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Wikidata weekly summary #728
Welcome to my Discussion page
Feel free to say Hi!
WM Hackathon (OoO): May 3 - 5
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Are you attending the
WM Hackathon
in Tallinn, Estonia? I will be there, so please feel free to stop me and say hello, ask me about the
Wikidata Integrations Team
and see if I have any Wikidata swag to offer you.
Out of Office: February 21 - 26
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Dear Wikimedians, I will be out of office between 21.02 - 26.02.24. Please direct any queries to Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) for Wikidata-related queries, or drop me a message here and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Thank you,
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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Wikidata programs
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Hi. I changed my email. Please make me aware of the program.
Doostdar
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16:39, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
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Hi Doostdar,
That's great! Would you kindly email me at: danny.benjafield@wikimedia.de
Then I will be able to add your current email address to our Interview tool and ensue you receive the invitation email correctly. (Please don't tell me on-wiki to ensure it remains private)
Best regards, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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11:46, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
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Doostdar
I realised I forgot to ping you in my reply, just in case you haven't seen this message yet.
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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14:55, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
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Create a page for Albania and Tirana in Palatine German Wikipedia
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Hi Danny!
I am from Albania and I have a request. I have seen that you are native to German language. I think you may also understand Palatine German dialect. If yes, can you create two pages for Albania and Tirana, the capital city of Albania, in Palatine German Wiki, with short content? I would thank you so much. If you aren't native to this dialect, ask a person you may know, via the Wikipedia private message.
Thanks
GeriKola93
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08:46, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
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Hello @
GeriKola93
, thanks for reaching out. As an employee of Wikimedia, I don't add content to the Wiki Projects. This is a Staff policy.
Here is the
community forum
of the Palatine German Wikipedia,
click this link
to write a message there (in English) explaining what you would like done and someone from the Community may be able to help you.
Kind Regards, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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07:17, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
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Out of Office / 31 July - 5 Aug 2024
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I will be on vacation from the end of July until early August.
Any Wikidata queries can be forwarded to
Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)
and for information on Wikidata integrations for Wikimedia projects, please reach out to
Ifeatu Nnaobi (WMDE)
. Thank you -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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Meet me at Wikimania Katowice / 7 - 10 Aug 2024
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Are you attending
Wikimania Katowice
Wikimania is the biggest Wiki event of the year celebrating the Wikimedia projects and the community that enables, supports and populates it.
This year,
Wikidata (integrations) of Wikimedia Projects
will be attending with myself,
Danny Benjafield (Community Communications
and
Ifeatu Nnaobi (Product Manager)
If you would like to arrange a meeting with me, please book a slot on my Calendly:
calendly.com/danny-benjafield-wikimedia
We will be presenting a poster of our activities from the last 12 months and we welcome and encourage you to drop-by, ask us questions and learn about our team, project and goals.
Poster Session Details:
Friday 9 August 17:45 - 19:00 CEST (Local Time)
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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07:25, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
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Wikidata (item) is moving! Find out where
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Apologies for cross-posting in English.
Tracked in
Phabricator
Task T66315
Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project.
The
Wikidata item
sitelink
currently found under the
General
section of the
Tools
sidebar menu will move into the
In Other Projects
section.
We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the
Discussion page
before we enable the change, which can take place October 4, circa 15:00 UTC+2. .
More information can be found on
the project page
. This task has been worked on by
Wikimedia Deutschland
’s
Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects
team.
We welcome your feedback and questions, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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Out of Office: October 09 - 23
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Dear Wikimedians, I will be out of office for much of October (October 09 - 23 (possibly longer). If you have any queries on the following topics, please contact the listed person, discussion page or email address:
Wikidata: please contact my colleague
Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)
Moving the Wikidata item
link: please leave a comment on the
Discussion page
For queries regarding the
Wikidata for Wikimedia projects
team, please either leave a message on the project
Discussion page
or send an email to:
wikidata-for-wikimedia
(Join the
mailing list
Request re Commons descriptions
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When a Commons file has descriptions in more than three languages, only the English description is displayed, while the remaining languages can be seen by using the drop-down menu, which is located right below the picture. Problem is that this is not obvious, as the menu and the descriptions are far apart. For the casual user it is very easy to miss completely that more language descriptions are available, when only the English is displayed. So I recommend: bring the language select menu and description box closer together in some way. The drop down menu must preferably be right inside the description box, in the pale purple area at the left, or even included in media viewers of all languages. Here is one such example, and note the Ndebele is still shown as "nr":
116320 jerusalem pater noster church PikiWiki Israel, isiNdebele and siSwati pair.jpg
. The general layout of the area immediately below commons files can be looked at, as it is not well-designed or user-orientated. Thanks in advance.
JMK
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18:26, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
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Hello @
JMK
, thank you for your suggestion! I have transcribed your request to our project pages and this will get seen by a Product Manager and Engineering Manager for feasibility assessment.
Do you happen to know if there is an existing Phabricator ticket related to this issue?
Kind regards, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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11:51, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
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I appreciate your reply! If "Phabricator ticket" means that the issue has been raised before, then I doubt it. Besides the latter, we are struggling on the Afrikaans wikipedia with some issues, and up to this point, did not know where to ask for help. It mostly concerns unavailable templates, or available templates that don't work. If you look at the cladograms on
this page
or
this page
for instance, you will notice that the black lines have disappeared, leaving us without the graphs. Some of these issues are simple, I think, but we did not have anyone to assist us.
JMK
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13:30, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
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Out of Office: 12.11 ~ 18.11
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Dear Wikimedians, I will be out of office between November 12th till 18th.
If you have any queries on the following topics, please contact the listed person, discussion page or email address:
Wikidata: please contact my colleague Lydia Pintscher (WMDE).
Wikidata for Wikimedia projects: please either leave a message on the project
Discussion page
or send an email to: wikidata-for-wikimedia@lists.wikimedia.org.
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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08:02, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
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Announcement: Wikidata's Strategic Direction for 2025
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(Apologies for posting in English)
Have you wondered what's next for Wikidata?
The Wikidata team is excited to share our priorities for 2025 and beyond.
Read about our four priorities, from
supporting sustainable growth
strengthening the community
increasing data reuse
and
refining platform services
Read the full announcement here:
Wikidata Development Plan: 2025 - 2028
We’ll keep you posted on progress throughout the year and as always, welcome your questions and feedback on the
talk page
. Thank you for your efforts to drive Wikidata forward.
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
on behalf of the Wikidata Team,
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WikidataCon update - May 2025 - Programme Tracks revealed
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Hello everyone, here is an exciting update about the upcoming online
WikidataCon 2025
conference:
The program tracks are here! We will soon be welcoming your ideas on the following topics:
The Future of Wikidata
(such as: how will AI fit into Wikidata’s plans? Changes in the Query Service, next steps for Wikidata development, reworking Notability Policy, how Abstract Wikipedia fits in)
Lexemes and Languages
Linked Open Data Ecosystem
Reuse and Data Partnerships
Providing the World with High Quality Data
Other
(if it doesn’t fit above, we still want to hear about it!)
So, it’s time to start thinking about a session to propose. Check the
WikidataCon Talk page
in the coming weeks for further updates, including on how to submit your Session Proposal idea or to ask any questions you may have.
Save the date:
31 Oct – 2 Nov 2025
Haven’t registered yet?
Sign-up here
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Wikidata and Sister Projects: how to attend
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Hello everyone,
We are about to kick-off the Wikidata and Sister Projects online event, focusing on how Wikidata is used, supports and interacts with the sister (or sibling) Wikimedia Projects.
The event is starting tomorrow (29.05.2025) at
16:00 UTC
How to attend:
if you want to join the Jitsi room in order to interact with speakers and other participants, you can
register on the event page
in order to unlock access to the Jitsi link. You can also watch the livestream on Youtube, links will be published on the program table.
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to write on the
Discussion page
or to reach out to me
directly
. We hope you enjoy the event! Best, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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08:22, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
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Updates from Capacity Exchange (CapX)!
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Hello Danny Benjafield (WMDE),
My name is
Joris Darlington Quarshie
, and I am an
Outreach Facilitator for the Capacity Exchange (CapX)
— a platform for finding and connecting with peers to exchange knowledge and skills on a global level.
CapX is a community-built tool, designed by and for the Wikimedia Movement, to make it easier for Wikimedians across the world to find and connect, collaborate, and exchange skills and knowledge with peers.
If you don't know it yet, I invite you to access
capx.toolforge.org
and create your user profile with your Wikimedia account. But, if you already have a profile, I invite you to check out the new features and possibilities we just launched. I am sure you will be delighted.
CapX's new version incorporates valuable community feedback gathered over the past months, including the
Organization Profile
- a feature for Wikimedia affiliates, initiatives, or community groups to create their own CapX presence (see
here how to create
yours).
Click to log in using your Wikimedia unified account through authentication:
Sign up now
Explore CapX's new features
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→ Access:
capx.toolforge.org
→ Watch the launch video:
Meet the Capacity Exchange
→ Navigate
CapX's User Guide
and
Frequently Asked Questions
→ Share your profile on Meta by adding the predefinition {{CapacityExchange}} to your userpage.
→ Visit
our Meta Page
for all documentation on the project
→ Join our telegram channel:
Capx Telegram Group
Please, let me know if you think your community would enjoy a presentation, workshop demonstration, or feedback session. I would be happy to support you on that. Just reach out, and we can schedule the best date and time together.
Best regards,
Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project
– Wikimedia Brasil
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Databox
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Hi!
I have some (somewhat late..) questions/comments on your post at
sv:Module:Databox - would your Wiki like to test new changes?
Gunnar Larsson
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13:13, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
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Hello there, sorry for delay in reply.
I've relayed your questions over to the rest of the team and hope to have a reply to the post on the
Wikidatafrågor thread
soon. Thanks for reaching out! -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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10:24, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
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Join us for “Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages”!
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Hello Danny Benjafield (WMDE),
We’re excited to invite you to an inspiring global virtual gathering: the first Capacity Exchange
Translat-a-thon
Together with
Language Diversity Hub
, the
Capacity Exchange (CapX)
team will host its first Translation Marathon dedicated to ensuring linguistic equity in access to this amazing tool aimed to connect Wikimedians.
If you enjoy contributing to Wikimedia projects through translating and adapting content into different languages, this event is for you! Join us in the celebration of the
multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia Movement
at an event where communities that contribute in diverse languages will be able to share local knowledge and collaborate across borders.
Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages
Date:
December 6, 2025
Time:
12 PM (UTC) - Check the event page for your local timezone
Location:
Online (Meta-Wiki + live session links)
Register for the Event here
If you can’t join the live event, you can still contribute to the translations! Edits will be counted for two weeks, until December 20th. And everyone who participates will receive a special badge to display on their CapX profiles.
Strengthen your collaboration through CapX
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We invite you and your community to join the
Capacity Exchange (CapX)
, a Wikimedia community-built platform for connecting, collaborating, and exchanging skills with peers across the movement.
CapX helps Wikimedians and organizations find each other, share expertise, and build stronger, more connected communities.
Whether you’re an individual contributor, a user group, a community initiative or an affiliate, CapX helps you grow through knowledge exchange.
Sign up to CapX
More information
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→ Explore the CapX platform:
capx.toolforge.org
→ Read:
User Guide
FAQ
→ Watch:
Meet the Capacity Exchange video
→ Join our Telegram community chat:
CapX Telegram Group
If your community, usergroup or affiliate would like to have a CapX organization profile, please reach out at
capx@wmnobrasil.org
, and we’d be delighted to support you.
With warm regards,
Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project
Wikimedia Brasil
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Wikidata weekly summary #706
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-17. Missed the previous one? See issue
#705
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
Che-W-bot
- Task(s): Possible duplicate of the bot below.
CheWikibot
- Task(s): Import new articles created on Chechen Wikipedia (ce.wiki) to Wikidata.
DDResearchBot
- Task(s): This bot will facilitate adding structured, cited data from trusted integrity sources to Wikidata for
Dewey Digital
Closed request for comments:
Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks
- While there is a general agreement for admins to block /64, no consensus to add to the blocking Policy was reached.
Proposal to better document featured SPARQL queries
- Consensus was reached and a vote is planned.
Gender neutral Labels for occupations/positions in French
- Majority support for using male and female forms in French labels and aliases, gender-neutral descriptions, and completing male/female label properties.
Items for videos of online platforms that represent notable Items
- No consensus could be reached.
Should Labels of interlanguage links from other Wikipedia Projects?
- There is general support to import labels, however there are concerns about the import as an Alias.
Signed Statements
- No consensus could be reached.
Use of dates in descriptions of items regarding humans
- Dates on Wikidata are community-specific; add only to disambiguate, don’t remove, and format per language conventions.
Project chat:
Proposal:Prohibiting LLM-generated content
Other:
Wikidata:Temporary account IP viewer
- users who may view IP addresses associated with temporary accounts.
Wikidata:Self-promotion
- an essay on creating an Item about yourself, your organisation, or your work is a form of self-promotion and is strongly discouraged. Feel free to update this page.
Events
Upcoming events
Wikidata Days: IWUG and WAFTAI
- A 4 day edit-a-thon beginning November 26, 2025, for Cameroonian and Nigerian educational institutions.
WikiLatih Wikidata
- November 21, 08:50am (WIB), learning around Wikidata: how to reuse data and edit Items. Organised by the Faculty of Science and Technology Universitas Airlangga.
Just missed it:
First steps in Wikidata for the Wikimedia LGBT Community
- two introductory workshops for English, French and Spanish Wikipedians with an interest in learning Wikidata.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
GLAM Netherlands report
The joint Radboud–Maastricht project Open Topstukken concluded at the Dutch National Library, showcasing 30 digitized collection highlights enriched with Linked Open Data via Wikidata and supported by new tools, documentation, and visualizations to enhance digital accessibility and interoperability.
Videos:
(Spanish)
Mujeres que Inspiran: Layla Michán - Wikidata e investigación
(Women who inspire. Wikidata & research)
Wikidata Workshop: Improving African Authors and Books Items
(Spanish)
Enriquecer, reutilizar y modelar datos y metadatos usando Wikidata. Tomás Saorín Pérez
(Enrich, reuse, and model data and metadata using Wikidata.)
Guide to the Wikidata Notability Policy
Wikidata: Wikimedia's knowledge graph in a world of generative AI
(Portuguese)
O que saber antes de editar no Wikidata
(What to know before editing on Wikidata)
(Portuguese)
Para além da Wikipédia: como os dados estruturados conectam saberes
(Beyond Wikipedia: how structured data connect knowledge)
Tool of the week
ArchiveExternaLinks
is a UserScript by
Poro26
. The UserScript automates the archiving of all external links present in an item, whether they appear in statements, references or identifiers. For each external link, the script automatically adds an archive link [archive], similar to what is done on Wikipedia for web sources cited in references
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
data collection method
(scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject)
time of deposition
(point in time when an archaeological object or assemblage was buried, hidden, lost, or otherwise deposited)
Commonwealth Sport country code
(code for countries participating in Commonwealth Sport events)
Newest External identifiers:
Japanese Film Database ID
GCatholic former diocese ID
Myanmar Company Registration Number
Team Austria athlete ID
‎ECHL.com player ID
‎Genbu.net ID
ISTAMPIE ID
HarmonyOS NEXT APP ID
Federal Legal Information ID
UNESCO Virtual Museum inventory ID
South Korean Business Registration Number
‎Lämningsnummer
‎Mackolik football manager ID
Biserici.org church ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
role in naming
(the role the namesake played in relation to this item, i.e. why the item is named after the namesake)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
Korea Heritage Service Heritage Portal ID
Lubimyczytać version/edition ID
UEA catalogue ID
CRA program account number
PL-AED
Yandex Object Answer ID
You can comment on
all open property proposals
Did you know?
Query examples:
Towns named after Alexander the great
Heritage added to the Memory of the World International Register in 2025
(newly added data)
Newest
WikiProjects
WikiProject LGBTQ History
- aims to improve and organize data related to the history, people, places, events, and organizations that have contributed to LGBTQ+ experiences across time and geography.
WikiProject Highlights:
👩🔬Passionate about highlighting women's achievements? WikiProject Women is dedicated to creating and improving data about women worldwide. Help close the gender gap in knowledge!
WikiProject Women
🗳️ Interested in democracy and political data? Join WikiProject Elections to model data about elections, candidates, and results from around the globe. Make electoral data open and accessible!
WikiProject Elections
🏛️ How do you find info on government institutions? WikiProject Govdirectory has a structured data model for that! Help improve data about public agencies on Wikidata.
WikiProject Govdirectory
🎵 Into music? From classical to K-pop, WikiProject Music needs your expertise to harmonize data on songs, artists, and releases. Join the band!
WikiProject Music
🧬 Your skills can help model lifesaving data. WikiProject Medicine works on structured data for diseases, drugs, clinical trials, and anatomy. Join a project that matters.
WikiProject Medicine
🔍 Interested in how knowledge itself is structured? WikiProject Ontology delves into the fundamental classes and properties of Wikidata. Shape the backbone of the knowledge graph!
WikiProject Ontology
Showcase Items
Aboriginal Australians (Q12060728)
- First Nations people of Australia
Showcase Lexemes
ਦਿਮਾਗ਼ (L1078947)
- Punjabi noun (dɪ.mäːɣ) meaning "brain (organ)", "intellect/mind", or "understanding/consciousness"
Development
Mobile statement editing:
We are working on editing statements that link to other entities in their value (
phab:T403974
phab:T409149
We enabled mobile statement editing as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org (
phab:T407737
GraphQL prototype: We finished the work on making labels of linked entities available (
phab:T404692
Dumps: We are continuing to work on making the dump process more robust
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 #707
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-24. Missed the previous one? See issue
#706
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
News2DataBot
- Task(s): Check for new, unlinked articles on
Polish Wikinews
and create relevant Items.
WikidataLiteraryWorksMetaDataUpload
- Task(s): Upload metadata for literary works from research project.
New request for comments: The
Exhibition Models
RfC was split into 2 Schema proposals:
Exhibition Concept
and
Exhibition Manifestation
Events
Upcoming events
Upcoming LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session on 25 November 2025: Join the community-driven effort led by WikiProject Personal Pronouns to improve pronoun data modeling and ethics in Wikidata. This is part of a three-session series (Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9) focused on implementing new best practices. No prior Wikidata experience required. Join at
17:00 UTC
Event page
Wikimedia Hackathon 2026
- Hosted in Milan, Italy, scholarships are now open,
apply on Pretix
Art+Feminism & Whose Knowledge?
- A conversation on building a feminist data future, Dec 5, 2025, 13:00 UTC (
Time zone converter
).
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Impact of Wikipedia and Wikidata on ChatGPT search results
Wikidata as an authority data source for private collectors
(German)
Environmental and climate reference in large knowledge databases. Wikipedia, Wikidata and environmental portals in comparison
Presentations: Wikidata as a challenge for rule systems (Declarative AI 2025 Conf.) -
Slides
Recording
Papers:
Snapshot of bibliographic metadata from Wikidata for all Arabic periodicals published worldwide before 1930
- Project Jarāʾid, by T. Grallert, (2025).
Videos:
An introduction to Wikidata and its use for librarians and researchers
; slides available
on Commons
WikidataCon 2025 Session Playlists (YouTube):
Day 1 (31.10)
Day 2 (01.11)
Day 3 (02.11)
Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature
- By Dr Thneed
Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate
Towards Linked Data Fluency: Takeaways from a Wikidata Workflow Pilot Program
Enhancing authority files through SPARQL federated queries
- Thomas Kerboul and the Bibliothèque de Genève improved person data by comparing Wikidata and IdRef, with manual checks preventing ID mix-ups.
(Spanish)
Inspiring Women: Layla Michán - Wikidata and research
- Dr. Aguirre (UNAM) discusses Wikidata as a collaborative research tool and shared experiences in the “Women Who Inspire” series.
Tool of the week
Timetrail
is a website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations.
The redesigned WikiProvenance is now live, featuring a new front end and backend for exploring and comparing Wikidata provenance information. Try examples like
Johann Sebastian Bach
or
Human vs. City
and
Paris vs. London
. Explore it here:
Other Noteworthy Stuff
LDF endpoint retirement considered
: The unstable and low-traffic LDF endpoint may be retired to reduce maintenance effort and unnecessary load on WDQS. If your workflow depends on it and you would hate to see it go, please let the Wikidata development team know at
Wikidata talk:Data access
WDQS Legacy endpoint deprecation
: The legacy endpoint (
query-legacy-full.wikidata.org
) will be fully decommissioned on 7 January 2026. Please migrate tools and workflows to the supported endpoints:
query.wikidata.org
(Main) or
query-scholarly.wikidata.org
(Scholarly). Assistance is available on the
Data Access
and
Request a Query
pages.
Insights from Data Governance Research Process 2025
: Results of the research to better understand how the communities currently think about which data and communities are best served by Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud or Wikibase Suite respectively.
Abstract Wikipedia naming contest
: Help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project which is provisionally known as Abstract Wikipedia. The second phase of voting is now open until December 1.
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest External identifiers:
CUIT
REGAFI id
Hong Kong company ID
California Entity Number
Mã số doanh nghiệp
‎InfoconDB series ID
‎InfoconDB conference ID
‎Biography.com ID
Hudobné centrum person ID
Hudobné centrum group ID
FAIR Epigraphic Vocabularies ID
NVLI ID
SerBenfiquista.com players ID
‎BG IISDA org ID
‎BG NACID person ID
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland ID
Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID
National cultural monument of Czechia ID
‎Davis Cup player ID since 2025
‎Eiga.com drama ID
Last Address ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
parliamentary group leader
(the identity of the leader of a parliamentary group)
SignWriting transcription
(representation in SignWriting)
free height
(vertical distance from the floor level to the lowest obstruction in the ceiling of an indoor or outdoor space)
thumbtime
(Time for video thumbnail in seconds)
Credibly accused of
(entity (person or organization) that has been credibly accused of a crime or serious misconduct, but is not (yet) convicted)
New External identifier property proposals to review::
CHZZK streamer ID
FC Barcelona players ID
Qalamos person ID
KISTI conference ID
KaraokeTexty.cz artist ID
KaraokeTexty.cz song ID
DLSite dōjin circle ID
DLSite person ID
DLSite work ID
Showlabs ID
DEUMM Online ID
Kvinnehistorie.no persons ID
Foot Résultats player ID
Manga-DB person ID
Manga-DB publisher ID
Manga-DB magazine ID
Slekt og Data cemetery ID
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Videogames in the wrong genre
source
People buried in Italian (or subregion) cemeteries
source
Newest
WikiProjects
Bookbindings
- share metadata and images from the currently offline Database of Bookbindings at the British Library
Irish Traditional Music:Projects
- aims to systematically create and enhance Wikidata items for people profiled in the 2024 edition of Fintan Vallely's The Companion to Irish Traditional Music.
Basketball: Western Illinois Leathernecks Women's
WikiProject Highlights:
Lost Media/Subpages
- aim to list all media lost to time in Wikidata
Showcase Items
arXiv (Q118398)
- online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Showcase Lexemes
Bogucin (L1405411)
- Polish proper noun (bɔˈɡu.t͡ɕin) meaning "village in Greater Poland", "village in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship", or "village in Lublin Voivodeship"
Weekly Tasks
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above
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme
above
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week leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue
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Discussions
A Project Chat discussion (
here
) on mul / fallback language for Labels, Descriptions and Aliases has continued on
Help Talk: Default values for labels and aliases
Events
Upcoming events
Mark your calendars
Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map
February 2 & April 20 (German) / June 2 (French), 2026. Workshops are on-site and online, registration mandatory (closes January 20).
Citizen Technology Community Gathering and Taiwan Translation Launch of Linked Open Data Documents
December 7 Time: 13:30-16:50 UTC+8 at
West District
(Q707524)
Xi Project
OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #83 December 8 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at
Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Wikidata 13th celebration in the Philippines
Wikidata 13th Birthday: Taiwan special event recap (part 3)
WikidataCon 2025: A conversation with Danny Benjafield
Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group
Africa Wiki Women Celebrates Wikidata’s 13th Birthday
Papers:
Benchmarking SPARQL Engines on Wikidata Queries
- Four open-source SPARQL engines were benchmarked on Wikidata, with QLever fastest, Blazegraph slower, and all showing SPARQL standard deviations. By Peter F. Patel-Schneider (2025).
Videos:
Records in Contexts (RiC) Wikibase Working Session
- Regine Heberlein of the (SAA) Description Section Steering Committee hosts a workshop on Wikibase implementation of the Records in Context Conceptual Model (RiC-CM).
Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate
- Follow along as WMDE's Lukas Werkmeister expands Items of Berlin Stoelpersteine.
Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature
- by Dr Thneed
Tool of the week
Prix Littéraires
lists French-speaking literary prizes and their recipients, also computing
statistics
(see also
WikiProject
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Nov 27: The Wikibase Community User Group met for a Wikibase Live Session and to discuss the Federated Values demonstration.
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest External identifiers:
Federal Taxpayer Registry ID
WDSF athlete ID
TikTok numeric user ID
USGS Publication ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
concurring opinion by
(judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court agreeing with the majority's final decision but providing different or additional reasons)
audio version of text
(The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).)
Hong Kong fire alarm level
(Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
overnight stays
(number of tourists that stay overnight at a place)
specimen determiner
(person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
collection date
(the date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
position holder name string
(name of person holding a position)
Crowdfunding target
(target goal of this Crowdfunding campaign)
image sensor format
(shape and size of a digital camera's image sensor)
random page URL
(link to random page on website)
translates from
(language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
Twitter broadcast ID
Petal Maps Place ID
MJ character glyph name
Mastercaller player ID
dartn.de player ID
darts1.de player ID
pdpa.co.uk player ID
Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID
Theaterencyclopedie-identificatiecode
Buy Me a Coffee username
GoFundMe ID
Identifiant Maitron d'une biographie (nouvelle version)
Michaelis Portuguese-English properties
U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name slug
FCC ID Database company ID
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Objects bearing the handwriting of Moses Maimonides
(Source)
Newest
WikiProjects
Uzbekistan
Natural History Specimen Data Model
Newest
database reports
Popular Items without Claims
- these are the most-connected or linked Items that do not have any Statements.
Showcase Items
The Walt Disney Company
(Q7414)
- American multinational mass media company
Showcase Lexemes
Showcase Lexemes
девочка (L103836)
- Russian noun (dʲɪˈvot͡ɕkə) meaning "female child", "affectionate address to a woman", or "female organism"
Development
Mobile editing of statements:
We have added editing support for more data types (entity IDs, geographical shapes and tabular data).
It is now available as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org. You can enable it
here
Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are rolling out improvements to the Databox Lua module to a number of Wikipedias to make it easier to have out-of-the-box Wikidata-powered infoboxes
Ontology federation: We are making progress with making it possible to use Wikidata Item's as statement values in other Wikibase instances
GraphQL: We are continuing the work on the prototype, focusing on getting data from a batch of Items
Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is working on benchmarking of different replacement options for Blazegraph, the software powering the Wikidata Query Service
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
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above
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above
Govdirectory weekly focus country:
Togo
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WikiProject's ongoing activities
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-08. Missed the previous one? See issue
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Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
Well, Well, Bot!
- Task/s: Database imports, maintenance.
RijksBot
- Task/s: Adding
Rijksmuseum IDs
(P13234) to Wikidata items based on a CSV mapping of
QIDs
to
Rijksmuseum
URIs
CostamiriBot
- Task/s:
Chess
related tasks such as monthly updates to the
elo
rating
of
chess players
New draft:
Wikidata:External identifiers/Obsolescence
(opinions are welcome in its talk page)
Events
Upcoming events
How to view #25N with Wikidata?
- a community hour with Wikimedia Chile, 21:00 UTC+1 (
Time zone converter
Fact-Checking with Wikidata Workshop
- January 20, 2026, 16:30 ~ 18:00 UTC+1 (
Time zone converter
) - WMDE's Philippe Saadé will show hands-on methods using the Wikidata MCP to retrieve, filter and classify Wikidata statements with semantic search, reranker LLM and NLI models, registration required.
(Portuguese)
Meeting Point Editatona II - Warm your hands modeling festival on Wikidata
: December 10, 2025, 15:00 - 19:00 UTC+1, Porto, Portugal.
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
session 9 December, 2025: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (
Time zone converter
). WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. Sessions will be held on October 14, November 25, and December 9, 2025 at our regular time of 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page:
Past Events:
Digital Humanities Hub: Documenting epigraphic data, Wikidata ontology practice
- December 2 & 3, 2025, both 14:00 ~ 15:30 UTC.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Lafia
Papers:
Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models
- Chepurova
et al
., (2025)
Victims of Posterity. Identifying Gaps on 19th-Century French Art History with Wikidata
- first paper in the
Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse
collection by the Journal of Open Humanities Data. Authored by Claire Dupin de Beyssat.
Videos:
GB Claude Code AI Agent: Fully Autonomous Wikidata Query & Visualization (Zero Human Intervention)
(Taiwanese Mandarin)
Wikidata Taiwan translation project on "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage"
(as published by the OCLC)
Tool of the week
Wikiguessr Game
Is a Wikidata game it guess the location from Image from anywhere around the world by
User: Ranjithsiji
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Remembering Amos Bairoch, co-contributor to
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Semantic Web of data
and consulted often for TiagoLubiana's
CellosaurusBot
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
‎GBFS feed URL
(URL of a GBFS feed for the bicycle-sharing system)
code of conduct URL
(URL of a resource that contains the Code of Conduct of a project or organization)
Newest External identifiers:
BFXC authority ID
Out tag ID
GayCities ID
Fight.ru fighters ID
Personality Database group ID
‎Codes for the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China
Macanese company ID
‎MovieID film ID
Teen Vogue tag ID
‎CRT Database model ID
PriceRunner product ID
BWB number
Brandenburg School ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
fragrance gender
(category for which a fragrance is marketed)
perfumer
(person who created a perfume)
Discharge regime
(The '''[[:en:Discharge regime|discharge regime]]''' can be Glacial, Nival or Pluvial. It can be a combination of 2 : Nivo-pluvial, Pluvio-nival, Nivo-glacial, etc. Be specific (e.g. pluvial tropical, meridional, etc.). Or be complex)
minimal pair of
(lexeme that differ from this one in only one phonological element)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
Cookpad Recipe ID
Sector.sk game ID
Card Player ID
Fragrantica perfume ID
Fragrantica perfume brand ID
My Abandonware theme ID
Identificador Banrep Cultural
izoh.uz word ID
VGChartz game ID
Metacritic video game genre ID
Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID
Taking Stock ID
Game Font Library ID
Fragrantica perfume notes ID
EAGER game ID
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Birthplace of French Heads of State
Films starring Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hughes, available on YouTube
WikiProject Highlights:
WikiProject Turkmenistan
Showcase Items
Goosebumps
- 2015 film directed by Rob Letterman
Showcase Lexemes
course (L3958)
- English noun (kɔːrs) meaning "direction of movement", "program of study", or "part of a meal"
Development
Mobile statement editing:
It's now possible to edit existing references (
phab:T405236
We fixed a number of issues such as a problem when adding the first statements to an item (
phab:T409069
We started work on showing constraint violation indicators (
phab:T400676
We're working on showing errors in the edit form (
phab:T408928
We're improving the edit summaries (
phab:T411247
Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We continued working on improvements to the Databox Lua module and template
GraphQL: We continued working on the first version of GraphQL support
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
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week leading up to 2025-12-15. Missed the previous one? See issue
#709
Discussions
The mass editing policy Request for Comments
has a number of open questions looking for votes and comments to shape the mass-editing policy.
Events
Upcoming events
Scholia hackathon
is ongoing this week, focused on completing the transition of Scholia to
QLever
as the SPARQL backend for its Wikidata queries.
Data and Technology Week 2025
from 19th of December 2025 to 22 of December 2025, organized by
Wikimedia Indonesia‎
(Q13098516)
. Consisted of a Wikidata Workshop, a Wikifunction Introductory Seminar and
Geodatathon
. This event is in Indonesian.
(English)
WM Malaysia / 2025 SEA Games Datathon
- 20.12.2025, 1200 ~ 1400 UTC.
to contribute to items about athletes competing in
South East Asian Games 2025
Q25041680
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs: (French)
Facebook post: ArkéoTopia
: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (CTHS) to begin integrating Wikidata
Papers:
Open Data Practices of Art Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment
- second paper of the
Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse
collection. By Dişli et al., (2025).
VIAF Governance Concerns about the Refurbished VIAF Web and API Interfaces
by Stefano Bargioni (2025): a detailed account of the technical and governance issues experienced by
VIAF
in 2025 and its impact on its many external reusers, including Wikidata
Videos:
(Italian)
Wikidata and Wikibase for research
: Camillo Pellizzari gives an overview of Wikidata, the data model, potential as scientific research subject and tool, then a Wikibase intro and its uses beyond Wikidata, with example instance:
Hypotheseis
; slides
on Commons
Feminist Structured data: A Conversation with Art+Feminism and Whose Knowledge?
: How feminist values can reshape structured data on Wikidata to address gaps, representation, and opportunities for collaboration across communities.
Community Hours: Art+Feminism community in Armenia
: Former regional A+F ambassador, Arminé Aghayan-Flisch, tells us of her experiences growing the A+F Armenian community through GLAM, Wikidata and Wikipedia.
(Spanish)
PADEP 2025: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research
: Dr. Luis Álvarez Azcárraga teaches the course:
Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Open Databases for Social, Artistic, and Cultural Studies
See something, change something Webinar
: @
58:10
, a presentation on the Wikidata agent plug-in for ArchivesSpace is given.
Wikibase Live Session / November 27
: First demo presented of federation of values from Wikidata to Wikibases.
Tool of the week
Broomstick
- Broomstick is a tool to uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Congratulations to
Govdirectory
, the
winner of the FSF's Award for Projects of Social Benefit
wikibase-cli
got
support for claim reconciliation
. This is typically useful to add a claim unless it already exists.
The Wikimedia Research Fund
is open for funding applications for research projects around the Wikimedia Projects, including Wikidata.
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
has grammatical number
(grammatical number used in this language)
Newest External identifiers:
‎NLI Newspaper Collection ID
Cabinet minutes of the German Government ID
neodb.social ID
Flemish Community Masterpieces List item ID
Medicin.dk medical condition ID
‎Mapillary username
‎Sector.sk game ID
‎My Abandonware theme ID
‎Encyclopedia of Shinto ID
‎Blu-Ray.com film ID
‎Japanese Law Translation ID
‎Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID
‎Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID
Getty Collections Archival Component ID
CRA program account number
FC Barcelona player ID
Qalamos person ID
‎KISTI conference ID
New External identifier property proposals to review:
survivalhorrors.com ID
Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID
GamesIndustry.biz game ID
WhatsOnStage Stage Names ID
Adventure Game Hotspot game ID
identifiant Netflix titre
4gamer.net game ID
Fragrantica perfumer ID
PC Guru game ID
British Newspaper Archive publication ID
GOG tag ID
Open Food Facts brand ID
Games for Change directory ID
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Query examples:
All ports in Wikidata, sorted by the total number of statements
Queer and LGBT Literature that have won Literary Awards
source
Bubble chart with numbers shown in the bubbles: Memory of the World inscriptions from Arab states
Newest
WikiProjects
WikiProject P244 maintenance
- For coordination and improvement of Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAP) via
Library of Congress authority ID
WikiProject Museum of Glass
Q2894440
- improving the visibility of visiting artists to the
University of Washington Information School
WikiProject Highlights: Egezort's efforts in
Mereology: removing/migrating part of statements in Recipe relationships
Newest
database reports
34 Bots operating without a Bot flag
Showcase Items
Fort George
(Q1426707)
- 18th-century fortress built in the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745
Showcase Lexemes
mesa (L31222)
- Spanish noun (ˈme.sa) meaning "table (furniture)", "mesa (flat-topped hill)", or "served table for dining"
Development
Edit summaries: We made changes that will improve the automatic edit summaries of edits made using the wbeditentity API endpoint. Tools that use this endpoint to edit statements will, in some cases, now have more accurate edit summaries; this also affects how such edits are summarized in
edit groups
. (
phab:T411247
Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are collecting feedback from the first wikis who got the new and improved Databox module.
Mobile statement editing:
We are making remaining changes for the first roll-out as a beta-feature.
We are working on showing constraint violations. (
phab:T411602
phab:T400676
GraphQL: We are working on making it possible to query for Items by Property/value pair (
phab:T403576
REST API: We are improving error messages for requests that failed due to an IP block (
phab:T404727
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
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week leading up to 2025-12-22. Missed the previous one? See issue
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Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Vitaly Zdanevich
New requests for permissions/Bot:
Title markup bot
- Task(s): There is a variety of HTML markup found in , violating various constraints on the property. The following task description is for a bot that can start the required cleanup process. I would like to request permission to implement the functionality outlined here as a first iteration, on the understanding that it will be extended and refined to cover more cases. It will operate within the limitation that it will only modify values, add qualifiers and update labels to keep them in-line with altered titles.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Videos:
Wikidata 13th Anniversary in the Tyap Wikimedians User Group
Remapping the Down Survey
- By OSM for History Buffs
Open Data DEx Demo #1 - This week's topic: Astronomy in WikiData!
Tool of the week
Timetrail
- is a website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikimedia Deutschland jobs:
Director of Engineering
(all genders)
Senior Data Analyst
(all genders)
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
Japanese court rank
(Japanese court rank of a person or a shrine)
‎value of this mathematical characteristic
(non-numeric value of this characteristic applied to this mathematical object)
Newest External identifiers:
Taking Stock ID
Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID
The Advocate tag ID
‎Game Font Library ID
IMI person ID
‎Metacritic video game genre ID
Banrep Cultural ID
FCC ID Database company slug
EDBO institution code
‎GamesIndustry.biz game ID
‎PC Guru game ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
common organism
(organisms known by a common name of a biological taxon)
part
(exact number denoting the part of a creative work or edition)
heir apparent
(person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
Parfumo perfume ID
Parfumo perfumer ID
Parfumo perfumes ID
Parfumo fragrance notes ID
BoomerShooterDB game ID
identifiant Rappels d'une production théâtrale
Parfinity notes ID
Vandal game ID
Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID
GBIF ID
MetroidvaniaDB game ID
Games.cz game ID
Basenotes perfume brand ID
Basenotes perfume people ID
Basenotes perfume ID
CICAP Encyclopedia ID
Zelda Wiki ID
Yaba Sanshiro ID
identificador Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia
Finnish railway station code
Fight-A-Base game ID
Sketchfab model ID
Sketchfab channel ID
Sketchfab user ID
DVIDS Video ID
DeVuego game ID
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Number of riots per country
source
Country having the most female politicians
source
WikiProject Highlights: Niryhpr's efforts in organising the page
User:Niryhpr/WikiProject_Ports
(part of
WikiProject Indonesia/Geodatathon
Newest
database reports
Language statistics for Items
Showcase Items
Mansa Musa
- 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire
Showcase Lexemes
ਮਰਨ (L689064)
- Punjabi verb (mərəɳ) meaning "to die (cease living)", "to wither or spoil", or "to give up (lose hope/energy)"
Development
Mobile statement editing:
We added an indicator showing which Properties are not yet supported when creating new statements in mobile editing (
T412719
We continued working on showing constraint violations on mobile (
T411602
T411608
We are working on musical notation statements on mobile (
T407247
We are improving error handling for incorrectly filled and unfilled fields in mobile editing (
T408928
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-29. Missed the previous one? See issue
#711
Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Ppolar bear
- RfP scheduled to end after 3 January 2026 13:40 (UTC)
QubeCubeBot
- Task/s: Continue import of
Swedish Parliament
documents inline with the modeling work in
Wikidata:WikiProject Sweden/Swedish Riksdag documents
AinaliBot 3
- Task/s: Continue import of
Swedish Parliament
documents inline with the modeling work in
Wikidata:WikiProject Sweden/Swedish Riksdag documents
Events
This month's
Scholia hackathon
has moved Scholia closer to its planned switch to a QLever backend. Beta testers can assist by exploring the
interim QLever-backed Scholia instance
and
reporting any issues
Upcoming events
SWAT4HCLS 2026
. Amsterdam, March 23-26, with a "Wikidata in healthcare and life sciences" session and
Prof. Hannah Bast
as one of the keynotes
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Videos:
(Indonesian)
Introduction to Wikifunctions
presented by
NikolasKHF
(Niko). In this session, Niko introduced Wikifunctions project, how to edit a function, how to add an implementation and test, and demonstrated them. This is the first Wikifunctions training in Indonesian. Slides are available on
Commons
(Indonesian)
Wikidata for Academician
presented by Wikimedia Indonesia's Data and Technology team. They introduced Wikimedia Indonesia, and then explained Wikidata, its underlying concepts and a glance to its history, how to add statements and references, how to query with Wikidata Query Services, Wikidata and its potential in research fields, Wikiprojects and Wikidata:For development resources. Slides are available on
Commons
Tool of the week
WD-NearbyItems
: browse Wikidata Items nearby
Quizicle
is a daily quiz/puzzle game that's not really a quiz and not really a puzzle. Deduce the answer from crossword-style clues with hot/cold feedback.
Newest
properties
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property proposals
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Newest General datatypes:
random page URL
(link to random page or item on website)
specimen classifier
(person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
collection date
(date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
land degradation
(amount of land that is degraded by an object, mainly for infrastructure projects)
Hong Kong fire alarm level
(Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
page offset
(difference between external page number printed on the work (P304) and the actual page in digital file (P7668))
logical implication
(axiom or conjecture that this axiom or conjecture implies)
Newest External identifiers:
‎survivalhorrors.com ID
‎VGChartz ID
‎Adventure Game Hotspot game ID
‎BoomerShooterDB game ID
‎Vandal game ID
GoFundMe fundraising ID
Adult Film Database director ID
S1 No.1 Style actress ID
‎MetroidvaniaDB game ID
EAGER game ID
EAGER developer ID
‎Games.cz game ID
‎4gamer.net game ID
‎GOG tag ID
‎Yaba Sanshiro ID
‎Games for Change directory ID
DLSite work ID
‎DLSite person ID
‎DLSite doujin circle ID
‎Fight-A-Base game ID
‎DeVuego game ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
Erdős Problem number
(Erdős Problem number)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
PixelatedArcade genre ID
BRAHMS identifier
LegiStorm person ID
Game Boy Database game ID
NHK Archives Program ID
Wendingen object ID
Wendingen person ID
RetroCollect games ID
FIP.IT basketball player ID
Lenta.ru person ID
Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Polish version).
Télérama film ID.
Bercail ID
Panoramax picture ID
InterSportStats athlete ID
Before I Play game ID
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Showcase Lexemes
turn (L3568)
- English verb (tɜːrn) meaning "to rotate", "to change direction", or "to transform"
Development
No development happened in the past week as the team are on holidays. Happy new year everyone!
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:
Czech Republic
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week leading up to 2026-01-05. Missed the previous one? See issue
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Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Morne06
- RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2026 20:35 (UTC)
Closed request for adminship:
Ppolar bear
- general consensus is to reapply after gaining more experience.
New request for comments:
Notability policy reform
: first drafted in 2013, Wikidata has grown vastly since the original Notability policy was created. This first-round discussion is intended to collect ideas, comments, and reflections on how to improve the Notability Policy for what Wikidata currently is and will become.
Events
Upcoming events
OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #84 January 12 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at
Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026
: a two-day event that will take place from 13 to 14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
Apply
for a grant and join the event.
The next
Wikidata+Wikibase office hours
will take place on Wednesday,
18:00 CEST
, 14th January 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.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Rescuing Scholia #2: getting closer
African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA)
Wikontic: Ontology-Aware KG Pipeline
- this article introduces Wikontic, a pipeline that builds knowledge graphs from text by enforcing Wikidata's ontological rules and merging duplicate entities.
Papers:
Using Wikidata’s Ontology in Practice: A Neuro-Symbolic, Community-Centred Workflow for Integrating and Reusing Humanities Datasets
- This article introduces an ontology-first, community-driven workflow that aligns humanities datasets with Wikidata to address data silos and gender inequities, offering reusable modelling patterns, SPARQL-based analysis, and a neuro-symbolic AI framework that reduces bias and supports reproducible, ontology-backed knowledge graph practices. By Velilla & Ferran-Ferrer (2025).
A Semantic Wiki for Language Learning: The Case of the Baoulé Language
- The BAOULE-WIKI project introduces a semantic wiki and homograph-detection model to preserve and teach the endangered Baoulé language, achieving high accuracy while paving the way for broader digital preservation of African languages through community collaboration and integration with knowledge bases like Wikidata and DBpedia. By Kra et al., (2026).
Transforming the Digital Landscape: Towards a Medieval Knowledge Graph
- Digitization has transformed medieval studies by expanding access and enabling new research methods, with future progress hinging on Linked Open Data, shareable identifiers, and collaborative knowledge graphs to truly democratize and enrich scholarship. By Burrows, (2026).
Towards a Linked Open Index: Reconciling Museum Records to Wikidata for Index of American Design Constituents
- The Index of American Design project’s reconciliation of thousands of records with Wikidata reveals both challenges and strategies for improving data alignment, while a linked Power BI tool supports ongoing monitoring of quality, access, and representation in humanities research. By Foster et al., (2026).
The “Dizionario Degli Scrittori Italiani Contemporanei Pseudonimi” in Wikidata. Pseudonymous Authors in Wikidata: Dataset and Queries
- The dataset from the MA thesis structures biographical data on 19th–20th century pseudonymous Italian authors in Wikidata, including corpus items, SPARQL queries, and analysis documents, and is reusable for further research or case studies. By De Monaco, (2025).
Tool of the week
Broomstick
is a tool by Wikicollabs it uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.
Explore your Wikimedia activity year in review with
Wiki Year in Review
Wikilokal (Android version): explore the world within a 3 km radius by
Affandy Murad
Other Noteworthy Stuff
New project:
Dissemination of polymer science through Wikipedia and Wikidata
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
(Q33438)
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
crowdfunding target
(target goal of this crowdfunding campaign)
free height
(vertical distance from the floor level to the lowest obstruction in the ceiling of an indoor or outdoor space)
Newest External identifiers:
‎PixelatedArcade genre ID
‎Game Boy Database game ID
‎RetroCollect games ID
MyWaifuList work ID
Nonbinary Wiki ID
Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID
DVIDS video ID
FIP.IT basketball player ID
Card Player ID
Télérama film ID
Boosty author ID
‎Before I Play game ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
Fungal Names taxon ID
(ID number in the [[:w:Fungal Names]] database.)
Braille transcription
(transcription in Braille)
Braille represents
(graphene or phone that the Braille cell represents)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
CNVD-ID
Trismegistos editor ID
woordenlijst lemma ID
European Vehicle Number
CourtListener person ID
Norwegian railway station code
Australian National Kennel Council ID
Museo del Marchio Italiano ID
You can comment on
all open property proposals
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Schema examples:
(E498) district electoral division
: Schema to describe an electoral division (small political division of Ireland).
Newest
WikiProjects
Project IrishForges
: Describing forges and forge buildings of Ireland using Wikidata, Wikimedia and other sources.
Project Ireland
: A hub for all Ireland-related Wikidata activities including cross-Wikiproject tasks.
Project Historic Irish Placenames
: focusing on County Kilkenny, connect historic placenames with their modern counterparts or create new items for
"lost places"
Svenska psalmodikon
: A sub-project for the
psalmodikon
(Q3354977)
, a stringed-instrument popular in Sweden.
WikiProject Highlights:
WikiPojects as decentralized governance
- this sub-page of the
Limits of Wikidata project
proposes WikiProjects become caretakers of collections or subgraphs of relevant items.
Showcase Items
Venezuela (Q717)
- country in South America
Showcase Lexemes
размах (L155644)
- Russian noun (rɐzˈmax) meaning "amplitude (of a swing)", "physical span or width", or "scale/scope (of an activity)"
Development
No development happened in the past week as the team are just returning from the holidays.
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.
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Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
AmeisenBot 3
Task/s:
Adding descriptions (and possibly labels and aliases as well) to items based on their statements.
New CheckUser requests:
Saroj
(RfP scheduled to end at 25 January 2026 09:31 UTC)
Events
Upcoming events
The next
Wikidata+Wikibase office hours
will take place on Wednesday,
18:00 CEST
, 14th January 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.
WMF Wikidata Platform team
is launching a new office hours series starting
January 27th
, 2026 and continuing on the first Tuesday of each month. The scope of this series is be limited to
Blazegraph migration
support for the entirety of 2026. Participants are encouraged to register in advance for each session and may optionally add a brief description of their migration-related questions to
the shared Etherpad
to help guide preparation.
See
Blazegraph Migration office hour page
for more details
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Wikidata at 13: Fante Wikimedians Joins the Celebration
Papers:
Structuring the Sights and Stories of Pausanias with Wikidata
- The Digital Periegesis project leverages Wikidata and linked open data tools to annotate, disambiguate, and connect Pausanias’s complex 2nd‑century text, enhancing accessibility, interoperability, and scholarly engagement with Greece’s historical and mythological landscape. By Kiesling et al., (2025)
Videos: (Papiamento)
Wikipedia on Aruba | Episode 8: How to add a new topic (item) to Wikidata
Tool of the week
Knowledge Train
A game to create a train of knowledge with the power of Wikidata - User:Athulvis
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Mobile statement editing is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata
. Enable the Beta feature in your preferences settings, head to
Wikidata Sandbox (Q4115189)
(in mobile view) to test it and share your feedback here:
Mobile editing of statements
The
WMF Wikidata Platform team
has published its
January 2026 newsletter
. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. To have new issues of the WDP
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Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
common organism
(organisms known by this common name)
Newest External identifiers:
Boosty author ID
‎Before I Play game ID
‎Korea Heritage Service Heritage Portal ID
‎KaraokeTexty.cz artist ID
‎KaraokeTexty.cz song ID
‎Showlabs ID
DEUMM Online ID
Slekt og Data cemetery ID
Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia ID
EZB library ID
topic of Dictionary of Canadian biography identifier
Cover Art Archive image
‎X broadcast ID
Theaterencyclopedie ID
Maitron biography ID (new version)
‎Scilit organization ID
Fragrantica perfume ID
Fragrantica perfume brand ID
izoh.uz word ID
‎Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID
Fragrantica perfume notes ID
Fragrantica perfumer ID
Parfumo perfume brand ID
Parfumo perfumer ID
Parfumo perfume ID
Parfumo fragrance notes ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
Artistagraph ID
(Identifies the Artistagraph for an artistIdentifier for creative works on Artistagraph, a platform for documenting and discovering artist information and creative work connections)
number of tunnel tubes
(Number of parallel tubes in a tunnel.)
New External identifier property proposals to review::
Mapillary sequence ID
People's Graphic Design Archive creator ID
Uni24k indentifier
Brussels BeStAddress municipality ID
Brussels BeStAddress street name ID
Brussels BeStAddress address ID
Wikifunctions object
MAX username
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ID
The Retro Web company ID
Schulnummer Berlin
KCI article ID
You can comment on
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Query examples:
Timeline of coup d'états
All towns named Versailles
Showcase Items
mojito
- traditional Cuban highball cocktail
Development
Mobile editing of statements: We have released the first version of mobile statement editing as a beta feature (see details above). In addition we are improving it further and are adding missing functionality to get it ready for a full release. This includes adding editing support for additional data types such as date and musical notation.
Blazegraph replacement: The Wikidata platform team is continuing their evaluation of alternative backends for the Wikidata Query Service.
Graph QL: We are continuing to work on the prototype to get it ready for wider testing and are waiting on a security review.
Dumps: We fixed an issue where the "latest" symlinks to data dumps weren't working correctly.
Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are investigating how to further reduce the number of unnecessary changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes coming from Wikidata. The work on this is also helping reduce the size of the recent changes database table, which is especially important on larger Wikipedias. In addition we are continuing to improve the Databox module to make it easier for smaller Wikipedias to get Wikidata-powered infoboxes.
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:
Kazakhstan
Summarize your
WikiProject's ongoing activities
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Discussions
Closed request for comments:
Deprecate P642?
- Consensus to deprecate was reached.
Events
Upcoming events
Wikifying Te Tiriti
10-workshop series, attendees will learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and create Wikidata items, to increase the visibility of people and their projects working in Te Tiriti and anti-racism areas. Further information can be found on the
WikiProject page
Workshop timetable
Register to attend
Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 in Uganda
- contribute to the project by expanding or creating Wikidata Items connected to the project categories, such as Ugandan folklore, food, music, dances, traditional clothing, and more.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
The London School of Economics and Political Science have employed a Wikimedian in Residence
Wikimedia Indonesia held
Data and Technology Week 2025
in last December 2025, organized introductory workshops on Wikidata and Wikifunctions. Read key takeaways and participants' discussion at
Diff
Wikidata Days 2025 Journey in Africa: Building Knowledge, Languages and Communities
Wikidata Botswana 2025: Celebrating 13 Years (And We Really Showed Up!)
Papers:
A new monographic number of
JLIS.it
has been published regarding the
OPAC SBN
(the biggest collective library catalogue in Italy, with more than 7 thousands of libraries participating; about its collaboration with Wikidata, see
the Wikidata coordination page
); it contains 3 papers focusing on the use of Wikidata for authority control (all in Italian, with abstract in English):
Wikidata and SBN: An Assessment of Two Years of Work (2023–2025)
: an overview Wikidata-SBN of the collaboration in 2023-2025, focusing on the methods of reconciliation
Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN
: a description of the procedure to extract data from Wikidata items matches with SBN authority records and adapt these data to be copied into non-individualised SBN authority records
NaMo, utility for populating missing date fields in authority records
: a description of an utility to keep an authority file up-to-date finding missing death dates through Wikidata
Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN
- A collaboration between Wikimedia Italy and ICCU is enriching incomplete SBN authority records using Wikidata identifiers, enhancing catalogue accuracy and accessibility as entries continue to grow. By Ravelli, (2026).
Tool of the week
Puzzles By Nathan
is a game that arrange words so each connects to the next
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Mobile editing for RTL languages: The Wikimedia Deutschland team is seeking users of right-to-left (RTL) scripts, including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu, to help test and improve the mobile statement editing experience. If you edit in an RTL language and would like to join user interviews or deeper testing,
sign up here
(French)
Gendered place names in the public space of French-speaking Switzerland
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest External identifiers:
Parfinity notes ID
‎Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID
Basenotes perfume brand ID
Basenotes perfume people ID
Basenotes perfume ID
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ID
MAX username
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
location collected
(geographic location where a specimen or sample was collected in the field)
Category for music in this language
(link to category item that contains music in this language)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID
CriticDB IDs
MPA certificate number
WorldFootball.net person ID (new)
The Session tune ID
Parfumo fragrance note ID
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Query examples:
Timeline of elected germanic Roman emperors
Universities without a P625 (coordinate location)
Source
Schema examples:
film director (E24)
WikiProject Highlights:
Rijksmonumenten Unmerge list
- list of items with more than one
P359 (Rijksmonumenten ID)
Stanford Libraries
added an event:
Love Data Week 2026
Newest
database reports
Entities without a Label
- this list is dynamically created, search by language code and entity type: Item or Property.
Showcase Items
FIFA (Q253414)
- international governing body of association football
Showcase Lexemes
charge (L3922)
- English verb (tʃɑːrdʒ) meaning "to supply with energy", "to rush forward", or "to have responsibility for"
Development
Mobile statement editing:
We continued work on supporting more datatypes for editing, specifically date, musical notation and monolingual text.
We worked on displaying constraint violation indicators.
You can try out the current state by enabling it in the beta features section of your preferences.
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate options for further reducing the amount of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist on the other wikis to reduce the size of the database tables.
Dumps: We finished our research on dumps, especially looking into different ways to define subsets. We will publish the report with results by end of February.
Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is continuing the evaluation of potential replacements for Blazegraph.
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.
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week leading up to 2026-01-26. Missed the previous one? See issue
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Events
Upcoming events
Reminder: Blazegraph Migration Office Hours: The
WMF Wikidata Platform team
is kicking off its monthly Blazegraph migeration office hours tomorrow,
27th January, 16:00 UTC
. These sessions focus exclusively on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS).
See the office hours page for details and future sessions.
Art+Feminism online hands-on training session: Intro to Wikidata + Archives. January 29, 15:00 UTC (16:00 CET).
Alan Ang (WMDE)
and
d:User:Epìdosis
host this workshop on collective editing and how Wikidata connects with archives. More info and Zoom registration @
Art+Feminism.org
OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #85 February 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at
Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
Mapping Africa: Visualizing Knowledge and Communities
- 28.01.2026, 16:00 UTC. Episode #54 of the WikiAfrica Hour explores the power of maps and geospatial data.
General Registration is Open!
2026 Wikimedia Hackathon
- May 1-3, 2026
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Wikidata replaces the CLARIN Concept Registry in the Component Registry
Papers:
Analysis and Generation of Wikidata Descriptions Focusing on Bangla Language
- A rule-based Grammatical Framework resource grammar for Bangla generates accurate, consistent Wikidata descriptions across diverse entities, achieving over 99% coverage and enhancing low-resource language content in multilingual knowledge bases. By Mohammad, (2025).
Videos:
Fact-Checking with Wikidata by Philippe Saadé
- a recording of the workshop hosted by DataTalks.Club in collaboration with
User:Philippe Saadé
Wikimedia and Biodiversity Data: A Mutualistic Relationship in the Open Knowledge Ecosystem
Collaborative Cultural Heritage Geodata
, session 2 of SunoikisisDC's
Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage
. Discusses how Wikidata is used and contributes data to the field of spatial and geographic technologies.
Wikimedia projects & smell-related content: WMUK Sandbox Session
User:Lajmmoore
describes how to add and model sensory experiences such as smell, to Wikidata.
Tool of the week
Wikidata Property Creation Helper
is a tool by
ArthurPSmith
. The tool takes a property proposal page and translates it into a QuickStatements batch (and then a second one for the examples) that a property creator can use to quickly create a new property.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikimedia Deutschland 2026 first quarter development plan has been published:
Wikidata:Linked Open Data development plan
Job opening:
The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Platform Backend Migration Specialist (contract position) to support backend migration work on the Wikidata Query Service. This role focuses on technical work related to the migration away from Blazegraph. If you're interested in the role or want to learn more, see the
full job description and application details
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
translates from
(language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from)
translates into
(language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works and texts into)
Newest External identifiers:
MAX username
CriticDB game ID
‎Finnish railway station code
Sketchfab model ID
Sketchfab channel ID
Sketchfab user ID
BRAHMS identifier
LegiStorm person ID
NHK Archives program ID
Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Polish version)
Bercail ID
‎InterSportStats athlete ID
‎Erdős Problem number
Trismegistos editor ID
‎woordenlijst lemma ID
‎European Vehicle Number
CourtListener person ID
Australian National Kennel Council ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
incompatible type
(instances of this type or of its subclasses cannot be instances of that type nor of its subclasses)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
KaraokeTexty.cz album ID
Biographical encyclopedia of Maros County-ID
ShotOnWhat film ID
Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 ID
CardCow.com publisher ID
Stockholms SL Realtidsinformation identificator
Lost Pubs Project ID
Handball Base ID
Handballnews.pl person ID
SFDb förlaga-ID
RITVA company ID
RITVA corporate body ID
TC Infos network identifier
French Trade Mark Number
You can comment on
all open property proposals
Did you know?
Query examples:
Wikidata Items with a frequency (hertz) within human-hearing range
source
Schema examples:
WikiProject Schemas: A tutorial
- to create a simple ShEx schema and apply it to a set of Wikidata items.
Newest
WikiProjects
No Longer at the Margins - 2026 Hackathon
WikiProject Highlights:
WikiProject Bahamas - list of buildings in Nassau
Newest
database reports
Entities missing a description
- choose a language and entity type (Item or Property) and generate a list of entities that have no description.
Showcase Items
Mount Kilimanjaro
- mountain massif in Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania
Showcase Lexemes
мундштук (L130056)
- Russian noun (mʊnʂˈtuk) meaning "mouthpiece (of a musical instrument)", "mouthpiece (of a pipe/cigar holder)", or "a horse's bit"
Development
Mobile statement editing:
We started working on supporting editing of monolingual text statements
We continued working on supporting editing of geocoordinate and quantity statements
We are fixing display issues with date statements
We continued work on showing constraint violations
GraphQL:
The security review was finished, removing a blocker to deploying GraphQL support to Wikidata
We added pagination to querying items by statement properties or values
We are extending the labels of linked entities functionality to also let you get the descriptions of the Items linked in a statement
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate options for further reducing the amount of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist on the other wikis to reduce the size of the database tables.
Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is continuing the evaluation of potential replacements for Blazegraph.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
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Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
Sapper-bot 2
- Task: Monthly updates of the
Dead Sea
level and the "lowest point" property for
Israel
Jordan
, and
Asia
Closed request for permissions/Bot:
LiteraryWorksMetaDataUploadBot
- Task: Upload metadata for literary works from research project. (Approved)
Other:
Proposal to configure the Newcomer Dashboard for Wikidata
Events
Upcoming events
Call for Sessions: Wikimania 2026 is Coming to Paris
! The submission form will remain open until March 1. Results will be published in May.
Who's hiding behind museum collections? - A Wikidata Edit-a-thon by
WiNoDa Knowledge Lab
(February 24th, 1:00pm-4:30pm CET). This online Edit-a-thon will focus on the many collectors that contributed to the
Arachnida and Miryapoda collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
. Join us to uncover the unspoken human networks that shaped the history of science! Register here:
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Strengthening the Latin American public domain with Wikidata
Thesis: Hebeis, Maximilian (2026):
Entity Matching for Person Records in Authority Files
, Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Master thesis in computer science: "a case study into applying learningbased entity matching to person records from two large authority databases, namely the
German national Integrated Authority File (GND)
and the crowd-sourced open knowledge base Wikidata")
Papers: Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD):
Wikidata across the humanities: datasets, methodologies, reuse
(new papers have been published during the last week; see a list at
d:Q136325279#P527
Videos:
Africa Wiki Women 1st Newbies Community Meetup
- held an orientation for new members on editing Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Commons, to help bridge knowledge gaps of African women on Wiki platforms.
Mapping Africa: Visualizing Knowledge and Communities
- explores how African communities use maps and geospatial data to enhance Wikidata, improve Wikimedia articles, and make local knowledge more visible globally.
Tool of the week
Wdlist : Create and manage a personal list of Wikidata items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikimedia Deutschland Job vacancy -
Architect of Storage Solutions
- (freelance contract / 4-6 weeks)
You can now nominate your favorite Wikidata research award for 2025.
Call for Nominations
now open until February 15, 2026.
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest External identifiers:
U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name ID
Lenta.ru person ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
value type of this mathematical property
(type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects)
Gifu Prefectural Shrine Association ranking
(One of the three rankings given by the Gifu Prefectural Shrine Association)
instances must not have
(instances of this class or of its subclasses must not have given property or statement)
African Scientists Directory ID
(identifier for a scientist in the African Scientists Directory)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
Center for Jewish History person ID
LINCS ID
Artdoc.Media film ID
Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 practice ID
Walloon-French dictionary ID
Russian Register of Film Distribution Certificates ID
Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID
Identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek ID
Woordenboek van Nieuwe Woorden ID
Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal ID
Woordcombinaties ID
Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands ID
Database of the Southern Dutch Dialects concept ID
GiveSendGo ID
CrowdRepublic project ID
European Dictionary Portal ID
Gravestone Project Cemetery ID
Uzbek-Russian dictionary ID
Ruwiki ID
Swedish National Archives ID
GDUNO ID
JMRC person id
Catalunya Romànica ID
Mercantile Navy List ID
Igromania author ID
Danmarks Kirker
Medvik ID
Obálky knih ID
National Theatre in Prague artist ID
National Theatre in Prague performance ID
Alpine Linux Wiki article
Microsoft Store developer ID
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Query examples:
Item with a Wikipedia page in lang. X but not Y
source
) - modify the wd: QID and the schema:isPartOf for your own purposes.
Newest
WikiProjects
WikiProject Chess - Rubinstein-Memorial list
WikiProject Units of Measurement
Wikiproject Medicine - List of Italian Doctors
WikiProject Evanion Collection
WikiProject Highlights:
WikiProject every Politician / Canada
- all Commons lists were updated.
Newest
database reports
Variety of reports for deletion candidates
Development
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
We are making progress with identifying additional ways in which we can reduce the number of irrelevant changes from Wikidata showing up in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co.
We are discussing with pilot Wikipedias about turning on showing Wikidata changes by default in watchlist and recent changes (moving it from opt-in to opt-out)
GraphQL: We are putting the last touches on a GraphQL endpoint for Wikidata. We are planning to get it live later this month for feedback.
LDF endpoint: We are planning to decommission the endpoint in preparation for the migration away from Blazegraph on the 18th of February (
phab:T415696
Mobile statement editing:
We are almost done with adding support for editing statements with quantity and monolingual text datatype and finished support for mathematical expression statements. We started support for editing coordinate statements.
We are continuing the work on showing constraint violations.
Wikibase Ecosystem: We are in the process of setting up a demo system for ontology federation (i.e. using Wikidata Items as values in statements on another Wikibase instance)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
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WikiProject's ongoing activities
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Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Numishare Blog: Improving searchability using Natural language Processing + Wikidata
- How NLP-based search improvements for
numismatic
collections for the
American Numismatic Society
. Python NLP tools and Wikidata add a semantic layer that links equivalent terms (e.g. “serpent” and “snake”) to improve discovery across coin databases such as OCRE and MANTIS. Author:
Ethan Gruber
Videos:
Art+Feminism Conversations / Intro to Wikidata + Archives
: Led by
User:Epìdosis
and
User:Alan Ang (WMDE)
, this recording covers tools that support collaborative Wikidata editing, and includes with brief updates on mobile editing, Wikibase software, and work at the intersection of AI and Wikidata. Find more info and tools covered on
Meta:Art+Feminism
Custom Upload Funnel Creation on Wikimedia Commons: Wiki Loves Africa 2026
User:Kambai Akau
and the
Tyap User Group
demonstrate how to contribute to the Wiki Loves Africa 2026 contest, incl. how to add a Wikidata Infobox to your contributions, and how to create Wikidata Items if they are missing.
(Papiamento)
Add a different language Label to a Wikidata Item
Wikipedia Above Aruba|Ep. 9 - it's not always obvious how to add labels, descriptions and aliases of different languages to Wikidata items, this short video demonstrates how.
Hands-on Exercise: Data Cleaning & Preparation with OpenRefine
- Daniel Garjio guides through exercises to cluster and merge duplicate values, standardise formats, reconcile data with external authority sources such as Wikidata.
(Spanish)
Mapeo colaborativo, plataformas libres y autonomía local
, part of the
Conference on Climate Justice, Indigenous Voices, and Wikimedia Platforms (2024)
- speaker: Túllio Morais Franca shows how to integrate mapping tools suchas OpenStreetMap and Mapillary with Wikidata, Commons and Wikipedia.
Tool of the week
Wiki Clarity Tool
: Clarity Tool is a lightweight web application built to empower editors across Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. It helps contributors identify missing information in articles and suggests structured data from Wikidata to fill those gaps.
Name Suggestion Index : Submit a Brand
- A tool that links Wikidata brand items to the
Name Suggestion Index project on OpenStreetMap
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Mobile editors can now edit String and External ID datatypes directly in the mobile view. To help improve this new interface, Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for volunteers for UX testing sessions. Participants will be compensated for their time. Sign up
here
(greatquestion) and learn more on the project page:
Mobile editing of statements
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
‎braille transcription
(transcription in Braille)
location collected
(geographic location where a specimen or sample was collected in the field)
Newest External identifiers:
Rappels theatrical production ID
Berlin School ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
Siège occupé
({{TranslateThis
| fr = siège occupé par une personne au sein d'une académie ou autre société à ''numerus clausus''
}})
Standard Number
(A standard serial number)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
MusicaPopular.cl ID
JMRC person id (en)
Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography ID
CAMEO page ID
TeamNL athlete ID (new)
World Flora Online Plant List
radeberger-stadtgeschichte.de Objekt Identifikator
Master Ideographs Seeker Character ID
Flohic ID
Oricon News person ID
radiko person ID
Xcity actress ID
TV Drama Database Program ID
Van Dale Rijmwoordenboek sentences ID
Van Dale Rijmwoordenboek word ID
BISMaL taxon ID
Vlaams Woordenboek ID
Kotobank Japanese ID
Nişanyan Adlar ID
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Items with two or more Olympedia people ID
source
) - find duplicate external identifier.
Music roll releases with recordings of works performed by composer
source
Newest
WikiProjects
WikiProject progressive Metal
Wikiproject Basque Cultural heritage and GLAM
Newest
database reports
'Template' items with only one sitelink
- per
Wikidata:Notability
, "
If a link is a template, the item must contain at least two such sitelinks...
Showcase Items
It Was Just an Accident
(Q133866932)
- a 2025 thriller film, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
Showcase Lexemes
Development
Dumps: We published the
report from our research into the user experience with Wikidata's dumps
Mobile editing: We are finalizing the support for quantity, monolingual text, mathematical expression and musical notation statements as well as a first version for coordinate statements.
Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We have continued our investigation into existing Lua modules in order to find more ways in which we can reduce unwanted entries from Wikidata in Recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We found a number of options that we are looking into now. (
phab:T416822
phab:T416825
phab:T416826
phab:T416827
Wikidata Vector embedding: We added German to the embedding (next to English, French and Arabic)
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week leading up to 2026-02-16. Missed the previous one? See issue
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Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Sjö
- RfP scheduled to end after 17 February 2026 10:02 (UTC)
New requests for permissions/Bot:
SEEKCommonsBot
- Task: Synchronize Wikidata records created by the
SEEKCommons
project with
OpenAlex
Closed request for permissions/Bot:
AmeisenBot 3
- Task: Adding descriptions (and possibly labels and aliases as well) to items based on their statements. Request closed as approved.
Che-W-bot
- Request withdrawn.
Events
Upcoming events
: Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
session 17 February, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, February 17 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikiproject P244 maintenance uses SPARQL queries to identify and resolve two types of constraint violations in Wikidata: instances of Wikidata items with more than one LCNAF identifier and instances of the same LCNAF identifier existing on more than one Wikidata item. The February 17th session will walk participants through how to resolve the former issue, while the March 3rd session will focus on the latter. Event page:
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Wiki for Botanists, why thematic engagement matters
: WMNZ/Aotearoa on how sustained outreach with botanists via Wikidata workshops, edit-a-thons, and conferences is improving plant-related knowledge on the Wikimedia projects and building strong collaborative relationships with scientific communities.
Tech News Week 7 / Global Watchlists extension
: now supports multiple Wikibase instance (i.e. Wikidata + Test Wikidata) and fixes right-to-left (RTL) text directionality issues.
The Spark of Linked Data and Libraries: OCLC Passage Project White Paper Translation Report
Papers:
Federating Open Knowledge through Wikibase: the case of the Finno-Ugric data sharing space
: Antal et al. (2026) present a community-driven, federated prototype to link multilingual cultural heritage data, open ontologies and preserve local epistemologies.
Videos:
How to Unlock Knowledge Graph Data for LLMs with AI Retrieval
User:Philippe Saade (WMDE)
, AI/ML Project Manager talks to Chad Jennings of
Beyond the Blueprints
(IBM Product Hub) on making Wikidata more accessible for AI developers, replacing SPARQL-heavy workflows with vector search and hybrid retrieval.
(French)
Créer une carte uMap à partir de données géolocalisées extraites de Wikidata
- video presentation of 2026 Digital Encounters
"Mapping territorial data in uMap"
Africa Wiki Women 2026 On Wiki Skills Mentorship Program - Introduction to Wikidata
Africa Wiki Women 2026 On Wiki Skills Mentorship Program - Major and Minor edits on Wikidata
EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-01-28)
- participants discuss progress on the
early adopter
phase, incl. how to categorise and track contributions, what statistics to measure and progress on MCO application profiles (persons + corporate bodies)
Tool of the week
Queer Memory
multilingual web app that explores
global queer history
through live Wikidata timelines, places, rights, culture, and activism. Currently available in English, French, and Spanish.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Etherpad cleanup, save your pads now
. All pads after 1st March 2026 willbe deleted so if you need any of your pads, please make a local backup.
The Wikibase REST API
endpoints are now available on
v1
and considered stable! It's important to note that the older v0, which has been live on Wikidata since July 2025, will remain available for a
two month transition period
until mid-April 2026. We encourage all users to migrate to the new v1 endpoints during this time to ensure that their applications can continue to work seamlessly.
The
WMF Wikidata Platform team
has published its
February 2026 newsletter
. It includes result of an initial evaluation of open-source triple store candidates as part of the migration away from Blazegraph, the next Blazegraph migration office hour, and more. To have new issues of the WDP
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Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
category for music in this language
(link to category item that contains music in this language)
Newest External identifiers:
‎DOAB book ID
‎qamus.inoor.ir root ID
‎The Session tune ID
Parfumo fragrance note ID
‎KaraokeTexty.cz album ID
Biographical encyclopedia of Maros County
Alpine Linux Wiki article
‎Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 person ID
Igromania author ID
French Trade Mark Number
‎Bane NOR location code
‎CardCow.com publisher ID
‎Lost Pubs Project ID
Handball Base ID
Handballnews.pl person ID
Center for Jewish History person ID
African Scientists Directory ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
Number of translations
(Number of translations)
Panoramax instance URL
(the Panoramax instance of/about the subject)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID
Bach digital person ID
Bach digital work ID
YList ID
identificativo Antenati
Pesistulokset.fi player ID
Liiga.fi player ID
Letterboxd producer ID
Topplista artist ID
Apple Music Classical work ID
Fragplace brands ID
Fragplace fragrances ID
Fragplace notes ID
Fragplace perfumers ID
Sport Express person ID
ciss.org sportsperson ID (deaf sport)
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Newest
WikiProjects
Learned Societies
WikiProject Highlights: a discussion regarding
how to standardise the data model of the membership of learned societies
Showcase Items
Super Moscato Show
(Q3324704)
- French radio program and audio podcast
Showcase Lexemes
collection (L3941)
- English noun (kəˈlɛkʃən) meaning "a group of gathered items", "money gathered for charity/church", or "the act of acquiring"
Development
Mobile statement editing:
We are putting finishing touches on editing support for external ID, URL, monolingual text, quantities and coordinate statements.
We worked on visually highlighting preferred and deprecated statements on the mobile site similar to how it is done on desktop.
We worked on showing more than one constraint violation when a statement violates multiple constraints.
Ontology Federation: We continued working allowing other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata Items in their statements (and later from other Wikibase instances). You can see a demo video of the current development state at
ontology federation demo
GraphQL: We worked on documentation to get get the GraphQL endpoint ready for a first release.
Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team published their report of the evaluation of Blazegraph alternatives. You can read it at
File:WDQS Triple Store Evaluation - Benchmark Results Report.pdf
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
. If you want to help, you can also have a look at
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above
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme
above
Govdirectory weekly focus country:
Summarize your
WikiProject's ongoing activities
in one or two sentences.
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week leading up to 2026-02-23. Missed the previous one? See issue
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Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Jan Myšák
- RfP scheduled to end after 28 February 2026 11:11 (UTC)
Closed request for adminship:
Sjö
- Closed as successful, congratulations
User:Sjö
New request for comments:
Notability policy reform
Round 2
, where policy is suggested based on round 1 discussions.
Events
Upcoming events
Apply Now: Scholarships for the Language Diversity Conference 2026
- scholarship application deadline: 13 March 2026 / Conference dates: 2 - 4 October 2026 in Accra, Ghana.
Office Hour: Notability Policy
- February 26th 2026 at 5PM UTC (
your timezone
).
(Catalan)
They were not witches, they were women from Andorra
- a Wikimarathon for Witches edit-a-thon to make biographies of Andorran women accused of witchcraft more visible on Wikidata and Wikipedia. Sign-up on
Meta
: 09:30 – 12:30 UTC, 7 March 2026.
Ongoing:
International Mother Language Day 2026 Datathon
- February 21, 2026 – March 3, 2026
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Stack Overflow: Even GenAI uses Wikipedia (+Wikidata) as a source
- transcript of the podcast audio between Ryan Donovan and Philippe Saade, on the Wikidata Embedding Project and vectorizing 30 million entities for semantic search.
Diff Blog: Revitalizing UK History, Series 2: Expanding Multilingual Access on Wikidata
Josef Anthony
describes the projects efforts in documenting underrepresented UK historical figures in multiple languages.
Diff blog: Into the Spotlight: Sharing Archival Objects through Wikimedia Commons
by
User:LadyRabbit
. Experience documenting Ellen Winstone, a historical figure, non-notability on Wikipedia doesn't mean they are not worth documenting. Wikidata and Commons can help.
Papers:
The Wikidata Query Logs Dataset (WDQL)
- presenting a dataset of 200,000 question-query pairs intended to help train Natural Language questions into SPARQL. By S. Walter, H. Bast (2026).
Videos:
3rd Wikidata Training
of the On Wiki Skill Mentorship Program by Africa Wiki Women. Dives deeper into the core data modelling concepts, Wikidata-speciifc terminology and practical editing tips for beginners. Led by
User:King ChristLike
Tool of the week
Dagbanli dictionary
- a monolingual Dagbanli dictionary built using Wikidata lexemes, with 20000 native audio recordings as usage examples pulled from Mozilla Common Voice. This means when you look up a word, you can hear it spoken in example sentences. See this in action here:
suɣulo
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikimania:2026
- The call for submissions for the program is open until March 1, 2026.
OpenSanctions: As the CIA closes The World Factbook, we’re opening our global map of political power
- introduces
EveryPolitician.org
, a global database of 690,000+ political office-holders across the globe. PoliLoom, GovDirectory, a dedicated
WikiProject
and the Wikidata community are helping make structured data on politicians transparent. Learn how you can
contribute
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
annual greenhouse gas emissions
(carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by this entity in a year)
Newest External identifiers:
RFI topic ID
‎Delfi.lv theme ID
SFDb original ID
Artdoc.Media film ID
‎Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 practice ID
‎Walloon-French dictionary ID
Bolivia INE code
Russian Register of Film Distribution Certificates ID
‎Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek ID
‎Woordenboek van Nieuwe Woorden ID
‎Woordcombinaties ID
‎Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands ID
Uzbek-Russian dictionary ID
‎JMRC person id (he)
Catalunya Romànica ID
‎IEC 61355 identifier
Yandex Object Answer id
Michaelis Portuguese-English Modern Dictionary ID
Michaelis English-Portuguese Modern Dictionary ID
Uni24k indentifier
The Retro Web company ID
Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID
‎Gravestone Project Cemetery ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
CWSAC classification
()
IBAN countries
(The country which the bank with this property may create accounts in. For example "MyBank" can create bank accounts in "France" with the prefix "FR".
Some banks have a single country they may create accounts in and other have many.)
Kloekecode
(identifier for locations in the Netherlands, Flanders, French Flanders, and north-western Germany)
ICAO 24-bit aircraft address
(Unique 24-bit ICAO aircraft address assigned to an individual aircraft’s Mode S transponder, expressed as a six-character hexadecimal code and used in ADS-B and air traffic surveillance systems.)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
Faulhaber-Edition ID
OldRacingCars.com drivers ID
ID Prix de Lausanne
Spellingwijzer Onze Taal ID
Uitleenwoordenbank ID
EpiMedDat ID
REVENCYT code
X Games athlete ID (new)
Pinkhof ID
Scheikunde ID
JWS II ID
Buitenlandse aardrijkskundige namen in het Nederlands ID
PeeringDB Facility ID
DBNL place ID
DBNL country ID
DBNL titel ID
Movist person ID
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Query examples:
Property table for a set of Wikidata items
(the Memory of the World International Register)
People with PolSys ID
(P1980)
, and with or without Norwegian historical register of persons ID
(P4574)
- (
source
Schema examples:
federally recognized tribe (E502)
: required and optional properties for items representing federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States.
Newest
WikiProjects
Ski
- The goal of WikiProject Ski is to improve items about athletes, events and results from the different skiiing and snowboarding disciplines.
Nonprofit Orgs: South Africa
- aims to add financial data to the biggest nonprofits
WikiProject Highlights:
Ontology: List of Ontology Pages
Sociotechnology: Resources
Chantiers MNBAQ
India: International Mother Language Day 2026 Datathon
Showcase Lexemes
чурка (L179567)
- Russian noun (ˈtɕurkə) meaning "a wooden block or stump", "a short piece of wood used in games", or "an offensive term for a person"
чурка (L179567)
- Russian noun (ˈtɕurkə) meaning "a wooden block or stump", "a short piece of wood used in games", or "an offensive term for a person"
Development
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are preparing to reach out to editors about improving specific templates that are written in a way that creates a lot of unnecessary entries in Recent Changes and Watchlists.
Mobile statement editing: We are getting close to having editing support for all datatypes. We are currently still working on the support for globe coordinates. We also added support for showing constraint violations on qualifiers and references.
Data quality: We are doing technical investigations about how to make constraint violations available for querying again.
GraphQL: We are getting ready to make GraphQL available on Wikidata later this week.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
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week leading up to 2026-03-02. Missed the previous one? See issue
#720
Discussions
Closed request for adminship:
Jan Myšák
: Closed as successful, congratulations to Wikidata's newest admin!
New request for comments:
Notability Policy - Round 2
: we are still requesting your input on the new Notablity policy. Including whether to elevate the
self-promotion essay
to a policy.
Events
Upcoming events
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
session 3 March, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, March 3 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikiproject P244 maintenance uses SPARQL queries to identify and resolve two types of constraint violations in Wikidata: instances of Wikidata items with more than one LCNAF identifier and instances of the same LCNAF identifier existing on more than one Wikidata item. The February 17th session walked participants through how to resolve the former issue, while the March 3rd session will focus on the latter. This session will be more discussion-focused, since instances where two LCNAF identifier have the same Wikidata item can be difficult to resolve because of Wikidata’s innate quirks. Maybe your ideas will become the official best practice! Event page:
Bring-Your-Own-Data-Lab
, on 24.04.2026, the HERMES Data Competence centre hosts an online BYODL. Dr. Katrin Moeller and Dr. Olaf Simons will share how to enrich your own personal data with standard data and the Wikibase FactGrid. Click the link for registration and more information.
Wikidata Workshop w/ Wikipedia Riba Aruba + University of Aruba Research Center (UARC), March 2, 12 - 2pm GMT-4.
Click here to register.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
The Museo del Prado and Wikimedia Spain consolidate Wikidata as the connector axis of digital cultural heritage
- gathering of the second edition of
Connected Heritage: Wikidata in the GLAM Ecosystem
(Dutch)
Wikipielen: an informal mini-hackathon for the GLAM sector
, Olaf Janssen (WM coordinator at National Library of Netherlands) on the 10th edition of this micro-hackathon for people in cultural and heritage sector interested in Wikidata, Wikibase, SPARQL, OpenRefine and other technical skills.
Boundary Issues
—Michal Migurski on representing disputed boundaries using Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
Papers:
From Websites to Wikidata: Digitising Scotland’s Stories
by Ross
et al.
(2026)
Entity Linking with Wikidata: A Systematic Literature Review
A Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction from Art-historical Image Descriptions
by Schneider
et al.
(2026)., introduces FRAME for extracting art-historical entities and relationships from texts, enabling automatic linking of artworks, artists, and related metadata via Wikidata.
Review of Ethics in Linked Data
by Rebecca Fried.
Videos:
(Swedish)
Fotbollsspelare Wikipedia / Wikidata
- using QuickStatements to add P54 (member of sports team) to football players
Jukun Wikipedia Outreach
, day 2 took attendees through adding interwiki links, Wikidata essentials and adding to Jukun Wiki articles.
Set-up Tutorial: Language Preferences and Gadgets on Wikidata
, the International [Digital] Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) takes us through enabling gadgets and setting your preferred languages (Babel).
Tool of the week
Maps Of the World / Stadiums
- explore the stadiums of the world (at least the ones with Wikidata Items), mapped by SPARQL.
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
SignWriting transcription
(representation in SignWriting)
Newest External identifiers:
Microsoft Store developer ID
Apple Music Classical work ID
‎SIK-ISEA group ID
‎CHZZK streamer ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review::
Objectif plumes
(Database managed by the General Service for Literature and Books, a department of the Cultural Administration of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (basically the Ministry of Culture for the French-speaking part of Belgium). The database currently includes entries on books by more than 8.000 Belgian writers.)
usual forename
(A name usually derived from a given name used to address a person in everyday life.)
apportionment diagram
(image that displays the representation of seats won by party in an election to an assembly)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
LibriVox reader ID
All Skies Encyclopaedia ID
KCUE academy ID
Catálogo de autoridades da BUSC
ISSN-H
Hong Kong Cinema title ID
NPPM ID
Parlement.com ID
Kokugakuin University god name database ID
Czech National Register of Health Service Providers ID
Génération Nintendo game ID developer ID
Génération Nintendo game ID publisher ID
wikiru.jp wiki ID
Tribuna.com football players ID
SnokaDB
abadis.ir Persian word ID
AIK soccer player ID
BOIShistory
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Query examples:
Works in Scottish museums by female artists, lacking an English Wikipedia article
source
Graph of Moominworld
Showcase Items
Zanzibar Islands
(Q1774)
- semi-autonomous part of Tanzania
Showcase Lexemes
snap (L14515)
- English verb (snæp) meaning "to break suddenly", "to lose control emotionally", or "to take a photograph"
Development
Mobile statement editing:
We worked on removing the constraint violations indicator from a statement after an edit that fixed it.
We are fixing bugs uncovered in testing, such as
phab:T218477
phab:T418104
phab:T417861
and
phab:T417647
GraphQL: We are getting ready to launch the first version later this week, including preparing the documentation for how to use it.
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:
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WikiProject's ongoing activities
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Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
DifoolBot 8
- Task: Remove Wikipedia import references from statements where the referenced article has since been deleted.
Events
Upcoming events
The 6th Wikidata Workshop
has been announced for ISWC 2026. If you are interested in joining the wWorkshop for the scientific Wikidata community, contact: 6th-wikidata-workshop@googlegroups.com
Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata
- April 22, 2026, 13:00 - 14:30, at the University of Central Florida.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Diff blog: Becoming a Trainer Assistant at Wikilatih Wikidata BRIN: A Journey of Sharing Knowledge
by Affandy Murad
Diff blog: Why Dagbanli Needs a Dictionary (And How We Built One with Wikidata)
- by
User:Masssly
Papers:
Scholia 2026: Compliance with SPARQL 1.1
, to be presented at
SWAT4HCLS 2026
Videos:
(Swedish)
Mix'n'Match IFKDB
Mix'n'Match DIF Historia
- Magnus Sälgö
(Spanish)
Introducción a Wikidata
, Dinah M. W.Fraites and Dr. Claudia De Souza give a comprehensive tour and introduciotn of Wikidata for the
Centro para la Excelencia Académica
Accessibility and Gen AI - Ep 15 w/ Denny Vrandečić (Head of Special Projects at Wikimedia Foundation)
- a conversation about Abstract Wikipedia, the relationship between Wikimedia, Wikipedia and other Projects and how the Foundation will adopt and adapt to emergent technologies such as LLM's.
Epigraphic Object Encoding
- Session 7 of the SunoikisisDC
Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage
. Experiences encoding epigraphic data into Wikidata starts at 58:27.
(Arabic)
Arabic Wikidata Days 2025: Adding Wikidata to include Arabic Content (example: Hijri Calendar)
, Saeed Hubaishan presents a practical example of adapting Wikibase to enable adding new data types that haven't previously been modelled, such as dates in the Hijri Calendar.
Wikimania 2025 - Unpopular Opinions: Bold Lightning Talks to Shake Up Wikimedia:
Moving Categories to Wikidata ((Ad Huikeshoven))
Introducing Wiki AI (Sam Klein)
Unlocking Government Data for Wikidata: Stories, Impacts & Open Dialogue
from Wikimania 2025. Panelists: Butch Bustria, James M. Heilman (Doc James), Jan Ainali, Vanj Padilla, Wisdom Ferrer, Seddon explore how the reuse of public domain & government datasets enriches Wikidata & bolsters public engagement with Wikimedia projects.
Slides
Tool of the week
Data2Go
: An iOS app for browsing and editing Wikidata with a mobile-first UI. It combines fast search, rich item detail views, statement editing, map previews, media galleries, and account-based write access to Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata now has a GraphQL API!
Read more about it and try it out
or sign up for the
usability tests
The WMF is in the process of rolling out new global API rate limits. This will also affect Wikidata. For more details see
mw:Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest External identifiers:
ICAO 24-bit aircraft address
BISMaL taxon ID
Xcity actress ID
All Skies Encyclopaedia ID
Power Thesaurus ID
Kvinnehistorie.no persons ID
Mastercaller player ID
dartn.de player ID
darts1.de player ID
pdpa.co.uk player ID
‎People's Graphic Design Archive creator ID
HKCinema film ID
Medvik ID
Obálky knih ID
MusicaPopular.cl ID
CAMEO page ID
ciss.org sportsperson ID (deaf sport)
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
maximum vehicle length
(maximum authorized length for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
Peer-review propertiy for journals or publications
({{TranslateThis
| de =

}}Scholarly journals or publications should have a property "peer review process" indicating which peer review process (if any) is applied for the publication.)
maximum vehicle width
(maximum authorized width for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
maximum vehicle weight
(maximum authorized weight (tonnage / gross vehicle weight) for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (load limit))
regional conservation status
(conservation status of species in national or regional Red List publications that follow the IUCN red list criteria)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
LINE official account ID
Kulturbase.no ID
CROWCASS file number
Integbio Database Catalog ID
norsk fangeregister historie ID
Census of Italian Architecture since 1945
TMDB award ID
SocioMap ID
AVefi ID
NSK new ID
Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID
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Query examples:
Property count of characters in Tolkien's Universe
source
Data about Norwegians in captivity during WWII (using
Norwegian prisoner register person ID
(P8269) + others
source
Newest
WikiProjects
WikiProject Beer
Showcase Items
Melbourne Airport
(Q733738)
- international airport serving Melbourne, Australia
Showcase Lexemes
sampaa (L1154759)
- Dagbanli noun that translates to a hut within a compound to provide shelter for people during the warm season.
Development
GraphQL: We have released the first version of this new API.
You can read more about it and try it out
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We have worked with editors to improve some highly-used modules that access Wikidata in a suboptimal way. They have been adjusted to lead to less unneeded change notification in people's watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
Mobile statement editing: We fixed an issue where certain Properties were not accessible in the new mobile UI. We are also working on fixing a bug with saving musical notation statements. We are continuing the work on supporting editing of geocoordinates.
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:
agencies for the environment and nature conservation
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WikiProject's ongoing activities
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week leading up to 2026-03-16. Missed the previous one? See issue
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Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
The African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) project
- The ALMEDA project’s key outcome is a linked, open, and searchable metadata repository—built from extensive cataloguing of previously uncatalogued materials and enriched through a user-friendly interface launching in 2025, designed to support ongoing growth beyond the project’s initial five-year funding.
Papers:
Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy
- This study develops a refined taxonomy of Wikidata qualifiers—based on their semantics, frequency, and diversity—to help contributors select appropriate qualifiers, improve querying and inference, and enhance knowledge graph design, ultimately offering a structured framework that covers the most important qualifiers and supports better recommendation systems. By Falquet & Aljalbout (2026).
Videos:
LIVE Wikidata editing #118 at the Open Data Day
- Wikipedia Weekly Network:
Introduction to editing Wikidata on mobile
- Art + Feminism in Wikimedia Botswana
Queer women in the Arts (English): A panel discussion and Wikidata workshop
Podcasts:
Wikipediapodden interviews Lydia Pintscher about the ongoing Wikidata notability reform
(also available on
Commons
Notebooks:
Who gets a biography on French-language Wikipedia?
A country-by-country portrait of biographical coverage for people born between 1950 and 2000.
Tool of the week
Wdquery
GraphQL-powered
Wikidata item advanced search.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Fornland
—aggregates over a million cultural heritage sites from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland into one interface, combining Wikidata and other sources .
m:Coolest Tool Award
The
WMF Wikidata Platform team
has published its
March 2026 newsletter
. To have new issues of the WDP
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Reminder that the 4 week grace period for switching to the v1 route for the
Wikibase REST API search endpoints
will end this week. The v0 route will be turned off and hence will no longer function.
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
river regime
(predominant pattern of annual changes to a stream's discharge at a particular period)
seat occupied
(seat held by a person within an academy or other society)
Newest External identifiers:
Génération Nintendo publisher ID
KCI article ID
‎LINCS ID
radeberger-stadtgeschichte.de Object Identificator
Flohic ID
‎Vlaams Woordenboek ID
‎Bach digital person ID
‎Bach digital work ID
Identificativo Antenati
‎Liiga.fi player ID
‎Pesistulokset.fi player ID
‎Letterboxd producer ID
Fragplace brands ID
Fragplace fragrances ID
Fragplace notes ID
Fragplace perfumers ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
population pyramid
(Age pyramid image for demography articles)
StatsF1 ID
(Link to a Formula 1 specific database)
maximum vehicle height
(maximum authorized height for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (regulatory limit from signage))
Bibliografi.dk
(Bibliografi.dk)
PeerTube instance URL
(the PeerTube instance of/about the subject)
Central Registration Number (Indonesia)
(primary service registration number assigned to a member of the Indonesian Armed Forces or Indonesian National Police)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
Digital Public Good
LUBW-RIPS-Wasserkraftanlage-ID
Identifiant QueenBallers.com d'une joueuse
Foto Atlas taxonomy ID
Brewver beer ID
Göteborgsalliansen
Consumer Rights Wiki article ID
Royal Air Force service number
Identifiant d'une personne dans le Bianco
Tajik-Russian Dictionary word ID
AmericanAristocracy person ID
AmericanAristocracy house ID
Shinmei database ID
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Showcase Items
Patrice Lumumba
(Q161672)
- Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)
Development
Mobile statement editing:
If you have not tried it yet, now is an excellent time to turn it on in the beta features section of your preferences, test it and give feedback.
We have added support for editing globe coordinate statements
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to work on the issue of too many Wikidata in recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We are currently prototyping a way to only consider changes that actually have an impact on the article (
phab:T419823
). We also finished the work on an emergency switch to turn off sending changes for qualifiers and references to Wikipedia and co in case of major database disruptions (
phab:T412956
).
Ontology federation: We are working towards getting the code for ontology federation (in its first version of using Wikidata Items as values on other Wikibase instances) ready for wider testing.
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:
Bangladesh
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week leading up to 2026-03-23. Missed the previous one? See issue
#723
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
AraBot
- Tasks: Adding Aragonese sitelinks and updating articles on
Aragonese Wikipedia
with Wikidata's data.
InventaireBot
- Task: Make automated edits generated by the inventaire.io (Q32193244) server and manual edits on behalf of users without a Wikidata account.
Closed request for permissions/Bot:
DelintBot
- Task: Fix
lint errors
on pages across all namespaces where Wikitext can be written (namespaces not managed by Wikibase).
New request for comments:
archive.today
- due to a
RfC and policy on enwiki
, this discussion needs your input on whether Wikidata will continue listing archive.today links.
Ongoing request for comments:
Notability policy reform
is looking for input about remaining questions around marginalized knowledge and external identifiers
Events
Upcoming events
: (German)
Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen, YouTube livestream
– 28 March 2026 (UTC+1): presentations by Lisa Dieckmann at 12.30 - 12.50 (“Bilder verknüpfen – prometheus, Normdaten und Wikidata”), Lucy Patterson & Lukas Fuchsgruber at 16.30 - 16.45 (“Kritische Arbeit mit Sammlungsdaten auf Wikidata”), and Max Kristen at 17.30 - 17.45 (“usefulQueries: Unkompliziert Kunstgeschichte in Wikidata erkunden”).
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Structuring Dagbanli on Wikidata: Lexemes, Senses, and the Digraph Challenge
by Masssly and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
Open Knowledge Graphs: A Search Engine for Ontologies, Controlled Vocabularies, and Semantic Web Tools
, by Steve Hedden
(German)
Erinnerungskultur zum Mitmachen: eine digitale Landkarte zum Gestapoterror in Niedersachsen
by Gabriele Fahrenkrog
Papers:
Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy
presents an analysis of Wikidata qualifiers, focusing on semantics and usage, in order to develop a taxonomy to help in selecting appropriate qualifiers, querying the knowledge graph, and making logical inferences. By Gilles Falquet and Sahar Aljalbout (2026).
Videos:
Creating a Wikidata item for a Historic Building
- OpenStreetMap for History Buffs gives a practical example of creating a Wikidata Item for a historic Irish building, but you can adapt it for other historical or archeological sites.
Introduction to Wikidata (Creating items, Statements & References)
- Africa Wiki Women continue their introductory series with trainer, Blessing Timothy.
(French)
Introduction à Wikidata
is also provided by Africa Wiki Women.
Simple steps to edit Wikidata Episode 1(WAMP)
User:Dsp13
of the Wiki Afrodemics Project covers a variety of topics to help new editors make meaningful contributions to Wikidata.
(French)
Introduction à la modification de Wikidata sur mobile
- Art+Feminism in partnership with WM Botswana provide a training session for mobile editing (with a focus on women artists, feminist movements and underrepresented cultural contributions).
Queer Women in the Arts
: Art+Feminism teamed up with WikiLGBT+ (
Event page
) for a panel discussion and Wikidata training centering on Queer Women in the Arts, in honour of International Women's Day. Also available in
Spanish
and
Portuguese
Wikidata tools: Pet Scan
User:Epìdosis
introduces this handy tool that allows you to query and generate lists of Wikipedia pages or Wikidata items based on defined criteria such as Categories, Properties, Templates, and others.
Introduction to Wikidata & Property Dashboard
Essential Wikidata Tools: Automating Your Workflow
workshop given 13 March 2026. Hosted by Alan Ang, Camillo Pellizari, Pru Mitchell, and Taufik Rosman for the ESEAP community.
Tool of the week
Wikidata Property Creation Helper
takes a property proposal page and translates it into a QuickStatements batch (and then a second one for the examples) that a property creator can use to quickly create a new property. By
ArthurPSmith
Other Noteworthy Stuff
GraphQL API ongoing feedback: If you haven’t tried it yet, you can still explore it as a developer-friendly alternative to select WDQS features. Please Share your feedback on the
project page
, or
for deeper usability testing.
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
mass number
(total number of baryons in an atomic nucleus)
soil acidity preference
(soil acidity preference of a plant species or lichen)
Diepkloof
(Place in Johannesburg, South Africa)
paid-up capital
(portion of a company’s issued share capital that has been paid by shareholders)
New External identifier property proposals to review::
Shinmei database ID
Kulturdenkmal-ID Baden-Württemberg
Central Registration Number (Police)
NIP 9-digit
MeetStadium ID
indexxx.com performer ID
BGAFD actress ID
Shellers From the Past ID
معرف منشور في قاعدة بيانات معرفة
London Book Trades ID
KCI journal ID
KCI publisher ID
PeerJ person ID
BIORAB–FRANKFURT ID
BIORAB–WEIMAR
BIORAB-KAISERREICH
Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID
Wikiparfum perfumer ID
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Newest
WikiProjects
WikiProject LAGL
(Linked Ancient and Greek Latin) has been established to develop guidelines for adding statements for ancient authors.
WikiProject Highlights:
WikiProject IDEA: Oral Histories
International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA)
added a subpage for resources, guidelines and progress for adding oral history Items and Statements.
Showcase Items
Ngondo
(Q3339328)
- worship of water oracles and associated cultural traditions among the Sawa
Development
Infrastructure sustainability: We started working with a contractor to look at Wikidata's data storage to find opportunities for improving it.
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing the work on a prototype to compare a wiki page before and after it has been parsed to see if this is a feasible way to reduce the number of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist that do not affect the article (
phab:T419823
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
. If you want to help, you can also have a look at
the tasks needing a volunteer
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
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-30. Missed the previous one? See issue
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Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
Thetalentone
- Tasks: Adding and updating references, qualifiers, publication dates, and provenance on my own personal and company items (
Q138324775
and
Q138324581
) to improve entity confidence for Google Knowledge Graph. Small batches only, no edits to unrelated items.
Dušan Kreheľ
- Task: Sitelinks existing and newly created municipality pages on hrwiki and Wikidata.
New request for comments:
Wikidata:Requests for comment/Mass-editing policy
has a new proposal incorporating feedback and is awaiting votes.
Events
Upcoming events
The next
Wikidata+Wikibase office hours
will take place on Wednesday,
18:00 CEST
, 08th April 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.
Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit
takes place until 20:00 CET, 30 May 2026.
"Wikidata in der Sammlungserschließung" (free online event in German on how GLAM institutions can use Wikidata, 20 April 2026, 10-11:30 CET, organized by
Research and Competence Centre Digitalisation Berlin (Q51845259)
. More info and registration
here
Wikidata Ontology Course
: The second offering of the Wikidata ontology course will be given in May and June 2026, with sessions 1-3 pm EDT (UTC-4) on Thursdays. The Wikidata ontology provides structure and organization for the rest of Wikidata and is thus fundamental to Wikidata. The course starts with the basic notions underlying the Wikidata ontology and goes on to cover querying using SPARQL, inference, constraints, advanced ontology notions, problems with the ontology, and other ontology-related aspects of Wikidata. Participants in the course are expected to complete weekly exercise sets and a project. More information on the course can be found at
WikiProject Ontology/Ontology Course
. To register for this offering fill in and submit the
Google form
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Wikidata contains many gaps in its political data. We’ve built a tool to change that (PoliLoom)
From a summer school idea to an ESWC paper: Teaching AI to “repair” Wikidata
Papers:
Did AI Crawlers Kill SPARQL Federation?
, including Wikidata examples
Gender and intersectional bias in featured biographies on the front page of the Italian edition of Wikipedia, 2014–2024 Open Access
- Wikidata featured heavily in the design and methodology. By Rovira et al., (2026).
Videos:
Adding architectural data to a Wikidata item for a Historic Building
from OpenStreetMap for History Buffs.
Live Wikidata Editing #119
- Ainali and Abbe98 are back to edit Wikidata and explain their thinking along the way.
(Spanish)
Wikidata and the public domain
- Tools for bulk editing in Wikidata: Mix n Match and QuickStatements, last class of a
9-part series
provided by Jorge Gemetto.
(German)
Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen
, day 2, digital/local collection loves wiki.
(German)
Von OpenStreetMap zu semantisch vernetzten Wissensgraphen
FOSSGIS 2026 Conference.
Using Wikibase as an Integration Platform
with Matthew Ong. Originally given at the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin, 19 November 2024.
Tool of the week
WikiVisage
- Train a machine learning model to detect depicted subjects in Wikimedia Commons images and assist with adding the P180 (depicts) property.
Yesterdays
- A web platform for cataloging and georeferencing historical images of Richmond, Virginia. It uses Wikidata items to help organize the georeferenced images.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Mobile editing user testing: join the participant panel: Wikimedia Deutschland is planning new user tests for the mobile editing experience (including more data types as a beta feature) in late April–early May. Participants of all experience levels are welcome, and users of right‑to‑left scripts are especially encouraged to sign up. Register
here
. Participants will be compensated for their time.
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
Digital Public Good ID
(identifier of a digital public good in the Digital Public Goods Registry)
apportionment diagram
(image that displays the representation of seats won by party in an election to an assembly)
peer-review process for scholarly journals or publications
(''(without English description)'')
Newest External identifiers:
‎X Games athlete ID (new)
AIK soccer player ID
‎Uitleenwoordenbank ID
abadis.ir word ID
‎AmericanAristocracy house ID
‎AmericanAristocracy person ID
British Newspaper Archive publication ID
‎Buitenlandse aardrijkskundige namen in het Nederlands ID
Landskrona BoIS player ID
Library of the University of Santiago de Compostela authority ID
‎DBNL place ID
Faulhaber edition ID
Foto Atlas taxonomy ID
‎Integbio Database Catalog ID
‎KCUE academy ID
‎LibriVox reader ID
‎Manga-DB person ID
‎Manga-DB magazine ID
‎Manga-DB publisher ID
Digital Public Goods Registry
NSK ID
Tribuna.com football players ID
Sport Express person ID
‎Open Food Facts brand ID
‎RITVA company ID
OldRacingCars.com drivers ID
‎Spellingwijzer Onze Taal ID
‎EpiMedDat ID
‎Pinkhof ID
‎Scheikunde ID
‎Movist person ID
‎ISSN-H
Names, Persons, and Groups of People of the Middle Ages ID
‎Parlement.com object ID
wikiru.jp wiki ID
BGAFD actress ID
IFK Norrköping player
‎LINE official account ID
Norwegian war prisoner histories ID
‎indexxx.com performer ID
SetesdalWiki ID
‎Shellers From the Past ID
‎SocioMap ID
Publication ID in e-Marefa database
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
civil service position level
(classification level of a civilian public service position within a government administrative hierarchy)
Usenet newsgroup
(Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
predicted winning party
(the party predicted to win an election, according to some source)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
Numen ID
member of the Azorean assembly ID
identifiant Rappels d'une personne
Identifiant dans la base de noms France Archives
Anarâš aavis topic ID
Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID
MangaBaka manga ID
JVID performer ID
PlayStation Trophies achievement ID
BERON lexeme ID
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Newest
WikiProjects
WikiProject Hogback
- Hogbacks are a type of gravestone marker used in 10th - 12th Century Northern England.
WikiProject Highlights:
University of Otago/Books of Mana
Schnütgen Museum Collection/Sum of all paintings
Govdirectory/United Nations
Nonprofit Organisations
Newest
database reports
Humans with the same date of birth year (P569) and date of death year (P570)
Showcase Items
Australia (Q275180)
- 2008 film by Baz Luhrmann
Showcase Lexemes
viɛla
- Dagbanli adjective (of quality that is pleasing to human senses).
Development
Wikibase GraphQL: We added support for a number of additional datatypes and started working on the functionality for querying Items by the external ID statement values or site links.
Mobile editing of statements: We spent time testing the current state and fixing remaining issues we found.
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:
Mongolia
Summarize your
WikiProject's ongoing activities
in one or two sentences.
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week leading up to 2026-04-07. Missed the previous one? See issue
#725
Discussions
Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Oversight:
EPIC (2)
(RfP scheduled to end at 9 April 2026 12:35 UTC)
New requests for permissions/Bot:
ChooseLocal
Task/s:
Read-only harvest of Wikidata entities (businesses, banks, etc.) by country, for use in a Canadia-centric local business directory.
JigildikBot
Task/s:
Sitelink Management: Connecting newly created articles on kaa.wiki to their corresponding Wikidata items using Pywikibot. Label and Description Updates: Adding or updating Karakalpak (kaa) labels and descriptions for various items (especially geographical and biographical items) using OpenRefine.
JJPMaster (bot)
Task/s:
Automatically add sitelinks for Abstract Wikipedia articles
TracklisterBot
Task/s:
Adding missing external identifiers to Wikidata items for music artists, sourced from Tracklister (
Q138905706
), a music database that aggregates data from 20+ platforms. Properties: Discogs artist ID (
P1953
), Spotify artist ID (
P1902
), SoundCloud ID (
P3040
), Bandcamp ID (
P3283
), Beatport artist ID (
P5765
), Deezer artist ID (
P2722
), Last.fm ID (
P3192
), AllMusic artist ID (
P1728
), Apple Music artist ID (
P2850
), Tidal artist ID (
P11853
). Each claim includes a reference with stated in: Tracklister + reference URL pointing to the artist's page on tracklist.live.
Closed request for permissions/Bot:
Dušan Kreheľ (bot)
(approved)
Events
Upcoming events
The next
Wikidata+Wikibase office hours
will take place on Wednesday,
18:00 CEST
, 08th April 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.
Blazegraph Migration Office Hours
: Blazegraph migeration office hours April edition is today, 7th January,
16:00 UTC
. These sessions focus exclusively on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS).
See the office hour page for details and future sessions
digiS Workshop: Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung
- 20 April 2026, 10.00 CEST (08:00 UTC), this online workshop (held in German) will practice Wikidata skills across SPARQL, OpenRefine and QuickStatements with a focus on using Wikidata for GLAM Institutions. To register, visit the link.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Wikidata graphs for data visualisation of endangered horse breeds in Wikipedia
By Tsaag Valren
Does country of birth have an effect on the probability to have a biography in French-language Wikipedia?
(Le pays de naissance a-t-il un effet sur les chances d'avoir une biographie sur Wikipédia ?), published in RAW-Regards sur l'actualité de Wikimedia in Wikipedia in French.
(German)
Wikidata ist ein teil von Wikimedia Enterprise
- an update from Wikimedia Germany on Wikidata's inclusion with Wikimedia Enterprise.
(German)
How to edit nearby: Notizen für regionale Open GLAM-Labore und offene Daten
by Jens Bemme.
Building the Dagbanli Dictionary’s Audio Pipeline: OGG, iOS, and Transcoding
, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
Papers:
OntoKG: Ontology-Oriented Knowledge Graph Construction with Intrinsic-Relational Routing
by Li
et al.,
(2026), includes a case study of cleaning and resolving entity labels and descriptions from a 100 million entity dump.
ENEIDE: A High Quality Silver Standard Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Historical Italian
by Santinia
et al.,
(2026), the ENEIDE dataset links over 2000 historical documents to 8,000+ Wikidata entities.
CADEL: A Corpus of Administrative Web Documents for Japanese Entity Linking
by Higashiyama
et al.,
(2026)
Videos:
Using content from Wikidata in your apps
, lightning talk by Jan Ainali
2025: OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Collaboration: Taiwan Case
2025: The Ugandan Geo Quests: Mapping Libraries and Museums into the Knowledge Commons
Using Wikidata for data enrichment in museums
Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 1: What is Wikidata & Why Does It Matter?
Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 2: Wikidata Building Blocks
Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 3: Create an Account & Your First Edits
Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 4: First Edits: Adding References
Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 5: Creating a New Item
Tool of the week
An AI chat interface to Wikidata
by Santhosh Thottingal is a tool that gives answers to almost everything on Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Mobile editing user testing: Wikimedia Deutschland is planning new user tests for the mobile editing experience (including more data types as a beta feature) in late April–early May. Participants of all experience levels are welcome, and users of right‑to‑left scripts are especially encouraged to sign up. Register
here
. Participants will be compensated for their time.
Wikidata's data is now also available via Wikimedia Enterprise APIs. (
Wikimedia Enterprise blog post
WMDE announcement
Wikidata embedding
: The vectors of the embedding are now also published.
(Job vacancy)
Engineering Manager, Wikidata Platform
(WMF)
(Job vacancy in Indonesian)
Wikimedia Indonesia: Data and Technology Apprenticeship Vacancy, April-June 2026
- apply by April 10. Duties include recording Wikidata editing tutorial videos, prepare datathons and training materials and events.
Research workshop on content verifiability in Wikidata: Researchers from King's College London (in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation) invite Wikidata contributors of all experience levels to a 2‑hour online workshop. Participants receive £90 compensation.
Research details and registration
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
regional conservation status
(conservation status of species in national or regional Red List publications that follow the IUCN red list criteria)
‎PeerTube instance URL
(the PeerTube instance of/about the subject)
Newest External identifiers:
PeerJ person ID
‎RITVA corporate body ID
‎Royal Air Force service number
LUBW-RIPS hydroelectric power station-ID
Biorab-Frankfurt ID
‎Minfin company ID for banks
Wikiparfum perfumer ID
Cultural heritage ID in Baden-Württemberg
MangaBaka manga ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
Wikimedia Commons content descriptor
(Wikimedia Commons content descriptor which applies to this media file)
energy density
(amount of energy extractable from a substance (e.g. in a combustion engine) per unit of volume or of mass)
main page URL
(link to main page or item on website)
Bayerische Naturdenkmal-ID
(identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt)
election result
(map that displays the result of this election)
meta-category for
(topic or class of items covered by the lowest categories in this meta-category's hierarchy)
Cast
(Cast)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID
lit.link ID
WikiKids page ID
KuLaDig ID
Wikiparfum brand ID
Turkey district ID
Turkey province ID
OSDev
Giant Bomb Wiki ID
Myrotvorets ID
Fraktionsprotokolle.de-ID
KISTI article ID
Irish State Administration Database Unit ID
Hessische Parlamentarismusgeschichte Abgeordneten-ID
ocremix.org game ID
Tube8 ID
YourPorn ID
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all open property proposals
Did you know?
Query examples:
Wikispecies pages linked to Wikidata items via a specific property
(example given: Family Name
(Q101352)
) - (
source
Newest
WikiProjects
Salon de Paris
- a list of annual temporary exhibitions usually held in the Salon Carré of the Louvre Palace.
Mesocosms
- about modelling research infrastructure, processes and outcomes involving use of
mesocosm (Q138857216)
(experimental system to examine the natural environment under controlled conditions).
Archive WikiProject for Wikimedia Indonesia February 2025 Datahon
WikiProject Highlights:
Govdirectory: Eswatini
Newest
database reports
Badged Items without Claims
- this report lists items that have received a badge (such as Good / Featured Article) but have 0 statements.
Showcase Items
Académie Julian (Q337480)
- former art school in Paris, France
Showcase Lexemes
kurugu (L724819)
- Dagbanli noun that translate to English as metal, harem trousers, hour or coin.
Development
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate how to reduce the number of irrelevant changes showing up in Recent changes and Watchlist by seeing if we can compare the articles before and after the Wikidata change and detect a change in the article (
phab:T419823
GraphQL: You can now do lookups using itemByExternalId and itemBySitelink
Mobile statement editing: We worked on fixing remaining bugs (
phab:T420585
phab:T420028
phab:T419586
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
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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:
Eswatini
Summarize your
WikiProject's ongoing activities
in one or two sentences.
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-13. Missed the previous one? See issue
#726
Discussions
Open request for adminship:
ZI Jony (2)
- RfP scheduled to end after 17 April 2026 13:09 (UTC)
New requests for permissions/Bot:
Nirmos Bot 3
- Task(s): Turn one or more consecutive hard (non-breaking) spaces into one regular space in Swedish descriptions.
Alex NB OT
- Task(s): Correction of incorrectly specified links to population data sources containing wikitext artifacts with categories, which leads to incorrect categorization of articles.
Alex NB OT 2
- Task(s): Extract KCI article ID from
P953
and add it to
P14184
ReNeuralAgent
- Task(s): (1) add descriptions, (2) Latvian labels/descriptions, (3) 'retrieved from' and 'source URL' to unreferenced Statements, (4) missing aliases from external Identifier sources, (5) Geo coordinates, (6) external identifiers, (7) Population numbers, (8) remove 'dead sitelinks', (9) constraint violations.
Open request for comment:
Mass-editing policy
is still open and requires your input.
Events
Past: Missed the second quarter Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session transcript here:
2026-04-08 (Q2 2026)
Current: (Spanish)
Public Domain in Latin America 2026
- 1st edition of the campaign to improve public domain data for Latin America is running until 15 June.
Upcoming events
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
session 14 April, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). QuickStatements is one of the most widely used tools in Wikidata, enabling users to upload and edit large volumes of structured data efficiently. Originally developed by Magnus Manske, the tool has become essential for institutions, researchers, and volunteers working with open data. The new QuickStatements 3.0, developed by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, introduces a modernized interface, improved performance, and new features shaped by community input, making it easier than ever to contribute high-quality data to the Wikimedia ecosystem. Event page:
Art+Feminism is hosting a Community Hours session on April 17 to introduce their new Wikidata modules — don’t miss it!
digiS Workshop „Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung“ am 20.04.
- (German), registration closes 16.04, takes place online (10:00 – 11:30 CEST), room link after registration.
Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata
- Wednesday, April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida.
Visibility of Communities in Nigeria 2.0
: 17.04 - 25.04, (please register on the link). Help enrich Wikidata with cultural preservation, tourism and inclusive development data for items on South Nigerian communities.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs: (Spanish)
Connecting: Basque documentary heritage on Wikipedia and Wikidata
- a program to make Basque heritage data more visible, with events scheduled through April - June.
Videos:
Live Wikidata Editing #120
with Jan Ainali and Abbe98
Can AI Replace Wikipedia? Jonathan Fraine & Raja Amelung Explain Why It Cannot
- Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan and Raja discuss why human knowledge and contribution to Wikipedia and Wikidata will always be important.
Interfacing with Wikidata for fun and profit
- Yaron Koren
Introduction to Lexicographical data
- By Chinonso Chidi
WMUK Wikidata Training (1/2) - Why & how to add data to Wikidata
- a beginner-friendly introduction to Wikidata editing hosted by Dr. Martin Poulter.
WMUK Wikidata training (2/2) - Make your first Wikidata query using SPARQL
- How to query Wikidata's vast store of knowledge using SPARQL.
Wikidata and personal pronouns (P6553) by Clair Kronk and Crystal Yragui
- part of the
Queering Wikipedia Conference (2025)
(Spanish)
Queering the public domain using Wikidata and Wikipedia
- with
User:Hiperterminal
(Spanish)
Taller de OpenRefine por David Ramírez-Ordóñez
User:Hiperterminal
) - a workshop on OpenRefine with a geder perspective.
Introducing lgbtDB: A Collaborative Queer Resource and Pilot Data Area
by Clair Kronk.
Tool of the week
HumansMap
- a connection-visualiser and explorer app for 3 million notable humans, all data sourced from Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Call for tool builders: EntitySchemas listening tour: The Wikidata team wants your feedback on EntitySchemas to improve data quality and discoverability. Share your experiences, pain points, and needs via the
project talk page
or this short
Google form
(including option for a 30-min video call).
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest General datatypes:
ConLang Code Registry code
(3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3)
‎official roster page
(URL of a team's official page about this player)
‎value type of this mathematical property
(type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects)
‎Usenet newsgroup
(Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
hardware is incompatible with
(significant elements with which a computer hardware or electronic device is incompatible and which indicates a significant property of this hardware.)
Peh-oe-ji
(writing system for Taiwanese Hokkien (Q36778) or other Southern Min (Q36495) language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
‎heir apparent
(person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
thumbtime
(time for video thumbnail in seconds)
Newest External identifiers:
Algeria Press Service tag ID (English)
Algeria Press Service tag ID (French)
‎BERON lexeme ID
‎Brussels BeStAddress street ID
‎Brussels BeStAddress address ID
‎Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID
Anarâš aavis topic ID
Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID
TMDB award ID
Open Library Collection
‎Ohio University ArchiveSpace subject ID
VAi Archiefhub agent ID
‎PBA.com player ID
‎IRIS UNIL author ID
IPRESS ID
GEMI Number
‎StandardsMap ID
‎Japanese Location Database ID
‎IRDI
‎Wendingen object ID
‎Wendingen person ID
Oricon News ID
‎JMRC person id (en)
Rappels person ID
KCI journal ID
KCI publisher ID
BIORAB-Kaiserreich ID
BIORAB–WEIMAR ID
‎Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID
Göteborgsalliansen player ID
‎Fungal Names taxon ID
‎Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID
‎Brewver beer ID
Central Registration Number (Indonesian police)
‎UEA catalogue ID
‎lit.link ID
kulturbase.no ID
KuLaDig-ID
Topplista artist ID
TV Drama Database program ID
‎Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID
‎Swedish National Archives ID
Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID
‎PeeringDB facility ID
‎Nişanyan Adlar ID
National Theatre in Prague performance ID
National Theatre in Prague artist ID
‎JVID performer ID
CICAP Encyclopedia ID
‎MJ character glyph name
member of the Azorean parliament ID
Master Ideographs Seeker character ID
‎London Book Trades ID
‎Kloekecode
ID Prix de Lausanne
‎GDUNO ID
‎fotbolltransfers.com ID
Foot Résultats player ID
‎Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography ID
‎DBNL country ID
‎CROWCASS file number
‎European Dictionary Portal ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
OpenType script tag
(identifier for a script in OpenType)
OpenType language system tag
(identifier for a language (system) in OpenType)
tattoos
(anatomical location of a tattoo that this person or character have)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
organization in cooperation with ISO ID
EDAM Ontology ID
FISH Evidence Thesaurus Identifier
FISH Thesaurus of Monument Types ID
ScriptSource script ID
ScriptSource language code
Extended Defence of Britain Database ID
Max username
BE-monumen ID
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Query examples:
List of sitelinked small items to a single Wiki
source
) - example wiki: Maori Wikipedia
People who have herbarium specimens in Herbarium Dresdense (on a timeline)
source
Newest
WikiProjects
Collectors affiliated with the Herbarium Dresdense (DR)
WikiProject Highlights:
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/QuickStatements3
- don't forget to add yourself to the participants section if you plan to attend the 14.04 Zoom call.
Temples in Roman Britain/Data Model
subpage was added.
Library and Information Science
added subpages:
Librarians dashboard
Indexers dashboard
Newest
database reports
Short Pages
- A list of pages (mostly Items) that are very small, often appear completely blank. A review to judge whether they are suitable for deletion, victims of vandalism or require merging or expanding may be appropriate.
Showcase Items
Baldur's gate II: Shadows of Amn
- an isometric CRPG created with the Infinity engine, adapting the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition ruleset.
Showcase Lexemes
spegnere
(Italian verb) to turn off, switch off, extinguish.
Development
The Wikibase Reuse Team is working on ensuring
language fallback works on the GraphQL
labels of linked entities functionality and
improving the technical infrastructure behind wbsearchentities
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: is working on
introducing metrics
that help observe the impact of Recent Change related work. Work continues on improving the Diff (
T419244
T419823
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
. If you want to help, you can also have a look at
the tasks needing a volunteer
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:
United Nations
Summarize your
WikiProject's ongoing activities
in one or two sentences.
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Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Yamato Shiya
- RfP scheduled to end after 26 April 2026 11:10 (UTC)
Closed request for adminship:
ZI Jony 2
- Closed as successful
Events
Upcoming events
OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #88 May 11 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at
Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
Wikidata turns 14 this October, and it’s time to start thinking about birthday celebrations🥳.
See the various ways in which you can participate
Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata
- April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida and requires registration (see link).
University of Central Illinois - How does data power Wikipedia and Wikidata?
Discover how your data skills can make an impact. Join the two onsite sessions (April 21, follow the link for registration details).
Module 1
- GLAM Wiki and the Wikimedia Ecosystem: Commons and Structured Data: 0930 - 1130 CDT - An overview of GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
Module 2
- Wikidata: Editing, Querying, Citations and GIS Applications, 1300 - 1500 CDT
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Women in Photography – Wikidata Workshop with LightBox Photo Library
- to address the underrepresentation of women photographers in the Wikimedia Projects, this workshop brought tech reporters, librarians, researchers and photography enthusiasts to understand how Wikidata can unlock data silos and connect different projects (in the Wikiverse and external) to make data on women photographers more searchable.
Her Heritage Wiki Challenge: Art+Feminism in Ghana Month
No Signal? No Problem: Building the Dagbanli Dictionary for Offline Use
, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
Papers:
Optimising university web visibility: strategies using Wikidata identifiers and statements in Webometrics rankings
By Backory et al., (2026), this study analyses Webometrics rankings of universities, applying clustering algorithms (K-means, hierarchical clustering, fuzzy C-means, GMM, and DBSCAN) to identify which identifiers and statements the top-ranked institutions have in common on their Wikidata entities.
Videos:
OKI Internship 2026 - Wikidata & Screening Test Preparation
- Part of the Open Knowledge Initiative, hosted by Ankit V & Kasyap P.
Charted Roots - Genealogy and worldbuilding in Obsidian
- includes an example of linking to Wikidata to quickly add location data to your visualised family history.
Tool of the week
Depictor
by Hay Kranen is a tool that add structured data statements to Wikimedia Commons using a game-like interface
Other Noteworthy Stuff
What is Wikidata? - Library Carpentry
is part of
The Carpentries
, a registered non-profit teaching foundational coding and data science skills. They recently updated their introductory course to Wikidata and knowledge graph concepts.
Newest
properties
and
property proposals
to review
Newest External identifiers:
‎ocremix.org game ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
especially
(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))
independent of theory
(theory that proves neither this proposition nor its negation)
EPBC conservation status
(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)
part of discography
(discography that this musical release is a part of)
New External identifier property proposals to review:
Thai Government Agency GFMIS Code
Conlang Database ID
Plataforma Acácia
Observatório Terras Quilombolas
LMTA folkloro archyvo ID
Kulturdenkmal-ID Rheinland-Pfalz
UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID
Код Вестра
19star performer ID
EM-DAT disaster number
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