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Wikidata weekly summary #675

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 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
  • Introducing m3api, By Lucas Werkmeister
  • Wikidata Query Service graph database reload at home, 2025 edition. By Adam Baso
• Videos
  • Understanding Why Your OPTIONAL Properties in Wikidata Queries Might Be Ignored
  • 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

• Wikidata Topic Curator is a React-based web application. It’s a new and improved version of 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
  • Staff Engineer 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:
  • Top 10 items instance of Wikimedia category ordered by number of Sitelinks (source)
  • 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 announced as a breaking change and will be deployed to Wikidata on 24 April
• We made some more improvements to dark mode support (phab:T389633)
• We’re working on tests for the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature (phab:T385790)
• Wikibase REST API: We're going to wrap up pagination on the simple Item and property search endpoint and are working to improve our test architecture for search (phab:T386691). We're going to pick up prefix search for Items and phrase matching next!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #676

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 Tuku Township (Q708809) 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
  • qjson: Fetching all properties of a Wikidata item in a single API call By Santhosh Thottingal
  • A Wikibase call for action at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 By Ismael Olea
  • Putting UK collections on the map by the Museum Data Service
  • The April 2025 Scholia Hackathon by Egon Willighagen
• Papers
  • 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)
  • Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited - By Latham (2025)
• Videos
  • Wiki Workshop 2025 - Wikidata Inconsistencies with Language Models and Data Mining in a Pipeline by Houcemeddine Turki
  • (Italian) Cla-G, an instance of Wikibase as a tool to support game classification by Carlo Bianchini
• Other
  • Wikidata & Wikibase for Authority Control & Knowledge Organization Workshop By AfLIA
  • 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 pfpschneidergmail.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
  • Lead Product Manager, Wikidata Platform (remote)
  • 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:
  • All Genres of Classical Musical Compositions and their Labels in English and German (source)
• WikiProject Highlights: Taiwan Travel - aims to create travel related items about Taiwan
• Showcase Items : Pete's Dragon (Q18786473) - 2016, film by David Lowery
• Showcase Lexemes: Bill (L3855) - English noun (/bɪl/) that can mean "invoice", "proposed law", "bird's beak", or "a given name":

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #677

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.
  • The 5th Wikidata Workshop taking place November 2-3, 2025 during the 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 available here and you can 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
  • How to Build a Production-Ready Knowledge Graph(with Code): A Practical Guide By Amit Yadav
  • Who are the Cardinal Electors of 2025 papal conclave? A typical question for Wikidata? by Christian Erlinger (Q67173261)
• Papers
  • Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Web Conference 2025. By Guodong et. al., (2025)
  • Passage: Ensuring Completeness and Responsiveness of Public SPARQL Endpoints with SPARQL Continuation Queries By Thi Hoang et. al., (2025)

Tool of the week

• 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

• Scholia is running a 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. 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:
  • All national parties that are members of a European party and whose country is a member of the European Union (source)
  • 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)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• 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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Women in Red May 2025

Women in Red | May 2025, Vol 11, Issue 5, Nos. 326, 327, 337, 338 Online events: New: Revolutionary women | Alphabet run I & J Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements (events facilitated by others): WikiProject Women in Green - a Good Article editathon from 1-31 May 2025 Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,269 articles during this period! 21 Apr 2025: 20.090% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,061,363; 414,126 women) 24 Mar 2025: 20.070% (2,057,083 bios; 412,857 women) Tip of the month: Those of you who experience harassment while trying to create or improve articles about women are welcome to bring your problems to our attention on the Women in Red talk page. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

--Lajmmoore (talk 09:21, 29 April 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 1 May 2025

• News and notes: India cut off from Wiki money; WMF annual plan and Wikimedia programs seek comment

• In the media: Feds aiming for WMF's nonprofit status

• Recent research: How readers use Wikipedia health content; Scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia

• Arbitration report: Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom

• Discussion report: Latest news from Centralized discussions

• Traffic report: Of Wolf and Man

• Disinformation report: At WikiCredCon, Wikipedia editors and Internet Archive discuss threats to trust in media

• News from the WMF: Product & Tech Progress on the Annual Plan

• Humour: Crisis erupts as furious admins, functionaries complain about crappy t-shirts

• Comix: By territory

• In focus: Using AI on the Russian Wikipedia: opportunities or challenges?

• Community view: A deep dive into Wikimedia

• Debriefing: Barkeep49's RfB debriefing

• Gallery: Meet the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024

• Obituary: JarrahTree, JohnClarknew and Yashthepunisher

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Reminder: Submit Your Local Results for Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 by 15 May

Dear Oronsay,

Thank you for your valuable contributions to Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 in your communities!

This is a kind reminder that the deadline to submit your local results is 15 May 2025.

Please make sure to submit the complete and detailed results of your local contest on the following Meta-Wiki page: m:Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025/Results

Additionally, feel free to add a brief summary of your local event under the Results section in your country/region’s row on the participants page: m:Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025/Participants

If you need any assistance during this process, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Thank you for your continued dedication and support!

For, Wiki Loves Ramadan International Team 11:51, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Update: New Event-Organizer Tools for You on English Wikipedia!

Hello,

I hope you're doing well! As an event coordinator on English Wikipedia, I’m happy to share some news with you. You now have the event-organizer right! This gives you access to the CampaignEvents extension, a powerful set of tools to help you organize and promote events and WikiProjects more easily. With the CampaignEvents extension, you can:

• Manage event registration directly on English Wikipedia.
• Use the Invitation List tool to find potential participants for your events/WikiProjects
• Receive automatic promotion of your events via the Collaboration List

Learn more on mw:Help:Extension:CampaignEvents

Now that I have your attention, I’d also like to share some updates to the extension:

• The Collaboration List can now be transcluded, meaning you can easily embed it on other wiki pages to share event details with more people by adding {{Special:AllEvents}}. Learn more.
• Admins can now determine which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration on English Wikipedia, via Special:CommunityConfiguration. Right now, the Event namespace is permitted by default for Event Registration. However, other namespaces (such as Wikipedia, WikiProject, etc) can now be added as permitted namespaces by admins too. This can help other types of organized activities, such as WikiProjects, use Event Registration.For details, please visit: Permitted_namespaces

If you need help using these new tools, I’m here to support you. Feel free to reach out for guidance. You can also find some useful video guides on Commons.

We’re excited to see how you use these tools for WikiProjects or events! If you have any questions, please let me know.

Udehb-WMF (talk) 11:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #678

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:
  • Volunteer Supporters Network/Wikidata for beginners May 16, 2025
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects May 29 - June 1, 2025. register here
  • Wikidata and Research Conference June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence.
  • Call for Proposals:Wikidata Taiwan x OpenStreetMap Taiwam @ COSCUP 2025,Submission Deadline: May 10, 2025 (AoE).
  • WikidataCon 2025 Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2025. Register here

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • WikidataCon 2025 - programme track categories are ready - time to start thinking about session proposals!
  • checking OSM IDs between OSM and Wikidata By Michaël
  • WikiFlix, a new free streaming platform goes live
• Papers
  • How to Develop a Privacy-First Entity Recognition System By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
  • Detecting and Masking Personal Data in Text By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
  • EA2N: Evidence-Based AMR Attention Network for Fake News Detection By Gupta et. al., (2025)

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Ever played Redactle? Lucas put together a Wikidata version of it. Can you guess the Item? Still needs a bit of work but you can try it out now.
• EditGroups has a new maintainer

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • organization unit code (organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item)
    • likes of fictional character (particular likes which applies to this fictional character as (usually) stated in their official profile or biography)
    • dislikes of fictional character (particular dislikes which applies to this fictional character as stated in their official profile or biography)
    • number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
    • RAM capacity (amount of volatile random-access memory (RAM) modules used by this device)
    • species protection status (Links species, habitat or biotope type with the regulation international or national that protects this species)
    • Nation Ranking (primary) (main/general ranking for a cycling tournament season)
    • Nation Ranking (secondary) (youth/U23 ranking for this cycling tournament season)
  • External identifiers: badmintoncn.com star ID, ‎Danskefilmstemmer.dk work or dubbing ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, ‎JSIC code, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, Dark Ride Database ride ID, Dark Ride Database park ID, Dark Ride Database manufacturer ID, ‎Databáze her platform ID, Mourisco Catalogue work ID, Radiomuseum vacuum tube/transistor ID, ‎CAMRA pub ID, MobyGames attribute ID, MetalTabs.com track ID, Moure's Catalog ID, PromoDJ track ID, Euronews topic ID, Audiomack artist ID, Audiomack album ID, Europe PMC preprint ID, ‎SMB-digital asset ID, Audiomack song ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (glossary and index of terms) ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, Itch.io tag ID, Corago singer ID, ‎MoNA spectrum ID, La Croix author ID, ‎Billie Jean King Cup player ID 2024, ‎TeamUSA.com athlete ID, ‎Snopes ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID, ‎PyPI organization name, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID, ‎PlayStation Museum product ID, Urban Dictionary ID, ‎GOG Dreamlist ID, RCI number, ‎Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID, Orthodox World ID, ‎Coasterpedia ID, Ethnologue language family ID, ‎factordb ID, SCImago Institutions Rankings ID, UniRank ID, Bibliometrics of Ukrainian science person ID
• 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 this week.
• We took part in the Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
• Wikipedia and co: We continued working on improving how Wikidata edits are shown on the watchlist on Wikipedia and co. We are focusing on showing labels instead of IDs for the entities (Items, Properties, ...) linked in the edit summaries (phab:T388685)
• UI: We continued doing small fixes for dark mode support in the UI (phab:T385039)
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the search endpoint (phab:T383126)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

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

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This Month in GLAM: April 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue IV, April 2025 Headlines Albania report: Wikipedia Event for International Roma Day 2025 Australia report: Highlighting Feminist and women's histories and a Wiki Day at the South Australian Museum Catalan areas report: Campaign to document the 2025 Falla monuments in Valencia Italy report: Wikidata and Research Netherlands report: Open Collection Highlights New Zealand report: Women in Architecture, BHL, and the Commons Workflow Nigeria report: Strengthening Cultural Heritage through Partnerships and Knowledge Sharing: Insights from World Heritage Day in Nigeria North Macedonia report: Wikimedia MKD's new GLAM collaborations and activities Poland report: What's up in GLAM in Poland Portugal report: Scholarships and Call for Sessions Proposals for GLAM Wiki 2025 will open soon: Stay tuned! Serbia report: GLAM Highlights from Serbia Switzerland report: FemNetzCon 2025; GLAM Meeting Biel/Bienne; Digi Archive UK report: Mapping Museums / Art in Arabic USA report: April meetings Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL-Wiki Working Group April monthly highlights Memory of the World report: Surging forward in Spanish and Arabic Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #679

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: 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
  • Capacitating Librarians with Wikidata Literacy for Managing Wikipedia Information Resources: Implications to Libraries By Oyighan et. al., (2025)
  • Social Biases in Knowledge Representations of Wikidata separates Global North from Global South By Das et. al., (2025)
  • Automatic Curriculum Cohesion Analysis Based on Knowledge Graphs By Gacek & Adrian (2025).
• Videos
  • African Wiki Women Wikidata training for the gender equality campaign
  • Using Listeria tool to create Wikidata lists from Wikidata
  • Using the Mix'n'match tool to match external datasets to Wikidata items.
  • Connecting the World’s Knowledge with Abstract Wikipedia By Denny Vrandečić

Tool of the week

• 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:
  • All you want to know about The Blue Coats (Q1030833)
  • 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)
• Ontology: We’re working on an updated, more complete version of the wikibase.owl ontology file (phab:T371752)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Italy
• 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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Books & Bytes – Issue 68

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 68, March–April 2025

In this issue we highlight two resource renewals, #EveryBookItsReader, a note about Phabricator, and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.

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• News and notes: WMF to kick off new-CEO quest as Iskander preps to move on — Supreme Court nixes gag of Wiki page for other India court row on ANI — code-heads give fix-up date for Charts in lieu of long-dead Graph gizmo

• In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide

• Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?

• In focus: On the hunt for sources: Swedish AfD discussions

• Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie

• Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing

• Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)

• Comix: Collection

• From the archives: Humor from the Archives

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Final Reminder – Submit Full Local Results for Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 by 15 May EOD

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Thank you for being a part of Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 — whether as a contributor, jury member, or local organizer. Your efforts helped make this campaign a meaningful celebration of culture, heritage, and community on Wikimedia platforms.

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Wikidata weekly summary #680

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #679.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: THEbotIT 2 - New functional aspect to automatic creation of items describing lexicographical articles of Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). The described topics of an RE article should also link back to the article.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • On Thursday, 22 May 2025, from 10:00 to 12:00 (CEST), digiS Berlin will offer an online workshop titled "Wikidata for GLAMs." The event is free, open to all, and conducted in German. More information and registration is here.
  • (Italian) Introduction to Wikidata and Wikimedia projects - LM43 May 29, 2025 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
  • The Wikidata and Sister Projects online event is nearly here! Four days of sessions on the use of Wikidata in the Wikimedia Projects, join us from May 29 - June 1. Register here. See the Program schedule.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Diff Blog: Spotlight on Wikidata in the WikiLearn newsletter: WikiLearn's May 2025 update highlights how its online courses, including Wikidata 101, are effectively helping Wikimedians develop key skills, reduce edit reversion rates, and foster engagement across multiple language communities.
  • The Meaning Behind Our Place Names - The Open Etymology Map uses Wikidata-linked etymology tags in OpenStreetMap to reveal the origins of place names, offering an interactive way to explore the historical and linguistic roots of streets, towns, and landmarks
• Papers
  • Preprint: Scholia Chemistry: access to chemistry in Wikidata - This study explores Wikidata's role in chemistry, highlighting how thousands of new chemicals were added, how new properties and database links enhance chemical representation, and how Scholia
  • Making an Under-Resourced Language Available on the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: Quechua Language By Huaman et. al., (2025) - This study integrates Quechua lexical data into Wikidata, adding 1,591 lexemes along with senses, forms, and pronunciation audio, demonstrating how Wikidata can support under-resourced languages in AI-driven Knowledge Graphs to promote linguistic diversity and inclusivity.
  • Knowledge-Based Aerospace Engineering - A Systematic Literature Review By Wittenborg et al., (2025) - This study systematically reviews Knowledge-Based Aerospace Engineering, analyzing over 1,000 articles, constructing a knowledge graph mapped to Wikidata, and demonstrating how structured, semantic-based approaches can enhance aerospace design, collaboration, and sustainable aviation
• Videos
  • (Italian) Introduction to Wikidata for archives
  • (Sweden) Stockholm Archipelago Trail OSM Wikidata SDC By Magnus Salgo
  • (German) Instructional video on SPARQL queries in Wikidata By OER4SDI

Tool of the week

• Wikidata-Taxonomy is a Command-line tool and library to extract taxonomies from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We are improving and expanding our Help and documentation pages, please tell us what you think: Parser Functions

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes
  • third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
  • context window (maximum length of an input token in the language model)
  • ‎most populous urban area (city or town with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
• 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, ‎ComputerLanguage.com definition, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Person), ‎RFI station ID (timetables), Geographicus cartographer 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)
  • breed belongs to taxon (taxon to which members of this breed (or these breeds) belong)
  • Reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
  • over (base field of this vector space, base ring of this module, pair of base rings for this bimodule, base monoidal category of this enriched category, etc.)
  • has WikiProject (WikiProject which has this topic as its main subject)
  • mixing engineer (person responsible for mixing the different sonic elements of a piece of recorded music into a final version of a track)
  • normally caused by (item that normally causes this effect, but that is not necessarily the cause here)
  • criminal motive (verified reasoning behind a crime)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: registration number of japanese invoice system, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, 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, R-Sport team ID, WürzburgWiki ID, AW-Wiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, OberpfalzWiki article ID, Tüik village id, viberate.com Artist Id, African Music Library Band ID, Delfi.lv theme ID, ESPN soccer team ID, 15min.lt theme ID, trove.scot ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur PRET19, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, IMDb Interest ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of pubs in Scotland (source)
  • Data about all 60 members of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject_zelph - WikiProject zelph focuses on integrating a semantic network system with Wikidata to enhance data quality.
• Showcase Items: The Jungle Book (Q16857406) - 2016 film directed by Jon Favreau
• Showcase Lexemes: pukka (L339628) - English adjective (puh-kuh) that can mean "genuine", "highest class", or "complete"

Development

• UI: We are putting the finishing touches on the new search box that will make it easier to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas as well (phab:T321543)
• Dark mode: We fixed the last known issues and are getting ready to roll it out
• Mobile statement editing: We are refining prototypes for testing and started technical investigations
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on simple search, focusing on phrase matching now (phab:T389011)
• Query Service: We are working on a small experiment to show a notification for simple queries that are better run on other APIs (phab:T391264)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• 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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Articles for Creation backlog drive

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Wikidata weekly summary #681

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #680.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 12 - Task(s): Add PubMed publication ID(P698) to items that lack it, but have DOI(P356), which allows it to be looked up using the PubMed API.
• Talk: Wikidata Identifiers (No value for missing Ids): about how to indicate that a certain entity is absent in a given database

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects
    During 4 half-days of sessions showcasing and showing how Wikidata supports and is integrated to the other Wikimedia projects
    From Thursday, May 29 from 16:00 UTC to Sunday, June 1 13:30 UTC.
    Registration link - Program - Questions? (Talk page)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Taiwan Street-view Expedition (Huwei and Tuku, Yunlin, Taiwan) - joint OSM and Wikidata activity
• Papers
  • (Italian) Termini, dati e collegamenti: ‘conversazioni’ tra il Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario e Wikidata: This study is about the history of the cooperation between the Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario (the main thesaurus used by Italian libraries for subject indexing) and Wikimedia projects, initially Wikipedia and now mainly Wikidata
  • WikiDBGraph: Large-Scale Database Graph of Wikidata for Collaborative Learning By Wu et al., (2025) — This study introduces WikiDBGraph, a network of 100,000 linked databases from Wikidata, using 17 million connections to improve AI learning and reveal challenges in handling interconnected data.
  • Filling in the Blanks? A Systematic Review and Theoretical Conceptualisation for Measuring WikiData Content Gaps By Ripoll et al., (2025) – The paper systematically reviews content gaps in Wikidata, proposing a typology of missing data and a framework to measure these gaps, highlighting their impact on knowledge quality and completeness.
  • AI in Data Management and Analysis By Haber et al., (2025) – This paper explores how AI streamlines academic data tasks like cleaning and analysis, whike tools like Google DataPrep, Airtable and Wikidata help researchers, but human oversight is key to maintaining accuracy and ethics in research.
• Videos
  • Using PetScan to create lists from Wikipedia and Wikidata By Tamsin Braisher (Dr Thneed).
  • (Spanish) Connecting Collections: Wikidata as a Bridge between Museums and Communities By Museo de los Museos and Carla Toro.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Toolkit The Wikidata Toolkit is an open-source Java library for using data from Wikidata and other Wikibase sites. Its main goal is to make it easy for external developers to take advantage of this data in their own applications.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Some of the hypothesis involve Wikidata. You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Geographicus cartographer ID, ‎Wikibase of Czech Librarians ID, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Ons Land ID, ‎VejinBooks author ID, ‎PC98 Images game ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki ID, CvLAC ID, ‎Stadtwiki Meißen ID, ‎WürzburgWiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, AW-Wiki ID, ‎Tüik village ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • LSF rating (Indonesia film classification administered by the Indonesian Film Censorship Board)
    • image of cosplay (cosplay that depicts this character or person)
    • Classificazione Guizzi degli strumenti musicali (Guizzi's classification system of musical instruments)
    • name translation (translation into native language)
  • External identifiers: Concertzender ID, MCW-PL article ID, Polska Biblioteka Muzyczna PBM, norsk soldatregister person ID, Databank verkiezingsuitslagen, TNT Sports soccer team ID, NHK Archives Portal Broadcasting History ID, Lithuanian lake ID, Sierra Wiki article ID, Fondazione Ragghianti Fototeca image ID, archive creator archieven.nl

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Exemplars of the Magna Carta (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Revitalizing UK History- A wikiproject with the aim of enriching UK historical figures.
• Showcase Items:The BFG (Q19689203) - 2016 film by Steven Spielberg
• Showcase Lexemes: trucco (L580449) - Italian noun (ˈtruk.ko) meaning "deceptive ploy", "makeup", or "strategic maneuver"

Weekly Tasks

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

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The World Destubathon

You are invited to participate in The World Destubathon. It's currently planned for June 16-July 13, partly due to me having hayfever during that period and not wanting to run it throughout July or August in the hotter summer and will be run then unless multiple editors object. There is currently $3338 going into it, with $500 the top prize. As 250 countries and entities is too much to patrol, entries will be by user, but there is $500 going into prizes for editors covering the most countries. Sign up if interested! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:16, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Women in Red June 2025

Women in Red | June 2025, Vol 11, Issue 6, Nos. 326, 327, 339, 340 Online events: New: LGBTQ+ | Alphabet run K & L Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Who are the most overlooked and interesting Women in Red? We've no idea, but we're putting together our list of the 100 most interesting ex-Women in Red. We are creating the list to celebrate 10 years of Women in Red and we hope to present it at Wikimania. We are ignoring the obvious, so do you have a name or subject we should consider? Can you suggest a DYK style hook? If you are shy about editing that page, you are welcome to add ideas and comments on the talk page. The World Destubathon, 16 June - 13 July, 2025 Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,492 articles during this period! 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280; 415,618 women) 21 Apr 2025: 20.090% (2,061,363 bios; 414,126 women) Tip of the month: Every language Wikipedia has its own policies regarding notability and reliable sources. Before translating an article from one language Wikipedia into English Wikipedia, research the subject and verify that the translated article will meet English Wikipedia's policy requirements. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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An Award for you

	The Supreme Australian Award
	A'hoy there mate. Thank you for editing articles related to Australia. Keep up the good work. Vinizex94🌍 06:35, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #682

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #681.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Wikidata Translation Bot - task/s: Automate translation of Item Labels and Descriptions across supported languages and submit them using the official Wikidata API.
• New request for comments: Mass-editing policy
• Closed request for comments:
  • Rename PeakFinder ID (P3770) - Property was renamed.
  • Domain name as data - property domain name (P13337) was created.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our first event will include guests from the Wikidata Search team to discuss the recent graph split project. Join us Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #77 June 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
  • Revitalizing UK History #June 7 Time 16:00 UTC Revitalizing UK History
• Just missed it?
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects: full day videos and presentation slides are being made available on the program page.
  • Coordinate Me 2025, the contest to add geographic coordinates (P625) for countries with low representation has ended. Who will be declared winner?

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikidata promotes Sister Projects through interwiki links SLUB Open Science Lab writer Jens Bemme has put together a comprehensive article covering the recent online event and many examples of Wikidata being used.
• Papers
  • MAKIEVAL: A Multilingual Automatic Wikidata-based Framework for Cultural Awareness Evaluation for LLMs By Zhao et al., (2025) - This paper presents MAKIEVAL, a framework for evaluating cultural awareness in LLMs across languages, showing that models exhibit stronger cultural awareness when prompted in English.
  • Conversational Lexicography: Querying Lexicographic Data on Knowledge Graphs with SPARQL through Natural Language By Sennrich & Ahmadi (2025) - This paper develops a natural language interface for retrieving lexicographic data from Wikidata, creating a taxonomy and dataset, and evaluating language models, with GPT-3.5-Turbo showing the best generalization despite scalability challenges.
  • UAQFact: Evaluating Factual Knowledge Utilization of LLMs on Unanswerable Questions By Tan et al., (2025) - This paper introduces UAQFact, a bilingual dataset for evaluating LLMs on unanswerable questions, showing that models struggle to fully utilize stored factual knowledge even with external support.
• Videos
  • Listful Thinking:Using Wikidata to support editing workflows By Dr Thneed
  • (French) Using Wikidata to gain visibility on the internet? By Nelly Darbois
  • How to create a SPARQL Query to search Wikidata Item Description By vlogize
  • (Spanish) Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata tutorial for the subject of Virreinal Art By Luis Alvaz
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects (YouTube Playlist) - full daily recordings from the Wikidata and Sister Projects event.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Qrank is a ranking signal for Wikidata entities. It gets computed by aggregating page view statistics for Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikibooks, Wikispecies and other Wikimedia projects. For example, according to the QRank signal, the fictional character Pippi Longstocking ranks lower than Harry Potter, but still much higher than the obscure Äffle & Pferdle.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Should I watch this? - Enter a film title or IMDb ID to get a recommendation, uses data from Wikidata.
• Job Openings - want to help shape the future of Wikidata or Wikibase?
  • Software Engineer (Wikidata)
  • Staff Engineer (Wikidata)
  • UX Designer (Wikibase Cloud)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • ‎reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
    • cosplay of (characters that are cosplayed in this image or video)
  • External identifiers: espn.com soccer team ID, ‎Yale LUX ID, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, verkiezingsuitslagen database ID, Norwegian soldier register 1940 ID, Polish Music Library PBM ID, ‎MCW-PL article ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • UK Mutual Registration Number (identifier for an organisation in the UK's Mutuals Public Register)
  • External identifiers: Scilit organization ID, paleo.ru person ID, identifiant Assemblée nationale du Québec non-élu, ThinkyGames genre ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, MAI person ID, istina.msu.ru journal ID, MultimediaWiki page ID, Submarine Cable Map ID, Nederlands Film Festival person ID, CTS URN, Scientific heritage of Russia person ID, Virtual necropolis of Ukrainian emigration person ID, Russian Cycling Federation person ID, The Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors person ID, Yandex Books author ID, Theatre museums of Russia person ID, Reabilitovani istoriyeyu person ID, CARLA ID, Boosty author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • All lexemes in Minangkabau (sorted chronologically by their entry time)
  • Film Directors who are still alive
• Schema examples:
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject WordNet
• WikiProject Highlights:
• Newest database reports:list of the most linked category page items
• Showcase Items: Captain America: Civil War (Q18407657) - 22016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo
• Showcase Lexemes: (L1250690) spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb "switch off" or "to die"

Development

• Vector 2022 skin: We enabled dark mode for Items, Properties and Lexemes on Wikidata (phab:T389330)
• Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with the technical investigation.
• Diffs: We merged a volunteer patch by Matěj Suchánek to format quantity diffs a bit more sensibly (phab:T394585)
• Search in the UI: We enabled the new search on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org. It lets you easily search in other entity types as well now, not just Items. Please give it a try.
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on integrating simple search, specifically phrase matching (phab:T389011)
• Query Service: We are working on an experiment to add a small dialog to inform people about alternative access methods for very simple queries that don't require SPARQL (phab:T391261)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

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

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This Month in GLAM: May 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue V, May 2025 Headlines Albania report: Enhancing the LGBTQ+ content in Albanian Wikipedia Belgium report: Belgium Public Domain Day and Dance Heritage Brazil report: Video resource on Wikimedia Brasil and Casa de Oswaldo Cruz Partnership Released Croatia report: SPRINGing back activities Czech Republic report: National Library of the CR events and important guests Europe report: DARIAH DHwiki WG coming activity India report: GLAM project starts with Nanda Talukdar Foundation at Jorhat, Assam Indonesia report: GLAM Wiki Month 2025 in Indonesia Italy report: From charts to concrete Kosovo report: Traditional Albanian Food Photography Competition 2025 New Zealand report: Update from Auckland Museum; Let the Wikifying Commence; Listful Thinking Nigeria report: Architectural Folklore Campaign Series Poland report: What's up in GLAM in Poland Serbia report: Celebrating Museums and strengthening #1Lib1Ref connections Spain report: Some news from Spain Switzerland report: International Museum Day 2025; CoCreation PTT-Archive; Scoring Girls UK report: The 18th language Ukraine report: Spring GLAM news from Ukraine – first major survey for GLAM institutions & yet another successful #1Lib1Ref USA report: May meetings Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL-Wiki Working Group May monthly highlights Memory of the World report: Preparing the data upload Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #683

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #682.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Coinhoe - RfP scheduled to end after 10 June 2025 23:49 (UTC)

Events

• Upcoming events: New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our second event will be a conversation with Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, the Wikidata frontend which generates and presents scholarly profiles based on WikiCite content. They'll speak to Scholia's current state and roadmap, with consideration for the recent Wikidata graph split. Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. More info and Zoom links: project page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Graph-Linguistic Fusion: Using Language Models for Wikidata Vandalism Detection: resources to reproduce training and evaluation procedure for the paper Graph-Linguistic Fusion: Using Language Models for Wikidata Vandalism Detection
  • Cataloguing guidelines for representing the Memory of the World International Register on Wikidata Google Doc to shape the process of a coming data upload: comments are open.
  • GLAM:Memory of the World Report: Hannah Drummen at UNESCO, alongside data expert Martin, has completed a structured dataset of 496 International Register items, ready for bulk upload to Wikidata in June, with an aim to enhance accessibility and define best practices for future updates.
  • Wikidata QID updates to BHL catalogue: The BHL Lead Developer, Mike Lichtenberg, is ensuring periodic Wikidata Qid refreshes in the BHL Catalogue, with the working group advising a downloadable post-refresh report for OpenRefine integration, to be sent to the BHL Metacat group for reconciliation by Siobhan or other Wikidata editors.
  • Wikidata training & Datathon in Indonesia: Wikimedia Indonesia hosts WikiLatih Wikidata training to enhance skills in editing Indonesian cultural heritage data on Wikidata, while Datathon challenges participants to make the most edits on museum-related topics in Indonesia.
• Papers
  • Wikidata for Botanists: Benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data By von Mering et al., (2025) - This paper explores Wikidata as a multilingual open knowledge base for botany, highlighting its role in connecting botanical information across sources, and calling on the botanical community to enhance its content.
  • CS-KG 2.0: A Large-scale Knowledge Graph of Computer Science By Dessí et al., (2025) - This paper introduces CS-KG 2.0, an advanced AI-powered knowledge graph built from 15 million research papers, designed to enhance scientific exploration by structuring and interconnecting vast amounts of computer science literature.
• Videos
  • Using the Wiki List tool - GoogleSheet with formulae for retrieving Wikidata values and writing QuickStatements commands.
  • Introduction to Wikidata By Robin Isadora Brown and Lane Rasberry
  • Wikidata Editing By Kusaal Wikipedia Community
  • (Portuguese) Federating academic SPARQL searches in Wikidata By Tiago Lubiana

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Phonemes This is the web application developed specifically for Wikidata IOLab. In here you can add phonemes to a whole bunch of languages, basing your work on the work that the brazilian students of their national olympiad did while editing Wikipedia.
• Should I watch this? is a tool that helps users decide whether a movie or show is worth watching.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes
  • Guizzi's classification of musical instruments (Guizzi's classification system of musical instruments)
  • single taken from the album (indicates the album from which the item is taken)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎GameSpot platform ID, ‎OberpfalzWiki article ID, ‎Private Enterprise Number, TNT Sports soccer team ID, ‎Fondazione Ragghianti Fototeca image ID, ROAR ID, ‎15min.lt theme ID, FMJD person ID, NAQ non-elected person ID, paleo.ru person ID, ‎Sierra Wiki article ID
• New External identifier property proposals to review:
  • Biblioteca Pública (<nowiki>{{TranslateThis</nowiki>)
  • Libretexts ID (the world's largest collection of free OER textbooks online)
• External identifiers: identifiant Évêques suisses, Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID, Deaf Movie Database, Biographical Dictionary of Affiliated Dissemination of Literacy among Georgians ID, Biographical Dictionary of Physicians of Georgia ID, Biographical Dictionary of Athletes of Georgia ID, Biographical Dictionary of Winemakers of Georgia ID, matricule number, inn, Debian Wiki article, Desura game ID (archived), Diccionario de catedráticos españoles de derecho ID, QUDT dimension ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Wikisource transcriptions of texts on the Memory of the World International Register, (source)
  • Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures)
• WikiProject highlights: Names/Belarusian - This WikiProject aims to add structured and linguistic data to Wikidata to enable the study of people's names across all time periods, regions, and languages.
• Showcase Items: Ant-Man (Q5901134) - 2015 film directed by Peyton Reed

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We are doing initial development focusing on technical investigations and basic UI elements (phab:T394292, phab:T394886)
• Lexemes: We are looking into a rare error when trying to do undo certain Lexeme edits (phab:T392372)
• Watchlist/Recent changes on Wikipedia: We continued working on showing labels instead of IDs in the edit summaries of Wikidata changes that are shown in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co (phab:T388685)
• Wikibase REST API: Finishing touches on simple search (phab:T383126)
• Query Service UI: Added experimental popup to point people running very simple queries to other available access methods (phab:T391264)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• 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 #684

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #683.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 - Program Call-for-Proposals: Deadline 15 June.
  • COSCUP 2025 (Q134950534) Open Street Map x Wikidata Track - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Q699543) 9 August - 10 August.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikibase Faceted Search Released (demo video)
  • DecomissionedAircraftMap (see tool below) - The Decommissioned Aircraft Map project uses Wikidata to enhance its mapping of historic aircraft by pulling images from linked Wikidata entries. Users can contribute by adding or correcting Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap, ensuring accurate representation of aircraft locations and visuals. By Watmildon.
• Videos: Querying Wikidata using tools such as QuickStatements and Petscan - Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Visualization: a visualization tool for Wikidata SPARQL queries
• DecomissionedAircraftMap (as a demonstration of the power of OpenStreetMap into Wikidata): pulls geodata for displayed aircraft from OpenStreetMap and generates thumbnails from linked Wikidata entries.
• Query split tester (Beta): webtool to see the impact on the graph split on your SPARQL query.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Nominations for the Coolest Tools Award 2025 are open. Nominate your favorite tool! Nominations are due by the 25th of this month already.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes
  • ‎breed belongs to taxon (taxon to which members of this breed (or these breeds) belong)
• Newest External identifiers: CARLA ID, Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID, ThinkyGames genre ID
• New External identifier property proposals to review:
  • worn on (part of the body where an item of clothing, equipment, or jewelry is worn)
  • rewards this type of work (kind of work for which an award is given)
  • sign meaning ()
  • trailer of (works that this trailer video represents)
• External identifiers: Facebook image ID, DE-BIAS ID, Author identifier in FragTrag, Niedersächsische Personen-ID, FBref match ID, FBref competition ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • A visual representation of the birthplaces and death places of women medical doctors who qualified in the UK between 1877 and 1914. (source)
  • Distinct languages of Wikidata Lexemes
• Newest WikiProjects: EMCO Wikidata CoP - EMCO promotes the discovery and use of the world’s knowledge by supporting metadata producers in library and other cultural heritage communities.
• Showcase Items: The Times (Q50008) - British daily national newspaper based in London
• Showcase Lexemes: right (L3348) - English adjective (rīt) meaning "opposite of left", "correct/just", or "politically conservative"

Development

• Mobile editing:
  • Share your feedback on the new prototype that brings statement editing on Items to mobile.
  • We continued base work for making editing statements on mobile possible.
• Simple search is now available in the Wikibase REST API! You can find information and leave feedback here.
• Lexemes: We’re working on a WikibaseLexeme error that happens when trying to revert the deletion of a form that was already undeleted (phab:T392372)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

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

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