User talk:TapticInfo/Archives/2025/July

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • 8-11 September: OpenRefine Barcamp - fully virtual, registrations and call for sessions are open
  • WikidataCon 2025 returns this year on the theme of Connecting People through Linked Open Data...on the links below you can
    • Register to the event to get updates and news
    • Submit now, the Call for Proposals is open!
  • Wikidata for Jewish Studies, a hands-on Wikidata workshop at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz from September 8-9, 2025. (Registration by July 18)
  • Drop in and Wikidata - This regular online meeting has moved to the last Thursday of every month. Join via Zoom

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: none
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • defining Prolog formula (Prolog rule expressing the intended logical behavior of a property, for use in ontology formalization and rule-based reasoning.)
    • Codes for the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (identifier for administrative divisions of People's Republic of China, published by Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China)
    • ENTSO-E resource type (ENTSO-E code for type of Power System Resource. Alias: PSR type, electrical aset type)
  • External identifiers: Film Atlas ID, FLBB player ID, MarathonView person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • UNESCO Memory of the World International Register (now complete up to 2023) (source)
  • Largest collections on the MoW International Register
  • Featured and Good Articles in Korean or Chinese Wikipedia, with no English version - source
  • Ugandan Female Footballers - source
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Personal Collections - The WikiProject Personal Collections aims to develop structured, multilingual standards and best practices for describing personal collections and archives on Wikidata.
• Newest database reports:
• Showcase Items: Arctic Monkeys (Q170599) - English rock band
• Showcase Lexemes: ਸਿਫ਼ਤ (L713097) - Punjabi noun (si-fat) meaning "praise/glorification", "virtue", or "attribute"

Development

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

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Press
  • Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy - by The Register, this article highlights examples of Wikidata serving and powering a growing ecosystem of FOSS projects, outside of Wikipedia.
  • (Italian) WikiLib: Roman+Vatican Librarians compared on Wikidata -
• Blogs
  • Preserving Indonesian GLAM Assets in Wikidata - This article documents how Indonesian users collaborated in preserving Indonesian GLAM assets by adding its metadata to Wikidata during 2025 GLAM Wiki Month organized by Wikimedia Indonesia.
• Papers
  • Linking Challenges for Pseudonyms: The Studies of VIAF, ISNI, Wikidata, Meridian, and Beyond by Charlene Chou
• Thesis
  • The Dictionary of Italian contemporary pseudonym writers in Wikidata. Methodology and results: MA thesis (discussed on 29 May) regarding the systematic addition in Wikidata of all the nearly 500 Italian writers described in a biographical dictionary, with a first introductory part, a second part describing the editing methodology, including the authority work done both in Wikidata and in some major authority files (SBN, GND, IDREF) to disambiguate the main homonyms, and a third part analysing through SPARQL queries the data about these writers
    • full thesis (in Italian) published in the University of Pisa thesis repository; work materials available in the Wikidata usersubpage of Sara De Monaco; slides (in Italian) used in the discussion available in Wikimedia Commons; related datasets available in Zenodo
• Videos
  • (mostly Italian, with some parts in English) Wikidata & Research International Conference (video of 5 June session) - held at the University of Florence 5-6 June 2025, the conference touched on role of Wikidata in academic research (cf. Wikidata and research]), building on past initiatives such as Wikidata Days Bologna 2024.
  • (Portuguese) How to add Wikidata-powered Infoboxes to Wikipedia - a short tutorial video from the University of São Paolo Institute of Mathematics and Statistics.

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• 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.
• How to properly cite a Newspaper article? Project Chat discussion.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: QUDT dimension ID, istina.msu.ru journal ID, Niedersächsische Personen ID, Submarine Cable Map ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • MediaWiki page revision ID (ID for a MediaWiki wiki revision, Wikimedia projects should use {{P|7569}})
    • applies if VIN matches regular expression (this statement is only true if the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) of a vehicle matches this regular expression)
    • Cadastral areas (List of cadastral areas of municipality)
    • settlement classification (settlement classification)
    • Modern Shrine Ranking (Rank in the [[Q712534|Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines]])
    • Divine Rank (The [[Q11591025|Shinkai (divine rank)]] of a Shrine)
    • Engishiki celebration category (Celebration category mentioned in the engishiki)
    • Engishiki Rank (Rank of a shrine in the Engishiki Jinmyocho.)
    • Honji Buddha (Buddha that this kami is identified with)
    • Suijaku Kami (Kami that this Buddha is believed to have manifested as)
    • identifiant Generation MSX d'une société ou d'un groupe de démo (company or demo group identifier in the Generation MSX database of MSX videogames)
  • External identifiers: Knowledge Graph for Irish History ID, National Library of Uruguay book ID, Kokugakuin University Shrine Database ID, Observer tag, Observer contributor ID, Geoguessr ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Uganda's hydropower plants (source)
• Newest WikiProjects Postcards was created, including a list of project-specific Queries
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • GovDirectory added a Type watchlist.
  • WikiProject Taiwan added a Library List.
• Newest database reports: Abuse Filter effectiveness
• Showcase Items: Stefan Löfven (Q2740012) - Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden between 2014–2021
• Showcase Lexemes: sterk (L453737) - Norwegian Bokmål adjective (stæʁk) meaning "strong", "intense", or "durable"

Development

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

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

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 16th July 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Submit Your Program Proposal for WikiIndaba 2025 by 20th July. Apply for a scholarship to attend the event here.
  • Wikimania 2025 Hackathon kicks off on Tuesday, 5 August and a dedicated workspace will be available throughout the conference until Saturday, 9 August. Have a technical idea, tool, or project you want to build during the hackathon? Submit it now and start connecting with collaborators! Add your project here.
  • WikiCite 2025 will take place from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st of August! in Bern (Switzerland) and online! See the draft program here.
  • 2025 LD4 Conference: Linked Data in the Real World (website; schedule and registration; streaming on Youtube), 28th-30th July 2025, virtually on Zoom; many Wikidata-related sessions:
    • July 28, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT - Has This Been Done Before? Exploring Wikidata Projects Through Diff and TMIG Archives by Silvia Gutierrez (workshop)
    • July 29, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT - Wikidata Affinity Group: Introduction to Wikidata for Entity Management by Alex Jung, Kyla Jemison, Susan Radovsky (cf. d:Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group)
    • July 29, 2025 3:15pm - 3:45pm EDT - Scholarly profiling in Wikidata: Creating a knowledge graph for the SEEKCommons open science research network by Dorothy Howard
    • July 29, 2025 3:45pm - 3:55pm EDT - From Biographical Dictionary to Linked Data by Sara De Monaco (cf. d:User:SaraDeMonaco/Tesi magistrale and d:Q135208119)
    • July 29, 2025 3:55pm - 4:05pm EDT - LCCNbot one year on: an update by Mary Muratsubaki Campany (cf. d:User:LccnBot)
    • July 29, 2025 4:05pm - 4:15pm EDT - Supporting access to CD-ROMs while using and contributing to Wikidata by Claire Fox
    • July 29, 2025 4:15pm - 4:25pm EDT - Surfacing Sociotechnical Research with Wikidata by Kathleen Burlingame
    • July 29, 2025 4:25pm - 4:35pm EDT - Wikidata Workflows with ORCID and OpenRefine: A Binghamton University Case Study by Sasha Frizzell
    • July 30, 2025 2:45pm - 4:45pm EDT - WiLES: Wikidata Lexicographical Event Semantics modeling for natural languages by Humza Yaqoob, Mahir Morshed (workshop)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Scaling the Knowledge Graph Behind Wikipedia By Alex Woodie
  • The power and potential of Wikidata for botany (see paper below) By Heidi Meudt
• Papers
  • Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data By Sabine et al., (2025). This study explores Wikidata as an open, multilingual knowledge base that connects botanical data across sources, and urges botanists to collaboratively enrich its content to support a broad spectrum of plant science.
• Videos
  • Wikidata labels and descriptions By Moore Wikimedia Community
  • Wikidata Lablar Description Stockholm Archipelago trail By Magnus Sälgö
• Presentations
  • How To...Wikibase? - Senior Partner Manager, Christos Varvantakis has produced this set of training and educational material to get you started with Wikibase.

Tool of the week

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes
  • official donation page URL (official URL for making donations to the subject)
  • image of cosplay (cosplay that depicts this character or person)
  • ‎worn on (part of the body where an item of clothing, equipment, or jewelry is worn)
  • warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
  • ‎matricule number (identifier for a football club affiliated with the Royal Belgian Football Association)
• New External identifiers: CABR-identifier, Nederlands Film Festival person ID, The Sun topic ID, IMDb interest ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Cyclocross24 rider ID (identifier for a cyclo-cross cyclist in the Cyclocross24 database)
  • Polyhedron net (A net of attached 2D polygon created for each polyhedron)
  • Kanpei or Kokuhei ()
  • file name (name used for this entity in a computer file system)
  • Anthologia Graeca author (Author number in the Anthologia Graeca Project, an online annotated edition of the [[w:Greek Anthology]])
  • langue locale dominante ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: accomplice, CCCA ID, Cover Art Archive image, Athletics Podium person ID, CESAR title ID, GaultMillau-idenficatiecode Nederland, eFloraMEX ID, BORIS Unibe author ID, EDBO institution code, OSHWA Identifier, identifiant Personnel de l'administration préfectorale depuis 1945, identifiant Personnel de l'administration préfectorale au 19e siècle, The Traditional Ballad Index file name, ID edizioni CoBiS LOD, SIK-ISEA person ID, SIK-ISEA group ID, SIK-ISEA institution ID, SIK-ISEA work ID, SIK-ISEA document ID, speedrun.com level ID, Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Polish version), Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Russian version), Mizuumi Wiki article ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now source
  • The names of the characters from Asterix & Obélix, in French, English, German, Latin and some other languages (source)
  • Map the global distribution of periodicals in publication languages from the Eastern Mediterranean (Arabic, Ottoman, Greek, Ladino, Coptic etc) (source)
• Showcase Items: Das Erste (Q49727) - German public-service television channel
• Showcase Lexemes: reference (L5785) - English noun/verb (ˈɹɛf.ɹəns) meaning "source citation", "supporting document", or "relationship"

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.

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: Chile
• 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!

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

• Papers: An educator framework for organizing Wikipedia editathons for computational biology (uses Wikidata to power the compbio-on-wiki.toolforge.org/ tool)

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes:
  • ‎matricule number (identifier for a football club affiliated with the Royal Belgian Football Association)
  • ‎settlement classification (type of settlement according to a topographical classification)
  • Polyhedron net (a net of attached 2D polygon created for each polyhedron)
• New External identifiers: National Library of Uruguay book ID, The Jerusalem Post topic ID, Physicians of Georgia Biographical Dictionary ID, eFloraMEX ID, Theatre museums of Russia person ID, Georgian Athletes Biographical Dictionary ID, Georgian Winemakers ID, Ukrainian Book of Remembrance person ID, BORIS Portal Unibe ID, Society for the Promotion of Literacy among Georgians Members ID, Deaf Movie Database title ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • identifiant Generation MSX d'un matériel (hardware identifier in the Generation MSX database of MSX videogames)
  • Polish Taxpayer Identification Number (an identifier for an entity paying taxes in Poland)
  • official roster page (URL of a team's official page about this player)
  • transistor density (density of transistors for classifying the complexity of discrete circuits)
  • Historische Bildpostkarten Universität Osnabrück - Entities (Identificator for persons and publishers of historical picture postcards)
  • grave (grave of a person)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: fanlore article id, Afrikaregisteret ID, Hong Kong company ID, California Entity Number, Macanese company ID, Corporation Number in Canada, QCC Code, Cyprus company ID, Malta company ID, GEMI Number, CUIT, Jamaica company ID, SEC Number, Mã số doanh nghiệp, movieID, Thailand company ID, PCPartPicker chipset ID, gosfilmofond.ru ID, Directorio de museos del Sistema de Información Cultural, Burmese company ID, Cambodian company ID, Georgian Encyclopedia ID, Vintagepostcards-Archive-ID, MacPorts port, Berardi Arte artist ID, Adult Film Database director ID, Elonet company ID, dvdcompare.net film id, SpaceReference.org celestial object ID, English solicitors ID, Deaf Movie Database person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Mathematical formulae containing HTML escapes https://w.wiki/EoeL]
  • Most frequent objects depicted on coats of arms (source)
• Showcase Items: Finding Forrester (Q1140439) - 2000 film directed by Gus Van Sant
• Showcase Lexemes: Września (L1372236) - Polish proper noun (ˈvʐɛɕ.ɲa) meaning "September (month)", "town in Greater Poland", or "village in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship"

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.

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: Vietnam
• 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!