Wikidata:Status updates/Next

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2025-05-19.

Discussions

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  • Open request for adminship:
  • Closed request for adminship:
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • New request for comments:
  • Closed request for comments:

Events

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Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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Anything to add? Please share! :)