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Hullo No Swan So Fine - I too have researched and written on the SOH Corb tapestry for a forthcoming Conservation Management Plan. Stay tuned!! Annejwatson (talk) 00:17, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
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Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!
Cromwell House
thanks for letting me know about the DYK User:Simon Edwards Esq
New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022
Hello No Swan So Fine,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.
Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.
Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

Suggestions:
- There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
- Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
- Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
- This user script puts a link to the feed in your top toolbar.
Backlog:

Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!
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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023
Hello No Swan So Fine,

- Backlog
The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.
- 2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!
Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)
New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js
Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.
Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.
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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
Hello No Swan So Fine,

Backlog
Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.
Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.
Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.
You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.
Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).
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Wikidata weekly summary #672

week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670
Discussions
- New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 - of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)?
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
- Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at 9am PT / 16:00 UTC to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack here. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."
- (German) Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.
- REST in Rust by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"
- Videos
- Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases. Put together by Valerie
- Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities
- (Chinese) Open Data Day Taiwan 2025: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page
- Wikidata as an Open Data Resource: Ian Watt at Open Source SG
- Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.
Tool of the week
- Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- An update regarding the WDQS backend has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.
- Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.
- The Wikidata Vector Database prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saade
wikimedia.de - Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting services)
- AI-generation prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate this AI-generated media or work)
- data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
- Newest External identifiers: Wikishire article ID, HelloAsso organization ID, Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise person ID, Graceful17 entity ID, Game Input Database ID, DRTV ID, Calindex person ID, Historia Hispánica ID, TERMDAT ID, Kulturdatenbank ID, DDLC entry ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, Captain Coaster coaster ID, Memoria Chilena ID, Jamendo track ID, MikuWiki article ID, ZOOM Platform product ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online organization ID, SteamDB tech ID, Big Fish Games game ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, Newsweek topic ID, booru tag
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations)
- accused (person or organization who has been accused of carrying out this harmful, illegal, or immoral act without having received a criminal conviction or where the accused have been acquitted in a court of law)
- applies to volume (volume of the item (usually edition of a work) to which the claim applies)
- oxygen endurance (The maximum time a submarine, spacecraft or enclosed vehicle can sustain life using its onboard oxygen supply.)
- Coefficient of thermal expansion ()
- fracture toughness ()
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, Yale LUX ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, Swimcloud swimmer ID, CACI company ID, VD 16 ID, World Higher Education Database ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, JSIC code, Macrotransactions game ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, NexusMods mod ID, Thunderstore game ID, SideQuest app ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, National Academy of Engineering member ID, DGO ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, Encyclopaedia of Islam (Arabic edition) ID, Rodovid family ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Location of fire stations in Spain (source)
- Oldest known individual per taxon (pre-20th century) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: AncientMaths
- WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and on cividata.org. Help expanding it!
- Newest database reports: German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category (source)
- Showcase Items: Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
- Showcase Lexemes: Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."
Development
- Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
- Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
- Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
- Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #672 (correct version!)

week leading up to 2025-03-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #671
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
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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights:
- 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! :)
WP:BLANKANDREDIRECT-ed articles
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. A page you created or have recently made significant changes to, Little One (Cole Porter song), may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for pages, so it has been blanked and redirected to High Society (1956 film)#Musical numbers. Three typical reasons for this are that: (1) the article's subject appears to fail our notability guidelines; (2) the article is unsourced; or (3) the sources used in the article are unreliable. The page's history is preserved and it is possible to restore the article: If you believe that this page should remain included on Wikipedia or that this action was taken in error, then you may revert the edit that blanked and redirected the page.
Wikipedia:Your first article has more information about creating articles, and you may also want to read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. Thank you.
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. A page you created or have recently made significant changes to, Now You Has Jazz, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for pages, so it has been blanked and redirected to High Society (1956 film)#Musical numbers. Three typical reasons for this are that: (1) the article's subject appears to fail our notability guidelines; (2) the article is unsourced; or (3) the sources used in the article are unreliable. The page's history is preserved and it is possible to restore the article: If you believe that this page should remain included on Wikipedia or that this action was taken in error, then you may revert the edit that blanked and redirected the page.
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I don't know of other songs from that film whose articles need that treatment.
Hardman's new biography
I created this article yesterday. I am awaiting more coverage and reviews of the book before further expansion, but feel free to contribute to it. Best, MSincccc (talk) 17:26, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- Good start. The other big hitters from the centennial media cavalcade are Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal History by Hugo Vickers, Fashioning the Crown by Justine Picardie and The Queen and Her Presidents by Susan Page. Vivat Rex! No Swan So Fine (talk) 20:18, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- The interesting part is that The Daily Telegraph reviewed both Vickers and Hardman in this article. I’m tied up with exam preparations and other on-wiki projects at the moment, but I may have a go at Vickers’s biography — happy to collaborate if you’re interested. Best, MSincccc (talk) 04:33, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- P.S. And now even The Times has done the same. MSincccc (talk) 07:16, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- @MSincccc:, concentrate on your exams - you only get one shot at these things in life and these silly articles will still be here when you are on the other side. Vickers has had quite the literary life! Regards, No Swan So Fine (talk) 18:33, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
Nomination of Songs for Any Taste for deletion
The article is being discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Songs for Any Taste until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the AfD notice from the article until the discussion is closed.Wikidata weekly summary #727

week leading up to 2026-04-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #726.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: ZI Jony (2) - RfP scheduled to end after 17 April 2026 13:09 (UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Nirmos Bot 3 - Task(s): Turn one or more consecutive hard (non-breaking) spaces into one regular space in Swedish descriptions.
- Alex NB OT - Task(s): Correction of incorrectly specified links to population data sources containing wikitext artifacts with categories, which leads to incorrect categorization of articles.
- Alex NB OT 2 - Task(s): Extract KCI article ID from P953 and add it to P14184.
- ReNeuralAgent - Task(s): (1) add descriptions, (2) Latvian labels/descriptions, (3) 'retrieved from' and 'source URL' to unreferenced Statements, (4) missing aliases from external Identifier sources, (5) Geo coordinates, (6) external identifiers, (7) Population numbers, (8) remove 'dead sitelinks', (9) constraint violations.
- Open request for comment: Mass-editing policy is still open and requires your input.
Events
- Past: Missed the second quarter Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session transcript here: 2026-04-08 (Q2 2026)
- Current: (Spanish) Public Domain in Latin America 2026 - 1st edition of the campaign to improve public domain data for Latin America is running until 15 June.
- Upcoming events:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 14 April, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). QuickStatements is one of the most widely used tools in Wikidata, enabling users to upload and edit large volumes of structured data efficiently. Originally developed by Magnus Manske, the tool has become essential for institutions, researchers, and volunteers working with open data. The new QuickStatements 3.0, developed by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, introduces a modernized interface, improved performance, and new features shaped by community input, making it easier than ever to contribute high-quality data to the Wikimedia ecosystem. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/QuickStatements3
- Art+Feminism is hosting a Community Hours session on April 17 to introduce their new Wikidata modules — don’t miss it!
- digiS Workshop „Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung“ am 20.04. - (German), registration closes 16.04, takes place online (10:00 – 11:30 CEST), room link after registration.
- Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - Wednesday, April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida.
- Visibility of Communities in Nigeria 2.0: 17.04 - 25.04, (please register on the link). Help enrich Wikidata with cultural preservation, tourism and inclusive development data for items on South Nigerian communities.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: (Spanish) Connecting: Basque documentary heritage on Wikipedia and Wikidata - a program to make Basque heritage data more visible, with events scheduled through April - June.
- Videos:
- Live Wikidata Editing #120 with Jan Ainali and Abbe98
- Can AI Replace Wikipedia? Jonathan Fraine & Raja Amelung Explain Why It Cannot - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan and Raja discuss why human knowledge and contribution to Wikipedia and Wikidata will always be important.
- Interfacing with Wikidata for fun and profit - Yaron Koren
- Introduction to Lexicographical data - By Chinonso Chidi
- WMUK Wikidata Training (1/2) - Why & how to add data to Wikidata - a beginner-friendly introduction to Wikidata editing hosted by Dr. Martin Poulter.
- WMUK Wikidata training (2/2) - Make your first Wikidata query using SPARQL - How to query Wikidata's vast store of knowledge using SPARQL.
- Wikidata and personal pronouns (P6553) by Clair Kronk and Crystal Yragui - part of the Queering Wikipedia Conference (2025)
- (Spanish) Queering the public domain using Wikidata and Wikipedia - with User:Hiperterminal.
- (Spanish) Taller de OpenRefine por David Ramírez-Ordóñez (User:Hiperterminal) - a workshop on OpenRefine with a geder perspective.
- Introducing lgbtDB: A Collaborative Queer Resource and Pilot Data Area by Clair Kronk.
Tool of the week
- HumansMap - a connection-visualiser and explorer app for 3 million notable humans, all data sourced from Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for tool builders: EntitySchemas listening tour: The Wikidata team wants your feedback on EntitySchemas to improve data quality and discoverability. Share your experiences, pain points, and needs via the project talk page or this short Google form (including option for a 30-min video call).
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- ConLang Code Registry code (3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3)
- official roster page (URL of a team's official page about this player)
- value type of this mathematical property (type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects)
- Usenet newsgroup (Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
- hardware is incompatible with (significant elements with which a computer hardware or electronic device is incompatible and which indicates a significant property of this hardware.)
- Peh-oe-ji (writing system for Taiwanese Hokkien (Q36778) or other Southern Min (Q36495) language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
- heir apparent (person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
- thumbtime (time for video thumbnail in seconds)
- Newest External identifiers: Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), BERON lexeme ID, Brussels BeStAddress street ID, Brussels BeStAddress address ID, Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID, Anarâš aavis topic ID, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID, TMDB award ID, Open Library Collection, Ohio University ArchiveSpace subject ID, VAi Archiefhub agent ID, PBA.com player ID, IRIS UNIL author ID, IPRESS ID, GEMI Number, StandardsMap ID, Japanese Location Database ID, IRDI, Wendingen object ID, Wendingen person ID, Oricon News ID, JMRC person id (en), Rappels person ID, KCI journal ID, KCI publisher ID, BIORAB-Kaiserreich ID, BIORAB–WEIMAR ID, Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID, Göteborgsalliansen player ID, Fungal Names taxon ID, Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID, Brewver beer ID, Central Registration Number (Indonesian police), UEA catalogue ID, lit.link ID, kulturbase.no ID, KuLaDig-ID, Topplista artist ID, TV Drama Database program ID, Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID, Swedish National Archives ID, Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID, PeeringDB facility ID, Nişanyan Adlar ID, National Theatre in Prague performance ID, National Theatre in Prague artist ID, JVID performer ID, CICAP Encyclopedia ID, MJ character glyph name, member of the Azorean parliament ID, Master Ideographs Seeker character ID, London Book Trades ID, Kloekecode, ID Prix de Lausanne, GDUNO ID, fotbolltransfers.com ID, Foot Résultats player ID, Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography ID, DBNL country ID, CROWCASS file number, European Dictionary Portal ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType)
- OpenType language system tag (identifier for a language (system) in OpenType)
- tattoos (anatomical location of a tattoo that this person or character have)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: organization in cooperation with ISO ID, EDAM Ontology ID, FISH Evidence Thesaurus Identifier, FISH Thesaurus of Monument Types ID, ScriptSource script ID, ScriptSource language code, Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Max username, BE-monumen ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- List of sitelinked small items to a single Wiki (source) - example wiki: Maori Wikipedia
- People who have herbarium specimens in Herbarium Dresdense (on a timeline) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Collectors affiliated with the Herbarium Dresdense (DR)
- WikiProject Highlights:
- LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/QuickStatements3 - don't forget to add yourself to the participants section if you plan to attend the 14.04 Zoom call.
- Temples in Roman Britain/Data Model subpage was added.
- Library and Information Science added subpages: Librarians dashboard, Indexers dashboard
- Newest database reports: Short Pages - A list of pages (mostly Items) that are very small, often appear completely blank. A review to judge whether they are suitable for deletion, victims of vandalism or require merging or expanding may be appropriate.
- Showcase Items: Baldur's gate II: Shadows of Amn - an isometric CRPG created with the Infinity engine, adapting the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition ruleset.
- Showcase Lexemes: spegnere (Italian verb) to turn off, switch off, extinguish.
Development
- The Wikibase Reuse Team is working on ensuring language fallback works on the GraphQL labels of linked entities functionality and improving the technical infrastructure behind wbsearchentities.
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: is working on introducing metrics that help observe the impact of Recent Change related work. Work continues on improving the Diff (T419244, T419823)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: United Nations
- 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!
Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas
You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:22, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #728

week leading up to 2026-04-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #727.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Yamato Shiya - RfP scheduled to end after 26 April 2026 11:10 (UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: ZI Jony 2 - Closed as successful
Events
- Upcoming events:
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #88 May 11 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
- Wikidata turns 14 this October, and it’s time to start thinking about birthday celebrations🥳. See the various ways in which you can participate.
- Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida and requires registration (see link).
- University of Central Illinois - How does data power Wikipedia and Wikidata? Discover how your data skills can make an impact. Join the two onsite sessions (April 21, follow the link for registration details). Module 1 - GLAM Wiki and the Wikimedia Ecosystem: Commons and Structured Data: 0930 - 1130 CDT - An overview of GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). Module 2 - Wikidata: Editing, Querying, Citations and GIS Applications, 1300 - 1500 CDT
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Women in Photography – Wikidata Workshop with LightBox Photo Library - to address the underrepresentation of women photographers in the Wikimedia Projects, this workshop brought tech reporters, librarians, researchers and photography enthusiasts to understand how Wikidata can unlock data silos and connect different projects (in the Wikiverse and external) to make data on women photographers more searchable.
- Her Heritage Wiki Challenge: Art+Feminism in Ghana Month
- No Signal? No Problem: Building the Dagbanli Dictionary for Offline Use, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
- Papers: Optimising university web visibility: strategies using Wikidata identifiers and statements in Webometrics rankings By Backory et al., (2026), this study analyses Webometrics rankings of universities, applying clustering algorithms (K-means, hierarchical clustering, fuzzy C-means, GMM, and DBSCAN) to identify which identifiers and statements the top-ranked institutions have in common on their Wikidata entities.
- Videos:
- OKI Internship 2026 - Wikidata & Screening Test Preparation - Part of the Open Knowledge Initiative, hosted by Ankit V & Kasyap P.
- Charted Roots - Genealogy and worldbuilding in Obsidian - includes an example of linking to Wikidata to quickly add location data to your visualised family history.
Tool of the week
- Depictor by Hay Kranen is a tool that add structured data statements to Wikimedia Commons using a game-like interface
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- What is Wikidata? - Library Carpentry is part of The Carpentries, a registered non-profit teaching foundational coding and data science skills. They recently updated their introductory course to Wikidata and knowledge graph concepts.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: ocremix.org game ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- 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))
- independent of theory (theory that proves neither this proposition nor its negation)
- 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)
- part of discography (discography that this musical release is a part of)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Thai Government Agency GFMIS Code, Conlang Database ID, Plataforma Acácia, Observatório Terras Quilombolas, LMTA folkloro archyvo ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Rheinland-Pfalz, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID, Код Вестра, 19star performer ID, EM-DAT disaster number, ColBase ID, BIOSOP ID, BIOKAND ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Depthness of subway stations in meters (by Bouzinac)
- Newest database reports: Children of unborn parents, this list shows the child entity's birth date predates the parent entity's birth date: good candidates to check if the birth and relationship statements need correcting.
- Showcase Items: Haïlé Sélassié Ier - Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
- Showcase Lexemes: slide (L9704) - English noun (slaɪd) meaning "a photographic transparency", "a playground or gym apparatus", or "a mass movement of earth or snow"
Development
- The Wikibase Reuse team continued their work on ensuring language fallback works for labels of linked entities in GraphQL and on refactoring wbsearchentities
- The Wikidata team worked on explored how to reduce load for low data users T400325, fixed some bugs on the new mobile editing on Items T418110, T414454 and improved some error messages T417797, T412145
- In the WIT team, engineering continued working on the LilDiffCheck 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.
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: South Korea
- 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!
Elizabeth II memorial
Hi. Hope you're doing well. Since you started the article on Memorial to Elizabeth II, London and probably are a bit more familiar with the topic than I am, I just wanted to point out that a website has been launched for it which probably has more up to date information that if used with secondary sources can be utilized to further update the article. Thought it would be nice to bring it to your attention. All the best. Keivan.fTalk 00:45, 21 April 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 April 2026
- News and notes: Six Serbian Wikipedia editors banned following controversy about political bias
Plus, new bans for AI-generated content in place, a new drop in active admins, pranks on pranks, May admin election, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- In the media: Could Wikipedia be involved in Massachusetts' proposed social media ban for minors?
Another regulate-the-internet attempt casts a wide net.
- Gallery: March equinox
The progression of seasons in March.
- Traffic report: Time to change my galaxy in case, we outta space!
What catches the reader's eye? Death and film, per usual, and a loop around the moon per unusual.
- Comix: Of skirts and articles
When significant coverage is only skin deep.
The latest exhibition
I had some spare time on my hands so I decided to create this article. Feel free to develop it since there is always a chance that I might have overlooked something. Cheers. MSincccc (talk) 09:55, 21 April 2026 (UTC)
FYI
Another user has merged the article Portrait of Rachel Reeves into her main article. Was that the best course of action, given that it now appears as a section within her biography? Best, MSincccc (talk) 13:42, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
- Honestly think the best thing to do is to leave it as it is. The information I sourced will have far greater visibility on her own article rather than having readers click through from her article to a seprate article on the painting tbf. It is frustrating as I love to create small but perfectly formed artiles on cuiros, but visibility is the key. No Swan So Fine (talk) 14:05, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #729

week leading up to 2026-04-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #728.
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Yamato Shiya - Congratulations to our newest Admin!
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Chamiln17@FineWiki - Task/s: Read-only Wikidata entity cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.
Events
- Upcoming events: Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session — 28 April 2026 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. This session covers QuickStatements 3.0, the updated batch-editing tool for Wikidata, redeveloped by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, featuring a modern interface and improved performance. Watch the previous session recording: on youtube. More details: QuickStatements3
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- The Gballi Browser: Designing for the Dagbanli Alphabet, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
- Building Visibility for African Women on Wikimedia: The EmpowerHer Fellowship by Andikan Efiok Eduok.
- Papers:
- Call for Edits Nearby: Open Archives Metadata from Saxony by J. Bemme & M. Munke (2026), latest paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data series.
- (Deutsch) [PDF] Art History Loves Wiki 2026 | digital/local.collection loves wiki - report from ArtHist.net on the recent 3rd edition of the conference, held at the Museum Schnütgen, Köln, from 27 – 29 March.
- Videos:
- Live Wikidata Editing, #121 with Jan Ainali and Abbe98.
- (Español) Build with Wikimedia open data: APIs, SPARQL and visualization with Carla Toro Fernández, Director Technology WM Chile.
- Every Airport Ever Built (1909-2024) - an animated map showing where and when airports were built. Powered by Wikidata and OurAirports.
- (Catalan) Barcelona Free Software: How to use Wikidata to make public domain digital works visible?, User:Hiperterminal presents Paulina, discusses the work done in digitising collections and how to make public domain works visible.
- Notebooks: Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography? by User:PAC2
Tools of the week
- The Human History Atlas (WikiTime), a browser-based atlas that uses Wikidata and Wikipedia-sourced data to construct timelines and allows exploration of significant historical events.
- Wikilympians, a real-time list of all 153,412 known Olympic competitors with Wikidata and Wikipedia coverage statistics
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibase Suite 7.0 and Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.0.0 have been launched! It brings Wikibase closer to feature parity with Wikidata. Here's what's in the latest release:
- Echo Extension: User activity alerts and notifications.
- Discussion Tools Extension: Set of tools to enhance discussion pages.
- Temporary Accounts: The support for temporary accounts without IP address exposure has been added. It will, however, remain disabled by default, in line with Wikibase Cloud.
- Grouped External Identifiers (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310898): External identifiers are now grouped on entity pages for better readability.
- “Mul” (multi-language) support: Adds support for multi-language values.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- perspective (point of view for an image of an object, for example an anatomical structure (ventral, dorsal, frontal))
- Bavarian natural monuments ID (identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt)
- audio version of text (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).)
- motive (verified reasoning behind an action)
- award category or rank ((qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank)
- Newest External identifiers: BE-monumen ID, Team Norway athlete ID, Kantonsspital St.Gallen author ID, Consumer Rights Wiki article ID, Central Registration Number (Indonesia Military), Conlang Database ID, EM-DAT disaster number, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID, EDAM Ontology ID, Turkey province ID, Kvinnehistorie.no topic ID, CNVD-ID, GiveSendGo fundraising ID, radiko person ID, Wikiparfum brand ID, Turkey district ID, OSDev article ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- different from property (This property is to be distinguished from the other property)
- SELL rating (classification in the Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs rating system)
- time expansion (factor by which a recording's duration has been extended or compressed relative to the original real-time event, without pitch correction; values greater than 1 indicate time expansion (e.g. 10 = ten times longer than real life, pitch lowered tenfold); values less than 1 indicate time compression (e.g. 0.1 = ten times shorter, pitch raised tenfold); 1 = real-time)
- Parental Advisory System rating (content rating for coin-operated video games)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: CINEFOX film ID (reproposal), CINEFOX parson ID (reproposal), VK video ID, Brew TV, CycleBase cyclist ID (new), Royal Australian Air Force service number, Files of the Reich Chancellery ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: List of treaties/truces in the time by Bouzinac
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Occupations for enriching items occupation (P106), occupation (Q12737077) with data verified from official national occupation classification systems.
- Newest database reports: Without Claims by Site - this report will list how many Wikidata Items have 0 Statements, with a linked Wiki Article/page. Click reports/all items for a per wiki list, and consider expanding.
- Showcase Items: Okazaki fragments - short DNA sequences synthesized discontinuously during DNA replication
- Showcase Lexemes: transfer (L29733) - English noun/verb (ˈtræns.fɜːr) meaning "to move from one place to another", "a sports team member moving to another team", or "a ticket allowing continuation of a journey"
Development
- Query Service: It is now possible to download query results in Wikidata Query Service that include coordinates as KML & GPX (GeoJSON has been available since last year). Text from the first column in the results is used as the value for naming POIs. Thanks again to Atom.oil.2 for the patch. (phab:T414376)
- The Wikidata team continued working on a prototype to make WikiProjects more visible (phab:T420907) and made the new Wikidata mobile UI use auto-resizing text areas instead of single-line text inputs, in order to make longer values easier to edit (phab:T414420)
- The Wikidata Integrations team now has a working prototype of LilDiffCheck, injecting wikidata changes into recent changes only if there was a change on the wikipedia html (phab:T421390)
- Language fallback will be available this week on the labels of linked entities functionality in GraphQL (phab:T413655)
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: field of work
- 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!
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Terrorist incidents in London in the 2020s

A tag has been placed on Category:Terrorist incidents in London in the 2020s indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 23:20, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
An FA for the future?
This article became an FA more than eight decades after the actual event; perhaps this one will too, in our lifetimes? The work continues... Best, MSincccc (talk) 14:38, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
CS1 error on 1988 royal tour of California
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Wikidata weekly summary #730

week leading up to 2026-05-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #729.
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:
- 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!
DYK for 1988 royal tour of California
On 7 May 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1988 royal tour of California, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a robot presented flowers to a duchess before complimenting her hat during a royal tour of California? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1988 royal tour of California. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 1988 royal tour of California), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.
~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:03, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

