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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 ↗&nbsp;· Growth ↗&nbsp;· Product Safety and Integrity ↗&nbsp;· Readers ↗&nbsp;· Research ↗&nbsp;· Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗&nbsp;· Tech News ↗&nbsp;· Language and Internationalization ↗&nbsp;· 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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New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

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'''Backlog update'''

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

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

'''2024 and 2025 NPP Awards'''

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{{no ping|Hey man im josh}} and {{no ping|MPGuy2824}} won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

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

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

'''January–February backlog drive'''

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

'''May backlog drive'''

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

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

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Please welcome new user

Hi Oronsay, we have a new user called Abracusdabracus. I hope you can welcome her and help her to learn the ropes. I seem to have forgotten everything.
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:@CooeeCapella: User welcomed; and signed your message (above), added a heading and moved it to where it belongs, at bottom of my Talk page. Best to use "Add topic" to make most of this happen automatically. Oronsay (talk) 12:56, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
::Thanks CooeeCapella (talk) 13:32, 15 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 '''

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• 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 ↗

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• 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 ↗

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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 '''

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

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• 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 ↗

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You can comment on all open property proposals ↗!

''' Did you know? '''

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

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


• Showcase Items ↗: Boeing(Q66) ↗

''' Development '''

• Mobile statement editing:


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


• * We are improving how error messages are shown


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

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

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• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above ↗.


• Govdirectory weekly focus country:


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


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


• Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.


• Help write the next summary! ↗

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Women in Red - June 2026

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Peter Corris Books

Could you have a look at the ''Heroin Annie and Other Cliff Hardy Stories ↗'' and ''The January Zone ↗'' wiki pages, especially at the reviews section? The pages have been reviewed and my extracts tagged as being excessive. Given I could only find one review for each book I think that 3-4 sentences is reasonable but the pages' reviewer thinks otherwise. Thanks. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 22:39, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

:@Perry Middlemiss: You may have seen that I've added to ''January''. Hopefully, I will be able to find something else to add to ''Annie'' (by the way, that's my name) in the next few days. I'm away from home in Hobart at the moment. Oronsay (talk) 07:52, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
::Annie, thanks for the addition of the review. I must have missed that one. I was rather annoyed about the "excessive quotation" tag added by the reviewer. I've rather calmed down a bit more now. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 12:28, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

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 '''

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• 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 ↗

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• 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 ↗

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''' 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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• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Nigeria ↗


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• 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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Books & Bytes – Issue 74

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Wikidata weekly summary #735

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''' Discussions '''

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

''' Events '''

• Upcoming events ↗:


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


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


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


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


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


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

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

• Blogs:


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


• * Behind the &lt;P812: academic major&gt; 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 '''

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• 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 ↗

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• 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 ↗

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''' Did you know? '''

• Query examples:


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


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


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


• Newest WikiProjects ↗:


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


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


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


• WikiProject Highlights:


• * Project LGBT ↗ added an Abstract Wikipedia subpage.


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


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


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


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

''' Development '''

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

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

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• 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 ↗&nbsp;· Growth ↗&nbsp;· Product Safety and Integrity ↗&nbsp;· Readers ↗&nbsp;· Research ↗&nbsp;· Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗&nbsp;· Tech News ↗&nbsp;· Language and Internationalization ↗&nbsp;· other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

right|thumb|200px|Example of the Attribution Framework recommendations. ↗

• '''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.

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3. Theres also a youtube video of his memorial service if you're interested (https://www.youtube.com/live/3eMYa73lB-k)

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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 '''

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• 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 ↗

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• 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) ↗

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''' 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 ↗.

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


• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above ↗.


• Govdirectory weekly focus country:


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


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


• Help merge identical items ↗ across Wikimedia projects.


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Wikidata weekly summary #736

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''' Discussions '''

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


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

''' Events '''

• Upcoming events ↗:


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


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


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


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

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

• Blogs:


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


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


• Papers:


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


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


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


• Videos:


• * Name Suggestion Index Explained: How OpenStreetMap Standardizes Brands ↗


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


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


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


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

''' Tool of the week '''

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


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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

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


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

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

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• 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 ↗

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• 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 ↗

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''' Did you know? '''

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

''' Development '''

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


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


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


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


• We refactored error handling (T423613 ↗).


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


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

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

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• 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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[[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 ↗&nbsp;· Growth ↗&nbsp;· Product Safety and Integrity ↗&nbsp;· Readers ↗&nbsp;· Research ↗&nbsp;· Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗&nbsp;· Tech News ↗&nbsp;· Language and Internationalization ↗&nbsp;· 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.

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Corrections

Many thanks for your corrections to the wiki pages I've created recently. You do realise I only leave them in to check that you have something to do! Cheers Perry Middlemiss (talk) 23:49, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

:Cheers, @Perry. All Wikimedians need more work! But I have a query for you. On your page ''St. Clair'' (collection) ↗, should the Jennifer Strauss review say "image" or "imagine"? I've tried and failed to get access to the review on ProQuest to check. Oronsay (talk) 23:54, 26 June 2026 (UTC)
::"Image" is correct.
::I get my access to Proquest through my membership of the State Library of Victoria. Where are you located? Perry Middlemiss (talk) 00:39, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
:::Thanks for verifying. I should be able to access through SLNSW but today it didn't work. AustLit is the eresource I access all the time via SLNSW. Oronsay (talk) 00:45, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
::::I have editor access on AustLit as well so if you ever find anything amiss there let me know. Cheers. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 01:25, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
:::::I've been emailing AustLit with updates and references, of course, for a number of years. Currently, it's Catriona who replies when my suggestions are being implemented. A while ago, I politely requested direct access so I didn't have to log in via SLNSW, sometimes as many as three or more times in a single day. After about three months, I received an equally polite, no, just keep using SLNSW. Good to know that you're an insider! Oronsay (talk) 01:45, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
::::::I think I was offered editor access about 10-12 years ago as I was flooding them with indexes of the Melbourne Punch. They figured I might as well enter them myself rather than have them retype the entries. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 21:32, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #738

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''' Discussions '''

• New requests for permissions/Bot:


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


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


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

''' Events '''

• Upcoming events ↗:


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


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

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

• Blogs:


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


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


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


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


• Videos:


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


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

''' Tool of the week '''

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

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''

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


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

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

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• 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 ↗

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• 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 ↗

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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 '''

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• 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 ↗

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


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


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

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Hi Oronsay!

I am cleaning up requested article in Wikipedia:WikiProject Sydney/To-do ↗. As you are the person who made the last edit before me, I believe that you are the best person to seek an advice. I wonder if any suburbs in Pittwater_Council#Suburbs_and_localities ↗ should be in red links / why some of them are in italic.

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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 ↗&nbsp;· Product Safety and Integrity ↗&nbsp;· Tech News ↗&nbsp;· Language and Internationalization ↗&nbsp;· The Wikipedia Library ↗&nbsp;· list of movement events ↗&nbsp;· 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 ↗&nbsp;· WikiLearn News ↗&nbsp;· 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 ↗&nbsp;· Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗&nbsp;· 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 ↗&nbsp;· 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.

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