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Wikidata weekly summary #673
[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #672
week leading up to 2025-04-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #672
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: BRPever 2 adminship request closes tomorrow.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- MCL's Linked Data Usergroup's Wikidata Edit-A-Thon - The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services is hosting an editathon between April 7 - 11, 2025. This is an onsite event and only available to USA states: Indiana and Michigan.
- (German) Wikidata models on colonial looting and African cultural heritage - June 4, 2025, 1300 UTC+2. This event will be presented in German.
- Wikidata Training Workshop by WM Uganda - on April 26, discover how Wikidata powers Wikipedia and beyond! Register here
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Presentations
- Videos
- Live Wikidata editing - creating Property proposals with Jan Ainali.
- Entity Management Cooperative meeting, with Wikidata
- (Taiwanese) Seediq Wikimedia 2024 Annual Conference - hosted by Wikidata Taiwan, here are the opening remarks by Principal Zhan Su'e's opening speech.
- Open translations in mathematics (Oxford Seminar) - This presentation from Tim Osgood discusses the utility of mathematics for translations, a community-driven approach, and how Wikidata is contributing.
- (Spanish) Socialisation: Literary Data in Bogota 2015 - 2020 - The Colombian Publishing Observatory of the Caro y Cuervo Institute presents "Metadata Model for Independent Publishing in Bogotá", containing over 31,500 data points, all catalogued in Wikidata.
- (Italian) Tools for Visualising Wikidata - Carlo Bianchini presents some useful tools for visualising data and queries from Wikidata, with a focus on Digital Humanities.
Tool of the week
- Revisiting the Twelfth Birthday Presents - if you haven't seen the birthday presents already, go check them out!
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details |available here.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID, The Atlantic topic ID, TechSavvy.de GPU ID, Delfi.ee theme ID, The College of Cardinals Report ID, NexusMods mod ID, Hiking Note Trail identifier, Hiking Note mountain identifier
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- SWIS-WEM Facility Code (Unique identifier for facilities registered with the Australian Energy Market Operator for facilities operating in the South West Interconnected System Wholesale Electricity Market (SWIS-WEM Facility Code))
- number of downloads (2) (number of downloads of times this application or creative work have been downloaded)
- species protection status (Links species, habitat or biotope type with the regulation international or national that protects this species)
- Number of Heads of Families (number of family cards (KK) in an area)
- mother's maiden name (maiden name of this person’s mother)
- External identifiers: FirstCycling team season ID, FirstCycling race ID, Dizionario della Musica in Italia ID, Ethnologue language family ID, Untappd beer ID, Catálogo Histórico de Teses e Dissertações da Área de História ID, The Sun topic ID, Databáze her platform ID, Rekhta Gujarati author ID, Itch.io tag ID, The Jerusalem Post topic ID, DVIDS Photo ID, LUX person ID, LUX group ID, LUX place ID, Shazoo tag ID, ідентифікатор особи в Бібліометрика української науки, SCImago Institutions Rankings ID, UniRank ID, Climate Policy Radar ID, LUX concept ID, iNaturalist photo ID, identifiant Ordre national du Québec, LUX event ID, Cabinet minutes of the Federal Government ID, R-Sport match ID, Sport Express football match ID, CPJ topic ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Showcase Items: Pleinfeld (Q252320) - market municipality in Germany
- Showcase Lexemes:humpback (L322138) - English noun that can mean " kyphosis (condition of the spine)", "a person with an abnormal curvature of the spine", "humpback whale, a particular marine mammal variety", "pink salmon", "lake skygazer, a type of ray-finned fish", " type of arch bridge where the span is larger than the ramps on either side", or " humpback dolphin, a particular variety of marine mammal."
Development
- Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search entity types other than Items (Lexemes, Properties, EntitySchemas) in the search box (phab:T321543)
- Vector 2022 theme: We are fixing remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039)
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to build out the simple Item search endpoint (phab:T386228) and are looking into the one for Properties (phab:T386377)
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: Australia
- 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! :)
Wikidata weekly summary #674 (test)
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #673
week leading up to 2025-04-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #673
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wiki Workshop Registration is Now Open! The event will be held virtually over two days on May 21 & 22, 2025.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #75 April 14 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- (French) Collection and use of Wikipedia and Wikidata data in SHS searches - 17 June, 2025. Participation via video-conference available, register here and program info here.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Inference, continued - Magnus Manske adds 2 new functions to WD-infernal. The Whelming
- (French) Illustrious women in public spaces. Streets, buildings and other places overwhelmingly feature men Porte Plumpe
- Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) receives ProjectUil from Dutch Wikipedia
- Papers: Enabling disaggregation of Asian American subgroups: a dataset of Wikidata names for disparity estimation - Paper by Lin, Q. et al (2025).
- Videos
- Curationist: What is it and how does it work? - Curationist utilises Wikidata to help discover, curate and share public-domian art and cultural heritage content. YouTube
- (Swedish) Connecting Wikidata, OpenStreetMap and the National Archives with Magnus Sälgö YouTube
- (French) Focus on Wikidata, Wikifying Science, a presentation from Delphine Montagne and Pierre-Yves Beaudouin. Canal-U TV: C@fé Renatis
- Other
- (Portuguese) Wikidata at School: expanding access to knowledge and tackling gender gaps! Instagram: Projeto Mais
Tool of the week
- Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata for Web - also known as Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that displays data from Wikidata on various websites, enhancing the information you are already looking at, and also allows extraction of data from these websites.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details available here.
- Job Vacancy - Are you interested in helping shape the technical future of Wikimedia's knowledge graph? We are looking for a Staff Engineer (Wikidata)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- beam energy (kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator))
- External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- interior decorator (A property for the interior decorator of notable buildings)
- incompatible with (significant elements with which an entity is incompatible and indicates a significant property of this entity)
- warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
- Trafikplatssignatur (Swedish station code)
- outcome 2 (outcome of a criminal charge or a civil complaint)
- External identifiers: TechPowerup GPU ID, ISFDB category of an award ID, L'Expression topic ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque du Saulchoir, National Gallery (London) PID, Identifiant sur Orthodox World
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest database reports: Items with identical Birth and Death dates - another way to identify duplicate items.
- Showcase Items: Game of Thrones (Q23572) - American fantasy drama television series
- Showcase Lexemes: umuyagankuba (L1215369) - "electricity" in Kirundi
Development
- We made some progress on the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature by improving the UI, and making it translatable (phab:T390269)
- We continued working on dark mode support (phab:T389633)
- Wikibase REST API: We are almost done adding the last few features on the simple item and property search endpoint. We'll be happy to get feedback on these from 15.04 when they're completed
- We will begin user testing to improve Mobile Editing Experience: Mobile editing of statements
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: European Union
- 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 #674 (test2)
[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2025-04-07. Please help Translate.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2025-04-07. Please help Translate.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wiki Workshop Registration is Now Open! The event will be held virtually over two days on May 21 & 22, 2025.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #75 April 14 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- (French) Collection and use of Wikipedia and Wikidata data in SHS searches - 17 June, 2025. Participation via video-conference available, register here and program info here.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Inference, continued - Magnus Manske adds 2 new functions to WD-infernal. The Whelming
- (French) Illustrious women in public spaces. Streets, buildings and other places overwhelmingly feature men Porte Plumpe
- Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) receives ProjectUil from Dutch Wikipedia
- Papers: Enabling disaggregation of Asian American subgroups: a dataset of Wikidata names for disparity estimation - Paper by Lin, Q. et al (2025).
- Videos
- Curationist: What is it and how does it work? - Curationist utilises Wikidata to help discover, curate and share public-domian art and cultural heritage content. YouTube
- (Swedish) Connecting Wikidata, OpenStreetMap and the National Archives with Magnus Sälgö YouTube
- (French) Focus on Wikidata, Wikifying Science, a presentation from Delphine Montagne and Pierre-Yves Beaudouin. Canal-U TV: C@fé Renatis
- Other
- (Portuguese) Wikidata at School: expanding access to knowledge and tackling gender gaps! Instagram: Projeto Mais
Tool of the week
- Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata for Web - also known as Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that displays data from Wikidata on various websites, enhancing the information you are already looking at, and also allows extraction of data from these websites.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details available here.
- Job Vacancy - Are you interested in helping shape the technical future of Wikimedia's knowledge graph? We are looking for a Staff Engineer (Wikidata)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- beam energy (kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator))
- External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- interior decorator (A property for the interior decorator of notable buildings)
- incompatible with (significant elements with which an entity is incompatible and indicates a significant property of this entity)
- warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
- Trafikplatssignatur (Swedish station code)
- outcome 2 (outcome of a criminal charge or a civil complaint)
- External identifiers: TechPowerup GPU ID, ISFDB category of an award ID, L'Expression topic ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque du Saulchoir, National Gallery (London) PID, Identifiant sur Orthodox World
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest database reports: Items with identical Birth and Death dates - another way to identify duplicate items.
- Showcase Items: Game of Thrones (Q23572) - American fantasy drama television series
- Showcase Lexemes: umuyagankuba (L1215369) - "electricity" in Kirundi
Development
- We made some progress on the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature by improving the UI, and making it translatable (phab:T390269)
- We continued working on dark mode support (phab:T389633)
- Wikibase REST API: We are almost done adding the last few features on the simple item and property search endpoint. We'll be happy to get feedback on these from 15.04 when they're completed
- We will begin user testing to improve Mobile Editing Experience: Mobile editing of statements
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: European Union
- 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!
WikidataCon update - May 2025 - Programme Tracks revealed
[edit]Hello everyone, here is an exciting update about the upcoming online WikidataCon 2025 conference:
The program tracks are here! We will soon be welcoming your ideas on the following topics:
- The Future of Wikidata
- (such as: how will AI fit into Wikidata’s plans? Changes in the Query Service, next steps for Wikidata development, reworking Notability Policy, how Abstract Wikipedia fits in)
- Lexemes and Languages
- Linked Open Data Ecosystem
- Reuse and Data Partnerships
- Providing the World with High Quality Data
- Other (if it doesn’t fit above, we still want to hear about it!)
So, it’s time to start thinking about a session to propose. Check the WikidataCon Talk page in the coming weeks for further updates, including on how to submit your Session Proposal idea or to ask any questions you may have.
Save the date: 31 Oct – 2 Nov 2025 Haven’t registered yet? Sign-up here
On behalf of the WikidataCon Organisation team, - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:53, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #678 (test)
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #676.
Translations are available
week leading up to 2025-04-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #676.
Translations are available
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2025-05-05.
Discussions
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: Mr Robot - No consensus reached.
Events
- Past events: Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
- Upcoming events:
- Volunteer Supporters Network/Wikidata for beginners May 16, 2025
- Wikidata and Sister Projects May 29 - June 1, 2025. register here
- Wikidata and Research Conference June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence.
- Call for Proposals:Wikidata Taiwan x OpenStreetMap Taiwam @ COSCUP 2025,Submission Deadline: May 10, 2025 (AoE).
- WikidataCon 2025 Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2025. Register here
- Ongoing event: Coordinate Me 2025 May 1 - May 31, 2025
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- WikidataCon 2025 - programme track categories are ready - time to start thinking about session proposals!
- checking OSM IDs between OSM and Wikidata By Michaël
- WikiFlix, a new free streaming platform goes live
- Papers
- How to Develop a Privacy-First Entity Recognition System By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
- Detecting and Masking Personal Data in Text By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
- EA2N: Evidence-Based AMR Attention Network for Fake News Detection By Gupta et. al., (2025)
Tool of the week
- OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap, is a project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. It was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways .
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ever played Redactle? Lucas put together a Wikidata version of it. Can you guess the Item? Still needs a bit of work but you can try it out now.
- EditGroups has a new maintainer
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- organization unit code (organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item)
- likes of fictional character (particular likes which applies to this fictional character as (usually) stated in their official profile or biography)
- dislikes of fictional character (particular dislikes which applies to this fictional character as stated in their official profile or biography)
- number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
- RAM capacity (amount of volatile random-access memory (RAM) modules used by this device)
- species protection status (Links species, habitat or biotope type with the regulation international or national that protects this species)
- Nation Ranking (primary) (main/general ranking for a cycling tournament season)
- Nation Ranking (secondary) (youth/U23 ranking for this cycling tournament season)
- External identifiers: badmintoncn.com star ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk work or dubbing ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, JSIC code, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, Dark Ride Database ride ID, Dark Ride Database park ID, Dark Ride Database manufacturer ID, Databáze her platform ID, Mourisco Catalogue work ID, Radiomuseum vacuum tube/transistor ID, CAMRA pub ID, MobyGames attribute ID, MetalTabs.com track ID, Moure's Catalog ID, PromoDJ track ID, Euronews topic ID, Audiomack artist ID, Audiomack album ID, Europe PMC preprint ID, SMB-digital asset ID, Audiomack song ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (glossary and index of terms) ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, Itch.io tag ID, Corago singer ID, MoNA spectrum ID, La Croix author ID, Billie Jean King Cup player ID 2024, TeamUSA.com athlete ID, Snopes ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID, PyPI organization name, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID, PlayStation Museum product ID, Urban Dictionary ID, GOG Dreamlist ID, RCI number, Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID, Orthodox World ID, Coasterpedia ID, Ethnologue language family ID, factordb ID, SCImago Institutions Rankings ID, UniRank ID, Bibliometrics of Ukrainian science person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Context Window (The maximum length of an input token in the language model.)
- contains nutrient (Food contains nutrient)
- underlying data (this mathematical structure has these data as part)
- échelle de Beaufort (empirical measure describing wind speed based on observed conditions)
- External identifiers: vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Mobility Database ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, Substack username, Private Enterprise Number, ComputerLanguage.com definition, otzovik.com review ID, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Persoon)
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know ?
- Newest WikiProjects :
- Newest database reports : Descriptions with QID - These Item descriptions contain a QID or Item ID.
- Showcase Items: Hans van Mierlo (Q288771) - Dutch politician (1931–2010)
- Showcase Lexemes: Tribe (L28956) - English noun (trīb) that can mean "a social division in traditional society", "a political subdivision", or "a genre of Techno Music":
Development
- Wikidata Query Service: The search platform team finished the remaining work for the graph split and it is going live this week.
- We took part in the Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
- Wikipedia and co: We continued working on improving how Wikidata edits are shown on the watchlist on Wikipedia and co. We are focusing on showing labels instead of IDs for the entities (Items, Properties, ...) linked in the edit summaries (phab:T388685)
- UI: We continued doing small fixes for dark mode support in the UI (phab:T385039)
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the search endpoint (phab:T383126)
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: Philippines
- 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 #681
[edit]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #680.
Help with Translations.
week leading up to 2025-05-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #680.
Help with Translations.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 12 - Task(s): Add PubMed publication ID(P698) to items that lack it, but have DOI(P356), which allows it to be looked up using the PubMed API.
- Talk: Wikidata Identifiers (No value for missing Ids): about how to indicate that a certain entity is absent in a given database
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wikidata and Sister Projects
During 4 half-days of sessions showcasing and showing how Wikidata supports and is integrated to the other Wikimedia projects
From Thursday, May 29 from 16:00 UTC to Sunday, June 1 13:30 UTC.
Registration link - Program - Questions? (Talk page)
- Wikidata and Sister Projects
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Taiwan Street-view Expedition (Huwei and Tuku, Yunlin, Taiwan) - joint OSM and Wikidata activity
- Papers
- (Italian) Termini, dati e collegamenti: ‘conversazioni’ tra il Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario e Wikidata: This study is about the history of the cooperation between the Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario (the main thesaurus used by Italian libraries for subject indexing) and Wikimedia projects, initially Wikipedia and now mainly Wikidata
- WikiDBGraph: Large-Scale Database Graph of Wikidata for Collaborative Learning By Wu et al., (2025) — This study introduces WikiDBGraph, a network of 100,000 linked databases from Wikidata, using 17 million connections to improve AI learning and reveal challenges in handling interconnected data.
- Filling in the Blanks? A Systematic Review and Theoretical Conceptualisation for Measuring WikiData Content Gaps By Ripoll et al., (2025) – The paper systematically reviews content gaps in Wikidata, proposing a typology of missing data and a framework to measure these gaps, highlighting their impact on knowledge quality and completeness.
- AI in Data Management and Analysis By Haber et al., (2025) – This paper explores how AI streamlines academic data tasks like cleaning and analysis, whike tools like Google DataPrep, Airtable and Wikidata help researchers, but human oversight is key to maintaining accuracy and ethics in research.
- Videos
- Using PetScan to create lists from Wikipedia and Wikidata By Tamsin Braisher (Dr Thneed).
- (Spanish) Connecting Collections: Wikidata as a Bridge between Museums and Communities By Museo de los Museos and Carla Toro.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Toolkit The Wikidata Toolkit is an open-source Java library for using data from Wikidata and other Wikibase sites. Its main goal is to make it easy for external developers to take advantage of this data in their own applications.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Some of the hypothesis involve Wikidata. You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Geographicus cartographer ID, Wikibase of Czech Librarians ID, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Ons Land ID, VejinBooks author ID, PC98 Images game ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki ID, CvLAC ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, WürzburgWiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, AW-Wiki ID, Tüik village ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- LSF rating (Indonesia film classification administered by the Indonesian Film Censorship Board)
- image of cosplay (cosplay that depicts this character or person)
- Classificazione Guizzi degli strumenti musicali (Guizzi's classification system of musical instruments)
- name translation (translation into native language)
- External identifiers: Concertzender ID, MCW-PL article ID, Polska Biblioteka Muzyczna PBM, norsk soldatregister person ID, Databank verkiezingsuitslagen, TNT Sports soccer team ID, NHK Archives Portal Broadcasting History ID, Lithuanian lake ID, Sierra Wiki article ID, Fondazione Ragghianti Fototeca image ID, archive creator archieven.nl
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Exemplars of the Magna Carta (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Revitalizing UK History- A wikiproject with the aim of enriching UK historical figures.
- Showcase Items:The BFG (Q19689203) - 2016 film by Steven Spielberg
- Showcase Lexemes: trucco (L580449) - Italian noun (ˈtruk.ko) meaning "deceptive ploy", "makeup", or "strategic maneuver"
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!
Wikidata and Sister Projects: how to attend
[edit]Hello everyone,
We are about to kick-off the Wikidata and Sister Projects online event, focusing on how Wikidata is used, supports and interacts with the sister (or sibling) Wikimedia Projects.
The event is starting tomorrow (29.05.2025) at 16:00 UTC!
How to attend: if you want to join the Jitsi room in order to interact with speakers and other participants, you can register on the event page in order to unlock access to the Jitsi link. You can also watch the livestream on Youtube, links will be published on the program table. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to write on the Discussion page or to reach out to me directly. We hope you enjoy the event! Best, - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 08:22, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #682(test)
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #681.
Help with Translations.
week leading up to 2025-06-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #681.
Help with Translations.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Wikidata Translation Bot - task/s: Automate translation of Item Labels and Descriptions across supported languages and submit them using the official Wikidata API.
- New request for comments: Mass-editing policy
- Closed request for comments:
- Rename PeakFinder ID (P3770) - Property was renamed.
- Domain name as data - property domain name (P13337) was created.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our first event will include guests from the Wikidata Search team to discuss the recent graph split project. Join us Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our GraphSplit project page for more information and Zoom links.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #77 June 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- Revitalizing UK History #June 7 Time 16:00 UTC Revitalizing UK History
- Just missed it?
- Wikidata and Sister Projects: full daily videos and presentation slides are being made available on the program page.
- Coordinate Me 2025, the contest to add geographic coordinates (P625) for countries with low representation has ended. Who will be declared winner?
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Wikidata promotes Sister Projects through interwiki links SLUB Open Science Lab writer Jens Bemme has put together a comprehensive article covering the recent online event and many examples of Wikidata being used.
- Papers
- MAKIEVAL: A Multilingual Automatic Wikidata-based Framework for Cultural Awareness Evaluation for LLMs By Zhao et al., (2025) - This paper presents MAKIEVAL, a framework for evaluating cultural awareness in LLMs across languages, showing that models exhibit stronger cultural awareness when prompted in English.
- Conversational Lexicography: Querying Lexicographic Data on Knowledge Graphs with SPARQL through Natural Language By Sennrich & Ahmadi (2025) - This paper develops a natural language interface for retrieving lexicographic data from Wikidata, creating a taxonomy and dataset, and evaluating language models, with GPT-3.5-Turbo showing the best generalization despite scalability challenges.
- UAQFact: Evaluating Factual Knowledge Utilization of LLMs on Unanswerable Questions By Tan et al., (2025) - This paper introduces UAQFact, a bilingual dataset for evaluating LLMs on unanswerable questions, showing that models struggle to fully utilize stored factual knowledge even with external support.
- Videos
- Listful Thinking:Using Wikidata to support editing workflows By Dr Thneed
- (French) Using Wikidata to gain visibility on the internet? By Nelly Darbois
- How to create a SPARQL Query to search Wikidata Item Description By vlogize
- (Spanish) Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata tutorial for the subject of Virreinal Art By Luis Alvaz
- Wikidata and Sister Projects (YouTube Playlist) - full daily recordings from the Wikidata and Sister Projects event.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Qrank is a ranking signal for Wikidata entities. It gets computed by aggregating page view statistics for Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikibooks, Wikispecies and other Wikimedia projects. For example, according to the QRank signal, the fictional character Pippi Longstocking ranks lower than Harry Potter, but still much higher than the obscure Äffle & Pferdle.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Should I watch this? - Enter a film title or IMDb ID to get a recommendation, uses data from Wikidata.
- Job Openings - want to help shape the future of Wikidata or Wikibase?
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
- cosplay of (characters that are cosplayed in this image or video)
- External identifiers: espn.com soccer team ID, Yale LUX ID, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, verkiezingsuitslagen database ID, Norwegian soldier register 1940 ID, Polish Music Library PBM ID, MCW-PL article ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- UK Mutual Registration Number (identifier for an organisation in the UK's Mutuals Public Register)
- External identifiers: Scilit organization ID, paleo.ru person ID, identifiant Assemblée nationale du Québec non-élu, ThinkyGames genre ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, MAI person ID, istina.msu.ru journal ID, MultimediaWiki page ID, Submarine Cable Map ID, Nederlands Film Festival person ID, CTS URN, Scientific heritage of Russia person ID, Virtual necropolis of Ukrainian emigration person ID, Russian Cycling Federation person ID, The Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors person ID, Yandex Books author ID, Theatre museums of Russia person ID, Reabilitovani istoriyeyu person ID, CARLA ID, Boosty author ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject WordNet
- Newest database reports:list of the most linked category page items
- Showcase Items: Captain America: Civil War (Q18407657) - 22016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo.
- Showcase Lexemes: (L1250690) spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb "switch off" or "to die"
Development
- Vector 2022 skin: We enabled dark mode for Items, Properties and Lexemes on Wikidata (phab:T389330)
- Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with the technical investigation.
- Diffs: We merged a volunteer patch by Matěj Suchánek to format quantity diffs a bit more sensibly (phab:T394585)
- Search in the UI: We enabled the new search on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org. It lets you easily search in other entity types as well now, not just Items. Please give it a try.
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on integrating simple search, specifically phrase matching (phab:T389011)
- Query Service: We are working on an experiment to add a small dialog to inform people about alternative access methods for very simple queries that don't require SPARQL (phab:T391261)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #682
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #681.
Help with Translations.
week leading up to 2025-06-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #681.
Help with Translations.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Wikidata Translation Bot - task/s: Automate translation of Item Labels and Descriptions across supported languages and submit them using the official Wikidata API.
- New request for comments: Mass-editing policy
- Closed request for comments:
- Rename PeakFinder ID (P3770) - Property was renamed.
- Domain name as data - property domain name (P13337) was created.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our first event will include guests from the Wikidata Search team to discuss the recent graph split project. Join us Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #77 June 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- Revitalizing UK History #June 7 Time 16:00 UTC Revitalizing UK History
- Just missed it?
- Wikidata and Sister Projects: full day videos and presentation slides are being made available on the program page.
- Coordinate Me 2025, the contest to add geographic coordinates (P625) for countries with low representation has ended. Who will be declared winner?
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Wikidata promotes Sister Projects through interwiki links SLUB Open Science Lab writer Jens Bemme has put together a comprehensive article covering the recent online event and many examples of Wikidata being used.
- Papers
- MAKIEVAL: A Multilingual Automatic Wikidata-based Framework for Cultural Awareness Evaluation for LLMs By Zhao et al., (2025) - This paper presents MAKIEVAL, a framework for evaluating cultural awareness in LLMs across languages, showing that models exhibit stronger cultural awareness when prompted in English.
- Conversational Lexicography: Querying Lexicographic Data on Knowledge Graphs with SPARQL through Natural Language By Sennrich & Ahmadi (2025) - This paper develops a natural language interface for retrieving lexicographic data from Wikidata, creating a taxonomy and dataset, and evaluating language models, with GPT-3.5-Turbo showing the best generalization despite scalability challenges.
- UAQFact: Evaluating Factual Knowledge Utilization of LLMs on Unanswerable Questions By Tan et al., (2025) - This paper introduces UAQFact, a bilingual dataset for evaluating LLMs on unanswerable questions, showing that models struggle to fully utilize stored factual knowledge even with external support.
- Videos
- Listful Thinking:Using Wikidata to support editing workflows By Dr Thneed
- (French) Using Wikidata to gain visibility on the internet? By Nelly Darbois
- How to create a SPARQL Query to search Wikidata Item Description By vlogize
- (Spanish) Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata tutorial for the subject of Virreinal Art By Luis Alvaz
- Wikidata and Sister Projects (YouTube Playlist) - full daily recordings from the Wikidata and Sister Projects event.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Qrank is a ranking signal for Wikidata entities. It gets computed by aggregating page view statistics for Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikibooks, Wikispecies and other Wikimedia projects. For example, according to the QRank signal, the fictional character Pippi Longstocking ranks lower than Harry Potter, but still much higher than the obscure Äffle & Pferdle.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Should I watch this? - Enter a film title or IMDb ID to get a recommendation, uses data from Wikidata.
- Job Openings - want to help shape the future of Wikidata or Wikibase?
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
- cosplay of (characters that are cosplayed in this image or video)
- External identifiers: espn.com soccer team ID, Yale LUX ID, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, verkiezingsuitslagen database ID, Norwegian soldier register 1940 ID, Polish Music Library PBM ID, MCW-PL article ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- UK Mutual Registration Number (identifier for an organisation in the UK's Mutuals Public Register)
- External identifiers: Scilit organization ID, paleo.ru person ID, identifiant Assemblée nationale du Québec non-élu, ThinkyGames genre ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, MAI person ID, istina.msu.ru journal ID, MultimediaWiki page ID, Submarine Cable Map ID, Nederlands Film Festival person ID, CTS URN, Scientific heritage of Russia person ID, Virtual necropolis of Ukrainian emigration person ID, Russian Cycling Federation person ID, The Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors person ID, Yandex Books author ID, Theatre museums of Russia person ID, Reabilitovani istoriyeyu person ID, CARLA ID, Boosty author ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Schema examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject WordNet
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Newest database reports:list of the most linked category page items
- Showcase Items: Captain America: Civil War (Q18407657) - 22016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo
- Showcase Lexemes: (L1250690) spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb "switch off" or "to die"
Development
- Vector 2022 skin: We enabled dark mode for Items, Properties and Lexemes on Wikidata (phab:T389330)
- Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with the technical investigation.
- Diffs: We merged a volunteer patch by Matěj Suchánek to format quantity diffs a bit more sensibly (phab:T394585)
- Search in the UI: We enabled the new search on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org. It lets you easily search in other entity types as well now, not just Items. Please give it a try.
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on integrating simple search, specifically phrase matching (phab:T389011)
- Query Service: We are working on an experiment to add a small dialog to inform people about alternative access methods for very simple queries that don't require SPARQL (phab:T391261)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #686
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-067-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #686.
week leading up to 2025-067-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #686.
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- 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!