User talk:DotCampbell

• Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here: What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"

• Discussions
• Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:

1. Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template :w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
2. Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.

• Events
• Upcoming: [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/11/introducing-wishathon-for-wikimedias-community-wishlist/ Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist!] "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122: [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=122 Rock-forming minerals]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/16/african-librarians-empowered-to-share-knowledge-and-enhance-information-visibility-through-aflia-wikidata-online-course/ African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course] --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
• Papers: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.15781.pdf Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs] by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
• Videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl4Fyj1AKJM Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023)] --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx5K_FRQ2eg Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph] --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i3cDbaTu7k Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata] --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYFlyRGdTwU No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler] --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iVS7jH2kS0 Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing] (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
• Notebooks
• [https://observablehq.com/d/1eb32f4d48923527 Map of K-Pop Idols] --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
• [https://observablehq.com/d/9854465d757e06d2 Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today] --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
• [https://observablehq.com/d/19a785a23f70e0c0 The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards] --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
• [https://observablehq.com/d/57b012869d43405a Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree] --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
• [https://observablehq.com/d/4b6319c68bd8b6f6 State of statues in the US] --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
• [https://observablehq.com/d/63061b940d31fbb3 An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame] --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.

• Tool of the week
• Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
• Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff =
• Job opening: [https://careers.iscb.org/jobs/view/8682 Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer] to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded [https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23571/nsf23571.htm Prototype Open Knowledge Network].

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: none
• External identifiers: ‎WHDLoad database ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, ‎PCSX2 Wiki ID, KRS number, ‎Twitch numeric channel ID, ‎RPCS3 Wiki ID, ‎Black Games Archive ID, ‎Citra compatibility database ID, ‎DraCor ID, ORBi article ID, ‎IGN wiki article ID, ‎AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, ‎RPGFan game ID, ‎Arcade Hub ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
• production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
• External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, GamesMeter ID, Walk Score ID, Malaysia company new number, Am Faclair Beag ID, xemu compatibility database ID, Sofascore player ID, GameGear.jp ID, RPGWatch IDs, Team England ID, TORCH taxon ID, ScummVM ID, Abandonware France IDs

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/8agU Distribution of the different tram gauges in Germany] ([https://twitter.com/pepicek/status/1737949826623430718 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7Q6B Scale of stampedes reported on Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/capucine_marin/status/1737814911550448023 source])
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0ASELECT%20%3Ffilm%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3Fdate%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ28026639.%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D Timeline of the Christmas movies] ([https://twitter.com/Dorialexander/status/810189413980508160 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4bmy Christmas traditions around the world] (with pictures) ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1474772209482842116 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
• Newest database reports: children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
• Showcase Items: Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
• Showcase Lexemes: L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'

• Development
• Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

• Discussions
• Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
• New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.

• Events
• Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (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.
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=123 Ologist]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Papers: [https://iswc2023.semanticweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ISWC2023_paper_379.pdf Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs]. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
• Videos: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZP4Q1zkINw WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata]. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.

• Tool of the week
• [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-through-wikidata WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles] is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: none
• External identifiers: Shamela book edition ID, ‎HistoriaGames series ID, ‎Schnittberichte.com title ID, ‎Kemono Games game ID, ‎Internet Game Database event ID, Xemu compatibility database ID, ‎GamesMeter game ID, ‎GameGear.jp ID, Walmart product ID, Swissubase person ID, RPGWatch game ID, RPGWatch company ID, RPGWatch press ID, ‎Indie DB company ID, ‎NIWA article ID, turismoroma.it place ID, ‎ScummVM ID, ORBi author ID, Abandonware-France video game series ID, Abandonware-France video game compilation ID, Abandonware-France person ID, Abandonware-France company ID, Abandonware-France magazine ID, Abandonware-France award ID, Kanjipedia word ID, Moviefone movie ID, South African NPO number, ‎Nigerian registered company ID, Abandonware-France video game ID, ‎AFJV directory ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
• International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ({{Q|2976602}} for {{Q|163740}} created by the {{Q|193727}} and adapted by the {{Q|1065}}.)
• creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
• television judge ()
• External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, nebula channel id, Deutsche Bahn station number, ISzDb series ID, BG localisation unit ID, Cathopedia article ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, Penstemon Database ID, Wikisage ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/8hPM Visual artists whose works will enter the Public Domain in Mexico on January 1, 2024] ([https://twitter.com/salvador_alc/status/1741963028977881122 source])
• [https://w.wiki/6TNS Top music album languages found on Wikidata right now] (Week 52, 2023) ([https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/111669113852952139 source])
• [https://w.wiki/8hif Western composers until the end of the Renaissance] ([https://wikis.world/@zerology@bayes.club/111654741799219949 source])
• Newest database reports: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates
• Showcase Items: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
• Showcase Lexemes: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.

• Development
• The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

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].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
• New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

Events

• Upcoming:
• The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (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.
• Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024
• [https://www.kim.uni-konstanz.de/en/kim-news/news-detail-page/forschungsdateninfo-live-wikidata-als-kollaborative-informationsressource-zum-fdm/ Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management] (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: [https://pointstodots.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/pubchem-on-wikidata-what-is-the-state-of-coverage/ PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage?] by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
• Papers
• Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) "scientific article published in 2023" [https://digitalia.cultura.gov.it/article/view/3035 (paper in Italian)] - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.
• [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-023-09702-y Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata] by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model
• [https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/article/view/247 LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation] by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
• [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08944393231220165?journalCode=ssce Quantifying Americanization:] Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
• Videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVP9vGw5xtg Map Kerala Initiative] is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
• This video on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1DLleOWvR4 Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions] shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.
• Notebooks: [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/waaat Wikipedia article as a timeline] - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.

Tool of the week

[https://observablehq.com/@pac02/map-your-created-articles Map your list of created articles] - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata Software Collaboration for Wikidata] prematurely. Read their joint statement [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Activities here].

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
• Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
• (Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
• ‎plate(s) (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
• Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID, ‎MilliBase taxon ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, ‎The Criterion Collection spine number

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
• Water bottle volume (Volume of the water bottle)
• Is it metric? (To check if it's a metric.)
• Anti-Cheat software used (anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Team Scotland ID, Globoplay ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, TouchArcade game ID, Mod.io ID, The Models Resource game ID, The Models Resource entity ID, tourist information point number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID, Bandcamp track ID

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/8hxE Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu] according to Appel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture ([https://wikis.world/@pac2/111683066147340243 source])
• [https://w.wiki/8jVE Map of running/out of service railway stations in France]
• [https://w.wiki/8mLv Bridges in the UK with photos] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1744035707813785997 source])
• [https://w.wiki/8nBH Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly)] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1742655469284409451 source])
• Newest WikiProject: Podcast Episodes 2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.
• Newest database report: children of unborn parents
• Showcase Item: Helsinki (Q1757) - capital and most populous city of Finland
• Showcase Lexeme: Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish for 'God forbid'

Development

• IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
• Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
• Wikibase REST API:
• We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
• We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

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

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=124 Ologies]
• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

Events

• Past
• Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-01-17
• PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
• Next: [https://twitter.com/UM_Library/status/1747257408328802651/photo/1 Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop] > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, [https://maastrichtuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5cDQAbfOkEYdZoW register] for the Workshop.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• [http://simia.net/wiki/Languages_with_the_best_lexicographic_data_coverage_in_Wikidata_2023 Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023]
• [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/2024/01/17/working-with-catalogues-a-wikidata-volunteers-perspective/ Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective] --> interview with Epìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.
• Papers
• The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023)) [https://jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/573 (paper in Italian)] - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata
• The evolution of authority work in SBN. From origins to Alphabetica and future prospects (Q124289388) (Italian title: L’evoluzione dell’authority work in SBN. Dalle origini ad Alphabetica e prospettive future) [https://jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/572 (paper in Italian)] - deals with the evolution of the authority work in the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN), with many references to Wikidata
• [https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20240116aw Biological Pathway Abstractions: From 2D drawings to Multidimensional Linked Data] > this thesis by Andra Sachinder Waagmeester discusses the utility of using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for Life Sciences.
• Videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWqZ814E8YU "From Wiki to Digital Humanities - Establishing a Literature Index Network" Symposium](Taiwanese) from Wang Shiqing. A scholar of Taiwanese history, this symposium explores linking their historical and academic research with Wikidata.
• Semantic MediaWiki Con 2023
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STG7VhdiyZw AskWikidata]: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. [https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1yRZshpNj0kXwY0XuUYw5ziqjw_RffxH- Want to try? (Google Colab)]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VyTkg3J8Sc Fixing Wikidata: by viewing it as a series of tables] by Yaron Koren, who challenges that Wikidata can become more useful with more structured editing and querying practices.

Tool of the week

• Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:
• [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/40651559/Software-Engineer-Wikidata-m-f-d-/?jobDbPVId=110100750&l=en Software Engineer, Wikidata]
• [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/40775956/Software-Engineer-Wikidata-for-Wikimedia-Projects-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=110472737&l=en Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects]
• [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/40776229/Senior-Software-Engineer-Wikidata-for-Wikimedia-Projects-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=110473871&l=en Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects]

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
• underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
• working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
• production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
• simulate (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
• Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎ISzDb series ID, IFTTT service ID, National-Football-Teams.com team ID, Moviefone person ID, Commonwealth Games Australia athlete ID, Team Scotland athlete ID, Kicker team ID, goalzz.com team ID, vesti.kz team ID, ‎Am Faclair Beag ID, tourist information point number, Alexandria.dk person ID, Babelio serial ID, Moviebuff ID, RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju Word ID, Stage, Qué series ver ID

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
• If non-metric ()
• civil rank (non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: PhoneScoop phone ID, TopKar ID, IFOPT stop identifier, Flashback lexicon ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, HbVar ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, HistoryMakers Digital Archive Maker ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, Code de la collectivité territoriale ayant les compétences départementales, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/8pEM Distance between the birthplace of UK ministers and London] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1745582716936946078 source])
• [https://w.wiki/Pra Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize]
• [https://w.wiki/XoZ People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap]
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Media art - to work together with initiatives archiving media art and find common best practices.
• Newest database reports: Count of Senseless Lexemes per language
• Showcase Items: Mona Lisa (Q12418) - oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
• Showcase Lexemes: grilldress (L1131949) - track suit for grilling in Bokmål

Development

• IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807, phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
• Wikibase REST API:
• We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
• We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
• We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
• mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release

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

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php this week's Lexeme challenge]: Cinematography
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Xezbeth (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/

Events

• Upcoming events:
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/UYJB44NLH4SEB6QC4LDTL6T6OG3H3C7L/ Call for Proposals: IslandoraCon 2025]. "IslandoraCon brings together a community of librarians, archivists, cultural heritage collections managers, technologists, developers, project managers, and open source project enthusiasts in support of the Islandora framework for digital curation and asset management." Deadline for session proposals: February 14, 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: [http://simia.net/wiki/Progress_in_lexicographic_data_in_Wikidata_2024 Progress in lexicographic data in Wikidata 2024] by Denny Vrandečić. See also
• [http://simia.net/wiki/Languages_with_the_best_lexicographic_data_coverage_in_Wikidata_2024 Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2024]
• [http://simia.net/wiki/Wikidata_lexicographic_data_coverage_for_Croatian_in_2024 Wikidata lexicographic data coverage for Croatian in 2024]
• Videos
• (replay) [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs-DUSOdPkl7GiF6yPQH8vYhr8trSEY-s Arabic Wikidata Days 2024] full playlist
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faUAEZBf7dA NYC Parks on Wikidata] (Wikipedia Day NYC 22nd Birthday Bash)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znuP1Rp_YZc From books to Bytes (10): Factgrid. A Wikibase instance for historical data]

Tool of the week

• PhotoNearby.js - a user script that checks Wikimedia Commons for a nearby photo if no image (P18) statement and has coordinate location (P625). Displays above the Statements heading. Defaults to a 500 meter radius. Displays a link to WikiShootMe.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• As part of an effort to benchmark open source SPARQL engines on Wikidata, the page Wikidata:Scaling Wikidata/Benchmarking/Existing Benchmarks contains some initial results and analyses of benchmarking Blazegraph, MilleniumDB, QLever, and Virtuoso on several existing SPARQL query benchmarks for Wikidata. There are some surprising results there, particularly related to different answers produced by different engines. Suggestions on how to improve the effort or provide deeper explanations of the results are particularly welcome on the discussion page.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
• organisation tax status (jurisdiction specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
• entry height (height of the entrance above ground level for boarding vehicles)
• Newest External identifiers: Berlinische Galerie object ID, ThePWHL.com player ID, Play:Right genre ID, Resistance in Belgium ID, Paris Match ID, Kyiv Independent topic, Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID, Wellcome Collection concept ID, Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID, VG247 game ID, DNCI label ID, National Football Teams.com stadium ID, Kamus Pelajar ID, Dictionary of Norwegian Translators ID, MACM artist ID, Lutris company ID, hockey1946.ru player ID, DOSBoxWiki article, NBA G League player ID, World Women's Snooker player ID, footballdatabase.eu match ID, GERS ID, Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID, SBOID, Game Vortex software ID, Syrian Memory Institution person ID, Mishramilan catalog ID, myCast work ID, Hessian Biography person (GND) ID, Beaux-Arts ID, Gaia ID, Franceinfo journalist ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Ukrainian Association of Football match ID, Rijksmuseum ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Danbooru tag, Russian Football National League player ID, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, taz ID, Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online ID, Répertoire du patrimoine bâti de Québec ID, Game Jolt username

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
• nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
• World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
• DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
• number of shading units (number of shading units in a graphics processing unit)
• Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
• presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
• identifiant REGAFI ()
• Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
• hat gespendet (Amount of money donated to a person or organization)
• name starts with (The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.)
• духовный сан (formal styles of address used for members of the clergy)
• A2B2 user ID (User ID on a2b2.org)
• Source language (headword languge of dictionary)
• location code (the location code of the location item. Should be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which location code system being used.)
• DIF historia player ID (Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site))
• number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
• number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
• number of ray tracing cores (number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit)
• Bibliography for subject (Wikidata property on this item providing a link to a bibliography about the subject that is a good starting point.)
• likes / dislikes ((no English description proposed yet))
• number of goals scored in penalty shootouts (total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout)
• broadcasting days and time (days of the week in which a TV or radio program is broadcasted)
• reverse compound (compound where the parts are reversed)
• cognate-citation (lexeme with with the same etymological origin and where a source supports it.)
• Instrument de recherche (inventaire) ({{Translate this

| fr =

}})

• Instrument de recherche (document containing detailed information about a specific collection of papers or records within an archive)
• Ratsinformationssystem (Link to the council information system of the municipality)
• name with acutes (item name with acute accents showing stressed vowels)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), HonestGamers game ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga, identifiant Registre national des gels, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, identifiant Pappers d'un dirigeant, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, SOIUSA code, MetalTabs.com track ID, MUBI Festival ID, rutracker.org page ID, RPG Maker game ID, RateMyProfessors ID, PubMed author ID, BodyMeasurements.org ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn, Kvikmyndavefurinn person ID, Bluepages article ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn company ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) info ID, A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID, Wikishia item ID, EHIS educational institution ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, A Dictionary of Sociology entry ID, A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology entry ID, A Dictionary of Geography entry ID, DGLAi ID, Jeune Afrique person ID, norskeflyplasser.no-ID, Euronews topic ID (English), Euronews topic ID (French), Euronews topic ID (Spanish), Euronews topic ID (Arabic), Unine thesis id, Enpedia ID, Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy Serial Number, Finnish Olympic Committee ID, Team Norway profile ID (new), NOC of Belarus champion ID (new), JOC profile ID (new), RFI topic ID (French), RFI topic ID (English), RFI topic ID (Spanish), EJU profile ID, University of Pécs teachers identifier, ROAR id, CPB profile ID, TERMCAT term ID, Handle prefix, U.S. Soccer player ID, Celfic FC player ID, WSGF game ID, Sutian entry ID, wikiHow article ID, Graceful17 ID, IATI Organisation Identifier, Suno artist ID, VAi Archiefhub Agent ID, Soccerbase season ID, PlaymakerStats season ID, ESPN.com football match ID, Eurosport person ID, Newsweek topic ID, New York Post topic ID, RaiPlay Sound IDs, Chinese Church and Organization Dictionary Identifier, DDLC entry ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID, Yahoo Knowledge Graph ID, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (X-Boorman) ID, Modern China Biographical Database ID, Chinese Engineers Relational Database ID, The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Islamic Philosophy ID, Letterboxd studio ID, Izvestia topic ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID, Museum Data Service museum ID, BGSU Historical Collections of the Great Lakes vessel ID, booru tag, critify.de game ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, MikuWiki article ID, Trade register Switzerland ID, JSR package, Storytel author ID, TvStar.info person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/CrWS Pairs of things, of different types, that smell of the same thing]. (Source)
• [https://w.wiki/CrfV Literary work (1700-1830) with more than 25 sitelinks] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/Crfk What are the statistics for lexemes in language A that are derived from lexemes in language B?] (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: No Longer at the Margins - aims to highlight and document the contributions of women in science, ensuring their visibility and recognition in the historical and archival record by addressing biases and gaps in representation.
• Newest database reports: Merge candidates based on same commons category
• Showcase Items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988) - technical university and research center in Karlsruhe, Germany
• Showcase Lexemes: истина (L113869) - Russian noun (pronounced "istina"), translates to "truth", "reality" or a fact in English.

Development

• Storage growth: We are making some changes to the terms-related database table in order to scale better (phab:T351802)
• Constraint violations: We’re working on making distinct-values constraint checks works with the split Query Service (phab:T369079)
• EntitySchemas: We’re working on making the heading on EntitySchema pages apply language fallback (phab:T228423)
• Search: We are working on the new search UI component which will let you search for additional entity types from the main search bar and not just Items anymore (phab:T338483)
• Wikibase REST API: We're continuing the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383209)
• Lua: We are investigating if we can increase the Entity Usage Limit on client pages (phab:T381098)

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

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: United States of America
• 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: WhitneyBot - Task: Sync artist data from the Whitney Museum of American Art's collection to Wikidata.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: ZLBot - Closed as unsuccessful.
• New request for comments: Proper names in multiple languages - This RfC seeks to address concerns regarding the recent MUL announcement for default values for labels and aliases.

Events

• Upcoming events:
• We are excited to reveal WikidataCon 2025 will be returning this year, keep an eye on the project page for more details to come, and block your calendar for October 31 - November 2.
• New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! The next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series session on Tuesday, 4 February, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1738688400 Time Zone Converter] Eric Willey will be facilitating a series of four sessions focused on starting a Wikidata project from the foundation up at your institution. The first session will focus on selling your project to administrators.
• Wikidata Indonesia is holding a [https://www.instagram.com/p/DFhh69fv7qg/ Datathon] (February 5 - 7) and [https://www.instagram.com/p/DFekzK5PCzE/ Quiz] (January 31 - February 7), take part!
• OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #73 February 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Taipei {{Q|61752245}}
• Data Reuse Days, February 18-27: online event dedicated to the applications using Wikidata's data and their technical setup. A first version of the program is now available. Make sure to register to receive the event's access links.
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/DULCWTDLOMIRQYLBPSIVZZXDGTX7ZLMJ/ Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team - February 12].Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
• [https://events.illinoisstate.edu/event/why-wikidata-introduction-and-edit-a-thon/ Why Wikidata? and edit-a-thon] hosted by Illinois State University on February 4, 1400 - 1600 CST (UTC-6). Eric Willey and Rebecca Fitzsimmons will hold a hands-on demonstration of Wikidata, at the Milner Library, ISU (Room 165).
• Past Events
• Wikidata Workshop Jan 2025 - Hosted by Wikimedia Canada, this workshop offered 2 sessions for English and French-speaking attendees. Subjects covered include the basics of Wikidata, intro to editing, linking photos to Commons and how to query Wikidata. The workshop took place 30 January 01:00 - 03:00 UTC.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• Bob duCharme, author of Learning SPARQL posts a blog entry on [https://www.bobdc.com/blog/filterforeignliterals/ filtering (only) foreign labels] from a SPARQL query, using the WDQS to illustrate their example.
• (german)[https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/abitech-2025-0011/html How does library work in the Wikiverse affect the use of your own holdings?] - Wikidata enthusiast Christian Erlinger explores in this article how GLAM institutions measure their contributions to the Wikiverse and how Wikidata items and sitelinking contribute to their connectedness.
• Papers
• [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-78952-6_48 Towards a Sustainable Community-Driven Documentation of Semantic Web Tools] A Wikidata-based toolkit to help knowledge engineers and developers find and document semantic web tools by categorizing them into a taxonomy and integrating GitHub metadata to track their maintenance status. By A. Reiz, F.J. Ekaputra & N. Mihindukulasooriya (2025).
• From Open Collaboration to Customized Control - Transitioning from Wikidata to Wikibase by John Samuel at FOSDEM 2025 (Track: Collaboration and Content Management) on February 1, 2025.
• Videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-q8vgVOrQM Biodiversity Heritage Library Creator IDs on Wikidata via Mix'n'match] - Tiago Lubiana will demonstrate the workflow of Mix'n'Match curation and adding BHL Creator ID's to Wikidata.
• (arabic)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zmFylVYalc OpenRefine and QuickStatements] - In this 2nd session of the Arabic Wikidata Days 2024, advanced skills of OR such as improving and importing tabular data. QS will also be demonstrated and how it simplifies adding and editing Wikidata. Presented by Professor Qais Shraideh.
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v82D_Q2MFVk Resource, Description & Access & STA] - Michaela Edelmann introduces the cataloging platform that runs on Wikibase for the German-speaking DACH countries.
• (Czech) 25th Annual Conference: National Archives of Czech Republic had 2 segments for Wikibases: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssngihJCnQ&t=2098s Wikibase for Welsh Authority Control] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssngihJCnQ&t=2896s Wikibase: a tool for creating/sharing LOD]
• Presentations
• [https://zenodo.org/records/14755184 New developments of Wikibase-as-a-Service] at the Open Science Lab (part of NFDI4Culture). Presented at Art Loves History Wiki Conference, it shows developments to the WB software suite.

Tool of the week

• [https://holonetgalacticmap-frontend.vercel.app/ Holonet Galactic Map] - Explore information and facts of the planets that inhabit the Star Wars universe, powered by Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• ⚠️ Wikidata Query Service graph split: The graph split is about 2 months away. If you are doing queries that involve scholarly articles or if you have an application that does you will be affected. Please check d:Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS graph split for details.
• We (Peter F. Patel-Schneider and Egezort) want to run a course on the Wikidata Ontology for a limited number of participants. Designed for those already familiar with Wikidata, it will present information about ontologies and how they form the core of Wikidata, incorporating several exercises on analyses of and fixes to the Wikidata ontology. Upon successful completion (ending with a group project in consultation by us), participants will receive certificates. Please give feedback and suggestions to improve the structure and course content (found in more detail at WikiProject:Ontology Course) which will be incorporated into our Wikimedia rapid grant application to support the effort. Interested in helping or want to share your thoughts? Let us know.
• Several database changes will impact Wikidata in the coming months, including the migration of the term store (wbt_ tables) to a dedicated cluster to improve performance and enable future growth. This move will speed up most Wikidata SQL queries but prevent direct joins between term store data and other Wikidata tables. Additionally, the wb_type table will be removed, with its mapping hardcoded in Wikibase, simplifying the codebase. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/7AMRB7G4CZ6BBOILAA6PK4QX44MUAHT4/ More details].
• Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2025! Deadline: February 28th. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GQWJNAPQFXZRW2KN4AO3OV5YMVMO6SNQ/ More info]!
• [https://www.wikimedia.de/presse/europaeischer-open-source-award-fuer-lydia-pintscher-auszeichnung-fuer-ihren-beitrag-zu-wikidata/ Lydia Pintscher awarded the] European Open Source Award - Wikidata Portfolio Manager for WMDE, Lydia's contributions to the development of Wikidata have been recognised in the category of Advocacy and Awareness.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes:
• organisation tax status (jurisdiction specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
• entry height (height of the entrance above ground level for boarding vehicles)
• number of shading units (number of shading units in a graphics processing unit (GPU))
• land acknowledgement (acknowledgement of indigenous or native people who live and whose ancestors lived at a location)
• External identifiers: Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID, VG247 game ID, DNCI label ID, National Football Teams.com stadium ID, Kamus Pelajar ID, Dictionary of Norwegian Translators ID, MACM artist ID, Lutris company ID, hockey1946.ru player ID, DOSBoxWiki article, NBA G League player ID, World Women's Snooker player ID, footballdatabase.eu match ID, GERS ID, Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID, SBOID, Game Vortex software ID, Syrian Memory Institution person ID, Mishramilan catalog ID, myCast work ID, Hessian Biography person (GND) ID, Beaux-Arts ID, Gaia ID, Franceinfo journalist ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Ukrainian Association of Football match ID, Rijksmuseum ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Danbooru tag, Russian Football National League player ID, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, taz ID, Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online ID, Répertoire du patrimoine bâti de Québec ID, Game Jolt username, Kvikmyndavefurinn work ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn person ID, EHIS educational institution ID, WSGF game ID, ‎Kvikmyndavefurinn company ID, ‎Museum Data Service museum ID, HonestGamers game ID, Pappers executive ID, Islamic Philosophy ID, L'Humanité topic ID, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
• World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
• DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
• Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
• presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
• identifiant REGAFI ()
• Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
• name starts with (The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.)
• духовный сан (formal styles of address used for members of the clergy)
• A2B2 user ID (User ID on a2b2.org)
• Source language (headword languge of dictionary)
• location code (the location code of the location item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which location code system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}.)
• DIF historia player ID (Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site))
• number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
• number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
• number of ray tracing cores (number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit)
• Bibliography for subject (Wikidata property on this item providing a link to a bibliography about the subject that is a good starting point.)
• likes / dislikes ((no English description proposed yet))
• number of goals scored in penalty shootouts (total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout)
• broadcasting days and time (days of the week in which a TV or radio program is broadcasted)
• reverse compound (compound where the parts are reversed)
• cognate-citation (lexeme with with the same etymological origin and where a source supports it.)
• Instrument de recherche (inventaire) ({{Translate this

| fr =

}})

• Instrument de recherche (document containing detailed information about a specific collection of papers or records within an archive)
• Ratsinformationssystem (Link to the council information system of the municipality)
• name with acutes (item name with acute accents showing stressed vowels)
• doors open on the… / exit train on the… (side of the train where the doors open at this station or only side where this vehicle has doors)
• directs readers to (document or class of documents to which this item or class directs readers (aliases: is citation of {{!}} links to {{!}} refers to {{!}} target))
• items classified (class of items that this classification system classifies (aliases: items categorized {{!}} classifies {{!}} categorizes))
• reason not to be used with instances of (clarification for why P31 (instance of) can not be used with this property)
• dislikes of fictional character ((no English description proposed yet))
• AI-generated media prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate an AI-generated media)
• Text-to-image software used for creation (text-to-image generation software that was used to create this media or work)
• schism ()
• Lemmy instance URL (the Lemmy instance of/about the subject)
• External identifiers: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, identifiant Registre national des gels, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, SOIUSA code, MetalTabs.com track ID, MUBI Festival ID, rutracker.org page ID, RPG Maker game ID, RateMyProfessors ID, PubMed author ID, BodyMeasurements.org ID, Bluepages article ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) info ID, A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID, Wikishia item ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, A Dictionary of Sociology entry ID, A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology entry ID, A Dictionary of Geography entry ID, DGLAi ID, Jeune Afrique person ID, norskeflyplasser.no-ID, Euronews topic ID (English), Euronews topic ID (French), Euronews topic ID (Spanish), Euronews topic ID (Arabic), Unine thesis id, Enpedia ID, Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy Serial Number, Finnish Olympic Committee ID, Team Norway profile ID (new), NOC of Belarus champion ID (new), JOC profile ID (new), RFI topic ID (French), RFI topic ID (English), RFI topic ID (Spanish), EJU profile ID, University of Pécs teachers identifier, ROAR id, CPB profile ID, TERMCAT term ID, Handle prefix, U.S. Soccer player ID, Celfic FC player ID, Sutian entry ID, wikiHow article ID, Graceful17 ID, IATI Organisation Identifier, Suno artist ID, VAi Archiefhub Agent ID, Soccerbase season ID, PlaymakerStats season ID, ESPN.com football match ID, Eurosport person ID, Newsweek topic ID, New York Post topic ID, RaiPlay Sound IDs, Chinese Church and Organization Dictionary Identifier, DDLC entry ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID, Yahoo Knowledge Graph ID, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (X-Boorman) ID, Modern China Biographical Database ID, Chinese Engineers Relational Database ID, Letterboxd studio ID, Izvestia topic ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID, BGSU Historical Collections of the Great Lakes vessel ID, booru tag, critify.de game ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, MikuWiki article ID, Trade register Switzerland ID, JSR package, Storytel author ID, TvStar.info person ID, Amazon Music track ID, National Trust Heritage Records ID, Toonopedia ID, Oorlogsbronnen-identifier, CPC Zone game ID, Patristic Text Archive, Biblioteca italiana work ID, identifiant d'une œuvre au MACM, nesdb.se game ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur le site du musée du diocèse de Lyon, Número de Identificación Tributaria, Hiking Note trail identifier, Hiking Note mountain identifier, Video Game History Foundation Library, Yandex Music track ID, PromoDJ track ID, Jamendo track ID, Know Your Meme slug, CriticDB IDs, Euronews topic ID, RFI topic ID, Algeria Press Service topic ID, Hiking Note chalet identifier, Encyclopedia of Marxism ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/Cvmf Old books (1700 - 1830) with many (+25) Sitelinks]
• [https://w.wiki/CrbD List of translated songs or musical works, with 'role named in credits' as a qualifier]
• Newest WikiProjects:WikiProject Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal - This project with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal aims to share its data model.
• WikiProject Highlights:
• Antiquity: Patristic Text Archive is a web archive for (mostly) Greek Patristic archival texts.
• WikiProject: Ontology Course - as mentioned above, this WikiProject plans to be a certified course to teahc participants about proper Wikidata ontologies.
• Newest database reports: Language statistics for Items
• Showcase Items:Valérie Masson-Delmotte (Q3554288) - French engineer and climatologist
• Showcase Lexemes:lasku(L30087) - Finnish noun, translates to "landing", "calculation" or "invoice" in English.

Development

• Storage growth: We are continuing to make some changes to the terms-related database table in order to scale better (phab:T351802)
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to work on bringing search to the REST API (phab:T383126)
• mul language code: Support for the language code has been rolled out fully
• EntitySchemas: We finished adding language fallback to the heading of EntitySchema pages (phab:T228423)
• Sitelinks: Fixed a bug that prevented linking Wikidata Items from Wikipedias (phab:T385261)
• Scoped search: We continued working on improving the main search field on Wikidata in order to allow you to search for Properties, Lexemes, etc more easily with it (phab:T321543)

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

• 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: Liechtenstein
• 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:
• TiagoLubianaBot 5 - Task(s): Add image or reference illustration based on categories for botanical illustrations on Wikimedia Commons. Only add when only 1 or 2 files in category.
• Sapper Bot - Task(s): Daily updates the Sea of Galilee's elevation above sea level based on official government data.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: MangadexBot - Task(s): add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID - closed as relevant Property has been deprecated and marked for deletion.

Events

• Upcoming events:
• Data Reuse Days, starting on February 18th. Check out the program and don't forget to register on wiki to receive the access link.
• [https://calendar.library.torontomu.ca/event/3855376 Whose (Wiki)Data is it anyway?] - Ethics & Consent when cataloguing people, places and things. An on-site Library workshop of the Toronto Metropolitan University, February 12, 1200 - 1600 EST (UTC-5).
• [https://calendar.colorado.edu/event/black-history-month-wikidata-comics-edit-a-thon Comics Edit-A-Thon for Black History month], hosted by the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship of the University of Colorado (onsite only & registration required). February 12, 1300 - 1500 MST (UTC-7).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• [https://www.daniel-motz.de/articles/query-by-graph Making SPARQL more accessible]: Daniel Motz's bachelor's thesis on visual query graphs, check out their project in Tool of the Week
• [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/2025/02/05/glam-rockers/ GLAM Rockers: an interview with the creators of GLAMorous Europe] - Anne Mühlich and Gerd Müller speak about their project [https://www.glam-europe.de/ GLAMorous Europe] which uses Wikidata to enrich the digital art collection.
• [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/2025/02/10/preserving-community-history-with-wikibase/ Preserving Community History with Wikibase] - Tan Li Qi of MyCommunity, a Singaporean nonprofit dedicated to preserving the stories of everyday people by documenting community narratives, social memories, and local heritage.
• [https://sites.harvard.edu/harvard-library-circ/2025/02/03/wikidata-edit-a-thon-for-the-black-teacher-archive/ Wikidata Edit-A-Thon for Black Teacher archive] by the Harvard Library University. A write-up of the event which saw more than 400 items edited.
• Project Chat - join the discussion
• Should Wikidata trainers be certified?

Tool of the week

• [https://query.daniel-motz.de/ Query by Graph] - build a SPARQL query using drag'n'drop visual elements. This is an interesting tool that provides another way to approach building SPARQL queries, especially for those that find the Query builder or raw SPARQL unintuitive or complex.
• [https://cividata.org/en/ CivData] - "Cividata makes the diverse world of non-profit organizations visible. As a volunteer project, Cividata provides a comprehensive overview of non-profit organizations worldwide, based on data from Wikipedia's sister project Wikidata."

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Creation of the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee - Call for candidates ends February 25, midnight (AOE).
  The interim GDRC is being established to oversee and adjust resource distribution for the Community Fund, aligning with the movement's evolving needs. Currently open to applications from candidates with experience in grantmaking, budgeting and knowledge of Wikimedia's grant types. Further information on the role and how to apply can be found on the GDRC Meta page
• [https://www.curationist.org/news/curationist-is-seeking-a-part-time-remote-digital-archivist Curationist seeks Digital Archivist] - Curationist, a free online resource for cultural heritage seeks a part-time archiver who can navigate Wikidata, SPARQL and create metadata and support writers.
• For the upcoming Wikidata and Research conference in July, the [https://openreview.net/group?id=wikimedia.it/Wikidata_and_Research/2025/Conference&referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)#tab-accept-paper list of accepted papers] has been posted.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes:
• entry height (height of the entrance above ground level for boarding vehicles)
• number of shading units (number of shading units in a graphics processing unit (GPU))
• romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character — use ONLY IF they have stated it themselves, unambiguously, or it has been widely agreed upon by historians after their death)
• location code (the location code of the location (please use more specific property if available))
• directs readers to (document or class of documents to which this item or class directs readers)
• External identifiers: Franceinfo journalist ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Ukrainian Association of Football match ID, Rijksmuseum ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Danbooru tag, Russian Football National League player ID, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, taz ID, Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online ID, Répertoire du patrimoine bâti de Québec ID, Game Jolt username, Kvikmyndavefurinn work ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn person ID, EHIS educational institution ID, WSGF game ID, ‎Kvikmyndavefurinn company ID, ‎Museum Data Service museum ID, HonestGamers game ID, Pappers executive ID, Islamic Philosophy ID, L'Humanité topic ID, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga ID, Izvestia topic ID, Presisov večjezični slovar ID, Zvuk release ID, Mille ans de littérature d'oc author ID, norskeflyplasser.no ID, HCERES expert ID, Registre national des gels ID, A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID, DGLAi ID, Finnish Olympic Committee athlete ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, RPG Maker game ID (archived), Chinese Church and Organization Dictionary ID, Letterboxd studio ID, Biblioteca Italiana work ID, A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology entry ID, A Dictionary of Geography entry ID, A Dictionary of Sociology entry ID, Jeune Afrique person ID, Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID, University of Pécs Almanac ID, TERMCAT term ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
• DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
• Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
• presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
• identifiant REGAFI ()
• Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
• name starts with (The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.)
• духовный сан (formal styles of address used for members of the clergy)
• A2B2 user ID (User ID on a2b2.org)
• Source language (headword languge of dictionary)
• DIF historia player ID (Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site))
• number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
• number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
• number of ray tracing cores (number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit)
• Bibliography for subject (Wikidata property on this item providing a link to a bibliography about the subject that is a good starting point.)
• likes / dislikes ((no English description proposed yet))
• number of goals scored in penalty shootouts (total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout)
• broadcasting days and time (days of the week in which a TV or radio program is broadcasted)
• reverse compound (compound where the parts are reversed)
• cognate-citation (lexeme with with the same etymological origin and where a source supports it.)
• Instrument de recherche (inventaire) ({{Translate this

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• Instrument de recherche (document containing detailed information about a specific collection of papers or records within an archive)
• Ratsinformationssystem (Link to the council information system of the municipality)
• name with acutes (item name with acute accents showing stressed vowels)
• doors open on the… / exit train on the… (side of the train where the doors open at this station or only side where this vehicle has doors)
• items classified (class of items that this classification system classifies (aliases: items categorized {{!}} classifies {{!}} categorizes))
• reason not to be used with instances of (clarification for why P31 (instance of) can not be used with this property)
• dislikes of fictional character ((no English description proposed yet))
• AI-generated media prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate an AI-generated media)
• Text-to-image software used for creation (software that was used to create this media or work)
• Lemmy instance URL (the Lemmy instance of/about the subject)
• reason for event cancellation (circumstances leading to the cancellation of the event)
• stylized title ((no English description proposed yet))
• RAM capacity (amount of volatile random-access memory (RAM) modules used by this device)
• VRAM capacity (amount of dual-ported video RAM (VRAM) modules used by this device)
• nombre anterior (Former official name used by an entity, organization, place, or object.)
• earliest start date (earliest start date)
• model number (Identifier for a product model)
• Nation Ranking (primary) and Nation Ranking (secondary) (Nation Ranking (primary))
• has license (licenses the subject have)
• representing sports team (a sports team or club representing this organisation or geographic area)
• External identifiers: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), Ech-Chaab tag ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, SOIUSA code, MetalTabs.com track ID, rutracker.org page ID, RateMyProfessors ID, PubMed author ID, BodyMeasurements.org ID, Bluepages article ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) info ID, Wikishia item ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, Euronews topic ID (English), Euronews topic ID (French), Euronews topic ID (Spanish), Euronews topic ID (Arabic), Unine thesis id, Enpedia ID, Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy Serial Number, Team Norway profile ID (new), NOC of Belarus champion ID (new), JOC profile ID (new), RFI topic ID (French), RFI topic ID (English), RFI topic ID (Spanish), EJU profile ID, ROAR id, CPB profile ID, U.S. Soccer player ID, Celfic FC player ID, Sutian entry ID, wikiHow article ID, Graceful17 ID, IATI Organisation Identifier, Suno artist ID, VAi Archiefhub Agent ID, Soccerbase season ID, PlaymakerStats season ID, ESPN.com football match ID, Eurosport person ID, Newsweek topic ID, New York Post topic ID, RaiPlay Sound IDs, DDLC entry ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID, Yahoo Knowledge Graph ID, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (X-Boorman) ID, Modern China Biographical Database ID, Chinese Engineers Relational Database ID, BGSU Historical Collections of the Great Lakes vessel ID, booru tag, critify.de game ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, MikuWiki article ID, JSR package, Storytel author ID, TvStar.info person ID, Amazon Music track ID, National Trust Heritage Records ID, Toonopedia ID, Oorlogsbronnen-identifier, CPC Zone game ID, Patristic Text Archive, identifiant d'une œuvre au MACM, nesdb.se game ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur le site du musée du diocèse de Lyon, Número de Identificación Tributaria, Hiking Note trail identifier, Hiking Note mountain identifier, Video Game History Foundation Library, Yandex Music track ID, PromoDJ track ID, Jamendo track ID, Know Your Meme slug, CriticDB IDs, Euronews topic ID, RFI topic ID, Algeria Press Service topic ID, Hiking Note chalet identifier, Encyclopedia of Marxism ID, Helden van het Verzet person ID, Records of Early English Drama ID, The New Yorker topic ID, top50, PBA.com player ID, PWBA.com player ID, LEMAC ID, Rate Your Music music video ID, Rate Your Music release issue ID, Nonbinary Wiki id, goal.com football match ID, LEMAV ID, AllGame game ID, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Partij), TechRaptor IDs, Kompass company ID, TechSavvy.de GPU ID, PCPartPicker hardware ID, Wine AppDB ID developer ID, Memoria Chilena ID, The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/8HMC Specifiying colours for a gender representation of Scottish witches]
• [https://w.wiki/D2TF Currently active rock metal bands, their hometowns and latest release]
• [https://w.wiki/Cwm5 Map of Global Administrative Areas with links to Xeno-canto datasets in GBIF]
• [https://w.wiki/Cxfy Map of drowned places and their images]
• Newest WikiProjects:
• Events and Role Frames - the goal is to enhance Wikidata’s representation of lexemes by linking lexeme senses to PropBank role sets.
• List of Canadian doctors (WikiProject Medicine)
• Newest database reports: List of most used Properties
• Showcase Items: Newton's parakeet (Q634873) - extinct species of bird
• Showcase Lexemes:kuchapa (L1328922) - Swahili noun that can mean "photographic print", "print", "printer", "act of typing" or an "publishing."

Development

• Search in the UI: We continued the work on adding a search UI that lets you search in Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas more easily (phab:T338483)
• Search in the API: We are continuing our work on search in the REST API (phab:T383126)

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

• 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: Nigeria
• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 18:13, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Discussions

• Open request for CheckUser: Lymantria (RfP scheduled to end at 19 February 2025 04:22 UTC)
• New request for comments: Anna's Archive - The RFC is about whether Wikidata should import and store metadata from Anna's Archive, considering legal, copyright, and technical challenges.

Events

• Upcoming:
• Data Reuse Days, starting on February 18th. Check out the program and don't forget to register on wiki to receive the access link.
• How to the use the :w:20th Century Press Archives as Source (Digitaler Themenabend: Das Pressearchiv 20. Jahrhundert als Quelle - in German) will introduce into research in the archives and into the work of Wikipedia Projekt Pressearchiv - Tuesday, February 18, at 18:00 UTC (informal registration)
• New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series session on Tuesday, 18 February, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1738688400 Time Zone Converter]. Eric Willey will be facilitating a series of four sessions focused on starting a Wikidata project from the foundation up at your institution. The second session will focus on choosing your project. Event page
• (workshop) Wikidata Lab XLIV: Launch of QuickStatements 3.0 on February 24 at 15:00 UTC. Register here and watch it on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHqyRynWGvQ WMB's YouTube channel]!
• Wikidata and Wikibase: Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities. Talk on Wednesday, 5 March. By Information Services, University of Edinburgh. ([https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-and-wikibase-curriculum-transformation-in-the-digital-humanities-tickets-1247440079859 register])
• Past:
• Wikidata at WikiLibCon 2025
• Exploring Wikidata & Building Community for Cultural Heritage Professionals

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• [https://addshore.com/2025/02/visualizing-wikibase-ecosystem-using-wikibase-world/ Visualising the Wikibase ecosystem using Wikibase World] by Addshore
• Wikipedia Recognized as a Digital Public Good
• Videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfpEYXb2WI From Open Collaboration to Customized Control: Transitioning from Wikidata to Wikibase]. Presented by John Samuel, this talk explores Wikibase, a self-hosted platform that brings the power of Wikidata to your own infrastructure.
• (Ukranian) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROuOz8gxMoU The Role of Wikidata in the development of the Crimean Tatar Wikipedia]. This talk discusses how Wikidata has been used to support populating a small language Wikipedia with content.
• (Portuguese) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gw0Wdh6CNQ Mapping etymology on OpenStreetMaps with Wikidata] Tiago Lubjana demonstrates how to map etymology in OpenStreetMaps with Wikidata, using the streets of the Butantanã Institute as an example.
• Podcasts: Between The Brackets Episode 173: [https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-173-adam-shorland-tom-arrow-and-ollie-hyde Adam Shorland, Tom Arrow and Ollie Hyde]

Tool of the week

• [https://rstockm.github.io/fedipol/index.html Fedipol] (Fediverse Activity Tracker) is a Wikidata-based tool used for tracking activity and analyzing accounts related to German political parties, institutions, and instances on the Fediverse.
• [https://openrefine.org/blog/2025/02/13/version-3-9-0 OpenRefine 3.9.0 was released]

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/N4RKFU6DYVJFJ3PIS3PEGKH7YJSRLRVJ/ Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 30 is open!] The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is March 4, 2025 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by March 14, 2025.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
• land acknowledgement (acknowledgement of indigenous or native people who live and whose ancestors lived at a location)
• study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work)
• Newest External identifiers: Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, ESPN.com football match ID, WPBSA.com player ID, World Snooker Tour tournament ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, EJU judoka ID, Yandex Music track ID, Video Game History Foundation Library agent ID, Video Game History Foundation Library subject ID, Video Game History Foundation Library resource ID, Toonopedia ID, PlaymakerStats season ID, ERR keyword ID, El Watan topic ID, BGSU Historical Collections of the Great Lakes entry ID, ‎CPC Zone game ID, New York Post topic ID, National Trust Heritage Records ID, Records of Early English Drama ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, PWBA.com player ID

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
• The College of Cardinals Report (ID of the person on the The College of Cardinals Report website)
• Nation Ranking (secondary) (Nation Ranking (primary))
• Peh-oe-ji (writing system for {{Q|36778|Taiwan Taigi}} or other {{Q|36495}} language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
• Taiwanese Taigi Romanization System (romanization system for {{Q|36778|Taiwan Taigi}} or other {{Q|36495}} language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
• leader of organization (This property identifies the top executive leader of an organization, regardless of the specific title used by the organization.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: National Gallery ID, SteamDB developer ID, Steam Group ID, Identifiant d'une personne dans le Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise, Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID, DRTV IDs, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) special ID, Hiking Note plant identifier, Identifiant d'une personnalité sur Calindex, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur Calindex, Identifiant dans le dictionnaire de la BnF, The Atlantic topic ID, Kulturenvanteri place ID, Global Energy Monitor Wiki ID, VGC IDs, Audiomack artist-ID, Audiomack album-ID, Audiomack sang-ID, Wikishire Page ID, Kulturdatenbank-ID, TERMDAT ID, United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database ID, Homosaurus ID (V4), IRIS UNIL author ID, Kantonsspital St.Gallen Author ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture ID, Big Finish Release ID, TermTerm UUID, FU-Lexikon ID, Miraheze wiki ID, Eurobasket.com club ID, domain name

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/CweX What tropical cyclones have hit Indonesia?] ([https://x.com/4sqa/status/1887868955102228579 source])
• [https://w.wiki/6CBD Cheeses named after towns]
• Showcase Items: Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex (Q183529) - stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine
• Showcase Lexemes: hacer (L39182) - Spanish verb that can mean "do", "create", "pretend" or "play a role".

Development

• Search: We are continuing the work on the improved search that lets you limit your search more easily to other entity types besides Items like Lexemes and Properties (phab:T321543)
• RDF: We are working on aligning the RDF export to the Query Service prefixes (phab:T384344)

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

• 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: Cuba
• 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: MatSuBot_10 - Task(s): Import aliases from Female form of Label (P2521) and Male form of Label(P3321).
• New request for comments: Certify the Wikidata trainers? - Initially discussed in Project Chat, this RfC looks to establish a clear community-endorsed policy on how Wikidata Trainers can be appropriately certified and their skills demonstrated and recognized.

Events

• Ongoing events: Data Reuse Days, until February 28th: watch the sessions that you missed and check the program for this week.
• Upcoming events:
• International Mother Language Day 2025 Datathon - online event by WikiProject India from 21-28 February 2025.
• OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #74 March 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Taipei {{Q|61752245}}
• Past:
• Wikidata and Bangla Wikisource: When two cool kids play together! at Wikisource Conference 2025
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHqyRynWGvQ Wiki Movimento Brasil unveil QuickStatements 3.0] - A livetsreamed workshop showcasing the latest version of QuickStatements. Discover the new features implemented based on community research.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos:
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmHhcBIFQAM Live Wikidata Editing] - User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 return for a Wikidata live edit session for Data Reuse Days.
• (Czech) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TMYlp9NlMU Wikibase as a tool for database operation in a memory institution] Linda Jansová presents this session on Wikibase (first streamed 9 November, 2024) at the 13th Wikiconference 2024, hosted by WM Česká republika.
• Podcasts: [https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/civichackerpodcast/episodes/Using-Wikidata-to-Connect-Constituents-With-Their-Government-e1or922/a-a963q1t Using Wikidata to connect constituents with their government] - User:Ainali (Co-founder of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development discusses their knowledge about Wikidata and how it underpins Govdirectory, their vision for the future impact of Wikidata.

Tool of the week

• The [https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/wikidata-diff-analyzer WikidataDiffAnalyzer] is a Ruby gem designed to parse and analyze differences between Wikidata revisions, providing detailed statistics on changes to claims, labels, descriptions, aliases, site links, and more, while also supporting analysis of merges, redirects, and other edit types.
• [https://rstockm.github.io/fedipol/index.html German Political parties and politicians tracked on the Fediverse] - Powered by Wikidata, this Fediverse tracker aggregates social media links to official channels of German politicians. ([https://chaos.social/@rstockm/113982039705706466 toot])

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/53795746/Senior-UX-Designer-Wikidata-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=191749381&l=en Job Vacancy: Senior UX Designer for Wikidata] - If you have a passion for UX design and open and free knowledge, please consider applying!
• [Wikibase] [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/YCM3S7ZOJL6JL3BFHOM4ILWQ4PDR42LW/ Bug Fixes: Wikibase Suite Deploy 1.0.2, 3.0.4, Wikibase 1.0.2, 3.0.3]

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
• software used for creation (software that was used to create this media or work)
• mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
• Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
• Newest External identifiers: PWBA.com player ID, IATI organisation ID, Oorlogsbronnen ID, DIF historia player ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, critify.de game ID, Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID, Patristic Text Archive author ID, Patristic Text Archive work ID, Patristic Text Archive manuscript ID, Patristic Text Archive person ID, Patristic Text Archive organization ID, The New Yorker topic ID, CriticDB author ID, Rate Your Music music video ID, Eurosport person ID, Soccerbase season ID, nesdb.se game ID, Albin Michel author ID, National Gallery ID, Wine AppDB ID developer ID, Brussels Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Brussels Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
• Date filed (Filing date for a document, e.g. a patent or court case. Alternative names include date submitted, submission date, filing date, etc. These are all distinct from dates of issuance, granting, acceptance, publication, etc. that are public-facing and have to do with the last stage in a publication process. Searches for [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=date+filed&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns120=1 similar] terms yielded [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=filing&ns120=1&fulltext=Search+for+a+property&fulltext=Search no results], so apologies if this is redundant.)
• API documentation (API documentation URL)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Euronews topic ID, NES Directory game ID, Friends of Friendless Churches ID, Bane NOR station ID, Meine Abgeordneten ID, Wikidot article ID, Breitbart tag ID, SMB-digital asset ID, Authority control/Korean National Species list ID, FMJD person ID, KNDB person ID, Radiomuseum.org vacuum tube transitor ID, Lenape Talking Dictionary ID, Thinky Games database game ID, Encyclopædia Universalis index ID, Archives in Bavaria ID, CBFC record ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/DBhe Show missing alias when they exist as another gendered form]
• [https://w.wiki/DACK Items with Human Settlement, but lack a Country]
• [https://w.wiki/DByA Image gallery of works by William Hogarth] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/DC7Q Objects in Sri Lanka] (differentiated by different color icons) (source)
• [https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/O3WoHEep4y0uC2cwkYkIq8WOIQKqEEqo6IkmAkUAEa8 Find a certain edit summary in page history] (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Puerto Rican Cultural Heritage - serves as a central hub for various initiatives highlighting Puerto Ricans and Puerto Rican culture in Wikidata
• Newest database reports: SPARQL: Federation report - Check the status of different SPARQL endpoints.
• Showcase Items: The Incredible Hulk (Q466611) - 2008 superhero film directed by Louis Leterrier
• Showcase Lexemes: år (L743600) - Nynorsk noun that can mean "a vein", "road", "talent", "an ore", "insect wing part" or "small stripe with a different colour from its surroundings."

Development

• Hosting the Data Reuse Days
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on a search endpoint for the API (phab:T383126)
• Search: We are continuing to work on the search field that lets you search other entity types as well and not just Items (phab:T321543
• Mobile editing: We are designing prototypes for first testing sessions

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

• 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: Uganda
• 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 [[d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next|write the next summary!]

Discussions

• Other: Email Chain [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/JPY7EHO7ANRYAY7ATDZ6GR3NT2VWCU22/ "Elephant in the room"] - discussing the large number of Wikidata Items lacking Statements, Sitelinks or Labels/Descriptions.

Events

• Upcoming events:
• All the information you need to start working on your Wikimania 2025 program submissions is now available on the Wiki. Deadline: March 31 st, Anywhere on Earth.
• New Wikidata Event! The upcoming "Wikidata and Sister Projects" event (May 29–June 1) is looking for speakers to share how Wikidata connects with other Wikimedia projects - if you are interested, request more info or submit your session idea here.
• New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series session on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1741107600 Time Zone Converter] Eric Willey will be facilitating a series of four sessions focused on starting a Wikidata project from the foundation up at your institution. The third session will focus on making the most of your time and work. Event page.
• [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-and-wikibase-curriculum-transformation-in-the-digital-humanities-tickets-1247440079859 Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities] - Join for 4 free talks showcasing how linked open data can support teaching, research and collections. March 5, 1500 - 1700 GMT (UTC-0).
• Wiki Workshop 2025 CfP - Call for Papers (Submission deadline: March 9)
• Open Data Day Taiwan 2025 March 9 Time: 09:30-17:30 UTC+8 at Taipei Humanities Building (Q122750631)
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/U752LT3K7ZRDD6WLBB6T4IJSGH3LVQSE/ Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon 2025 - Registration & Scholarship Now Open]. Date: 28th - 30th March 2025. Who Can Participate? African developers, Wikimedia contributors, and anyone interested in Wikimedia projects.
• Ongoing:
• Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 - annual global contest aimed at documenting and sharing the diverse customs and traditions observed during the month of Ramadan. Date: 25 February 2025 – 16 April 2025. Register here!
• Items with P31 (instance of) = human settlement without a country has dropped from 7600 to below 4600 Items. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/SNG4X263GJBGFNKY5LX2WDD7KU3IICQI/ You can help to get it even lower].
• Wikidata & OpenStreetMap Datathon & Mapathon as part of International Open Data Day 2025 from 1st - 15th March 2025 by WikiProject India (Q11037573).
• Past events: Data Reuse Days 2025: you can watch the sessions that you missed at your own pace.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/feb/24/uk-universities-educate-the-most-national-leaders-globally-analysis-shows UK universities educate the most national leaders globally], analysis (based on Wikidata) shows. By The Guardian
• Two Wikimedians-in-Residence appointed to increase Maltese literature representation on Wikipedia and Wikidata [https://timesofmalta.com/article/national-book-council-appoints-wikimediansinresidence.1105754 Times of Malta]
• Videos
• (French) PasseGares: Bug fixes and data imports from Wikidata [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNhmxBAryys YouTube]
• Adding Wikidata label and descriptions, from the Wali Language Art+Feminism Editathon (Ghana 2025) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il7trmWUXv0 YouTube]
• Workshop showcasing QuickStatements 3.0! Learn how this updated tool streamlines your workflow and discover new features. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHqyRynWGvQ YouTube]
• Contributing to Wikidata 101, a series of demonstrations organised by WM Community UG Uganda [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zo8Z3_vqvM Part 1], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c59Z2tpEsuU Part 2], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTWs5fCyok8 Part 3]
• Optimize SPARQL queries to avoid timeouts: Efficiently count entities sharing values [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksj8n4IyOqQ YouTube]
• Data Reuse Days [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejMPb2P_3XWnLH4K14f7wGRd playlist] and live-editing session with User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoRjMUP95x4 YouTube]
• LUDAP: Shared authority file for Luxembourg's Scientific and Cultural Heritage, with Wikibase [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpwdTwteY5w YouTube]

Tool of the week

• QuickStatements 3.0 - new version of the original QuickStatements with enhanced functionality, performance, and user experience.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/GQ5FOALWYP6P6JXBPDQNC4RZPIPZ5VDZ/ On March 17, Vector 2022 will become the default skin on Wikidata]
• Jobs
• Senior UX Designer for Wikidata - [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/53795746/Senior-UX-Designer-Wikidata-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=191749381&l=en Apply online]
• Product Manager for Wikibase Suite - [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/53665453/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=190245769&l=en Apply online]

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
• thesis submitted for degree (the academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted)
• Newest External identifiers: Korean National Species list ID, NES Directory game ID, Miraheze wiki ID, Global Energy Monitor Wiki ID, FU-Lexikon ID, MACM artwork ID, Hiking Note chalet identifier, domain name, ‎TechRaptor game ID, ‎TechRaptor company ID, ‎TechRaptor genre ID, Sanzhi Dargwa dictionary ID

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
• copy present in institution (copy present in institution)
• single extrait de l'album (indicates the album from which the item is taken)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: HelloAsso organization ID, europlayers.com club ID, eLIBRARY Document Number, LIBRIS Library ID, parlament.fyi person ID, Embryo Project Encyclopedia ID, factordb id, Yukon Register of Historic Places ID, Our Campaigns container ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (glossary and index of terms) ID, badmintoncn.com star ID, Game Input Database ID, Historia Hispánica ID, Coasterpedia ID, Captain Coaster coaster ID, Captain Coaster park ID, Dark Ride Database IDs

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/DE5f Map of Birthplace of Polish Nationals, born after 1900 who have an article on Polish Wikipedia]
• [https://w.wiki/DGqj Items with no Statement or Sitelinks] - You can help by expanding these Items!
• [https://w.wiki/DH2r Showcase lexemes and their language/lexical category] ([https://t.me/c/1325756915/35747 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: Climate Change Policies - aims to model policies related to Climate change on Wikidata.
• Newest database reports: Most linked category Items
• Showcase Items: Basshunter (Q383541) - Swedish singer, record producer, and DJ
• Showcase Lexemes: baguette (L7347) - French noun that can mean "elongated type of bread loaf", "elongated type of bread loaf", "conductor's baton", "chopsticks", "drum sticks" or "magic wand".

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126)
• Dumps: We fixed an issue that prevented the dumps from being generated (phab:T386401)
• Search: We are continuing to work on the search UI that will let you search not just Items but also other entity types (phab:T321543)

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

• 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!

Events

• Upcoming events: [https://www.unifi.it/it/eventi/incontro-donne-toscane-wikidata-laboratorio-di-inserimento-dati-una-memoria-condivisa Tuscan Women & Wikidata] - data entry lab for shared memory, 5 March.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• [https://blog.wikimedia.de/2025/03/03/data-reuse-days-2025/ WMDE Blog - Highlights of Data Reuse Days]: The post showcases 3 excellent apps: WikiFlix (public domain full-length films), KDE Itinerary (travel assistant app) and Scribe Keyboard (easier writing in secondary languages). These are just some of the applications built using Wikidata; check out more at the Data Reuse Days pages.
• (German) [https://blog.wikimedia.de/2025/03/05/digitale-stolpersteine/ Digital Stumbling Blocks – How the Wiki Community Drives Remembrance Culture]: User:Cookroach highlights the efforts of Wikimedians across projects (Wikidata, Wikipedia, Commons) to digitally document the Stolpersteine, brass-plaques laid to commemorate victims of the National Socialism.
• (German) [https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/9858 Digital History Berlin: Field research with LOD] - a write-up of the methods, experiences data-model and SPARQl queries of the field research conducted as part of the WikiProject: Field Survey Digital Humanities.
• (Italian) [https://www.sc-politiche.unifi.it/art-1343-progetto-wikipedia-e-wikidata-per-la-cesare-alfieri.html# Wikipedia & Wikidata project for Cesare Alfieri] - an introduction to the project to expand articles and data of the archives of Cesare Alfieri University of Florence.
• [https://semlab.io/blog/communicating-ontology Communicating Ontology: Technical approaches for facilitating use of our Wikibase data] (Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute)

Tool of the week

• [https://github.com/acrion/zelph zelph]: A new tool for detecting logical contradictions and making inferences in Wikidata, using a rule-based system to improve data quality and derive new facts. Check it out on GitHub or explore results on the [https://zelph.org/ project website].
• New Tool for Women’s Day: [https://scheherazade-temp.toolforge.org/ Scheherazade] identifies women without articles in your Wikipedia but present in many others, helping editors prioritize creating missing biographies.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ZX63E4GPQC6ZQBKGLI7XJUANKT6KOKHE/ Wikimedia Research Fund had launched]. You're encourage to submit proposals around Wikidata. The deadline to submit your proposal is April 16, 2025.
• The 4th iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course will begin from March 17 until April 30. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
• model number (identifier for a product model)
• provides data for property (dataset associated with this external ID usually contains data applicable to this other Wikidata property)
• items classified (class of items that this classification system classifies)
• presented works (works of art or creative works performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
• number of goals scored in penalty shootouts (total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎Thinky Games game ID, Lenape Talking Dictionary ID, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (X-Boorman) ID, LEMAC ID, Bane NOR station ID, Sutian entry ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture ID, Meine Abgeordneten ID, Hiking Note plant ID, VGC game ID, VGC company ID, VGC people ID, Archives in Bavaria ID, VGC theme ID, ‎Steam group ID, AllGame game ID (archived)
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
• kigo of (the season the sense denotes in haiku in Japanese)
• Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised score (score that the subject have received on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised psychological assessment tool as administered by a suitably qualified and experienced clinician under scientifically controlled and licensed conditions, standardized conditions)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Archaeological site (Japan) ID, Hmong Studies Citations ID, GitLab topic, Christchurch City Council Park ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Clio-online organization ID, Congress.gov committee ID, AGORHA ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, ZOOM Platform product ID, GCMD keyword ID, KnowWhereGraph entity ID, VejinBooks author ID, SteamDB tech ID, Identifiant Cartofaf d'une organisation, Saarland Biografien ID, Murderpedia ID, Big Fish Games game ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/DHxF Obscure units of measurement and where to find them]
• [https://w.wiki/DNQ7 Female scientists with most number of sitelinks] (but not English Wikipedia)
• Newest WikiProjects: AncientCoinsAndModernMedals
• WikiProject Highlights:
• WikiProject Biology: List of Mushrooms - revived by User:Prototyperspective, help catalogue all known fungal friends, and join the subreddit (for all Wikidata topics): r/WData
• India/Police Stations
• Newest database reports: List of free software without an image set - This is a table of Wikidata items about a free software missing an image.
• Showcase Items: Doctor Strange (Q18406872) - 2016 film directed by Scott Derrickson
• Showcase Lexemes: felle (L476372) - Bokmål verb that can mean "to make something fall", "to kill", "to force a resignation", "to prove guilt", "to let lose", "to announce" or "to join."

Development

• Search: The search team at the WMF has added a new search keyword for Lexemes. You can use the keyword "inlanguage:en" or "inlanguage:Q1860" to limit your search to Lexemes with Lexeme language English and so on. Here is an example search for "bank" within English Lexemes: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=L%3Abank+inlanguage%3Aen (phab:T271776)

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

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 - of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)?

Events

• Upcoming events:
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/EDXCS7QM3QYJBORQUKBJ3NTIDUYIZSKU/ Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers]. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
• Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1742313600 9am PT / 16:00 UTC] to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack [https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-31379okvn-8IVWvbCZerKnN352sKCa2g here]. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."
• (German) [https://temporaerhaus.de/tag/wikimedia/ Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm]: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.
• [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/757 REST in Rust] by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"
• Videos
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2MZ7O26YWZDLNDUU5YKW3RKQHRKR6D5C/ Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases]. Put together by Valerie
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk7Lfr9mAAk&pp=ygUIV2lraWJhc2U%3D Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities]
• (Chinese) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IT_dl08DMA Open Data Day Taiwan 2025]: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQneCQUk9d8 Wikidata as an Open Data Resource]: Ian Watt at Open Source SG
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRY2mtj1MFY Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective]: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.

Tool of the week

• [https://www.expeditia.info/ Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries] - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• An [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KDZXE3S57G34WUHHB4R5DTQ4RLOZKLCY/ update regarding the WDQS backend] has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/A6OR2H5UHG6CNDE4LHIXBX4KAVK2KLKZ/ Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025]. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.
• [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Embedding_Project The Wikidata Vector Database] prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saade{{@}}wikimedia.de
• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/53665453/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=198705093&l=en Product Manager Wikibase Suite] (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
• OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting services)
• AI-generation prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate this AI-generated media or work)
• data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
• Newest External identifiers: Wikishire article ID, HelloAsso organization ID, Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise person ID, Graceful17 entity ID, ‎Game Input Database ID, DRTV ID, Calindex person ID, Historia Hispánica ID, ‎TERMDAT ID, Kulturdatenbank ID, DDLC entry ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, ‎Captain Coaster coaster ID, Memoria Chilena ID, Jamendo track ID, MikuWiki article ID, ‎ZOOM Platform product ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online organization ID, ‎SteamDB tech ID, ‎Big Fish Games game ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, Newsweek topic ID, booru tag

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
• watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations)
• accused (person or organization who has been accused of carrying out this harmful, illegal, or immoral act without having received a criminal conviction or where the accused have been acquitted in a court of law)
• applies to volume (volume of the item (usually edition of a work) to which the claim applies)
• oxygen endurance (The maximum time a submarine, spacecraft or enclosed vehicle can sustain life using its onboard oxygen supply.)
• Coefficient of thermal expansion ()
• fracture toughness ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, Yale LUX ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, Swimcloud swimmer ID, CACI company ID, VD 16 ID, World Higher Education Database ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, JSIC code, Macrotransactions game ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, NexusMods mod ID, Thunderstore game ID, SideQuest app ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, National Academy of Engineering member ID, DGO ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, Encyclopaedia of Islam (Arabic edition) ID, Rodovid family ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/D4EV Location of fire stations in Spain] ([https://x.com/angelobregons/status/1889979376768614743 source])
• [https://w.wiki/DTc9 Oldest known individual per taxon] (pre-20th century) ([https://wikis.world/@WikidataFacts@mastodon.social/114173501080142856 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: AncientMaths
• WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and on [https://cividata.org/en/poland/ cividata.org]. Help expanding it!
• Newest database reports: [https://w.wiki/DQWP German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category] ([https://t.me/c/1325756915/35931 source])
• Showcase Items: Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
• Showcase Lexemes: Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
• Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
• Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
• Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 - of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)?

Events

• Upcoming events:
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/EDXCS7QM3QYJBORQUKBJ3NTIDUYIZSKU/ Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers]. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
• Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1742313600 9am PT / 16:00 UTC] to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack [https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-31379okvn-8IVWvbCZerKnN352sKCa2g here]. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."
• (German) [https://temporaerhaus.de/tag/wikimedia/ Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm]: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.
• [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/757 REST in Rust] by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"
• Videos
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2MZ7O26YWZDLNDUU5YKW3RKQHRKR6D5C/ Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases]. Put together by Valerie
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk7Lfr9mAAk&pp=ygUIV2lraWJhc2U%3D Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities]
• (Chinese) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IT_dl08DMA Open Data Day Taiwan 2025]: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQneCQUk9d8 Wikidata as an Open Data Resource]: Ian Watt at Open Source SG
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRY2mtj1MFY Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective]: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.

Tool of the week

• [https://www.expeditia.info/ Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries] - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• An [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KDZXE3S57G34WUHHB4R5DTQ4RLOZKLCY/ update regarding the WDQS backend] has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/A6OR2H5UHG6CNDE4LHIXBX4KAVK2KLKZ/ Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025]. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.
• [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Embedding_Project The Wikidata Vector Database] prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saade{{@}}wikimedia.de
• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/53665453/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-all-genders-/ Product Manager Wikibase Suite] (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
• OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting services)
• AI-generation prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate this AI-generated media or work)
• data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
• Newest External identifiers: Wikishire article ID, HelloAsso organization ID, Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise person ID, Graceful17 entity ID, ‎Game Input Database ID, DRTV ID, Calindex person ID, Historia Hispánica ID, ‎TERMDAT ID, Kulturdatenbank ID, DDLC entry ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, ‎Captain Coaster coaster ID, Memoria Chilena ID, Jamendo track ID, MikuWiki article ID, ‎ZOOM Platform product ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online organization ID, ‎SteamDB tech ID, ‎Big Fish Games game ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, Newsweek topic ID, booru tag

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
• watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations)
• accused (person or organization who has been accused of carrying out this harmful, illegal, or immoral act without having received a criminal conviction or where the accused have been acquitted in a court of law)
• applies to volume (volume of the item (usually edition of a work) to which the claim applies)
• oxygen endurance (The maximum time a submarine, spacecraft or enclosed vehicle can sustain life using its onboard oxygen supply.)
• Coefficient of thermal expansion ()
• fracture toughness ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, Yale LUX ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, Swimcloud swimmer ID, CACI company ID, VD 16 ID, World Higher Education Database ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, JSIC code, Macrotransactions game ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, NexusMods mod ID, Thunderstore game ID, SideQuest app ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, National Academy of Engineering member ID, DGO ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, Encyclopaedia of Islam (Arabic edition) ID, Rodovid family ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/D4EV Location of fire stations in Spain] ([https://x.com/angelobregons/status/1889979376768614743 source])
• [https://w.wiki/DTc9 Oldest known individual per taxon] (pre-20th century) ([https://wikis.world/@WikidataFacts@mastodon.social/114173501080142856 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: AncientMaths
• WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and on [https://cividata.org/en/poland/ cividata.org]. Help expanding it!
• Newest database reports: [https://w.wiki/DQWP German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category] ([https://t.me/c/1325756915/35931 source])
• Showcase Items: Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
• Showcase Lexemes: Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
• Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
• Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
• Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:Request for admin flag for MsynBot - From 2021 through 2024, this bot has implemented the 2019 RfC “semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items” by maintaining page protections based on the outcome, d:Wikidata:Protection policy#Highly used items. The admin flag got lost due to bot inactivity but the bot operation could be resumed immediately if the admin flag is given back.

Events

• Upcoming events:
• AAFRennes2025, 26-28 Mars 2025
• 5-6 April & 12 April: Scholia Hackathon
• Wikidata and Sister Projects to take place May 29 - June 1. Please send us your session ideas, we still have lots of space for proposals. This is a great chance to highlight the benefits of Wikidata use in other WM projects. See Talk page for proposals.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• [https://professional.wiki/en/articles/wikibase-extensions Enhance Your Wikibase With Extensions]
• [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/2025/03/21/editing-lexemes-with-your-little-finger/ Editing Lexemes with your little finger]
• [https://commonists.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-2024-edition/ Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition] by Jean-Fred
• [https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1902026975210025181.html Thread: Who wins in a Wikipedia race between GPT-4.5, o1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and @OpenAI's new Computer-Using Agent?]

Tool of the week

• Lexica - a mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile Editing of Statements - You have been asking for the ability to edit statements from mobile devices for years, this project will make editing statements on Wikidata Items more accessible and user-friendly for mobile users. [https://greatquestion.co/wikimediadeutschland/bo2e7e2a/apply Sign up to participate in prototype testing and interviews with our UX team]
• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/53665453/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-all-genders-/ Product Manager Wikibase Suite] (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes:
• data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
• External identifiers: booru tag, Steam Group numeric ID, Kompass company ID, ‎Macrotransactions game ID, Thunderstore game ID, ‎JSR package ID, ‎GitLab topic ID, Amazon Music track ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• levels (levels, maps, episodes, chapters or stages of this video game)
• Scilit scholar ID (author identifier on {{Q|77125337}})
• وزن صرفي عربي (A feature to adjust the pattern of Arabic words in lexemes)
• باب صرفي للأفعال العربية الثلاثية المجردة (Morphology of the Arabic triliteral verbs)
• land degradation (The amount of land that is degraded by an object. Mainly for infrastructure projects)
• Research projects that contributed to this data set (This property allows to identify research projects that they have contributed to or created an item)
• Platform height (platform height above the top of the rail (or above the road for buses))
• extended by (addons for this item) (Class of software this software is extended by)
• External identifiers: Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Delfi.ee theme ID, identifiant Dezède d'un individu, SeqCode Registry ID, Openalfa street ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, A Dictionary of Education entry ID, TDKIV wikibase ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/DZF7 2024 Population Census in Uganda] ([https://x.com/kateregga1/status/1900953102976512383 source])
• WikiProject Highlights:
• Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal/Liste des artistes de la collection
• Showcase Items: Cinderella (Q15046091) - 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
• Showcase Lexemes: страсть (L166968) - Russian noun that can mean "love", "passion", "desire", or "suffering."

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We finished work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126) and started on the one for Properties (phab:T386377)
• Vector 2022 skin: We fixed a number of the remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039) and sitelink positioning (phab:T316797)
• Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search in other entity types (Properties, Lexemes, EntitySchemas) besides Items (phab:T321543)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: BRPever 2 adminship request closes tomorrow.

Events

• Upcoming events:
• [https://www.mcls.org/news/2025/03/31/mclss-linked-data-users-group-invites-you-to-the-annual-wikidata-edit-a-thon-from-april-7-11-2025/ 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) [https://sammlungen.io/termine/digitale-provenienzforschung-in-universitaetssammlungen-werkstattberichte-im-sommersemester-2025/yann-legall Wikidata models on colonial looting and African cultural heritage] - June 4, 2025, 1300 UTC+2. This event will be presented in German.
• [https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauganda/p/DH3ZdaHxNo2/ Wikidata Training Workshop by WM Uganda] - on April 26, discover how Wikidata powers Wikipedia and beyond! [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmrjO-SkG4Y1-O8G5I5dMH97PMQNaMWxJZN-kJHHSmouM-wQ/viewform Register here]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• [https://diginomica.com/wikidata-adds-ai-vectors-graph-and-knowledge-bases-heres-why Diginomica: Wikidata adds AI vectors graph and knowledge bases, here's why]
• [https://diginomica.com/something-weekend-differing-versions-reality-what-can-we-learn-how-wikidata-navigating-conflicting Diginomica: Differing versions of reality; how Wikidata navigates conflicting accounts]
• Papers
• [https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/18295/ The New Zealand Thesis Project: Connecting a nation’s dissertations using Wikidata]
• [https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10294v1 Wikipedia is Not a Dictionary, Delete! Text Classification as a Proxy for Analysing Wiki Deletion Discussions] - includes Wikidata.
• Presentations
• [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15109700 Using chemistry data in Wikidata in AI], at the [https://www.acs.org/meetings/acs-meetings/spring.html American Chemical Society Spring 2025] meeting
• Videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVI4jwmRS64&pp=ygUId2lraWRhdGE%3D Live Wikidata editing - creating Property proposals] with Jan Ainali.
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvHVlK_3qJ8 Entity Management Cooperative meeting, with Wikidata]
• (Taiwanese) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTcKU2K-Vqw Seediq Wikimedia 2024 Annual Conference] - hosted by Wikidata Taiwan, here are the opening remarks by Principal Zhan Su'e's opening speech.
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac7laU1WH7o 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) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IDUzn5sC9g 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) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaZno818m5o 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

• [BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Please find full information here]
• 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 d:Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Ontology_Course.

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/Dfaf Find Good or Featured Articles in Spanish and Portuguese Wikipedia]
• Newest WikiProjects:
• Govdirectory: Rwanda
• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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! :)

Events

• Upcoming events: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 16th April 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.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• [https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/2025/04/12/introducing-m3api/ Introducing m3api], By Lucas Werkmeister
• [https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/04/08/wikidata-query-service-graph-database-reload-at-home-2025-edition/ Wikidata Query Service graph database reload at home, 2025 edition]. By Adam Baso
• Videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVqCEeVuzTQ Understanding Why Your OPTIONAL Properties in Wikidata Queries Might Be Ignored]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh6hi94Imn8 Playing with LEGO on Wikidata]. By Tiago Lubiana
• Other: Wikidata references made easier. "Several tricks to make it easier and faster, using various scripts and gadgets" to add references to Wikidata statements. By Spinster

Tool of the week

• [https://topic-curator.toolforge.org/ Wikidata Topic Curator] is a React-based web application. It’s a new and improved version of [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/ItemSubjector ItemSubjector] created to help Wikimedians connect items on Wikidata to the right topics. By entering a topic QID, it finds related articles using the topic’s label, aliases, or custom terms.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Join the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
• [https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/55063868/Staff-Engineer-Wikidata-all-genders-/ Staff Engineer Wikidata (all genders)]
• [https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/53795746/Senior-UX-Designer-Wikidata-all-genders-/ Senior UX Designer Wikidata (all genders)]

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
• beam energy (kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator))
• number of downloads (number of downloads of times this application or creative work have been downloaded)
• Taiwanese Taigi Romanization System (Romanization system for Taiwan Taigi or other Southern Min language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia)
• Newest External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, ‎TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, TechPowerUp GPU Specs Database ID, iNaturalist photo ID, Climate Policy Radar ID, LIBRIS library ID, Dizionario della Musica in Italia ID, Untappd beer ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy ID, KnowWhereGraph entity ID, GCMD keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, CBFC record ID

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
• 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)
• output color (color of the generated images)
• proposal of (Qualifier for the statement {{P|31}} {{Q|64728694}} to state what the proposed thing is.)
• floral diagram (picture on commons of a floral diagram of a Taxon)
• member of sequence or class of number (The number is of a special form or class or member of a sequence)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: 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, Steam Deck HQ game ID, Hardcore gaming 101 ID, torial username, BirdLife DataZone species ID, BirdLife DataZone site ID, Schulnummer Schleswig-Holstein, Kunstkamera ID, Corago singer ID, MoNA spectrum ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans La Croix, identifiant Meta-Doctrinal.org, CvLAC ID, OGDB genre ID, IGDB genre ID, WSGF taxonomy term ID, GameSpot platform ID, PerformArt ID, Billie Jean King Cup player ID 2024

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/Doco Top 10 items instance of Wikimedia category ordered by number of Sitelinks] ([https://t.me/c/1224298920/141683 source])
• [https://w.wiki/Dor5 Twitter accounts of biologists]
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject USC Libraries A WikiProject for work done at University of Southern California Libraries to connect library data with Wikidata.
• WikiProject Highlights: Nonprofit Organizations/Kosovo - Add the most important NGOs of Kosovo
• Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/Connectivity - Connectivity between Wikimedia projects
• Showcase Items: Nea Salamis Famagusta FC (Q714581) - professional association football club based in Ammochostos (Famagusta)
• Showcase Lexemes: Straße (L44061) - German noun that can mean "road", "straight", "street", "strait", "group of people inhabiting buildings along a perticular street" or "production line".

Development

• We merged and prepared changes to rename wikibase:EntitySchema to wikibase:WikibaseEntitySchema in RDF (phab:T371196) – this has been [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AAKO2VGVKJXEDH2HPZBGMAUDVGC7SA7R/ announced as a breaking change] and will be deployed to Wikidata on 24 April
• We made some more improvements to dark mode support (phab:T389633)
• We’re working on tests for the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature (phab:T385790)
• Wikibase REST API: We're going to wrap up pagination on the simple Item and property search endpoint and are working to improve our test architecture for search (phab:T386691). We're going to pick up prefix search for Items and phrase matching next!

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

• 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: Yunlin Liu Fang Tien Shang Sheng Mu OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Workshop April 27 Time: 09:30-17:00 UTC+8 at {{Q|708809}} Red Altar (Hongtan).
• Past: Missed the Q2 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-04-16 (Q2 2025)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• [https://thottingal.in/blog/2025/04/15/qjson/ qjson: Fetching all properties of a Wikidata item in a single API call] By Santhosh Thottingal
• [https://olea.org/diario/2025/04/14/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2025-proposals-Wikibase.html A Wikibase call for action at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025] By Ismael Olea
• [https://museumdata.uk/blog/putting-uk-collections-on-the-map/ Putting UK collections on the map] by the Museum Data Service
• [https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/04/20/the-april-2025-scholia-hackathon.html The April 2025 Scholia Hackathon] by Egon Willighagen
• Papers
• [https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/talking-wikidata-communication-patterns-and-their-impact-on-commu Talking Wikidata: Communication Patterns and Their Impact on Community Engagement in Collaborative Knowledge Graphs] - Investigative study on Wikidata discussions, revealing that the community is generally inclusive and conflict is rare, but many controversial topics lack consensus, and valuable contributors disengage early. By Koutsiana et. al., (2025)
• [https://zenodo.org/records/15226371 Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited] - By Latham (2025)
• Videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWoNZLBj7mM Wiki Workshop 2025 - Wikidata Inconsistencies with Language Models and Data Mining in a Pipeline] by Houcemeddine Turki
• (Italian) [https://youtube.com/dL9JEfHpU68?si=RXymgDS8-ZE687aE Cla-G, an instance of Wikibase as a tool to support game classification] by Carlo Bianchini
• Other
• [https://x.com/afliacon/status/1908928893727211669?s=46 Wikidata & Wikibase for Authority Control & Knowledge Organization Workshop] By AfLIA
• [https://github.com/oolonek/daily-lotus Mastodon bot] that "highlights natural compounds found in plants, fungi, bacteria or animals — and includes Wikidata references and visual structure depictions."

Tool of the week

• User:Spinster/Wikidata references made easier: The script helps in adding references to statements, in order to provide context for our data, make the data more reliable, transparent and trustworthy for anyone who uses it .

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Registration is open for a Wikidata ontology course led by Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan. To register, email pfpschneider{{@}}gmail.com with your Wikidata username and a brief note on your interest. The course starts 1 May, with weekly lectures on Thursdays from 1–3pm EDT (skipping 29 May and 12 June). Space may be limited; priority goes to those already interested. Participants should know Wikidata, attend sessions, complete weekly exercises (~1 hour), and join a group project. Details: Course page
• Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles.
• Wikidata job openings at the The Wikimedia Foundation
• [https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6814912 Lead Product Manager, Wikidata Platform] (remote)
• [https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6816145 Tech Lead, Wikidata Platform] (remote)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
• number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
• Newest External identifiers: Saarland Biografien ID, A Dictionary of Education entry ID, Cultural Heritage in Japan site ID, BirdLife DataZone site ID, BirdLife DataZone species ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Chtyvo author ID, Homosaurus ID (V4)

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
• terminal speaker ()
• organization code (the organization code of the organization item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}.)
• organization unit code (the organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}.)
• Picture composition (Description of a picture composition (design rules) analogous to the Commons category “:commons:Category:Picture composition”)
• MANDALA Tibetan Living Dictionary ID (entry for a lexeme in the Tibetan Living Dictionary by MANDALA)
• Monarque régnant (Person who has held or is holding the role of king, queen, sultan, or other monarch at the head of a kingdom or empire.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Moure's Catalog ID, MobyGames attribute ID, Número RPJ, Identificador de obra no Catálogo Mourisco, IPRESS ID, TeamUSA.com athlete ID, IEC document kind classification code, Europe PMC Preprint identifier, Snopes ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID, PyPI organization name, PlayStation Museum product ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID, A Dictionary of Public Health entry ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/Dk9f All Genres of Classical Musical Compositions and their Labels in English and German] (source)
• WikiProject Highlights: Taiwan Travel - aims to create travel related items about Taiwan
• Showcase Items : Pete's Dragon (Q18786473) - 2016, film by David Lowery
• Showcase Lexemes: Bill (L3855) - English noun (/bɪl/) that can mean "invoice", "proposed law", "bird's beak", or "a given name":

Development

• Wikidata changes in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co: We are continuing the work on making the edit summaries more understandable (phab:T386200)
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to build out the simple search functionality (phab:T389011)
• Dark mode: We are fixing a few remaining issues with dark mode support in the Vector 2022 theme (phab:T389633)

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

• 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!