• 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.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122: Rock-forming minerals

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
  • 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.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ‎WHDLoad database ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, ‎PCSX2 Wiki ID, KRS number, ‎Twitch numeric channel ID, ‎RPCS3 Wiki ID, ‎Black Games Archive ID, ‎Citra compatibility database ID, ‎DraCor ID, ORBi article ID, ‎IGN wiki article ID, ‎AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, ‎RPGFan game ID, ‎Arcade Hub ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
      • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
    • External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, GamesMeter ID, Walk Score ID, Malaysia company new number, Am Faclair Beag ID, xemu compatibility database ID, Sofascore player ID, GameGear.jp ID, RPGWatch IDs, Team England ID, TORCH taxon ID, ScummVM ID, Abandonware France IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Distribution of the different tram gauges in Germany (source)
    • Scale of stampedes reported on Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
    • Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
  • Newest database reports: children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
  • Showcase Items: Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
  • Showcase Lexemes: L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'

• 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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

• 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.

• Tool of the week
  • WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Shamela book edition ID, ‎HistoriaGames series ID, ‎Schnittberichte.com title ID, ‎Kemono Games game ID, ‎Internet Game Database event ID, Xemu compatibility database ID, ‎GamesMeter game ID, ‎GameGear.jp ID, Walmart product ID, Swissubase person ID, RPGWatch game ID, RPGWatch company ID, RPGWatch press ID, ‎Indie DB company ID, ‎NIWA article ID, turismoroma.it place ID, ‎ScummVM ID, ORBi author ID, Abandonware-France video game series ID, Abandonware-France video game compilation ID, Abandonware-France person ID, Abandonware-France company ID, Abandonware-France magazine ID, Abandonware-France award ID, Kanjipedia word ID, Moviefone movie ID, South African NPO number, ‎Nigerian registered company ID, Abandonware-France video game ID, ‎AFJV directory ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
      • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ({{Q|2976602}} for {{Q|163740}} created by the {{Q|193727}} and adapted by the {{Q|1065}}.)
      • creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
      • television judge ()
    • External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, nebula channel id, Deutsche Bahn station number, ISzDb series ID, BG localisation unit ID, Cathopedia article ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, Penstemon Database ID, Wikisage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Visual artists whose works will enter the Public Domain in Mexico on January 1, 2024 (source)
    • Top music album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 52, 2023) (source)
    • Western composers until the end of the Renaissance (source)
  • Newest database reports: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates
  • Showcase Items: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
  • Showcase Lexemes: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new 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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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

• 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.
  • Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024
  • Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
• Papers
  • Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) "scientific article published in 2023" (paper in Italian) - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.
  • Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model
  • LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
  • Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
• Videos
  • Map Kerala Initiative is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
  • This video on Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.
• Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.

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

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
  • (Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
  • ‎plate(s) (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
• Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID, ‎MilliBase taxon ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, ‎The Criterion Collection spine number
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Water bottle volume (Volume of the water bottle)
  • Is it metric? (To check if it's a metric.)
  • Anti-Cheat software used (anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Team Scotland ID, Globoplay ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, TouchArcade game ID, Mod.io ID, The Models Resource game ID, The Models Resource entity ID, tourist information point number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID, Bandcamp track ID

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu according to Appel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture (source)
  • Map of running/out of service railway stations in France|fr=Carte des gares ferroviaires en France métropolitaine selon leur état d'usage
  • Bridges in the UK with photos (source)
  • Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly) (source)
• Newest WikiProject: Podcast Episodes 2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.
• Newest database report: children of unborn parents
• Showcase Item: Helsinki (Q1757) - capital and most populous city of Finland
• Showcase Lexeme: Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish for 'God forbid'

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

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Ologies
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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

• Past
  • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-01-17
  • PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
• Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register for the Workshop.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023
  • Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective --> interview with Epìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.
• Papers
  • The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023)) (paper in Italian) - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata
  • The evolution of authority work in SBN. From origins to Alphabetica and future prospects (Q124289388) (Italian title: L’evoluzione dell’authority work in SBN. Dalle origini ad Alphabetica e prospettive future) (paper in Italian) - deals with the evolution of the authority work in the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN), with many references to Wikidata
  • Biological Pathway Abstractions: From 2D drawings to Multidimensional Linked Data > this thesis by Andra Sachinder Waagmeester discusses the utility of using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for Life Sciences.
• Videos
  • "From Wiki to Digital Humanities - Establishing a Literature Index Network" Symposium(Taiwanese) from Wang Shiqing. A scholar of Taiwanese history, this symposium explores linking their historical and academic research with Wikidata.
  • Semantic MediaWiki Con 2023
    • AskWikidata: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. Want to try? (Google Colab)
    • Fixing Wikidata: by viewing it as a series of tables by Yaron Koren, who challenges that Wikidata can become more useful with more structured editing and querying practices.

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
  • working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
  • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
  • simulate (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
  • Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎ISzDb series ID, IFTTT service ID, National-Football-Teams.com team ID, Moviefone person ID, Commonwealth Games Australia athlete ID, Team Scotland athlete ID, Kicker team ID, goalzz.com team ID, vesti.kz team ID, ‎Am Faclair Beag ID, tourist information point number, Alexandria.dk person ID, Babelio serial ID, Moviebuff ID, RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju Word ID, Stage, Qué series ver ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • If non-metric ()
  • civil rank (non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: PhoneScoop phone ID, TopKar ID, IFOPT stop identifier, Flashback lexicon ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, HbVar ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, HistoryMakers Digital Archive Maker ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, Code de la collectivité territoriale ayant les compétences départementales, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Distance between the birthplace of UK ministers and London (source)
  • Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
  • People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Media art - to work together with initiatives archiving media art and find common best practices.
• Newest database reports: Count of Senseless Lexemes per language
• Showcase Items: Mona Lisa (Q12418) - oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
• Showcase Lexemes: grilldress (L1131949) - track suit for grilling in Bokmål

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

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Cinematography
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

<translate>Discussions</translate> <translate>* Closed request for adminship: Andrei Stroe - Success! Welcome User:Andrei Stroe as Wikidata's latest Admin.

• New requests for permissions/Bot: QichwaBot - Task(s): Creating wikidata lexemes for the Quechua languages.
• Closed request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse statement creation and if so, how should they happen? - Closed due to lack of comments for longer than five years. Despite multiple suggestions, there is no clear consensus to move forward.</translate>

<translate>Events</translate> <translate>* 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.</translate>

<translate>Press, articles, blog posts, videos</translate> <translate>* Papers

• • A Systematic Review of Wikidata in GLAM Institutions: a Labs Approach - Presents a systematic review of Wikidata use in GLAM institutions within the context of the work of the International GLAM Labs Community (glamlabs.io). The results summarise academic literature on Wikidata projects. By G. Candela et al.
  • (es) Wikidata course in Spanish: Data for collaborative knowledge - Throughout October, the WikiLearn platform is hosting a course on Wikidata aimed especially at Latin Americans. Enroll here.
  • Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing - SHADOW is a fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning, its performance is measured on a knowledge base construction task using Wikidata triple completion. By Hanna Abi Akl.
  • Using Wikidata for Managing Cultural Heritage Information - The present study uses model wikidata elements as a basis and explores its dynamic formation into a cultural heritage information management tool within a museum. By D. Kyriaki-Manessi and S. Vazaiou.
  • Enriching Archival Linked Data Descriptions with Information from Wikidata and DBpedia - This paper investigates the potential to use information in archival records in a larger context for ArchOnto and aims to leverage classes and properties sourced from repositories deemed informal due to their crowd-sourcing nature. By I. Koch et al.
  • A framework for integrating biomedical knowledge in Wikidata with open biological and biomedical ontologies and MeSH keywords - This paper utilizes primary data sources of OBO ontologies and MeSH keywords classified using SPARQL queries for RDF knowledge graphs, to contribute to the robustness and accuracy of collaborative biomedical knowledge graphs. By H. Turki et al.
• Videos
  • Serbian Novels on Wikidata: Project wikiELTeC & Tesla Part of Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 in İstanbul, this session presented by Filip Maljković charts progress on contributing Serbian literature to Wikidata.
• Dataviz
  • Find your most famous neighbour, a world map of notable people based on Wikipedia and Wikidata.</translate>

<translate>Tool of the week</translate> <translate>* Three new Userscripts for Wikidata - User:Lagewi has written 3 scripts to simplify reading references, explore property-value pairs in use for a statement or attaching a full bibliography to the end of the item page.</translate>

<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate> <translate>* OpenSactions:Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories - Using PETScan, generates a list of profiles of politically exposed persons by querying specific categories on Wikidata and extracting the entities.</translate>

<translate>Newest properties and property proposals to review</translate>

• <translate>Newest properties:</translate>
  • <translate>General datatypes: </translate>
    • game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
    • handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
    • objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
    • agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
    • agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
    • agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
  • <translate>External identifiers: </translate>‎Altar of Gaming character ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Yediot Books book ID, Mapcarta ID, VIRIN, cnkgraph person ID, Tabletopia game ID, cnkgraph book ID, cnkgraph poem ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, ‎CNES ID, ‎Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, ‎TV Maze character ID, Say Who ID, ‎Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID, ‎LMFDB knowl ID, ACUM performer ID, ACUM creator/publisher ID, ACUM Work ID, ACUM album ID, culture.ru organization ID, ‎Hindustan Times topic ID, Newgrounds submission ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Linked Open Vocabularies ID, ‎Ontobee ID, ‎typeset.io journal ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, ‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID

<translate>* New property proposals to review:</translate> <translate>** General datatypes: </translate>

• • • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
    • has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
    • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
    • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
    • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
    • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
    • magazine capacity (In (real or fictional) devices like a firearm, weapon, or engineered thing, this is the default capacity or size of a devices' magazine, clip, or other container typically used to hold ammunition, bolts, cartridges, tools, etc. which pushes those items as needed usually through a spring-based mechanism into a receiver for further use by the device)
    • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
    • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
    • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
    • publication type of scholarly article (Publication type of scholarly article)
    • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this item)
    • Medietilsynets filmdatabase (identifier for a film in the Norwegian Medietilsynets database)
    • Western Australian Biographical Index (Card ID from the Western Australian Biographical Index, a set of handwritten index cards compiled in the 1970s.)
    • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
    • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
    • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)

<translate>** External identifiers:</translate> case id (mainland China), NWIS site ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, LWW journal ID, BioMed Central journal ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, Koha Kütüphane ID, MyWaifuList character ID, FantLab artist ID, Münzkabinett, Latgales dati person ID, identifiant inventaire Grand Est, RedBA Granada authority ID, MetalTabs.com musician ID, HA! ID, Identifiant Radio France d'une émission, Identifiant France Télévisions d'une émission, beniabbandonati ID, DDB person ID, European Parliament document ID, Hlídač státu subject ID, Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense ID, Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and early New Kingdom person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID

<translate>You can comment on all open property proposals!</translate>

<translate>Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Network of European Union Independent Fiscal Institutions
  • Opera singers who are sopranos with an article on English Wikipedia
• Newest WikiProjects:
• Newest database reports: Popular_items_without_claims
• Showcase Lexemes: هُئَڻُ L1126190 Sindhi verb (to be)</translate>

<translate>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)

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.</translate>

<translate>Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!</translate>

<translate>Events</translate> <translate>* 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).</translate>

<translate>Press, articles, blog posts, videos</translate> <translate>* Blogs

• • Wikidata is a giant crosswalk file dbreunig.com describes how with a little DuckDB and Ruby and data from Wikidata, you can produce a cross-walk file of geographic entities.
• Videos
  • (ru) Wikidata Reconciliation Service - This video shows how to add QID's to a large number of person-entities, add descriptions and search by full name and years of life. Wikidata reconciliation for OR (Script: Github:Podbrushkin)
  • (fr) Data recovery on Wikidata for the DataViz project - PhilippGam presents the various methods to extract and sort data from Wikidata and use the wikidataMultiSearch tool.
  • Bridging the Digital Scriptorium Data Model and Wikidata to Expand Reuse of Manuscript Metadata Rose McCandless gives this lighning talk at the LD4 2024 Conference.
• Notebooks
  • Continental and country diversity of Wikipedia art</translate>

<translate>Tool of the week</translate>

• (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.

<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate>

• 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.

<translate>Newest properties and property proposals to review</translate>

<translate>* Newest properties:

• • General datatypes:</translate>
    • handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
    • objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
    • agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
    • agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
    • agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
    • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
    • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
    • publication type of scholarly work (Publication type of scholarly work)
    • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
    • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)

<translate>** External identifiers:</translate> ‎Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID, ‎LMFDB knowl ID, ACUM performer ID, ACUM creator/publisher ID, ACUM Work ID, ACUM album ID, culture.ru organization ID, ‎Hindustan Times topic ID, Newgrounds submission ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Linked Open Vocabularies ID, ‎Ontobee ID, ‎typeset.io journal ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, ‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, ‎FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, ‎NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, ‎Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, ‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, ‎European Parliament document ID, ‎Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person ID <translate>* New property proposals to review:

• • General datatypes:</translate>
    • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
    • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
    • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
    • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
    • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
    • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
    • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
    • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
    • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
    • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
    • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
    • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
    • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)

<translate>** External identifiers:</translate> case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, KISTI institute ID, Hlídač státu subject ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, Dwelly entry ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Identifiant CIRDOC d'un auteur ou d'une autrice, Identifiant CIRDOC d'un document, Department of Defense Identification Code, Identifiant d'un document audiovisuel dans le catalogue de l'Inathèque, LWW journal ID, BAHRA ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, AniSearch person ID, identifiant Babelio d'un sujet, Identifiant d'une personne sur Madelen, ITTF PTT ID, Push Square series ID, VG247 series ID, dtf.ru person ID

<translate>You can comment on all open property proposals!</translate>

<translate>Did you know?

• Query examples:</translate>
  • Winners of the Guillaume Apollinaire Prize (1941-2023)
  • Libraries in Argentina (on Wikidata)

<translate>* Newest WikiProjects:

• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Lingnan University Library: Wikidata Pilot Project - Creating and improving entries for Lingnan University academic staff, as well as generating entries for the Library's digital collections and Lingnan theses and dissertations.
  • French Literary Prizes - Aims to coordinate the development of a database on French literary prizes (list of prizes, jury members, list of winners)
  • Cycling: 2025 Races - documenting the the planned Cycling races for 2025.
• Newest database reports: Abuse filter effectiveness - This DB report compiles a variety of statistics on combating vandalism.</translate>

<translate>Development

• Data access:
  • We have published a survey to better understand the future needs of application developers who want to work with Wikidata's data. Please take part if you are developing applications or services using data from Wikidata.
  • We are analyzing query logs to better understand which queries could be moved to other services in the future.
• Design system: We continued migrating the Query Builder and Special:NewLexeme from Wikit to Codex</translate>

<translate>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.</translate>

<translate>Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!</translate>

Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 19 November, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 19 November, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm 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 LD4-WDAG Lexicographical Data 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 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Visit the event LD4 Affinity Group WikiPoject page
• Conference about Wikidata and research at the University of Florence in Italy - call for papers deadline December 9, 2024
• Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 Registration is open until mid-April 2025 (unless event reahes capacity earlier). Hackathon takes place in Istanbul May 2 - 5, 2025.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • GLAM October Newsletter
    • (Spanish + En) Colombia Report - exploring uses of Wikidata in the Colombian context.
    • Stats and program of the Wikidata Workshop 2024: National Library of Latvia
    • Wikidata 12th Birthday Report
  • Wikidata and the 2024 Open Library Community Celebration - Ray Berger shares their presentation for the Open Library celebration.
  • A Hip Hop World Map - Mark Reuter uses Wikidata to create a map of Hip Hop artists birthplaces.
• Papers
  • Journal Article: “Shifting Paradigms: The Impact of Streaming on Diversity in Academic Library Film Collections” - Examines the impact of academic libraries shifting collections from physical to digital medium storage, and how Wikidata is used to analyse this. By Clarkson et al.,2024.
  • Encoding Archaeological Data Models as Wikidata Schemas - How Wikidata schema are being used to help the Duros-Europos archaelogical archive By Thornton et al., 2024.
  • Population and Exploration of Conference Data in Wikidata using LLMs - to automate addition of scholarly data. By extracting metadata from unstructured sources and adding over 6,000 entities, it demonstrates a scalable method to enhance Wikidata as a scholarly resource. By Mihindukulasooriya et al., 2024.
  • DBLP to Wikidata: Populating Scholarly Articles in Wikidata Presents a tool and method for adding scholarly articles and related entities, like co-authors and conference proceedings, to Wikidata using DBLP data, promoting the enhancement of Wikidata’s scholarly coverage. By Nandana Mihindukulasooriya.
• Slides
  • (Italian) all the slides of the presentations held during Wikidata Days Bologna 2024 are available in commons:Category:Wikidata Days Bologna 2024 presentations (the links have also been added to the program page)
• Videos
  • (Italian) all the videos of the presentations held during Wikidata Days Bologna 2024 in the main room are available in commons:Category:Wikidata Days Bologna 2024 videos (the links have also been added to the program page)
  • Launch of Wikidata Lexicographical Data Contest from the Dagaare Wikimedia Community.
  • (Spanish) How to contribute to Wikidata with QuickStatements? Omar Vegu of the Wikimedia Perú community will be showing how QS can be used to mass-edit Wikidata.
  • (Spanish) Wikidata - how to merge two elements that are repeated statements? - What to do if you find more than one Wikidata item of the same, exact thing? This guide will show you what to do.
  • WCNA 2024 Lightning talk: Designing a Wikidata Edit-a-thon for the Black Teacher Archive - if you are interested in organising a Wikidata edit-a-thon (on any subject), this presentation shows the steps needed.
  • WCNA 2024: Adding authority control properties in Wikidata for writer and artist biographies - an example of using Wikidata to enrich and expand an item for biographies.
  • WCNA 2024: Wikidata profiling of small town art - an example of how structured data can be used to preserve cultural history.
  • MediaWiki U&D Con Fall 2024 - Day 3 - Introduction to Wikibase: Managing Datasets & Collections

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

• Observable: Example SPARQL Queries Provenance Index LOD

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: TEES ID, DVIDS unit ID, Korean Basketball League player ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense person ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense work of art ID, ‎Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, ‎eHLFL ID, Songkick area ID, DDB institution ID, Enciclopedia medica ID, Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID, Steam tag ID, L'Équipe basketball team ID, AELC author ID, TF1 info topic ID, RTL topic ID, Actu.fr topic ID, FAO fungal entity ID, France Info topic ID, KISTI institute ID, Israel Railways station number, Digital LIMC ID, TDK lexeme ID, Yandex Maps organization ID, FightTime fighters ID, Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Innovating Knowledge manuscript ID, L'Équipe basketball player ID, Damehåndbolddatabasen ID, Journalistikon.de ID, graphclasses.org ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League player ID, PublicationsList author ID, Monument Counter ID, Spirit of Metal album ID, Spirit of Metal style ID, Spirit of Metal artist ID, Spirit of Metal label ID, Spirit of Metal place ID, Libération topic ID, Azerbaijani Explanatory Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Dialect Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Phraseology Dictionary ID, Lezgian Explanatory Dictionary ID, VK Music track ID, Taiwan Railways (TR) station number, GamersGlobal genre, Archivportal NRW ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, Health Facility Registry ID, BioMed Central journal ID, Immortal Regiment ID, dictionary of affixes used in Czech ID, Eurotopics ID, TMDB network ID, Kultboy editor ID, WikiBaseball ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, ANID Researcher Portal, TOPO ID, DBIS Resource ID, ITV News topic ID, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia contributor ID, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID, El Moudjahid tag ID
• Newest General datatype property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
  • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
  • Provides data for property (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • ISCC (International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.)
  • romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character)
  • GND-BEACON-URL (URL of an online service's BEACON file)
  • Railway station linear reference (line & milestone) (Stations are located on one or more railway routes, each at a given milestone. This makes it possible to situate them in the topology of a railway infrastructure. A linear reference system can be used to position any object on this topology. In this case, we would add one or more route (or line) number + milestone data pairs.)
  • Data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
  • Use data collection instrument (Tool used by/in the subject to facilitate the collection of qualitative or quantitative data)
  • Data collection method (scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject)
  • World Snooker Tour tournament ID (Identifier for a tournament on the main website of World Snooker Tour (official site))
  • study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work)
  • OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services)
  • Open Library Collection (Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics)
  • scientific illustration (a scientific or technical illustration of this subject)
  • thesis submitted for (academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted)
  • meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.))
• External identifiers: case id (mainland China), Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, dtf.ru person ID, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet, GERS ID, European Legislation Identifier, Danbooru tag, Alexander Keiller Museum ID, Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative, Timenote.info Person ID, Thai railway station identifier, Resistance in Belgium ID, Comprehensive Information System on Korean Historical Figures ID, SNCF station trigram, Game Jolt username, Identifiant Mediapart d'un blogueur, identifiant Centre d'études Picasso, Indo-European Lexicon ID, SGES monument ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, Presisov večjezični slovar ID, Usito, Sanzhi Dargwa dictionary ID, FVDP Vietnamese dictionary ID, FNAC author ID, CAMRA Experience pub ID 2, Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID, Everand author ID, Phish.net Venue ID, teams.by national team ID, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID, Measuring points uuid, DEX '09 entry ID, Marktstammdatenregisternummer (Einheit), Paramount+ video ID, Gerbang Kata ID, World Women's Snooker player ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, NBA G League player ID, Basketballnavi.DB player ID, Football Kit Archive ID, Electronic Language International Festival Person ID, ISLRN, erail.in railway station identifier, Gallimard author ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Identifiant d'un(e) artiste sur Reg-Arts, Eyrolles author ID, Zvuk album ID, Chtyvo author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • List Authors by work language (Latin)
  • Return Lexemes of Month and Day in the filtered languages
  • Hip Hop artists by place of birth
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Helvetic Archives - coordination of data ingests and workshops related to the HelveticArchives, operated by the Swiss National Library.
  • Scholia, 2024 Surveys - assists with the planning, conduct, analysis and communication of a user survey for Scholia.
  • Authors by writing language (Latin) - Wikidata list for the Biography WikiProject.
• Newest database reports: Entities without description - find items missing a description in a chosen language.
• Showcase Items: Darius I (the Great) (QQ44387)
• Showcase Lexemes: Vrimle (L712968) This Lexeme is 'teem'ing with forms (Bokmål).

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

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: ThesaurusLinguaeAegyptiaeBot - Task(s): Creating and updating Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian and Coptic lexemes and ancient Egyptian text artifact items. It is also to maintain links to the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae project via approved properties.
• New request for comments: Schema Virtual Tour - User:Brechtd would like feedback on determining a data model and schema for Wikidata items that are an instance of virtual tour(Q2915546) - See Schema Proposal - Virtual Tour for more info.
• Closed request for comments: Create items for Property proposals - Despite a spirited discussion with many comments both in favour and opposition, no consensus was reached.

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

• Research
  • Statement Signals: Wikidata usage on other Wikis: A new research report is available. Explores what trace Wikidata data is measurable on other Wiki pages and proposes initial metrics for measuring Wikidata statement usage on Wikimedia content pages. Also suggests methods to improve data analysis and collection. PDF is available on Commons
• Blogs
  • Celebrating Wikidata’s 12th birthday across the world - Wikidata celebrated its 12th birthday in October and November 2024, with a series of global events and activities aimed at commemorating the platform's contributions to the open knowledge movement, engaging its community of volunteers, and highlighting the significant role Wikidata plays in the digital landscape. By Dan Shick
• Papers
  • Beyond the Library Catalogue: Connecting Library Metadata to Wikidata - This paper explores how libraries can leverage Wikidata to enhance resource discoverability, foster interoperability, and integrate into the global knowledge ecosystem. By Omorodion Okuonghae (2024).
  • A framework for integrating biomedical knowledge in Wikidata with open biological and biomedical ontologies and MeSH keywords - Enhancing Wikidata’s biomedical knowledge by integrating OBO ontologies and PubMed’s MeSH keywords, addressing gaps, improving classification accuracy, and verifying relations for stronger interoperability and accuracy. By Chebil et al. (2024).
  • Class Order Disorder in Wikidata and First Fixes analyzes class order violations in Wikidata's ontology using SPARQL, evaluates fixes, and offers solutions through improved tools or community involvement. By P. Patel-Schneider and E. Doğan.
• Videos
  • Edit a Wikidata Item and Lexeme - The Tyap Wikimedia User Group produced this tutorial on editing as part of the Wikidata 12th Birthday celebrations for the Wikidata @12 Data-a-thon.
  • State of the art in combining OpenStreetMap and Linked Data - Covers Linked Data basics, its potential with OSM, and popular methods for linking, extracting, combining, and querying data from both sources. Jump to (Wikidata)
  • (正體字, CN Trad.) Getting Started with Wikidata - An introduction and overview to Wikidata and some associated tools such as ORES and LiftWing.
  • (正體字, CN Trad.) Wikidata Basic Editing Tutorial - This session was given as part of the COSCUP '24 conference on the OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Agenda Track.
  • LLM-based natural-language representations for SPARQL queries over Wikidata and DBpedia - LORiS: This tool can help you understand complex SPARQL queries by converting them to natural language.
  • Towards an Open NLI LLM-based System for KGs: A Wikidata Case Study - At the 7th ISRITI 2024 conference, Jaycent Ongris shows how RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) has been used in a natural-language question-answer platform to directly query Wikidata.
  • How knowledge representation is changing in a world of LLM's - Denny Vrandečić gives this keynote session at the SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference.
  • the Capacity to Grieve Once More - Alexandros Kosiaris of the Wikimedia Foundation explains changes made to make Wikipedia more stable and prevent outages, including how it calls and fetches data from Wikidata. Session given at SREcon24.

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.)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • picture of this person doing their job (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits)
    • ISCC (ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing)
  • External identifiers: Kultboy editor ID, WikiBaseball ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, ANID Researcher Portal ID, TOPO ID, DBIS Resource ID, ITV News topic ID, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia contributor ID, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID, El Moudjahid tag ID, SGES monument ID, DEX ’09 entry ID, Electronic Language International Festival person ID, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID, Paramount+ video ID, Le Club Mediapart blogger ID, Phish.net venue ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work)
    • OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services)
    • Open Library Collection (Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics)
    • scientific illustration (an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.)
    • thesis submitted for (academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted)
    • meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.))
    • UMC rating (Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC))
    • Third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
    • role named as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work)
    • bequest income (The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.)
    • Audio tour ()
    • Augmented reality tour ()
    • Virtual reality tour ()
    • extension that populates category (analogous to {{P|4329}} for tracking cat:s populated by extensions of MediaWiki, linking to extension causing the population)
    • CUATM statistical code (7-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova)
    • CUATM unique identification code (4-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova)
  • External identifiers: ISLRN, erail.in railway station identifier, Gallimard author ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Identifiant d'un(e) artiste sur Reg-Arts, Eyrolles author ID, Zvuk album ID, Chtyvo author ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai IDs, EU Corporate body code, SBOID, Waymark code, Radio Algeria tag ID, Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian entry ID, PBY Ben-Yehuda dictionary identifier, ThePWHL.com player ID, Radio Algeria tag ID (Arabic), Identifiant L'AF au champ d'honneur, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans Vidas, Open Source Security Foundation Best Practices Identifier, OpenSSF Best Practices ID, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language entry, Identifiant sur Mémoire des avocats, BCU Kirundi-English Dictionary ID, Wurfhand, University Bibliography Tübingen ID, ZSL Authority ID, PUG authority ID, Three Decks class ID, HCERES expert ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Using cross-product / cross-join to produce list of categories
  • Map of individuals charged, convicted and/or exonerated of Witchcraft with place of death in Switzerland
  • Names and Locations of French Castles (Château)
  • Train Station information (with a Spanish Wikipedia article)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Bibliothek UvA/HvA - documenting, archiving and creating items from collections from the UvA/AUAS Library in Amsterdam, beginning with the works of Allard Pierson.
  • Ghana - A hub for Ghanaian activities and entities, including regional languages: Dagbanli, Twi and Dagari.
  • Thao (Taiwan): For collecting information related to Thao cultural themes, including statistics and activity records.
• Newest database reports: Recent Deaths
• Showcase Items: Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
• Showcase Lexemes: புறவு (L1236574) - A Tamil lemma for dense forest, impassable jungle and a pigeon dove.

Development

• 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.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Ghana
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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

• Blogs
  • MediaWiki Conference Highlights, featuring Wikibase talks including one by Christos Varvantakis and Jon Amar from Wikimedia Deutschland.
  • Semantic Wikibase 2024 Update
  • WMDE launches AI Knowledge project in collaboration with DataStax built with NVIDIA AI
  • Ten years of Philippine local Govt. data for Wikidata's 12th Birthday. Read about SKAP's (Shared Knowledge Asia Pacific) efforts to add 10 years worth of financial data of local Government assets to Wikidata during a Datathon.
• Papers
  • Developing an OCR - Wikibase Pipeline for Place Names in the RGTC Series - introduces a semi-automated workflow for extracting and digitally storing geographically relevant information, including spatial relations and contextual details, from place names in the Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes. By Matthew Ong (2024).
• Videos
  • Wikibase4Research - Kolja Bailly presents ways in which the Wikibase4Research tool by the TIB Open Science Lab supports researchers in dealing with Mediawiki software for knowledge bases such as Wikibase and facilitates better and FAIR Research Data Management. Includes a live demonstration and beginner-friendly instructions.

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.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • reference illustration (an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.)
  • External identifiers: Gallimard author ID, Football Kit Archive ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai author ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai publisher ID, Reg-Arts artist ID, EU Corporate body code, PBY Ben-Yehuda dictionary identifier, Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian entry ID, L'AF au champ d'honneur ID, Radio Algeria tag ID (Arabic), Radio Algeria tag ID (French), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language entry ID, Kamus Dewan Edisi Keempat ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • land acknowledgement (acknowledgement of indigenous or native people whose ancestors lived at a location)
    • homonym of (taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym)
    • taxon known by this common name (taxon item of which this common name refers)
  • External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID, AniSearch character ID, Hachette author ID, El Watan tag ID, Albin Michel author ID, DNCI label ID, Battle.net game ID, Collectie Nederland ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Items missing Hungarian labels or description that are part of Library and Information Science (Q13420675)
  • Items from Maori Wikipedia missing English labels or descriptions
  • Instances of "Shopping Center" located in administrative territorial entity subclass of Norway
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Nonprofit Organisations in Nigeria, Belgium and Italy.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Rwanda - since its creation a couple of weeks ago, it has expanded greatly with new sections for Lists, Museums and Hospitals.
• Newest database reports: Unauthorized Bots - A list of bots and their edits, operating without a Bot flag.
• Showcase Items: Das Erste: A German public service television channel broadcasting for more than 70 years.
• Showcase Lexemes: Kerzu (L8153) the Breton word for December, directly translates from "totally black", rather appropriate for the cold, dark last month of the year.

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.

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: Ghana
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 - of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)?

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

• Blogs
  • Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."
  • (German) Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.
  • REST in Rust by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"
• Videos
  • Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases. Put together by Valerie
  • Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities
  • (Chinese) Open Data Day Taiwan 2025: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page
  • Wikidata as an Open Data Resource: Ian Watt at Open Source SG
  • Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.

Tool of the week

• Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• An update regarding the WDQS backend has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.
• Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.
• The Wikidata Vector Database prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saadewikimedia.de
• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting services)
  • AI-generation prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate this AI-generated media or work)
  • data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
• Newest External identifiers: Wikishire article ID, HelloAsso organization ID, Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise person ID, Graceful17 entity ID, ‎Game Input Database ID, DRTV ID, Calindex person ID, Historia Hispánica ID, ‎TERMDAT ID, Kulturdatenbank ID, DDLC entry ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, ‎Captain Coaster coaster ID, Memoria Chilena ID, Jamendo track ID, MikuWiki article ID, ‎ZOOM Platform product ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online organization ID, ‎SteamDB tech ID, ‎Big Fish Games game ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, Newsweek topic ID, booru tag
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations)
  • accused (person or organization who has been accused of carrying out this harmful, illegal, or immoral act without having received a criminal conviction or where the accused have been acquitted in a court of law)
  • applies to volume (volume of the item (usually edition of a work) to which the claim applies)
  • oxygen endurance (The maximum time a submarine, spacecraft or enclosed vehicle can sustain life using its onboard oxygen supply.)
  • Coefficient of thermal expansion ()
  • fracture toughness ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, Yale LUX ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, Swimcloud swimmer ID, CACI company ID, VD 16 ID, World Higher Education Database ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, JSIC code, Macrotransactions game ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, NexusMods mod ID, Thunderstore game ID, SideQuest app ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, National Academy of Engineering member ID, DGO ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, Encyclopaedia of Islam (Arabic edition) ID, Rodovid family ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Location of fire stations in Spain (source)
  • Oldest known individual per taxon (pre-20th century) (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: AncientMaths
• WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and on cividata.org. Help expanding it!
• Newest database reports: German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category (source)
• Showcase Items: Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
• Showcase Lexemes: Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."

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)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 - of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)?

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

• Blogs
  • Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."
  • (German) Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.
  • REST in Rust by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"
• Videos
  • Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases. Put together by Valerie
  • Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities
  • (Chinese) Open Data Day Taiwan 2025: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page
  • Wikidata as an Open Data Resource: Ian Watt at Open Source SG
  • Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.

Tool of the week

• Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• An update regarding the WDQS backend has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.
• Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.
• The Wikidata Vector Database prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saadewikimedia.de
• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting services)
  • AI-generation prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate this AI-generated media or work)
  • data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
• Newest External identifiers: Wikishire article ID, HelloAsso organization ID, Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise person ID, Graceful17 entity ID, ‎Game Input Database ID, DRTV ID, Calindex person ID, Historia Hispánica ID, ‎TERMDAT ID, Kulturdatenbank ID, DDLC entry ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, ‎Captain Coaster coaster ID, Memoria Chilena ID, Jamendo track ID, MikuWiki article ID, ‎ZOOM Platform product ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online organization ID, ‎SteamDB tech ID, ‎Big Fish Games game ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, Newsweek topic ID, booru tag
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations)
  • accused (person or organization who has been accused of carrying out this harmful, illegal, or immoral act without having received a criminal conviction or where the accused have been acquitted in a court of law)
  • applies to volume (volume of the item (usually edition of a work) to which the claim applies)
  • oxygen endurance (The maximum time a submarine, spacecraft or enclosed vehicle can sustain life using its onboard oxygen supply.)
  • Coefficient of thermal expansion ()
  • fracture toughness ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, Yale LUX ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, Swimcloud swimmer ID, CACI company ID, VD 16 ID, World Higher Education Database ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, JSIC code, Macrotransactions game ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, NexusMods mod ID, Thunderstore game ID, SideQuest app ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, National Academy of Engineering member ID, DGO ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, Encyclopaedia of Islam (Arabic edition) ID, Rodovid family ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Location of fire stations in Spain (source)
  • Oldest known individual per taxon (pre-20th century) (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: AncientMaths
• WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and on cividata.org. Help expanding it!
• Newest database reports: German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category (source)
• Showcase Items: Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
• Showcase Lexemes: Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."

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)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:Request for admin flag for MsynBot - From 2021 through 2024, this bot has implemented the 2019 RfC “semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items” by maintaining page protections based on the outcome, d:Wikidata:Protection policy#Highly used items. The admin flag got lost due to bot inactivity but the bot operation could be resumed immediately if the admin flag is given back.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • AAFRennes2025, 26-28 Mars 2025
  • 5-6 April & 12 April: Scholia Hackathon
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects to take place May 29 - June 1. Please send us your session ideas, we still have lots of space for proposals. This is a great chance to highlight the benefits of Wikidata use in other WM projects. See Talk page for proposals.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Enhance Your Wikibase With Extensions
  • Editing Lexemes with your little finger
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition by Jean-Fred
• Thread: Who wins in a Wikipedia race between GPT-4.5, o1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and @OpenAI's new Computer-Using Agent?

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

• Mobile Editing of Statements - You have been asking for the ability to edit statements from mobile devices for years, this project will make editing statements on Wikidata Items more accessible and user-friendly for mobile users. Sign up to participate in prototype testing and interviews with our UX team
• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
  • External identifiers: booru tag, Steam Group numeric ID, Kompass company ID, ‎Macrotransactions game ID, Thunderstore game ID, ‎JSR package ID, ‎GitLab topic ID, Amazon Music track ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • levels (levels, maps, episodes, chapters or stages of this video game)
    • Scilit scholar ID (author identifier on {{Q|77125337}})
    • وزن صرفي عربي (A feature to adjust the pattern of Arabic words in lexemes)
    • باب صرفي للأفعال العربية الثلاثية المجردة (Morphology of the Arabic triliteral verbs)
    • land degradation (The amount of land that is degraded by an object. Mainly for infrastructure projects)
    • Research projects that contributed to this data set (This property allows to identify research projects that they have contributed to or created an item)
    • Platform height (platform height above the top of the rail (or above the road for buses))
    • extended by (addons for this item) (Class of software this software is extended by)
  • External identifiers: Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Delfi.ee theme ID, identifiant Dezède d'un individu, SeqCode Registry ID, Openalfa street ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, A Dictionary of Education entry ID, TDKIV wikibase ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • 2024 Population Census in Uganda (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal/Liste des artistes de la collection
• Showcase Items: Cinderella (Q15046091) - 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
• Showcase Lexemes: страсть (L166968) - Russian noun that can mean "love", "passion", "desire", or "suffering."

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)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Rubah Hitam Vukova - RfP scheduled to end after 31 August 2025 14:16 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 7 - task(s): Adding a Wikipedia reference to unsourced day-precision date of birth (P569) and date of death (P570) claims.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dolabbot - task(s): Import module subpages from other wikis (mainly English wiktionary) to Korean wiktionary and addition of corresponding Wikidata sitelinks.
• New request for comments: Pilot project for AI-Assisted Wikidata onboarding and Quality control.

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

• Blogs: How Wikidata is coding for humanity - In this interview, Lydia Pintscher of Wikimedia Deutschland speaks with Stephen Harrison on how Wikidata connects human and machine-readable knowledge and why contributing to it is having a global impact.
• Papers: Wikidata's Worldview: A Semantic Network Analysis of an AI Knowledge Pipeline - The paper examines Wikidata as a key AI knowledge source, showing how its structures and classifications influence machine decision-making, and calls for greater transparency in AI data systems.
• Videos:
  • What Wikidata Reveals About the Good Side of the Internet
  • Resolving the Empty Result Issue in the Wikidata Query Service
• Podcast: Tech Talks Daily - What Wikidata reveals about the good side of the internet? - This episode features Lydia Pintscher who reveals how this massive, collaborative dataset empowers communities worldwide to build tools for the public good, and what a truly “good internet” can look like...
• Presentations: Wikimania 2025 - Wikidata a whirlwind tour through the land of Wikidata-powered apps (slides for a talk showcasing Wikidata powered apps at Wikimania 2025) By Lydia Pintscher

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.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikisource reader app was released. It utilizes the power of Wikidata.
• Paulina won one of this year's Coolest Tool Awards

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Sapper-bot 2 - Task: Monthly updates of the Dead Sea level and the "lowest point" property for Israel, Jordan, and Asia.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: LiteraryWorksMetaDataUploadBot - Task: Upload metadata for literary works from research project. (Approved)
• Other: Proposal to configure the Newcomer Dashboard for Wikidata

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Call for Sessions: Wikimania 2026 is Coming to Paris! The submission form will remain open until March 1. Results will be published in May.
  • Who's hiding behind museum collections? - A Wikidata Edit-a-thon by WiNoDa Knowledge Lab (February 24th, 1:00pm-4:30pm CET). This online Edit-a-thon will focus on the many collectors that contributed to the Arachnida and Miryapoda collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Join us to uncover the unspoken human networks that shaped the history of science! Register here: http://winoda.de/en/event/wikidata-edit-a-thon/

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Strengthening the Latin American public domain with Wikidata
• Thesis: Hebeis, Maximilian (2026): Entity Matching for Person Records in Authority Files, Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Master thesis in computer science: "a case study into applying learningbased entity matching to person records from two large authority databases, namely the German national Integrated Authority File (GND) and the crowd-sourced open knowledge base Wikidata")
• Papers: Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD): Wikidata across the humanities: datasets, methodologies, reuse, https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/wikidata_across_the_humanities (new papers have been published during the last week; see a list at d:Q136325279#P527)
• Videos:
  • Africa Wiki Women 1st Newbies Community Meetup - held an orientation for new members on editing Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Commons, to help bridge knowledge gaps of African women on Wiki platforms.
  • Mapping Africa: Visualizing Knowledge and Communities - explores how African communities use maps and geospatial data to enhance Wikidata, improve Wikimedia articles, and make local knowledge more visible globally.

Tool of the week

• Wdlist : Create and manage a personal list of Wikidata items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland Job vacancy - Architect of Storage Solutions - (freelance contract / 4-6 weeks)
• You can now nominate your favorite Wikidata research award for 2025. Call for Nominations now open until February 15, 2026.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name ID, Lenta.ru person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • value type of this mathematical property (type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects)
  • Gifu Prefectural Shrine Association ranking (One of the three rankings given by the Gifu Prefectural Shrine Association)
  • instances must not have (instances of this class or of its subclasses must not have given property or statement)
  • African Scientists Directory ID (identifier for a scientist in the African Scientists Directory)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Center for Jewish History person ID, LINCS ID, Artdoc.Media film ID, Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 practice ID, Walloon-French dictionary ID, Russian Register of Film Distribution Certificates ID, Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID, Identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Woordenboek van Nieuwe Woorden ID, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal ID, Woordcombinaties ID, Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands ID, Database of the Southern Dutch Dialects concept ID, GiveSendGo ID, CrowdRepublic project ID, European Dictionary Portal ID, Gravestone Project Cemetery ID, Uzbek-Russian dictionary ID, Ruwiki ID, Swedish National Archives ID, GDUNO ID, JMRC person id, Catalunya Romànica ID, Mercantile Navy List ID, Igromania author ID, Danmarks Kirker, Medvik ID, Obálky knih ID, National Theatre in Prague artist ID, National Theatre in Prague performance ID, Alpine Linux Wiki article, Microsoft Store developer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Item with a Wikipedia page in lang. X but not Y (source) - modify the wd: QID and the schema:isPartOf for your own purposes.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Chess - Rubinstein-Memorial list
  • WikiProject Units of Measurement
  • Wikiproject Medicine - List of Italian Doctors
  • WikiProject Evanion Collection
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject every Politician / Canada - all Commons lists were updated.
• Newest database reports: Variety of reports for deletion candidates

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are making progress with identifying additional ways in which we can reduce the number of irrelevant changes from Wikidata showing up in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co.
  • We are discussing with pilot Wikipedias about turning on showing Wikidata changes by default in watchlist and recent changes (moving it from opt-in to opt-out)
• GraphQL: We are putting the last touches on a GraphQL endpoint for Wikidata. We are planning to get it live later this month for feedback.
• LDF endpoint: We are planning to decommission the endpoint in preparation for the migration away from Blazegraph on the 18th of February (phab:T415696)
• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are almost done with adding support for editing statements with quantity and monolingual text datatype and finished support for mathematical expression statements. We started support for editing coordinate statements.
  • We are continuing the work on showing constraint violations.
• Wikibase Ecosystem: We are in the process of setting up a demo system for ontology federation (i.e. using Wikidata Items as values in statements on another Wikibase instance)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Numishare Blog: Improving searchability using Natural language Processing + Wikidata - How NLP-based search improvements for numismatic collections for the American Numismatic Society. Python NLP tools and Wikidata add a semantic layer that links equivalent terms (e.g. “serpent” and “snake”) to improve discovery across coin databases such as OCRE and MANTIS. Author: Ethan Gruber.
• Videos:
  • Art+Feminism Conversations / Intro to Wikidata + Archives: Led by User:Epìdosis and User:Alan Ang (WMDE), this recording covers tools that support collaborative Wikidata editing, and includes with brief updates on mobile editing, Wikibase software, and work at the intersection of AI and Wikidata. Find more info and tools covered on Meta:Art+Feminism
  • Custom Upload Funnel Creation on Wikimedia Commons: Wiki Loves Africa 2026 - User:Kambai Akau and the Tyap User Group demonstrate how to contribute to the Wiki Loves Africa 2026 contest, incl. how to add a Wikidata Infobox to your contributions, and how to create Wikidata Items if they are missing.
  • (Papiamento) Add a different language Label to a Wikidata Item Wikipedia Above Aruba|Ep. 9 - it's not always obvious how to add labels, descriptions and aliases of different languages to Wikidata items, this short video demonstrates how.
  • Hands-on Exercise: Data Cleaning & Preparation with OpenRefine - Daniel Garjio guides through exercises to cluster and merge duplicate values, standardise formats, reconcile data with external authority sources such as Wikidata.
  • (Spanish) Mapeo colaborativo, plataformas libres y autonomía local, part of the Conference on Climate Justice, Indigenous Voices, and Wikimedia Platforms (2024) - speaker: Túllio Morais Franca shows how to integrate mapping tools suchas OpenStreetMap and Mapillary with Wikidata, Commons and Wikipedia.

Tool of the week

• Wiki Clarity Tool: Clarity Tool is a lightweight web application built to empower editors across Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. It helps contributors identify missing information in articles and suggests structured data from Wikidata to fill those gaps.

• Name Suggestion Index : Submit a Brand - A tool that links Wikidata brand items to the Name Suggestion Index project on OpenStreetMap.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎braille transcription (transcription in Braille)
  • location collected (geographic location where a specimen or sample was collected in the field)
• Newest External identifiers: Rappels theatrical production ID, Berlin School ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Siège occupé ({{TranslateThis | fr = siège occupé par une personne au sein d'une académie ou autre société à ''numerus clausus'' }})
  • Standard Number (A standard serial number)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: MusicaPopular.cl ID, JMRC person id (en), Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography ID, CAMEO page ID, TeamNL athlete ID (new), World Flora Online Plant List, radeberger-stadtgeschichte.de Objekt Identifikator, Master Ideographs Seeker Character ID, Flohic ID, Oricon News person ID, radiko person ID, Xcity actress ID, TV Drama Database Program ID, Van Dale Rijmwoordenboek sentences ID, Van Dale Rijmwoordenboek word ID, BISMaL taxon ID, Vlaams Woordenboek ID, Kotobank Japanese ID, Nişanyan Adlar ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Items with two or more Olympedia people ID (source) - find duplicate external identifier.
  • Music roll releases with recordings of works performed by composer (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject progressive Metal
  • Wikiproject Basque Cultural heritage and GLAM
• Newest database reports: 'Template' items with only one sitelink - per Wikidata:Notability, "If a link is a template, the item must contain at least two such sitelinks..."
• Showcase Items: Vorlage:Q - a 2025 thriller film, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
• Showcase Lexemes:

Development

• Dumps: We published the report from our research into the user experience with Wikidata's dumps.
• Mobile editing: We are finalizing the support for quantity, monolingual text, mathematical expression and musical notation statements as well as a first version for coordinate statements.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We have continued our investigation into existing Lua modules in order to find more ways in which we can reduce unwanted entries from Wikidata in Recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We found a number of options that we are looking into now. (phab:T416822, phab:T416825, phab:T416826, phab:T416827)
• Wikidata Vector embedding: We added German to the embedding (next to English, French and Arabic)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Sjö - RfP scheduled to end after 17 February 2026 10:02 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: SEEKCommonsBot - Task: Synchronize Wikidata records created by the SEEKCommons project with OpenAlex
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • AmeisenBot 3 - Task: Adding descriptions (and possibly labels and aliases as well) to items based on their statements. Request closed as approved.
  • Che-W-bot - Request withdrawn.

Events

• Upcoming events: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 17 February, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, February 17 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikiproject P244 maintenance uses SPARQL queries to identify and resolve two types of constraint violations in Wikidata: instances of Wikidata items with more than one LCNAF identifier and instances of the same LCNAF identifier existing on more than one Wikidata item. The February 17th session will walk participants through how to resolve the former issue, while the March 3rd session will focus on the latter. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/LCNAF_Duplicate_Detection_P244_Maintenance

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wiki for Botanists, why thematic engagement matters: WMNZ/Aotearoa on how sustained outreach with botanists via Wikidata workshops, edit-a-thons, and conferences is improving plant-related knowledge on the Wikimedia projects and building strong collaborative relationships with scientific communities.
  • Tech News Week 7 / Global Watchlists extension: now supports multiple Wikibase instance (i.e. Wikidata + Test Wikidata) and fixes right-to-left (RTL) text directionality issues.
  • The Spark of Linked Data and Libraries: OCLC Passage Project White Paper Translation Report
• Papers: Federating Open Knowledge through Wikibase: the case of the Finno-Ugric data sharing space: Antal et al. (2026) present a community-driven, federated prototype to link multilingual cultural heritage data, open ontologies and preserve local epistemologies.
• Videos:
  • How to Unlock Knowledge Graph Data for LLMs with AI Retrieval - User:Philippe Saade (WMDE), AI/ML Project Manager talks to Chad Jennings of Beyond the Blueprints (IBM Product Hub) on making Wikidata more accessible for AI developers, replacing SPARQL-heavy workflows with vector search and hybrid retrieval.
  • (French) Créer une carte uMap à partir de données géolocalisées extraites de Wikidata - video presentation of 2026 Digital Encounters "Mapping territorial data in uMap"
  • Africa Wiki Women 2026 On Wiki Skills Mentorship Program - Introduction to Wikidata
  • Africa Wiki Women 2026 On Wiki Skills Mentorship Program - Major and Minor edits on Wikidata
  • EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-01-28) - participants discuss progress on the early adopter phase, incl. how to categorise and track contributions, what statistics to measure and progress on MCO application profiles (persons + corporate bodies)

Tool of the week

• Queer Memory multilingual web app that explores global queer history through live Wikidata timelines, places, rights, culture, and activism. Currently available in English, French, and Spanish.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Etherpad cleanup, save your pads now. All pads after 1st March 2026 willbe deleted so if you need any of your pads, please make a local backup.
• The Wikibase REST API 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!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: category for music in this language (link to category item that contains music in this language)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎DOAB book ID, ‎qamus.inoor.ir root ID, ‎The Session tune ID, Parfumo fragrance note ID, ‎KaraokeTexty.cz album ID, Biographical encyclopedia of Maros County, Alpine Linux Wiki article, ‎Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 person ID, Igromania author ID, French Trade Mark Number, ‎Bane NOR location code, ‎CardCow.com publisher ID, ‎Lost Pubs Project ID, Handball Base ID, Handballnews.pl person ID, Center for Jewish History person ID, African Scientists Directory ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Number of translations (Number of translations)
  • Panoramax instance URL (the Panoramax instance of/about the subject)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID, Bach digital person ID, Bach digital work ID, YList ID, identificativo Antenati, Pesistulokset.fi player ID, Liiga.fi player ID, Letterboxd producer ID, Topplista artist ID, Apple Music Classical work ID, Fragplace brands ID, Fragplace fragrances ID, Fragplace notes ID, Fragplace perfumers ID, Sport Express person ID, ciss.org sportsperson ID (deaf sport)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects: Learned Societies
• WikiProject Highlights: a discussion regarding how to standardise the data model of the membership of learned societies
• Showcase Items: Vorlage:Q - French radio program and audio podcast
• Showcase Lexemes: collection (L3941) - English noun (kəˈlɛkʃən) meaning "a group of gathered items", "money gathered for charity/church", or "the act of acquiring"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are putting finishing touches on editing support for external ID, URL, monolingual text, quantities and coordinate statements.
  • We worked on visually highlighting preferred and deprecated statements on the mobile site similar to how it is done on desktop.
  • We worked on showing more than one constraint violation when a statement violates multiple constraints.
• Ontology Federation: We continued working allowing other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata Items in their statements (and later from other Wikibase instances). You can see a demo video of the current development state at ontology federation demo.
• GraphQL: We worked on documentation to get get the GraphQL endpoint ready for a first release.
• Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team published their report of the evaluation of Blazegraph alternatives. You can read it at File:WDQS Triple Store Evaluation - Benchmark Results Report.pdf.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Jan Myšák - RfP scheduled to end after 28 February 2026 11:11 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Sjö - Closed as successful, congratulations User:Sjö.
• New request for comments: Notability policy reform: Round 2, where policy is suggested based on round 1 discussions.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Apply Now: Scholarships for the Language Diversity Conference 2026 - scholarship application deadline: 13 March 2026 / Conference dates: 2 - 4 October 2026 in Accra, Ghana.
  • Office Hour: Notability Policy - February 26th 2026 at 5PM UTC (your timezone).
  • (Catalan) They were not witches, they were women from Andorra - a Wikimarathon for Witches edit-a-thon to make biographies of Andorran women accused of witchcraft more visible on Wikidata and Wikipedia. Sign-up on Meta: 09:30 – 12:30 UTC, 7 March 2026.
• Ongoing: International Mother Language Day 2026 Datathon - February 21, 2026 – March 3, 2026

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Stack Overflow: Even GenAI uses Wikipedia (+Wikidata) as a source - transcript of the podcast audio between Ryan Donovan and Philippe Saade, on the Wikidata Embedding Project and vectorizing 30 million entities for semantic search.
  • Diff Blog: Revitalizing UK History, Series 2: Expanding Multilingual Access on Wikidata - Josef Anthony describes the projects efforts in documenting underrepresented UK historical figures in multiple languages.
  • Diff blog: Into the Spotlight: Sharing Archival Objects through Wikimedia Commons by User:LadyRabbit. Experience documenting Ellen Winstone, a historical figure, non-notability on Wikipedia doesn't mean they are not worth documenting. Wikidata and Commons can help.
• Papers: The Wikidata Query Logs Dataset (WDQL) - presenting a dataset of 200,000 question-query pairs intended to help train Natural Language questions into SPARQL. By S. Walter, H. Bast (2026).
• Videos: 3rd Wikidata Training of the On Wiki Skill Mentorship Program by Africa Wiki Women. Dives deeper into the core data modelling concepts, Wikidata-speciifc terminology and practical editing tips for beginners. Led by User:King ChristLike

Tool of the week

• Dagbanli dictionary - a monolingual Dagbanli dictionary built using Wikidata lexemes, with 20000 native audio recordings as usage examples pulled from Mozilla Common Voice. This means when you look up a word, you can hear it spoken in example sentences. See this in action here: suɣulo

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimania:2026 - The call for submissions for the program is open until March 1, 2026.
• OpenSanctions: As the CIA closes The World Factbook, we’re opening our global map of political power - introduces EveryPolitician.org, a global database of 690,000+ political office-holders across the globe. PoliLoom, GovDirectory, a dedicated WikiProject and the Wikidata community are helping make structured data on politicians transparent. Learn how you can contribute.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: annual greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by this entity in a year)
• Newest External identifiers: RFI topic ID, ‎Delfi.lv theme ID, SFDb original ID, Artdoc.Media film ID, ‎Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 practice ID, ‎Walloon-French dictionary ID, Bolivia INE code, Russian Register of Film Distribution Certificates ID, ‎Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek ID, ‎Woordenboek van Nieuwe Woorden ID, ‎Woordcombinaties ID, ‎Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands ID, Uzbek-Russian dictionary ID, ‎JMRC person id (he), Catalunya Romànica ID, ‎IEC 61355 identifier, Yandex Object Answer id, Michaelis Portuguese-English Modern Dictionary ID, Michaelis English-Portuguese Modern Dictionary ID, Uni24k indentifier, The Retro Web company ID, Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID, ‎Gravestone Project Cemetery ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • CWSAC classification ()
  • IBAN countries (The country which the bank with this property may create accounts in. For example "MyBank" can create bank accounts in "France" with the prefix "FR". Some banks have a single country they may create accounts in and other have many.)
  • Kloekecode (identifier for locations in the Netherlands, Flanders, French Flanders, and north-western Germany)
  • ICAO 24-bit aircraft address (Unique 24-bit ICAO aircraft address assigned to an individual aircraft’s Mode S transponder, expressed as a six-character hexadecimal code and used in ADS-B and air traffic surveillance systems.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Faulhaber-Edition ID, OldRacingCars.com drivers ID, ID Prix de Lausanne, Spellingwijzer Onze Taal ID, Uitleenwoordenbank ID, EpiMedDat ID, REVENCYT code, X Games athlete ID (new), Pinkhof ID, Scheikunde ID, JWS II ID, Buitenlandse aardrijkskundige namen in het Nederlands ID, PeeringDB Facility ID, DBNL place ID, DBNL country ID, DBNL titel ID, Movist person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Property table for a set of Wikidata items (the Memory of the World International Register)
  • People with PolSys ID (P1980), and with or without Norwegian historical register of persons ID (P4574) - (source)
• Schema examples: federally recognized tribe (E502): required and optional properties for items representing federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Ski - The goal of WikiProject Ski is to improve items about athletes, events and results from the different skiiing and snowboarding disciplines.
  • Nonprofit Orgs: South Africa - aims to add financial data to the biggest nonprofits
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Ontology: List of Ontology Pages
  • Sociotechnology: Resources
  • Chantiers MNBAQ
  • India: International Mother Language Day 2026 Datathon
• Showcase Lexemes: чурка (L179567) - Russian noun (ˈtɕurkə) meaning "a wooden block or stump", "a short piece of wood used in games", or "an offensive term for a person"чурка (L179567) - Russian noun (ˈtɕurkə) meaning "a wooden block or stump", "a short piece of wood used in games", or "an offensive term for a person"

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are preparing to reach out to editors about improving specific templates that are written in a way that creates a lot of unnecessary entries in Recent Changes and Watchlists.
• Mobile statement editing: We are getting close to having editing support for all datatypes. We are currently still working on the support for globe coordinates. We also added support for showing constraint violations on qualifiers and references.
• Data quality: We are doing technical investigations about how to make constraint violations available for querying again.
• GraphQL: We are getting ready to make GraphQL available on Wikidata later this week.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Spain
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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

• Blogs:
  • The Museo del Prado and Wikimedia Spain consolidate Wikidata as the connector axis of digital cultural heritage - gathering of the second edition of Connected Heritage: Wikidata in the GLAM Ecosystem
  • (Dutch) Wikipielen: an informal mini-hackathon for the GLAM sector, Olaf Janssen (WM coordinator at National Library of Netherlands) on the 10th edition of this micro-hackathon for people in cultural and heritage sector interested in Wikidata, Wikibase, SPARQL, OpenRefine and other technical skills.
  • Boundary Issues—Michal Migurski on representing disputed boundaries using Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
• Papers:
  • From Websites to Wikidata: Digitising Scotland’s Stories by Ross et al. (2026)
  • Entity Linking with Wikidata: A Systematic Literature Review
  • A Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction from Art-historical Image Descriptions by Schneider et al. (2026)., introduces FRAME for extracting art-historical entities and relationships from texts, enabling automatic linking of artworks, artists, and related metadata via Wikidata.
  • Review of Ethics in Linked Data by Rebecca Fried.
• Videos:
  • (Swedish) Fotbollsspelare Wikipedia / Wikidata - using QuickStatements to add P54 (member of sports team) to football players
  • Jukun Wikipedia Outreach, day 2 took attendees through adding interwiki links, Wikidata essentials and adding Vorlage:Databox to Jukun Wiki articles.
  • Set-up Tutorial: Language Preferences and Gadgets on Wikidata, the International [Digital] Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) takes us through enabling gadgets and setting your preferred languages (Babel).

Tool of the week

• Maps Of the World / Stadiums - explore the stadiums of the world (at least the ones with Wikidata Items), mapped by SPARQL.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: SignWriting transcription (representation in SignWriting)
• Newest External identifiers: Microsoft Store developer ID, Apple Music Classical work ID, ‎SIK-ISEA group ID, ‎CHZZK streamer ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review::
  • Objectif plumes (Database managed by the General Service for Literature and Books, a department of the Cultural Administration of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (basically the Ministry of Culture for the French-speaking part of Belgium). The database currently includes entries on books by more than 8.000 Belgian writers.)
  • usual forename (A name usually derived from a given name used to address a person in everyday life.)
    • apportionment diagram (image that displays the representation of seats won by party in an election to an assembly)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: LibriVox reader ID, All Skies Encyclopaedia ID, KCUE academy ID, Catálogo de autoridades da BUSC, ISSN-H, Hong Kong Cinema title ID, NPPM ID, Parlement.com ID, Kokugakuin University god name database ID, Czech National Register of Health Service Providers ID, Génération Nintendo game ID developer ID, Génération Nintendo game ID publisher ID, wikiru.jp wiki ID, Tribuna.com football players ID, SnokaDB, abadis.ir Persian word ID, AIK soccer player ID, BOIShistory

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Works in Scottish museums by female artists, lacking an English Wikipedia article (source)
  • Graph of Moominworld
• Showcase Items: Vorlage:Q - semi-autonomous part of Tanzania
• Showcase Lexemes: snap (L14515) - English verb (snæp) meaning "to break suddenly", "to lose control emotionally", or "to take a photograph"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We worked on removing the constraint violations indicator from a statement after an edit that fixed it.
  • We are fixing bugs uncovered in testing, such as phab:T218477, phab:T418104, phab:T417861 and phab:T417647.
• GraphQL: We are getting ready to launch the first version later this week, including preparing the documentation for how to use it.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

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

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The 6th Wikidata Workshop has been announced for ISWC 2026. If you are interested in joining the wWorkshop for the scientific Wikidata community, contact: 6th-wikidata-workshop@googlegroups.com
  • Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - April 22, 2026, 13:00 - 14:30, at the University of Central Florida.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Diff blog: Becoming a Trainer Assistant at Wikilatih Wikidata BRIN: A Journey of Sharing Knowledge by Affandy Murad
  • Diff blog: Why Dagbanli Needs a Dictionary (And How We Built One with Wikidata) - by User:Masssly
• Papers: Scholia 2026: Compliance with SPARQL 1.1, to be presented at SWAT4HCLS 2026
• Videos:
  • (Swedish) Mix'n'Match IFKDB / Mix'n'Match DIF Historia - Magnus Sälgö
  • (Spanish) Introducción a Wikidata, Dinah M. W.Fraites and Dr. Claudia De Souza give a comprehensive tour and introduciotn of Wikidata for the Centro para la Excelencia Académica
  • Accessibility and Gen AI - Ep 15 w/ Denny Vrandečić (Head of Special Projects at Wikimedia Foundation) - a conversation about Abstract Wikipedia, the relationship between Wikimedia, Wikipedia and other Projects and how the Foundation will adopt and adapt to emergent technologies such as LLM's.
  • Epigraphic Object Encoding - Session 7 of the SunoikisisDC Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage. Experiences encoding epigraphic data into Wikidata starts at 58:27.
  • (Arabic) Arabic Wikidata Days 2025: Adding Wikidata to include Arabic Content (example: Hijri Calendar), Saeed Hubaishan presents a practical example of adapting Wikibase to enable adding new data types that haven't previously been modelled, such as dates in the Hijri Calendar.
  • Wikimania 2025 - Unpopular Opinions: Bold Lightning Talks to Shake Up Wikimedia: Moving Categories to Wikidata ((Ad Huikeshoven)) / Introducing Wiki AI (Sam Klein)
  • Unlocking Government Data for Wikidata: Stories, Impacts & Open Dialogue from Wikimania 2025. Panelists: Butch Bustria, James M. Heilman (Doc James), Jan Ainali, Vanj Padilla, Wisdom Ferrer, Seddon explore how the reuse of public domain & government datasets enriches Wikidata & bolsters public engagement with Wikimedia projects.Slides

Tool of the week

• Data2Go : An iOS app for browsing and editing Wikidata with a mobile-first UI. It combines fast search, rich item detail views, statement editing, map previews, media galleries, and account-based write access to Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata now has a GraphQL API! Read more about it and try it out or sign up for the usability tests.
• The WMF is in the process of rolling out new global API rate limits. This will also affect Wikidata. For more details see mw:Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ICAO 24-bit aircraft address, BISMaL taxon ID, Xcity actress ID, All Skies Encyclopaedia ID, Power Thesaurus ID, Kvinnehistorie.no persons ID, Mastercaller player ID, dartn.de player ID, darts1.de player ID, pdpa.co.uk player ID, ‎People's Graphic Design Archive creator ID, HKCinema film ID, Medvik ID, Obálky knih ID, MusicaPopular.cl ID, CAMEO page ID, ciss.org sportsperson ID (deaf sport)
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • maximum vehicle length (maximum authorized length for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • Peer-review propertiy for journals or publications ({{TranslateThis | de = <!-- Beschreibung auf Deutsch --> <!-- | xx = Beschreibungen in anderen Sprachen --> }}Scholarly journals or publications should have a property "peer review process" indicating which peer review process (if any) is applied for the publication.)
  • maximum vehicle width (maximum authorized width for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • maximum vehicle weight (maximum authorized weight (tonnage / gross vehicle weight) for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (load limit))
  • regional conservation status (conservation status of species in national or regional Red List publications that follow the IUCN red list criteria)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: LINE official account ID, Kulturbase.no ID, CROWCASS file number, Integbio Database Catalog ID, norsk fangeregister historie ID, Census of Italian Architecture since 1945, TMDB award ID, SocioMap ID, AVefi ID, NSK new ID, Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Property count of characters in Tolkien's Universe (source)
  • Data about Norwegians in captivity during WWII (using Norwegian prisoner register person ID (P8269) + others (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Beer
• Showcase Items: Vorlage:Q - international airport serving Melbourne, Australia
• Showcase Lexemes: sampaa (L1154759) - Dagbanli noun that translates to a hut within a compound to provide shelter for people during the warm season.

Development

• GraphQL: We have released the first version of this new API. You can read more about it and try it out.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We have worked with editors to improve some highly-used modules that access Wikidata in a suboptimal way. They have been adjusted to lead to less unneeded change notification in people's watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
• Mobile statement editing: We fixed an issue where certain Properties were not accessible in the new mobile UI. We are also working on fixing a bug with saving musical notation statements. We are continuing the work on supporting editing of geocoordinates.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus: agencies for the environment and nature conservation.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) project - The ALMEDA project’s key outcome is a linked, open, and searchable metadata repository—built from extensive cataloguing of previously uncatalogued materials and enriched through a user-friendly interface launching in 2025, designed to support ongoing growth beyond the project’s initial five-year funding.
  • https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/13/structuring-dagbanli-on-wikidata-lexemes-senses-and-the-digraph-challenge/
• Papers: Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy - This study develops a refined taxonomy of Wikidata qualifiers—based on their semantics, frequency, and diversity—to help contributors select appropriate qualifiers, improve querying and inference, and enhance knowledge graph design, ultimately offering a structured framework that covers the most important qualifiers and supports better recommendation systems. By Falquet & Aljalbout (2026).
• Videos: LIVE Wikidata editing #118 at the Open Data Day - Wikipedia Weekly Network:
  • Introduction to editing Wikidata on mobile - Art + Feminism in Wikimedia Botswana
  • Queer women in the Arts (English): A panel discussion and Wikidata workshop
• Podcasts: Wikipediapodden interviews Lydia Pintscher about the ongoing Wikidata notability reform (also available on Commons)
• Notebooks: Who gets a biography on French-language Wikipedia? A country-by-country portrait of biographical coverage for people born between 1950 and 2000.

Tool of the week

• Wdquery : GraphQL-powered Wikidata item advanced search.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• https://casier-politique.fr
• Fornland—aggregates over a million cultural heritage sites from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland into one interface, combining Wikidata and other sources .
• m:Coolest Tool Award
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team has published its March 2026 newsletter. To have new issues of the WDP monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!
• Reminder that the 4 week grace period for switching to the v1 route for the Wikibase REST API search endpoints will end this week. The v0 route will be turned off and hence will no longer function.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • river regime (predominant pattern of annual changes to a stream's discharge at a particular period)
  • seat occupied (seat held by a person within an academy or other society)
• Newest External identifiers: Génération Nintendo publisher ID, KCI article ID, ‎LINCS ID, radeberger-stadtgeschichte.de Object Identificator, Flohic ID, ‎Vlaams Woordenboek ID, ‎Bach digital person ID, ‎Bach digital work ID, Identificativo Antenati, ‎Liiga.fi player ID, ‎Pesistulokset.fi player ID, ‎Letterboxd producer ID, Fragplace brands ID, Fragplace fragrances ID, Fragplace notes ID, Fragplace perfumers ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • population pyramid (Age pyramid image for demography articles)
  • StatsF1 ID (Link to a Formula 1 specific database)
  • maximum vehicle height (maximum authorized height for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (regulatory limit from signage))
  • Bibliografi.dk (Bibliografi.dk)
  • PeerTube instance URL (the PeerTube instance of/about the subject)
  • Central Registration Number (Indonesia) (primary service registration number assigned to a member of the Indonesian Armed Forces or Indonesian National Police)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Digital Public Good, LUBW-RIPS-Wasserkraftanlage-ID, Identifiant QueenBallers.com d'une joueuse, Foto Atlas taxonomy ID, Brewver beer ID, Göteborgsalliansen, Consumer Rights Wiki article ID, Royal Air Force service number, Identifiant d'une personne dans le Bianco, Tajik-Russian Dictionary word ID, AmericanAristocracy person ID, AmericanAristocracy house ID, Shinmei database ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Showcase Items: Vorlage:Q - Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • If you have not tried it yet, now is an excellent time to turn it on in the beta features section of your preferences, test it and give feedback.
  • We have added support for editing globe coordinate statements
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to work on the issue of too many Wikidata in recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We are currently prototyping a way to only consider changes that actually have an impact on the article (phab:T419823). We also finished the work on an emergency switch to turn off sending changes for qualifiers and references to Wikipedia and co in case of major database disruptions (phab:T412956).
• Ontology federation: We are working towards getting the code for ontology federation (in its first version of using Wikidata Items as values on other Wikibase instances) ready for wider testing.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Bangladesh
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • AraBot - Tasks: Adding Aragonese sitelinks and updating articles on Aragonese Wikipedia with Wikidata's data.
  • InventaireBot - Task: Make automated edits generated by the inventaire.io (Q32193244) server and manual edits on behalf of users without a Wikidata account.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: DelintBot - Task: Fix lint errors on pages across all namespaces where Wikitext can be written (namespaces not managed by Wikibase).
• New request for comments: archive.today - due to a RfC and policy on enwiki, this discussion needs your input on whether Wikidata will continue listing archive.today links.
• Ongoing request for comments: Notability policy reform is looking for input about remaining questions around marginalized knowledge and external identifiers

Events

• Upcoming events: (German) Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen, YouTube livestream – 28 March 2026 (UTC+1): presentations by Lisa Dieckmann at 12.30 - 12.50 (“Bilder verknüpfen – prometheus, Normdaten und Wikidata”), Lucy Patterson & Lukas Fuchsgruber at 16.30 - 16.45 (“Kritische Arbeit mit Sammlungsdaten auf Wikidata”), and Max Kristen at 17.30 - 17.45 (“usefulQueries: Unkompliziert Kunstgeschichte in Wikidata erkunden”).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Structuring Dagbanli on Wikidata: Lexemes, Senses, and the Digraph Challenge by Masssly and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
  • Open Knowledge Graphs: A Search Engine for Ontologies, Controlled Vocabularies, and Semantic Web Tools, by Steve Hedden
  • (German) Erinnerungskultur zum Mitmachen: eine digitale Landkarte zum Gestapoterror in Niedersachsen by Gabriele Fahrenkrog
• Papers: Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy presents an analysis of Wikidata qualifiers, focusing on semantics and usage, in order to develop a taxonomy to help in selecting appropriate qualifiers, querying the knowledge graph, and making logical inferences. By Gilles Falquet and Sahar Aljalbout (2026).
• Videos:
  • Creating a Wikidata item for a Historic Building - OpenStreetMap for History Buffs gives a practical example of creating a Wikidata Item for a historic Irish building, but you can adapt it for other historical or archeological sites.
  • Introduction to Wikidata (Creating items, Statements & References) - Africa Wiki Women continue their introductory series with trainer, Blessing Timothy.
  • (French) Introduction à Wikidata is also provided by Africa Wiki Women.
  • Simple steps to edit Wikidata Episode 1(WAMP) - User:Dsp13 of the Wiki Afrodemics Project covers a variety of topics to help new editors make meaningful contributions to Wikidata.
  • (French) Introduction à la modification de Wikidata sur mobile - Art+Feminism in partnership with WM Botswana provide a training session for mobile editing (with a focus on women artists, feminist movements and underrepresented cultural contributions).
  • Queer Women in the Arts: Art+Feminism teamed up with WikiLGBT+ (Event page) for a panel discussion and Wikidata training centering on Queer Women in the Arts, in honour of International Women's Day. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
  • Wikidata tools: Pet Scan - User:Epìdosis introduces this handy tool that allows you to query and generate lists of Wikipedia pages or Wikidata items based on defined criteria such as Categories, Properties, Templates, and others.
  • Introduction to Wikidata & Property Dashboard - Essential Wikidata Tools: Automating Your Workflow workshop given 13 March 2026. Hosted by Alan Ang, Camillo Pellizari, Pru Mitchell, and Taufik Rosman for the ESEAP community.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Property Creation Helper takes a property proposal page and translates it into a QuickStatements batch (and then a second one for the examples) that a property creator can use to quickly create a new property. By ArthurPSmith

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• GraphQL API ongoing feedback: If you haven’t tried it yet, you can still explore it as a developer-friendly alternative to select WDQS features. Please Share your feedback on the project page, or sign up for deeper usability testing.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • mass number (total number of baryons in an atomic nucleus)
  • soil acidity preference (soil acidity preference of a plant species or lichen)
  • Diepkloof (Place in Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • paid-up capital (portion of a company’s issued share capital that has been paid by shareholders)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:: Shinmei database ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Baden-Württemberg, Central Registration Number (Police), NIP 9-digit, MeetStadium ID, indexxx.com performer ID, BGAFD actress ID, Shellers From the Past ID, معرف منشور في قاعدة بيانات معرفة, London Book Trades ID, KCI journal ID, KCI publisher ID, PeerJ person ID, BIORAB–FRANKFURT ID, BIORAB–WEIMAR, BIORAB-KAISERREICH, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID, Wikiparfum perfumer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• 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: Vorlage:Q - worship of water oracles and associated cultural traditions among the Sawa

Development

• Infrastructure sustainability: We started working with a contractor to look at Wikidata's data storage to find opportunities for improving it.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing the work on a prototype to compare a wiki page before and after it has been parsed to see if this is a feasible way to reduce the number of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist that do not affect the article (phab:T419823)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!