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Women in Red July 2025

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Online events:

Announcements:

Progress ("moving the needle"):

  • Statistics available via [https://humaniki.wmcloud.org/search Humaniki tool]. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,514 articles during this period!

:* 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280 bios; 415,618 women)

:* 23 Jun 2025: 20.130% (2,072,236 bios; 417,132 women)

Tip of the month:

  • A nuanced article is more useful than a shiny pedestal. Readers can find hope in your subject's survival or achievements,
    but they can also learn from your subject's mistakes and limitations.

Other ways to participate:

  • Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications.
  • Join the conversations on our talkpage.
  • Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project.
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Wikidata weekly summary #686

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #685.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • 8-11 September: [https://openrefine.org/blog/2025/06/10/OpenRefine-2025-Barcamp 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 [https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/cfp Call for Proposals is open!]
  • [https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-155988 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)
  • [https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Drop_in_and_Wikidata_-_June_2025 Drop in and Wikidata] - This regular online meeting has moved to the last Thursday of every month. [https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88415120219 Join via Zoom]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/06/28/visualizing-knowledge-how-indonesians-turn-wikidata-into-stories-that-matter/ 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.
  • [https://www.lpi.org/blog/2025/06/25/openrefine-data-workflow-via-open-source-collaboration/ 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

  • [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by/senseItemLabel.js 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 [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Ontology_Course 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 [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Ontology_Course#Projects 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.
  • [https://wissenschaftlichestellenangebote.com/phd-position-in-history,i18518.html 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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/EYkW UNESCO Memory of the World International Register (now complete up to 2023)] (source)
  • [https://w.wiki/EZ9o Largest collections on the MoW International Register]
  • [https://w.wiki/EcAw Featured and Good Articles in Korean or Chinese Wikipedia, with no English version] - source
  • [https://w.wiki/EcAy Ugandan Female Footballers] - source
  • Newest WikiProjects: [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Personal_Collections 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2025-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

Updates for editors

  • AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data in AbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T354599]
  • Hidden content that is within collapsible parts of wikipages will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327893][https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global_attributes/hidden#browser_compatibility]
  • File:Octicons-gift.svg A new feature, called Favourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area.
  • File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:31}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:31|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397103]

Updates for technical contributors

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Books & Bytes – Issue 69

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 69, May–June 2025

In this issue we highlight a new partnership, Citation Watchlist and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.

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Nomination of [[:Finnish exonyms for places in Norway: Finnmark]] for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article :Finnish exonyms for places in Norway: Finnmark is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Finnish exonyms for places in Norway: Finnmark (2nd nomination) 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 improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

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Wikidata weekly summary #687

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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.

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 [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/GraphSplit 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 [https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Hackathon/Participants_List participants list] or see the [https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Hackathon/Resources resources page] for further event info.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Press
  • [https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/wikidata_foss_democracy 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) [https://en.pusc.it/article/wikilib-bibliotecari-romani-e-vaticani WikiLib: Roman+Vatican Librarians compared on Wikidata] -
  • Blogs
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/06/13/preserving-indonesian-galleries-libraries-archives-and-museums-glam-assets-through-wikidata-in-glam-wiki-month/ 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 [https://etd.adm.unipi.it/theses/available/etd-05132025-160428/ 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 [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474928 Zenodo]
  • Videos
  • (mostly Italian, with some parts in English) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QdTYnBPEn4 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) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2f3jg8LiFs 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 [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/BUMGCMKFFNMJQVZXD4K6Z23LLBHAHCCT/ 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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2025-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • Temporary accounts have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages: Access to IP, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and Repository with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.

Updates for editors

  • Anyone can play an experimental new game, WikiRun, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers. [https://wikirun-game.toolforge.org/ Try playing the game] and let the team know what you think on the talk page.
  • Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new trivia game. Which came first? is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers. [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/22]
  • Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the Tabbed Browsing project page.
  • Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now use {{#special:VerifyOATHForUser}} to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265726]
  • File:Octicons-gift.svg A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist.
  • It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Moderator_Tools/Watchlist]
  • File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

Meetings and events

  • WikidataCon 2025, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for [https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/cfp session proposals] and for registration. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".

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Marian Antiphon follow-up

Hi Pigsonthewing, I'm the student from the (now archived) tearoom thread about the Marian Antiphons section on the Hymns to Mary page. I don't think I can post there anymore but would appreciate your advice. I read the dispute resolution guidelines and did attempt to reach out to the user UrielAcosta on the 7th with essentially the same thing I posted in the tearoom, but I think the thread may have been deleted. Since the user hasn't responded, is it okay to reattempt my edit with improved sourcing? I now know that I should have used the sandbox rather than just posting a draft and planning to refine/improve it later. Also, I hope I didn't come across in the thread as though I think Wikipedia's quality standards not matter because I'm a student. I was only trying to explain why I was attempting a substantial edit with a clearly new account. Kelseyjay (talk) 21:46, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

:Your teahouse query was archived, to: Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1259#Advice for first time editor. You can start a new query at The Teahouse if you still have questions (here is fine also, but you will get answers more promptly there).

:Your question to UrielAcosta is still visible, at User talk:UrielAcosta#Question regarding Marian antiphons section, but as yet unanswered, which is poor, and something they should attend to promptly.

:It seems that, after posting here, you went ahead anyway. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:29, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Apps newsletter – Second quarter of 2025

Hello, and welcome to the second newsletter of 2025! In this edition, we’ll walk you through exciting experiments, features, and improvements that took place in the Wikipedia mobile apps during March, April, and May.

= Android =

WikiGames & WikiTrivia Expansion

We expanded WikiGames and continued work on WikiTrivia:

  • New enhancements: game archive, calendar view, score sharing, sound control to the game.
  • 81.5% of players complete the game, and over half replay it on another day.
  • Bug fixes include language mismatches and game crashes.

Jetpack Compose Migration

We continued migrating our UI to Jetpack Compose, including:

  • MessageCardView
  • LangLinksActivity
  • SearchEmptyView
  • WikiCardView and more

This helps modernize the app and improves long-term performance.

Rabbit Holes & Personalized Reading Lists

We completed our Rabbit Holes experiment, and began work on a permanent version of Personalized Reading Lists, tracked in this Epic ticket.

Early designs aim to make suggested reading lists more useful, personalizable, and persistent.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

We addressed:

  • Talk page crashes
  • Search-related language issues
  • OATHAuth hyperlink bug
  • On This Day incorrect year
  • Samsung Galaxy S25 editing toolbar bug
  • UI bugs with Picture of the Day
  • Language display issues

Other Updates

  • A 50-edit requirement was added to use Article Descriptions on English Wikipedia.
  • We fixed pageview analytics and updated reading list icons.

Looking Ahead

From long-requested features like tabbed browsing to smarter personalization and more engaging games, this quarter was packed with progress. Your feedback continues to guide our path forward.

Make sure you’re subscribed to this newsletter to stay in the loop — and thank you for being part of the journey!

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Wikidata weekly summary #688

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

Discussions

  • Open request for Oversight permissions: Jianhui67 (RfP scheduled to end at 27 July 2025 [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1753623000 13:28 UTC])

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1752681600 16:00 UTC], 16th July 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the [https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg 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 [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJTv68R1OPASXXDfpIl8EWiMLTM-TDwh6_5gNVvFuWccFZ2Q/viewform 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 ([https://sites.google.com/view/2025-ld4-conference/home website]; [https://2025ld4.sched.com/list/simple schedule and registration]; [https://www.youtube.com/@LD-gy6jv streaming on Youtube]), 28th-30th July 2025, virtually on Zoom; many Wikidata-related sessions:
  • [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1753723800 July 28, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT] - [https://2025ld4.sched.com/event/26eOA/has-this-been-done-before-exploring-wikidata-projects-through-diff-and-tmig-archives Has This Been Done Before? Exploring Wikidata Projects Through Diff and TMIG Archives] by Silvia Gutierrez (workshop)
  • [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1753808400 July 29, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT] - [https://2025ld4.sched.com/event/26eOk/wikidata-affinity-group-introduction-to-wikidata-for-entity-management Wikidata Affinity Group: Introduction to Wikidata for Entity Management] by Alex Jung, Kyla Jemison, Susan Radovsky (cf. :d:Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group)
  • [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1753816500 July 29, 2025 3:15pm - 3:45pm EDT] - [https://2025ld4.sched.com/event/26eOt/scholarly-profiling-in-wikidata-creating-a-knowledge-graph-for-the-seekcommons-open-science-research-network Scholarly profiling in Wikidata: Creating a knowledge graph for the SEEKCommons open science research network] by Dorothy Howard
  • [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1753818300 July 29, 2025 3:45pm - 3:55pm EDT] - [https://2025ld4.sched.com/event/26eOw/from-biographical-dictionary-to-linked-data From Biographical Dictionary to Linked Data] by Sara De Monaco (cf. :d:User:SaraDeMonaco/Tesi magistrale and :d:Q135208119)
  • [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1753818950 July 29, 2025 3:55pm - 4:05pm EDT] - [https://2025ld4.sched.com/event/26eOz/lccnbot-one-year-on-an-update LCCNbot one year on: an update] by Mary Muratsubaki Campany (cf. :d:User:LccnBot)
  • [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1753819500 July 29, 2025 4:05pm - 4:15pm EDT] - [https://2025ld4.sched.com/event/26eP2/supporting-access-to-cd-roms-while-using-and-contributing-to-wikidata Supporting access to CD-ROMs while using and contributing to Wikidata] by Claire Fox
  • [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1753820100 July 29, 2025 4:15pm - 4:25pm EDT] - [https://2025ld4.sched.com/event/26eP5/surfacing-sociotechnical-research-with-wikidata Surfacing Sociotechnical Research with Wikidata] by Kathleen Burlingame
  • [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1753820700 July 29, 2025 4:25pm - 4:35pm EDT] - [https://2025ld4.sched.com/event/26eP8/wikidata-workflows-with-orcid-and-openrefine-a-binghamton-university-case-study Wikidata Workflows with ORCID and OpenRefine: A Binghamton University Case Study] by Sasha Frizzell
  • [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1753901100 July 30, 2025 2:45pm - 4:45pm EDT] - [https://2025ld4.sched.com/event/26ePc/wiles-wikidata-lexicographical-event-semantics-modeling-for-natural-languages WiLES: Wikidata Lexicographical Event Semantics modeling for natural languages] by Humza Yaqoob, Mahir Morshed (workshop)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/07/10/scaling-the-knowledge-graph-behind-wikipedia/ Scaling the Knowledge Graph Behind Wikipedia] By Alex Woodie
  • [https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2025/07/14/the-power-and-potential-of-wikidata-for-botany/ The power and potential of Wikidata for botany] (see paper below) By Heidi Meudt
  • Papers
  • [https://academic.oup.com/aob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aob/mcaf062/8158086?login=false 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
  • [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-8YsJChmw Wikidata labels and descriptions] By Moore Wikimedia Community
  • [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z6gNKxqhyxY Wikidata Lablar Description Stockholm Archipelago trail] By Magnus Sälgö
  • Presentations
  • [https://zenodo.org/records/15828659 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

  • [https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/tools/id/depictions Commons Depictions] is a tool that display depictions of Wikidata items on Wikimedia Commons

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/6TNS Top album languages found on Wikidata right now] [https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/112302638644990711 source]
  • [https://w.wiki/Ej6F The names of the characters from Asterix & Obélix, in French, English, German, Latin and some other languages] ([https://wikis.world/@sukkoria@piaille.fr/114829167969170573 source])
  • [https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/uAOfzguDGgAA6Ma2yseCsOOmGOOmaq8Go6sQQ6YEMWh Map the global distribution of periodicals in publication languages from the Eastern Mediterranean] (Arabic, Ottoman, Greek, Ladino, Coptic etc) ([https://wikis.world/@tillgrallert@digitalcourage.social/114819637083502934 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2025-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Featured templates, a new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community through the Community Wishlist. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367428][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392896]
  • File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:31}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:31|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374457]

Updates for technical contributors

In depth

  • Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited to [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/7953/ submit a project idea] for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Read [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/06/30/call-for-projects-wikimania-hackathon-2025-is-coming-to-nairobi/ this Diff blog post] for more details.

Meetings and events

  • WikiIndaba 2025 scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJTv68R1OPASXXDfpIl8EWiMLTM-TDwh6_5gNVvFuWccFZ2Q/viewform your scholarship application] and [https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/BI3omIfH program proposal] now!
  • [https://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCon_Brasil_2025 WikiCon Brasil 2025] will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!

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