Wikidata:Requests for comment
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Requests for comment This is the Requests for comment process, the place where the community gathers to discuss on a specific topic. You are more than welcome to open a new RFC process to get opinions over a topic, but that should be done after a long discussion via the other channels. Any uninvolved editor can close a request for comment, usually after about 30 days. A request for comment may be closed if a consensus has been reached, or if there has clearly been no consensus reached and the discussion is no longer active.
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Open requests
| Issue | Started by | Description | Start date |
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| Swpb | Should organization directed by the office or position (P2389) be allowed as a qualifier? | 2024-10-28 | |
| RedWolf | Rename property due to website move. | 2024-10-28 | |
| Wüstenspringmaus | Should bureaucrats be able to remove admin rights? | 2024-09-16 | |
| Requests for comment/audio transcription | Yug | Should we enlarge property description and scope or create a new property ? | 2024-08-24 |
| Citations from Wikidata | Palu | Proposal for central management and referencingof local citations. | 2024-08-20 |
| Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English | Carbonaro. | Which spelling convention should be used for the default en label in Wikidata so as to maintain neutrality, consistency and better user experience, while respecting regional variations through separate labels for specific English conventions.
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2024-06-25 |
| Extending P710 "participant" to cover all event roles | Anatole Gershman | Should we extend the definition of participant (P710) to include all types of entities making it consistent with its corresponding Wikidata item participant (Q56512863)? | 2024-02-29 |
| Current or contemporary location and country for events | Vicarage | What is the appropriate representation of country (P17) for historical events to reflect accurate geographical contexts over time. | 2024-02-03 |
| Domain name as data | Hearvox | How can we store, as discrete data, an entity's domain name — that regulated, registered value found in the DNS registry (i.e., not an URL)? | 2024-01-14 |
| Inverse property access for wikis : a lua API request for the development team | TomT0m | Gathering informations and drafting a request for the Wikidata development team for an API to access inverse properties values of client wikis | 2024-01-13 |
| Clarify Wikidata:Account creators abilities and where to request | S8321414 | Clarify Account creators abilities and where to request | 2023-11-20 |
| Must 'Serious' WikiData sources be selective? | Jack4576 | 2023-09-03 | |
| Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks | Elizium23 | Regarding the need to block IPv6 addresses and networks by a minimum /64 range | 2023-08-09 |
| Create items for property proposals | Lectrician1 | This proposal proposes using Items for property proposals so that proposals, and properties when they are ready, can be easily created from them. | 2022-11-05 |
| Wikidata:Requests for comment/Documented and featured SPARQL queries | PAC2 | Discussion about documented queries | 2022-07-22 |
| Wikidata:Requests for comment/Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French | PAC2 | Gender neutral labels in French | 2022-07-15 |
| Use of dates in the descriptions of items regarding humans | Epìdosis | Discussion to get to some consensus about the presence of dates in the descriptions of items regarding humans | 2022-05-19 |
| Creating items for videos at online video platforms that are representation of notable items | Rdrg109 | Discussion to get to a consensus on creating items for videos, at online video platforms, that are representations of notable items | 2022-02-21 |
| Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories | Mike Peel | Wikidata items and Commons categories | 2021-12-18 |
| Is it worth to import labels from interlanguage links of other wikipedia projects | Kanashimi | Is it worth to import labels from interlanguage links of other wikipedia projects to wikidata | 2021-04-12 |
| Signed Statements (T138708) | ElanHR | Proposes adopting schema to support Signed Statements(phab:T138708) to improve verifiability and trustworthiness. | 2021-03-16 |
| P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as main statements | Mahir256 | Proposes the mass migration of P155/P156 main values to qualifiers on other properties | 2021-02-22 |
| /Handling of stored IDs after they've been deleted or redirected in the external database | Kam Solusar | How to proceed with cases where items not only contain a current ID but also additional older values for the same external ID property. | 2020-06-06 |
| /Date in Wikidata not properly translated in Wikipedia table | GualdimG | In a recently created Wikipedia page W:pt:Lista de pontes em Portugal classificadas como Monumento Nacional the Wikidata item date of foundation (P571) in centuries is not properly translated to the table (Wikipedia article) generated by the sparql query. | 2020-05-14 |
| /Need comment on English item label and foreign language proper noun | matthew_hk | should we used the translation of the foreign language proper noun as (the primary) English wiki item label | 2020-04-14 |
| /How to model curricula and link them to educational resources? | John Cummings | What roles can Wikidata play in the current education crisis caused by Coronavirus (over 90% of learners worldwide not in school) ? One way is by helping learners and their parents/guardians find educational resources they need to continue their education at home. However currently no one is consistently and systematically linking curricula (what students need to learn) to the educational resources which are available | 2020-04-10 |
| /Handle genealogical information | Theklan | Genealogy is a very relevant subject if we want to include all the knowledge. Currently, notability criteria wouldn't allow creating items for people whose only known activity is being a far relative of some other item. But having this information could be very relevant in a project like Wikidata, as we can use all the strenght of tools (OpeRefine, query system, automatic trees...) with a very small effort. A separate Wikibase instance can be created to handle this kind of information, but we can't use tools as OpenRefine, making the process extremely difficult. | 2019-12-18 |
| /What is the general position on adjectival items? | Swpb | Whether items should exist for adjectives with corresponding noun forms | 2019-05-10 |
| /Countries, subdivisions, and disputed territories | Yair rand | Structuring P17, P131, and P31 relationships in disputed territories | 2019-04-08 |
| /Proposal to create a separate section for "Commonswiki" links | Donald Trung | Should Wikidata items only link to one Commonswiki page? | 2019-01-15 |
Closed requests
These are discussions that have been closed in the past. Closed discussions can also be found in this category.
| Issue | Started by | Closed by | Description | Outcome | Start date | End date |
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| /Do we want automatic inverse statement creation and if so, how should they happen? | ChristianKl | Ameisenigel | Automatic inverse property creation has the potentatial to make it easier to add data but currently we aren't clear about how an ideal solution would look like. Let's discuss. | Multiple suggested solutions but no clear consensus | 2018-12-30 | 2024-09-26 |
| IP Masking Engagement | STei (WMF) | Ameisenigel | The foundation is asking for comments on how their decision to hide IPs of users that are not logged in will impact wikidata | stale | 2021-04-28 | 2024-06-02 |
| Duplicate References Data Model and UI | ArthurPSmith | ArthurPSmith | proposal to change data model and UI for duplicated references | Phabricator task T360224 | 2023-12-07 | 2024-03-15 |
| Revamping Birth related properties | Akaibu1 | Emu | to change birth order (Q2914808) | the use of series ordinal (P1545) is recommended in this case | 2023-12-11 | 2024-02-04 |
| MotoGP riders' links | Francescoluciano93 | Emu | not an RfC discussion | 2023-09-24 | 2024-02-03 | |
| Improving the performance of retrieving labels, descriptions and aliases | Infrastruktur | Emu | not an RfC discussion | 2022-12-31 | 2024-02-03 | |
| Remove watchlist summary | Lectrician1 | Emu | Proposal to remove the large message at the top of your watchlist for all users. | no consensus | 2022-12-04 | 2024-02-03 |
| Potd | DerFuchs | Emu | Integration of POTD template | stale | 2022-06-14 | 2024-02-03 |
| Population data model | Lectrician1 | Emu | This is a proposed data model to document populations/demographics/census data. | stale | 2022-02-13 | 2024-02-03 |
| Create massive changes in one property for spesific categories/properties? | Joseagush | Emu | not an RfC discussion | 2021-11-12 | 2024-02-03 | |
| handling of data objects for pages in the project namespace | Gymnicus | Emu | stale | 2021-10-27 | 2024-02-03 | |
| Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference) | Galzigler | Emu | Suggestion for automatic analysis for social accounts property, to ease the use of it | not an RfC discussion | 2021-06-26 | 2024-02-03 |
| Separating "citations" from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata | Hooman Mallahzadeh | Emu | The foundation is asking for comments on separation of "citations" from "text" in all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata | not an RfC discussion | 2021-05-15 | 2024-02-03 |
| Shouldn't there be a feature of adding qualifiers inside qualifiers | uni3993 | Emu | Shouldn't there be a feature of adding qualifiers inside qualifiers | stale | 2021-05-17 | 2024-02-03 |
| Automatic sorting according to weight assigned | uni3993 | Emu | Automatic sorting according to weight assigned | stale | 2021-05-17 | 2024-02-03 |
| /Should we create new properties for beaches? | Vanbasten_23 | Emu | To enter data about beaches, I cannot find properties to enter certain data. Here I try to show all those that I think are useful. | stale | 2020-03-30 | 2024-02-03 |
| Should previously linked Wikipedia articles be separated? | The RedBurn | Emu | How to handle the case of one Wikipedia article in each language but two or more corresponding Wikidata items | stale | 2021-10-17 | 2024-02-03 |
| Items for external links | Galzigler | Emu | A proposal to maintain references for sources used for articles within Wikidata | not an RfC discussion | 2020-08-17 | 2024-02-03 |
| /A meta item namespace (Mxxx) for structured data about Wikidata | Iwan.Aucamp | Emu | Should we create a meta item namespaces for structured data about Wikidata such as bots, their owners and their tasks. | stale | 2020-05-03 | 2024-02-03 |
| Creating properties which link to an archived website | Tomodachi94 | Emu | Should we create new properties that link to the Wayback Machine? | stale | 2023-04-22 | 2024-02-03 |
| /structured path for property definition changes | GPSLeo | Emu | We we need a centralized and accepted process for changes in the usage and definition of properties. | stale | 2019-10-01 | 2024-02-03 |
| /Improved instructions for translation admin | ZI Jony | Emu | What does mean to mark for translation, when to do, how to do and instructions to be made more clear. | stale | 2019-08-12 | 2024-02-03 |
| /Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles | Artoria2e5 | Emu | Deduplication for enzyme entries | no consensus | 2019-06-12 | 2024-02-03 |
| Automated Manipulation and Calculation | Maincomb | Emu | Automating Manipulation and Calculation | stale | 2022-01-10 | 2024-01-13 |
| Wikidata as fans resources | Midleading | Midleading | no consensus | 2023-03-12 | 2023-12-18 | |
| Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy | ChristianKl | Ajraddatz | Adopt a policy for how we interact with sitelinks to redirects on Wikidata | Implemented | 2020-12-09 | 2023-01-11 |
| How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French? | PAC2 | Skimel | Gendered labels for properties | Accepted | 2021-11-21 | 2022-09-05 |
| Alternate disclosure policy | Olaf Kosinsky | Ameisenigel | The Wikidata community does not require any disclosure of paid contributions from its contributors. | Adoption of User:ChristianKl/Draft:Disclosure of paid editing | 2020-09-07 | 2022-08-17 |
| I want to delete Q111589780 | Ox1997cow | Ameisenigel | Wikidata of FKI Tower(전경련회관) is already exist. Q16099606 So, Q111589780 is unnecessary and redundunt. Please delete Q111589780. | merged | 2022-04-12 | 2022-04-15 |
| Frequency of YouTube follower count data | Sdkb | Ameisenigel | Determining the frequency with which items for YouTube channels have their follower count data updated by bot | Update items with Wikipedia articles whenever their subscriber count has changed by at least 10% or has surpassed a new factor of 10 milestone (100k, 1M, 10M, etc.); update other items once per year | 2021-10-14 | 2022-03-13 |
| How should we develop and deploy documentation for items ? | PAC2 | PAC2 | Adopt a strategy for item documentation | No consensus | 2021-01-10 | 2021-02-18 |
| Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous | ChristianKl | Multichill | Use instance of human only for real humans and not for the class of anonymous people. | New model adopted, documentation updated. | 2020-11-09 | 2021-05-30 |
| /Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion) | Donald Trung | Pasleim | Discussion to see if the Wikidata community wants to lower its standards for inclusion to benefit the Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons programme. | no change to WD:N | 2019-02-12 | 2021-05-11 |
| /Inverse constraint on cause-and-effect properties | Swpb | Pasleim | Are these constraints more harmful than helpful? | constraints were removed | 2019-01-30 | 2021-05-11 |
| /How to handle heat treating as a qualifier for material properties ? | Thibdx | Pasleim | Heat treating property is needed to create most metals datasheets. We need to decide. | property was created | 2018-12-03 | 2021-03-03 |
| /Many surname items had been un merged because of failure to communicate. | Ilyaroz | Pasleim | Many surname items had been un merged because of failure to communicate. | stale | 2018-11-23 | 2021-03-03 |
| /Best_practices_for_statement_ranks_for_disappeared_entities | TomT0m | Pasleim | How to deal with ranks when someone is dead or an entity disappear | change the rank from preferred to normal when an entity does not exist anymore | 2018-10-31 | 2021-03-03 |
| /Different concepts in a single item | Capmo | Pasleim | Should institutions have a different item from the physical place they are located? | stale | 2018-10-15 | 2021-03-03 |
| /1983-01-01 date of birth vs. 1988-00-00 date of birth (both only have a year specified) | Tidoni} | Pasleim | 1983-01-01 date of birth vs. 1988-00-00 date of birth (both only have a year specified) | stale | 2018-08-20 | 2021-03-03 |
| /Artists Rights Society (Q4801318) | Asav | Pasleim | Can the entry "member of" Artists Rights Society (Q4801318) be batch removed from artists' biographies, as they've been erroneously added to a whole lot of them? | stale | 2018-08-10 | 2021-03-03 |
| /how to manage software versions | Malore | Pasleim | no consensus | 2018-05-21 | 2021-03-03 | |
| /make "developer" and "programmer" properties clearer | Malore | Pasleim | developer and programmer properties are ambiguous | stale | 2018-05-07 | 2021-03-03 |
| /General semi protection for all property pages | Mike Peel MisterSynergy |
Ymblanter | In this RfC, it is proposed to apply a general semi protection to all pages in the “Property” namespace (ns=120) by using the $wgNamespaceProtection configuration setting (see discussion in phab:T254280). This means that all property pages are at least semi protected indefinitely, but administrators can still raise the protection level of individual property pages to full protection (only administrators can edit) if necessary. However, the semi protection level cannot be removed by administrators for individual property pages. | All property pages must be semi-protected | 2020-07-15 | 2020-09-02 |
| /Restrictions on making items | DemonDays64 | Ymblanter | Letting everyone create items lets some vandalism stay on Wikidata for months. Should there be restrictions? | Opposed | 2020-03-07 | 2020-09-28 |
| /Sort identifiers | Obsuser | Andrew Gray | It is not convenient to follow mixed-up identifiers; I propose sorting them, alphabetically for example. | Consensus was reached to use MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties to sort items | 2019-12-26 | 2020-07-27 |
| /Sort identifier statements on items that are instances of human | -IP- | Andrew Gray | Consensus was reached to use MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties to sort items | 2018-04-25 | 2020-07-27 | |
| /Disallow merging into newer entity | MrProperLawAndOrder | Jasper Deng | Clearly no consensus to prohibit merging of an older entity into a newer one. | 2020-05-13 | 2020-06-24 | |
| /Merging 2 items | Basile Morin | ArthurPSmith | Q29458890 and Q381084 are the same, and should be merged, in my opinion. On the Wikipedia pages, some languages are missing, due to this current separation. | Merge was done. | 2020-04-20 | 2020-05-04 |
| /Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject | John Cummings NavinoEvans |
Ainali | There is currently no place for the community to propose, or "agree" on the correct model for specific types of items (e.g. a train, plant, human author, human astronaut etc). Now that Wikidata Schemas have been implemented, we have a place that can represent the model at a technical level (e.g. EntitySchema:E10 for a human). But without a community driven discussion and creation process the models will not be used as the "consensus". | Consensus on form and function of schema recording and proposals | 2019-10-23 | 2020-03-12 |
| /Non-free content | Jc86035 | -revi | Whether Wikidata should have a policy about fair use content, and what approach the policy should take. | No consensus to implement non-free content policy. | 2019-04-10 | 2020-02-03 |
| /Adopt a username policy | Zazpot | Jasper Deng | Wikidata does not have a username policy. Let us remediate this before it becomes a hard(er) problem to solve. | No consensus to adopt a local username policy. | 2018-10-21 | 2019-07-28 |
| /Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2 | Jc86035 | Jc86035 | Semi-open-ended discussion (for WMF consultation) on the direction of proposed software improvements relating to on-wiki communication | The discussion has concluded and has been summarized | 2019-05-20 | 2019-07-05 |
| /semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items (part 2) | Jura1 | Pasleim | Additional questions apparently too late for part 1 | stale | 2019-02-17 | 2019-06-24 |
| /semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items | Abián | Pasleim | This RfC compiles the community's position on using semi-protection as a way of preventing vandalism on the most used Items on Wikimedia pages. It doesn't address other ways of combating vandalism nor other reasons for semi-protecting pages. | semi-protect all items used by 500 Wikimedia pages or more | 2019-02-16 | 2019-06-24 |
| /Talk pages consultation 2019 | Jc86035 | Jc86035 | Semi-open-ended discussion (for WMF consultation) on improving on-wiki communication | The discussion has concluded and has been summarized | 2019-02-23 | 2019-04-04 |
| /2018 administrator policy update | Rschen7754 | Ymblanter, Pasleim | Edit warring, involved administrators, interface administrators | see RfC | 2018-09-24 | 2019-02-28 |
| Referencing websites: How do we store the website title? | Mvolz (WMF) | Micru | Do we create new items for websites that are used in references, or store the title of the website in a new property as monolingual text? | published in (P1433) should be used wherever possible. If the website is notable, then an item should be created for it. If not use title of broader work (P6333). | 2018-11-21 | 2019-01-04 |
| /Datatype of P667 | Airon90 | Micru | Change in datatype of P667 | Clarified. | 2018-10-27 | 2018-12-26 |
| /Changes in email property | Airon90 | Micru | Changes in email property, from data to use | Property nominated for deletion. | 2018-10-27 | 2018-12-26 |
| How to capture negative results in Wikidata? | Andrawaag | Micru | How to capture negative results in Wikidata? | Inconclusive. | 2017-07-11 (2017-08-21) |
2018-12-26 |
| /Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators | Micru | ArthurPSmith | The admission of an user in the Property Creators group should come together with rights and responsibilities. This RfC tries to define which rights and responsibilities are those, and how neglecting the responsibilities affects belonging to the Property Creators group. | Proposals 1, 3 and 4 are supported; Proposal 2 is rejected. | 2018-06-15 | 2018-12-18 |
| Wikidata:Requests for comment/Political alliance vs P4100 | Ederporto | Pintoch | Should we create a qualifier "pollitical aliance" for coalitions on elections? | Use political coalition (P5832) | 2018-02-08 | 2018-11-08 |
| Wikidata:Requests for comment/Changes to P2737 and P2738 | User:Swpb | Pintoch | Changing the way these two properties are used. | Do not change usage, keep using dummy values and qualifiers | 2018-01-03 | 2018-11-07 |
| Wikidata:Requests for comment/Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for ''Canis lupus familiaris''? | Theklan | Pintoch | keep the items separate | 2018-05-28 | 2018-11-07 | |
| start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode | Ans | Pintoch | start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode, which one is better? | use publication date (P577) | 2017-11-21 | 2018-11-07 |
| Mapping and improving the data import process | John Cummings and Navino Evans | Pintoch | Mapping the data import processes including tools and documentation, what have and what is still needed. | No decision required. | 2017-12-13 | 2018-11-07 |
| Familypedia links removed for "described at URL" | Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) | Pintoch | Familypedia links removed for "described at URL" | Consensus not to remove identifiers | 2017-06-30 (2017-08-21) |
2018-11-07 |
| Wikidata:Requests for comment/Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata | ChristianKl | Ymblanter | Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata | see RFC | 2017-05-28 | 2018-11-06 |
| Wikidata:Requests for comment/Close-out of statements formerly using P794 | Swpb | Deryck Chan (talk) | To wrap up a discussion about two use cases remaining in flux after the deprecation of P794 (P794). | We created nature of statement (P5102) and pencilled down the boundaries between applies to part, aspect, or form (P518), criterion used (P1013), sourcing circumstances (P1480), subject has role (P2868), object of statement has role (P3831), and nature of statement (P5102). | 2018-01-08 | 2018-10-29 |
| When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used | Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) | Pasleim | Again this goes back to User:Nikkimaria. Should she be removing IMDB as one of the multiple sources for a fact, I am assuming because she considers it unreliable. | consensus to keep IMDb as source | 2017-07-01 | 2018-09-29 |
| Findagrave removed as a source for information | Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) | Pasleim | Should data items here at Wikidata that are sourced to Findagrave be removed? | consensus to keep Findagrave as source | 2017-06-18 | 2018-09-29 |
| How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel? | Theklan | Pasleim | Comment of different ways of viewing this data | use has part(s) of the class (P2670) with quantity as qualifier | 2017-06-15 | 2018-09-29 |
| Updating References for External Data | Gstupp | Pasleim | Discussion on managing time stamps on references | stale | 2017-05-03 | 2018-09-29 |
| P171 | Swpb | Pasleim | Clarification of correct use of a property | see RfC | 2017-02-10 | 2018-09-29 |
| Adding short code for cryptocurrencies | Germartin1 | Jc86035 | I need some clarification about how to add the short code (such as BTC, LTC or MIOTA) to the cryptocurrency entities | Property proposal succeeded; further action unnecessary | 2018-08-25 | 2018-09-24 |
| Association Football Matches | Muhammad Abul-Futooh | Mahir256 | Is it acceptable in Wikidata to create items for association football matches? | Yes | 2017-10-10 | 2018-07-30 |
| Wikidata:Requests for comment/Help:Modelling | Jmabel | Ajraddatz | Hoping this help page can be recognized as out of "draft" status. | Draft tag removed | 2018-07-03 | 2018-07-29 |
| Privacy and Living People | ChristianKl | Pasleim | Adopting a living people policy | see RfC | 2018-01-06 | 2018-05-15 |
| P31 or P279 for geo-objects | D1gggg | Rschen7754 | too many qualifiers with former items Q19953632 and similar | Stale and proposer was blocked | 2017-08-11 | 2018-03-21 |
| Wikidata:Notabilty wording | Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) | ZI Jony | Rewritten WD:N | No consensus | 2017-07-23 | 2019-10-02 |
| Churches (Q16970) Possibly adding county as property | SkymasterUK | SkymasterUK | Adding the property of County to Q16970 Churches | Administrative area already sufficient for queries. | 2018-02-14 | 2018-02-14 |
| Defining account creators | Rschen7754 | Pasleim | Defining account creators | see RfC | 2017-10-21 | 2018-01-23 |
| Proposed client side disambiguation page | Jeblad | ChristianKl | A client side disambiguation page using labels and aliases | RFC not needed | 2017-04-04 | 2017-12-05 |
| Property talk:P2868 | Swpb | ChristianKl | Proposal to change English property label to cover full use of the property. | wrong place | 2017-2-10 | 2017-12-05 |
| Q189053 | Jsamwrites | ChristianKl | Proposal to include command line arguments to Command line tool. | RFC not needed | 2017-02-23 | 2017-12-05 |
| Can't create an additional statement, no edit button; only on one specific item | Zaccarias | Ymblanter | Item pages are not loaded fully | RFC not needed | 2017-07-23 | 2017-07-24 |
| Malformed input | Kamolan | Matěj Suchánek | Mistake of editing labels | Software bug to be fixed | 2017-03-27 | 2017-03-28 |
| Picture of the day | Snaevar | Pasleim | Should we add Picture of the day to wikidata? | add picture of the day to Q14334596 | 2016-06-30 | 2017-01-11 |
| Make family member properties gender neutral | Robin van der Vliet | Pasleim | Merging gendered properties | merge brother and sister, merge stepfather and stepmother, do not merge father and mother | 2016-09-14 | 2017-01-11 |
| How to make new languages enabled on Wikidata | Fralambert | Pasleim | Establish a procedure for making new languages enable in Wikidata | see RfC | 2016-11-15 | 2017-01-11 |
| Data quality framework for Wikidata | Alessandro Piscopo | Alessandro Piscopo | Establishing a data quality framework for Wikidata | Sufficient feedback received | 2016-08-11 | 2016-12-07 |
| Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app | DBrant (WMF) | DBrant (WMF) | Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app | Sufficient feedback received | 2016-10-31 | 2016-12-01 |
| Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements | Hjfocs | Jura1 | Primary sources tool usability and datasets | stale | 2016-05-25 | 2016-11-21 |
| Derived properties | Innocent bystander | Pasleim | Should we allow properties that is possible to derive from other properties | Stale | 2015-10-22 | 2016-08-20 |
| Category commons P373 and "Other sites" | Gzen92 | Pasleim | Commons category (again) | No consensus | 2015-06-24 | 2016-08-20 |
| Links to redirects with possibilities | bezik | Pasleim | Suggestion to make "redirects with possibilities" available when adding sitelinks | Stale | 2015-05-31 | 2016-08-20 |
| Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page | TomT0m | Pasleim | Can item be both instance and subclass | No adaption as official help page | 2015-04-14 | 2016-08-20 |
| Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties | Jokes_Free4Me | Pasleim | Was the drive for monolingual properties an appropriate endeavour? | No consensus | 2015-04-13 | 2016-08-20 |
| Guidance needed for proper interwiki linkage | Anders Feder | Pasleim | How should the right interwiki link be selected from many candidates? | Stale | 2015-03-15 | 2016-08-20 |
| Items for given names | Inwind | Pasleim | Discussion on method for given names | Stale | 2015-01-08 | 2016-08-20 |
| Refining "part of" | Micru | Pasleim | Discussion about part of (P361) | Stale | 2014-06-14 | 2016-08-20 |
| Verifiability and living persons | Jasper Deng | Pasleim | Write down community consensus on the meaning of verifiability and sources, and formulate a living persons policy | no changes to current practice | 2016-06-25 | 2016-08-20 |
| Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color | Tobias1984 | Pasleim | How to classify colors | Stale | 2015-10-21 | 2016-08-20 |
| Extinct taxons | Theklan | Pasleim | Determining if a taxon is extinct or not | Stale | 2016-02-23 | 2016-08-20 |
| DMS datatype | Swpb | Pasleim | Creation of a degrees-minutes-seconds datatype | phab:T127950 | 2016-02-09 | 2016-08-20 |
| Wikidata:Notability overhaul | GZWDer | Pasleim | Overhaul Wikidata:Notability | no consensus | 2015-05-09 | 2016-08-20 |
| RfP voting eligibility | Jasper Deng | Pasleim | Should we strengthen the requirements for users to (!)vote in permissions requests? If so, how in particular? | 100 local non-automated edits needed before the start of an RfP to vote in the RfP | 2016-06-25 | 2016-08-19 |
| Standards for property proposal discussions | Thryduulf | Pasleim | Should there be a minimum duration for property proposals and/or should property creators be independent of the proposal | no changes | 2016-05-27 | 2016-08-19 |
| Help:Basic membership properties | TomT0m | Rschen7754 | adopt this page officially | No consensus | 2015-04-14 | 2016-07-31 |
| Property: belongs to jurisdiction | Circeus | ArthurPSmith | That property is a mess that needs discussion to determine a scope | No consensus and obsolete | 2014-03-17 | 2016-04-15 |
| Organizing statements, sitelinks, and external identifiers | Micru | ArthurPSmith | Part of the UI redesign discussion | Obsolete (UI elements partially implemented) | 2014-03-13 | 2016-04-15 |
| Define lists on both "Wikimedia lists" and "Wikimedia categories" | GerardM | ArthurPSmith | provide information for queries to produce lists to compare with content in project lists and categories | is a list of (P360) can be used for categories; see RFC for details | 2014-02-22 | 2016-04-15 |
| Reforming the property creation process | Rschen7754 | Pasleim | Reforming the property creation process | see RfC | 2016-03-20 | 2016-04-13 |
| Q21205906 and Q15781 | Airon90 | Pasleim | Survey about whether merge two items or not | keep two items | 2015-12-21 | 2016-04-13 |
| Improve bot policy for data import and data modification | Snipre | Pasleim | Survey about possible changes in bot edition | see RfC | 2015-11-20 | 2016-04-13 |
| Merging relationship properties | Andrew Gray | Andrew Gray | Merging relationship properties | Withdrawn | 2015-08-25 | 2015-10-11 |
| Administative divisions and populated places | Rippitippi | John F. Lewis | Discussion about how to handle administrative divisions and populated places | Stale | 2014-02-10 | 2015-07-20 |
| How to deal with given names and surnames | Sannita | John F. Lewis | Discussion about how to solve interlink conflicts between Wikipedias about given names and surnames | Stale | 2014-02-09 | 2015-07-20 |
| Commons category on Wikimedia category item | FreightXPress | Rschen7754 | P373 and sitelink on items that are of type Wikimedia category page | Clear consensus against RFC | 2015-05-12 | 2015-06-14 |
| Datatype identifier | FreightXPress | Rschen7754 | Discuss creation of new datatype and mass migration from datatype string | No consensus; question of why this was an RFC | 2015-05-09 | 2015-06-14 |
| Sitelinks with fragments | Jeblad | Jeblad | Alernate method for setting up sitelinks and unwinding redirects | No consensus | 2014-11-01 | 2015-05-22 |
| Opting out of Global sysops 2 | Vogone | John F. Lewis | RFC to gauge if this wiki should be added to the global sysop opt-out list. | Opt out of GS | 2015-04-22 | 2015-05-14 |
| Speedy vs Regular deletion | Addshore | Addshore | How to avoid bad things from happening due to the fast paced deletion environment | Stale | 2015-01-16 | 2015-05-06 |
| Conflict of Interest | Denny | Rschen7754 | Suggestions for CoI editing | No consensus | 2015-01-05 | 2015-05-06 |
| List of properties | Tamawashi | Pasleim | Improving Wikidata:List of properties | new property lists were created, for an overview see {{Property lists}} |
2014-07-11 | 2015-04-11 |
| Typing : class ⇄ instance relationship in Wikidata | TomT0m | Bene* | What are instances and classes, proposition to describe them in turtle notation | No clear consensus, see RfC | 2013-07-25 | 2015-04-11 |
| Reforming administrator inactivity criteria | Jianhui67 | Bene* | Propose to change administrator inactivity criteria because there will be not much administrator actions to be done on Wikidata after redirects were implemented | See RfC | 2015-03-01 | 2015-03-31 |
| Notability & early creation of Wikidata items | GerardM | GZWDer | Wikidata items can be created before an article exist in any of the projects | Succeded by Wikidata:Article placeholder input | 2014-03-12 | 2014-12-30 |
| Redirect vs. deletion | Lymantria | Stryn | Is redirecting or deletion preferred outcome of merging | Items should be redirected when merging | 2014-09-21 | 2014-12-03 |
| New user group for developers | Glaisher | SPQRobin | Seperate user group for Wikidata developers | New "WMDE staff" user group | 2014-05-01 | 2014-10-24 |
| User conduct policies | Jasper Deng | John F. Lewis | Overhaul of the blocking policy, define edit warring and no personal attacks policies | see RfC | 2014-07-23 | 2014-09-27 |
| DBpedia import process | GerardM | John F. Lewis | Discussion about data imports from DBpedia | Stale | 2013-02-05 | 2014-05-14 |
| Property documentation redux | Klortho | John F. Lewis | How to implement property documentation | Stale close - dev team work | 2013-12-23 | 2014-05-12 |
| One vs. several sitelink-item correspondence | Reosarevok | John F. Lewis | To consider the possibility of using a sitelink for multiple items in certain cases | No consensus | 2013-05-27 | 2014-05-14 |
| Quality is measurable | GerardM | John F. Lewis | The quality of Wikidata is measurable and we should work towards results that help us achieve objectives | Not an RfC discussion | 2014-04-10 | 2014-05-14 |
| Clarifying the requirements for property creation | Micru | John F. Lewis | Modifications to the property creation process | No consensus | 2014-04-27 | 2014-05-12 |
| Improving handling of labels of deleted entities in archived discussions (previously titled "Instances of human") | Cycn | John F. Lewis | Gathering comments on how to process deletion requests: keep them or how to remove these items where used in links. | Forwarded feedback | 2013-11-15 | 2014-04-27 |
| Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype | Micru | John F. Lewis | Gathering feedback for the implementation of quantities | Forwarded to Lydia | 2013-11-13 | 2014-04-27 |
| Property proposal organisation reform to a more Model (or infobox) oriented process | TomT0m | John F. Lewis | Reforming property proposal process into a model amendment process | Stale | 2013-08-06 | 2014-04-27 |
| How to classify items: lots of specific type properties or a few generic ones? | Paperoastro | John F. Lewis | choose a unique method to classify items | See RfC - stale and off topic discussions it seems | 2013-06-01 | 2014-04-27 |
| Schema.org identifier property? | The Anome | Snipre | We should consider adding a property that maps Wikidata entities to schema.org entities, where appropriate | Not a RfC | 2014-04-07 | 2014-4-9 |
| Merge all languages of project chat into one multilingual project chat | Sven Manguard | Jasper Deng | Should we merge all language versions of Wikidata:Project chat into one page? | No consensus on anything | 2013-09-28 | 2014-04-04 |
| Make Symmetric & Inverse Property addition automatic and bidirectional | Jaredzimmerman (WMF) | GZWDer | Stale | 2014-01-09 | 2014-04-01 | |
| Wikimedia Commons OpenStreetMap cross-references | Brylie | GZWDer | Stale | 2013-10-21 | 2014-04-01 | |
| links to wikidata from a template at an arbitrary WMF project page | לערי ריינהארט | GZWDer | Stale | 2013-10-16 | 2014-04-01 | |
| Non-WMF wikis | Ricordisamoa | John F. Lewis | If and how to enable Phase 1 and 2 for external projects | Refer all queries to development team | 2014-02-21 | 2014-03-26 |
| Interwiki links for subpages | GZWDer | Jakec | To gain consensus on interwiki links for subpages. | See RFC closure summary | 2013-12-27 | 2014-02-17 |
| Can we reuse anything from DBpedia? | Filceolaire | Ricordisamoa | To establish practices for data importation from DBpedia | none | 2013-08-27 | 2014-02-11 |
| Interwiki links for special pages | Ymblanter | John F. Lewis | To gain consensus on interwiki links for special pages. | No links for any special pages exc. Special:RecentChanges | 2013-12-20 | 2014-02-07 |
| Bot policy | GZWDer | John F. Lewis | To gain consensus in order to make Wikidata:Bots a Wikidata policy. | See RfC | 2013-12-15 | 2013-12-24 |
| Inactive admin | 분당선M | John F. Lewis | We should make warning before desysoping? +etc | See RfC | 2013-12-04 | 2013-12-24 |
| Constraint violation technical bases | TomT0m | GZWDer | How to use constraints to define classes ? What does it change to the way we do things ? | Constraint violation should be stored as statements when bugzilla:49554 is closed | 2013-09-18 | 2013-11-24 |
| Source items and supporting Wikipedia sources | Micru | GZWDer | On source items and Wikipedia sources | Support Wikipedia sources | 2013-06-25 | 2013-11-24 |
| Proposals for the 'Place' related properties | Filceolaire | GZWDer | This RFC is to review all the different properties related to places and try to see what people feel about what properties we should and shouldn't have. | Deleted P540, P206 was nominated for deletion | 2013-09-02 | 2013-11-23 |
| Image properties | Tobias1984 | GZWDer | Do we need more than one image property? | Using qualifier "image depicts (item)" for most/all images | 2013-07-09 | 2013-11-23 |
| VCards for Wikivoyage | DerFussi | GZWDer | Museums, sights and hotels | Agreed, see Rfc for used property | 2013-08-09 | 2013-11-23 |
| Commons links | Ivan A. Krestinin | John F. Lewis | Wikidata abilities was extended to Commons project. There is question: are we need to change current interwiki links on Commons project? If yes then how? | Categories to categories, articles to galleries, and templates to link between them using a property. | 2013-10-02 | 2013-11-16 |
| Geocoordinates on people | Amir | GZWDer | Is it OK to use coordinates for place of burial of dead people? | Create separate grave-items instead | 2013-08-26 | 2013-11-15 |
| Restructuring of the "minor" user rights | Vogone | John F. Lewis | Proposal regarding the restructuring of the "minor" user rights. | See RfC | 2013-10-14 | 2013-11-08 |
| Requests for undeletion | 관인생략 | 분당선M | Why shouldn't we create "Requests for undeletion" page? | No consensus to change. Use WD:AN for now | 2013-09-30 | 2013-10-26 |
| Place of the property documentation | Nightwish62 | John F. Lewis | Where should the property documentation be stored? | Consensus for documentation on property pages through statements. Links with property metadata. | 2013-05-30 | 2013-10-23 |
| Exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace | 분당선M | GZWDer | Adding some Exclusion criteria | Changed Wikidata:Notability/Exclusion criteria | 2013-07-16 | 2013-10-19 |
| Guidelines for RfC process | Snipre | John F. Lewis | Improvement of the current process of the RfC | No consensus. Format may be used but should not be held as a strict structure | 2013-08-18 | 2013-10-04 |
| Migrating away from GND main type | Izno/Tobias1984 | John F. Lewis | Tranfers of data to other properties | See RfC | 2013-08-18 | 2013-10-01 |
| More people should comment on this rv and block | Петър Петров | Hahc21 | Additional comment on a revert and a block | Use Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard instead | 2013-09-01 | 2013-09-21 |
| Sourcing requirements for bots | Pichpich | Legoktm | Proposed sourcing requirements for bots | All proposals were overwhelmingly rejected | 2013-07-04 | 2013-08-22 |
| Non-article items for property:p107 | 분당선M | John F. Lewis | Using P107 (P107) in non article items | No possible outcome per the RfC below | 2013-06-01 | 2013-08-17 |
| Primary sorting property | Sven Manguard | John F. Lewis | What to do about main type (GND) | The property is to be deleted. See the actual RfC for a more detailed rationale and analysis of each point | 2013-06-30 | 2013-08-17 |
| Defining CheckUsers | John F. Lewis | Izno | Creation of the Wikidata CheckUser policy | Most items have consensus. Some do not. | 2013-08-01 | 2013-08-11 |
| Inheritance of taxon ranks | Ricordisamoa | filceolaire | to define whether some taxon properties could be inherited from "upper" items | No consensus. Should be looked at again if phase three creates a mechanism for property inheritance. | 2013-05-19 | 2013-08-03 |
| Automatic labelling | Ricordisamoa | filceolaire | To define a mechanism so that some items could have labels automatically set even without sitelink | Agreed | 2013-05-06 | 2013-08-03 |
| Time DataType Properties | 23PowerZ | TCN7JM | As time datatype is available now we have to discuss this in detail | No clear consensus was reached regarding anything. | 2013-05-30 | 2013-08-01 |
| Personal names | Yair rand | Nightwish62 | Handling personal names | Separated properties and item datatype | 2013-06-18 | 2013-07-31 |
| Kinship | 23PowerZ | Sannita | The current system for properties about family relation is a mess | Properties P7 and P9 merged, no other relevant results. | 2013-04-26 | 2013-07-31 |
| Defining inactivity | Rschen7754 | Delusion23 | What is inactivity? | Creation of policy for defining inactivity of admins, bureaucrats and oversighters | 2013-07-06 | 2013-07-23 |
| Property documentation | Pyfisch | John F. Lewis | Discussion about a new property documentation. | No clear consensus. | 2013-05-11 | 2013-07-21 |
| Sockpuppetry guidelines | Sven Manguard | Izno | Proposed guidelines on handling sockpuppetry | Creation of a guideline on sock puppetry | 2013-06-18 | 2013-07-17 |
| Several datatypes for the same property | Snipre | Snipre | A request for comment about creation 2 properties with the same name but different datatypes | Changes in Wikidata:Notability seems to have solved the issue | 2013-03-23 | 2013-07-13 |
| Merge article interwikis and category interwikis | ŠJů | John F. Lewis | Solution for Wikipedia categories | No consensus in short. See RfC for developed point. | 2013-03-12 | 2013-07-03 |
| References and sources | Micru | Micru | Reference and sources in Wikidata | Creation of the initial guidelines for sourcing statements, see Help:Sources, approved with 72% support, | 2013-04-16 | 2013-06-25 |
| Software statements | MichaelSchoenitzer | Jasper Deng | Some open questions about statements for items about software | Various, see subpage | 2013-03-30 | 2013-06-22 |
| Disambiguation pages guidelines | Nouill | Sven Manguard | To ask some exceptions to the disambiguation pages guidelines | Disambiguation pages that vary only in spelling or punctuation can be merged i.f.f. no one language has separate disambiguation pages for both spelling/punctuation options | 2013-05-07 | 2013-06-22 |
| Exclusion of pages in the file namespace | Vogone | John F. Lewis | To gauge whether Wikidata should link to files uploaded to local projects | Exclusion of locally uploaded images to Wikipedias. | 2013-05-29 | 2013-06-11 |
| Which road to take for help pages | Raoli | Snipre | How to improve the legibility of the help pages. | No consensus, discussion died since 6 month | 2012-11-18 | 2013-06-11 |
| A need for a resolution regarding article moves and redirects | Steel1943 | filceolaire | Should we allow Wikidata links to Wikipedia redirect pages? | Code to be changed to allow sitelinks to redirect pages | 2013-03-04 | 2013-06-02 |
| Species and genus | Ettrig | filceolaire | Problem will be solved if we can have sitelinks to redirect pages | 2013-03-01 | 2013-06-02 | |
| Editprotected and Editinterface for Translation Administrators | John F. Lewis | Hazard-SJ | To gauge whether translation administrators should be granted editprotected and/or editinterface permissions | No consensus for any changes | 2013-05-20 | 2013-06-01 |
| Labels and descriptions in language variants | Saehrimnir | John F. Lewis | Reducing complexity by only allowing as few labels per wikipedia as needed | Keep: British English and Swiss High German. No consensus: Canadian English, Informal Netherland or Português do Brasil. Consensus to remove: Formal-German (Deutsch-Sie Form) | 2013-04-27 | 2013-05-31 |
| Items for Wikimedia projects besides Wikipedia | King jakob c 2 | Saehrimnir | Judging whether other Wikimedia projects should be connected to Wikidata | Its clear that interwikis will be centralized for all Wikimedia projects but how should be decided when its actually worked on | 2013-04-28 | 2013-05-29 |
| Script to add banners on an item | Jitrixis | John F. Lewis | How do we use this Script ? | No consensus on usage of script or implementation of usage. | 2013-04-14 | 2013-05-19 |
| Bureaucrats' role in removal of permissions | John F. Lewis | Sven Manguard | Discuss whether bureaucrats should be able to remove sysop and crat flags | No consensus as to whether or not bureaucrats should be allowed to desysop, defaulting to an unsuccessful proposal. Clear consenus against allow bureaucrats to de-crat, however. | 2013-05-09 | 2013-05-15 |
| Abusefilter-view-private and abusefilter-log-private for rollbackers | FrigidNinja | John F. Lewis | RfC related to this discussion | No consensus for addition of rights | 2013-04-25 | 2013-05-07 |
| Flood flag | Vogone | Hahc21 | To gauge whether the flood flag should be enabled for Wikidata | The flood flag is enabled for Wikidata | 2013-04-28 | 2013-05-03 |
| Defining oversighters | Hahc21 | Hazard-SJ | Definition of roles and rules about local oversighters | Update of Wikidata:Oversight | 2013-04-18 | 2013-05-02 |
| Wikidata:Vandalism | King jakob c 2 | Legoktm | Whether to adopt WD:Vandalism as a policy | Tagged as a guideline | 2013-04-19 | 2013-05-01 |
| Right to vanish | Vituzzu | Jasper Deng | If and how should we implement right to vanish | No consensus | 2013-04-14 | 2013-04-28 |
| Items for user pages | Kolega2357 | Legoktm | Items for user pages | Closed early due to no new arguments having been provided since the last few discussions on this topic | 2013-04-19 | 2013-04-21 |
| Adopt metawiki policy for translation administrators | Vogone | Addshore | To gauge whether the requirements for translation adminship should be the same as on metawiki. | Wikidata is to Adopt the full metawiki translation admin policy including the approval procedure. | 2013-04-08 | 2013-04-14 |
| Defining bureaucrats | Rschen7754 | Vituzzu | Definition of roles and rules about bureaucrats | Update of Wikidata:Bureaucrats | 2013-04-05 | 2013-04-12 |
| Inclusion of non-article pages 2 | Reza1615 | PinkAmpersand | To exclude items on pages in specific namespaces. | Several types of pages are declared ineligible for Wikidata items, as detailed here. | 2013-03-08 | 2013-04-09 |
| Restrict creation of properties to some users | Ricordisamoa (Subsequent clarification discussion started by Vogone) |
Ajraddatz (Subsequent clarification discussion closed by Hahc21) |
To define whether and which edit restrictions should be set on the property namespace. | Property creation is restricted to administrators and a new "property creator" user group; the latter right can be added or removed by administrors. | 2013-03-26 | 2013-04-07 |
| Sock puppetry | Moe Epsilon | Rschen7754 | To gauge whether Wikidata:Sock puppetry should become policy. | No consensus for adoption, and several suggested changes. | 2013-03-25 | 2013-04-07 |
| Opting out of Global sysops | Hahc21 | Hahc21 | Whether to, or not to opt out of the global sysops | Wikidata remains opted in to Global sysops | 2013-03-08 | 2013-03-24 |
| How to define a data structure for Wikidata? | DavidMCEddy | Espeso | Define a data structure for Wikidata | No comment | 2013-02-12 | 2013-03-10 |
| A page to show the top editors on Wikidata | Morriswa | Espeso | Make a page like Special:CountEdits that shows the top editors on WikiData be started. | No support | 2013-01-26 | 2013-03-10 |
| Glossary: new version | Raoli | Sannita | Adopt the pattern contained in User:Raoli/Glossary as next version of Wikidata:Glossary | No consensus | 2012-11-18 | 2013-02-07 |
| Defining administrators | Ajraddatz | Ajraddatz | Definition of roles and rules about administrators | Wikidata:Administrators | 2013-01-01 | 2013-01-22 |
| Notability | Moe_Epsilon | Wiki13 | Definition of notability | Wikidata:Notability | 2012-11-15 | 2012-11-17 |