Wikidata:Status updates/Next

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

Discussions

• 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

• Upcoming events:
  • On Thursday, 22 May 2025, from 10:00 to 12:00 (CEST), digiS Berlin (https://www.digis-berlin.de/) will offer an online workshop titled "Wikidata for GLAMs." The event is free, open to all, and conducted in German. More information and registration: https://www.digis-berlin.de/wikidata-workshop-am-22-05-2025/
  • (Italian) Introduction to Wikidata and Wikimedia projects - LM43 May 29, 2025 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
  • The Wikidata and Sister Projects online event is nearly here! Four days of sessions on the use of Wikidata in the Wikimedia Projects, join us from May 29 - June 1.
    • Register here
    • See the Program schedule

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Diff Blog: WikiLearn and Wikidata: WMDE staff Mohammed Sadat and Zita Zage talk about their efforts creating the Wikidata 101 course.
  • The Meaning Behind Our Place Names (About a map using Wikidata's "etymology" property)
• Papers
  • Preprint: Scholia Chemistry: access to chemistry in Wikidata
  • Making an Under-Resourced Language Available on the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: Quechua Language By Huaman et. al., (2025)
  • Knowledge-Based Aerospace Engineering - A Systematic Literature Review By Wittenborg et al., (2025)
• Videos
  • (Italian) Introduction to Wikidata for archives
  • (Sweden) Stockholm Archipelago Trail OSM Wikidata SDC By Magnus Salgo
  • (German) Instructional video on SPARQL queries in Wikidata By OER4SDI

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
    • context window (maximum length of an input token in the language model)
    • ‎most populous urban area (city or town with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • External identifiers: Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID, vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, ‎Substack handle, Sport Express football match ID, R-Sport match ID, ‎ComputerLanguage.com definition, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Person), ‎RFI station ID (timetables), Geographicus cartographer ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • related video (less fitting video, used only because a better alternative is not available. If an appropriate video of the item is available, use P10 instead. Value should not be a generic placeholder.)
    • cosplay of (character(s) that are cosplayed in this image or video)
    • breed belongs to taxon (taxon to which members of this breed (or these breeds) belong)
    • Reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
    • over (base field of this vector space, base ring of this module, pair of base rings for this bimodule, base monoidal category of this enriched category, etc.)
    • has WikiProject (WikiProject which has this topic as its main subject)
    • mixing engineer (person responsible for mixing the different sonic elements of a piece of recorded music into a final version of a track)
    • normally caused by (item that normally causes this effect, but that is not necessarily the cause here)
    • criminal motive (verified reasoning behind a crime)
  • External identifiers: registration number of japanese invoice system, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Harper's tag, Database of Czech Librarians ID, Open Location Code, CABR-identifier, Onsland-identifier, National Library of Spain Alma ID (BNE v2.0), PC98 Images game ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki-ID, R-Sport team ID, WürzburgWiki ID, AW-Wiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, OberpfalzWiki article ID, Tüik village id, viberate.com Artist Id, African Music Library Band ID, Delfi.lv theme ID, ESPN soccer team ID, 15min.lt theme ID, trove.scot ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur PRET19, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, IMDb Interest ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of pubs in Scotland (source)
  • Data about all 60 members of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (source)
• Schema examples:
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject_zelph - WikiProject zelph focuses on integrating a semantic network system with Wikidata to enhance data quality.
• WikiProject Highlights:
• Newest database reports:
• Showcase Items: The Jungle Book (Q16857406) - 2016 film directed by Jon Favreau

• Showcase Lexemes:pukka (L339628) - English adjective (puh-kuh) that can mean "genuine", "highest class", or "complete"

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

Anything to add? Please share! :)