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Tech News: 2025-08

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

Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the {{#special:Homepage}} for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at {{#special:CommunityConfiguration}}. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post, have a look at the documentation, or contact the Growth team.

Updates for editors

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Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – {{int:project-localized-name-eswiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-frwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-itwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-jawiki/en}} – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379102]
You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5324]
When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
A new filter has been added to the {{#special:Nuke}} tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378488]
Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the {{#special:Nuke}} tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376378]
File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:25}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:25|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382193]

Updates for technical contributors

Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385923][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371640]
Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that mw.Uri is deprecated. Tools requiring mw.Uri must explicitly declare mediawiki.Uri as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native URL API soon. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384515]

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Tech News: 2025-09

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

Administrators can now customize how the Babel feature creates categories using {{#special:CommunityConfiguration/Babel}}. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374348]
The [https://www.wikimedia.org/ wikimedia.org] portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as [https://wikibooks.org wikibooks.org], now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373204][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368221][https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals]
One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wiktionary/en}} in Santali (wikt:sat:) [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386619]
File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381289]

Meetings and events

The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1740751200 14:00 UTC]. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page.

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Tech News: 2025-10

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

All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "{{int:Minerva-page-actions-editfull}}" link is accessible from the "{{int:minerva-page-actions-overflow}}" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions setting. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387180]
Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "mw-ref" from their local MediaWiki:Common.css. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove, [https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=mw-ref%5B%5E-a-z%5D®ex=1&namespaces=8&title=.*css can be found with this global search] and in [https://ace.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&oldid=145662#L-139--L-144 this example], and you can learn more about how to help on the CSS migration project page. The Cite footnote markers ("[1]") are now rendered by Parsoid, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("mw:referencedBy") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.
When editors embed a file (e.g. File:MediaWiki.png) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T24521] In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g. {{:File:MediaWiki.png}}) will now restrict edits to the page.[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62109]
When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights,[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304474] and respects cascading protection.[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140010]
When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95797]
The previously noted update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on Group0 wikis this week. See the SUL3 project page for more details and an updated timeline.
Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387351]
One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia/en}} in Sylheti (w:syl:) [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386441]
File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386400]

Updates for technical contributors

File:Octicons-sync.svg Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Hatnotes and edit-warring

You have been around far too long to start edit-warring over something as trivial as hatnotes. WP:BRD is the order of the day if you feel that strongly about it. Parsecboy (talk) 20:43, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #670

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #669

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!

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Tech News: 2025-11

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

Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385520][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384844]
The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in Afrika Baraza and the last ESEAP call, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts? Join the discussion or email aramadan@wikimedia.org!
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1742392800 14:00 UTC]. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

File:Octicons-sync.svg Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change.

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Wikidata weekly summary #671

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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
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)

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!

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Tech News: 2025-12

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

Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. [http://listen.hatnote.com/ Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia] tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1742392800 March 19 at 14:00 UTC].

Updates for editors

The [https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ContentTranslation&filter-type=automatic&filter-id=previous-edits&active-list=suggestions&from=en&to=es improved Content Translation tool dashboard] is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based [https://ig.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ContentTranslation&active-list=suggestions&from=en&to=ig&filter-type=automatic&filter-id=previous-edits article suggestion filters] (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379131]
The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386584]
File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:26}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:26|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379777]

Updates for technical contributors

Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
File:Octicons-sync.svg Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-13

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

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.

Updates for editors

The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).
Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration, as part of the CampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the {{int:specialpages}} listing. If it does not, they should add it using * specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388927]
The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (File:OOjs UI icon bell.svg). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344029]
File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task.
Developers who use the mw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the userAgent parameter: var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373874][https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_User-Agent_Policy]
File:Octicons-sync.svg Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #672

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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
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)

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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #672 (correct version!)

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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)

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! :)

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[[ex contractu]]

I completed a selective merge and redirect to ex delicto. Thank you for your advice. Bearian (talk) 16:56, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-14

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

The Editing team is working on a new Edit check: Peacock check. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input: in this Phabricator task, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging Trizek (WMF).
Single User Login has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:35}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:35|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for MediaWiki REST APIs. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to share feedback about your experience. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
File:Octicons-sync.svg Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

Sometimes a small, one line code change can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving [http://maps.wikimedia.org/ maps.wikimedia.org] - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a datacenter switchover. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of extensive work by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to kubernetes, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.

Meetings and events

MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.

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Wikidata weekly summary #673

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #672

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)

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! :)

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Wikidata weekly summary #674

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2025-04-07. Please help Translate.

Events

Upcoming events:
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GQR2VT7LONW5AHMHUT7RGMZFUQBGYJCF/ Wiki Workshop Registration is Now Open!] The event will be held virtually over two days on May 21 & 22, 2025.
OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #75 April 14 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
(French) [https://geographie-cites.cnrs.fr/collecte-et-usages-de-donnees-issues-de-wikipedia-et-wikidata-dans-les-recherches-en-shs/ Collection and use of Wikipedia and Wikidata data in SHS searches] - 17 June, 2025. Participation via video-conference available, [https://framaforms.org/je-collecte-et-usages-des-donnees-wikipedia-dans-les-recherches-en-shs-1741892154 register here] and [https://site-fef6fe.gitpages.huma-num.fr/journee/wikipedia.html program info here].

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
Inference, continued - Magnus Manske adds 2 new functions to WD-infernal. [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/777 The Whelming]
(French) Illustrious women in public spaces. Streets, buildings and other places overwhelmingly feature men [https://porte-plume.app/projet/challenge-wikidata-en-classe/blog/billet/b69566ea-713d-44d0-845c-3501d5bb5ff2 Porte Plumpe]
[https://www.veradekok.nl/en/2025/03/kahle-receives-projectuil-from-wikipedia/ Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) receives ProjectUil from Dutch Wikipedia]
Papers: Enabling disaggregation of Asian American subgroups: a dataset of Wikidata names for disparity estimation [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04753-y - Paper] by Lin, Q. et al (2025).
Videos
Curationist: What is it and how does it work? - Curationist utilises Wikidata to help discover, curate and share public-domian art and cultural heritage content. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj9FDIX0JSg YouTube]
(Swedish) Connecting Wikidata, OpenStreetMap and the National Archives with Magnus Sälgö [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byqopx1aQLI YouTube]
(French) Focus on Wikidata, Wikifying Science, a presentation from Delphine Montagne and Pierre-Yves Beaudouin. [https://www.canal-u.tv/chaines/renatis/cfe-renatis-focus-sur-wikidata-wikifier-la-science Canal-U TV: C@fé Renatis]
Other
(Portuguese) Wikidata at School: expanding access to knowledge and tackling gender gaps! [https://www.instagram.com/p/DH9qZcENJ75/ Instagram: Projeto Mais]

Tool of the week

Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata for Web - also known as Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that displays data from Wikidata on various websites, enhancing the information you are already looking at, and also allows extraction of data from these websites.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details available here.
Job Vacancy - Are you interested in helping shape the technical future of Wikimedia's knowledge graph? We are looking for a [https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/55063868/Staff-Engineer-Wikidata-all-genders-/ Staff Engineer (Wikidata)]

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest properties:
General datatypes:
beam energy (kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator))
External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, ‎TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes:
interior decorator (A property for the interior decorator of notable buildings)
incompatible with (significant elements with which an entity is incompatible and indicates a significant property of this entity)
warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
Trafikplatssignatur (Swedish station code)
outcome 2 (outcome of a criminal charge or a civil complaint)
External identifiers: TechPowerup GPU ID, ISFDB category of an award ID, L'Expression topic ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque du Saulchoir, National Gallery (London) PID, Identifiant sur Orthodox World

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/DjTs Plants missing a French description]
[https://w.wiki/DjTv Sorting Organisations by the no. of subsidiaries it owns]
[https://w.wiki/DhPF Popular German Family names]
Newest WikiProjects:
Govdirectory: Chile
WikiProject: Bahamas
Newest database reports: Items with identical Birth and Death dates - another way to identify duplicate items.
Showcase Items: Game of Thrones (Q23572) - American fantasy drama television series
Showcase Lexemes: umuyagankuba (L1215369) - "electricity" in Kirundi

Development

We made some progress on the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature by improving the UI, and making it translatable (phab:T390269)
We continued working on dark mode support (phab:T389633)
Wikibase REST API: We are almost done adding the last few features on the simple item and property search endpoint. We'll be happy to get feedback on these from 15.04 when they're completed
We will begin user testing to improve Mobile Editing Experience: Mobile editing of statements

Weekly Tasks

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

· Previous issue · Help translate · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:19, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-15

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

From now on, interface admins and centralnotice admins are technically required to enable two-factor authentication before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150898]
File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:20}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:20|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the 2.0 overview documentation, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as font-size, line-height, and size-icon.
The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025) are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
File:Octicons-sync.svg Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a [https://www.mfa.gov.tr/turkish-representations.en.mfa visa] or [https://www.mfa.gov.tr/visa-information-for-foreigners.en.mfa e-visa] to enter the country.

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Wikidata weekly summary #675

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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 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!

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!

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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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MediaWiki message delivery 00:21, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Nomination of [[:Null sign]] for deletion

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

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Null sign until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Trovatore (talk) 19:48, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

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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MediaWiki message delivery 20:57, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #676

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #675.
Translations are available

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)

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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #677

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #676.
Translations are available

Discussions

Open request for bureaucrat: Wüstenspringmaus

Events

Upcoming events:
Wikidata and Research Conference June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence.
[https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2025/ The 5th Wikidata Workshop] taking place November 2-3, 2025 during the [https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/ 25th International Semantic Web Conference] hosted in Nara, Japan. Call for Papers is open until 23:59 AoE, August 2. This year, the program tracks are 1. Novel Work and 2. Previously Published Work. Submission template and guidelines are [https://www.overleaf.com/read/pwspggxsbdvy available here] and you can [https://openreview.net/group?id=swsa.semanticweb.org/ISWC/2025/Workshop/Wikidata submit your topic here].
The Wikidata and Sister Projects online conference approaches: May 29 - July 1, 2025. Have you registered yet?

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
[https://datascientistsdiary.com/how-to-build-a-production-ready-knowledge-graph/ How to Build a Production-Ready Knowledge Graph(with Code): A Practical Guide ] By Amit Yadav
[https://nearby.hypotheses.org/2478 Who are the Cardinal Electors of 2025 papal conclave? A typical question for Wikidata? ] by {{Q|67173261}}
Papers
[https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3696410?tocHeading=heading2 Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Web Conference 2025.] By Guodong et. al., (2025)
[https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3696410.3714757 Passage: Ensuring Completeness and Responsiveness of Public SPARQL Endpoints with SPARQL Continuation Queries ] By Thi Hoang et. al., (2025)

Tool of the week

[https://quarry.wmcloud.org/ quarry.wmcloud.org] is a public querying interface for Wiki Replicas, a set of live replica SQL databases of public Wikimedia Wikis. Quarry is designed to make running queries against Wiki Replicas easy. Quarry can also be used to query public databases stored in ToolsDB.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

[https://scholia.toolforge.org/ Scholia] is running a [https://survey.wikimedia.it/index.php/179555 user survey] until the end of May .
Researchers from the University of Regina in Canada invite you to participate in the Open Data Community Survey 2025. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/XHXV4P6DILOUG6QFAO22FEJHXAWOS7YH/ Read more]!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
BEACON file URL (URL of an online service's BEACON file, a data interchange format for large numbers of uniform links.)
research projects that contributed to this data set (research projects that have contributed to or otherwise created an item)
‎terminal speaker (the last person able to speak the language fluently)
‎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...)
interior designer (person responsible for the interior design of a notable building or structure)
‎kigo of (season which denotes the sense in haiku in Japanese)
Newest External identifiers: Homosaurus ID (V4), Helden van het Verzet person ID, Our Campaigns container ID, Catálogo Histórico de Tese e Dissertações da Área de História ID, Congress.gov committee ID, Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Israeli Governmental Data Repository ID, Deutsche Genbank Obst (‎DGO) ID, DVIDS photo ID, FirstCycling race ID, FirstCycling team season ID, Hmong Studies Citations ID, Cartofaf organization ID, Calindex author ID, Diocese of Lyon Museum person ID, BnF dictionary ID, Dezède person ID, Meta-Doctrinal ID, Ordre national du Québec ID, ‎Internet Game Database genre ID, Shazoo tag ID, ‎OGDB genre ID, Tax Identification Number (Colombia), ‎National Gallery (London) PID, Kunstkamera ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID, ‎WSGF taxonomy term ID, World Higher Education Database ID, ‎VD 16 ID, United Nations Terminology Database ID, Trafikplatssignatur, Top50 system ID, IndExs exsiccata ID, Markstammdatenregister ID, Ech-Chaab tag ID, ‎SearchCulture.gr ID, RaiPlay Sound program ID, RaiPlay Sound playlist ID, Modern China Biographical Database ID, Know Your Meme slug, LEMAV ID, PerformArt ID, Chilean NPO number, TermTerm UUID, Steam Deck HQ game ID, ‎SeqCode Registry ID, School ID Schleswig-Holstein, Rodovid family ID, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Party), Captain Coaster park ID, Scilit scholar ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, PCPartPicker product ID, goal.com football match ID, The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism ID, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) special ID, Eurobasket.com club ID, europlayers.com club ID, badmintoncn.com star ID, ‎Danskefilmstemmer.dk work or dubbing ID

New General datatypes property proposals to review:
defined for (the subject takes the object as parameter (or parameter tuple))
The Long Distance Walkers Association (External Identifier (URL slug) for a hiking route on The Long Distance Walkers Association website (United Kingdom only))
New External identifier property proposals to review: IEC CDD for electronics, GOG Dreamlist ID, IEC CDD units, Urban Dictionary ID (2), RCI number, Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID, myCast person ID, Personality Database category ID, parliament.uk bill ID, Bierista beer ID, Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/Dv$w All national parties that are members of a European party and whose country is a member of the European Union] (source)
[https://w.wiki/Dw23 Related works from co-citation analysis] (source)
Newest WikiProjects : WikiProject Saint Mary's College (IN) aims to improve the coverage of Saint Mary's and the scholarly works being created at Saint Mary's.
Showcase Lexemes: Córdoba (L642328) - Spanish noun (kór-do-ba) that can mean "a city in Spain", "a city in Argentina", or "a Mexican city"

Development

Bug: We fixed an issue where newly created Properties became inaccessible after adding a statement with a Property linking to an Item or Lexeme. The fix will go live on Wednesday. (phab:T374230)
Search: We continued implementing the new search that will make it easier to search for Properties and Lexemes in the UI (phab:T321543)

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!

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Tech News: 2025-18

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

Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.
File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:19}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:19|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.
Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of ipblocks, ipblocks_ipindex, and ipblocks_compat are now deprecated. Users can query the block and block_target new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
File:Octicons-sync.svg Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved [https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ContentTranslation&campaign=contributionsmenu&to=es&filter-type=automatic&filter-id=previous-edits&active-list=suggestions&from=en#/ Content Translation Dashboard Tool], support for new languages, highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign, results from the Language Onboarding Experiment, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.

Meetings and events

The Let's Connect Learning Clinic will take place on [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1745937000 April 29 at 14:30 UTC]. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can register now to attend.
The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.

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Wikidata weekly summary #678

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #677.
Translations are available

Discussions

Closed request for permissions/Bot: Mr Robot - No consensus reached.

Events

Past events: Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
Upcoming events:
[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Volunteer_Supporters_Network/Wikidata_pour_les_débutants_2025-05-16 Volunteer Supporters Network/Wikidata for beginners] May 16, 2025
Wikidata and Sister Projects May 29 - June 1, 2025. register here
Wikidata and Research Conference June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence.
[https://pretalx.coscup.org/coscup-2025/ Call for Proposals]:Wikidata Taiwan x OpenStreetMap Taiwam @ COSCUP 2025,Submission Deadline: May 10, 2025 (AoE).
WikidataCon 2025 Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2025. Register here

Ongoing event: Coordinate Me 2025 May 1 - May 31, 2025

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
WikidataCon 2025 - programme track categories are ready - time to start thinking about session proposals!
[https://r.iresmi.net/posts/2025/osm_Wikidata/Cross checking OSM IDs between OSM and Wikidata] By Michaël
[https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/05/02/wikiflix-goes-live/ WikiFlix, a new free streaming platform goes live]
Papers
[https://hackernoon.com/how-to-develop-a-privacy-first-entity-recognition-system How to Develop a Privacy-First Entity Recognition System] By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
[https://hackernoon.com/detecting-and-masking-personal-data-in-text Detecting and Masking Personal Data in Text] By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10840323 EA2N: Evidence-Based AMR Attention Network for Fake News Detection ] By Gupta et. al., (2025)

Tool of the week

[https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page OpenStreetMap]: OpenStreetMap, is a project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. It was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways .

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Ever played Redactle? Lucas put together a Wikidata version of it. Can you guess the Item? Still needs a bit of work but you can [https://wdactle.toolforge.org/ try it out now].
[https://mamot.fr/@pintoch/114449249307450950 EditGroups has a new maintainer ]

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest properties:
General datatypes:
organization unit code (organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item)
likes of fictional character (particular likes which applies to this fictional character as (usually) stated in their official profile or biography)
dislikes of fictional character (particular dislikes which applies to this fictional character as stated in their official profile or biography)
number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
RAM capacity (amount of volatile random-access memory (RAM) modules used by this device)
species protection status (Links species, habitat or biotope type with the regulation international or national that protects this species)
Nation Ranking (primary) (main/general ranking for a cycling tournament season)
Nation Ranking (secondary) (youth/U23 ranking for this cycling tournament season)
External identifiers: badmintoncn.com star ID, ‎Danskefilmstemmer.dk work or dubbing ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, ‎JSIC code, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, Dark Ride Database ride ID, Dark Ride Database park ID, Dark Ride Database manufacturer ID, ‎Databáze her platform ID, Mourisco Catalogue work ID, Radiomuseum vacuum tube/transistor ID, ‎CAMRA pub ID, MobyGames attribute ID, MetalTabs.com track ID, Moure's Catalog ID, PromoDJ track ID, Euronews topic ID, Audiomack artist ID, Audiomack album ID, Europe PMC preprint ID, ‎SMB-digital asset ID, Audiomack song ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (glossary and index of terms) ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, Itch.io tag ID, Corago singer ID, ‎MoNA spectrum ID, La Croix author ID, ‎Billie Jean King Cup player ID 2024, ‎TeamUSA.com athlete ID, ‎Snopes ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID, ‎PyPI organization name, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID, ‎PlayStation Museum product ID, Urban Dictionary ID, ‎GOG Dreamlist ID, RCI number, ‎Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID, Orthodox World ID, ‎Coasterpedia ID, Ethnologue language family ID, ‎factordb ID, SCImago Institutions Rankings ID, UniRank ID, Bibliometrics of Ukrainian science person ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes:
Context Window (The maximum length of an input token in the language model.)
contains nutrient (Food contains nutrient)
underlying data (this mathematical structure has these data as part)
échelle de Beaufort (empirical measure describing wind speed based on observed conditions)
External identifiers: vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Mobility Database ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, Substack username, Private Enterprise Number, ComputerLanguage.com definition, otzovik.com review ID, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Persoon)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know ?

Newest WikiProjects :
Nonprofit Organisations: Ukraine
Stockholm Archilepago Trail
Newest database reports : Descriptions with QID - These Item descriptions contain a QID or Item ID.
Showcase Items: Hans van Mierlo (Q288771) - Dutch politician (1931–2010)
Showcase Lexemes: Tribe (L28956) - English noun (trīb) that can mean "a social division in traditional society", "a political subdivision", or "a genre of Techno Music":

Development

Wikidata Query Service: The search platform team finished the remaining work for the graph split and it is going live [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ZLIUAGRLPQLLBVJSC2AEG7FNTTOER66I/ this week].
We took part in the Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
Wikipedia and co: We continued working on improving how Wikidata edits are shown on the watchlist on Wikipedia and co. We are focusing on showing labels instead of IDs for the entities (Items, Properties, ...) linked in the edit summaries (phab:T388685)
UI: We continued doing small fixes for dark mode support in the UI (phab:T385039)
Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the search endpoint (phab:T383126)

Weekly Tasks

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

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Tech News: 2025-19

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

The Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.

Updates for editors

For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via {{#special:AllEvents}} (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

Developers who use the moment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the Intl library or the new mediawiki.DateFormatter library. The moment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task.
Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T390954]
File:Octicons-sync.svg Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.

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Wikidata weekly summary #679

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #678.
Translations are available

Events

Upcoming:
Kaxabu Wikidata Workshop May 17 at Puli DOC, Nantou
Seediq Wikidata Lexeme Workshop May 18 at Puli DOC, Nantou
Past: Wikimedia Hackathon happened on May 4. Check out the closing showcase that included some Wikidata-related projects: [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2025_Closing_Showcase Etherpad (Hackaton 2025)]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
GLAM and Wikidata: The "GLAMorous Wikidata" Campaign: In March 2025, Wikimedia Serbia launched a local thematic campaign called GLAMurous Wikidata, focused on improving data about cultural and heritage institutions on Wikidata.
Project "Open Topstukken" ("Open Collection Highlights") - Maastricht University and Radboud University: The "Open Topstukken" project is a collaboration between Maastricht University and Radboud University to digitize and publish rare books and manuscripts, with metadata from their Omeka S systems automatically transferred to Wikidata by Wikidata specialists.
Wikidata and Research: The programme for the “Wikidata and Research” conference is now available online. Scheduled for 5–6 June 2025 at the University of Florence, this event is convened by a volunteer Scientific Committee in collaboration with Wikimedia Italia and the University of Florence.
Papers
[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391431150_Capacitating_Librarians_with_Wikidata_Literacy_for_Managing_Wikipedia_Information_Resources_Implications_to_Libraries Capacitating Librarians with Wikidata Literacy for Managing Wikipedia Information Resources: Implications to Libraries] By Oyighan et. al., (2025)
[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391461181_Social_Biases_in_Knowledge_Representations_of_Wikidata_separates_Global_North_from_Global_South Social Biases in Knowledge Representations of Wikidata separates Global North from Global South] By Das et. al., (2025)
[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-89366-7_6 Automatic Curriculum Cohesion Analysis Based on Knowledge Graphs] By Gacek & Adrian (2025).
Videos
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2i2w0L2rcRI African Wiki Women Wikidata training for the gender equality campaign]
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_8JbA1AC4yY Using Listeria tool to create Wikidata lists from Wikidata]
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OZXEtUrjJrY Using the Mix'n'match tool to match external datasets to Wikidata items.]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a57QK4rARpw Connecting the World’s Knowledge with Abstract Wikipedia] By Denny Vrandečić

Tool of the week

[https://wdactle.toolforge.org/ Wdactle game] -- is a Wikidata version of Redactle! It's a game where you are shown a Wikidata Item with all labels and words redacted and have to figure out what it is. Guessing a word reveals all the places where it is used. Built by Luca Werkmeister during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

⚠️ Wikidata Query Service graph split: As you know Wikidata Query Service was no longer able to handle the complete set of data Wikidata has. To address this the graph in Wikidata Query Service has now been split into a main graph (that continues to be at query.wikidata.org) and a scholarly graph (that is at query-scholarly.wikidata.org). For more details please see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS graph split.
Join the Wikidata:Impact stories global campiagn. We're celebrating the amazing Wikidata community - editors, developers, librarians, and creators - and inviting you to share how Wikidata is used. Your story can inspire others and grow the community. Submit yours or nominate a cool project by June 6.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
‎third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
Newest External identifiers: Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID, vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, ‎Substack handle, Sport Express football match ID, R-Sport match ID

New General datatypes property proposals to review:
related video (less fitting video, used only because a better alternative is not available. If an appropriate video of the item is available, use P10 instead. Value should not be a generic placeholder.)
cosplay of (character(s) that are cosplayed in this image or video)
New External identifier property proposals to review: RFI station ID (timetables), registration number of japanese invoice system, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Geographicus-cartographer, Harper's tag, Database of Czech Librarians ID, Open Location Code, CABR-identifier, Onsland-identifier, National Library of Spain Alma ID (BNE v2.0), PC98 Images game ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki-ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/E3Yi All you want to know about] The Blue Coats (Q1030833)
[https://w.wiki/97bM Birthplace of Colombians in the Public Domain]
Showcase Items: Soir d'été sur la plage de Skagen – l'artiste et sa femme (Q18386245) - painting by Peder Severin Krøyer from 1899
Showcase Lexemes: Projektion (L494436) - German noun (pro-yek-tsi̯oːn) that can mean "projection", "image display", or "defence mechanism in Psychoanalysis"

Development

mul language code: We are fixing an issue where Items can't be found by their mul language label or alias (phab:T392058)
Wikibase REST API: We are working on phrase matching for the simple search (phab:T389011)
Dark mode: We fixed a color contrast bug with the entity selector when making new statements (phab:T393641)
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The "Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.

Updates for editors

The Wikimedia Foundation is 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 to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page.
Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension enabled can use Event Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
The Wikipedia project now has a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia/en}} in Nupe (w:nup:). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia.
File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the [https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/docs/snapshot/#structured-contents-snapshot-bundle-info-beta Structured Contents snapshots (beta)]. The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
The /page/data-parsoid REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.
File:Octicons-sync.svg Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

The [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/2025_Cloud_VPS_VXLAN_IPv6_migration IPv6 support] is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out [https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/05/06/wikimedia-cloud-vps-ipv6-support/ this blog post] for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.

Meetings and events

The 2nd edition of 2025 of Afrika Baraza, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1747328400 May 15 at 17:00 UTC]. This edition will focus on discussions regarding Wikimedia Annual planning and progress.
The MENA Connect Community Call, a virtual meeting for MENA Wikimedians to connect, will take place on [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1747501200 May 17 at 17:00 UTC]. You can register now to attend.

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