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Wikidata weekly summary #601

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • AramBot (Task: adding site links, especially from ckbwiki and kuwiki pages to Wikidata).
  • Tool of the week
    • subclass of, new Observable tool to test which item is a subclass of another.
    • Newest WikiProjects: Source Reliability "is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources".
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We have implemented the endpoints for PATCH /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T337371), PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/aliases (phab:T342982) and PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/labels (phab:T342980)
      • We started working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} (phab:T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} (phab:T342986)
    • Language codes:
      • We made Special:NewLexeme more likely to guess the spelling variant for you by changing the Property we use to get the language code. Now you will see the spelling variant input pop up less often. (phab:T349652)
      • We started work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (phab:T341409)
    • Query Service UI: We’ve fixed a small issue in the Query Service UI that was introduced when updating CSS variables. Content of selected cells in the query result should be readable again. (phab:T350153)
    • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #602

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: S8321414 (RfP scheduled to end after 13 November 2023 14:50 UTC)
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • DiFoolBot 2 (Task: import VIAF ID based on Union List of Artist Names ID)
      • KizuleBot (Task: Adding sitelinks to Serbian Wikipedia for maintenance categories (see contributions of account) based on items for English Wikipedia's ones)
      • KormiSKbot (Task: Linking newly created pages on SKWiki to the appropriate Wikidata items.)
  • Tool of the week
    • OpenFlights.org is now getting some of its airline data from Wikidata. It is a free open-source tool that allows you to log, map, calculate, and share your flights and trips.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} (phab:T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} (phab:T342986)
    • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.
    • Language codes: We continued work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (phab:T341409)

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #603

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Data Modelling Days, from November 30th to December 2nd: 3 days of online events to address data modelling challenges, discuss how to improve the way we structure data together, and discover the point of view of external reusers. Feel free to have a look at the program (under construction) and to sign up as a participant.
      • Wikidata Lab XXXIX: Structuring the Wikimedia Ecosystem presented by Wiki Movimento Brasil. November 21 at 2:00 PM CEST. The presentation will be held in English by the wikimedian Mike Peel.
      • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour November 20th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The seventh Wikidata Working Hour will cover the Author Disambiguator tool, which helps users assign authors to articles.During the session we will demonstrate how to use the tool on an author who was created during a previous working hour, and another who doesn't exist in Wikidata yet. After the demonstration, participants are encouraged to try the tool themselves during the rest of the working hour. This session will build on the work done in previous Working Hours by connecting authors to the articles they have written. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page
      • Wikibase for art and cultural data (German) - #9 of kuwiki tips & tools, taking place Thursday, 23 November 2023, 19-20.30
    • Ongoing:
    • Past:
      • ItWikiCon '23 (Italian) was hosted in Bari, Italy between the 17th - 19th November. Check the Programme for details on sessions and check for recordings or slidedecks of presentations.
      • GLAM Wiki 2023 took place in Montevideo, Uruguay. There were several Wikidata-related sessions some of which are linked in the Videos section.
  • Tool of the week
    • User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia - a tool that computes the number of articles created by gender has been repaired after some months of unavailability. It relies on xtools and P21 property.
    • Luthor - tool for finding usage examples from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata.
  • Development
    • We are taking steps towards making many more languages available in Lexemes and monolingual text statement values. (phab:T341409)
    • Nikki fixed a bug where the CSS class for a statement rank wasn't updated after a rank change (phab:T209138)
    • We are continuing the work on improving EntitySchemas by making it possible to link to them in statements.
    • We are migrating several tools from the Wikit design system to the Codex design system to be able to deprecate Wikit in the future.

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #604

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Harvest Templates - is a tool that helps transfer data from Wikimedia projects to Wikidata.
    • User:MichaelSchoenitzer/Updown - is a userscript used for faster navigation. If there are a lot of values for one property it will add arrows that allow you to jump to the first/last value.
  • Development
    • We are preparing for the Data Modelling Days happening later this week
    • Language codes:
    • EntitySchemas: We are experimenting with how to work around some technical blockers for the new datatype
    • Wikibase REST API: We've been working on the ability to remove an Item's label in a specific language and modify the descriptions on a Property (phab:T342981, phab:T342981)

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.

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #605

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • ZotWb < export records in a Zotero group library to a custom Wikibase, prepare datasets to send to OpenRefine, feed OpenRefine reconciliaton results back to the Wikibase. Wikidata is envolved in the entity reconciliation.
      Here's a short explanation and demo video
      Tool is written and provided by David Lindermann with support from WMF Rapid Grant.

Feel free to suggest next week's Showcase Item and Lexeme!

  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We finished the endpoint for removing an Item's label in a specific language (phab:T335841) and the endpoint for modifying descriptions on a Property (phab:T342981)
      • We are working on the endpoint for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
    • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on moving the tool over to the new design system Codex
    • We adjusted the styling for the values of monolingual text statements to make the language easier to distinguish from the value (phab:T280774)
    • mul language code: We made some final adjustments to get it ready for testing.
    • Lexemes: We are adding a license note for anon users when editing a Lexeme’s lemma, a Form or Sense (phab:T343999)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #606

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: LccnBot (Task: Adds P244 to bibliographic entities base on library authority records.)
    • New request for comments: Duplicate References Data Model and UI < During Data Modelling Days '23, 2 proposals emerged trying to answer the question of how to handle duplicate References on Wikidata Items.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 12, 2023: Several members of the Chinese Culture and Heritage Wikidata group will provide an overview of the group's Wikidata projects as well as the challenges they have encountered. Agenda
    • Data-SHS Bordeaux Week: Processing and Analyzing Quantitative Data in Human and Social Sciences 2023. Dec. 11 - 15, Bordeaux, FR.
  • Tool of the week
    • QLever SPARQl Engine < If you attended Data Modeling Days '23, you may have seen an extraordinary Session given by Hannah Bast and Johannes Kalmbach showcasing the power and advantages of the QLever engine. QLever can handle queries that cause the WDQS to timeout or allowing Federated queries and Geospatial!

(QLEver has already featured in Tool of the Week but we wanted to showcase it again after experiencing it at DMD '23)

  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued work on the routes for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
    • Monolingual text values can now use many more languages than before. We’re still working on doing the same for Lexemes. (phab:T341409)


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

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Wikidata weekly summary #607

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Other discussions: How to handle concepts of trans people on Wikidata? Should {privacy at wikidata.org} be redirected to {privacy at wikimedia.org} or should it be monitored by Wikidata volunteers? Join the discussion!
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour December 18th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to.The ninth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL and Scholia to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #121: Pottery
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Blogs: #LD42023. Part I: The Future of Wikidata + Libraries (A Workshop) - This blog series explores how libraries engage with Wikidata and Linked Data in the face of AI challenges. Led by Silvia Gutiérrez and Giovanna Fontenelle from the Wikimedia Foundation, the series summarizes insights from a collaborative session at the 2023 LD4 Conference, using Design Thinking strategies to connect the Library-Wikidata community with WMF, focusing on Wikidata, Wikibase, and Structured Data on Commons (SDC) in libraries. By Silvia Gutiérrez & Giovanna Fontenelle
    • Papers
      • Wikipedia gender gap: a scoping review - This review analyzes Wikipedia's gender gap from 2007 to 2022, revealing a slight majority of female authors, addressing key themes, and exploring strategies to mitigate the gap, providing valuable insights into the research landscape in this domain. By Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Juan-José Boté-Vericad and Julia Minguillón.
      • Ten years of Wikidata: A bibliometric study - This research delves into scholarly publications about Wikidata from its inception in 2012 to late 2022, revealing 945 relevant papers, primarily from conferences. The analysis highlights a concentration of experts and contributors from the Global North, as well as governmental institutions as predominant funders. The study calls for enhanced networking and outreach to promote diversity and inclusion within the Wikidata research community. Emphasizing computer science perspectives, the research focuses on methods for developing and utilizing open knowledge graphs, notably Wikidata, with a narrower but significant interest in application-oriented studies in digital humanities, biology, and healthcare. (Turki, et al)
    • Videos
      • Duplicating Everywhere All at Once | Cebuano Wikipedia - Five years ago, Lsjbot's Wikipedia articles caused duplicate Wikidata items, notably impacting geographic places on Cebuano Wikipedia. This video by User:Canley at Wikimania 2023 delves into the history, visualizes the issue, and suggests cleanup strategies for Wikidata and Wikipedia, emphasizing Aotearoa New Zealand and parts of Australia, with implications for the global challenge of bot-created duplicates.
      • Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research with Alicia Fagerving - Alicia Fagerving, Wikimedia Sverige, introduces the project "Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research" and Wikidata. The project, spanning 2021-2023, links vocabularies from the databases of Nationalmuseum and Statens historiska museer to Wikidata, exploring it as a platform for semantic interoperability among cultural heritage institutions and providing tools and visualizations for similar projects.
      • 2023: OSM-Wikidata Map Framework. Combining OpenStreetMap and Wikidata allows to leverage the strengths of the two projects to create richer maps. This talk explores how OSM-Wikidata Map Framework simplifies this process. By Daniele Santini
    • Press: Adriano Rutz wins the Swiss National Open Research Data (ORD) Prize for “The LOTUS Initiative” project. LOTUS explores new ways of promoting the re-use of data in the fields of biology and chemistry and thus of sharing knowledge in natural products research. More coverage
    • Notebooks
    • Documentation: User:Mahir256 statred Lexemes documentation pages about Lemmata and Lexeme languages. Your contributions are welcome.
  • Tools of the week
    • Drama Corpora Project (DraCor) is a digital database of plays, primarily from Europe. It collects and organizes texts of plays in a way that allows researchers and others to extract and analyze information from those texts. This could include details about the characters, the dialogue, the stage directions, and more. The data is being pulled from Wikidata.
    • Magnus Manske added a new game to the Wikidata game to identify duplicate Items for researchers.
    • Mike Peel set up a new Distributed Game to add links to Wikiquote to Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We finished adding the endpoints for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
      • We started working on the endpoint for removing a Property's description in a given language (phab:T342985)
      • We are fixing an issue with incorrect handling of lowercase statement IDs in edit requests (phab:T352644)
    • Special:PrefixIndex now shows label/lemma for Properties and Lexemes (phab:T343115)
    • Language codes: We changed where Wikidata is getting its languages from for Lexemes and Monolingual text statements and thereby resolved many tasks requesting another language being added to them (phab:T341409)

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #608

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

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

  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:
  1. Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
  2. Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Blogs
    • Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
    • Videos
      • Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
      • Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
      • Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
      • No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
      • Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
    • Notebooks
      • Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
      • Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
      • The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
      • Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
      • State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
      • An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.
  • Tool of the week
    • Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
    • Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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

Wikidata weekly summary #609

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
    • Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.
  • Development
    • The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

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

Wikidata weekly summary #610

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).

Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Did you know?

Development

  • IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
  • Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
    • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

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

Weekly Tasks

Wikidata weekly summary #611

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions

  • New request for comments: Community request for the development team to access inverse properties on client wikis. (Summary: We currently cannot access inverse property values on Wikipedia. This can be a data management issue on Wikipedia as we must always ask ourself if we must introduce an inverse property for cases where we need them. So I think it’s useful to gather the usecases community would want and draft a request for an API to the devteam to do that.)

Events

  • Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Past
    • Provenance Loves Wiki (PLW24), Jan 12th - 14th, research and data on the origin of artworks and cultural heritage and how Wikibase and Wikidata can support this.
    • WikiLovesWomen #SheSaid campaign wrapped up the 2023 campaign by visiting Kinshasha and Kisangani, where local Wikimedians improved quotes from women on FR Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Brian M Sperlongano released US boundary QA checker, a quality assurance tool for finding issues with boundary data in the United States by using Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, and US Census Bureau data.
  • The Surrounding Ocean (available at vrandezo.github.io/TheSurroundingOcean) - is a tool that allows you to browse lexicographical data. You can use the tool to explore words and their meanings, translations, and synonyms. The tool is currently under development, and the developer, Danny, would appreciate feedback to fix any issues with the tool. More info: Wikidata:The Surrounding Ocean.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Did you know?

Development

  • IP masking: We are working on adjusting Wikibase to handle the upcoming introduction of IP masking, which will give editors who are not logged in a temporary account name instead of using their IP to attribute edits to (phab:T351968)
  • Lexicographical data: We are changing how empty Senses and Forms are represented in the dumps (phab:T305660)
  • mul language code: We are doing user testing for the current implementation to see if it is understandable for people.
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on migrating it to the Codex design system.
  • REST API:
    • We improved the handling of lower-case statement IDs (phab:T354262)
    • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

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

Weekly Tasks

Wikidata weekly summary #612

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.

Discussions

  • New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807, phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
    • We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
    • We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
  • mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release

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

Weekly Tasks

Wikidata weekly summary #613

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: ROBERTSHST requested adminship to be able to link protected Wikipedia pages to Wikidata. The request has been denied and closed.
  • New request for comments: Frettiebot block? - Bovlb has requested community input about the edit behaviour of this bot, with more discussion found on the Frettiebot Discussion page.

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Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • A job opening for a Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an NSF-funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.
  • The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback! We are currently evaluating a new feature for the Wikidata Query Service. Fancy sharing your thoughts? We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete this survey on Lamapoll. It should take you around 10–15 minutes. Your input means a lot to us. Thank you!

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Development

  • [Breaking Change] We are changing how empty Sense and Form lists are represented in dumps
  • Fixed the order of item/property suggestions on several occasions, primarily sex or gender (P21) (phab:T355697)
  • mul lanuage code: We are wrapping up the usability testing.
  • IP Masking: We continued the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to not show IP addresses for non-logged in users anymore.
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We added the ability to add a sitelink to an Item or edit an existing one (phab:T342987)
    • We are fixing a bug where badges were missing in the API reponse for sitelinks (phab:T355293)


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Wikidata weekly summary #614

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.

Discussions

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 6, 2024: Wikimedia user Dnshitobu will discuss Wikidata for Education, the Dagbani NLP project, and the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group/sister communities. In the last part of the meeting, Dnshitobu will lead a discussion of your ideas for Wikidata Affinity Group activities in 2024 using Jamboard. Agenda
  • Kick-Off Panel Discussion: Black Histories Wikipedia & Wikidata Edit-a-thon February 6, 17:00 - 18:00 CET. Toronto Metropolitan University. Edit-A-Thon's are also being hosted on Feb. 8th 16:00 CET and Feb. 15th 18:00 CET.
  • Wikidata 101 is a clinic, part of the #LoveDataWeek hosted at Toronto Metropolitan University; February 13th 11:00 - 12:30 EST in LIB 387 - Library Collaboratory building.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • A Query and UI for exploring works of Venezuelan authors, artists, scientists and creators in the Public Domain.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We are finishing the endpoint for adding/replacing a sitelink on an Item for a given wiki (phab:T342987) and have finished the ones for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (phab:T344039, phab:T344685)
    • We have documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (phab:T355659)
    • We fixed the bug where sitelink data was not including badges even when available (phab:T355293)
  • IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase so we don't show IP addresses for non-logged-in users.
  • mul: We finished the user testing and will now work on the remaining blockers for the first release.

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Wikidata weekly summary #615

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • MediaWiki:Gadget-dataDrainer.js - this userscript allows you to delete the data of an item. You can choose what you want to delete: labels and/or descriptions and/or aliases and or sitelinks.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A project page for the experiment has also been published.
  • WMDE is currently conducting a research on Knowledge Equity in Linked Open Data. The goal is to try to better understand how the use of Wikidata, Wikibase Suite, and Wikibase Cloud both support knowledge equity and create barriers to knowledge equity when people are contributing historically and structurally marginalized knowledge and perspectives. If you are interested in participating in this project, please fill out this survey!

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Development

  • The new mul language code is now ready for beta testing. You can find out more at Help talk:Default values for labels and aliases.
  • The graph split testing for the Wikidata Query Service has started. Please find more details in the "Other Noteworthy Stuff" section above.
  • IP Masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP Masking feature, so that IP addresses for non-logged-in users are no longer published.
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We finished the route for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (phab:T344039, phab:T344685) and we continue work on the one for adding/ replacing and modifying a sitelink on an Item (phab:T342987, phab:T342988)
    • We now handle of case sensitive statement IDs in GET, PUT, PATCH and DELETE requests as HTTP redirect (phab:T354261)
    • We documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (phab:T355659)
    • We fixed the bug where sitelink data did not include badges (phab:T355293)

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Wikidata weekly summary #617

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: WT2O_2 - (RfP deadline: February 22, 2024 17:46 UTC)
  • Other: Project chat: PI Bot is an interesting conversation about the function of PI Bot in creating Stub articles and evolves into discussing ways of matching articles, categories and templates in sibling projects with their Wikidata items. Contribute to the discussion or even better, use one of the many tools posted and get linking!

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 20, 2024: In honor of Valentine's Day month, we are bringing back the popular program from last February: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project, even if you’re just beginning to think about it, or just what you like to edit when you have time. This is a great way to share your ideas, solicit community input and ask questions about resources or tools. This will be an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so. You can share your screen if you like, but there’s no need for slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda
  • Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and LLMs (KaLLM) at ACL 2024. Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE
  • Wiki Workshop 2024 ― Research Track Papers - Call for contributions. Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Yair rand/DiffLists.js - this userscript changes the appearance of Recent Changes, Watchlist, Contributions, History pages, and Related Changes. It also adds filter options.
  • Wikidata Topic Curator (a rewrite of ItemSubjector into a webapp) help wikimedians add relevant topics to items. Based on a given topic QID it fetches articles matching the label, aliases or a custom user-provided term of that QID that is currently missing the main subject property.
  • Author Disambiguator - is a tool for editing the authors of works recorded in Wikidata, e.g. for finding Wikidata Items for the authors (P50 instead of 'author name string').

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  • IP Masking: We added redirect-related parameters to most Wikibase API modules (phab:T357024; an announcement is in the works)
  • We migrated Termbox SSR from Node 16 to 18 (phab:T355685)
  • We made the (legacy) termbox remember its expanded/collapsed state for anonymous visitors and temporary users (phab:T351976)
  • We deployed and backported several security fixes to Wikibase release branches (phab:T345064, phab:T356764)

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Wikidata weekly summary #618

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.


  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Mike Peel (scheduled to end after 9 March 2024 13:08 (UTC))
    • Closed request for adminship: Madamebiblio requested for admintool to fight against vandalism, and the request was closed as successful.
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • Mfchris84-Bot - Task: Will run scripts on toolforge to automate and schedule edits on bibliographic items. Starting with Swiss online magazine Syntopia Alpina (Q112206291), then continuing by adding swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to version/edition items.
      • BorkedBot_12 - Task: Update number of viewers/listeners (P5436) with the qualifier YouTube channel ID (P2397) for YouTuber content creators and influencers.
      • LocodeBot - Task: Match UN/LOCODE (Q499348) to Wikidata entries by ISO 3166-2 region code, name and distance (if defined), important for UN organisations.
  • Tool of the week
    • WiQuizz - from Nuxt and SPARQL WiQuizz allows you to create or play quiz games where content is generated from Wikidata. It could be a fun way to get people interacting with Wikidata!
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff

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  • Development
    • IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to no longer show IPs for non-logged in users.
    • Wikibase REST API: We are almost done with the routes for adding/editing/removing a sitelink.
    • Entity Schemas: We prototyped another approach to making it possible to link to Entity Schemas in statements.

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Wikidata weekly summary #619

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-11. Translations are available.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Zafer - (RfP scheduled to end after 12 March 2024 20:03 (UTC))
  • Closed request for adminship: Mike Peel 2 - Adminship re-granted, welcome back Mike!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Mfchris84-Bot 1 - Task: Add swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to instance of (P31) version, edition or translation (Q3331189) based on checking ISBN-13 (P212) or ISBN-10 (P957).
    • NinoBot - Task: Semi-automatically create version, edition or translation (Q3331189) entries for Spanish Wikisource Index pages from Commons files.
    • Emijrpbot 10 - Task: Create a written work (Q47461344) and version, edition or translation (Q3331189) item for works and editions in the National Library of Spain datos.bne.es project.

Events

  • Upcoming
    • Queer Data Days - Wikidata Gender Diversity Project Event, a pair of virtual events welcoming a range of speakers investigating queer approaches to data and technology. Sign up for March 15 or March 16, 15:00 (CET).
    • Wikimedia Indonesia/Bulan Wiki Perempuan 2024 WM Indonesia Women's Wiki Month 2024 (Indonesian) - join classes on learning to edit Wikidata and address gender biases in Wikidata, Wikipedia and sibling projects. Program and register for Wikidata classes / datathon schedule
    • Wikidata Leveling Up Days, an online event and a collection of resources to welcome new people to Wikidata. The online event takes place on April 5-7 and 12-14 with presentations, workshops and discussions. The program is open to contributions. Learn more about the project at the website WiGeDi.

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Tool of the week

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Development

  • IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase to the upcoming IP masking changes in MediaWiki
  • Mismatch Finder: Already reviewed mismatches are now ignored when mismatches are reuploaded (T329631)
  • Query Builder: Selecting the user interface language became easier in Query Builder (T353728) and Query Service (T353729)

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Wikidata weekly Summary #620

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-18.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 20 March 2024 17:37 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Zafer Adminship granted, welcome Zafer!
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • PagesBot - Task: Adds no. of pages statements based on page(s) on items of type: scholarly article. Then adds a reference with based on heuristic equal to inferred from page(s).
      • Wicci'o'Bot - Task: Import identifiers of new properties created for TheTVDB (Q15616250), nientepopcorn (Q123434360) (and more properties I plan to request to be added shortly) inherent in the film and TV industry, using IMDb ID (P345) as source.
    • Closed request for comments: Duplicate Refs, Data Model and UI - (RfC closed 15 March 2024 18:57 UTC). The Community showed support for the proposal to change data model and UI for duplicated references. A Phabricator ticket has been opened: T360224
  • Events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 19, 2024: Please join us on March 19 for a community discussion about how GLAM professionals can incorporate Wikidata/linked data into their work week. Bring your success stories about institutional buy-in and how you’ve communicated the value of linked data to managers and colleagues. We hope to share some strategies that you can take back and use in your own workplace. This will be a followup of sorts to our call last May, and you can review some of what we talked about then, plus slides from our survey here: Notes from May 30, 2023 Meeting on Advocacy for Wikidata & Linked Data in Libraries.Agenda
    • Wiki Workshop 2024 - Announcing a new track and a Call for Proposals - Submit your contributions by April 29, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
    • WikiCon Aotearoa - Auckland 2024 - The New Zealand WikiCon has a couple of events introducing and workshopping Wikidata:
      • Saturday 23 March 2024, 11:15 NZT - Intro to Wikidata / 13:00 NZT - Beginner's OpenRefine Workshop
      • Sunday 24 March 2024, 11:00 NZT - Presentation: Breathing life into the Women's Archive through Wikidata

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-25.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 - Adminship request successful, congratulations KonstantinaG07 3!
  • Events
    • 2024 Women's Wiki Month Datathon (Indonesian) Between 24 - 26 March 2024, Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting a competitive Data-thon with Prizes available for editing and enriching Wikidata items on the topic of Women's Health. Full details on the project page.
    • Wikidata and FactGrid - Knowledge Graphs of data query entry (French) - a workshop taking place 26 March, 13:30 - 16:30 (GMT+1), hosted by Datalab MSHB Rennes and moderated by Jean-Baptiste Pressac.
    • Levelling Up Days 2024 is an online event designed to welcome new people to Wikidata, upgrade their editing skills and find out about useful tools and apps. Join us for a series of videos and discussions regarding Wikidata and its uses in and outside of the Wikimedia projects.
  • Tool of the week
    • Members of European Parliament by pac02. Explore visualisations of MEP's in the European Parliament. Country of origin, gender, political alignment and other properties from Wikidata can be explored.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikimedia Deutschland published a Call for Software Contributions! Application deadline is April 21th, 23:59 (GMT+1).
    • Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2023 - We encourage you to nominate and vote for research papers published in 2023 that focused on or benefited the Wikimedia projects (we're not biased but hope you vote for Wikidata-based Papers). Please submit your nominations by April 18, 2024.
    • In preparation for the Research Track of the 11th Wiki Workshop, there is now a Call for Contributions for the event scheduled virtually on June 20, 2024 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC). The Wiki Workshop aims to bring together researchers who study all aspects of the Wikimedia Projects. We hope Wikidata and Wikibase are well represented! Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)

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  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We worked on the ability to create Items via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
      • We worked on making it possible to modify the data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
    • EntitySchemas: We are getting back to making architecture improvements to enable the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
    • IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP masking changes.
    • Query Service: We added the ability to stop a query in the UI in order to not have to wait for a broken query to finish or run into a time-out. You can find the stop button below the run button in the query UI now.

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Wikidata weekly summary #622

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-11. Translations are available.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: MONA.artpublic.bot (Task: The bot's function is to add information about artists specializing in public artwork in Québec, Canada. The bot will initially only add that an artist's genre of work is public art for a set of known public artists in Québec compiled by MONA Montréal from open data sets.)

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 2, 2024: Come join us for fun data modeling discussions! We'll create breakout rooms in Zoom for people to discuss 4 examples of cultural heritage items to contribute to Wikidata. Each group will choose categories, brainstorm properties for basic and enhanced description, and discuss challenges. Then we'll have some quality time at the end to compare notes and discuss our processes! Agenda
    • Wikidata Leveling Up Days, everything you need to know about Wikidata: 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 April. The event is taking place online and the videos are already available on the program page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: Galerij der Groten op Wikidata (Dutch) - Wikimedia NL hosted an Edit-A-Thon on the Baroeg project, the task was to document and archive on Wikidata all of the bands that have played at the live music venue, the idea born from a stack of band flyers and posters hung in the bathroom(!) Join the next one Sunday April 14th.
  • Papers: Understanding Wikidata - Wikidata is extremely valuable as a data source to supplement, validate and extend existing knowledge bases and applications. To effectively utilize Wikidata in a Semantic Web application, one must understand its design, terminology and correspondence with ontological concepts (especially RDF and OWL). This paper attempts to explain and position this information. (by AWesterinen)
  • Videos
  • Notebooks: Gender differences in the number of sitelinks among members of the European Parliament, a statistical analysis based on Wikidata about the number of sitelinks by gender.

Tool of the week

  • Wikidatalite : Search, browse, and navigate Wikidata items with a mobile-friendly, simplified user interface.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • mul language code: We are continuing the work on fixing remaining issues for the next stage of releasing it (phab:T356200)
  • REST API:
  • EntitySchemas: We continued work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T359419)

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Wikidata weekly summary #623

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-04-08. Translations are available.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Anti-Pattern Analyzer is a static website capable of checking the existence of 'anti-pattern 1' (AP1) occurrences given an entity from Wikidata. It can also check if a new statement would introduce new violations.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Only 13 more days to go! The deadline to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions is coming closer and closer. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

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Development

  • REST API:
    • We continued the work on the endpoint for creating an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
    • We continued the work on the endpoint for modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (]]phab:T347394]])
  • EntitySchemas: Work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements is continuing.
  • mul language code: We are fixing remaining issues uncovered during testing. (phab:T355059, phab:T356200, phab:T135871, phab:T356201)

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Wikidata weekly summary #622

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-04-15.
Translations are available.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • AzBot - Task: adding a space in over 7k malformed Dutch descriptions per this request.
    • DifoolBot 3 - Task: fill in empty English/French/German labels and basic statements for persons with VIAF ID (P214) and a VIAF authority source GND ID (P227), IdRef ID (P269), Bibliothèque nationale de France ID (P268) or Library of Congress authority ID (P244)

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Join the Wikidata Open Online Course starting April 22, 2024! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
  • Only 6 more days to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

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Development

  • mul langauge code: We are finishing the polishing for the first proper release coming soon.
  • EntitySchema: We are continuing the work on the new datatype that will make it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
  • REST API:
    • We continued work on creating an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
    • We continued work on modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)

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Wikidata weekly summary #624

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-04-22.
Translations are available.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • OpeninfoBot - Task: Importing financial data (assets, equity, revenue, EBIT, net profit) from openinfo.uz to entries on public Uzbek companies in Wikidata.
    • IntegrationBot - Task: retrieve information from Wikidata and contribute data back

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Mishramilan (মিশ্রমিলন), a tool listing words/phrases in different language catalogs and allowing users to match the entries in those catalogs to existing Wikidata lexemes or to create new lexemes based on those entries.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • It's not too late to join the Wikidata Open Online Course, open from April 22 to May 31! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
  • There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A new proposal for the split has also been published, feedback will be open until May 15th 2024.

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Development

  • mul language code: We are continuing the roll-out. It is now available on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org.
  • REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the following:
    • Create an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
    • Modify data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
  • Leveling Up Days: We are wrapping up the event.

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Wikidata weekly summary #625

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events

  • Nubuke Wikidata Workshop - Sat. 27 April 1100 - 1400 GMT at the Nubuke Foundation, Lome Close Accra, Ghana.
  • There's still time for nominating your favorite tool in the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners unveiled at Wikimania 2024
  • Coordinate Me 2024 - an international Wikidata competition around content with geodata. The competition starts on 1 May 2024 and ends on 31 May 2024.
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is just around the corner, taking place in Tallinn, Estonia from 02 - 06 May. We hope there will be lots of Wikidata hacking projects worked on.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

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Wikidata weekly summary #626

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-05-06.
Translations are available.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata periodic table - Tool by User:Ricordisamoa, to browse all chemical elements available on Wikidata, with atomic number, chemical symbol, and localized label. It also includes two charts of the nuclides, with links to every isotope in Wikidata, colored by half-life or decay mode.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • A new UI mode is available for the online validator for EntitySchemas. It represents validation reports as a table rather than a very long string, and replaces most links with hyperlinks with some of the text behind them; making them easier to read. Currently being tested at https://shex-validator.toolforge.org/packages/shex-webapp/doc/shex-simple-improved.html, we are looking for participants to evaluate this tool. Some experience with editing Wikidata is appreciated, but no experience working with Schemas is required. If you are interested, you can sign up here. We hope to begin interviews around May 13. For more details, visit User:M.alten.tue

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Development

  • We attended the Wikimedia Hackathon.
  • REST API: We are finishing the route for creating an Item (phab:T342990) and modify the data of a Property (phab:T347394)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)

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Wikidata weekly summary #627

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-05-13.
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Discussions

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #628

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-05-20. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Browse9ja Bot - Task: Automated data retrieval focusing on Nigerian / African-based information, integrating a chatbot, NLP API, knowledge graph, and machine learning model.
    • DhlizBot - Task: add Dhliz ID (P12696) for persons/films/TV series that exist in Dhliz (Q125594802) database.
    • AmeisenBot 2 - Task: Working on bot requests at WD:RBOT using QuickStatements.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata GenderStats measures gender bias at the user level by computing stats on created items.
  • Created items : a list of items created by a user with labels. This not new but this has been repaired.

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Development

  • We have completed the preparation work to migrate the Query Builder's front end from Wikit to Codex (phab:T360096)
  • We also continued work on the EntitySchema data type and refining the CI flow for EntitySchemas (phab:T362000)

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-05-27. Please help Translate.

Discussions

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 28, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 28 May, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on the LCCN Wikidata Bot with Mary Campany, Steven Folsom, and Matt Miller. 2024-05-28: Wikidata Affinity Group Call Agenda
  • Coordinate Me 2024 (Spanish): An international Wikidata competition around geolocation content, from towns, hospitals, public art and natural monuments to improve or create Wikidata elements with a coordinate location (P625) in focus countries. Contest ends 31 May 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikipedia:WE-Framework: WE-Framework is a tool developed by Sergey Vladimirov that allows editing related Wikidata elements in an article without having to go to Wikidata. When you save your Wikidata edit, it will reference the utility in the edit summary.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • EntitySchemas: We continued work on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas in statements. We focused on the input so it shows the label of the EntitySchema when entering the ID. Search by label and aliases will follow. (phab:T362004)
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We looked into how to improve error messages.
    • We wrapped up the route for modifying the data of a Property. (phab:T347394
    • We are nearing the finish line for the route for creating a new Item. (phab:T342990)
    • We are continuing work on the route for modifying an Item. (phab:T342993)
  • Developer advocacy: We are collecting content for a new landing page for developers who want to build applications with Wikidata's data.

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Wikidata weekly summary #630

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-06-03. Please help Translate.


Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - RfP scheduled to end after 9 June 2024 06:47 (UTC).
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: TongcyBot - Task: Linking the Chinese and English Wiktionary, specifically in categories using Template:auto cat, and pages in the Template, Module, Appendix, Reconstruction, and Rhymes namespaces.
  • Open request for permissions/Bot: IliasChoumaniBot - Task: Automatic updating of data from JSON files on German scientists.
  • Closed request for comments: IP Masking Engagement - The RfC was closed due to inactivity. Discussions are still welcomed on Meta.


Events


Press, articles, blog posts, videos


Tool of the week

  • WikiTwister - RoloWiki: Replace the interwiki links of a Wikipedia article with a pop-up card full of useful Wikidata, & Wikidata Quick Dip: Browse the Wikidata properties used by the pages in a category.


Other Noteworthy Stuff


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Development

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Wikidata weekly summary #631

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-06-10. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Kadı - RfP scheduled to end after 14 June 2024 17:51 (UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - Closed as successful. Welcome back Squirrel!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 11, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on SMALL GLAM SLAM Pilot 1 with Ismael Olea. Link to agenda.
  • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Conference, September 25-27, 2024 in Waterford City, Ireland. This conference usually hosts Wikidata-related sessions. You can now propose your contributions to the program until July 14th, and apply for a scholarship until June 30th (full announcement and links)
  • WikiIndaba conference 2024, 4 - 6 October 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This conference typically hosts Wikidata-related sessions. Program submissions 05 - 30 June 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Paulina: Data for the Public Domain - Explore the cultural heritage of humanity. Search Paulina by author and discover if they have freely accessible works in the Public Domain.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Propose to transform an existing CSS or Javascript script (i.e. scripts that you can enable in your common.css and common.js pages) into a gadget: Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets

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Development

  • The UnpatrolledEdits gadget now shows a notice when there are older and multiple unpatrolled edits, previously it only showed the notice when the most recent edit was unpatrolled. Please help translate the messages here.
  • Query Service: We are fixing a bug where no examples are shown in the example dialog (phab:T366871)
  • EntitySchemas: We have enabled the new datatype for testing on test.wikidata.org and are preparing the rollout to Wikidata (phab:T365686)
  • Item UI: We fixed an issue where labels were not shown for badges or after making an edit (phab:T366236)
  • Wikibase REST API: We have continued the work on the route for modifying the data of an Item (phab:T342993)

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Weekly Summary #632

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-06-17.

Discussions

Events

  • Looking ahead
    • Lexico Days 2024 is coming up. June 28 - 30, there will be a packed programme of presentations, discussions and workshops on Lexicographical data. This is an online event.
    • Wikidata Workshop for Botanists at the XX Intl. Botanical Congress, July 21 - 27, 2024, Madrid, Spain.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • EntitySchemas: We are preparing for the rollout of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We are continuing the work on the route for modifying an Item (phab:T342993)
    • We are working on improving errors and error messages in the API
  • Query Service UI: We fixed a bug. The example dialog was empty and not showing any examples (phab:T366871)
  • We changed the datatype of two Properties to external ID as requested (phab:T367174)

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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-06-24. Please help Translate.

Events

  • Past: The 200th online Wikidata meetup in Swedish was held.
  • Upcoming: Lexicodays, online event dedicated to Lexemes on Wikidata, will take place on June 28-30. It takes place across time zone and both in English and Indonesian. Check the program and find the access links on the event page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata in Prometheus - Prometheus is a non-commercial image archive for art and cultural studies. It hosts images from a variety of image and media databases and now works can be connected with Wikidata.
  • New Mix'n'match feature: For lists of (full or auto) matches where both the MnM entry and the Wikidata Item have coordinates, it now shows the distance between them in the description. (source)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning a brief survey to understand the various ways people contribute to the project and identify user contribution patterns. A request has been made for a CentralNotice banner to deploy the survey to a broad audience. Your feedback, comments, and questions on this request are welcome: m:CentralNotice/Request/Wikidata Community Survey 2024
  • The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course will begin from July 1 until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

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Development

  • [Breaking Change Announcement] Upcoming Changes to Wikibase: EntitySchema data type
  • EntitySchemas: We prepared for the release of the new data type to link to EntitySchemas in statements on July 2nd.
  • Mul language code: We picked up the remaining issues before enabling it by default on Wikidata
  • Wikibase REST API:

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Wikidata weekly summary #634

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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-01. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DifoolBot 4 Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.
    • Bot Bozze Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
  • New request for comments: Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.

Events

  • Past: The Lexicodays 2024 was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are here c:Category:Lexicodays 2024. More will be added as they become available.
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024
    • Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe. Register here!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course has begun. Class will continue until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

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Development

  • EntitySchemas:
    • We worked around an issue where EntitySchema pages were no longer considered “content” and had become unsearchable (phab:T368010)
    • We prepared for the release of the new datatype on July 2nd.
  • mul language code: We are working on the last remaining blocker before rolling out the first stage to Wikidata (phab:T362917)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to rework API errors (phab:T366911, phab:T366239)

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Wikidata weekly summary #635

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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-08. Please help Translate.

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Registration for Wikimania 2024 is open! In-person participants: please register until 26 July, 11:59 p.m., UTC. Virtual participants can register anytime. If you received a scholarship from the Wikimedia Foundation, you will receive an email with a registration code and instructions.

Tool of the week

  • User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", checks whether each statement and property conforms to the schema. It then displays a summary at the top of the Item for each property indicating whether they conform or not. It also adds a badge to each statement and each property on the page indicating whether they conform or not.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • EntitySchemas: The new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements has been released.
  • mul language code: We are preparing the release.

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Wikidata weekly summary #536

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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-15. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: SpinachBot - Task/s: AI agent-enabled question answering through the creation and execution of complex SPARQL queries on Wikidata. Users tag the bog with wikidata-related questions, and it tries to come up with an answer by iteratively creating SPARQL queries.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Relationships between two Wikidata items a new tool hosted on Observable which looks at all statements involving a pair of Wikidata items.
  • User:Magnus Manske/ac2wd.js - This script adds an "AC2WD" link in the tools sidebar. When you click on it, it uses the AC2WD tool to check the item for certain Authority Control IDs (eg VIAF). It then checks these AC datasets for statements (and more AC IDs). It will then add any new information it found as new statements, or add more references to existing statements where possible. A green checkmark will be appended to the link if data was added (reload the page to see), otherwise a "—" if no new data was available.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

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Wikidata weekly summary #637

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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-22. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DannyS712 bot - Task/s: I want to get approval for a bot with translation admin rights that will automatically mark pages for translations if and only if the latest version is identical to the version that is already in the translation system, i.e. only pages with no "net" changes in the pending edits.
    • DerIchBot - Task/s: Adding data about schools provided by the German and Austrian governments to wikidata.
    • DifoolBot 5 - Task/s: Change reference URLs into the related ID property and merge references with the same ID property.
    • AroundTheBot - Task/s: Automated import of Albanian nouns with IPA from Wiktionary, with the long-term goal of using this data to do pronunciation-based comparison/word evolution between languages.

Events

  • Past: Wikimedia Indonesia hosted the 2024 Data Visualization Competition from June 5 to 18. The event featured data visualizations (posters and graphics) and short essays using data from Wikidata. Visit the competition page (in Indonesian) to view the winning entries.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata's 12th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2024. Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area, get funding, and get in touch with other organizers.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Paulina, a new tool for exploring public domain works.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • WMF Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) invites interested volunteers to apply. As part of the movement strategy recommendation for "Coordinating Across Stakeholders," the PTAC will bring technical contributors and the Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform.

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Development

  • mul: We fixed the last blocker for the limited MUL rollout to Wikidata on July 29th (phab:T362917)
  • EntitySchemas:
  • Query Service: preparation for the graph split is continuing by the Search Platform Team. We started looking into adapting the constraints checks for it (phab:T369079)

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Wikidata weekly summary #638

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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-29. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • GergesBot 2 - Task/s: Edit label when order is added in ar:ويكيبيديا:طلبات نقل عبر البوت (Transfer requests by Bot).
    • UmisBot - Task/s: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata Days Bologna 2024, Italian language conference dedicated to Wikidata for libraries and research, taking place in the frame of Wikidata’s 12th birthday, on November 8-9 in Bologna, Italy.
    • Wikimania starts on August 7. Here is a list of sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. If something is missing, feel free to add to it, including any Wikidata meetups you may be hosting.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Nikki/ShowIDs.js - This user script adds entity IDs in brackets after links.
  • Common values, yet another Observable notebook. This one looks at common values between two Wikidata item pages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • IP masking: The feature was rolled out to test wikis and we fixed a few issues uncovered by this.
  • EntitySchemas: We are working to make it possible to search for the EntitySchema by its label and aliases when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema (phab:T362005)
  • Integration in other Wikimedia projects: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link from the tools section of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
  • REST API:
    • We changed the data-type field to data_type in JSON responses (phab:T368130)
    • We are continuing the work on improving error handling and messages

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Wikidata weekly summary #639

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-05. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Numberguy6Bot - Task: Add links to Wiktionary categories in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian.
    • UmisBot - Task: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.
    • ZLBot - Task: request SPARQLs for RAG.

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call 6 August, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 6 August, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a Busy Summer Fun Wikidata Editing Hour, an hour of uninterrupted Wikidata editing time to work on your own Wikidata projects. Agenda.
  • Wikimania is August 7-10. Here is a curated a list of Wikimania sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. Please add to the list if something is missing.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Forage - a user script that provides an additional editing interface that makes editing easier, by showing the expected properties for a page (based on its "instance of" values), and providing simple inputs to let users add values for any such property. To install Forage, just add the following line to the common.js subpage under your user page on Wikidata, i.e. wikidata.org/wiki/User:Your username here/common.js: importScript('User:Techwizzie/forage.js');

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page: Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).
  • Abdulai Yorli Iddrisu (WMDE) has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of September 2024. Welcome Yorli!
  • Wikidata now has a shiny new landing page for developers: Wikidata:For developers

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Development

  • mul language code: The new language code has been rolled out in a limited way. We are looking through feedback now.
  • mul release: The full release of the "mul" language code feature to Wikidata, originally scheduled for August 12, may be delayed as we have uncovered a few issues during testing that could potentially block the scheduled release.

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Wikidata weekly summary #640

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-12. Please help Translate.

Events

  • Wikimania 2024 took place in Katowice, Poland. You can watch replays of the sessions on YouTube. Additionally, recordings of individual sessions are linked to each item on the Eventyay schedule.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • New Q5 - is a form that quickly sets up a Wikidata Item for an individual by generating a QuickStatement with the basic parameters such as name and age.
  • User:Nikki/SDCInfo.js - is a Userscript that shows some Wikimedia Commons statements on pronunciation audio statements on Lexeme forms.

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Development

  • Not much happened this past week because the team was attending Wikimania.

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Wikidata weekly summary #641

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-19.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship:
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - Task: Infer Metacritic ID (P1712) of TV series, seasons, and episodes from vertically adjacent levels.

Events

  • (Save The Date)
    • Wikidata Days Bologna - November 8 - 9, 2024. Dario Nobili Library (CNR). A conference dedicated to the Italian-speaking Wikidata community, with a focus on libraries and research.
  • Ongoing
    • Like Soccer? Did you know the Uganda Wiki Soccerthon 2024 is still running and aims to create over 300 Wikidata items on Ugandan clubs, players, coaches, leagues, associations and leagues related to Ugandan soccer.
  • In case you missed it...
    • Catch up on all the Wikimania 2024 sessions with these YouTube replays. Or check the Eventyay schedule for recordings of individual sessions linked to each item.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Anvesha is a drill-down browser for any Wikibase installation (incl. Wikidata). A prominent example of it in use is the Wikidata Walkabout.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikidata: For Developers - We have a shiny new portal for developers wanting to build applications using Wikidata's data. Visit it for inspiration with showcase examples, resources, information and support.

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Development

  • QuickStatements Community Consultation, until August 31st
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to improve error messages and handling.
  • Wikipedia and co: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
  • Wikidata Query Service graph split: The WMF Search Platform team is setting up the servers for the split graphs. We hope to have them ready for use soon. We also prepared the constraints checks for this.

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Wikidata weekly summary #641

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-26. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship:
    • Gwanki - RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2024 05:54 (UTC)
    • Putnik 2 - RfP scheduled to end after 27 August 2024 23:17 (UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Both requests successful, welcome new admins: Mohammed Qays and Wüstenspringmaus!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Leaderbot - Task/s: reminds users when their rights are to expire (see Phab:T370842)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - RfP successful!
  • New request for comments:

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • New AI Project Manager to join Wikimedia Deutschland: We’re pleased to announce that a new AI project manager will be joining our team next week. Lydia and Jonathan (Director of Engineering) have been prototyping in this area and recently presented their work at the AI_dev summit (YouTube link). Our goal is to bring knowledge graphs and generative AI closer together, making AI more equitable, truthful, participatory, and open. More updates to come soon!

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Development

  • Not much happened this week. Many of the developers are still on vacation, and some are out sick.

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Wikidata weekly summary #643

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-09-02.

Discussions

  • Project chat: Wikidata:Project chat#Mass-import policy - A new mass-import policy has been proposed, focusing on improving the quality of existing items rather than importing new ones, with a suggested limit of 100 new items before requiring community approval.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Display Wikidata Info on sister projects by User:Yair rand. This user-script will add the articles corresponding Wikidata item Label, Q-ID, Description and Short Desc. neatly under the article title. If no Wikidata item is linked, option to CreateNewItem page on Wikidata is provided.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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  • Wikidata Query Service:
    • The WMF Search Platform team is putting the finishing touches on the new Query Service servers that contain the two parts of the split graph.
    • We are analyzing which percentage of current queries are better served by other systems like the REST API or search.
  • Wikimedia projects integration:
    • We have worked on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the toolbox section of the sidebar of an article. It has been rolled out to the first wikis: ukwiki, hewiki, fawiki (phab:T66315)
    • We are working on decreasing the amount of irrelevant changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co by correcting the tracking behaviour of the Lua function mw.wikibase.entity:getSitelink() (phab:T295356)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued improving errors and error messages.

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Wikidata weekly summary #644

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-02. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #643

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: أمين - RfP scheduled to end 9 September 2024 11:18 (UTC).

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Teester/CheckShex.js - a Userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", it uses pyshexy to validate the entity against the schema and displays whether the entity passes or fails.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • 🔥 Big changes are coming to the #WikidataQueryService. If you query for scholarly articles, please take a look at this announcement!
  • Is Shakespeare in German something for you? A digital version of the Schlegel/Tieck edition (Aufbau-Verlag 1975) was released with Wikidata connections. (source)

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Wikidata weekly summary #645

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-16. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #644

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 5 - Task: update a typography error in the French description of homonym pages, seen on 1.
  • New request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats - The proposal suggests allowing Wikidata bureaucrats to remove admin rights, which they currently cannot do, to streamline processes, reduce reliance on stewards, and align with practices of other wikis.
  • Proposal: Mul labels - proposal of massive addition - The proposal suggests massively adding "mul" labels to Wikidata items for given and family names, using a bot to streamline the process and reduce redundant labels.

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 17 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: Session 2 (September 17) - Working session using Mix‘n’Match to add Wikidata items
  • Wikidata Day 2024 (Seattle) - Agenda: Wikidata Twelfth Birthday, Training and Edit-a-thon. When: Saturday, October 26, from 12:30–4:30pm PDT

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Lagewi/references.js - "Sometimes, the data on Wikidata does not answer all your questions. Some types of information are difficult to encode in statements, or simply has not been encoded on Wikidata yet. In such cases, it might be useful to go through the references attached to claims of the entity, for additional information. To simplify this process, this user script lists all unique references based on stated in (P248) and reference URL (P854). The references are listed in a collapsible list below the table of labels and descriptions, collapsed by default to not be obtrusive." To enable it, include the following line in your common.js: mw.loader.load('//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lagewi/references.js&oldid=2039248554&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

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  • The development team attended the annual WMDE Software Department retreat, so there wasn't much development activity this week.

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Wikidata Weekly Summary #647

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-30. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #646

Discussions

Events

  • Wikidata's 12th birthday is coming up on October 29th. Have a look at the birthday parties and more planned around the world.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 1 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 1 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page.

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Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Search: The haswbstatement search magic word has been improved by the Search Platform Team. Previously it was limited in which Properties were indexed for it. Going forward haswbstatement:P123 will work for all Properties, regardless of their datatype. This will allow you to filter search results for Items that have a statement with a specific Property. (Searching for a specific complete statement with haswbstatement:P123=xxx will still only work for specific datatypes.) For this to work all Items have to be reindexed and this will take up to 1 month.
  • Design system migration: We have migrated the Special:NewLexeme page from Wikit to Codex and are working on finishing the migration for the Query Builder.
  • EntitySchemas: We finished the investigation about how to support search for EntitySchemas by label or alias when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement. (phab:T362005)
  • Wikibase REST API: We worked on integrating language fallbacks into the API (phab:T371605)

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Wikidata weekly summary #648

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-07. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #647

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata Day 2024 at the Pratt Institute Manhattan Campus, New York - To celebrate Wikidata's 12th Birthday, a mini-conference with beginner workshops, lightning talks and keynote speeches will be held. October 26, 11am - 5pm EDT (UTC-4). More info, registration and full address on this Wikipedia event page.
    • The Wikidata Days 2024 in Bologna, Italy will take place on November 8th and 9th. Its program revolves around Wikidata for libraries and academia, and features a wide range of Wikidata-enthusiastic librarians and researchers from Italy. Registration is open until October 31st.
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST 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.
    • Scholia hackathon on Oct 18-20, aimed at addressing changes related to the Wikidata graph split
    • Intangible Cultural Heritage on Wikidata - Hosted by Wikimedia Community Malta (WCM), November 8, 2024 18:00 - 19:00 CEST, Malta Fairs and Conference Centre (MFCC) in Ta’ Qali, Malta
    • Edit-A-Thon: 50 States of Comics - Ohio, take part in this virtual event held October 10, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC-5).

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Tool of the week

  • (fr) wikidata MultiSearch - search for a list of elements in Wikidata. A GPLv3 licenced tool built by Philippe Gambette allows you to search for a list of words in Wikidata and retrieve some associated Wikidata properties.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Are you building applications or services with Wikidata's data? We'd love to hear from you to help us figure out the future of accessing Wikidata's data.
  • Wikidata: Event Organizers - If you are organizing or thinking about planning a Wikidata event, this new page listing the additional User rights the user-role 'event organizer' has will be a valuable resource. Including the process for applying for permission rights.

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Development

  • Data access:
  • Design system: We continued migrating the Query Builder and Special:NewLexeme from Wikit to Codex

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Wikidata weekly summary #649

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #648

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 15 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 15 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1729008000 Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database https://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/ using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: [1]
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST 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.
    • Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday: We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to:

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Tool of the week

  • Elemwala (এলেমওয়ালা) (https://elemwala.toolforge.org): is a proof-of-concept interface that allows you to input abstract content and get natural language text in a given output language. There may well be errors with particular inputs, and the text may not be quite as natural as you might expect, but that's where your improvements to your language's lexemes, other Wikidata items, and the tool's source code come in!
  • mlscores: Tool for calculating multilinguality score of Wikidata items (including properties). E.g. for Wikidata (Q2013), the scores are - en: 99.66%, fr: 89.49%, es: 84.07%, pt: 68.47%. For instance of (P31), the scores are - en: 99.86%, fr: 87.12%, es: 80.83%, pt: 61.37%.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Launch of WikiProject Deprecate P642: The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the property of (P642). Currently, of (P642) is labeled as "being deprecated", meaning its use is still allowed, but discouraged. From a peak of around 900,000 uses, the property now has around 700,000 uses (see status here). Our goal is to reduce that as much as possible in a systematic way, while ensuring that appropriate properties exist to replace all valid uses of of (P642). The latter is key to officially deprecating the property. Before removing the property, we want to get as close to zero uses as possible.

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Development

  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to find an EntitySchema by its label or aliases when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement (phab:T375641)
  • Design system: We are continuing the work on migrating the Query Builder from Wikit to Codex
  • REST API: We finished the work on language fallback support in the REST API (phab:T371605)

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Wikidata weekly summary #650

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #649

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Addshore (RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2024 18:03 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • CarbonBot - (1) Add default mul labels to given and family names when the item has an existing default label with a mul language (2) Remove duplicated aliases matching the items mul label, when the item has a native label in with a mul language. As mul has not been fully adopted, a limited of aliases would be modified each day to ensure existing workflows are not disrupted. It is expected that these tasks will apply to roughly 800,000 given and family names.
    • So9qBot 10 - Add first line (P1922) with the first line of the paper to all scientific papers which has a full text link or where the abstract is available.

Events

  • Upcoming: We are getting ready for Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday on the 29th October. We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to (1) create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc. (2) add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Schedule
  • Past:

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Tool of the week

  • User:Ainali/PreViewStats.js - is a Userscript that gives a quick glance at the pageviews in the header (and links to the full views). If you install it on your global.js on meta, it works on all projects).
  • Wikidata:ProVe - (Automated PROvenance VErification of Knowledge Graphs against Textual Sources) - is a tool for helping editors improve the references of Wikidata Items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Deepesha Burse joins WMDE as Developer Advocate for Wikibase Suite
  • Wikibase Suite: Patch releases as the first round of patch releases for all Wikibase Suite products, including all WBS Images as well as WBS Deploy
  • The CampaignEvents extension is now live on Wikidata! This means that if you are an event organizer, you can use several new tools to help manage your events more easily. By getting the Event Organizer right, you can:
    • Use simple on-wiki registration for your events.
    • Integrate Outreach Dashboard with your event registration page. (see demo)
    • Communicate more easily with your registered participants. (see demo)
    • Make your events more visible to other editors through the Special:AllEvents page.
    • Find potential participants for your next events. (see demo), and much more!
    • With this extension, you can also see all global events (past, present, and future) on the Special:AllEvents page, but only events using the event registration feature will appear there. If you are an organizer and want to use these new tools, follow the instructions on the Wikidata:Event_Organizers page to request the Event Organizer right.

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Development

  • Vector 2020: We’re working on improving Wikibase’s dark mode support somewhat (phab:T369385)
  • We polished the automatic undo/redo messages to make them more useful (phab:T194402)
  • Design system: We’re close to finishing migrating Special:NewLexeme to the Codex design system
  • EntitySchemas: We’re working on searching EntitySchema values by label and alias (phab:T375641)

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Wikidata weekly summary #551

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #650

Discussions

Events

  • Wikidata's 12th Birthday is almost here! Let’s celebrate together and make it unforgettable! 🎂 Join in for events happening across the globe in October & November -- there's something for everyone! Here’s how you can be part of the fun.
    • Find a local event and connect with fellow Wikidata enthusiasts!
    • Give a birthday gift to the community -- whether it's a cool new tool or something fun!
    • Join our big online celebration on October 29th -- don’t miss out! Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday
    • Join the special Wikidata Query-party tomorrow and win some branded Wikidata socks! 🎉
  • The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is taking a break from our new project series format this coming Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter) to celebrate Hallowe'en! We'll be celebrating Spooky Season with a WitchyData Working Hour! Following on Christa Strickler's recent project series, we will continue building proficiency with the Mix'n'match tool, but with a ghoulish twist. Join the fall fun by updating your Zoom background or even coming in costume. BYOC (bring your own candy). Event page: Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Wikidata Working Hours/2024-October-29 Wikidata Working Hour

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Tool of the week

  • Lexica – A mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels. This tool is developed by the WMDE Wikidata Software Collaboration team in Indonesia. Try Lexica through this link: https://lexica-tool.toolforge.org/

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The Global Open Initiative Foundation is building an open-source web app for Supreme Court cases in Ghana. We are looking for volunteers in the following roles: Frontend Developers, Backend Developers, Wikidata/SPARQL Experts, UI/UX Designers, Quality Assurance (QA) Testers, and Legal Professionals. Join us by sendind your resume and a brief description of your expertise to globalopeninitiative@gmail.com

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Development

  • Vector 2022: We are continuing to make Wikidata Items pages work in dark-mode (phab:T369385)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We discussed what will constitute breaking changes for the API (phab:T357775)
    • We are working on the endpoint for creating Properties (phab:T342992)

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Wikidata weekly summary #652

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #651

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • A small project on benchmarking query engine performance on useful Wikidata queries is asking for queries from the Wikidata user community to potentially be part of the benchmark. If you are a user of any Wikidata SPARQL service please send queries that you find useful to Peter F. Patel-Schneider. Say what you used the query for and whether you would like to be noted as the source of the query. Queries that take considerable time or time out are especially welcome, particularly if the query caused you to switch from the official Wikidata Query Service to some other service. More information about the project is available in Wikidata:Scaling_Wikidata/Benchmarking.

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Development

  • Mobile statement editing: We are making progress on the technical investigation for how to make it easier to edit statements on mobile. A lot more work to be done after that though.
  • We fixed the sidebar link to the main page in many languages (phab:T184386)
  • Codex: We are continuing with the migration of the Query Builder to Codex, the new design system. The migration of Special:NewLexeme is almost finished.
  • Query Service: We have updated the list of languages for the language selector in the UI (phab:T358572)
  • Vector 2022: We are continuing to adress issues of the Item UI in dark mode (phab:T369385)
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We are moving from v0 to v1.
    • We have finished the work on the new endpoint for creating Properties.
  • Action API: We’re improving the way the wbformatvalue API handles invalid options (phab:T323778)

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Wikidata weekly summary #653

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-11. Missed the previous one? See issue #652

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Starting ca. today (), tools or bots which use the wiki replicas (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (T367856). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected.
  • Job vacancy Product Manager: Wikibase Suite: Wikibase Suite allows institutions to create and host their own linked knowledge base with maximum customizability, this role will be responsible for the vision and strategy of this exciting product!

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  • Lua: We changed the Wikibase function getAllStatements logic to behave as getBestStatements. When invoked, it was returning mutable direct-values, now it will return a copy of those values (which are immutable). (phab:T270851)
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • Configuration: We removed 'mainpage' from $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg for Wikidata as requested so translations of the main page are available (phab:T184386)
  • mul language code: We moved it to the top of the termbox so labels and aliases in mul are visible first (phab:T371802)
  • Revision table size: We are investigating the current state of the revision table of Wikidata's database and what the next steps should be to address its issues.

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Wikidata weekly summary #654

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #653

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • DBLP to Wikidata - This tool is for adding scholarly articles to Wikidata utilizing data from DBLP. It also provides article authors with a tool to enhance Wikidata with associated entities, such as missing co-authors or conference proceeding entities. Demo video & Github repo

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • [BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT] wbformatvalue API will no longer accepts most options
  • Wikibase REST API: We are looking into how to do search in the REST API.
  • Special:NewLexeme: We merged the full migration from the Wikit to the Codex design system.
  • EntitySchemas: We are polishing the patches to make it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label when linking to an EntitySchema in a new statement.
  • Wikidata support is now available to Tulu Wikipedia and Tulu Wikisource

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Wikidata weekly summary #655

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #654

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: 333Bot - Task(s): Add missing sitelinks to english Wikisource based on their header templates there.
  • Closed request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights.

Events

  • Upcoming
    • 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - registration is now open
    • Save the date: the Data Reuse Days 2025, an online event focusing on the use of Wikidata's data for tools and applications, will take place in February. You can already propose sessions for the program.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 3 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series Etherpad to help us prepare relevant materials for you. You only need to fill it out once, no matter how many sessions you plan to attend. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024, at our regular time of 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET. Event page
    • Wikimania 2025 Scholarships are now open! This application is open until Sunday 8th December, 2024

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Tool of the week

  • Guess Image from Pronunciation is an Ordia game that uses lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The game challenges players to match the correct image with the audio pronunciation of what the image depicts.
  • ABECTO is a tool that compares #RDF data to spot errors and assess completeness. Recent changes to the tool adjust result export for #Wikidata Mismatch Finder to changed format, add reporting of qualifier mismatches to Wikidata Mismatch Finder export, and suppress illegal empty external values in Wikidata Mismatch Finder export (Tweet)
  • Wikidata Infernal is an API that allows you to infer new facts from Wikidata. It uses a set of rules to infer new facts from existing ones. The generated statements will have qualifiers to indicate the source and method of the inference. Output is an array of statements in JSON/Wikidata format. (blog)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Wikidata Query Service: The graph split rules have been updated to now also include Items that contain a statement using "publication type of scholarly work" into the scholarly article graph.
  • Wikibase.cloud now allows personal userscripts (phab:T378627)
  • EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label and aliases when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema.(phab:T375641)
  • Ontology file: We are updating the Wikibase ontology file. (phab:T371196, phab:T371752)
  • Property Suggester: We are updating the suggestions data (phab:T377986 but first need to improve the underlying scripts (phab:T376604)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are prototyping the search functionality for the REST API (phab:T379608)
  • Revision table: We are continuing the investigation into the size limitations of the table.

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Wikidata weekly summary #656

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #655

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Wikimedia Deutschland is providing a total of 15 participation scholarships for Wikimania 2025 (7 individual and 4 tandem scholarships). Further information is available on this page. An overview of all questions in the application form is here. Apply here. Closes 8 December 2024.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 4, 2024. The time is 17:00 CET
    • Tomorrow / 3rd December 2024: Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC / 6pm CET. If you would like to attend, please fill out the Etherpad form to ensure all necessary materials are provided for you.
    • Deadline for the Central Asian WikiCon 2025 scholarship application is December 30, 2024. We encourage you to make Wikidata-related submissions (the deadline for submission is March 22, 2025.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • LoRiS - Generate natural-language descriptions of SPARQL queries via LLM's.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikidata:WordGraph: Google released the WordGraph dataset as a belated present for Wikidata’s 12th birthday. The dataset contains 968,153 forms in 39 languages.
  • Product Manager: Wikibase Suite: Wikimedia Deutschland has an open and exciting vacancy for a Product Manager of Wikibase Suite. Apply!
  • Tools or bots which use the wiki replicas (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (T367856). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected. (This was previously announced 2024-11-11 but didn’t actually take place yet.)

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  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema.
  • PropertySuggester: We have updated the script that generates the suggestions and will update the suggestions next.
  • Lexicographical data: We fixed a visual issue with search results on the Codex-based Special:NewLexeme (phab:T370057)
  • Vector 2022: We are working on designs to fix the remaining issues with the skin on Wikidata.
  • Wikibase REST API: We are finishing the prototype for supporting search in the API.

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Wikidata weekly summary #657

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #656

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: KlaraBot - Task(s): Append a human's lifespan to descriptions when they can be authoritatively sourced.
  • Closed request for comments: Audio transcription (P9533) - Closed with no consensus. The discussion is ongoing on the Property P5933 talk page.

Events

  • Past: Amical Wikimedia, the Catalan-language and culture focused thematic Wikimedia Organization organized the Celebrem Wikidata (Let's celebrate Wikidata) project to celebrate Wikidata's 12th anniversary, from November 10 - 30. This included a Wikidata introduction workshop to equip participants with the editing skills to tackle the project's main aim. This was presented as a game to delete duplicate info on Wikidata and Catalan Viquipèdia infoboxes, in three areas: protected buildings, officers' positions and data related to sports teams players. At the end of the event, ~200 Wikidata-fed infoboxes and Wikidata items were improved and many Wikipedia editors edited Wikidata for the first time!
  • Upcoming events:
    • (Deutsch)Wikidata for Legal Historians - Tue. 10 December, 3pm - 7pm (UTC+1). This presentation explores Wikidata as a key platform for LOD, explains its Semantic Web foundation, introduces FactGrid (a Wikidata-based platform for historical research). Highlights potential of both platforms using examples and encourages discussion for legal historical research. Register here.
    • Today (09.12.2024) is the last chance to submit an Abstract for the Wikidata and Research conference (5 - 6 June 2025). If you are interested in participating, please review the submission acceptance format before submitting here.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • CAT🐈: Metrics computing simple metrics (number of labels, number of descriptions, number of sitelinks, number of statements) for item matching a simple claim.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Template:Image properties New template listing properties that link to images.
  • Let's Connect invites you to get involved in helping spread awareness and knowledge of Wikidata, potentially help organise a Wikidata Learning Clinic. Are you interested in participating? Please sign-up on this registration form.

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Wikidata weekly summary #658

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #657

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: PWSBot - Task(s): Is a selfmade chatbot to answer factual questions as part of a final research project for educational purposes.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: CarbonBot - Withdrawn by submitter

Events Upcoming events:

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 17 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET (Time zone converter) Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series Etherpad to help us prepare relevant materials for you. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024 at our regular time of 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page
  • 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - register now

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Tabular Online Validator - checks if SPARQL query results conform to a provided schema by validating data and highlighting potential errors, such as missing properties, invalid values, or too many values, with the option to refine the schema if issues arise. (A major update to the current ShEx validator that is expected to get integrated into the existing validator soon)
  • CAT🐈: Overview if references: looking at references for a set of Wikidata items

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We prototyped search support for the REST API and would like your feedback on it.
  • Property Suggestions: We updated the underlying data so you should have more up-to-date suggestions again when making new statements.
  • EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by their label and aliases when linking to them in a statement.
  • Query Service: We are investigating if we can do something about the issue where not all edgeLabels are shown on a graph visualisation (phab:T381857) and if there are any alternatives to the library used for the graph builder in the Query Service (phab:T381764)
  • Under the hood: We are optimizing the server setup for the term store to accommodate its growth (phab:T351802)

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Wikidata weekly summary #659

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #658

Discussions

Events

  • Ongoing: Wikidata Cleanup 2024 - Romaine continues his initiative, "Wikidata Cleanup," to coordinate community efforts in addressing the problem of items missing basic properties during the last ten days of 2024, when many users have extra time due to holidays. The aim is to improve data quality by focusing on ensuring all items have essential properties like "instance of" (P31) or "subclass of" (P279), adding relevant country and location data, and maintaining consistency within item series.
  • Upcoming events: Data Reuse Days - online event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February 2025. You can submit a proposal for the program on the talk page until January 12th.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Flying Dehyphenator is an Ordia game. Given the start part of a word, use the spacebar to move the word and hit the next part of the word. Only hyphenations described with the Unicode hyphenation character work.
  • Want a wrap of your Wikidata activities in 2024? Wiki Year In Review has it for you! (use www.wikidata.org for the project URL)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikibase/Suite-Contributing-Guide: Wikibase Suite's contributing guide has been published. This guide aims to help anyone who wants to contribute and make sure they are equipped with all the relevant information to do so.

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Development

  • With the winter holidays upon us, the development team is taking a break, and there will be no deployments for Wikidata during this time.

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Weekly Summary #660

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #659

Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year! 🎉 Each of your contributions, whether big or small, has made a difference and has helped us create a vibrant and informative resource for the Wikidata community. 🙏 Let's continue building and sharing knowledge together in the coming year! 🙌✨

Discussions

  • Open request for oversight: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end at 6 January 2025 21:52 UTC)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Papers
    • Library Data in Wikimedia Projects: Case Study from the Czech Republic by Jansová, L., Maixnerová, L., & Š´tastná, P. (2024). "The paper outlines the collaboration between the National Library of the Czech Republic and Wikimedia since 2006, focusing on linking authority records with Wikipedia articles and training librarians and users. By 2023, the National Library provided most of its databases under a CC0 license, launched a "Wikimedians in Residence" program, and collaborated on projects involving linked data and using authority records in Wikidata. This partnership has enhanced their cooperation for mutual benefit, identifying key factors for their successful long-term collaboration."
    • How have you modelled my gender? Reconstructing the history of gender representation in Wikidata by Melis, B., Fioravanti, M., Paolini, C., & Metilli, D. (2024). "The paper traces the evolution of gender representation in Wikidata, showing how the community has moved from a binary interpretation of gender to a more inclusive model for trans and non-binary identities. The Wikidata Gender Diversity project (WiGeDi) timeline highlights the significant changes influenced by external historical events and the community's increased understanding of gender complexity."
  • Videos: Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Data Science Course - First Practical Session: Wikibase-CLI Tool (part 1, part 2) by Saeed Habishan. "The Wikibase-CLI enables command-based interaction with Wikidata using shell scripts and JavaScript. The tool runs on NodeJS and enables automatic reading and editing of Wikidata."

Tool of the week

  • WikiORA - is a tool designed for gene over-representation analysis. It integrates data from Wikidata, Wikipedia, Gene Ontology, and PanglaoDB to help researchers identify significantly enriched gene sets in their data.

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Development

  • Most of the development team staff are still taking a break, so no development happened.

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Wikidata weekly summary #661

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #660

Discussions

Upcoming events

  • Workshop: Lexicography and linguistic sustainability - Mirandese documentation using Wikidata This Portuguese-language workshop takes place Thursday 16 January, 10:00 - 17:00, Room 208, 206 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
  • Please submit your proposals for the Data Reuse Days online event until January 12th. See current proposals on the talk page and here's some ideas to inspire you: presentations/demos of tools using Wikidata's data (10mins Lightning Talk presentations), discussions and presentations connecting Wikidata editors with reusers and/or explanations and demos on how to use a specific part of the technical infrastructure to reuse Wikidata's data (APIs, dumps, etc.).
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team --January 8, 2025. The Search Platform Team holds monthly meetings to discuss anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Wiki Workshop 2025 Announcement and Call for Papers. Submission deadline: March 9, 2025 (23:59 AoE)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: (fr) female authors with male pseudonyms, blog post by Le Deuxième Texte including SPARQL queries to find female authors with male pseudonyms.
  • Websites :Global Dementia and Risk Factors, website by 'Students at the Maastricht Science Programme', includes data visualizations of the prevalence and current treatments of dementia across the world. It utilises data extracted as SPARQL Endpoints from Wikidata.
  • Papers
    • Ontology-grounded Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction by LLM under Wikidata schema - This paper proposes an ontology-driven approach to KG construction using LLMs where competency questions guide ontology creation and relation extraction, leveraging Wikidata for semantic consistency. A scalable pipeline minimizes human effort while producing high-quality, interpretable KGs interoperable with Wikidata for knowledge base expansion. By Xiaohan Feng, Xixin Wu & Helen Meng (2024).
    • Knowledge Incorporated Image Question Answering Using Wikidata Repository - Proposes a Visual Question Answering (VQA) model that integrates external knowledge from Wikidata to address complex open-domain questions by combining image, question, and knowledge modalities. Evaluated on the VQAv2 dataset, the model outperforms prior state-of-the-art approaches, demonstrating improved reasoning and accuracy (Koshti et al., 2024).
  • Videos: (arabic) Part 6: SPARQL Demo Session: connecting external services - Sparql SERVICE clause gives access to additional data such as labels via wikibase:label, interaction with MediaWiki APIs using wikibase:mwapi, and integration of data from subgraphs (such as the main graph and the scholarly articles graph). Integration of data from external SPARQL endpoints such as DBpedia.

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Entity Linker - is a Microsoft Edge browser extension that creates web links for matching inner HTML text based on a regex format of Q\d+ which is the format of a Wikidata Entity ID. (email)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Vacancy: Research Software Engineer / Wikibase-Expert - The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) located in Hannover has a research position open for someone interested in the deployment, administration and maintenance of open source knowledge management software such as Mediawiki, Wikibase and OpenRefine as part of the NFDI4Culture partnership within the OSL.
  • January 1, 2025, marked Public Domain Day, with hundreds of 1929 films entering the public domain. Sandra has shared helpful notes to assist in making these films discoverable via WikiFlix, by adding video files to Wikicommons and Wikidata. Join the effort!

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Development

  • The development team is just settling back in after the holidays, so there haven’t been any significant updates yet.

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Wikidata weekly summary #662

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #661

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Join the Wikidata Training Event 2025 organised by Wikimedia Botswana UG for Wikidata enthusiasts of all levels. Starts 18 Jan 10:00am CAT (UTC+2), registration required.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Dungeon Of Knowledge - is a roguelike game with Items generated from Wikidata that lets you crawl through the Dungeon of Knowledge in a classic ASCII interface. (toot) (blog)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Zita Ursula Zage has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of June 2025. Welcome Zita!
  • VIAF (cf. Q54919 and P214) underwent a relevant change of interface on January 10; the way of visualizing clusters in JSON format has changed in comparison with present OCLC documentation and e.g. http://viaf.org/viaf/102333412/viaf.json doesn't work anymore; this broke most or all Wikidata gadgets using VIAF data; in the absence of official communications from OCLC, developers are trying to understand if the new VIAF interface is stable before changing their gadgets accordingly

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Development

  • Wikidata Query Service UI: We fixed a long-standing issue with missing edge labels in graph visualisations (phab:T317702)
  • Wikibase REST API: We implemented a proof of concept for a search endpoint you can try out.
  • EntitySchemas: We’re working on language fallback for the heading on EntitySchema pages (phab:T228423)
  • Language codes: We cleaned up language codes in WikibaseLexeme after moving some of them to CLDR (phab:T352922)

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Wikidata weekly summary #663

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #662

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Xezbeth - RfP scheduled to end after 26 January 2025 09:17 (UTC).

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Edit-A-Thon for Black History Month: 12 February 1300 - 1500 MST (UTC+7) is an onsite event at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a theme to add or expand items on Black and African-American comics creators.
    • Data Reuse Days 2025 is from February 18 to 27, 2025! This is an online event focusing on how people and organizations use Wikidata's data to build interesting applications and tools. Don't forget to register so we can know you are coming.
  • Past: Missed the Q1 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-01-15 (Q1 2025)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

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Wikidata weekly summary #664

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #663

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: Xezbeth (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • Call for Proposals: IslandoraCon 2025. "IslandoraCon brings together a community of librarians, archivists, cultural heritage collections managers, technologists, developers, project managers, and open source project enthusiasts in support of the Islandora framework for digital curation and asset management." Deadline for session proposals: February 14, 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • As part of an effort to benchmark open source SPARQL engines on Wikidata, the page Wikidata:Scaling Wikidata/Benchmarking/Existing Benchmarks contains some initial results and analyses of benchmarking Blazegraph, MilleniumDB, QLever, and Virtuoso on several existing SPARQL query benchmarks for Wikidata. There are some surprising results there, particularly related to different answers produced by different engines. Suggestions on how to improve the effort or provide deeper explanations of the results are particularly welcome on the discussion page.

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Development

  • Storage growth: We are making some changes to the terms-related database table in order to scale better (phab:T351802)
  • Constraint violations: We’re working on making distinct-values constraint checks works with the split Query Service (phab:T369079)
  • EntitySchemas: We’re working on making the heading on EntitySchema pages apply language fallback (phab:T228423)
  • Search: We are working on the new search UI component which will let you search for additional entity types from the main search bar and not just Items anymore (phab:T338483)
  • Wikibase REST API: We're continuing the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383209)
  • Lua: We are investigating if we can increase the Entity Usage Limit on client pages (phab:T381098)

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Weekly Summary #665

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-02-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #664

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • Past Events
    • Wikidata Workshop Jan 2025 - Hosted by Wikimedia Canada, this workshop offered 2 sessions for English and French-speaking attendees. Subjects covered include the basics of Wikidata, intro to editing, linking photos to Commons and how to query Wikidata. The workshop took place 30 January 01:00 - 03:00 UTC.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Holonet Galactic Map - Explore information and facts of the planets that inhabit the Star Wars universe, powered by Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • ⚠️ Wikidata Query Service graph split: The graph split is about 2 months away. If you are doing queries that involve scholarly articles or if you have an application that does you will be affected. Please check d:Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS graph split for details.
  • We (Peter F. Patel-Schneider and Egezort) want to run a course on the Wikidata Ontology for a limited number of participants. Designed for those already familiar with Wikidata, it will present information about ontologies and how they form the core of Wikidata, incorporating several exercises on analyses of and fixes to the Wikidata ontology. Upon successful completion (ending with a group project in consultation by us), participants will receive certificates. Please give feedback and suggestions to improve the structure and course content (found in more detail at WikiProject:Ontology Course) which will be incorporated into our Wikimedia rapid grant application to support the effort. Interested in helping or want to share your thoughts? Let us know.
  • Several database changes will impact Wikidata in the coming months, including the migration of the term store (wbt_ tables) to a dedicated cluster to improve performance and enable future growth. This move will speed up most Wikidata SQL queries but prevent direct joins between term store data and other Wikidata tables. Additionally, the wb_type table will be removed, with its mapping hardcoded in Wikibase, simplifying the codebase. More details.
  • Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2025! Deadline: February 28th. More info!
  • Lydia Pintscher awarded the European Open Source Award - Wikidata Portfolio Manager for WMDE, Lydia's contributions to the development of Wikidata have been recognised in the category of Advocacy and Awareness.

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Development

  • Storage growth: We are continuing to make some changes to the terms-related database table in order to scale better (phab:T351802)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to work on bringing search to the REST API (phab:T383126)
  • mul language code: Support for the language code has been rolled out fully
  • EntitySchemas: We finished adding language fallback to the heading of EntitySchema pages (phab:T228423)
  • Sitelinks: Fixed a bug that prevented linking Wikidata Items from Wikipedias (phab:T385261)
  • Scoped search: We continued working on improving the main search field on Wikidata in order to allow you to search for Properties, Lexemes, etc more easily with it (phab:T321543)

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Bonjour, je me suis permis de modifier une partie de vos modifications sur Olivier Faure (Q3351018) pour re-dissocier les différents mandats de député, c’est la pratique majoritaire pour ce type de données après que ça ait été discuté sur cette page, ça permet essentiellement d’avoir des détails plus précis sur chaque mandat. ~ Seb35 [^_^] 21:10, 4 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Merci mais je m'étais basé sur les infoboxs sur WP FR. Je ne comprend pas trop l'utilité quand c'est la même circo… Legonin (talk) 21:50, 4 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #666

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-02-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #665

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: MangadexBot - Task(s): add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID - closed as relevant Property has been deprecated and marked for deletion.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Query by Graph - build a SPARQL query using drag'n'drop visual elements. This is an interesting tool that provides another way to approach building SPARQL queries, especially for those that find the Query builder or raw SPARQL unintuitive or complex.
  • CivData - "Cividata makes the diverse world of non-profit organizations visible. As a volunteer project, Cividata provides a comprehensive overview of non-profit organizations worldwide, based on data from Wikipedia's sister project Wikidata."

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Search in the UI: We continued the work on adding a search UI that lets you search in Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas more easily (phab:T338483)
  • Search in the API: We are continuing our work on search in the REST API (phab:T383126)

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Wikidata weekly summary #667

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-02-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #666

Discussions

  • Open request for CheckUser: Lymantria (RfP scheduled to end at 19 February 2025 04:22 UTC)
  • New request for comments: Anna's Archive - The RFC is about whether Wikidata should import and store metadata from Anna's Archive, considering legal, copyright, and technical challenges.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Fedipol (Fediverse Activity Tracker) is a Wikidata-based tool used for tracking activity and analyzing accounts related to German political parties, institutions, and instances on the Fediverse.
  • OpenRefine 3.9.0 was released

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Search: We are continuing the work on the improved search that lets you limit your search more easily to other entity types besides Items like Lexemes and Properties (phab:T321543)
  • RDF: We are working on aligning the RDF export to the Query Service prefixes (phab:T384344)

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Wikidata weekly summary #668

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-02-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #667

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • The WikidataDiffAnalyzer is a Ruby gem designed to parse and analyze differences between Wikidata revisions, providing detailed statistics on changes to claims, labels, descriptions, aliases, site links, and more, while also supporting analysis of merges, redirects, and other edit types.
  • German Political parties and politicians tracked on the Fediverse - Powered by Wikidata, this Fediverse tracker aggregates social media links to official channels of German politicians. (toot)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Hosting the Data Reuse Days
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on a search endpoint for the API (phab:T383126)
  • Search: We are continuing to work on the search field that lets you search other entity types as well and not just Items (phab:T321543
  • Mobile editing: We are designing prototypes for first testing sessions

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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: Uganda
  • 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 [[d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next|write the next summary!]

Wikidata weekly summary #669

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #668

Discussions

  • Other: Email Chain "Elephant in the room" - discussing the large number of Wikidata Items lacking Statements, Sitelinks or Labels/Descriptions.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • Videos
    • (French) PasseGares: Bug fixes and data imports from Wikidata YouTube
    • Adding Wikidata label and descriptions, from the Wali Language Art+Feminism Editathon (Ghana 2025) YouTube
    • Workshop showcasing QuickStatements 3.0! Learn how this updated tool streamlines your workflow and discover new features. YouTube
    • Contributing to Wikidata 101, a series of demonstrations organised by WM Community UG Uganda Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
    • Optimize SPARQL queries to avoid timeouts: Efficiently count entities sharing values YouTube
    • Data Reuse Days playlist and live-editing session with User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 YouTube
    • LUDAP: Shared authority file for Luxembourg's Scientific and Cultural Heritage, with Wikibase YouTube

Tool of the week

  • QuickStatements 3.0 - new version of the original QuickStatements with enhanced functionality, performance, and user experience.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126)
  • Dumps: We fixed an issue that prevented the dumps from being generated (phab:T386401)
  • Search: We are continuing to work on the search UI that will let you search not just Items but also other entity types (phab:T321543)

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Wikidata weekly summary #670

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #669

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • zelph: A new tool for detecting logical contradictions and making inferences in Wikidata, using a rule-based system to improve data quality and derive new facts. Check it out on GitHub or explore results on the project website.
  • New Tool for Women’s Day: Scheherazade identifies women without articles in your Wikipedia but present in many others, helping editors prioritize creating missing biographies.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikimedia Research Fund had launched. You're encourage to submit proposals around Wikidata. The deadline to submit your proposal is April 16, 2025.
  • The 4th iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course will begin from March 17 until April 30. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

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Development

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Wikidata weekly summary #671

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
    • Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at 9am PT / 16:00 UTC to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack here. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
  • Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
  • Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
  • Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)

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Wikidata weekly summary #672

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
    • Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at 9am PT / 16:00 UTC to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack here. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
  • Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
  • Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
  • Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)

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Wikidata weekly summary #672 (correct version!)

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #671

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Lexica - a mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We finished work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126) and started on the one for Properties (phab:T386377)
  • Vector 2022 skin: We fixed a number of the remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039) and sitelink positioning (phab:T316797)
  • Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search in other entity types (Properties, Lexemes, EntitySchemas) besides Items (phab:T321543)

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Wikidata weekly summary #673

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #672

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: BRPever 2 adminship request closes tomorrow.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT] Please find full information here
  • Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details |available here.

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Development

  • Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search entity types other than Items (Lexemes, Properties, EntitySchemas) in the search box (phab:T321543)
  • Vector 2022 theme: We are fixing remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to build out the simple Item search endpoint (phab:T386228) and are looking into the one for Properties (phab:T386377)

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Wikidata weekly summary #674

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2025-04-07. Please help Translate.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • Papers: Enabling disaggregation of Asian American subgroups: a dataset of Wikidata names for disparity estimation - Paper by Lin, Q. et al (2025).
  • Videos
    • Curationist: What is it and how does it work? - Curationist utilises Wikidata to help discover, curate and share public-domian art and cultural heritage content. YouTube
    • (Swedish) Connecting Wikidata, OpenStreetMap and the National Archives with Magnus Sälgö YouTube
    • (French) Focus on Wikidata, Wikifying Science, a presentation from Delphine Montagne and Pierre-Yves Beaudouin. Canal-U TV: C@fé Renatis
  • Other


Tool of the week

  • Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata for Web - also known as Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that displays data from Wikidata on various websites, enhancing the information you are already looking at, and also allows extraction of data from these websites.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details available here.
  • Job Vacancy - Are you interested in helping shape the technical future of Wikimedia's knowledge graph? We are looking for a Staff Engineer (Wikidata)

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Development

  • We made some progress on the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature by improving the UI, and making it translatable (phab:T390269)
  • We continued working on dark mode support (phab:T389633)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are almost done adding the last few features on the simple item and property search endpoint. We'll be happy to get feedback on these from 15.04 when they're completed
  • We will begin user testing to improve Mobile Editing Experience: Mobile editing of statements

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Wikidata weekly summary #675

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #674

Events

  • Upcoming events: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 16th April 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Topic Curator is a React-based web application. It’s a new and improved version of ItemSubjector created to help Wikimedians connect items on Wikidata to the right topics. By entering a topic QID, it finds related articles using the topic’s label, aliases, or custom terms.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • We merged and prepared changes to rename wikibase:EntitySchema to wikibase:WikibaseEntitySchema in RDF (phab:T371196) – this has been announced as a breaking change and will be deployed to Wikidata on 24 April
  • We made some more improvements to dark mode support (phab:T389633)
  • We’re working on tests for the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature (phab:T385790)
  • Wikibase REST API: We're going to wrap up pagination on the simple Item and property search endpoint and are working to improve our test architecture for search (phab:T386691). We're going to pick up prefix search for Items and phrase matching next!

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Wikidata weekly summary #677

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #676.
Translations are available

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • quarry.wmcloud.org is a public querying interface for Wiki Replicas, a set of live replica SQL databases of public Wikimedia Wikis. Quarry is designed to make running queries against Wiki Replicas easy. Quarry can also be used to query public databases stored in ToolsDB.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Scholia is running a user survey until the end of May .
  • Researchers from the University of Regina in Canada invite you to participate in the Open Data Community Survey 2025. Read more!

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Development

  • Bug: We fixed an issue where newly created Properties became inaccessible after adding a statement with a Property linking to an Item or Lexeme. The fix will go live on Wednesday. (phab:T374230)
  • Search: We continued implementing the new search that will make it easier to search for Properties and Lexemes in the UI (phab:T321543)

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Wikidata weekly summary #678

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #677.
Translations are available

Discussions

  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: Mr Robot - No consensus reached.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap, is a project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. It was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways .

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Wikidata Query Service: The search platform team finished the remaining work for the graph split and it is going live this week.
  • We took part in the Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
  • Wikipedia and co: We continued working on improving how Wikidata edits are shown on the watchlist on Wikipedia and co. We are focusing on showing labels instead of IDs for the entities (Items, Properties, ...) linked in the edit summaries (phab:T388685)
  • UI: We continued doing small fixes for dark mode support in the UI (phab:T385039)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the search endpoint (phab:T383126)

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Wikidata weekly summary #679

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #678.
Translations are available

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wdactle game -- is a Wikidata version of Redactle! It's a game where you are shown a Wikidata Item with all labels and words redacted and have to figure out what it is. Guessing a word reveals all the places where it is used. Built by Luca Werkmeister during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • ⚠️ Wikidata Query Service graph split: As you know Wikidata Query Service was no longer able to handle the complete set of data Wikidata has. To address this the graph in Wikidata Query Service has now been split into a main graph (that continues to be at query.wikidata.org) and a scholarly graph (that is at query-scholarly.wikidata.org). For more details please see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS graph split.
  • Join the Wikidata:Impact stories global campiagn. We're celebrating the amazing Wikidata community - editors, developers, librarians, and creators - and inviting you to share how Wikidata is used. Your story can inspire others and grow the community. Submit yours or nominate a cool project by June 6.

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Development

  • mul language code: We are fixing an issue where Items can't be found by their mul language label or alias (phab:T392058)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on phrase matching for the simple search (phab:T389011)
  • Dark mode: We fixed a color contrast bug with the entity selector when making new statements (phab:T393641)
  • Ontology: We’re working on an updated, more complete version of the wikibase.owl ontology file (phab:T371752)

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Wikidata weekly summary #680

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #679.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata-Taxonomy is a Command-line tool and library to extract taxonomies from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • We are improving and expanding our Help and documentation pages, please tell us what you think: Parser Functions

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Development

  • UI: We are putting the finishing touches on the new search box that will make it easier to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas as well (phab:T321543)
  • Dark mode: We fixed the last known issues and are getting ready to roll it out
  • Mobile statement editing: We are refining prototypes for testing and started technical investigations
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on simple search, focusing on phrase matching now (phab:T389011)
  • Query Service: We are working on a small experiment to show a notification for simple queries that are better run on other APIs (phab:T391264)

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Wikidata weekly summary #681

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #680.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Toolkit The Wikidata Toolkit is an open-source Java library for using data from Wikidata and other Wikibase sites. Its main goal is to make it easy for external developers to take advantage of this data in their own applications.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • A discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Some of the hypothesis involve Wikidata. You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content.

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Wikidata weekly summary #682

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #681.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Qrank is a ranking signal for Wikidata entities. It gets computed by aggregating page view statistics for Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikibooks, Wikispecies and other Wikimedia projects. For example, according to the QRank signal, the fictional character Pippi Longstocking ranks lower than Harry Potter, but still much higher than the obscure Äffle & Pferdle.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Captain America: Civil War (Q18407657) - 22016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo

spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb "switch off" or "to die"

Development

  • Vector 2022 skin: We enabled dark mode for Items, Properties and Lexemes on Wikidata (phab:T389330)
  • Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with the technical investigation.
  • Diffs: We merged a volunteer patch by Matěj Suchánek to format quantity diffs a bit more sensibly (phab:T394585)
  • Search in the UI: We enabled the new search on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org. It lets you easily search in other entity types as well now, not just Items. Please give it a try.
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on integrating simple search, specifically phrase matching (phab:T389011)
  • Query Service: We are working on an experiment to add a small dialog to inform people about alternative access methods for very simple queries that don't require SPARQL (phab:T391261)

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Wikidata weekly summary #683

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #682.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Coinhoe - RfP scheduled to end after 10 June 2025 23:49 (UTC)

Events

  • Upcoming events: New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our second event will be a conversation with Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, the Wikidata frontend which generates and presents scholarly profiles based on WikiCite content. They'll speak to Scholia's current state and roadmap, with consideration for the recent Wikidata graph split. Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. More info and Zoom links: project page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Phonemes This is the web application developed specifically for Wikidata IOLab. In here you can add phonemes to a whole bunch of languages, basing your work on the work that the brazilian students of their national olympiad did while editing Wikipedia.
  • Should I watch this? is a tool that helps users decide whether a movie or show is worth watching.

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Development

  • Mobile editing of statements: We are doing initial development focusing on technical investigations and basic UI elements (phab:T394292, phab:T394886)
  • Lexemes: We are looking into a rare error when trying to do undo certain Lexeme edits (phab:T392372)
  • Watchlist/Recent changes on Wikipedia: We continued working on showing labels instead of IDs in the edit summaries of Wikidata changes that are shown in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co (phab:T388685)
  • Wikibase REST API: Finishing touches on simple search (phab:T383126)
  • Query Service UI: Added experimental popup to point people running very simple queries to other available access methods (phab:T391264)

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Wikidata weekly summary #684

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #683.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Visualization: a visualization tool for Wikidata SPARQL queries
  • DecomissionedAircraftMap (as a demonstration of the power of OpenStreetMap into Wikidata): pulls geodata for displayed aircraft from OpenStreetMap and generates thumbnails from linked Wikidata entries.
  • Query split tester (Beta): webtool to see the impact on the graph split on your SPARQL query.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Nominations for the Coolest Tools Award 2025 are open. Nominate your favorite tool! Nominations are due by the 25th of this month already.

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Development

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Wikidata weekly summary #685

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #684.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • FEMIber: a digital humanities tool that uses structured data aligned with Wikidata principles to document and analyze how women are represented in medieval Iberian chronicles.

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Development

  • Query Service: It is now possible to download query results in Wikidata Query Service that include coordinates as GeoJSON (KML & GPX should also be available soon). Thanks to Atom.oil.2 for the patch. (phab:T216601)
  • Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are continuing the work on improving how Wikidata changes show up in watchlist and recent changes, specifically showing labels instead of IDs in the future. (phab:T388685)
  • Search: We enabled the new search box that makes it easier to search in Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas as well. We are working on minor fixes based on feedback.
  • Mobile statement editing: We are working on showing the first statements in the new way - mostly tech demo and nothing to see yet (phab:T394886)
  • Federation: We are looking into measuring and better understanding queries that use SPARQL federation.
  • REST API: We continued working on prefix search for Items in the API (phab:T388209)

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Wikidata weekly summary #686

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #685.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
    • Visualizing Knowledge - how Indonesians turn Wikidata into stories that matter. This article details the efforts and winners of a WM Indonesia organised 30-day competition to create cool visualizations powered through Wikidata.
    • OpenRefine: Data workflow via open source collaboration - the Linux Professional Institute interview the project manager of OR, Martin Magdinier, on the journey developing this data manipulation tool.

Tool of the week

  • User:Jon Harald Søby/senseItemLabel.js What it does is that when you add a P5137 statement in a lexeme, it will let you add the lemma as a label to the item in one click, if the item doesn't have a label in that language yet, or if the label is different (very useful for case differences, for instance)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The Wikidata Ontology Course has finished its course sessions. The slides for all sessions of the course are available on the course page. Part of participating in the course was to set up a project related to the Wikidata Ontology. Current information on the projects, many of which are continuing after the end of the course is now available. If you are interested in one or more of the projects please follow the project, add something to its discussion page, or contribute to it.
  • PhD Position in Digital History at the University of Luxembourg is seeking someone with experience in Wikibase and Linked Open Data.

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on Item prefix search (phab:T388209) and started working on stemming support (phab:T397605)
  • Integration in Wikipedia and co: The improved edit summaries are now live on the first wikis (ca, uk, he). We are now showing the labels for linked entities instead of just their IDs (phab:T388685)
  • Mobile statement editing: We are continuing working on the basics of showing statements in the new way - nothing useful to see yet (phab:T394886)

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Wikidata weekly summary #687

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-067-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #686.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Bovlbbot - Task(s): this bot request asks for admin access (or access to deleted revisions if possible) so it can move the updater task for User:Bovlb/wd-deleted.
    • Andrebot 3 - Task(s): Fill in historic countries for the settlements, communes, towns and cities of Romania.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our final session of our event series on the Wikidata graph split project and SPARQL skills! We will be diving into the mechanics of federated SPARQL queries and look forward to a hands-on and interactive session exploring how to use the scholarly article query service. Join us Tuesday, July 8th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1751990400). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
    • Hackathon announced for Wikimania 2025, Nairobi. Call for Projects is now open! Includes a newcomer track for first-time participants. Add yourself to the participants list or see the resources page for further event info.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

User:Kod B - ArchiveExternaLinks.js This script automatically archives external links found in the statements of Wikidata items, in order to improve source durability and reduce the risk of broken links (link rot), similar to what already exists on Wikipedia.

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the Item prefix search (phab:T388209). It'll go live later when we are also done with the Property prefix search.
  • Search: We are fixing a bug when pasting into the new search box (phab:T397608)
  • Mobile statement editing: We are working on basic viewing of statements (phab:T394886) - nothing useful to see yet
  • Dumps: There was an issue with the last dumps not being generated. The Data Platform SRE team is looking into it (phab:T398756)

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Wikidata weekly summary #688

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-07-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #687.

Discussions

  • Open request for Oversight permissions: Jianhui67 (RfP scheduled to end at 27 July 2025 13:28 UTC)

Events

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Tool of the week

  • Commons Depictions is a tool that display depictions of Wikidata items on Wikimedia Commons

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We started work on the simple Property prefix search phab:(T397838)
  • Mobile statement editing: We continued the work on the basics with viewing of statements (phab:T394886])
  • Search: Fixed a bug when pasting into the search box (phab:T397608)
  • Integration in Wikipedia and co:
    • We began research into current limits for collapsing entity usage. (Basically when an article uses more data from an Item than the configured limit then we consider all data on that Item to be used. This is done for infrastructure reasons.) We’d like to improve this to further reduce unnecessary Wikidata changes showing up on watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
    • We will roll out showing labels instead of IDs in Wikidata edits in watchlist and recent changes to more wikis later this week.

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Wikidata weekly summary #689

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-07-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #688.

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Wikimedia and Open Knowledge Conference (survey) is being planned for 2026 in Poland. This event is to focus on research carried out on or with Wikidata and Wikipedia. Your opinion is wanted! Please fill out the Google Forms survey to help the organisation committee plan. Also available in Polish and Ukrainian.
    • Wikimania 2025 Program is Live! This is also the time to add your Wikidata meetups. Please start marking your preferred Wikimania sessions (⭐/like) and mark to your mobile apps or calendars. If you are joining online to watch live stream and use the interactive features, please register on eventyay through wikimania.org (source)
  • Past: Missed the Q3 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-07-15 (Q3 2025)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikinity A tool allowing you to find (un)photographed objects, so you can take a picture of them and send it to Wikidata. The tool was created By Martin Urbanec

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The Call for Papers is now open for the Journal of Open Humanities Data special collection: "Wikidata across the Humanities: datasets, methodologies, reuse." This editorial will explore how Wikidata is transforming research and collaboration in the humanities. If you're working on a relevant project, submit your proposal here
  • What belongs where in the Wikibase Ecosystem? There is ongoing research to better understand what people are currently thinking about this and you can take part by sorting some scenarios.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is inviting further feedback on the Mobile Editing Experience prototype (currently just a design file so not everything is clickable). Please follow the instructions below and share your thoughts at Wikidata talk:Usability and usefulness/Item editing experience/Mobile editing of statements:
    • Add "business woman" as an occupation
    • Add a start date to the relationship with A$AP Rocky and provide a reference
    • Find the place of birth (Saint Michael) and open that page
    • Add the coordinate location for Saint Michael

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We have enabled the new Item Prefix Search endpoint on wikidata. You can try it out now with a call like this: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/suggest/items?language=en&q=potat If you have feedback please leave it at Wikidata talk:REST API feedback round
  • Additional APIs: We are looking a bit more into GraphQL and what it could offer to make programmatic access to Wikidata's data better.
  • Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We enabled showing the labels of entities in edit summaries in recent changes and watchlist. Now you no longer have to click to get to Wikidata and check what is behind a mystery ID in an edit summary coming from Wikidata.
  • Mobile statement editing: We are working on formatting references, qualifiers, various data types and multiple statements for one property. We are planning to enable the new mobile UI on Beta Wikidata soon. Important: For now it is a read-only UI, as we have not started to implement editing yet, and some data types won’t have the correct appearance yet.

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Wikidata weekly summary #690

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-07-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #689.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Aqurs1 (RfP scheduled to end after 31 July 2025 16:35 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: THEbotIT 3 - New functional aspect to automatic creation of items describing the articles of Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). We want to model now the articles, which amends the main articles, as those information where suppressed so far.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Flashback Fiesta - is a trivia game that challenges players to guess the year of historical events using data from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the simple Property prefix search endpoint and it will go live in the next days (phab:T397838)
  • Additional APIs: We are working on a prototype for GraphQL to see if that is a going to be helpful for accessing Wikidata's data (phab:T399452)

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Wikidata weekly summary #691

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #690.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Who Painted this - is a tool developed by Francesco Negri. The tool is a game that let's you guess who created a painting, using data from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • If you are using Wikidata's APIs please be aware that the existing user agent policy will be enforced more strictly going forward. Please make sure your application sets a proper user agent. More details are in this announcement.

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Development

  • We made progress on figuring out how to make maps on mobile work well with Kartographer (phab:T394906)
  • Lydia and Mohammed are attending Wikimania. We are looking forward to seeing some of you there.

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Wikidata weekly summary #692

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-11. Missed the previous one? See issue #691.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Dolabbot - Mass import of module subpages from other wikis (mainly English wiktionary) to Korean wiktionary and addition of corresponding Wikidata sitelinks.

Events

  • Past: Wikimania 2025 took place last week! Day-by-day playlists are available on the Wikimedia Foundation YouTube channel.

Tool of the week

  • Midleading created a a UserScript called RemoveRedundantLabels.js. This user script adds a new tool Item, that can be used to remove all labels that are the same as mul label, in one click.

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Development

  • We attended Wikimania 205 in Nairobi
  • We continued efforts to get our new mobile statement UI for Items with the Kartographer extension, and merged a first version that mostly works (Phab:T394906)
  • We began work on including accessibility testing for the new mobile statement editing UI for Items (Phab:T400678)
  • The entity types for the new search dropdown has been updated to have Items at the top (Phab:T398817)

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Wikidata weekly summary #693

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #692.

Events

  • Upcoming events: New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our third session of our event series, an Introduction to Wikidata/EMCO, which is meant to introduce EMCO participants and anyone interested to Wikidata and to develop frameworks and skills for entity management in the Wikidata environment. We will review searching in Wikidata and have a practical, hands-on exercise where everyone can create a new person item and add some statements. Join us Tuesday, August 19th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST Time zone converter. Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Magnus Manske’s developed a Como Wikidata Game using Autodesc, this game suggests short descriptions for Wikidata items that don't have any. Review each suggestion, improve it if needed, and submit a concise, accurate description. Additioanlly the andriod application for the game is available for download at Google Play Store

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Are you a developer using Wikidata's data in your application with the action API or Query Service? The Wikidata development would love to talk to you to help improve how you can get to Wikidata's data. More details here (Great Question). User interview is 60-mins and you’ll receive compensation as a thank-you for your time.

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Development

  • Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work - so far on the read-only mobile version. We will start looking into editing soon. You can follow along with the development on beta Wikidata.
  • GraphQL: We are continuing some experiments with GraphQL to see if it is useful for specific types of access to Wikidata's data.
  • Dumps: We are starting to experiment with subset dumps to see if we can get meaningful smaller dumps for reusers.
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
    • We are working on scalability issues around the number of changes from Wikidata that get sent to Wikipedia and co. As part of this we are continuing to look into how to decrease the number of changes in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co that don't actually affect an article there.
    • We are investigating how the upcoming larger rollout of Parsoid affects the tracking of Wikidata usage in articles.
    • We are looking into improving the Databox Lua module that is used especially in smaller Wikipedias to get Wikidata-powered infoboxes.
  • Federation: We are looking at the previous prototype for Federated Properties that allowed to use Wikidata's Properties on another Wikibase instance. We are checking what if anything of it can be revived for our current work to allow other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items and Properties seamlessly.
  • Data governance: We are concluding research around the current undestanding of people about which data should go where in the Wikibase Ecosystem.
  • Constraint reports: We limited Special:ConstraintReport to logged-in users to avoid AI scrapers hitting the systems too hard ([[phab:T401789]))

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Wikidata weekly summary #694

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #693.

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • The call for proposals deadline for WikidataCon 2025 is very close (end of the August). Submit your session proposals at this Call for Proposals page.
    • Wikidata's 13th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2025. Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area and get in touch with other organizers. If you need funding support, make sure to apply for the micro-grants before the deadline of September 1st. Please help translate the documentation pages into your language.
    • WikiCite 2025: a 3-day (25 - 31 August 2025) conference, summit and hackathon for creating an ecosystem of bibliographical data. To attend online, please sign-up on the Participants page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • The Como GWAP (Q125832524) (games with a purpose) app has just released to the iOS App Store. Also playable in your Web Browser and Android (Google Play Store), the latest release includes Stats tracking and Leaderboards.
  • A new tool SPARQL Recent Changes 2 has been released and enables mass-validation of entities in Wikidata based on their recent changes. This tool enables users to ensure that whole subgraphs are valid according to any given EntitySchema!
  • WikiCrowd A tool for crowdsourced micro-edits on Wikimedia projects, letting users make quick contributions—like labeling images or answering simple questions—to improve data on Commons and Wikidata.

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Development

  • Mobile editing of statements: After focusing on the initial read-only version, we are now starting the work on the actual editing mode. You can follow along with the development on beta Wikidata.
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
    • We are continuing to work on scalability issues around the number of changes from Wikidata that get sent to Wikipedia and co. As part of this we are continuing to look into how to decrease the number of changes in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co that don't actually affect an article there.
  • GraphQL: We now have a prototype for GraphQL for Wikidata. We'd love to have your feedback about it, especially if you are a developer building applications with Wikidata's data. More details at GraphQL prototype

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Wikidata weekly summary #695

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-25. Missed the previous one? See issue #694.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (all genders) for the Wikibase Suite, starting October 1, 2025. The role is full-time or part-time, hybrid, and based in Berlin, focused on building open-source tools for linked open data.
  • The Rapid Fund/Tech program, launched on July 24, 2025, provides up to $5,000 per project for coding tools that improve contributions to Wikimedia projects. Applications are reviewed every two months, with priority for impactful projects with clear, critical, and well-planned milestones.

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Development

  • Mobile editing of statements: We developed the first pieces of the edit mode as well as the ability to add statements. You can always follow along on beta Wikidata and find more information on the project page.
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into reducing the number of changes that show up on Wikipedia and co's Recent changes and Watchlist (phab:T401284)
  • Federation: We looked at previous requests to add new endpoints to the list of SPARQL endpoints you can federate with and are cleaning up the process for getting new ones added. If you have one you'd like to write federated SPARQL queries to now is a good time to request them.
  • Lexicographical data: You can now limit searches to Lexemes with a Lemma in a specific spelling variant with the haslemma keywords and to Lexemes with a specific language with the in language keyword. Examples: 1 2 (phab:T271776)
  • GraphQL: We are evaluating feedback we received so far. If you are developing applications with Wikidata's data it'd be great if you could have a look at the current prototype and provide feedback.
  • Dumps: We are experimenting to see how we can provide smaller subset dumps for Wikidata (phab:T400870)

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Wikidata weekly summary #695

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-25. Missed the previous one? See issue #694.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (all genders) for the Wikibase Suite, starting October 1, 2025. The role is full-time or part-time, hybrid, and based in Berlin, focused on building open-source tools for linked open data.
  • The Rapid Fund/Tech program, launched on July 24, 2025, provides up to $5,000 per project for coding tools that improve contributions to Wikimedia projects. Applications are reviewed every two months, with priority for impactful projects with clear, critical, and well-planned milestones.

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Development

  • Mobile editing of statements: We developed the first pieces of the edit mode as well as the ability to add statements. You can always follow along on beta Wikidata and find more information on the project page.
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into reducing the number of changes that show up on Wikipedia and co's Recent changes and Watchlist (phab:T401284)
  • Federation: We looked at previous requests to add new endpoints to the list of SPARQL endpoints you can federate with and are cleaning up the process for getting new ones added. If you have one you'd like to write federated SPARQL queries to now is a good time to request them.
  • Lexicographical data: You can now limit searches to Lexemes with a Lemma in a specific spelling variant with the haslemma keywords and to Lexemes with a specific language with the in language keyword. Examples: 1 2 (phab:T271776)
  • GraphQL: We are evaluating feedback we received so far. If you are developing applications with Wikidata's data it'd be great if you could have a look at the current prototype and provide feedback.
  • Dumps: We are experimenting to see how we can provide smaller subset dumps for Wikidata (phab:T400870)

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Wikidata weekly summary #696

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-09-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #695.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: Past, Present and Future: a Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Biodiversity Heritage Library: TiagoLubiana reflects on their tenure at the BHL (Q172266), integrating the biodiversity collections into the Wikimedia projects. Read on Diff Blog
  • Papers: Revealing hidden figures within natural history collections by empowering students with data sleuthing skills - Mabry et al.,(2025) Read here
  • Videos:
    • WiLES Wikidata Lexicographical Event Semantics modeling for natural languages (LD4 2025) YouTube
    • Wikidata presentations and lightning talks (LD4 2025) YouTube
    • On Wikiskills 1st Wikidata Training (Africa Wiki Women) YouTube
    • (French) Lors de la 1ère formation Wikidata de Wikiskills YouTube
    • Plugging into the WikiVerse: A Plug for a Wikidata Plug-in for ArchivesSpace YouTube
  • Presentations:

Tool of the week

  • Dacit is a listening-training app for cochlear implant users, built as part of a Master's Thesis for LMU Munich, it is powered by Wikidata-lexicographical data. Practice with 3 different excercises; identify (German-language) speakers, words and minimal pairs in your browser or as an android app
  • LexToWiktonaryis a userscript that adds a Wiktionary links button on Wikidata Lexeme pages. It checks the lemmas of a lexeme, finds matching entries across different Wiktionary language editions, and shows them in a popup for quick access, with an option to expand to all Wiktionaries.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The submission deadline for WikidataCon proposals has passed. Proposals that were submitted in time can still be edited until Sep 9. Proposals are hidden by default, but a page for sharing submissions is available and can facilitate coordination.
  • Help Panel has been deployed on Wikidata Beta.🎉 This is a feature designed to guide contributors with quick links to relevant help pages. It currently appears in read mode across most pages and can be configured by admins. You can enable it in your Beta preferences under "Newcomer features". To help shape its future on Wikidata, we're inviting you to test it and share feedback on this talk page.

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Development

  • We're investigate options for improving information saved while publishing (phab:T403149)
  • Mobile Editing Experience: we added multi-language support (T402630)
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into reducing the number of changes that show up on Wikipedia and co's Recent changes and Watchlist from edits to aliases (phab:T401288), more info

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Wikidata weekly summary #697

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-09-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #696.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Paulina is a Wikidata-based tool for the GLAM community that facilitates searching for authors and works, helps identify their copyright status in different countries, and provides access to works when available.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Help us test the new Help Panel feature, now enabled on Wikidata Beta
  • The Wikimedia Foundation launched a new team, the Wikidata Platform Team, to lead development and maintenance of query services, aiming for stable, scalable data access in collaboration with WMDE and the community.

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  • Scalability/sustainability: We have rolled out changes to minimize the number of entries stored in the recent changes tables of Wikipedia and co that are edits coming from Wikidata. This also reduces the number of changes from Wikidata you will see showing up in Recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co further.
  • MCP for Wikidata: We are getting it ready for first testing.
  • Dumps: We are continuing to investigate how to provide smaller/subset dumps.
  • Mobile statement editing: We are continuing the work on making statements editable, especially qualifiers and multiple references.
  • Anubis (Q134301689) anti-bot software was deployed on Wikibase Cloud and XTools to prevent site outages caused by bot traffic. (T399851, T400229)

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Wikidata weekly summary #698

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-09-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #697.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation 25 October .This event will showcase the Seediq communities’ translation of the OCLC white paper on Wikibase, followed by an overview of the full paper. It will conclude with an open discussion on the lessons learned during the translation project and broader reflections on linked data.
    • Govdirectory US office hour, 25 September
    • FREE virtual 1hr Wiki webinar focusing on plant biodiversity. Open to anyone wanting to improve their digital outreach skills by enriching Wikidata. Tuesday 14th of October at 3pm NZST. Register to get link.
    • Wikidata’s 13th Birthday is just around the corner! Are you planning to host a celebration but haven’t added it to the calendar yet? Join the party! Thirty-nine (39) events are already scheduled, and yours can be too: Birthday Calendar. It’s also the perfect time to contribute a birthday present or message to this list. Gifts can be anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community like a script you’ve written, a tool improvement, a visual, a poem... 🎉

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Duplicity This tool can pick a random article on a wiki without associated Wikidata item, and offer some possible matches on Wikidata, so you can add it to an existing item, or create a new one.

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(Q33947) - famoumost widely spoken of all Sámi languages
  • Showcase Lexemes: Waage (L37547) – German noun (‘ˈvaːɡə’) meaning "scale (device for measuring mass)", "Libra constellation", or "equilibrium"

Development

  • Mobile statement editing: We are working more on the editing state of statements, especially qualifiers and progress indicators during saving (phab:T402620)
  • Dumps: We fixed an issue with some of the dumps (phab:T403882) and are improving the monitoring
  • GraphQL: We are working on making it easier to get labels of linked entities in an API response, starting with Items (phab:T404692)
  • Sustainability: We have now rolled out improvements to the tracking of Wikidata changes on the other Wikimedia projects on all projects in order to decrease the size of the database table that tracks these changes (phab:T401288)
  • Bug fixes: Tacsipacsi submitted fixes for two issues in error messages on Special:SetSiteLink. Thank you! (phab:T404499, phab:T404500)

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Wikidata weekly summary #699

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-09-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #698.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Empat Tilda: RfP scheduled to end after 3 October 2025 18:30 (UTC)

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our first session of our WikiProject Personal Pronouns event series, which will provide a high-level overview of WikiProject Personal Pronouns' goals, past work, and implementation plans. The session will also serve as a practical orientation to the implementation work for this project, ending with a demonstration of the workflow to be used in subsequent sessions. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. This session will be recorded. Slides and recordings will be found on the project page after the session. Join us Tuesday, September 30th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
    • Wikidata are hosting a webinar on the Embedding Project: AI/ML Project Manager Philippe Saadé (WMDE) will introduce the project, including early experiences, wins and pitfalls, and open up the floor to your questions.
    • 🎁 Countdown to 13!🎁 Wikidata's 13th Birthday is fast approaching and this week marks the start of the first Birthday Events! For a full rundown of all Birthday Events, please see the Birthday Calendar.

Starting the month of celebrations this week include: Wali Wikimedians Community, Latin America in Wikidata 2025, Hausa Wikipedians User Group and the language communities of Zambia, Twi and Kinyarwanda and regional celebrations from the Northern Nigerian, Dagbani and Ghanaians Wikimedian communities!

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Tool of the week

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(Q1059888) - episode of Lost (S5 E1)
  • Showcase Lexemes:Knoten (L298686) - German noun (ˈknoːtn̩) meaning "tied fastening of ropes/strings", "speed unit in aviation/shipping", or "tangled clump of hair"

Development

  • Mobile statement editing: We continue to make good progress, which you can check out on beta Wikidata. Specifically it is now possible to
    • save changes to edits made to string Properties on statements (without losing qualifier / reference information) (phab:T401405)
    • change the rank of statements (phab:T402436)
  • Query Service UI: jhsoby submitted patches for two issues related to the example dialog. Thank you! (phab:T405747, phab:T405720)
  • Lexicographical data: 1F616EMO submitted a patch to fix a localization issue on the Lexeme page. Thank you! (phab:T322526)
  • Dumps: We fixed issues with the n-triples and truthy dumps generation and set up a dashboard for monitoring (phab:T403882)
  • GraphQL: We are continuing to make labels of linked entities accessible in the GraphQL endpoint (phab:T404692)
  • Wikidata in Wikipedia and co: We are continuing to work on improvements to how we technically track the use of Wikidata in the other Wikimedia projects in order to reduce the amount of changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
  • Wikidata Query Service GUI: We deployed two fixes by User:Jon Harald Søby, thank you! (phab:T405720, phab:T405747)

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Wikidata weekly summary #700

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #699.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • WikidataCon 2025 - The first version of the conference schedule has been released! See the Event page for links to the schedule (and to register if you haven't already).
    • 13th Birthday Events - check the calendar to see which Birthday events are happening this week!
    • Webinar: Embedding Project - join us this week, October 9 1600 ~ 1700 UTC, to hear a presentation and then pose your questions regarding the Embedding Project
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 15th October 2025 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.
  • Past events:
    • Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 - Learning Day (September 25, at the Goethe Institut in Thessaloniki): the main topic was Wikidata and libraries; the program and the materials of the hands-on session are available in the Meta page, the slides of the presentations are available in the Commons category
    • Convegno NILDE (October 2-3, University of Genoa; website): in the first session, regarding Il futuro dei cataloghi [The future of the catalogs], many presentations (in Italian) have mentioned the use of Wikidata in collective library catalogs; the proceedings of the conference (in Italian) will be published in open access in early 2026:
      • Lianna D'Amato and Emanuela Secinaro, Cobis LOD: integrare e aumentare i cataloghi eterogenei delle biblioteche specialistiche [Cobis LOD: Integrating and Enhancing the Heterogeneous Catalogs of Specialized Libraries] (slides)
      • Stefano Bargioni, La catalogazione per entità, esperienze pratiche della rete URBE con Parsifal [Entity cataloging: practical experiences of the URBE network with Parsifal] (slides; Wikidata project page)
      • Elena Ravelli e Camillo Pellizzari, Authority file di SBN e Wikidata: un esempio di interoperabilità e riutilizzo dei dati [SBN Authority File and Wikidata: An Example of Data Interoperability and Reuse] (slides; Wikidata project page)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Script newentity.js is a UserScript by GZWDer it helps to generates new items (including lexemes) from the given JSON object.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The Wikidata Team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to talk to developers who use Wikidata’s data dumps, or have tried using them but ran into challenges. Your feedback will help us make data dumps easier and more reliable to use. If you’re open to chatting, we’ll schedule a 60-minute user interview. As a thank-you for your time, you’ll be eligible for compensation. Sign up here.
  • For anyone interested in open and interoperable data, the DCMI 2025 Conference might be interesting. More information and registration here.

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Development

  • The {{USERLANGUAGE}} magic word is now enabled on Wikidata and Test Wikidata. It can be used to display templates in the user interface language, replacing the previous {{int:lang}} hack. (phab:T405830)

GraphQL: We have continued working on the functionality that provides labels of linked entities

  • Wikidata vector embedding and MCP: We have released the vector embedding and MCP
  • Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
    • We are continuing the rollout of improvements to ow we track Wikidata changes in Wikipedia's watchlist and recent changes in order to reduce the size of the database table and reduce the noise on editors' watchlists. (phab:T401288, phab:T401290)
    • We are working on some improvements to the Databox module and template (phab:T400322)
  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We improved the display of qualifiers and made it possible to add qualifiers (editing will still come) as well as the value type (value/some value/no value) (phab:T404991, phab:T404956, phab:T402431, phab:T403246)
    • We are working on adding editing support for more datatypes (tabular data and geoshape) (phab:T403973)
    • We are working on making it possible to edit references (phab:T402433)

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Wikidata weekly summary #701

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #700.

Discussions

  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 7 - closed as approved.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • The next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session: Tuesday 14 Oct, 2025 from 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (click for your Time zone) 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 prior Wikidata experience required. More info on the Personal Pronouns event page.
    • Upcoming LD4 Affinity Group sessions: Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9, at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 4pm UTC / 6pm CEST.
    • Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour, join us in the Wikidata Telegram channel for our Quarterly roundup of what's been happening with Wikidata and Wikibase. If you can't make it, read the transcript later. Oct 15, 18:00 - 19:00 CEST (UTC 16:00 - 17:00).
    • The Next Wikimedia Research Showcase is Wednesday, October 15, at 9:30 AM PT / 16:30 UTC. The theme is "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture". Watch via the YouTube stream.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Useful is a UserScript by Magnus Manske that adds a box of quick "add statement" links to the right side of the page. Entity and phylogeny types, countries (location and citizenship). Also, tries to load and display a blurb from en or de Wikipedia.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The 2024 Wikidata Community Survey results are out! Read the full report on Commons: Wikidata Community Survey 2024 Report. If you have any thoughts or questions feel free to write on this discussion page: Wikidata talk:Usability and usefulness/2024-Community-Survey
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking feedback on the Mobile Editing Experience prototype, especially from contributors who edit right-to-left (RTL) languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, etc. We’ve already received helpful input from various editors, but feedback from RTL language communities is still missing. Your perspective is important to ensure the design works well for everyone. Please go to Beta Wikidata (in mobile view) to test the prototype with the instructions below and share your feedback on this talk page.
    • Add "businessperson" as an occupation
    • Add a start date to the relationship with A$AP Rocky and provide a reference
    • Find the place of birth (Saint Michael) and open that page
    • Add the coordinate location for Saint Michael

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Development

  • Wikidata integration on Wikipedia and co:
    • We finished work on adding an icon to changes coming from Wikidata in recent changes and watchlist (phab:T397258)
    • We are finishing work on a new usage aspect for qualifiers and references so their use can be tracked separately. This will lead to less Wikidata changes showing up in recent changes and watchlist that don't actually affect the article (phab:T397258)
    • We are continuing the work on improving Databox (phab:T400322)
  • GraphQL: We are continuing to work on making labels of linked entities in the values of statements accessible (phab:T404692)
  • Mobile statement editing: We have been working on showing the different value types (phab:T404684) and making references editable (phab:T405236)

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Wikidata weekly summary #702

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #701.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • WikiLokal - The tool uses your device location to find Wikidata Items and Wikipedia articles within a 3 kilometre radius of your location. Created by User:Affandy Murad

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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(Q24101) - library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Development

  • Mobile statement editing: We made progress on support for more datatypes for editing.
  • Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
    • We are investigating an issue with infoboxes using data from Wikidata after some recent changes to usage tracking (phab:T407684)
    • We are working on more improvements to the Databox module
  • Ontology federation: We are starting to work on making it possible for other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as values in their statements. This expands on previous work around federated properties.
  • Dumps: We have worked on fixing issues with the dumps that were failing recently. They should now be generated again and we continue to look into the cause.

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Wikidata weekly summary #703

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #702.

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
    • WikidataCon 2025, October 31 - November 2, make sure to register at the event page.
    • SPARQL workshop (in German): "From Zero to SPARQL. Eine Einführung in die Abfrage von Wissensgraphen (Schwerpunkt Wikidata)", 4 Nov 2025, 10-13, free and open to all, online via Zoom. more information and registration
    • The scholarship deadline for Wikimania 2026 is approaching fast: 31st of October. Apply today if you want to attend on a scholarship.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Nemo is a new Wikidata query tool by User:Markus Krötzsch the tool can answer queries, extracts subsets, and perform analyses in ways that SPARQL alone can't. It also lets you combine Wikidata with other data sources.

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(Q22530539) - lake in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada

Development

  • Wikidata in Wikipedia and co:
    • We worked on making Wikidata change summaries in recent changes and watchlist on the other Wikimedia projects more understandable by adding icons. This will be rolled out soon (phab:T397258)
    • We continued the improvements to the Databox module (phab:T400322, phab:T400318)
  • Mobile statement editing: We continued working on editing references (phab:T405236) and did clean-ups for the beta release (phab:T405743)
  • GraphQL: We continued work on including labels of linked entities in responses
  • Dumps: We are looking into why dump generation is slower than it should be recently

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Wikidata weekly summary #704

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #703.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: Samoasambia
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: langCodesBot - Task(s): Python script to automate the cleanup of deprecated language codes (e.g., kr) from Wikidata items. Delete or move labels, descriptions, and aliases based on comparisons with fallback and related languages. The script uses the Pywikibot framework to process each item and logs cases it skips due to data inconsistencies or ambiguity to a CSV file for manual review.
  • New request for comments: Exhibition models by Hexatekin - This proposal focuses on standardizing models for art exhibitions. There is not a consistent data model used for art exhibitions that factors in parent-child relationships for traveling exhibitions, show series, or biennials, despite these being important and common types of events in international art history.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week The Wikidata Reference Validator by User:JosefAnthony helps check and replace broken or outdated references — keeping Wikidata’s knowledge verifiable and trustworthy. It checks whether external references are still accessible or offline, so we can ensure that every statement on Wikidata shows how we know what we know.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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(Q167634) - political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform
  • Showcase Lexemes:baseline (L46097) - English noun (ˈbeɪslaɪn) meaning "a starting point for comparison", "a benchmark in budgeting", or "a reference line in typography or surveying"

Development

  • Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work on qualifiers and reference editing
  • GraphQL: We are continuing the work on making labels of linked entities available in GraphQL (phab:T404692)
  • Dumps: We are continuing to look into improvements for the dump process

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Wikidata weekly summary #705

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #704.

Discussions

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Difool/WikidataCleanup.js: gadget allowing to do, in one click, a wide series of cleanups in an item: normalize labels, descriptions, and aliases (double spaces, certain Unicode characters), remove weak references, remove weakly referenced dates when they have lower precision than a strongly referenced date and downgrade unnecessary preferred ranks; about the general issue of redundancies in Wikidata, you can check WikiProject Redundancy
  • Ghanasupremecases is a webapp that dynamically pulls and displays over 2,000 Supreme Court of Ghana cases from Wikidata, allowing users to access case details linked directly to Wikidata items. The goal is to make African legal data more open, structured, and discoverable, and to demonstrate how Wikidata can serve as a foundation for national-level legal archive

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Temporary accounts rollout: Starting November 12, the community will see logged‑out edits handled through temporary accounts instead of IPs, prompting tool and bot checks.
  • Help shape the future WikidatCon! If you attended WikidataCon 2025, please take 10 minutes to share your feedback in this anonymous GDPR-compliant survey (sslsurvey)

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Development The development team were involved in roadmap planning meetings so not much happened in the past week.

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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

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

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  • Query examples:
  • 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

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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

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #708

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #707.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Nov 27: The Wikibase Community User Group met for a Wikibase Live Session and to discuss the Federated Values demonstration.

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(Q7414) - American multinational mass media company

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #709

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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 #708.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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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

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Wikidata weekly summary #710

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #709.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Broomstick - Broomstick is a tool to uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.

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(Q1426707) - 18th-century fortress built in the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745

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)

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Wikidata weekly summary #711

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #710.

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

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

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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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Wikidata weekly summary #712

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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

Events

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.

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Development

  • No development happened in the past week as the team are on holidays. Happy new year everyone!

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Wikidata weekly summary #713

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #712.

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

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Development

  • No development happened in the past week as the team are just returning from the holidays.

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Wikidata weekly summary #714

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #713.

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Knowledge Train A game to create a train of knowledge with the power of Wikidata - User:Athulvis

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #715

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #714.

Discussions

  • Closed request for comments: Deprecate P642? - Consensus to deprecate was reached.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #716

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #715.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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.

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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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #717

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #716.


Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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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)

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Wikidata weekly summary #718

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #717.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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.

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

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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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Wikidata weekly summary #719

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #718.

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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 search 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 monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!

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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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #720

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #719.

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

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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. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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Wikidata weekly summary #721

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/LCNAF_Duplicate_Detection_P244_Maintenance
    • 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

Tool of the week

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Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
  • GraphQL: We are getting ready to launch the first version later this week, including preparing the documentation for how to use it.

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Wikidata weekly summary 722

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #721.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 8 - Task: Remove Wikipedia import references from statements where the referenced article has since been deleted.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

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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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #723

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #722.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #724

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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

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 sign up for deeper usability testing.

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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)

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Wikidata weekly summary #725

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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 #724.

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

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.

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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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #726

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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.

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  • 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)

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Wikidata weekly summary #727

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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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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).

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Wikidata weekly summary #728

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #727.

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #729

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #728.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: Yamato Shiya - Congratulations to our newest Admin!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Chamiln17@FineWiki - Task/s: Read-only Wikidata entity cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.

Events

  • Upcoming events: Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session — 28 April 2026 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. This session covers QuickStatements 3.0, the updated batch-editing tool for Wikidata, redeveloped by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, featuring a modern interface and improved performance. Watch the previous session recording: on youtube. More details: QuickStatements3

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tools of the week

  • The Human History Atlas (WikiTime), a browser-based atlas that uses Wikidata and Wikipedia-sourced data to construct timelines and allows exploration of significant historical events.
  • Wikilympians, a real-time list of all 153,412 known Olympic competitors with Wikidata and Wikipedia coverage statistics

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikibase Suite 7.0 and Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.0.0 have been launched! It brings Wikibase closer to feature parity with Wikidata. Here's what's in the latest release:
    • Echo Extension: User activity alerts and notifications.
    • Discussion Tools Extension: Set of tools to enhance discussion pages.
    • Temporary Accounts: The support for temporary accounts without IP address exposure has been added. It will, however, remain disabled by default, in line with Wikibase Cloud.
    • Grouped External Identifiers (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310898): External identifiers are now grouped on entity pages for better readability.
    • “Mul” (multi-language) support: Adds support for multi-language values.

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  • Query Service: It is now possible to download query results in Wikidata Query Service that include coordinates as KML & GPX (GeoJSON has been available since last year). Text from the first column in the results is used as the value for naming POIs. Thanks again to Atom.oil.2 for the patch. (phab:T414376)
  • The Wikidata team continued working on a prototype to make WikiProjects more visible (phab:T420907) and made the new Wikidata mobile UI use auto-resizing text areas instead of single-line text inputs, in order to make longer values easier to edit (phab:T414420)
  • The Wikidata Integrations team now has a working prototype of LilDiffCheck, injecting wikidata changes into recent changes only if there was a change on the wikipedia html (phab:T421390)
  • Language fallback will be available this week on the labels of linked entities functionality in GraphQL (phab:T413655)


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Wikidata weekly summary #730

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #729.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • OpenHistory – interactive historical atlas of 21k+ Wikidata-sourced historical events, polities, and territories on a timeline+map. SPARQL-driven pipeline, MIT/CC BY-SA. (GitHub)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • WikiTrivia - the webgame about putting historical events in the correct order recently got a huge update, thanks to creator Tom Watson.
  • Wikimedia API's / Rate limits - new rate limits are being added for all Wikimedia projects, to ensure sustainable use to the REST an ACTION API's. If you operate a bot and it has recently started producing an error message for producing too many API requests, please consult the linked MediaWiki page and amend your bot as needed.

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  • Mobile statement editing: We continued fixing issues uncovered in testing
  • WikiProjects: We are working on adding links to the sidebar of Items to lead people to the respective WikiProjects for that Item. This way we hope to help people more easily find data modelling documentation as well as other editors interested in the same topic.

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Wikidata weekly summary #731

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-11. Missed the previous one? See issue #730.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: AAU Research NLP Bot 1 - Task(s): Querying Wikidata for entities and relations and paths between them. From 1-hop until 3-hops.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: MarisDreshmanisBot (formerly ReNeuralAgent Bot) has been approved after a community intervention, see the discussion here.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • WikiProjects Days 2026 will take place between 19 - 21 June.
      WikiProjects are crucial to improving data quality and onboarding newcomers to specific areas of Wikidata. This event is the place for all editors to discover WikiProjects, find ones to join, learn about their modelling practices and how to improve the content and tools of your favourite WikiProjects. Register here to get any news or updates about this new Wikidata X Days event. The Call for Proposals is open! If you have an idea for a session, please submit it here by 26 May.
    • Wikidata Live Editing, 11 May
    • AI Bridges Symposium is taking place at Senate House, University of London across 28 and 29 May. (Free) Registration for this on-site event closes 21 May. The event will begin with introductions to Wikidata, Wikibase, connecting AI with Wikidata and follow on day 2 bringing the full ecosystem together for dialogue, debate, and collaborative action.
  • Ongoing: Coordinate Me 2026 - edit items with a P625 (coordinate location) from the focus countries and be in the running for a prize. Ends 31 May 2026.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Open Data DEx Explorer - "an interactive graph visualizer of semantic Open Data. Relationships are discovered heuristically and a graph structure created in real time, allowing navigation and insight into raw data without building formal ontologies."Read more on The Knowledge Commons blog, by Michelle Tomlyn.
  • GapMap.Wiki - explore knowledge gaps between different language Wikipedia's. GapMap identifies Wikipedia articles that exist in many languages but missing from the target, helping editors prioritize which articles to translate or create. No AI is used, just comparing publicly available databases.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Mobile editors can now edit all datatypes directly in the mobile view. To help improve this new interface, Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for volunteers (especially editors from Right-to-left languages) for UX testing sessions. Participants will be compensated for their time. Sign up here (greatquestion) and learn more on the project page: Mobile editing of statements

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  • Mobile statement editing: We are continuing to improve the UX and fix issues uncovered in testing
  • Making WikiProjects more visible: We are working on adding links to the sidebar menu of Items to make it easier for people to find the WikiProject(s) associated with an Item, find like-minded people and learn about data modelling conventions etc in that particular area
  • Query Service: The service is being hit quite heavily and the Wikidata Platform team is working on blocking scrapers and misbehaving tools
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing our experiment to further reduce the amount of Wikidata changes that show up on Recent changes and Watchlist but don't actually change the article. Specifically we are looking at checking if there is any difference in the rendered article before and after the change coming from Wikidata

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Wikidata weekly summary #732

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #731.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PatsaBot 1 - Task/s: Add sitelink from Template:Taxonomy/* on thwiki to same entry from enwiki and update Thai description from generic template format to "แม่แบบอนุกรมวิธาน" (taxonomy template).
    • MarisDreshmanisBot 2 - Task/s: Create occupation Q-items and add native-language labels on existing occupation Q-items from 33 state-issued national occupation classifiers (165 national registries, 154 countries, ~30,000 new Q-items, ~120,000 native labels across 53 languages).
    • ias-kbase - Task/s: Read-only bulk entity lookups for an internal knowledge graph project. Fetches labels, claims, and sitelinks from Wikidata and intro-paragraph extracts from English Wikipedia. No writes.

Events

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Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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  • Tighter connection of the Wikibase Ecosystem: We've been working on making it possible to use Wikidata Items (and later from other Wikibase instances) as values in statements on other Wikibase instances. You can now try it out on a demo system or set up your own test instance to give it a try. More details in the announcement.
  • Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are continuing the work on showing less irrelevant changes on recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co by trying to determine if an edit from Wikidata actually changed the rendered article or not
  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We worked on reducing the load for users with limited data
    • We are continuing to fix issues uncovered in testing
  • Making Wikiprojects more visible: We are getting ready for testing of the prototype. We'll be adding links to the respective Wikirojects on Item pages in the tools menu to make it easier for people to find the corresponding Wikiprojects. This is based on statements already on the Item such as specific external IDs.

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Wikidata weekly summary #733

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-25. Missed the previous one? See issue #732.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Skolkoll-bot 1 - Task(s): Adding Skolverket identifiers and source URLs to Swedish school items

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • LexeMap - is a lexeme coverage mapper that audits Wikidata lexeme data across languages. It runs live SPARQL queries against Wikidata and cross-references against Wiktionary to identify gaps in lexicographical data.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Starting May 28, 2026, the Special:EntityData page will no longer support the PHP‑serialized format (e.g .php URLs). Affected requests will return HTTP errors. Please switch to a stable format like JSON (example: Q42.json). The change is already active on test and beta wikis. (full announcement)

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  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We continued working on reducing the page size to make it easier on mobile data plans
    • We are improving how error messages are shown
  • Making WikiProjects more visible: We are continuing the work on getting it ready for a first rollout.

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