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Wikidata weekly summary #736

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #736.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Ziv - RfP scheduled to end after 24 June 2026 19:26 (UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Nabbot 1 - Task: Adding Turkish descriptions for scientific articles

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • MotusArtium : Wikidata GraphQL showcase application for exploring and understanding art movements (alpha version). GraphQL queries used
  • As seen during WikiProjects Days 2026 - Classification.js, visualise parent classes and identify incorrections, detect superclass tree loops. To use, click Activate and copy the two lines into your Common.js page.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Reminder: Try Ontology Federation to import Items from Wikidata to your Wikibase instance. Share your feedback in the linked survey. (full announcement)
  • A session at WikiProjects Days 2026 was devoted to general-purpose tools for WikiProjects. A new page under the main Wikidata tools page was created with a list and description of these tools. Take a look at Wikidata:Tools/WikiProjects and add any missing tools.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • We enabled links to WikiProjects in the sidebar and added links to WikiProjects Music, Medicine, Datasets, sum of all paintings, and elections (T422935, T422935)
  • We added a floating “add statement” button that makes it easier to add statements without looking through the existing statements (T417641, T428450).
  • We’re working on making sure that users can tell when statements exist before they add new ones (T424009).
  • We made some layout fixes to wbui2025 / MEX (T428766, T428761, T428759, T427658, T428853).
  • We refactored error handling (T423613).
  • We’re refactoring the server-side rendering so we don’t need separate .less style files (T409827).
  • We’re working on the interaction between scrollable values and indicator icons (T425974).


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

Weekly Tasks

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #254: Working on Functions, together

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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we report on new collaborative patterns emerging in our community, we discuss news in Types, we share some events that relate to Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia at Wikimania 2026, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on July 6, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 09:58, 27 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in Education: June 2026

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This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 6 • June 2026

In This Issue

Wikidata weekly summary #738

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #737.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • TopDevsBot - Task/s: Create new items for software-development, design, and consulting companies from source data: topdevs.ai
    • SonalBot - Task/s: Reference Gardener (archive dead reference links) + Welcome Bot (welcome new users)
  • New request for comments: WM Commons: Policy update for AI content - this RfC will seek opinions on the use and allowance of AI-generated and modified content. This can have downstream impacts on Wikidata.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July. A Q&A clinic will be held on 1 July at 15:00 UTC (join here).
  • Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship, Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
    • We are continuing to evaluate the prototype for reducing the number of unnecessary edits from Wikidata that show up in watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co. The approach is to look at the diff of the rendered article before and after the change from Wikidata is made. If there is no difference then the change is probably not relevant for that article. We are collecting a sample to further understand how it performs.
    • To continue to address Wikidata's scaling issues, we are planning the migration of entity usage tables to the X1 cluster.
  • Mobile editing of statements:
    • We implemented more feedback from testing of the new mobile front-end. Specifically we worked on making it clearer when a statements already exist that the editor is trying to add to the Item.
    • Additionally, we made minor improvements to the look and feel of the mobile front-end.
  • REST API:
  • GraphQL:
    • We added support for requesting “best statements” for a given Property (phab:T428138)
    • We are working on adding support for negation in Property value pair filters (phab:T429580)

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

Weekly Tasks

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #255: Integration on test wiki and annual plan

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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss integration of Abstract Wikipedia in Test Wiki and our objectives for the new Wikimedia Foundation Fiscal Year, we remind you of the Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia events at Wikimania 2026, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on July 6, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 08:22, 2 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #739

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #738.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship:
    • 1Veertje - Closed as Successful
    • Ziv - Closed as Successful
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • gov-wikidata-match 1 - Task/s: Link existing GOV (historical gazetteer) building-like objects to existing Wikidata building-like objects.
    • AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task/s: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to Wikidata items about people, only where the OpenLibrary author and the Wikidata person have been confirmed to be the same individual, with a source on every statement.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • The Wikidata Platform (WDP) monthly office hour takes place tomorrow, Template:Zonestamp. These office hours are focus on the Blazegraph migration work, and the team is inviting all community members to join the discussion. Register via the event page
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST (in your timezone), 08th July 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Sandbox sessions: Wikidata Reference Validator Tool - improving Wikidata references - Aug 15, 17:00 - 18:00 UTC.
    • Wiki Education + AASLH: Documenting America with Wikidata, a collaboration between Wiki Education and the American Association for State and Local History is offering six hour-long meetings held weekly to introduce attendees to Wikidata and improve content for Wikidata and Wikipedia on American history. Registration ends: July 17, 23:59 Pacific Time (PT)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: (fr) Le point sur la diversité de genre dans les articles in *Regards sur l'actualité du mouvement Wikimedia*
  • Papers:
    • Spatiotemporal-Heuristic A* Search for Pruning - Historical Influence and Succession Paths in Wikidata - Paper, by Michael James Liman (2026).
    • Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models - Paper by Chepurova et al., (2026).
  • Videos: (Español) Introduction to Wikidata - Dr. Claudia De Souza and Prof. Dinah Wilson Fraites introduce Wikidata with Spanish-slides.

Tool of the week

  • Zelph: Offers powerful analysis capabilities for the complete Wikidata knowledge graph while remaining adaptable for any semantic domain.
  • World Cup Heights: An interactive data‑viz app that shows the heights of FIFA World Cup players, arranged so you can quickly compare teams, positions, and overall height distributions.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July.
  • The Wikidata Platform team has published the 8th issue of its monthly newsletter. This edition includes updates on the migration of WDQS backend away from Blazegraph, including a transition into the next phase Initial Implementation (pilot) phase following completion of the installation phase. This update also include some Documentation on Query Rewrites the team will like the Wikidata community and all WDQS users to help review and leave feedbacks. see WDP monthly newsletter for more details

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

  • The development team are at an offsite retreat this week.

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

Weekly Tasks

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #256: Moving toward our first Abstract Wikipedia integration milestone

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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss further our objectives for the new Wikimedia Foundation Fiscal Year, we show the latest community tool, we remind you of the Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia events at Wikimania 2026, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 09:43, 9 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 13 July 2026

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

Wikidata weekly summary #740

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #739.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: GA Kevin - RfP scheduled to end after 14 July 2026 18:40 (UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Nabbot 2 - Task: Translating English descriptions to Turkish using a predefined dictionary mapping.
    • AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to items about people, where the OpenLibrary author and Wikidata person are the same individual, when every statement is sourced.
    • EquipboardBot - Task: Add Equipboard artist ID (P6912) to Wikidata items for musicians, sourced from Equipboard's own database of public artist identifiers.
  • Call for Participation in Improving Constraints
    • Just about any aspect of constraints is in scope, from rewriting existing bots to expanding the power of property constraints to adding new kinds of constraint. If you are interested, sign up in WikiProject Property Constraints/improving.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • rudof can be used as a command line tool or can be embedded as a library using cargo. It can be used to validate RDF data represented with different syntaxes like Turtle, NTriples, to name a few. As well as RDF data available through SPARQL endpoints like Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • A Project Chat discussion on the new Mentorship features. Self-enrollment has been enabled with the following requirements - account age: 365 days, edits: 500.
  • There is also a proposal to add an advisory message to new accounts that create multiple items.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Blazegraph migration: We are continuing to prepare the Query UI, Query Builder, constraint checks, etc for the migration to QLever (phab:T425618)
  • Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are investigating some Lua modules to find ones responsible for a lot of unnecessary entries in Watchlist and Recent changes on Wikipedia and co (phab:T429366)
  • GraphQL: Added support for negation in property value pair filters (phab:T429580)
  • REST API: We are working on the first pieces of support for Lexemes: retrieving a full Lexeme (phab:T429332)

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

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #257: Beyond syntactic tables

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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss syntactic tables and news in Types, we show some community blogposts and tools, we remind you of the Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia events at Wikimania 2026, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

We also remind you that in the next weeks these newsletter reminders will be paused, and that they will resume in mid-August.

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:55, 17 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary 741

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #740.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

  • Wikidata Query Service: We are working on adapting the Query Service UI to get it ready for the move to QLever
  • Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing to fix small issues found in testing
  • Lexemes: We are continuing the work on adding support for Lexemes to the REST API
  • Sustainability:
    • We are preparing the migration of some database tables on the client wikis that track the usage of Wikidata's data in articles on Wikipedia and co
    • We are further investigating how many changes from Wikidata that currently get sent to Wikipedia and co don't actually lead to a change in the article to be able to reduce these cases further

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

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