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Cheshunt Lock and other notes
- Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer https://www.eternalwall.org.uk/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fm77
- Another Gorka source [https://jambands.com/reviews/2020/02/14/john-gorka-with-amelia-k-spicer-in-columbus/]
- http://www.leeandstort.co.uk/Cheshunt_Lock.htm
- [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dictionary_and_Grammar_of_the_Kongo_Lang/ephkAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 Dictionary of Kongo]
- [https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/slieve_binnian-1187/faith_hope_and_charity-132512 Faith hope and charity]
- [https://www.resene.co.nz/swatches/colour-lists.htm Colour list]
- [https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/queens.html Queen's Hospital, Croydon] see Fay Allen , Queen's Hospital (disambiguation)
- [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M2VpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT18&dq=chirurgeon&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXuNiu_Z_1AhWLYMAKHUcHBZAQ6AF6BAgFEAI#v=onepage&q=chirurgeon&f=false Chirurgeon]
- [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NvsUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA239&dq=arnold+Birkman&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_u-zwhqD1AhWMgVwKHYc3AwMQ6AF6BAhDEAI#v=onepage&q=arnold%20Birkman&f=false Arnold Birkman] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=C3cCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA477&dq=arnold+Birkman&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_u-zwhqD1AhWMgVwKHYc3AwMQ6AF6BAg5EAI#v=onepage&q=arnold%20Birkman&f=false ditto, insignia foxes shaking hands], [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=t0zYYOy_DTwC&pg=PA394&dq=arnold+Birkman&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_u-zwhqD1AhWMgVwKHYc3AwMQ6AF6BAhWEAI#v=onepage&q=arnold%20Birkman&f=false ditto (heirs of, 1555, dubious)] Also Collen = Cologne (Koln). [https://www.worldcat.org/title/most-excellent-and-perfecte-homish-apothecarye-or-homely-physick- booke-for-all-the-grefes-and-diseases-of-the-bodye/oclc/14317345 qv], [https://special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2014/07/24/52-weeks-of-historical-how-tos-week-38-how-to-take-a-16th-century-bath/], [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029497991/cu31924029497991_djvu.txt]
- [https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.22.21263977v1 COvid vit D (dubious?)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20210312114336/https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline/files/legacy_slavery_working_party_interim_report_27_nov_2019%20%283%29.pdf RAC] cites Pettigrew.
- [https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/researchcurrent/archive/newberry/collaborativeprogramme/ren-earlymod-communities/britishandamericanhistories/25march/session3reading/zahedieh.pdf Regulation, rent-seeking, and the Glorious Revolution in the English Atlantic economy]
- A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester (iss 1-3?) Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Demy-Octavo (corrigenda P 214): bound in with Rutland Words 1891 Kegan Paul, Trubner & Co (Paternoster House, Charing Cross) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=24BYugEACAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ]
- [https://ia800906.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?id=historyofhampshi04doub&itemPath=%2F4%2Fitems%2Fhistoryofhampshi04doub&server=ia800906.us.archive.org&page=n114_w677 Odiham Hundred]
- [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2rURAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false County Magazine] re twelfth cake, and Pompeii/Hereculaneum?
- [https://www.google.cat/books?id=nUlHAAAAYAAJ Oppression in 19th century Britain]
- [https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twoother/twocontent.aspx?type=tystat&id=921 Winter 1966]]
- [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/18/the-strange-story-of-how-the-pot-holiday-420-got-its-name/ 420] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140226034656/https://hightimes.com/read/history-420] [https://420waldos.com/]
- [https://wesr.unep.org/indicator/index/14_1_1 Coastal eutrophication & plastic density]
- [https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN00724/SN00724.pdf NHS funding]
- [https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?prevpage=8&xpod=on&bi=0&bsi=240&sortby=17&vci=739299&ds=30 Bennet and Kerr books]
- [https://archive.org/details/b30451541_0001/page/n382/mode/1up Dr Johnsons's Dictionary]
- [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dUXJFe4L-4YC Captivity of Mrs Rowlandson]
- [https://www.lehmanns.ch/shop/sozialwissenschaften/31036463-9781473838154-anzac Sari Bear] see also A Duty Clear Before Us : North Beach and the Sari Bair Range, Gallipoli Peninsula 25 April-20 December 1999., [https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/ww1/where-australians-served/gallipoli/timeline], [https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/the-gallipoli-campaign/the-august-offensive]
- [https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/2000146/johnston-s-jolly-cemetery/ JJC]
- [http://genderi.org/pars_docs/refs/57/56259/56259.pdf Cat and Bagpipean soc.] see also Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue infra, See also: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
- [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170124/ Study of circs of TMWWBQ]
- Catamaran [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CupmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA143&dq=catamaran&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYyd6Piqf1AhVIeMAKHepQDLIQ6AF6BAhEEAI#v=onepage&q=catamaran&f=false ]
- [https://archive.org/details/aclassicaldicti00grosgoog/page/n63/mode/2up F. Grose Classical Dic.], catamaran, chuffy
- [https://askubuntu.com/questions/80371/bash-history-handling-with-multiple-terminals Ubuntu bash multi-terminal history]
- [https://www.authorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/AuthorsAllianceFairUseNonfictionAuthors.pdf Author's alliance fair use guidance]
- [https://wlmb.github.io/2021/10/03/pdl/ Language speeds (sieve)]
- [http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/ppdb/en/Reports/373.htm Pesticide Properties Data Base (Glyphosate)]
- Mandy Rice-Davies Seven Magnificent Gladiators
- Warlike Operations Area Committee
- Laser Activated Remote Phosphor (LARP)
- [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5 PASC]
- There seems to be confusion between Spiraea arguta and Spiraea prunifolia, only the former I think is correctly dubbed "bridal wreath".
- Meadowsweet <- Meadow sweet Meadow-sweet
- Find out whether dry-point [A Catalogue of Manuscripts Known to Contain Old English Dry-Point Glosses] (de: Griffelglossen) includes/is metalpoint. DNC drypoint. Ans. Blackwell Ency.c Ag-Sax England, entry Glosses cited therein - 'with a stylus' 'scratched'
- Investigate Bald's Leechbook and Lacnunga.
- Wynde Monah [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4IlVAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA2-PA465&dq=Wynde+monath&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1166AsY_3AhUBmVwKHUZYAQoQ6AF6BAgDEAI#v=onepage&q=Wynde%20monath&f=false 1845] see also[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y78_AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22leechcrafty%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5hvOnh4_3AhUJgFwKHXI5Av0Q6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=leechcraft&f=false Bailey]
- John Eversely https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58673/supplement/4/data.pdf https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-princess-royal-shakes-hands-with-mr-john-eversley-news-photo/834710966 https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2008/04/23/enterprising-individuals-get-queens-award https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/2211450.best-uk-business-recognised-awards/ https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Award+recognises+John%27s+contribution%3B+in+association+with+RBS.-a0178074996
- https://www.europeana.eu/en
- Broken symmetry https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/04/13/clinical-trial-should-probably-wont-close-book-ivermectin-16244
- Sort order, name https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Ann_Brock_Putnam&diff=prev&oldid=880695609
- Barret M82 an 11/12 round mag was made [https://www.ar15.com/forums/armory/Info-on-Barrett-M82-12-round-magazine/3-477711/] need a better ref if possible. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zrKiDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT93&lpg=PT93&dq=m82+extended+magazine+%2211+round%22+-airsoft&source=bl&ots=n-Un2c_EgK&sig=ACfU3U1YwHQ-mPy3bLPfhDWfSetVfex0bw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj07bChv_H3AhXbQkEAHfRYCj8Q6AF6BAg7EAM#v=onepage&q=m82%20extended%20magazine%20%2211%20round%22%20-airsoft&f=false perhaps] or [https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/mediawiki/index.php/Barrett_M82_(M107)_American_Semi-Automatic_Anti-Material_Rifle] [https://historyofguns.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/barrett-m82/]
- [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258051406_Masculinities_and_Femininities_in_Zimbabwean_Autobiographies_of_Political_Struggle_The_Case_of_Edgar_Tekere_and_Fay_Chung]
- [https://editions.covecollective.org/chronologies/launch-times-book-club]
- Hilary English
- https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-sanctions-family-syria-asma-assad-end-war
- probably WISEA J100115.86+555344.3 move to WISEA 1001+5553 (needs refs)
- 'Top 400' political scientists (US, Phd granting institutions only, tenure or tenure track, by citation count) [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/political-science-400-with-citation-counts-by-cohort-gender-and-subfield/C1EDBF7220760F01A5C4A685DB3B3F44]
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Wikidata weekly summary #672
week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670
Discussions
- New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 - of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)?
Events
- Upcoming events:
- [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
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Newest properties and property proposals to review
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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!
Wikidata weekly summary #672 (correct version!)
week leading up to 2025-03-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #671
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:Request for admin flag for MsynBot - From 2021 through 2024, this bot has implemented the 2019 RfC “semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items” by maintaining page protections based on the outcome, d:Wikidata:Protection policy#Highly used items. The admin flag got lost due to bot inactivity but the bot operation could be resumed immediately if the admin flag is given back.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- AAFRennes2025, 26-28 Mars 2025
- 5-6 April & 12 April: Scholia Hackathon
- Wikidata and Sister Projects to take place May 29 - June 1. Please send us your session ideas, we still have lots of space for proposals. This is a great chance to highlight the benefits of Wikidata use in other WM projects. See Talk page for proposals.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- 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! :)
Wikidata weekly summary #675
week leading up to 2025-04-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #674
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
towikibase: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!
Tech News: 2025-16
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355914]
- File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Images#Thumbnail_sizes][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355914]
Updates for editors
- The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called Edge Uniques which will enable A/B testing, help protect against Distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
- To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password emailed to their account. It is recommended that you check that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T390662]
- "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be asked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The Moderator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
- On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on [https://query.wikidata.org/ query.wikidata.org]. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through [https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ query-scholarly.wikidata.org], while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the [https://query.wikidata.org/ query.wikidata.org] endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was announced in September 2024. More information is available on Wikidata.
- The latest quarterly Wikimedia Apps Newsletter is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
- File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
- File:Octicons-sync.svg Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Tech News: 2025-17
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- 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. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template. [https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2025-04-16]
- A new type of lint error has been created: {{int:linter-category-empty-heading}} (documentation). The Linter extension's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368722]
- File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:37}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:37|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is [https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/kaggle-dataset/ now also available on Kaggle]. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall [https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/structured-contents-snapshot-api/#open-datasets Structured Contents project], and about the [https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/structured-contents-wikipedia-infobox/ first release that's freely usable].
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings and events
- The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss Peacock check, which is the latest Edit check that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be on April 28, 2025 at [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1745863200 18:00–19:00 UTC] and hosted on Zoom.
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Wikidata weekly summary #676
week leading up to 2025-04-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #675.
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)
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."
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 .
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
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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 LoweryShowcase Lexemes: Bill (L3855) - English noun (/bɪl/) that can mean "invoice", "proposed law", "bird's beak", or "a given name" :
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