Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Rubah Hitam Vukova

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Last chance to submit a session for WikidataCon 2025, the proposals deadline is imminent: head to this Call for Proposals page to submit an idea (drafts are welcome, they can be edited for a week after the deadline).
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series: fourth session, Introduction to Wikidata/EMCO, with a hands-on exercise creating a corporate body item and adding statements. Tuesday, September 2 – 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). More info and Zoom links.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #80 September 15 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Press: Big Tech locks data away. Wikidata gives it back to the internet
• Blogs: Wikidata, instance of and subclass of through time (P31 & P279)
• Videos:
  • LD4 2025 - Wikidata Affinity Group Session - Introduction to Wikidata for Entity Management
  • How to create a work and edition in Wikidata

Tool of the week

• DerDieDas for Danish is a Wikidata-based game to practice Danish.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (all genders) for the Wikibase Suite, starting October 1, 2025. The role is full-time or part-time, hybrid, and based in Berlin, focused on building open-source tools for linked open data.
• The Rapid Fund/Tech program, launched on July 24, 2025, provides up to $5,000 per project for coding tools that improve contributions to Wikimedia projects. Applications are reviewed every two months, with priority for impactful projects with clear, critical, and well-planned milestones.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes:
  • parts per area (average number of parts per unit of area)
  • display size (diagonal) (diagonal length of a rectangular electronic display)
• New External identifiers: Digital ROC people ID, Digital ROC event ID, T10 vendor ID string, Confederation of African Tennis player ID, Nextroom building ID, Concept ID in Arab Encyclopedia
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • game stat (metric to what extent a character in a role-playing game (or game with role-playing elements) possesses a specific natural, in-born characteristic common to all characters in the game)
  • open meeting page URL (Information page describing open meetings, public meetings or town hall meetings)
  • Islamic calligraphy (property that shows the Islamic calligraphy for a person)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Minfin company ID, Swiss Performing Arts vocabularies ID, Doha Dictionary root id, Sharjah Dictionary root id, Fantacalcio ID, GayCities ID, Washington Blade tag ID, IN Magazine tag ID, Teen Vogue tag ID, Diva tag ID, Attitude tag ID, Metro Source tag ID, PLUS tag ID, Wussy Magazine tag ID, Plant Ontology ID, Dimensions.com element ID, ISU-Skating.com-Identifikator

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Species of birds and their sounds (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Art UK is an effort to document the various properties and volunteer (art-related) work on Wikidata.
• Showcase Items: SARS-CoV-2 (Q82069695) - virus that causes COVID-19
• Showcase Lexemes: øye (L303896) - Norwegian noun (ˈœʏə) meaning "organ of sight", "gaze or look", or "point of view"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We developed the first pieces of the edit mode as well as the ability to add statements. You can always follow along on beta Wikidata and find more information on the project page.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into reducing the number of changes that show up on Wikipedia and co's Recent changes and Watchlist (phab:T401284)
• Federation: We looked at previous requests to add new endpoints to the list of SPARQL endpoints you can federate with and are cleaning up the process for getting new ones added. If you have one you'd like to write federated SPARQL queries to now is a good time to request them.
• Lexicographical data: You can now limit searches to Lexemes with a Lemma in a specific spelling variant with the haslemma keywords and to Lexemes with a specific language with the in language keyword. Examples: 1 2 (phab:T271776)
• GraphQL: We are evaluating feedback we received so far. If you are developing applications with Wikidata's data it'd be great if you could have a look at the current prototype and provide feedback.
• Dumps: We are experimenting to see how we can provide smaller subset dumps for Wikidata (phab:T400870)

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!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: IndExsBot - Task(s): Add Subject external identifier IndExs Exsiccata editor ID (P12371) to existing persons which are stated in the indexes of Exsiccatae database.

Events

• Past events:
  • The WikiCite 2025 conference took place in Berne, Switzerland. It showcased WikiCite-related efforts across multiple wikis, disciplines, languages and countries. Most of it was both streamed and recorded, and the videos are currently being processed.
  • The SEMANTICS 2025 conference took place in Vienna, Austria. Wikidata was mentioned in several keynotes and multiple other talks, posters and demos. The poster The Wikidata Query Service split and its impact on the scholarly graph zoomed in on the WDQS graph split.
• Upcoming events:
  • Wikidata's 13th Birthday update: Funding applications are now closed, and the review process is underway. Applicants will be notified about the status of their submissions shortly. Are you planning to organize an event for the birthday but haven’t added it to the calendar yet? You can do so here: Wikidata:Thirteenth Birthday/Calendar 🎉
  • The deadline for the Fall 2025 MediaWiki Users & Developers Conference CfP is extended until September 15th. The conference will be held on October 28 - 30th, and hosted by the TIB Leibniz Centre in Hanover, Germany.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Past, Present and Future: a Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Biodiversity Heritage Library: TiagoLubiana reflects on their tenure at the BHL (Q172266), integrating the biodiversity collections into the Wikimedia projects. Read on Diff Blog
• Papers: Revealing hidden figures within natural history collections by empowering students with data sleuthing skills - Mabry et al.,(2025) Read here
• Videos:
  • WiLES Wikidata Lexicographical Event Semantics modeling for natural languages (LD4 2025) YouTube
  • Wikidata presentations and lightning talks (LD4 2025) YouTube
  • On Wikiskills 1st Wikidata Training (Africa Wiki Women) YouTube
  • (French) Lors de la 1ère formation Wikidata de Wikiskills YouTube
  • Plugging into the WikiVerse: A Plug for a Wikidata Plug-in for ArchivesSpace YouTube
• Presentations:
  • WikiCite 2025 presentation slidedecks can be found linked individually from the programme page or collectively on the Commons category.
  • Wikidata / GLAM a few experiments... by Tim Sherratt showcasing reuse of Wikidata

Tool of the week

• Dacit is a listening-training app for cochlear implant users, built as part of a Master's Thesis for LMU Munich, it is powered by Wikidata-lexicographical data. Practice with 3 different excercises; identify (German-language) speakers, words and minimal pairs in your browser or as an android app
• LexToWiktonaryis a userscript that adds a Wiktionary links button on Wikidata Lexeme pages. It checks the lemmas of a lexeme, finds matching entries across different Wiktionary language editions, and shows them in a popup for quick access, with an option to expand to all Wiktionaries.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The submission deadline for WikidataCon proposals has passed. Proposals that were submitted in time can still be edited until Sep 9. Proposals are hidden by default, but a page for sharing submissions is available and can facilitate coordination.
• Help Panel has been deployed on Wikidata Beta.🎉 This is a feature designed to guide contributors with quick links to relevant help pages. It currently appears in read mode across most pages and can be configured by admins. You can enable it in your Beta preferences under "Newcomer features". To help shape its future on Wikidata, we're inviting you to test it and share feedback on this talk page.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes: form factor (physical design paradigm this object is aligned with)
• New External identifiers: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms entry ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military entry ID, Valais cantonal parliament ID, Arcanes ID, A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism entry ID, IGDB keyword ID, A Dictionary of Dentistry entry ID, Record Group Number of the National Archives Administration, National Development Council, Taiwan (R.O.C.), A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation entry ID, Doha Dictionary root id, Sharjah Dictionary root id, Saulchoir library ID, Observer tag, Hamburger Frauenbiografien ID, Ophardt Team Sportevent person ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon object ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Release date of film (The date when a film was first released to the public)
  • part number 2 (identifier for a product or part designated by its manufacturer for inventory and ordering purposes)
  • backwards compatible with (backwards compatible with the identified platform, software, or system)
  • level or map of (video games that this video game level or map belongs to)
  • resistance (Resistance of organisms (systems) to common adverserial influences like pests, pathogens, drugs, attack vectors, ...)
  • GBFS feed URL (URL of a GBFS feed for the bicycle-sharing system)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: GENC 3-character code, L'Équipe athlete ID, Sancho el Sabio Foundation ID, British Authors author ID, Gamepadla ID, VGA Legacy MKIII ID, Noormags ID, qamus.inoor.ir entry ID, RSQV ID, Naturalis authority ID, Digital Library of the Community of Madrid ID, Trainspo model ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Number of hospital beds (Source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject ASBS 2025 - Aims to Engage the botanical community at the 2025 ASBS Conference to promote and enhance contributions to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia Commons.
• Showcase Lexemes: PC (L739282) - English noun (ˌpiːˈsiː) meaning "Personal Computer", "Printed Circuit", or "Peace Corps"

Development

• We're investigate options for improving information saved while publishing (phab:T403149)
• Mobile Editing Experience: we added multi-language support (T402630)
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into reducing the number of changes that show up on Wikipedia and co's Recent changes and Watchlist from edits to aliases (phab:T401288), more info

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!

Discussions

• Project Chat: Multiple items linked to single categories, redux

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series introduces participants to Wikidata/EMCO. The session guides attendees through creating a project and project page, followed by an open working hour for creating and editing in Wikidata and asking questions. Join on Tuesday, September 16th at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. More details and Zoom links are on the project page.
  • Wikidata Lab XLVI: Wikidata and semantic memory (in English). On September 18th, at 17UTC. Live on Youtube.
  • Virtual course: Wikidata and public domain (in Spanish). On September 25th start this online course until March 26, 2026. Registration open on this form.
  • Govdirectory US office hour, 25 September
  • Apply now: Scholarships for Wikimania 2026 in Paris! Deadline is October 31, 2025 (anywhere in the world). Notification of decisions will be sent in January 2026.
  • Notifications for Wikidata Thirteenth Birthday microgrant applications are currently being sent out in batches. If you are planning to run an event but have not yet added your event to the calendar, please do so here: Wikidata:Thirteenth_Birthday/Calendar
  • WikidataCon 2025 proposal reviews are about to end. We are currently building an initial programme and will soon inform Speakers before publishing a first Schedule!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: GLAM Newsletter: Biodiversity Heritage Library update, harvesting Wikidata identifiers and improving the BHL2Wiki Tool - Read the article
• Videos:
  • EduWiki Conference - Using AI on Wikipedia and Wikidata Editing for Health Education
  • Using Duplicity: Link Wikipedia articles to Wikidata Items
  • How to Get the Used Language in WIKIDATA/SPARQL with [AUTO_LANGUAGE Parameter
  • (Spanish) Let's improve information about Carnival on Wikidata
  • Wikidata Lab XLVI: Wikidata and Semantic Memory, don't miss the workshop! (scheduled: 18.09.25, 1700 UTC) - YouTube
• WikiCite 2025 Presentations:
  • Extracting citation relations from legacy publications, by David Lindeman - watch on Commons
  • A proposal for managing personal collections in Wikidata, by Tania Maio - watch on Commons

Tool of the week

• Paulina is a Wikidata-based tool for the GLAM community that facilitates searching for authors and works, helps identify their copyright status in different countries, and provides access to works when available.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Help us test the new Help Panel feature, now enabled on Wikidata Beta
• The Wikimedia Foundation launched a new team, the Wikidata Platform Team, to lead development and maintenance of query services, aiming for stable, scalable data access in collaboration with WMDE and the community.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes:
  • open meeting page URL (information page describing open meetings, public meetings or town hall meetings)
  • LSF rating (Indonesia film classification administered by the Film Censorship Board)
  • designed for handedness (hand(s) that this object is intended to be used with)
• New External identifiers: Personnel de l'administration préfectorale depuis 1945 ID, La Fayette ID, Harper's tag, TechnoMusicWorld artist ID, TechnoMusicWorld track ID, Serbian settlement ID, setlist.fm festival ID, ScholarGPS scholar ID, ScholarGPS institution ID, ScholarGPS field and discipline ID, ScholarGPS specialty ID, The Digital Ark person ID, MHOBT ID, Gamepadla ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • NRK topic ID ()
  • result of addition (mathematical result obtained by adding two or more numbers or quantities together)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: OpenStreetMap key, Meetup.com Event ID, Biological Imaging Methods Ontology ID, Anne Frank House persond ID, PortableApps ID, Identifiant Maitron d'une commune, National Library Board Singapore ID (new scheme), NWO Project ID, OpenITI Author URI, DisplaySpecifications.com model ID, 网易云音乐专辑编号, PnP vendor ID, PnP device ID, Mellopedia

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Artworks owned by Perls Dynasty - see it visualised on YouTube
  • BubbleChart of Wikidata Lexeme forms by language
  • Institutions that host the most UNESCO Memory of the World International Register inscriptions (Source)
• Newest WikiProjects: University of Toronto Libraries EMCO, Jewish Studies and Heritage
• Showcase Items: Diary of Anne Frank (Q6911) - famous diary of a 13-year old Dutch Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis to escape the Holocaust
• Showcase Lexemes:blow (L4476) - English verb (bloʊ) meaning "to push air", "to explode", or "to perform fellatio"

Development

• Scalability/sustainability: We have rolled out changes to minimize the number of entries stored in the recent changes tables of Wikipedia and co that are edits coming from Wikidata. This also reduces the number of changes from Wikidata you will see showing up in Recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co further.
• MCP for Wikidata: We are getting it ready for first testing.
• Dumps: We are continuing to investigate how to provide smaller/subset dumps.
• Mobile statement editing: We are continuing the work on making statements editable, especially qualifiers and multiple references.
• Anubis (Q134301689) anti-bot software was deployed on Wikibase Cloud and XTools to prevent site outages caused by bot traffic. (T399851, T400229)

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: Japan
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation 25 October .This event will showcase the Seediq communities’ translation of the OCLC white paper on Wikibase, followed by an overview of the full paper. It will conclude with an open discussion on the lessons learned during the translation project and broader reflections on linked data.
  • Govdirectory US office hour, 25 September
  • FREE virtual 1hr Wiki webinar focusing on plant biodiversity. Open to anyone wanting to improve their digital outreach skills by enriching Wikidata. Tuesday 14th of October at 3pm NZST. Register to get link.
  • Wikidata’s 13th Birthday is just around the corner! Are you planning to host a celebration but haven’t added it to the calendar yet? Join the party! Thirty-nine (39) events are already scheduled, and yours can be too: Birthday Calendar. It’s also the perfect time to contribute a birthday present or message to this list. Gifts can be anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community like a script you’ve written, a tool improvement, a visual, a poem... 🎉

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos: (French) Formation Wikidata 2 de WikiSkills By Africa Wiki Women

Tool of the week

• Duplicity This tool can pick a random article on a wiki without associated Wikidata item, and offer some possible matches on Wikidata, so you can add it to an existing item, or create a new one.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 31! If you have some ideas for coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, outreach, research) projects, share them by Sept. 26, 2025, at 4 pm UTC

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes:
  • number of ray tracing cores (number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit)
  • VRAM capacity (amount of dual-ported video RAM (VRAM) modules used by this device)
  • has wireless capabilities (type of wireless connectivity this device has/supports)
  • date filed (filing date for a document, e.g. a patent or court case)
• New External identifiers: Gamepadla ID, OpenStreetMap key, EU-ID, Roma road ID, LTT Labs product ID, Swiss Performing Arts Vocabularies ID, wikiHow article ID, GamesIndustry.biz tag ID, Dimensions.com element ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • image+display resolution (pixel resolution of images generated or captured by this item (camera, software, etc))
  • firmware (firmware installed on this hardware)
  • excluding work (work or narration for or in which this statement is <em>false</em>)
  • has grammatical number (grammatical number used in this language)
  • Day of Reisai (Annual Festival done by a Shinto Shrine)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: https://football.aek.com/, Météo-France place ID, Hex package, Maptons ID, BVPB catalog ID, dati.lnb.lv ID, The Needle Drop tag ID, AfterEllen tag ID, OpenStreetMap relation type, Them.us tag ID, DOAB book ID, identifiant Liste unique des décorés, Deník tag ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture entry ID, qamus.inoor.ir root ID, Filmarks ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • A map of IEC 60320 power connectors - a cool SPARQL visualisation, by User:IagoQnsi
  • 350 people who were married, then married the sibling of their previous spouse (source)
• Showcase Items: Northern Sami (Q33947) - famoumost widely spoken of all Sámi languages
• Showcase Lexemes: Waage (L37547) – German noun (‘ˈvaːɡə’) meaning "scale (device for measuring mass)", "Libra constellation", or "equilibrium"

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We are working more on the editing state of statements, especially qualifiers and progress indicators during saving (phab:T402620)
• Dumps: We fixed an issue with some of the dumps (phab:T403882) and are improving the monitoring
• GraphQL: We are working on making it easier to get labels of linked entities in an API response, starting with Items (phab:T404692)
• Sustainability: We have now rolled out improvements to the tracking of Wikidata changes on the other Wikimedia projects on all projects in order to decrease the size of the database table that tracks these changes (phab:T401288)
• Bug fixes: Tacsipacsi submitted fixes for two issues in error messages on Special:SetSiteLink. Thank you! (phab:T404499, phab:T404500)

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: United States of America
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Empat Tilda: RfP scheduled to end after 3 October 2025 18:30 (UTC)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our first session of our WikiProject Personal Pronouns event series, which will provide a high-level overview of WikiProject Personal Pronouns' goals, past work, and implementation plans. The session will also serve as a practical orientation to the implementation work for this project, ending with a demonstration of the workflow to be used in subsequent sessions. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. This session will be recorded. Slides and recordings will be found on the project page after the session. Join us Tuesday, September 30th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
  • Wikidata are hosting a webinar on the Embedding Project: AI/ML Project Manager Philippe Saadé (WMDE) will introduce the project, including early experiences, wins and pitfalls, and open up the floor to your questions.
    • Takes place 1600 - 1700 UTC, October 9, 2025.
    • Embedding Project? Read about it here
    • Want to join the Webinar? Please register here with your Wiki account
  • 🎁 Countdown to 13!🎁 Wikidata's 13th Birthday is fast approaching and this week marks the start of the first Birthday Events! For a full rundown of all Birthday Events, please see the Birthday Calendar.
    

Starting the month of celebrations this week include: Wali Wikimedians Community, Latin America in Wikidata 2025, Hausa Wikipedians User Group and the language communities of Zambia, Twi and Kinyarwanda and regional celebrations from the Northern Nigerian, Dagbani and Ghanaians Wikimedian communities!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Enhanced Search for Wikibase
  • Suggesting new relations in ROR from Wikidata By Charles Tapley Hoyt
• Papers:
  • Protoknowledge Shapes Behaviour of LLMs: Text-to-SPARQL
  • Wikidata Workflows: with ORCiD and OpenRefine - a Binghamton University Case Study By Sasha Frizzell - This lightning talk outlines Binghamton University Libraries’ pilot project to convert ORCID faculty data into Wikidata entries, showcasing linked data integration, data cleaning workflows, and strategies for enhancing institutional research visibility.
• Videos:
  • Wikidata tutorial: how to merge duplicate items
  • Wikidata Wikishootme SAT
  • How to Fetch Subclasses and Parent Classes in Wikidata SPARQL Queries
  • (Portuguese) Black women in history through Wikidata
  • Provenance and Restitution: Shared knowledge graphs as a tool in recovering looted cultural heritage

Tool of the week

• senseItemLabel is a UserScript by User:Jon Harald Søby The Script Lets you add the lemma for the current lexeme as a label to items added to the lexeme's senses as item for this sense (P5137) in one click.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• If you've noticed a performance issue with Magnus Manske's MixMatch gagdet, User:IagoQnsi has suggested a fix, the comment and code is available from Talk:Magnus Manske#MixMatch performance

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎Lemmy instance URL (the Lemmy instance of or about the subject)
  • ‎part number (identifier for a product or part designated by its manufacturer for inventory and ordering purposes)
• Newest External identifiers: Noormags ID, PnP device ID, PnP vendor ID, ‎GENC 3-character code, ‎Sancho el Sabio Foundation ID, ‎British Authors author ID, VGA Legacy MKIII graphics card ID, ‎qamus.inoor.ir entry ID, PortableApps ID, Chinese Engineers Relational Database ID, ‎DisplaySpecifications.com model ID, Vix Vocal work id, Naturalis author ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • maximum supported display resolution (maximum pixel resolution that this computing hardware or technological standard supports)
  • cookie policy (cookie policy of this website, software or digital product)
  • yayasan ID (identifier for Indonesian foundation on vervalyayasan.data.kemdikbud.go.id)
  • luminance (measured quantity of photometric brightness (luminous intensity per area))
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Filmarks ID, Medicin.dk disorder ID, Interaktionsdatabasen ID, A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition entry ID, OpenStreetMap role, TechPowerUp CPU Specs Database ID, GPUZoo ID, CPU-World ID, Adebiportal author, RIA Novosti person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion entry ID, Qalamger.kz author ID, Does the Dog Die? media ID, Sultanlar Ligi player ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • maps of running and closed railway stations in Denmark
  • Formula One Teams by employee count - source: Discord
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Piano Rolls - has bee greatly expanded and subpages added.
  • Open Topstukken Maastricht University and Radboud University - A user manual for contributing.
• Showcase Items: Because You Left (Q1059888) - episode of Lost (S5 E1)
• Showcase Lexemes:Knoten (L298686) - German noun (ˈknoːtn̩) meaning "tied fastening of ropes/strings", "speed unit in aviation/shipping", or "tangled clump of hair"

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We continue to make good progress, which you can check out on beta Wikidata. Specifically it is now possible to
  • save changes to edits made to string Properties on statements (without losing qualifier / reference information) (phab:T401405)
  • change the rank of statements (phab:T402436)
• Query Service UI: jhsoby submitted patches for two issues related to the example dialog. Thank you! (phab:T405747, phab:T405720)
• Lexicographical data: 1F616EMO submitted a patch to fix a localization issue on the Lexeme page. Thank you! (phab:T322526)
• Dumps: We fixed issues with the n-triples and truthy dumps generation and set up a dashboard for monitoring (phab:T403882)
• GraphQL: We are continuing to make labels of linked entities accessible in the GraphQL endpoint (phab:T404692)
• Wikidata in Wikipedia and co: We are continuing to work on improvements to how we technically track the use of Wikidata in the other Wikimedia projects in order to reduce the amount of changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
• Wikidata Query Service GUI: We deployed two fixes by User:Jon Harald Søby, thank you! (phab:T405720, phab:T405747)

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: Bulgaria
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikidataCon 2025 - The first version of the conference schedule has been released! See the Event page for links to the schedule (and to register if you haven't already).
  • 13th Birthday Events - check the calendar to see which Birthday events are happening this week!
  • Webinar: Embedding Project - join us this week, October 9 1600 ~ 1700 UTC, to hear a presentation and then pose your questions regarding the Embedding Project
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 15th October 2025 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.
• Past events:
  • Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 - Learning Day (September 25, at the Goethe Institut in Thessaloniki): the main topic was Wikidata and libraries; the program and the materials of the hands-on session are available in the Meta page, the slides of the presentations are available in the Commons category
  • Convegno NILDE (October 2-3, University of Genoa; website): in the first session, regarding Il futuro dei cataloghi [The future of the catalogs], many presentations (in Italian) have mentioned the use of Wikidata in collective library catalogs; the proceedings of the conference (in Italian) will be published in open access in early 2026:
    • Lianna D'Amato and Emanuela Secinaro, Cobis LOD: integrare e aumentare i cataloghi eterogenei delle biblioteche specialistiche [Cobis LOD: Integrating and Enhancing the Heterogeneous Catalogs of Specialized Libraries] (slides)
    • Stefano Bargioni, La catalogazione per entità, esperienze pratiche della rete URBE con Parsifal [Entity cataloging: practical experiences of the URBE network with Parsifal] (slides; Wikidata project page)
    • Elena Ravelli e Camillo Pellizzari, Authority file di SBN e Wikidata: un esempio di interoperabilità e riutilizzo dei dati [SBN Authority File and Wikidata: An Example of Data Interoperability and Reuse] (slides; Wikidata project page)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Diff: Building Wikidatacapacity in East Africa - Wikimedia Deutschland’s 2025 outreach initiative expanded Wikidata capacity in East Africa by training nearly 100 local Wikimedians across 13 countries, and fostering a new network of regional Wikidata champions
• Press: A milestone for open AI: The Wikidata Embedding Project goes live, read also in Deutsch / TheVerge and TechCrunch blogs.
• Videos:
  • Africa Wiki Women - Wikidata Birthday Launch Celebration 2025
  • SAT - Wikidata - OSM - länkade data By Magnus Sälgö
  • Roman Provinces Project (RPP) WikiDataTraining (add WMC image)
  • Wikidata and public domain - Clase 1 (Spanish) By Wikimedistas de Uruguay
  • Open Tool Registries: Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata - Livestream (today!) Oct 6, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST. (Maybe in German but description is English)

Tool of the week

• Script newentity.js is a UserScript by GZWDer it helps to generates new items (including lexemes) from the given JSON object.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikidata Team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to talk to developers who use Wikidata’s data dumps, or have tried using them but ran into challenges. Your feedback will help us make data dumps easier and more reliable to use. If you’re open to chatting, we’ll schedule a 60-minute user interview. As a thank-you for your time, you’ll be eligible for compensation. Sign up here.
• For anyone interested in open and interoperable data, the DCMI 2025 Conference might be interesting. More information and registration here.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • calligraphy (calligraphy of this person)
  • cookie policy URL (cookie policy of this website, software or digital product)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎TechnoMusicWorld release ID, Biblioteca Digital de la Comunidad de Madrid ID, ‎Trainspo model ID, AGORHA UUID, ‎Biological Imaging Methods Ontology ID, ‎Anne Frank House person ID, Maitron municipality ID, National Library Board Singapore ID, Euploos Project ID, SpaceReference.org celestial object ID, Hex package
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • formally denounced by (person or organization which has publicly issued or enacted a denunciation of this item)
  • code of conduct (URL of a resource that contains the Code of Conduct of a project or organization)
  • award judge (judges for an award)
  • start and end work (work in which this statement begins to be valid)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Organ Index ID, BLGBL ID, American Kennel Club ID, CRT Database model ID, Jeune Afrique country ID, Vocabulary.com word ID, Newegg item ID, Catalogue of sundials ID, BeWeb historical or artistic asset ID, PriceRunner product ID, SofaScore sports team ID, FootballFakts.ru football match ID, Kicker sports match ID, BDFutbol match ID, Foot Mercato players ID, Meetup.com Event ID, Mapillary username, Soccerway player ID 2025

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Lexemes in sign languages (source)
  • List of films available for free on YouTube (source)
• Showcase Items: Kwame Nkrumah (Q8620) - Ghanaian pan-Africanist and the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana (1909-1972)
• Showcase Lexemes: delve (L22859) – English verb (/dɛlv/) meaning "to investigate thoroughly", "to dig physically", or "to discuss in detail

Development

• The {{USERLANGUAGE}} magic word is now enabled on Wikidata and Test Wikidata. It can be used to display templates in the user interface language, replacing the previous {{int:lang}} hack. (phab:T405830)

GraphQL: We have continued working on the functionality that provides labels of linked entities

• Wikidata vector embedding and MCP: We have released the vector embedding and MCP
• Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
  • We are continuing the rollout of improvements to ow we track Wikidata changes in Wikipedia's watchlist and recent changes in order to reduce the size of the database table and reduce the noise on editors' watchlists. (phab:T401288, phab:T401290)
  • We are working on some improvements to the Databox module and template (phab:T400322)
• Mobile statement editing:
  • We improved the display of qualifiers and made it possible to add qualifiers (editing will still come) as well as the value type (value/some value/no value) (phab:T404991, phab:T404956, phab:T402431, phab:T403246)
  • We are working on adding editing support for more datatypes (tabular data and geoshape) (phab:T403973)
  • We are working on making it possible to edit references (phab:T402433)

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: North Carolina
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• Closed request for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 7 - closed as approved.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session: Tuesday 14 Oct, 2025 from 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (click for your Time zone) WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No prior Wikidata experience required. More info on the Personal Pronouns event page.
  • Upcoming LD4 Affinity Group sessions: Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9, at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 4pm UTC / 6pm CEST.
  • Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour, join us in the Wikidata Telegram channel for our Quarterly roundup of what's been happening with Wikidata and Wikibase. If you can't make it, read the transcript later. Oct 15, 18:00 - 19:00 CEST (UTC 16:00 - 17:00).
  • The Next Wikimedia Research Showcase is Wednesday, October 15, at 9:30 AM PT / 16:30 UTC. The theme is "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture". Watch via the YouTube stream.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Developing an enhanced dataset for the history of Photography - National Archives researchers used Wikidata during a hackathon to link people and places from 19th-century photographic copyright records, enriching the archive’s metadata through linked open data.
  • Viusalisations of Philosophers Influence in history - Take a look if you're interested in the history of philosophy, temporal graphs, or Wikidata!
• Videos:
  • (Spanish) How to identify and fill information gaps in Wikidata Tabernacle and Integrality - In preparation for Latin America month on Wikidata, this tutorial will introduce the Tabernacle and Intergraality tools.
  • Curationist: 2024 Metadata Learning and Unlearning Summit - Curationist researches and debates on transitioning to a Wikidata/Wikibase style of schema for its images of digital open-access collections.
  • Data Ethics and Open Science - At 19:00 of the video, Lambert Heller discusses using Wikidata, and later Wikibase for the NFDI4 Culture Proposal.
  • Linked Open Data Location Identifiers for Pacific Archaeology - Hardy & Leclerc at the CAA Australia conference show how Wikidata identifiers enrich Kuden and Pacific island databses.
• Presentations: Slides for the Wikidata: Embedding Project Webinar presentation

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Useful is a UserScript by Magnus Manske that adds a box of quick "add statement" links to the right side of the page. Entity and phylogeny types, countries (location and citizenship). Also, tries to load and display a blurb from en or de Wikipedia.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The 2024 Wikidata Community Survey results are out! Read the full report on Commons: Wikidata Community Survey 2024 Report. If you have any thoughts or questions feel free to write on this discussion page: Wikidata talk:Usability and usefulness/2024-Community-Survey
• Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking feedback on the Mobile Editing Experience prototype, especially from contributors who edit right-to-left (RTL) languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, etc. We’ve already received helpful input from various editors, but feedback from RTL language communities is still missing. Your perspective is important to ensure the design works well for everyone. Please go to Beta Wikidata (in mobile view) to test the prototype with the instructions below and share your feedback on this talk page.
  • Add "businessperson" as an occupation
  • Add a start date to the relationship with A$AP Rocky and provide a reference
  • Find the place of birth (Saint Michael) and open that page
  • Add the coordinate location for Saint Michael

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • luminance (measured quantity of photometric brightness (luminous intensity per area))
  • excluding work (work or narration for or in which this statement is false)
  • intervener (name of a third-party group or person allowed to participate in a legal case)
• Newest External identifiers: NWO project ID, Vocabulary.com word ID, Fnac person ID, African Music Library band ID, ‎Spanish-German Dictionary ID, ‎Encyclopedia of Marxism ID, Kulturenvanteri place ID, Encyclopædia Universalis index ID, ISFDB award category ID, ‎CCCA Canadian Art Database work ID, ‎CCCA Canadian Art Database creator ID, CPU-World ID, AMNH entity ID
• New External identifier property proposals to review: NZ Charities Register Number, Memorial Book of Social Democracy-ID, Biographical Dictionary of Almería identifier, Operabase (additional) ID, NLAI ID, SIK-ISEA group ID, Wikimini article ID, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain entry ID, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts ID, Antique Chinese and Japanese Porcelain Dictionary and Glossary of Terms entry, Filmfriend Movie ID, Schulnummer Hessen, The Oxford Dictionary of Dance entry ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • What Wikidata album languages grew the most this week? (source)
  • Example query to show why papers cite each other (source)
• Showcase Items: Biodiversity Assessment of the Fishes of Saba Bank Atoll, Netherlands Antilles (Q15625490) - scholarly article by Williams, Jeffrey et al., 2010
• Showcase Lexemes: pukka (L339628) - English adjective (puh-kuh) that can mean "genuine", "highest class", or "complete"

Development

• Wikidata integration on Wikipedia and co:
  • We finished work on adding an icon to changes coming from Wikidata in recent changes and watchlist (phab:T397258)
  • We are finishing work on a new usage aspect for qualifiers and references so their use can be tracked separately. This will lead to less Wikidata changes showing up in recent changes and watchlist that don't actually affect the article (phab:T397258)
  • We are continuing the work on improving Databox (phab:T400322)
• GraphQL: We are continuing to work on making labels of linked entities in the values of statements accessible (phab:T404692)
• Mobile statement editing: We have been working on showing the different value types (phab:T404684) and making references editable (phab:T405236)

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!

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Ternera - RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2025 16:10 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Rebot - Task: Make changes in w.wiki/Fed9, such as changing depicts (P180) = herbarium (Q181916) to herbarium specimen (Q61726742).

Events

• Upcoming:
  • WikidataCon 2025: Have you seen the Program yet?
    Available now on Pretalx, check now and plan your schedule.
  • 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit.
    Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
  • The Dublin Core DCMI 2025 conference will take place in Barcelona, Oct 22-25.
    • Presentation: Derivative Relationships and Bibliographic Families Among Creative Works: A Systematic Study of Their Application by the Wikidata Community from the FRBR and BIBFRAME Perspective
    • Workshop by Jneubert on converting a complex web application into a large static site integrated with Wikidata
    • Tutorial from Jelabra on shaping linked data and knowledge graphs.
  • Wikidata Lab XLVII: Wiki Infographics, about a tool for data visualization. On October 21, 17 UTC.
  • Wikimania 2026 Scholarships are open! Deadline is Friday, October 31st, 2025.
  • Wikidata 13th birthday celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group on October 24 and 25, 2025
• Past:
  • Missed the Q4 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-10-15 (Q4 2025)
  • Wikidata 13th birthday celebration in the WUGN Abuja Network

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (Finnish) From Wikidata to GEO (AI) optimization? by Johanna Janhonen
• Videos:
  • Genealogical tree creation with Wikidata - by Thimira Sahan
  • (Chinese) Wikidata 13 週年聚會暨 OpenRefine 工作坊 - by Wikidata Taiwan
  • (Spanish) Taller en línea: Introducción a Wikidata y Wikibase by bibliotecasUNAM
  • Wikimedia Research Showcase: Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture

Tool of the week

• WikiLokal - The tool uses your device location to find Wikidata Items and Wikipedia articles within a 3 kilometre radius of your location. Created by User:Affandy Murad

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Project Chat:
  • Help choose a name for the Abstract Wikipedia Project - combining WikiFunctions and Wikidata, a voting contest will run from Oct 20 - Nov 17, 2025.
  • How can Wikidata be useful IRL if it has less data than Wikipedia? - an ongoing discussion touching on data scraping tools such as Harvest templates (github) and data consistency between Wikipedia and Wikidata in places such as Infoboxes.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: organizational chart (image that displays the structure of this organization or government agency and the relationships and relative ranks of its parts and positions/jobs)
• Newest External identifiers: The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture entry ID, TechPowerUp CPU Specs Database ID, Catalogue of sundials ID, A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition entry ID, GPUZoo ID, NetEase Music album ID, Corporation Number in Canada, Biographical Dictionary of Almería identifier
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • image of outdoor seating (an image of the outdoor seating)
  • Elo rating (rapid) (Current or historical Elo rating of a player in rapid time control chess games)
  • ECHL profile ID (Id (number) used by ECHL on their website ehcl.com. URL takes a slug.)
  • award category or rank ((qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank)
  • public key (cryptographic public key (some ASCII encoding of it))
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Schulnummer Sachsen, Team Austria ID, IFES Election Guide ID, BNB agent ID, Arte de la Argentina ID, Democratic Memory Bank ID, Kicker competition ID, Soccer365.net team ID, LUDAP, Genbu.net ID, ztgd.com, ISTAMPIE entity, MIT Press edition id

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: List of Airports/Airstrips in Florida, USA
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject IDEA (translation tasks)
• WikiProject Highlights: Govdirectory South Korea was created.
• Showcase Items: Jagiellonian Library (Q24101) - library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków
• Showcase Lexemes: led (L762994) - Norwegian Nynorsk noun (leː) meaning "a joint between bones", "a movable body part", or "a generation"

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We made progress on support for more datatypes for editing.
• Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
  • We are investigating an issue with infoboxes using data from Wikidata after some recent changes to usage tracking (phab:T407684)
  • We are working on more improvements to the Databox module
• Ontology federation: We are starting to work on making it possible for other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as values in their statements. This expands on previous work around federated properties.
• Dumps: We have worked on fixing issues with the dumps that were failing recently. They should now be generated again and we continue to look into the cause.

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: Bahamas
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Samoasambia - RfP scheduled to end after 27 October 2025 15:10 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Ternera - Closed as successful by Ymblanter (dyskusja) 19:24, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
  • WikidataCon 2025, October 31 - November 2, make sure to register at the event page.
  • SPARQL workshop (in German): "From Zero to SPARQL. Eine Einführung in die Abfrage von Wissensgraphen (Schwerpunkt Wikidata)", 4 Nov 2025, 10-13, free and open to all, online via Zoom. more information and registration
  • The scholarship deadline for Wikimania 2026 is approaching fast: 31st of October. Apply today if you want to attend on a scholarship.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos:
  • (Spanish) Visualizaciones con el Servicio de Consultas de Wikidata
  • (Spanish)¿Cómo identificar y completar vacíos de información en Wikidata? Tabernacle e integraality
  • I Have 1000s of Items in Commons – What Do I Do Now?: Utilization Opportunities on Wikimedia Commons
  • (Chinese [Trad]) 鏈結資料文獻翻譯賽德克語成果發表會 Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation
• Presentations: Will AI Erase Us Again? The Role of Wikimedia Communities. Talk by John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2025 (Slides)

Tool of the week

• Nemo is a new Wikidata query tool by User:Markus Krötzsch the tool can answer queries, extracts subsets, and perform analyses in ways that SPARQL alone can't. It also lets you combine Wikidata with other data sources.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • start work (work in which this statement about a fictional entity begins to be valid)
  • end work (work in which this statement about a fictional entity ceases to be valid)
  • image resolution (pixel resolution of images generated or captured by this item (camera, software, etc))
  • display device resolution (physical pixel resolution of an electronic display)
  • ‎firmware (firmware installed on this hardware)
• Newest External identifiers: MultimediaWiki page ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, QCC Code, Jamaica company ID, SEC Number, Thailand company ID, gosfilmofond.ru ID, Cambodian company ID, English solicitors ID, Caixin company ID, ‎Nebraska Authors author ID, ‎Kick username, ‎Archivio Storico Ricordi partiture ID, Fantacalcio ID, ‎Plant Ontology ID, L'Équipe athlete ID, ‎RSQV ID, NRK topic ID, ‎OpenITI author ID, ‎Mellopedia ID, Liste unique des décorés ID, ‎Deník tag ID, Interaktionsdatabasen ID, ‎Adebiportal author ID, Biographische Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder ID, ISLRN, ‎Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, RIA Novosti person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion entry ID, ‎Qalamger.kz author ID, ‎Does the Dog Die? media ID, ‎Organ Index ID, American Kennel Club ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Responsable de departamento ()
  • Lämningsnummer ({{Q|Q10498015}} is a database of archaeological monuments in Sweden, maintained by {{Q|Q631844}}. Each item in the database has an identifier containing the year of registration and a number, e.g. ''L1970:5203''.)
  • number of comments per day ()
  • Commonwealth Sport country code (Commonwealth Sport country code)
  • operating humidity (humidity at which a device operates)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature Periodical ID, HarmonyOS NEXT APP ID, Rechtsinformationen des Bundes-ID, UNESCO Virtual Museum inventory ID, South Korean Business Registration Number, SetesdalWiki ID, Biography.com ID, Mackolik football manager ID, S1 No.1 Style actress ID, biserici.org church ID, RFC, Hudobné centrum IDs, FAIR Epigraphic Vocabularies ID, NVLI ID, SerBenfiquista.com players ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Map of pubs in Scotland (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kazakhstan
• Showcase Items:Lake Zanzibar (Q22530539) - lake in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada

Development

• Wikidata in Wikipedia and co:
  • We worked on making Wikidata change summaries in recent changes and watchlist on the other Wikimedia projects more understandable by adding icons. This will be rolled out soon (phab:T397258)
  • We continued the improvements to the Databox module (phab:T400322, phab:T400318)
• Mobile statement editing: We continued working on editing references (phab:T405236) and did clean-ups for the beta release (phab:T405743)
• GraphQL: We continued work on including labels of linked entities in responses
• Dumps: We are looking into why dump generation is slower than it should be recently

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: South Korea
• 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!