User talk:MartinPoulter

• 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
  • 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!

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

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Chamiln17@FineWiki - Task: This bot performs a read-only cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.
• Other: better tools to support constraints implied by properties like disjoint union of

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 (online, June 19 to 21). A community gathering focused on making WikiProjects more useful, visible, and alive. Propose a session (deadline for proposals: May 26, 2026) or register now.
  • Language Diversity Conference - Call for Submissions ends 15 May 2026.
  • Wikidata Community Summit 2026 @ COSCUP - Call for Proposals ends May 9, 2026.
  • LIC Photo Walking Tour + Wikipedia & Wikidata Workshop - May 16, 12:30 - 16:00 EDT (UTC-4). A historical walking tour of Long Island City, New York, concluding with a Wiki-skills workshop at LaGuardia. Registration on the event link.
• Ongoing: COORDINATE ME 2026 - a Wikidata competition for geolocatable content has just started and ends 31 May 2026. Visit the link for details on how to participate.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Visualised Blog metadata through SPARQL queries - ChristianMahnke blog.
  • Mozilla Common Voice Meets Wikidata (How the Dagbanli Dictionary Got Audio Usage Examples)
  • Wiki Loves Mother Tongue 2026 in the Igbo Community
  • EduWiki Workshop Highlights Practical Uses of Wikimedia Commons in Education
  • Recap: Wiki for Human Rights, LGBTIQ+ Nigeria, February and March Training
  • The new Art+Feminism’s Wikidata Modules are here!
• Videos:
  • Panel on Wikidata and public domain in Colombia (Spanish): on April 24th, the National Library of Colombia, The Cultural Network of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia, Wikimedia Colombia and Fundación Conector discussed about digital heritage and Wikidata, its challenges and opportunities for collaboration.
  • Wikibase - an introduction by Jason Evans (Open Data Manager, National Library of Wales). Produced by the Wikimedian in Residence channel, University of Edinburgh.
  • A uMap based on Wikidata - a use-case of Holy Wells located in Ireland, associated with female Saints, powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
  • Wikifunctions in practice: Reusable Logic for Wikimedia - Presentation given by Toby Hudson (User:99of9) at the Wikiconference Australia 2026.
  • Mentor Me! Session 3A - This in-person and hands-on session is provided by the Wikimedia Tyap User Group, and continues in the following sessions: Mentor Me! Session 3B and Mentor Me! Session 3C. Led by Gwakhap D. Anthony, it will cover how to document languages with Wikidata lexemes.
• Africa Wiki Women:
  • Linking images from Commons to Wikidata and Wikipedia - how images are used across the Projects with examples documenting African Women.
  • Newbies Monthly Meetup for Africa Wiki Women - further training and introductory skills for Wikidata and how it interacts with the other Wikimedia Projects.
  • EditHer Africa Contest (April) - a beginner-friendly hands-on Wikidata item creation guide and launch of the monthly contest, with a focus on African Women in Works and Leadership.

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: ‎meta-category for (topic or class of items covered by the lowest categories in this meta-category's hierarchy)
• Newest External identifiers: KISTI article ID, FISH Monument Types Thesaurus ID, FISH Evidence Thesaurus ID, Organization in cooperation with ISO ID, ScriptSource script code, ‎ScriptSource language code, Tube8 performer ID, Bundestag Group Minutes ID, Westra code, Myrotvorets ID, ‎Irish State Administration Database Unit ID, Hessische Parlamentarismusgeschichte Abgeordneten-ID, YouPorn performer ID, ‎GFMIS Agency Code, ‎Royal Australian Air Force service number, ‎Plataforma Acácia ID, ‎Observatório Terras Quilombolas ID, BIOSOP ID, BIOKAND ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • (found) liable of (tort or civil wrong a person or organization was found liable of)
  • DMCA takedown policy URL (DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown policy or submitting page of this hosting site or UGC (User Generated Content) distributor)
  • 18 U.S.C. § 2257 policy URL (age requirement documentation URL statement of this website or company)
  • monolingual text name properties ((with an associated language code) name by which a subject is recorded in a database, mentioned as a contributor of a work, or is referred to in a particular context)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Gidrologicheskaya Izuchennost Code, QBWiki article ID, Dijital İstanbul ID, NaPTAN stop area code, Identifiant Cairn d'un éditeur, Darwin Correspondence person ID, ACM Digital Library institution ID, SensCritique person ID, National Archives of Japan Digital Archive ID, VGs drapsoversikt ID, Semanticscience Integrated Ontology ID, Senkyo.com, Objectif plumes author pages, Maoyan personage ID, critify.de publication ID, BookNotification author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Script style of manuscript Qur'ans
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Early Modern Silesia
  • Tango
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Ontology has gathered a list of potential projects for the second offering of the Wikidata Ontology course, and has published a subpage to discuss the future of Ontology Classes and Properties.
• Newest database reports: Unmarked Supercentenarians - this list displays humans who do not have a claim supercentenarian (Q1200828) (or alleged supercentenarian (Q106991708)), but the difference between their Date of Birth and Date of Death is greater than 110 years.
• Showcase Items: Raiders of the Lost Ark - a 1981 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, and John Rhys-Davies.
• Showcase Lexemes: gje (L2205) - Norwegian verb (jeː) meaning "to give", "to perform/hold", or "to diminish in strength"

Development

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

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Building Wikimedia tools in Northern Nigeria: launch of Arewa TechCom through the Arewa Wikimedia Hackathon 2026
  • Editing wikibase.world (a MediaWiki site), with Jules (an AI agent) by Addshore.
  • Libraries as AI Infrastructure: The African Edition - reflections on overlooked African contributions to linked data and AI infrastructure, highlighting Wikibase-powered projects African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) and Nigeria’s Semantic Name Authority Recognition (SNAR). By Stuart Michael Edelenbos
  • Tabakalera promotes open access to cultural knowledge by linking their medialab catalogue to Wikidata
  • The Stoa: a Review for Digital Classics - report on Linked Pasts 11 - Epigraphic Data in Wikidata, from Ontology to Practice
  • Technical tinkering for CommonsDB at the WM Hackathon by Ainali.
  • Ezra Brand - Introducing a New Index of Biblical, Talmudic, and Medieval Jewish Figures - Wikidata helps index and categorise Jewish figures into distinct periods.
  • (Deutsch) ArtHist: New Art-Historical Resource on the Web and TIB Blog: Embossed story – the Meistersiegel-Wiki is online are both articles about the new Meistersiegel Wikibase instance.
• Papers: Volume 12,2 of Digital Classics Online contains many papers regarding the use Wikidata and Wikibase in the field of Classics:
  • Hypotheseis, a Database of Named Entities Surrounding Greek Rhetorical Exercises by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
  • Altinum: a Wikidata Project for Digital Epigraphy and Prosopography by Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini
  • The NIKAW Project: An Infrastructure of Texts, Entities and Language Models to Study the Circulation of Knowledge in the Ancient World by Margherita Fantoli
• Videos:
  • OpenDataDEx - Exploring Supreme Court Rulings in Wikidata, for The Knowledge Commons project. Try it out for yourself: Open Data Explorer
  • Wikidata: Introduction and Basics - an introductory session provided by WMUG Uganda.
  • (Arabic) Introduction to Wikidata hosted by Michel Bakhni for the channel: Wikimedia group for those interested in Islamic civilization
• Presentations:
  • (Deutsch) Wikidata in Museums, Archives and Libraries
  • White Paper (PDF) - Wikidata Days and Wikicite (2025) - Open bibliographic metadata in practice, what was learned in Bern and what libraries and the community can do next.

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎energy density (amount of energy extractable from a substance (e.g. in a combustion engine) per unit of volume or of mass)
  • ‎Parental Advisory System rating (content rating for coin-operated video games)
• Newest External identifierss: Cyprus company ID, ‎DBNL title ID, ShotOnWhat film ID, ‎Shinmei database ID, ‎ColBase ID, Lubimyczytać version/edition ID, Files of the Reich Chancellery ID, ‎Darwin Correspondence person ID, ‎Gidrologicheskaya Izuchennost Code, ‎Brew TV movie ID, National Archives of Japan Digital Archive ID, PlayStation Trophies trophy ID, Tax Identification Number (Spain), ‎19star actor ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review: concentration camp prisoner number (registration or prisoner number assigned to a person in camps operated under Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1945)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: ID für Kulturdenkmale in Lübeck, Datenbank-ID für Kulturdenkmale in Lübeck, Prime Video URL ID, Prime Video GTI, Portable Antiquities Scheme record ID, Identifiant d'un(e) éditeurice dans le DEF19 2.0, Apple TV parson ID, CINEMATODAY film ID, Verfassungsblog author ID, Blätter author ID, EGAFD film ID, Museum of Canadian Music artist ID, Museum of Canadian Music work ID, BGAFD film ID, Movielens ID, Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon ID, parliament.scot member ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Astronauts members of Space Missions
  • All Horses in Wikidata
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Horse Racing : On topics relating to horse racing.
  • Project William & May Law School EMCO - to create and enhance entities for persons and corporate bodies related to the law school, for use in the library's metadata and archival work.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project GovDirectory: How to use QuickStatements 3.0 to add data to GovDir
  • Ontology Course: Projects Offering 2 - Modelling Dictionary Usage Labels in Wikidata, Roots and Rhythms: Modelling music as cultural heritage.
• Showcase Items: Catch Me If You Can - a 2002 film by Steven Spielberg starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. A dramatic re-telling of the life and exploits of serial confidence man Frank Abegnale Jr., ironically the events of the film were later found to be mostly fabricated.

Development

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

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

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Reminder: Propose a session for WikiProject Days 2026. Your proposal can be just one or two sentences. Suggestions include topics on how to use WikiProjects to connect with others and improve data modelling, how to revive a neglected WikiProject, and what makes a good WikiProject. Propose a session now. Deadline Sunday May 24.
  • Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting the 2026 Data Visualization Competition from 10th to 31st May 2026. We welcome visualization and essay submissions from Indonesian participants on various topics ranging from Indonesian history to biological diversity.
  • The three-hundred online Wikidata meetup in Swedish, May 24
  • Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond, a workshop on-site at the Digital Humanities Lab (C2003), University Hamburg, 27 May, 14:15 – 15:45 CEST. Registration (via link).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Easy way to add images to Wikipedia & Wikidata items, with WikiShootMe and Mapillary
• Papers:
  • Wikidata and authority files: reconciliation and cooperation procedures by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo: an overview of the interactions between Wikidata and library authority files and of the usage of Wikibase by library authority files up to July 2025
  • Institutional practices in gender recording: an analysis of National Libraries by Novaes de Mendonça, and Ana Carolina Simionato Arakaki: contains references to Wikidata and its interconnection with library authority files
  • Modellizzazione delle conoscenze: Thesaurus Nuovo soggettario e Wikidata, due strumenti a confronto by Elena Cencetti, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo and Elisabetta Viti (in Italian): a detailed comparison of Wikidata and the Nuovo soggettario Thesaurus as knowledge organization systems, with a case study regarding the reconciliation with Wikidata of a group of terms of the Nuovo soggettario Thesaurus regarding photography
• Videos:
  • Curating shared knowledge about artifacts on Wikidata with Till Grallert, it explores how the Jarāʾid project used Wikidata to build a multilingual, open knowledge graph of pre-1930 Arabic periodicals.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #122 with User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what they are doing and why they do it.
  • Every Major Oil and Gas Pipeline in History Mapped - a visualisation utilising Wikidata, OpenStreetmap, Wikipedia and Global Energy Monitor.
• Presentations
  • La fabrique collective des histoires queer dans les communs numériques. Presentation by John Samuel and panel, 2e Rencontres du Reseau Jeune Recherche LGBTQI+, Université Lyon 1, 12 May 2026

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Property Explorer is a tool by user Steven Liu. The tool is used for exploring Wikidata properties
• securitybaseline use Wikidata to get the domain names for institutions

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• MapRoulette Challenge (Chile): Improve heritage-related items around Santiago, Chile, linking them to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
• The Wikidata Platform team has published its backend replacement recommendation and accompanying technical architecture for the migration of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from Blazegraph. Feedback is invited until May 25th 2026, especially on potential gaps and impacts on advanced use cases. Wikidata community members and WDQS users are also encouraged to help identify high-impact tools and workflows that may need attention on this page. Feedback can be shared on the Migration talk page or during the next office hour. See the WDP team newsletter for more details

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • contains cadastral area (cadastral area that is wholly or partly contained by a municipality)
  • algebraic closure (‎algebraic closure of the field)
  • real closure (real closure of the formally real field)
  • eusocial caste (specialized type of an eusocial animal)
  • Wikimedia Commons content descriptor (Wikimedia Commons content descriptor which applies to this media file)
  • ‎time expansion (factor by which a recording's duration has been extended or compressed relative to the original real-time event, without pitch correction.)
  • ‎SELL rating (French video game content rating (1999–2003))
  • age requirement documentation URL (URL for a website's statement of compliance with U.S. legal record-keeping requirements related to visual depictions of actual sexually explicit conduct)
  • maximum vehicle length (maximum authorized length for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • 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))
  • maximum vehicle height (maximum authorized height for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (regulatory limit from signage))
  • ‎independent of theory (theory that proves neither this proposition nor its negation)
  • ‎gender-neutral form of label (form of name or title with no assumption of gender)
  • subject named as (monolingual text) (with an associated language code) name by which a subject is recorded in a database, mentioned as a contributor of a work, or is referred to in a particular context)
  • alternative name (monolingual text) (with an associated language code) qualifier for alternative name(s), given for a subject in a database entry, or preserved in references (even these are no longer the preferred name)
  • ‎CWSAC classification (Level of military significance for American Civil War battles as defined by the 1993 Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) report.)
  • DMCA takedown policy URL (DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown policy or submitting page of this hosting site or UGC (User Generated Content) distributor)
  • election result map (map that displays the result of this election)
  • ‎paid-up capital (portion of a company’s issued share capital that has been paid by shareholders)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎19star actor ID, ACM Digital Library institution ID, Stockholm public transport stop ID, Go2Senkyo.com politician ID, SensCritique person ID, Census of Italian Architecture since 1945, CINEFOX film ID, ‎CINEFOX person ID, Cultural heritage Database-ID in Lübeck, Dijital İstanbul cultural property ID, VG homicide ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme record ID, ‎EGAFD film ID, Cairn.info publisher ID, ‎BGAFD film ID, ‎Apple TV person ID, Blätter author ID, ‎critify.de publication ID, Semanticscience Integrated Ontology ID, Prime Video ID, Objectif plumes author ID, ‎Museum of Canadian Music artist ID, ‎Museum of Canadian Music work ID, Lübeck Culturul heritage ID, Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural heritage ID, DEF19 2.0 publisher ID, MovieLens movie ID, Verfassungsblog author ID, QueenBallers player ID, NaPTAN stop area code, CycleBase cyclist ID (new), ‎Book Notification author ID, ‎Prime Video GTI, ‎parliament.scot member ID, Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon ID, Goodreads genre ID, ‎Giant Bomb Wiki ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to reviews:
  • contributed to narrative universe (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
  • Grokipedia page title (page title used in a Grokipedia article URL)
  • especially (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, but applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
  • Common Vulnerability Scoring System score (Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score)
  • Depicts taxon (depicts taxon)
  • Still taken from the film (Still taken from the film)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: StaphBase ID, Geohashing wiki page, identifiant d'un fonds au catalogue collectif de France, Oireachtas bill ID, Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number, European System of Accounts ID (Germany), Identifiant d'un éditeur sur OpenEdition, Natalie ID, AV CHANNEL actress ID, Mineral Resources Data System deposit ID, Wikimedia Phabricator project, AWA artist ID, Rakuten Music artist, recochoku artist ID, identifiant AnnuSéries d'une série télévisée

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Library of Congress occupations by Label and Lccn no. (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Malaysia / Wiki x K-pop 2026 Datathon
  • Project Occupations / Roadmap
  • Project LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group / SummerCoworking
• Newest database reports: Children born after Mothers death date

Development

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

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: Skolkoll-bot 1 - Task(s): Adding Skolverket identifiers and source URLs to Swedish school items

Events

• Upcoming events: Wikicafé May Edition: De Wikidata à Wikipédia abstraite : promesses et illusions du savoir structuré (From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: Promises and Illusions of Structured Knowledge), Presentation by Jsamwrites, May 26, 2026 at 13:00 video link, organized by DMontagne en résidence.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers: Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini, Pietro Ortimini, and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Wikibase and Wikidata for Greek and Latin Epigraphy: Modelling, Analysing, and Making Reusable Linked Open Data
• Videos: Monica Berti and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Wikidata Queries for Greek and Latin Philology (SunoikisisDC, Summer 2026); slides on Commons + video on Youtube; for more information, cf. the WikiProjects Antiquity/Pauly-Wissowa and LAGL

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎SIK-ISEA document ID, identifiant d'un fonds au catalogue collectif de France, ‎StaphBase ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • PCBS Locality code (Locality Code of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics)
  • nameplate image (image of a name-plate or similar identifying plate of the subject)
  • photographer (photographer)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant Bibliothèques patrimoniales de Paris, CUEAnexo, Enciclopedia Católica Wikitólica ID, Adult Film Database film series ID, Adult Film Database studio ID, Satker ID, Inaproc Instance ID, British Libray catalogue ID, Swedish-Danish Dictionary ID, Roller-results.com skater ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: People born at the sea (source)

• Newest database reports: List of items with links to Wiktionary main space.
• Showcase Items: Boeing(Q66)

Development

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

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: William Avery Bot 13 - Task/s:
  • Per Project Chat, replace "estauxunidense" in Asturian descriptions with "d'Estaos Xuníos". Example manual edits here and here.
  • Also adds a default label, per d:Help:Default values for labels and aliases#When should I use default values for labels and aliases? and remove redundant labels in the simplest cases.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Temporaer Haus: OpenDataMonday, today, 1 June, 19:30 - 22:00 CEST, Augsburger Str. 23-25, 89231 Neu-Ulm.
  • WikiKult Netzwerktreffen 2026: “Wikidata in Kulturerbeinstitutionen”, 11-12th June, Wikimedia Deutschland. German-speaking event for people working with Wikidata in the cultural heritage sector. Open to experienced contributors and newcomers alike.
  • Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey, 11 June 17:00 - 18:00 CEST, online (English with German translation) – Keynote by Jason Evans.
  • (Deutsch) Workshop // Wikibases, Knowledge Graphs und Wikidata, Tue 14 July, 10:00 - 13:00 CEST. Participation is for project members, Zentral Institut staff, and interested guests, on-site at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte. See link for registration details.
  • Doing Migration History with Digital Methods: Beyond a Database - Wikibase as Research Infrastructure for Migration Prosopography Summer University at the German Historical Institute Paris, 8, rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris, 23 June 16:00 CEST.
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 - preparing the Program - watch this space next week for the first edition of the Event Program or register to be notified of updates.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Behind the QIDs by User:Niryhpr
  • Improving the interconnection between Wikidata and the CERL Thesaurus by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, also presented (in Italian) in Videos.
  • Digitally mapping the Philippines’ historical markers by Eugene Alvin Villar.
• Papers:
  • A data-driven analysis of automotive model evolution and technological lineage using Wikidata and Python network visualization by P. Trunova (2026).
  • (Italiano) De Catulo a Wikidata by Nusch et al. (2026).
• Videos:
  • Adding lifting stones to Wikidata - OSM for History Buffs
  • (O'zbekcha) Participate in the Interlingual Relations Marathon and win! - Oʻzbekcha Vikipediyadagi (ukwiki) has over 12,000 articles missing a sitelink...time to change that.
  • (Italiano) Wikidata and Library Catalogs: Building and Enabling a Digital Resources Network by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
• Presentations:
  • De Wikidata à Wikipédia abstraite : promesses et illusions du savoir structuré (From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: Promises and Illusions of Structured Knowledge), Presentation by Jsamwrites, May 26, 2026, Wikicafé May Edition, organized by DMontagne en résidence. (video)
  • DARIAH-EU WG DHwiki - A first year of activity by D. Lindemann and G. Candela (2026).

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Recent Changes API: This API lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• On 31 May, item Q140000000 ("Maxx", about a cinema in Delmenhorst, Germany) was created.
• Feedback wanted: To support improving Wikidata integration on the Programs & Events Dashboard, the EduWiki Hub invites Wikidata organizers, trainers, and contributors to share suggestions on metrics, tracking features, and workflows you would like to see in the dashboard. In addition, try out the new Advanced Search share your thoughts on the Dashboard talk page. (full announcement)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • found liable for (tort or civil wrong a person or organization was found liable of)
  • ‎PCBS Locality code (Locality Code of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics)
• Newest External identifiers: AV CHANNEL actress ID, AWA artist ID, CUE/Anexo, ‎Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number, Catholic Encyclopedia Wikitólica ID, European System of Accounts ID (Germany), OpenEdition Publisher ID, ‎Mineral Resources Data System deposit ID, ‎Natalie ID, ‎Oireachtas bill ID, Rakuten Music artist ID, recochoku artist ID, ‎Adult Film Database film series ID, ‎Adult Film Database studio ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • category's topic is member of the class (qualifier for use with {{p|14387}} and {{P|4224}} to describe certain sets of categories)
  • applicable Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: School ID of the Department of Education, Philippines, Beeld en Geluid series identifier, DAM artist ID, DAM song ID, Joysound artist ID, Joysound song ID, K-MIB performer ID, DUGA actress ID, Chilean Museums Registry ID, Sokmil actress ID, Filmmakers Person ID, Model Mayhem ID, OCHA Place Code, Sri Lanka NGO Secretariat Registration Number, Sri Lanka Company Registration Number, AV CHANNEL director ID, DUGA director ID, AllMyLinks ID, AV CHANNEL maker ID, thegamerdex.com game ID, MyDirtyHobby ID, Fontaines de Belgique ID, Wikiparfum fragrance ID, Canadian Trademark Registration Number, DMM director ID, Pantheon.World ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
• Newest WikiProjects: Project Sri Lanka for editors who would like to focus on adding materials for Sri Lanka (Q854).
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Govdirectory added Cape Verde subpage
  • Project P244 maintenance progress - a manually-updated progress tracker, is there a way to automate it?
• Newest database reports: Identified duplicates - this list shows items that most likely need merging but cannot due to conflicting sitelinks.
• Showcase Items: Q140000000: Wikidata's 140 Millionth Item

Development

• Mobile editing of statements:
  • We fixed how we handle statements with deleted Properties (phab:T402619)
  • We improved the behaviour when using the browser's back button (phab:T414454)
  • We continued working on improving the way error responses are shown (phab:T423613)
  • We addressed issues found in testing
• Improving the visibility of WikiProjects: We added support for finding the associated WikiProject of an Item based on statements on the Item
• GraphQL:
  • We are working on expanding the data available through search. Specifically we are including all Item data in search result nodes (phab:T427389) and extending the query by Item and Property value to return all Item data (phab:T416885)
  • We are improving the documentation.

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: Nigeria
• 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

• RfC: Mass editing policy: The community is currently voting on a proposed policy to regulate mass edits on Wikidata. More input is needed to reach a broad consensus. Please review the proposal and join the discussion/vote on the RFC page.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 - see the first version of the program! The online event takes place during the weekend of June 19 - 21. Register for updates and access links.
  • Mezi bajty 0 - meetup of the Czech Wikidata community in Prague and online, 10th June 17:00 - 19:00 CEST (in Czech, Slovak, English)
  • GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei) SPARQL Workshop|, 17th July 17:00 - 19:30 CEST (in German) - workshop from the German National Library on use of their SPARQL-endpoint for the GND (Gemeinsamer Normdatei) national authority file for wikidata users and wikipedians.
  • (Deutsch) Workshop: Make Research Software Findable using the Software Marketplace Wikidata - August 18, 14:00 – 16:00 Uhr (CEST), Zoom-link on registration.
  • Blazegraph Migration Office Hour (June session) will take place on Tuesday, 9 June 2026 (Tomorrow) at 16:00 UTC. This office hour is focused on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of WDQS. Whether you have questions, need clarification, or want to discuss how your use case may be affected. You can register for the session via the event page. In preparation, add questions, feedback, or migration-related support needs to this etherpad.
• Ongoing: Wiki Loves Pride 2026 (Meta) is ongoing and now has a dedicated Wikidata subpage: Event: Wiki Loves Pride 2026.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • (日本語/Japanese) [Practice drill: SPARQL basics to make and learn - Let's master Wikidata Query Service by Shoku_pan_65. Page offers AI translations.
  • Behind the <P812: academic major> Property by rtnf.
  • Adding Visual Context to the Dagbanli Dictionary: How the University of Ghana HCI Lab Dataset Powered our Sentence Matching System. Diff post by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan.
• Papers:
  • Volume 16, Issue 5 of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out! - includes 7 papers on Wikidata topics.
  • Rosetta Statements: simplifying FAIR knowledge graph construction with a user-centred approach - Vogt et al., (2026)
  • (Русский/Russian) Automated Analysis and Visualization of Geographic Data on Global Volcanoes Based on the Wikidata Semantic Graph - by Мария Паландер (2026).
  • Speaker Mining: FAIR Data on Public Broadcasts for Question Answering by Wittenborg et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • (Español) Wikidata for Climate Change, Wikipedia for Sustainable Futures by Daniel Canedo, a workshop on using Wikidata to record linked open data from extreme weather events.
  • (Svenska) Merge Wikidata samma som by Magnus Sälgö. What to do when you find duplicate Wikidata Items pointing at the same location on OpenStreetMap.
  • (Español) EntreWikis - Hacerwiki: Progress of Free Knowledge Projects in Colombia - Colombian Art in Open Data: training and infrastructure on Wikidata
  • (Français) Wikidata for research and teaching by Pascal Martinolli. Introduces Wikidata basics, SPARQL, practical examples of data visualisation, enriching research data and exploring the opportunities and limitations of linked open personal data.
  • (Français) Literature review: FAIR data sharing | FAIR Data Spring 2026 - Presentation slides, given by Adélie Ranville on their experiences organizing and sharing data using Zenodo, DOI, Zotero, Wikidata, and OpenRefine.
  • (Deutsch) Building a shared knowledge infrastructure: a federated wikibase for video and podcasts hosted by Tim @BorgNetzWerk.

Tool of the week

• AutoSuggestSitelink: New features available. See the update post on Project Chat

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The WMF Wikidata pltaform team monthly newsletter (June edition) is out
• Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's occupation articles
• Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's articles about fields of knowledge

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes::
  • trailer of (works that this trailer video represents)
  • ‎EPBC conservation status (the conservation status from the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 assigned by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎Joysound artist ID, ‎Joysound song ID, DUGA performer ID, Sri Lanka Company Registration Number, Wikimedia Phabricator project PHID, ‎Indonesian government work unit ID (satker ID), ‎DAM artist ID, ‎British Library catalogue ID, ‎OCHA Place Code, Philippines ‎School ID, ‎Swedish-Danish Dictionary ID, Filmmakers actor ID, Chilean Museums Registry ID, Sri Lanka NGO Secretariat Registration Number, Beeld & Geluid series ID, ‎INAPROC instance ID (Indonesia), DUGA director ID, AV CHANNEL maker ID, AV CHANNEL director ID, AllMyLinks ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • applicable Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • IAU member ID (new) (ID of members in the [https://www.iau.org/IAU/Default.aspx International Astronomical Union (IAU)].)
  • height above ground level (a property intended to indicate the height of any objects from the ground)
  • Storm intensity classification (category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585))
  • service status (the operational status of something like ship or building)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: PTS News Network topic ID, OTOTOY ID, identifiant EU sanctions tracker, OpenParlData ID, Catholica.cz ID, KSW person ID, KSW organization ID, KSW place ID, Myludo ID, Identifiant dans La Basa, PurplePort ID, Sokmil idol ID, Hancinema company ID, LinkMe ID, Netmath Glossary ID, Sokmil director ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Table of civic tech organizations with details (source)
  • Timeline of legalisation of same-sex marriage (source)
• Schema examples: Nazareth Padilla Montero (Q139959656) has been added as a showcase example of human (E10)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Civic Tech - for anyone developing datasets about civic resources in cities, and discuss best practices for Wikidata collaboration in civic tech.
  • Project AI Cleanup - for reporting, monitoring and combatting edits and contributions from LLM and AI sources.
  • Project: Whos who in marine taxonomy? - inititated by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), this project will document and enrich entities of the persons who have described marine species.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project LGBT added an Abstract Wikipedia subpage.
  • Project Roads added a subpage for Greece National roads with highly-visual tables.
  • Wiki x K-Pop datathon 2.0 - there is still some work to do to reach the goal on modelling the album: BABYMONSTER.
• Newest database reports: Deleted Wikidata entities that are connected to Commons files structured data (SDC)
• Showcase Lexemes: kafuni - Dagbanli noun that translate to "fan" in English

Development

• The team was involved in workshops last week so there are no updates.

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

• Request for comments: The discussion about reforming Wikidata's notability policy is ongoing. There is now a new proposal waiting for your feedback.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiLoves Pride 2026 - six fortnightly editing sessions to add, expand and translate LGBTQ+ content on the Wikimedia projects.
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 is taking place this coming weekend, 19-21 June. Check out the daily program...(click UTC for your local timezone)
    • Day 1 / Friday, 19.06, 17:00 UTC - 20:00 UTC
    • Day 2 / Saturday, 20.06, 10:00 UTC - 18:00 UTC
    • Day 3 / Sunday, 21.06, 14:00 UTC - 18:00 UTC
  • Click here -> Register <- for access links to the event.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Preserving Pride, Across Languages : From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: A New Way to Think About Knowledge
  • Visibility of Communities in Nigeria on Wikidata 2.0: Expanding Digital Representation for Nigerian Communities
  • The Year’s First Quarter with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group - Expanding partnerships and contributions to Wikidata, Wikipedia and other sister projects.
  • Introducing the Wiki Afrodemics Mentorship Project Cohort 1 - A pan-african and guided multilingual training on Wikipedia editing, Wikidata contribution, and resource mobilisation.
  • Amplifying Women’s Stories and Indigenous Knowledge: Feminism and Folklore 2026 in the Igbo Community - Improving the representation of women and cultural heritage in Igbo language on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiquote.
  • A Reflection on What I Learned at My First International Women’s Day Celebration - Celebrating and documenting women activists and politicians on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • Three Tools that bring digital botany within reach (spoiler: One of them is Wikidata) - article available in DE, ES, FR, JA, PT and ZH-CN.
• Papers: Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata by Grallert et al., (2026). As digital humanities tools proliferate, this paper argues that Wikidata can help connect the research landscape by documenting, citing and connecting tool registries.
• Videos:
  • OSM / Lifting Stones in Wikidata - a video tutorial on mapping lifting stones on OpenStreetMap, using two examples from County Kilkenny, Ireland.
  • Mapping Every Wonder on Earth - animated visualisation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites recorded in Wikidata.
  • 2025: Tales of Discovery - Museums and Heritage channel mentions how Wikidata is being used as a bridge between several sites and projects for 3D modelling ships, wrecks and other artifacts from maritime history.
  • Mentor Me! Session 6 with Jinoy Tom Jacob, who will show us how to use OpenRefine to batch edit Wikidata and the Commons.

Tool of the week

• BisikBekasi : Community-curated knowledge base where local data items are integrated with Wikidata items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Newcomer Dashboard will be deployed to Wikidata pending on-wiki configuration by Admins. The dashboard aims to provide guidance, helpful links, and mentorship opportunities for new editors.
• Guido Gezelle on Wikidata: networking in map - this project created 5 visualisations produced from Wikidata on the poet Guido Gezelle.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • print matrix state (in printmaking, a stage of development of the relief matrix after a permanent modification)
  • body modification (deliberate altering of the human anatomy for non-medical reasons that this person or fictional character has undergone)
• Newest External identifiers: Roller-results.com skater ID, Wikiparfum fragrance ID, EU sanctions tracker subject ID, Maoyan celebrity ID, CINEMATODAY film ID, DMM director ID, Model Mayhem ID, ‎DAM song ID, OpenParlData ID, ‎IAU member ID, PurplePort ID, LinkMe ID

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Vistonline (Agenzia italiana di visti consolari e legalizzazione documenti, con sede a Roma)
  • Natural science/Taxon footprint (Taxon footprint)
  • Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number (Unique identification number assigned to a school by the Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka, used in the annual school census and official examinations (G.C.E. O/L, A/L))
  • sport title (link to sport title (like master of sports or yokodzuna), besides chess and martial arts titles)
  • dual notion in category theory (dual notion in category theory)
  • penalty shootout kicked by (Indicates the person who took an individual penalty kick during a penalty shoot-out.)
  • Finnish educational institution ID (Five-digit identification number for Finnish educational institutes assigned by Statistics Finland.)

• New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant d'une personne sur ZicTrad, Skeivopedia ID, Artistas Visuales Chilenos ID, Mathlib declaration ID, FES digital collections person ID, BBC Bitesize topic ID, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), Sceneweb artwork ID, Sceneweb production ID, regjeringen.no government ID, regjeringen.no ministry ID, regjeringen.no politician ID, Maoyan film ID, Identifiant livres-cinema.info d'un auteur, National Operator Code (UK)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Wiki x K-pop 2026: Datathon 3.0 a.k.a the ICONIC BY MISTAKE EDITING party.
  • Ontology Course 2 / GLAM Authority Entity Ontology in Wikidata
• Newest database reports: Thanks Log - who's thanking who and on what.
• Showcase Items: 2026 FIFA World Cup (Q5020214) - in the United States, Mexico and Canada in 2026
• Showcase Lexemes: alikaali (L720932) - Dagbanli noun (derived from ha <--ar) which can mean soothsayer, judge or Muslim scholar

Development

• Ontology federation: The development team is looking for people to give feedback on the new feature that allows editors on other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as statement values. (more details)
• GraphQL:
  • We extended the searchItems field so that developers can now get all Item data immediately from the search results (phab:T416885)
  • We are working on the ability to get only best ranked statements (phab:T428138)
• MCP: The Wikidata MCP has been extended. You can now also use an MCP for other Wikibase instances. (more details)
• Wikibase Cloud: We are looking into making it possible to log into Wikibase Cloud instances with your Wikidata account to make it easier for Wikimedians to contribute on Cloud instances.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are planning the migration of the entity usage table to a new database cluster to handle increased usage of Wikidata's data across the Wikimedia projects.
  • We are continuing our work to decrease the number of irrelevant changes coming from Wikidata that show up in Wikipedia's recent changes and watchlist. Specifically we are evaluating a prototype that looks at the rendered article before and after the change and determines if anything actually changed in the article before adding an entry to recent changes and watchlist.
• Mobile editing of statements:
  • We are improving support for RTL languages.(phab:T360854, phab:T427655, phab:T427658, phab:T427661, phab:T428246)
  • We started fixing multiple UI layout and spacing issues, including mandatory fields, value fields, snak types, references, and add-statement button usability (phab:T428766, phab:T428761, phab:T428759, phab:T428450)
  • We are improving the server-side rendering (phab:T409827)

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

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The Wikimania 2026 program has been revealed, go bookmark your favourite sessions.
  • Physical Training; Improving Health Articles in Africa - 21 June, 10:00, University of Ibadan.
  • The WikiIndaba Call for Proposals ends June 30th - don't forget to submit your Wikidata-sessions.
  • Sessions of the WikiProjects Days 2026 event will shortly be available on Commons: Presentations / Videos

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • WikiTiddler; Tiddlywiki as a live Wikidata frontend - if you run a TiddlyWiki instance, you can now run queries to the Wikidata Query Service and convert the results to Tiddlers.
  • TIB: What do we mean when we talk about AI and open knowledge? - Lozana Rossenova details their experiences at the AI+Bridges Symposium.
• Papers:
  • How to use Wikibase for Mixed-Methods Research, a book published by F. Bailo, E. Booth, and J. Williams
  • Wikimedia as a Platform for Evidence Synthesis: Quantifying Bias and Literature Coverage in Crowd-Sourced Knowledge Graphs by D. Mietchen, and J. Dearborn, (2026).
  • From Wikidata to Smart Tourism: A Reproducible Pipeline Based on AI and Fuzzy Logic for Interpretable Multi-Category Classification of Points of Interest - This paper develops a reproducible pipeline that converts Wikidata POIs into an interpretable tourism taxonomy, enabling multi-category classification and personalized smart tourism applications. By Kontogianni et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • Name Suggestion Index Explained: How OpenStreetMap Standardizes Brands
  • EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-06-04)
  • Using the Duplicity and WD Fist Tools to edit Wikidata
  • Unlocking Data through Semantic Linking, presented at ENDORSE 2025 by Thora Hagen. Experiences using 19th-century German encyclopedias, demonstrating how semantic enrichment via Wikidata can reveal fascinating patterns.
  • (Deutsch) From your pocket to the knowledge graph: SquirrelBase is a Wikibase instance that functions as a semantic metadata and reference platform. Make 3D smartphone captures of cultural assets, artworks, and ephemeral structures FAIR.

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • meteorological intensity classification (category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585))
  • perfumer (person who created a perfume)
  • ‎dual notion (category theory) (dual of the concept in category theory)
• External identifiers: catholica.cz ID, ‎Skeivopedia ID, Mathlib Declaration ID, Annuséries series ID, FES digital collections person ID, ‎BBC Bitesize topic ID, Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), OTOTOY artist ID, livres-cinema.info author ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
  • Gmedia rating (video games) (Video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system ({{Q|Q28717438}}))
• External identifiers: altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, some properties for category theory, Farzonagon ID, TV Guide film ID, Letterboxd Writer ID, d Hits artist ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, Fantia ID, 17LIVE ID, CFLapedia player ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, U-NEXT Parson ID, U-NEXT Video ID, H-NEXT Parson ID, ABEMA Video ID, FOD Parson ID, LRT topic ID, FOD Video ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, belarusenc.by ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Writing Systems Technical Resources script code, Répertoire des films classés film ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID, Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, Kanal Architecture entry ID, Web The Television Parson ID, Web The Television Work ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Showcase Items: ship (Q11446) - large buoyant watercraft

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • 2026 Chiayi Streetview Workshop July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Tâi-uân tôo-su-sik, Chiayi, Taiwan.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #90 July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Lobid Blog: NWBibBot – Making a regional bibliography visible in Wikipedia with help from Wikidata
  • Tech News (WMDE) Knowledge wants to be found - We interview Tim Wittenborg about the WissKomm Wiki, from the Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology in TIB Hannover.
  • Bridging Open Knowledge And Digital Rights: Reflections From DRIF 2026 And The Wikimedia Community
• Papers: MathModDB: A Database for Mathematical Models - The Mathematical Models Database (MathModDB), deployed on the MaRDI Portal within Germany’s National Research Data Infrastructure, provides researchers with a curated knowledge graph that organizes scattered mathematical models, formulas, and assumptions, connects to related tools like MathAlgoDB and MaRDMO, and demonstrates practical use through cases such as plasma physics modeling. By Fiedler et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 - recordings now on Commons, if you missed the event or want to recap what was discussed, individual session recordings are now available from the Event program.
  • Jason Evans: Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey

Tool of the week

• Altilunium Panoply : A lightweight Wikibase alternative for creating collaborative knowledge bases, written as a single PHP file with no dependencies.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎Taiwan Central News Agency news topic ID, ‎Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, ‎Sceneweb artwork ID, ‎Sceneweb production ID, Fantia ID, Finnish educational institution ID, ‎altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, TV Guide film ID, FOD person ID, LRT topic ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • subdiscipline of (less specific academic discipline)
  • has garden (Object is a {{Q|1107656}} related to this {{Q|16222597}})
  • ranking by (issuer of a ranking)
  • linguistic group (group of people who share the same language, regardless of their ancestry or ethnicity)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pure Adult actress ID, Taiwan Central News Agency News tag id, Pure Adult studio ID, Natural science/GBIF taxon ID, Digitaler Portraitindex person ID, torial ID, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, Samtrafiken-vehicle-id, Sundsvall Municipality opendata ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, KBS News topic ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur Autoroc, La Grange ID, Rakuten Books author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Roles and contributions of ? in Fictional Universes and Media franchises (source)
• Schema examples: it's World Cup time so here's 2 soccer/football-related EntitySchemas.
  • E404:Swedish Soccer Player and E183:Chilean Women's Football Players
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Logic
  • WikiProject Roots and Rhythms
• WikiProject Highlights: GovDirectory has opened a Madagascar page.
• Showcase Items: Lionel Messi - 6 World Cups, scoring in the last 7 consecutive matches.

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are continuing to evaluate the prototype for reducing the number of unnecessary edits from Wikidata that show up in watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co. The approach is to look at the diff of the rendered article before and after the change from Wikidata is made. If there is no difference then the change is probably not relevant for that article. We are collecting a sample to further understand how it performs.
  • To continue to address Wikidata's scaling issues, we are planning the migration of entity usage tables to the X1 cluster.
• Mobile editing of statements:
  • We implemented more feedback from testing of the new mobile front-end. Specifically we worked on making it clearer when a statements already exist that the editor is trying to add to the Item.
  • Additionally, we made minor improvements to the look and feel of the mobile front-end.
• REST API:
  • REST search routes now take apihighlimits right into account (phab:T428032)
  • We are starting to work on Lexeme support (phab:T429572, phab:T429332)
• GraphQL:
  • We added support for requesting “best statements” for a given Property (phab:T428138)
  • We are working on adding support for negation in Property value pair filters (phab:T429580)

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

Weekly Tasks

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

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The Wikidata Platform (WDP) monthly office hour takes place tomorrow, 7th July at 16:00 UTC. These office hours are focus on the Blazegraph migration work, and the team is inviting all community members to join the discussion. Register via the event page
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST (in your timezone), 08th July 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Sandbox sessions: Wikidata Reference Validator Tool - improving Wikidata references - Aug 15, 17:00 - 18:00 UTC.
  • Wiki Education + AASLH: Documenting America with Wikidata, a collaboration between Wiki Education and the American Association for State and Local History is offering six hour-long meetings held weekly to introduce attendees to Wikidata and improve content for Wikidata and Wikipedia on American history. Registration ends: July 17, 23:59 Pacific Time (PT)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • prisoner number (number or identifier assigned to a prisoner, to be used as a qualifier for P2632 (place of detention))
  • photographer (person who took this photograph)
  • ‎Gmedia rating (video games) (video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system)
  • visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
  • garden (garden of this subject)
  • objects (category theory) (the precise objects of the category (category theory))
  • morphisms (the precise morphisms of the category (category theory))
  • terminal object (the precise terminal object of the category (category theory))
  • initial object (the precise initial object of the category (category theory))
  • products (category theory) (the precise products of the category (category theory))
  • coproducts (category theory) (the precise coproducts of the category (category theory))
  • isomorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • monomorphisms (the precise monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • epimorphisms (the precise epimorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • regular monomorphisms (the precise regular monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • regular epimorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • left adjoint (the left adjoint of the functor)
  • enriched over (the base monoidal category, bicategory, etc. of the enriched category)
  • monoidal category operation (the “tensor product” bifunctor of the monoidal category)
  • 2-morphisms (the precise 2-morphisms of the 2-category)
  • taxon footprint (image of a footprint of this taxon)
• Newest External identifiers: Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, ‎Taiwan Central News Agency news tag ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, Web The Television work ID, Web The Television person ID, U-NEXT person ID, U-NEXT video ID, Sokmil director ID, Sokmil idol ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Répertoire des films classés film ID, ‎regjeringen.no ministry ID, ‎regjeringen.no politician ID, Objectif plumes work ID, National Operator Code (UK), ‎Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Myludo game ID, MyDirtyHobby ID, Maoyan film ID, ‎Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Letterboxd writer ID, KSW organization ID, KSW person ID, KSW place ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, ‎Artistas Visuales Chilenos propertyvalue ID, ‎Canadian Trademark Registration Number, occitanica.eu ID, Hancinema company ID, ZicTrad person ID, H-NEXT Person ID, FOD video ID, Farzonagon ID, d Hits artist ID, ABEMA video ID, 17LIVE ID, ‎regjeringen.no government ID, Pure Adult actress ID, Pure Adult studio ID, ‎GBIF taxon ID, Digital portrait index person (GND) ID, torial username, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, CatDat category ID, CatDat functor ID, CatDat category property ID, CatDat functor property ID, ‎Samtrafiken-vehicle ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Olyrix artist ID, AutorÒc 16-18 author ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review::
  • dielectric strenght (maximum electric field a material can withstand before electrical breakdown occurs)
  • about page URL (URL to the official about page)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Rakuten Books author ID, Rakuten TV adult Person ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, Le GRoG ID, NHK On Demand Program ID, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, GCD character ID, Identificador de agente econômico na ANCINE, 1SCREEN Program ID, Architectenregister-id, LUDAP ID, TakaWiki ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID, BiDünyaFilm film ID, CNUC code, Steady username, NHK ONE Program ID, SongLyrics.com song ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, ClayArena shooter profile ID, Open Collective ID, Anobii author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimania 2026 is fast approaching. Taking place 21 - 25 July in Paris, France. Can't attend? Register for a ticket to the virtual event and watch sessions online.
  • Interested in Wikibase Ontology Federation? Join the July 14 call, see the Cleaning Task Force page for more details.
• Previous events:
  • The 3rd Quarter Wikidata + Wikibase office hour was held. The transcript is available to read:
    Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2026 07 08

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Behind Better Data: Inside Wikidata’s First WikiProjects Days
  • Africa Wiki Challenge 2026 in the Ghanaian Pidgin Community: Documenting “Water for Life” Through Wikimedia Projects
  • Reflecting on progress and planning ahead: Dagbani Wikimedians User Group holds its last quarter team meeting
  • EduWiki Workshop: Combining PETScan and Generative AI for Smarter Wikipedia Editing
  • Why Computational Historians need Wikidata - a substack article by Jim Clifford
• Papers
  • A Demonstration of WikiRAG: An Evidence-based Link Prediction for Wikidata with Retrieval Augmented Generation - WikiRAG is an interactive framework that combines automated link prediction with retrieval‑augmented generation and human validation to reliably complete knowledge graphs like Wikidata by generating candidate links, retrieving supporting evidence, and enabling users to confirm and export validated triples. By Sabu, et al., (2026)
• Videos
  • Using Open Refine by Wikimedia Australia, Paul Duchesne presents "Using OpenRefine" during WikiCon Australia 2026, (National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra).
  • Let’s Get Mappy - making maps on Wikimedia platforms by Wikimedia Australia, Alex Lum presents how location (pushpin) maps, locator maps, and interactive "slippy" local maps end up on Wikipedia, and how infoboxes, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap works together to generate them
  • (繁體中文/zh-TW) Tutorial on Editing Temple Data for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons - recording of a workshop (July 5) on Tutorial on Editing Temple Data for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, held by Wikimedia Taiwan Community and OSM Taiwan.
  • Open data tools for cultural heritage 2nd session in the workshop series “Open Data to Strengthen Online Cultural Heritage,” held March 24, 2026, and organized by the National Library of Uruguay (BNU), Wikimedians of Uruguay, Datysoc, and Data Uruguay.
  • GLAMs and Citizen Science Encouraging and Enabling Participation - Siobhan Leachman presents "citizen science workflows" (BHL, iNaturalist, Bionomia, Wikidata) to show how GLAM's can empower citizen scientists to reuse their collections.

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Rakuten TV adult person ID, KBS News topic ID, Rakuten Books author ID, PTS News Network topic ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, ‎La Grange person ID, ‎Fontaines de Belgique ID, NHK On Demand program ID, 1SCREEN program ID, LUDAP ID, Bianco keyword ID, Architectenregister ID, ‎ClayArena shooter profile ID, ‎Sundsvall Municipality opendata beach ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • relocated from (Object is the original or former {{Q|17334923}} of the permanently relocated {{Q|16222597}})
    • OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType)
    • transforms from (this fictional or mythical entity transforms from that form)
    • Korean Classification of Administrative Districts (code assigned to an administrative district of South Korea in the Korean Classification of Administrative Districts)
  • External identifiers: Anobii book ID, Google Maps Place ID, Viberate Artist ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage style ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage designer ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, Deltarune Wiki article ID, INAPP OA author ID, CNR-IRIS ID, AnimeOshi anime ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal Artist ID, CIDIM Artist ID, Operabook Artist ID, Mizan al-Arab poet ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, OpenStreetMap data item ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, A World Made by Travel person ID, Scent Base notes ID, radio.net IDs, Scent Base perfumer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Items only connected to Telugu Wikipedia (source) - change the language code 'te' to make it work with any other Wikipedia
• Schema examples: French historic monument (E269) - With Wikimania taking place in the French Capital, you can use this entity schema if you feel inspired to or expand items on French monuments.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - a Chinese-animated television franchise.
  • (Français) Project Orthodox Christianity
  • Project SUNY Libraries EMCO
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Govdirectory Poland added several new subpages detailing coverage and progress on State, Local Agencies and Marshall's Offices.
  • Project Property Constraints added a subpage: Improving - a call for participation, as a result of discussions during WikiProjects Days 2026.
• Newest database reports: Most sitelinked Items (with statements)

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

• 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:
  • RupumpedBot - Task/s: When an Item on a Kenyan river has a Swahili label but no English version, this bot will derive an English label and description.
  • William Avery Bot 14 - Task/s: Change values of url properties in mainspace that link to http://web.archive.org/ to use the https protocol (requested at Bot requests#Make HTTPS for Wayback Machine recurrent)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimania is about to begin. Whether you're attending on-site or virtually, plan your sessions so you don't miss any.
    • Full program / Wikidata-only program
    • Get your virtual ticket
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #91 Aug 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Force11 webinar: Metadata for all with Wikidata will look at three novel applications, WikiCite, the Trans Music Achive and the Pratt Institute. Held online August 26, 13-14:00 UTC. Please register for the access link.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Calling Wikifunctions for der, die, das
  • How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata
  • Altilunium Panoply v26.7.19 : In this latest release, the external Wikidata connection logic has undergone a major architectural overhaul to improve internal trace mapping.
• Videos:
  • (Svenska) Strategic inclusion of library data on Wikidata - first recorded at Digikult 2019, with Alicia Fagerving.
  • (Français) I’ll explain how Wikidata works! (Livestream recording), User:Lyokoï will introduce Wikidata and its concepts and the fundamentals of editing.
  • (繁體中文/zh-TW) Wikivoyage Guidelines for editing Temple information
  • How to use Wikibase for Mixed Methods Research, with Francesco Bailo. Recorded at SICSS Melbourne 2026 (Summer Institute in Computational Social Science).
• Games: Webwoven - a new game has surfaced, powered by Wikidata. Race from start to finish in as few connections as possible. Already includes Leaderboards, daily challenges and multiplayer. Sure to be a hit at future Wikidata events.

Tool of the week

• wikivibes is a tool by Magnus Magnus that play public domain music from Commons, tracked by Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Jobs:
  • (Interim) Engineering Manager - Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects - Hybrid
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform - Remote
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform - Remote

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
    • ‎about page URL (URL to the official about page)
  • External identifiers: Western Orthodox Wiki ID, Steady publication ID, ‎Open Collective ID, ‎Guide du Rôliste Galactique ID, CNUC code, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, CNR-IRIS author ID, Anobii Book ID, Anobii author ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, TakaWiki numeric page ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal artist ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • autoptic examination (time of last direct examination of the inscribed object)
    • Tabular data series (A tabular data series in Commons that models the given concept)
    • data series (A data series about the given topic.)
    • incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
    • former operator (entity, company, military service, or organisation which is notable for previously operated the item, aircraft, vehicle, or other equipment)
    • número de la plaza (square number)
  • External identifiers: PISAI ID, Ko-fi page ID, Scent Base brand ID, Etsy shop name, Overcast podcast ID, Grillplatser.nu ID, Criticker Film ID, HAND ID, Open Language Archives Community language code, identifiant Ciel d'oc d'une publication, ODiD ID, Generic/Numero de Registre Tributari, UntitledDb People ID, MissEvan drama ID, MissEvan sound ID, MissEvan ID, MissEvan voice actor ID, Fmfenxiang FM ID, Fmfenxiang sound ID, Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

• 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:
  • AuntuBot - Task/s: Per the approved bot request at commons:Commons:Bots/Requests/AuntuBot, I am in the process of uploading approximately 50,000 issues of the Bangladesh Gazette to Wikimedia Commons. We need to a parent Wikidata item for each specific issue/volume to import and organize these files on Bengali Wikisource. Note that AuntuBot has already been granted a bot flag on Wikimedia Commons for the file uploads.
  • Rebot 2 - Task/s: We recently created the new property perspective (P14345) (Wikidata:Property proposal/anatomical view). With Rebot, I plan to move:
• About 570 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a property
• About 1400 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a qualifier of image (P18)
  • Rebot 3 - Task/s: Import 1389 instances of taxon author citation (P6507) from this Catalan Wikipedia list, compiled by bot from the articles.
  • Rebot 4 - Task/s: The task consists in changing these 1072 items. It has to change creator (P170) to the new property photographer (P14574). Also there are 1000+ items in which the property should be used as a qualifier.
  • Openpep - Task/s: Maintenance of Politically Exposed Person (PEP) data on Wikidata for Thai government officials. Specifically:
• Creating new Wikidata items for Thai politicians not yet in the database
• Adding P39 (position held) claims with proper qualifiers (P580 start time, P582 end time, P2937 legislative term for legislators, P1365/P1366 replaces/replaced by, P1545 series ordinal)
• Adding P102 (member of political party) with date qualifiers
• Adding P569 (date of birth), P106 (occupation), P21 (sex or gender), P19 (place of birth), P1559 (name in native language)
• Setting and correcting labels, descriptions, and aliases
• Removing incorrect claims and deduplicating
• Adding social media profiles (P2003 Instagram, P2013 Facebook, P11705 Facebook numeric ID)
  • DutchFixer - Task/s: Reformat Dutch verb forms that are listed as past tense (Q1994301), participle (Q814722) to simply use past participle (Q12717679)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Vladimir Terentyev used the set of names for every dish from Wikidata -- labels and aliases in every language -- along with restaurant data from OpenStreetMap to develop a world map of dish names, attempting to answer the research question: "Where does plov end and biryani begin, and who really draws these borders?"
  • Giving Open Source Hardware a Place on Wikidata
  • Simplified entry of complex data into Wikibase
  • Grateful and Growing: Reflecting on My Wiki Afrodemics Fellowship, Pilot Cohort
• Papers: DivinWD: Exploring the Diversity of Scientific Publications in Wikidata - DivinWD is a large open-source dataset of over 23 million triples and 1.2 million scholarly articles (2010–2024), integrating Wikidata with five bibliographic sources and gender data to enable transparent diversity analyses in science while documenting biases and infrastructural limitations. By Saletti et. al., (2026)

Tool of the week

• OWL Places, the Wikidata-OpenStreetMap matching tool, can now add OpenStreetMap IDs to Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.1.0 and other upgrades

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • dielectric strength (electric field strength that causes electrical breakdown of an insulating material under specified test conditions)
    • still taken from the audiovisual work (image comes from the given audiovisual work)
  • External identifiers: Operabook artist ID, ‎MPA certificate number, ‎Deltarune Wiki article ID, A World Made by Travel person ID, UntitledDb person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Fediverse app (Fediverse platform of the instance or address)
    • Fediverse instance URL (Ferdiverse instance of/about the subject)
    • reference amount (Amount of the food that contains a particular quantity of a nutrient.)
    • Qidian Book ID ()
  • External identifiers: Garance item ID, Kinorating, IGN producer, Fediverse address, Music & Opera artist ID, LFL player ID, Soccer365.net tournament ID, kicker.de coach ID, BeSoccer team ID, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID, SofaScore tournament ID, Foot Mercato club ID, Lithuanian movie register ID, Foot Mercato referee ID, BeSoccer referee ID, Kicker.de referee ID, Soccer365.net referee ID, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID, Soccer365.net stadium ID, MFL player ID, Okko movie ID, RIA Novosti organization ID, OpenParliamentTV person ID, OpenParliamentTV organization ID, OpenParliamentTV term ID, Camping.se ID, classicalive artist ID, Chess Games tournament ID, Chess.com tournament ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, Flemish educational institution number, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, Lulu spotlight ID, RPGnet Index ID, EU Treaties and Agreements database ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

• The team were at Wikimania this past week so not much development happened.

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!