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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
You can comment on
all open property proposals
Did you know?
Query examples:
List of sitelinked small items to a single Wiki
source
) - example wiki: Maori Wikipedia
People who have herbarium specimens in Herbarium Dresdense (on a timeline)
source
Newest
WikiProjects
Collectors affiliated with the Herbarium Dresdense (DR)
WikiProject Highlights:
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/QuickStatements3
- don't forget to add yourself to the participants section if you plan to attend the 14.04 Zoom call.
Temples in Roman Britain/Data Model
subpage was added.
Library and Information Science
added subpages:
Librarians dashboard
Indexers dashboard
Newest
database reports
Short Pages
- A list of pages (mostly Items) that are very small, often appear completely blank. A review to judge whether they are suitable for deletion, victims of vandalism or require merging or expanding may be appropriate.
Showcase Items
Baldur's gate II: Shadows of Amn
- an isometric CRPG created with the Infinity engine, adapting the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition ruleset.
Showcase Lexemes
spegnere
(Italian verb) to turn off, switch off, extinguish.
Development
The Wikibase Reuse Team is working on ensuring
language fallback works on the GraphQL
labels of linked entities functionality and
improving the technical infrastructure behind wbsearchentities
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: is working on
introducing metrics
that help observe the impact of Recent Change related work. Work continues on improving the Diff (
T419244
T419823
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
. If you want to help, you can also have a look at
the tasks needing a volunteer
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.
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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