badge shown to donors after a recent donation to deepen the relationship between donors and the Wikimedia movement. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Account security on private wikis''': Two-factor authentication ↗ will become mandatory for user accounts on private wikis. This will protect private information from being exposed by an account with a compromised password.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 26 ↗ and 27 ↗ include users will now get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. See also the 65 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Team Challenges''': The core organizing team for Wikimania is introducing Team Challenges ↗, a different approach to Wikimania Hackathon. This year, Wikimedians and professionals from other fields will join forces to undertake one of the 2026 technical challenges.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Enable ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Research newsletter ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': A look at the 2026 edition of Wikimedia Hackathon ↗ which brought together 216 participants from 29 countries building, collaborating, and shaping the future together.

'''Wikimedia Hubs''': The Hub Fund ↗ will pause funding for new pilots ↗ in fiscal year 2026–2027 to align with the work on the Ecosystem of Movement Organizations and the Global Resource Distribution Committee. Existing pilots in transition will be offered an additional year of funding.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Protect ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Open Knowledge And Digital Rights''': Wikimedians shared their reflections ↗ on how Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum reinforced the role of our movement within broader digital rights conversations.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Reach ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Readers ↗''</small>

'''Journalism Award''': Wikimedia Foundation announced ↗ three journalists from Africa as recipients of the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, ↗ run in partnership with the International Center for Journalists ↗ (ICFJ). The awards celebrate the essential role journalists play in creating well-researched articles that volunteer editors can use as source materials to develop content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. In total, 320 submissions were received from 40 African countries.

'''Other Movement-curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗''</small>

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