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Wikidata weekly summary #688

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

Discussions

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

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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

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Development

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #689

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

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Development

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #690

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

Discussions

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

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #691

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

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

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Development

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #692

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Tool of the week

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

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Development

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #693

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

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Development

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #694

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

Discussions

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #695

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

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

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

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

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