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This Month in GLAM: June 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue VI, June 2025 Headlines Australia report: Celebrating Communication History and Women Artists through Wikipedia Belgium report: Public Domain Day in Europe 2026 Brazil report: Expanding Data on Maranhão's Heritage Czech Republic report: First call of Science Month at Wikipedia in the Czech Republic wrapped-up France report: WiR and science&GLAM tour in France Indonesia report: Another publication from Grant for GLAM Indonesia program & Minangkabau Wikisource Competition upadates Italy report: Isoseismals & Icons Kosovo report: Celebrating Albanian Cuisine Through Photography: Winners of the 2025 Contest Announced! Mexico report: Open Cultural Data Hackathon in Puebla New Zealand report: Wikifying the International Congress of History of Science and Technology; Librarians and Wikipedia; NZ species edit-a-thons Nigeria report: Mapping Heritage Buildings on Wikidata and Wiki Heritage Fellowship North Macedonia report: Wikimedia MKD Strengthens Ties with Academic Institutions: A Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Institute of Macedonian Literature Poland report: What's up in GLAM in Poland Portugal report: Registration is now open for GLAM WikiCon 2025! Serbia report: June highlights from Wikimedia Serbia and beginning of new accredited seminar Switzerland report: International Archives Week 2025; SAPA Performing Arts; GLAM Meeting Biel/Bienne UK report: New Featured Pictures USA report: June meetings Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL Transition update, LivingData2025 and Women Genera paper Memory of the World report: Data upload achieved Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 report: Celebrating Heritage and Faith: Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #688

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-07-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #687.

Discussions

• Open request for Oversight permissions: Jianhui67 (RfP scheduled to end at 27 July 2025 13:28 UTC)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 16th July 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Submit Your Program Proposal for WikiIndaba 2025 by 20th July. Apply for a scholarship to attend the event here.
  • Wikimania 2025 Hackathon kicks off on Tuesday, 5 August and a dedicated workspace will be available throughout the conference until Saturday, 9 August. Have a technical idea, tool, or project you want to build during the hackathon? Submit it now and start connecting with collaborators! Add your project here.
  • WikiCite 2025 will take place from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st of August! in Bern (Switzerland) and online! See the draft program here.
  • 2025 LD4 Conference: Linked Data in the Real World (website; schedule and registration; streaming on Youtube), 28th-30th July 2025, virtually on Zoom; many Wikidata-related sessions:
    • July 28, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT - Has This Been Done Before? Exploring Wikidata Projects Through Diff and TMIG Archives by Silvia Gutierrez (workshop)
    • July 29, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT - Wikidata Affinity Group: Introduction to Wikidata for Entity Management by Alex Jung, Kyla Jemison, Susan Radovsky (cf. d:Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group)
    • July 29, 2025 3:15pm - 3:45pm EDT - Scholarly profiling in Wikidata: Creating a knowledge graph for the SEEKCommons open science research network by Dorothy Howard
    • July 29, 2025 3:45pm - 3:55pm EDT - From Biographical Dictionary to Linked Data by Sara De Monaco (cf. d:User:SaraDeMonaco/Tesi magistrale and d:Q135208119)
    • July 29, 2025 3:55pm - 4:05pm EDT - LCCNbot one year on: an update by Mary Muratsubaki Campany (cf. d:User:LccnBot)
    • July 29, 2025 4:05pm - 4:15pm EDT - Supporting access to CD-ROMs while using and contributing to Wikidata by Claire Fox
    • July 29, 2025 4:15pm - 4:25pm EDT - Surfacing Sociotechnical Research with Wikidata by Kathleen Burlingame
    • July 29, 2025 4:25pm - 4:35pm EDT - Wikidata Workflows with ORCID and OpenRefine: A Binghamton University Case Study by Sasha Frizzell
    • July 30, 2025 2:45pm - 4:45pm EDT - WiLES: Wikidata Lexicographical Event Semantics modeling for natural languages by Humza Yaqoob, Mahir Morshed (workshop)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Scaling the Knowledge Graph Behind Wikipedia By Alex Woodie
  • The power and potential of Wikidata for botany (see paper below) By Heidi Meudt
• Papers
  • Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data By Sabine et al., (2025). This study explores Wikidata as an open, multilingual knowledge base that connects botanical data across sources, and urges botanists to collaboratively enrich its content to support a broad spectrum of plant science.
• Videos
  • Wikidata labels and descriptions By Moore Wikimedia Community
  • Wikidata Lablar Description Stockholm Archipelago trail By Magnus Sälgö
• Presentations
  • How To...Wikibase? - Senior Partner Manager, Christos Varvantakis has produced this set of training and educational material to get you started with Wikibase.

Tool of the week

• Commons Depictions is a tool that display depictions of Wikidata items on Wikimedia Commons

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes
  • official donation page URL (official URL for making donations to the subject)
  • image of cosplay (cosplay that depicts this character or person)
  • ‎worn on (part of the body where an item of clothing, equipment, or jewelry is worn)
  • warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
  • ‎matricule number (identifier for a football club affiliated with the Royal Belgian Football Association)
• New External identifiers: CABR-identifier, Nederlands Film Festival person ID, The Sun topic ID, IMDb interest ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Cyclocross24 rider ID (identifier for a cyclo-cross cyclist in the Cyclocross24 database)
  • Polyhedron net (A net of attached 2D polygon created for each polyhedron)
  • Kanpei or Kokuhei ()
  • file name (name used for this entity in a computer file system)
  • Anthologia Graeca author (Author number in the Anthologia Graeca Project, an online annotated edition of the [[w:Greek Anthology]])
  • langue locale dominante ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: accomplice, CCCA ID, Cover Art Archive image, Athletics Podium person ID, CESAR title ID, GaultMillau-idenficatiecode Nederland, eFloraMEX ID, BORIS Unibe author ID, EDBO institution code, OSHWA Identifier, identifiant Personnel de l'administration préfectorale depuis 1945, identifiant Personnel de l'administration préfectorale au 19e siècle, The Traditional Ballad Index file name, ID edizioni CoBiS LOD, SIK-ISEA person ID, SIK-ISEA group ID, SIK-ISEA institution ID, SIK-ISEA work ID, SIK-ISEA document ID, speedrun.com level ID, Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Polish version), Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Russian version), Mizuumi Wiki article ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now source
  • The names of the characters from Asterix & Obélix, in French, English, German, Latin and some other languages (source)
  • Map the global distribution of periodicals in publication languages from the Eastern Mediterranean (Arabic, Ottoman, Greek, Ladino, Coptic etc) (source)
• Showcase Items: Das Erste (Q49727) - German public-service television channel
• Showcase Lexemes: reference (L5785) - English noun/verb (ˈɹɛf.ɹəns) meaning "source citation", "supporting document", or "relationship"

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We started work on the simple Property prefix search phab:(T397838)
• Mobile statement editing: We continued the work on the basics with viewing of statements (phab:T394886])
• Search: Fixed a bug when pasting into the search box (phab:T397608)
• Integration in Wikipedia and co:
  • We began research into current limits for collapsing entity usage. (Basically when an article uses more data from an Item than the configured limit then we consider all data on that Item to be used. This is done for infrastructure reasons.) We’d like to improve this to further reduce unnecessary Wikidata changes showing up on watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
  • We will roll out showing labels instead of IDs in Wikidata edits in watchlist and recent changes to more wikis later this week.

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第29期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 新功能精选模板（featured templates）将于本周部署至所有维基媒体专案。透过此功能，编辑者将能够快速存取实用模板的清单。这些模板将在模板探索界面的“精选”标签下的清单中显示。管理员可以透过社群配置界面定义该清单。此功能满足了社群透过社群愿望清单提出的请求，为重点领域“模板调用和探索”的一部分。 [1][2]
• 上周有31件社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，在维基文库电子书汇出工具中加入马拉雅拉姆文字型的请求现已解决。现在，该工具所汇出的维基文库电子书将正确呈现马拉雅拉姆文字母。 [3]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 欢迎开发者、设计师和所有维基人为2025年维基媒体国际会议黑客松提交专案构想。参阅这篇Diff文章了解更多。

会议与活动

• 2025年WikiIndaba奖助金申请与议程提案至7月20日 23:59 UTC截止。WikiIndaba是一个区域会议，旨在让非洲大陆和散居海外的非洲维基人团结一致，共同成长。立即提交您的奖助金申请和议程提案！
• 2025年巴西维基会议将于7月19日至20日在巴西巴伊亚州萨尔瓦多市举行。欢迎巴西社群成员报名参加！

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年7月15日 (二) 04:10 (CST)

The Signpost: 18 July 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Is no WikiNews good WikiNews? — Election season returns!

• In the media: How bad (or good) is Wikipedia?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Medicine reaches milestone of zero unreferenced articles

• In focus: Wikimania 2025: Connecting Wikimedians across the world for 20 years

• Recent research: Knowledge manipulation on Russia's Wikipedia fork; Marxist critique of Wikidata license; call to analyze power relations of Wikipedia

• News from the WMF: Form 990 released for the Wikimedia Foundation’s fiscal year 2023-2024

• Discussion report: Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred

• Comix: Divorce

• Opinion: Women are somewhat under-represented on the English-language Wikipedia, and other observations from analysis

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 4): The Future Of Wikimedia and Conclusion

• Obituary: Pvmoutside, Atomicjohn, Rdmoore6, Jaknouse, Morven, Martin of Sheffield, MarnetteD, Herewhy, BabelStone

• Traffic report: God only knows

• Humour: New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #689

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-07-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #688.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Wikimedia and Open Knowledge Conference (survey) is being planned for 2026 in Poland. This event is to focus on research carried out on or with Wikidata and Wikipedia. Your opinion is wanted! Please fill out the Google Forms survey to help the organisation committee plan. Also available in Polish and Ukrainian.
  • Wikimania 2025 Program is Live! This is also the time to add your Wikidata meetups. Please start marking your preferred Wikimania sessions (⭐/like) and mark to your mobile apps or calendars. If you are joining online to watch live stream and use the interactive features, please register on eventyay through wikimania.org (source)
• Past: Missed the Q3 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-07-15 (Q3 2025)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers: An educator framework for organizing Wikipedia editathons for computational biology (uses Wikidata to power the compbio-on-wiki.toolforge.org/ tool)

Tool of the week

• Wikinity A tool allowing you to find (un)photographed objects, so you can take a picture of them and send it to Wikidata. The tool was created By Martin Urbanec

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Call for Papers is now open for the Journal of Open Humanities Data special collection: "Wikidata across the Humanities: datasets, methodologies, reuse." This editorial will explore how Wikidata is transforming research and collaboration in the humanities. If you're working on a relevant project, submit your proposal here
• What belongs where in the Wikibase Ecosystem? There is ongoing research to better understand what people are currently thinking about this and you can take part by sorting some scenarios.
• Wikimedia Deutschland is inviting further feedback on the Mobile Editing Experience prototype (currently just a design file so not everything is clickable). Please follow the instructions below and share your thoughts at Wikidata talk:Usability and usefulness/Item editing experience/Mobile editing of statements:
  • Add "business woman" 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

• New General datatypes:
  • ‎matricule number (identifier for a football club affiliated with the Royal Belgian Football Association)
  • ‎settlement classification (type of settlement according to a topographical classification)
  • Polyhedron net (a net of attached 2D polygon created for each polyhedron)
• New External identifiers: National Library of Uruguay book ID, The Jerusalem Post topic ID, Physicians of Georgia Biographical Dictionary ID, eFloraMEX ID, Theatre museums of Russia person ID, Georgian Athletes Biographical Dictionary ID, Georgian Winemakers ID, Ukrainian Book of Remembrance person ID, BORIS Portal Unibe ID, Society for the Promotion of Literacy among Georgians Members ID, Deaf Movie Database title ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • identifiant Generation MSX d'un matériel (hardware identifier in the Generation MSX database of MSX videogames)
  • Polish Taxpayer Identification Number (an identifier for an entity paying taxes in Poland)
  • official roster page (URL of a team's official page about this player)
  • transistor density (density of transistors for classifying the complexity of discrete circuits)
  • Historische Bildpostkarten Universität Osnabrück - Entities (Identificator for persons and publishers of historical picture postcards)
  • grave (grave of a person)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: fanlore article id, Afrikaregisteret ID, Hong Kong company ID, California Entity Number, Macanese company ID, Corporation Number in Canada, QCC Code, Cyprus company ID, Malta company ID, GEMI Number, CUIT, Jamaica company ID, SEC Number, Mã số doanh nghiệp, movieID, Thailand company ID, PCPartPicker chipset ID, gosfilmofond.ru ID, Directorio de museos del Sistema de Información Cultural, Burmese company ID, Cambodian company ID, Georgian Encyclopedia ID, Vintagepostcards-Archive-ID, MacPorts port, Berardi Arte artist ID, Adult Film Database director ID, Elonet company ID, dvdcompare.net film id, SpaceReference.org celestial object ID, English solicitors ID, Deaf Movie Database person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Mathematical formulae containing HTML escapes https://w.wiki/EoeL]
  • Most frequent objects depicted on coats of arms (source)
• Showcase Items: Finding Forrester (Q1140439) - 2000 film directed by Gus Van Sant
• Showcase Lexemes: Września (L1372236) - Polish proper noun (ˈvʐɛɕ.ɲa) meaning "September (month)", "town in Greater Poland", or "village in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship"

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We have enabled the new Item Prefix Search endpoint on wikidata. You can try it out now with a call like this: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/suggest/items?language=en&q=potat If you have feedback please leave it at Wikidata talk:REST API feedback round
• Additional APIs: We are looking a bit more into GraphQL and what it could offer to make programmatic access to Wikidata's data better.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We enabled showing the labels of entities in edit summaries in recent changes and watchlist. Now you no longer have to click to get to Wikidata and check what is behind a mystery ID in an edit summary coming from Wikidata.
• Mobile statement editing: We are working on formatting references, qualifiers, various data types and multiple statements for one property. We are planning to enable the new mobile UI on Beta Wikidata soon. Important: For now it is a read-only UI, as we have not started to implement editing yet, and some data types won’t have the correct appearance yet.

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

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2025年第30期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 内容翻译工具中的翻译建议功能现已在“...更多”分类中新增另一级条目筛选器。使用建议功能的译者现在可以使用新的“地区”筛选器选择并接收根据其感兴趣的地理位置定制的条目建议。 [4]
• 管理员现在可以将“新增连结”功能限制为仅限新手使用。“新增连结”结构化任务可协助新账号持有者开始编辑，但一些社群要求该功能应能够限制于目标受众：新手。管理员可以在社群配置功能中配置此设定。
• 上周有29件社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 部分维基的过滤器编辑者，现在可以根据编辑尝试的回退风险评分来过滤编辑。只有当评估的操作是编辑时，才会产生该评分。更多资讯请参阅 ORES/AbuseFilter变数说明文件。
• Beta Cluster维基已从beta.wmflabs.org移至beta.wmcloud.org。使用者可能需要更新工具或密码管理员中的URL。若有任何相关问题请在此工单回报。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

会议与活动

• 2025年WikiCite将于8月29日至31日在瑞士伯恩以线上和线下形式举行。本次活动旨在重新联系从事开放参考资料、书目资料以及Wikidata/Wikibase生态系统工作的社群、机构和个人。活动现开放报名，提案征集即将公布。 [5]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 2025年7月22日 (二) 07:43 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #690

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-07-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #689.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Aqurs1 (RfP scheduled to end after 31 July 2025 16:35 UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: THEbotIT 3 - New functional aspect to automatic creation of items describing the articles of Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). We want to model now the articles, which amends the main articles, as those information where suppressed so far.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikidata's 13th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2025. Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area, get funding, and get in touch with other organizers. Help translate the documentation pages into your language.
  • COSCUP 2025 (Q134950534) OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Track will be held at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Q699543) on August 9-10.
  • Wikimania starts next week August 6 through August 9. Check out the Wikidata related session in the program and start marking your preferred Wikimania sessions (⭐/like) on your mobile apps or calendars. If you are joining online to watch live stream and use the interactive features, please register on eventyay through wikimania.org. Note also the Wikidata meetups organised outside the official conference hours.
• Past: WikiCon Brasil 2025 happened in person in Salvador (Q36947) including a technical session with two Wikidata-focused presentations (in Portuguese)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Making Question-Answering Systems Smarter with Knowledge Graphs Using FrOG: A Wikidata Research Fund 2024 Highlight - How can large language models become more accurate using structured knowledge? A research team from Universitas Indonesia and WU Vienna explored this through FrOG, a framework that integrates Wikidata into question-answering language model. This research is supported by Wikimedia Indonesia through the Wikidata Research Fund 2024 program.
  • Wikidata’s next leap: the open database powering tomorrow’s AI and Wikipedia By Lydia Pintscher

• Presentations: O herbário da Universidade de Coimbra na Wikidata (Using Wikidata in Natural History Collection Management, in Portuguese)
• Papers: Wiki-Quantities and Wiki-Measurements: Datasets of quantities and their measurement context from Wikipedia - Researchers developed two large, validated datasets; Wiki-Quantities and Wiki-Measurements, from Wikipedia and Wikidata to improve automated extraction of quantitative data and its context using natural language processing techniques. By Göpfert et al., (2025)
• Videos: Wikidata:The shadow power behind Wikipedia and AI

Tool of the week

• Flashback Fiesta - is a trivia game that challenges players to guess the year of historical events using data from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikidata:WikiProject Personal Pronouns drafted a new Wikidata Personal Pronouns Policy, using this recent RFC as a basis. It's the first time a policy on this topic has been proposed, and the Wikidata Living People Policy served as a reference. Feedback is encouraged and appreciated.
• The modeling of agrégation ("the most competitive and prestigious examination for civil service in the French public education system" according to w:en:Agrégation) has been reviewed in various aspects: a summary is available in d:Talk:Q397610#Modeling agrégation. Suggestions are welcome.
• Wikimedia Deutschland is inviting further feedback on the Mobile Editing Experience prototype (currently just a design file so not everything is clickable). Please follow the instructions below and share your thoughts at Wikidata talk:Usability and usefulness/Item editing experience/Mobile editing of statements:
  • Add "business woman" 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

• New General datatypes: ‎operating cost (estimated or average ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
• New External identifiers: Ukrainian Memorial person ID, Portal of united hromadas of Ukraine ID, Portal Decentralization hromada ID, Facebook image ID, archieven.nl creator ID, ‎Elonet company ID, Embryo Project Encyclopedia ID, ‎Film Atlas ID, Klimadashboard.de region ID, ‎Knowledge Graph for Irish History person ID, myCast person or character ID, ‎nasljerseys.com player ID, ‎speedrun.com level ID, ‎FBref competition ID, ‎FBref match ID, ‎parlament.fyi person ID, Swimcloud swimmer ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • organizational chart (image that displays the structure of this organization or government agency and the relationships and relative ranks of it's parts and positions/jobs)
  • Source Shrine (The shrine that the gods of this shinto shrine came from through Bunrei and Kanjo)
  • botanical photographs (a distinctive image of a flower, inflorescence, or a similar reproductive structure for this taxon)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Deaf Movie Database language ID, Deaf Movie Database genre ID, Deaf Movie Database country ID, Swiss Films person ID, My Abandonware company, Encyclopedia of Indianapolis ID, Database dei fondi musicali toscani ID, NeoDB Movie ID, Serbian settlement ID, c64.cz game ID, NuGet package, Swiss Films company ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Church buildings in Sweden on OpenStreetMap with links to Wikidata, but without the inverse link.
  • Tennis tournament titles won by specific player (source)
  • BarChart of chemical compound identifiers in Wikidata (source)
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Sweden - A project to centralize, expand, and translate Sweden-related data on Wikidata while supporting the Swedish contributor community.
• Showcase Items: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Q43361) - 1997 novel by J. K. Rowling
• Showcase Lexemes:ножницы (L9436) - Russian noun (nɐˈʐnʲitsɨ) meaning "cutting tool", "window hardware mechanism", or "ski position with split tips"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We finished a first version of formatting references (phab:T396098); qualifiers (phab:T396099); various data types (phab:T394888, phab:T394890, phab:T394904, phab:T394907); and multiple statements for one property (phab:T396637)
  • We enabled the new mobile editing experience on beta Wikidata so you can now try the very rough version there and follow along with development
• Wikibase REST API: We finished the simple Property prefix search endpoint and it will go live in the next days (phab:T397838)
• Additional APIs: We are working on a prototype for GraphQL to see if that is a going to be helpful for accessing Wikidata's data (phab:T399452)

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

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2025年第31期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

本周要闻

• 今后几个月，社群技术团队将专注于与监视清单和近期变更页面相关的愿望。团队正在寻求意见回馈。参阅最新的近况更新，如果您有任何想法，请就相关主题提交愿望。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 经维基共享资源社群决定，自8月16日起，禁止所有未在维基共享资源上拥有自动确认权限的使用者跨维基上传档案。此举是由于新使用者上传档案时普遍存在问题。受此影响的使用者将收到一则错误讯息，其中包含指向限制较少的维基共享资源上传精灵的连结。请协助翻译该讯息或就讯息文字提供回馈。另也请更新您本地维基的说明页面，以解释这项限制。 [6]
• 在元维基和已启用临时账号的维基站点上，管理员现在可以为临时账号的Special:Contributions页面设定页尾，类似于IP和使用者账号页面的页尾。管理员可以透过建立名为MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp的页面来实现。 [7]
• 上周有21件社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

会议与活动

• 2025年维基媒体国际会议将于8月6日至9日举行。议程现已公布，供您参考规划您想参加的会议。大多数会议将进行直播，但显示“无摄影机”图示的会议除外。如果您想在线上观看直播并使用互动功能，请报名获取免费虚拟门票。 例如，您可能会对以下技术会议感兴趣：
  • 临时账号：增强未注册编辑者的隐私
  • 为维基媒体贡献者建立永续未来
  • wikitext的一打愿景！
  • 与产品与技术咨询委员会协调各方利益相关者
• 2025年秋季MediaWiki使用者与开发者大会将于2025年10月28日至30日在德国汉诺威举行。此活动由第三方MediaWiki社群举办，并面向该社群。您可以提交会议提案并报名参加。

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年7月29日 (二) 08:27 (CST)

This Month in Education: July 2025

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 7 • July 2025

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

• Crafting Impactful Education Newsletters: Shared Insights from EduWiki 2025
• Educational Outreach with Youth Centers in Albania
• Discussing educational resources at WikiCon Brasil 2025
• Enhancing Mobile-Friendly Contribution in Wikimedia Education Programs
• The second semester of Leamos Wikipedia begins in Bolivia with challenges and learning
• When Travel Fails, Learning Continues: A Reflection from EduWiki 2025
• Wiki club in Kumanovo - the newest Wiki club of Wikimedia MKD
• Jaroslav Mašek: How KISK FF MU students used AI to write Wikipedia
• Various programmes up and rolling with Charles University Prague

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Wikimedia CEE Newsletter – August 2025

Dear CEE Community,

We’re happy to share with you the August edition of the CEE Newsletter!

In this issue:

• Read how the CEE Hub is supporting the region and preparing for the next meetings
• Celebrate 22 years of Romanian Wikipedia and 10 years of the Albanian Language User Group
• Discover the winning photos from the Albanian cuisine contest
• Learn how CEE Spring 2025 gathered over 10,000 articles
• Find out how communities marked World Refugee Day and Francophonie Month
• And much more – from Thessaloniki to Kırklareli!

Read the full newsletter here. Happy reading!

On behalf of the CEE Newsletter team,

--janbery (talk) 2025年8月1日 (五) 22:06 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #691

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #690.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Aqurs1 - closed as successful. Welcome onbaord \o/
• Other: Suggestion for splitting out the WikiCite graph to another wikibase

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimania begins this week (August 6-9). Check out the Wikidata sessions and meetups in the event schedule and mark them in your calander.
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series: Join the second session in our Intro to Wikidata/EMCO series. It will be focused on gadgets and user scripts that enhance Wikidata editing. We'll demo useful tools and invite you to share your favorites too! 🗓️ Tuesday, August 5 🕘 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST ℹ️ More info & Zoom link: Project page
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #79 August 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikimedia Commons Depicts statements over time - Looking at the user of Wikidata Items to show that Wikimedia commons images depict, since the structured data on commons feature was originally turned on. Roads currently come out on top! By Adshore
  • Mimi sisema Kiswahili, lakini ninapenda data (I don’t speak Swahili, but I love data). By Jens Ohlig
  • Wikimedia project boosts software for endangered languages worldwide
• Videos: Ongoing Wikidata sessions at the LD4 2025 events. (playlist)

Tool of the week

• Who Painted this - is a tool developed by Francesco Negri. The tool is a game that let's you guess who created a painting, using data from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• If you are using Wikidata's APIs please be aware that the existing user agent policy will be enforced more strictly going forward. Please make sure your application sets a proper user agent. More details are in this announcement.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes:
  • ‎operating cost (estimated or average ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
• New External identifiers: ‎UK Mutual Registration Number, Scientific heritage of Russia person ID, Reabilitovani istoriyeyu person ID, L'Expression topic ID, Memorial Platform person ID, ‎SIK-ISEA institution ID, ‎SIK-ISEA person ID, ‎SIK-ISEA work ID, Kokugakuin University Digital Museum entry ID, ‎FLBB player ID, Russian Cycling Federation person ID, Geoguessr ID, R-Sport team ID, ‎OSHWA identifier, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale au 19e siècle ID, Generation MSX hardware ID, Generation MSX company or demo group ID, ‎Fanlore article ID, MarathonView person ID, ‎Anthologia Graeca author ID, Museum ID from Mexico SIC directory of museums, Georgian Encyclopedia ID, CoBiS LOD book ID, ‎c64.cz game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • DuckDuckGo bang (Identifier for use of DuckDuckGo bang shortcut, do not prefix with "!")
  • algebraic closure (abgebraic closure of this field)
  • value of this characteristic (non-numeric value of this characteristic applied to this mathematical object)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: National Library of Nigeria ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteur(ice) dans le catalogue de la médiathèque de Sceaux, Parabra pal Dicionariu Extremeñu de Juan Kam, EASIN ID, A Dictionary of Genetics entry ID, TEQSA Provider ID, TEQSA Course ID, Registered Training Organisation code, Identifiant d'un mémoire dans XIXe siècle en mémoires, Episodes.fm ID, A Dictionary of Sports Studies entry ID, Open Science Thesaurus ID, Dictionary of American Family Names ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Railway crossing waterways in Norway with associated bridges.
  • Chart of the nominal outputs of Uganda's hydro-power plants (source)
  • You have a Wikidata item with few sources? Check the references of all other items linking to that Item (source)
• WikiProject Highlights: Sum of all paintings - goal is to have a Wikidata Item for every notable painting.
• Showcase Items: Mario Götze (Q104454) - German association football player
• Showcase Lexemes: Śrem (L1216630) - Polish proper noun (ɕrɛm) meaning "town in Greater Poland", "rural-urban municipality", or "village in Lower Silesia"

Development

• We made progress on figuring out how to make maps on mobile work well with Kartographer (phab:T394906)
• Lydia and Mohammed are attending Wikimania. We are looking forward to seeing some of you there.

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

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2025年第32期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 编辑者现在可以启用使用者资讯卡功能。此功能可在页面修订纪录、使用者贡献日志等类似页面中的使用者名称旁新增一个图示。当用鼠标或触控屏幕按一下图示后，它会显示该使用者账号的相关资料，例如编辑次数、被回退编辑数、被封锁次数等。这是一个更广泛专案的一部分，旨在让网站维护者能更容易评估账号的可信度。此功能现可在全域偏好设定中启用，本周稍晚将可在本地偏好设定中启用。 [8]
• 欢迎任何人就Connection团队最近启动的“协作贡献”专案发表意见。该专案旨在创造一种新的方式来展示协作编辑活动（如编辑松、积压消化作业、维基专题）对维基的影响。请在此讨论页发表您的意见。 [9]
• 管理员现在可以定义临时账号的预设封锁时长。为此，管理员需要建立MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account页面，并使用MediaWiki:Ipboptions中定义的值。这让管理员可以轻易将临时账号封锁90天，由于临时账号的活动效期同为90天，这类封锁实质等同于无限期封锁。此解决方案的优点是让Special:BlockList中不会堆满永封临时账号。参见说明文件。 [10]
• 上周有27件社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 小工具现在可以包含.vue档案。这让使用Vue.js开发现代UI变得更容易，尤其是使用维基媒体官方设计系统Codex。Codex图示集可以透过小工具定义载入。参见说明文件中的范例。对于使用Vue.js的脚本，现在有一个API模组可以用于载入Codex图示集。 [11][12]
• 模组开发者现在可以使用一个Lua界面来简化在元维基上翻译Lua模组的准备工作。这项改进使翻译人员能够更容易找到和编辑模组中的字串，而无需处理Lua源代码。这有助于避免翻译过程中出差错，导致模组损坏。欢迎模组开发者和翻译人员观看示范影片，阅读更多关于可翻译模组的资讯以了解其运作方式，参考元维基的Module:User Wikimedia project作为使用范例，并对于如何解决工作流程中的挑战分享意见回馈。该界面仍有一些效能问题，因此目前还不适合用于广泛使用的模组。 [13]
• 与维基媒体网页连接的外部工具的开发者，请务必设定符合使用者代理方针的使用者代理。由于外部爬虫过度使用维基媒体资源，该方针将于8月开始严格执行。托管在维基媒体Toolforge或Cloud VPS上的工具暂时不会受此影响，但仍应设定使用者代理。在工单参阅更多技术细节，欢迎在工单中提出相关问题。
• 继维基导游和维基词典成功转换成Parsoid阅读视图之后，未来几周内，Parsoid阅读视图将在一些小型维基百科推出。参阅Parsoid/解析器统一了解更多。 [14]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

会议与活动

• 2025年维基媒体国际会议将于8月6日至9日举行。议程现已公布，供您参考规划想参加的会议。大多数会议将进行直播，但显示“无摄影机”图示的会议除外。如果您想在线上观看直播并使用互动功能，请报名获取免费虚拟门票。 您可能会对以下技术会议感兴趣：
  • 身处不断变化的互联网中的维基媒体知识基础设施：建立内容再利用的永续途径
  • 维基函数即将登陆至您附近的维基！
  • 塑造维基百科读者体验的未来
  • 让维基百科更容易阅读：下一步

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年8月5日 (二) 11:41 (CST)

The Signpost: 9 August 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them

• Discussion report: News from ANI, AN, RSN, BLPN, ELN, FTN, and NPOVN

• Disinformation report: The article in the most languages

• Community view: News from the Villages Pump

• In the media: Disgrace, dive bars, deceased despots, and diverse dispatches

• Crossword: Accidental typography

• Comix: best-laid schemes o' wikis an' men

• Traffic report: I'm not the antichrist or the Superman

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This Month in GLAM: July 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue VII, July 2025 Headlines Albania report: 10 years of Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group Aruba report: Wikipedia on Aruba – From Island to Archive: Aruba’s Journey on Wikimedia Belgium report: De Standaard Solidarity Prize and How to Upload Artwork New Zealand report: Women in Wartime Nigeria report: Expanding Access to Heritage Knowledge Portugal report: GLAM Wiki 2025: Program Highlights & Volunteer Call Serbia report: July in Wikimedia Serbia Switzerland report: Poster Exhibition, Screening Public Viewing, Women Memorials UK report: Japanese art in Arabic USA report: Wikinics & Edit-a-thons Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL blog by Tiago Lubiana, BHL Wikimedian in Residence, and news on the BHL transition AvoinGLAM report: Introducing Oulu Löyly – we want to hear your thoughts! Memory of the World report: Getting the message out WMF GLAM report: Culture & Heritage team transitioning to broader Content Enablement team Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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2025年第33期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 2010年版wikitext编辑器的工具按钮的提示现在会包含快捷键，让使用者更容易发现这些快捷键。 [15]
• 产品与技术咨询委员会发布了一系列实验方案，供维基媒体基金会尝试以改善与社群的沟通。欢迎于8月22日前在此讨论页对这些方案给予意见回馈。
• Minerva外观（手机版网页）的搜寻栏已更新，改为使用与Vector 2022相同的Type-ahead搜寻元件。搜寻功能并未改变，仅在视觉上有些许变化。具体来说，搜寻栏的关闭按钮已从叉号 改为返回箭头 ，并改动了按钮位置，避免与用于清除文字的另一个叉号按钮混淆。 [16]
• 部分维基百科的编辑者将在监视清单、相关变更和近期变更页面上看到新的“按页面分组结果”开关。这是一项A/B实验，计划于8月11日开始，在中文、孟加拉语、捷克语、法语、希腊语、葡萄牙语、乌尔都语维基百科上进行3至6周。实验旨在探讨让这项既有功能更容易被发现，会如何影响编辑者在这些特殊页面中寻找编辑的能力。 [17]
• 上周有31件由社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 多个维基的Module:Unicode data皆有的相同资料集已移至维基共享资源（Category:Unicode Module Datasets），以遵循“一个共同资料来源，多个本地维基”的理念。大多数维基已更新为使用共享资源资料的版本。若有问题请在讨论页提出。 [18]
• 在Lua中，模组编者可以用mw.addWarning()函数，让模组在发生错误时新增警告。先前，新的警告会取代旧的警告。现在，您可以多次呼叫该函数来新增多个警告。如果您有在维护使用警告的Lua模组，请检查它是否仍然如预期运作。 [19]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年8月12日 (二) 07:30 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #692

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-11. Missed the previous one? See issue #691.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Dolabbot - Mass import of module subpages from other wikis (mainly English wiktionary) to Korean wiktionary and addition of corresponding Wikidata sitelinks.

Events

• Past: Wikimania 2025 took place last week! Day-by-day playlists are available on the Wikimedia Foundation YouTube channel.

Tool of the week

• Midleading created a a UserScript called RemoveRedundantLabels.js. This user script adds a new tool Item, that can be used to remove all labels that are the same as mul label, in one click.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes:
  • taxon aspect image (an exemplary image of a particular aspect for this taxon. Relevant for taxonomic identification)
• New External identifiers: Mizuumi Wiki ID, My Abandonware company ID, Vintagepostcards-Archive-ID, Historical picture postcards University of Osnabrück ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • awarded for type of work (type of work for which an award or type of award is conferred)
  • display size (diagonal) (diagonal length of a rectangular electronic display)
  • non-free official cover art URL (URL of a copyrighted cover image for a creative work at an authorized distributor's website)
  • IUPAC name (Name of a chemical compound following the IUPAC nomenclature of (in)organic chemistry.)
  • Creed ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Artfacts artist ID, nextroom building ID, USB device ID, Caixin company ID, BIBFRAME Work ID, Primary Vessel Number, Songsofy artist ID, PCI vendor hexadecimal ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms entry ID, T10 vendor ID string, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military entry ID, SPoT skater ID (new scheme), Identifiant d'une pièce musicale dans le répertoire de la SACEM

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Mothers on Wikidata - explore the mother and child relationships of Wikidata items.
  • Human with article in simple and no english article (QLever) (source)
• Showcase Items: 2016 Taiwanese presidential election (Q20683626) - election in Taiwan
• Showcase Lexemes: illing (L1334366) - English adjective/noun (ˈɪlɪŋ) meaning "annoyed/unhappy", "acting aggressively", or "in a difficult situation"

Development

• We attended Wikimania 205 in Nairobi
• We continued efforts to get our new mobile statement UI for Items with the Kartographer extension, and merged a first version that mostly works (Phab:T394906)
• We began work on including accessibility testing for the new mobile statement editing UI for Items (Phab:T400678)
• The entity types for the new search dropdown has been updated to have Items at the top (Phab:T398817)

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #693

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #692.

Events

• Upcoming events: New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our third session of our event series, an Introduction to Wikidata/EMCO, which is meant to introduce EMCO participants and anyone interested to Wikidata and to develop frameworks and skills for entity management in the Wikidata environment. We will review searching in Wikidata and have a practical, hands-on exercise where everyone can create a new person item and add some statements. Join us Tuesday, August 19th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST Time zone converter. Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos:
  • What Is Wikidata? - Be App Savvy
  • OpenStreetMap x Wikidata - Wikidata Taiwan

Tool of the week

• Magnus Manske’s developed a Como Wikidata Game using Autodesc, this game suggests short descriptions for Wikidata items that don't have any. Review each suggestion, improve it if needed, and submit a concise, accurate description. Additioanlly the andriod application for the game is available for download at Google Play Store

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Are you a developer using Wikidata's data in your application with the action API or Query Service? The Wikidata development would love to talk to you to help improve how you can get to Wikidata's data. More details here (Great Question). User interview is 60-mins and you’ll receive compensation as a thank-you for your time.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New External identifiers: National Library of Nigeria ID, Artfacts artist ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Código INE (Bolivia) (Official hierarchical identifier of the National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia for administrative entities such as departments, provinces and municipalities.)
  • quality for (quality that is described by this sense of adjective/grammatical modifier)
  • type of quality (qualifier of "item for this modifier" that specifies the type of quality)
  • has wireless capabilities (type of wireless connectivity this device has/supports)
  • designed for handedness (hand(s) that this object is intended to be used with)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Valais cantonal parliament ID, Arcanes ID, A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism entry ID, IGDB tag ID, TechnoMusicWorld artist ID, TechnoMusicWorld release ID, TechnoMusicWorld track ID, A Dictionary of Dentistry entry ID, CELL ID, Flemish Community Masterpieces List item ID, A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation entry ID, Hamburger Frauenbiografien ID, GamesIndustry.biz topic ID, Ophardt Team Sportevent person ID, LINDAS ID, Digital ROC people ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon object ID, Nebraska Authors author ID, InfoconDB series ID, InfoconDB conference ID, setlist.fm festival ID, Digital ROC event ID, ScholarGPS scholar ID, ScholarGPS institution ID, ScholarGPS field and discipline ID, ScholarGPS specialty ID, The Digital Ark person ID, ScholarGPS country profile ID, MHOBT ID, Letterboxd person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Wikidata entities shaped like businesses (Sparql source)
  • Map of sub-categories of a Commons category
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Irish Traditional Music - This project aims to enhance the representation of Irish traditional music on Wikidata
• Showcase Items: Olympia (Q737062) - painting by Édouard Manet
• Showcase Lexemes: spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb (ˈspeɲ.ɲe.re) meaning "to extinguish (a fire)", "to turn off (a device)", or "to die (euphemistic)"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work - so far on the read-only mobile version. We will start looking into editing soon. You can follow along with the development on beta Wikidata.
• GraphQL: We are continuing some experiments with GraphQL to see if it is useful for specific types of access to Wikidata's data.
• Dumps: We are starting to experiment with subset dumps to see if we can get meaningful smaller dumps for reusers.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are working on scalability issues around the number of changes from Wikidata that get sent to Wikipedia and co. As part of this we are continuing to look into how to decrease the number of changes in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co that don't actually affect an article there.
  • We are investigating how the upcoming larger rollout of Parsoid affects the tracking of Wikidata usage in articles.
  • We are looking into improving the Databox Lua module that is used especially in smaller Wikipedias to get Wikidata-powered infoboxes.
• Federation: We are looking at the previous prototype for Federated Properties that allowed to use Wikidata's Properties on another Wikibase instance. We are checking what if anything of it can be revived for our current work to allow other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items and Properties seamlessly.
• Data governance: We are concluding research around the current undestanding of people about which data should go where in the Wikibase Ecosystem.
• Constraint reports: We limited Special:ConstraintReport to logged-in users to avoid AI scrapers hitting the systems too hard ([[phab:T401789]))

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

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2025年第34期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 本周稍晚，登入且已启用“讨论工具（DiscussionTools）”测试功能的使用者，将能够在阅读讨论页时直接对个别留言表达“感谢”，无需前往页面修订纪录。进一步了解此功能。 [20]
• 一项A/B测试于8月12日在测试维基、于8月14日在英语维基百科启动。这项测试旨在比较两个版本的赞助连结，测试对象为0.1%的未登入桌面板网页使用者。测试将持续三周，于9月12日结束。 [21]
• 8月12日，一项A/A测试透过XLab启动，测量读者留存率的基线。这项测试旨在测量使用者初次造访维基站点后，在14天内再次造访该维基站点的百分比。这预期不会有任何视觉变化。测试将持续至8月31日结束。 [22]
• 已新建五个维基：
  • 他加禄语维基文库 (s:tl:) [23]
  • 马都拉语维基文库 (s:mad:) [24]
  • 若开语维基百科 (w:rki:) [25]
  • 米南佳保语维基教科书 (b:min:) [26]
  • 标准摩洛哥柏柏语维基词典 (wikt:zgh:) [27]
• 上周有46件由社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 2025年8月19日 (二) 08:38 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #694

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #693.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Rubah Hitam Vukova - RfP scheduled to end after 31 August 2025 14:16 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 7 - task(s): Adding a Wikipedia reference to unsourced day-precision date of birth (P569) and date of death (P570) claims.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dolabbot - task(s): Import module subpages from other wikis (mainly English wiktionary) to Korean wiktionary and addition of corresponding Wikidata sitelinks.
• New request for comments: Pilot project for AI-Assisted Wikidata onboarding and Quality control.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The call for proposals deadline for WikidataCon 2025 is very close (end of the August). Submit your session proposals at this Call for Proposals page.
  • Wikidata's 13th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2025. Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area and get in touch with other organizers. If you need funding support, make sure to apply for the micro-grants before the deadline of September 1st. Please help translate the documentation pages into your language.
  • WikiCite 2025: a 3-day (25 - 31 August 2025) conference, summit and hackathon for creating an ecosystem of bibliographical data. To attend online, please sign-up on the Participants page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: How Wikidata is coding for humanity - In this interview, Lydia Pintscher of Wikimedia Deutschland speaks with Stephen Harrison on how Wikidata connects human and machine-readable knowledge and why contributing to it is having a global impact.
• Papers: Wikidata's Worldview: A Semantic Network Analysis of an AI Knowledge Pipeline - The paper examines Wikidata as a key AI knowledge source, showing how its structures and classifications influence machine decision-making, and calls for greater transparency in AI data systems.
• Videos:
  • What Wikidata Reveals About the Good Side of the Internet
  • Resolving the Empty Result Issue in the Wikidata Query Service
• Podcast: Tech Talks Daily - What Wikidata reveals about the good side of the internet? - This episode features Lydia Pintscher who reveals how this massive, collaborative dataset empowers communities worldwide to build tools for the public good, and what a truly “good internet” can look like...
• Presentations: Wikimania 2025 - Wikidata a whirlwind tour through the land of Wikidata-powered apps (slides for a talk showcasing Wikidata powered apps at Wikimania 2025) By Lydia Pintscher

Tool of the week

• The Como GWAP (Q125832524) (games with a purpose) app has just released to the iOS App Store. Also playable in your Web Browser and Android (Google Play Store), the latest release includes Stats tracking and Leaderboards.
• A new tool SPARQL Recent Changes 2 has been released and enables mass-validation of entities in Wikidata based on their recent changes. This tool enables users to ensure that whole subgraphs are valid according to any given EntitySchema!
• WikiCrowd A tool for crowdsourced micro-edits on Wikimedia projects, letting users make quick contributions—like labeling images or answering simple questions—to improve data on Commons and Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikisource reader app was released. It utilizes the power of Wikidata.
• Paulina won one of this year's Coolest Tool Awards

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • rewards this type of work (kind of work for which an award is given)
  • ‎watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations)
  • ‎proposed entity type (what a proposed entity would be)
  • ‎Modern Shrine Ranking (Rank in the Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines)
  • ‎Cyclocross24 rider ID (identifier for a cyclo-cross cyclist in the Cyclocross24 database)
  • ‎DuckDuckGo bang (Identifier for use of DuckDuckGo bang shortcut)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Database dei fondi musicali toscani ID, ‎Deaf Movie Database person ID, ‎Deaf Movie Database genre ID, ‎Deaf Movie Database language ID, ‎Deaf Movie Database country ID, ‎MacPorts port, ‎dvdcompare.net film ID, ‎Encyclopedia of Indianapolis ID, Mobility Database ID, PCPartPicker product type ID, Library of Congress BIBFRAME Work ID, USB device ID, Rekhta Gujarati author ID, A Dictionary of Public Health entry ID, Yandex Books author ID, CoreTennis.net player ID, rada.info council ID, Athletics Podium person ID, ‎CESAR title ID, Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Russian version), Polish Taxpayer Identification Number, ‎Berardi Arte artist ID, Swiss Films person ID, Swiss Films company ID, médiathèque de Sceaux catalog author ID, EASIN ID, A Dictionary of Genetics entry ID, A Dictionary of Sports Studies entry ID, Open Science Thesaurus ID, PCI vendor hexadecimal ID, NuGet package, LINDAS ID, ‎Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, Dictionary of American Family Names ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • museociclismo (id for museociclismo.it)
  • identificativo Viario di Roma (identifier for a street in Rome)
  • form factor (physical design paradigm this object is aligned with)
  • implies (2) (axiom or conjecture that this axiom or conjecture implies)
  • comes with (object which is included with this item, but is not part of it)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Letterboxd person ID, EU-ID, Viario di Roma ID, Kick username, Ene dilim ID, LTT Labs product ID, Concept ID in Arab Encyclopedia, La Fayette ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi partiture ID, United Methodist Church church ID, Record Group Number of National Archives Administration, Taiwan, Autostraddle topic ID, LGBTQ Nation tag ID, The Advocate tag ID, Xtra Magazine topic ID, Out tag ID, Queerty tag ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Cool beaches in Antartica
  • Airports with IATA and/or ICAO airport codes, their wikidata Item id's and the English label of the Item (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject They Were Not Witches, They Were Women - A Wikidata project preserving the stories of women accused as witches in Catalonia and Andorra (1419–1796).
• Showcase Items: Le Monde de Dory (Q9321426) - 2016 American animated film directed by Andrew Stanton
• Showcase Lexemes: Showcase lexemes: 消す (L8031) - Japanese verb (けす, kesu) meaning "to erase", "to turn off", or "to delete"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: After focusing on the initial read-only version, we are now starting the work on the actual editing mode. You can follow along with the development on beta Wikidata.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are continuing to work on scalability issues around the number of changes from Wikidata that get sent to Wikipedia and co. As part of this we are continuing to look into how to decrease the number of changes in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co that don't actually affect an article there.
• GraphQL: We now have a prototype for GraphQL for Wikidata. We'd love to have your feedback about it, especially if you are a developer building applications with Wikidata's data. More details at GraphQL prototype

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第35期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 用于模板样式的CSS过滤器更新，模板编者现在可以在运用更多CSS属性。例如：width: fit-content；ruby-align；相对单位如lh；在list-style-type设定字串值。这些改进实现了一件社群愿望。 [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]
• 在大型维基中，Special:RecentChanges页面中显示编辑的预设时间段已从7天改为1天。这是效能改进计划的一部分。由于这些维基的编辑数量众多，这项变更应不会对使用者造成影响。 [38]
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains页面现已列于Special:CommunityConfiguration中，方便管理员寻找。 [39]
• 过去，维基共享资源的影片未出现在Google搜寻的“影片”结果类型中。我们已调查此问题并回报给Google，目前Google已修复此问题。 [40][41]
• 已新建一个维基： 巴达维语维基词典 (wikt:bew:) [42]
• 上周有39件由社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• recentchanges资料表中的rc_new、rc_type两个栏位将被移除，并由rc_source取代。本周起，对这些旧栏位的查询将开始失败，开发者应改用rc_source。这些旧栏位早在十多年前就已弃用，不应再使用。我们正在设法提升recentchanges资料表的查询效能与稳定性，此变更为该计划的一部分。 [43]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 季刊语言与国际化电子报新期数发布。本期内容包括：MediaWiki和translatewiki新增支援语言；旨在帮助支援新、小型维基成长的“语言启动与发展”专案启动；研究专案的更新资讯；等等。

会议与活动

• 下一次语言社群会议即将于8月29日 15:00 UTC举行。本次会议将讨论：来自孟加拉维基媒体协会的Avro Keyboard开发者，他们最近因对该输入法工具的贡献而获颁国家级荣誉奖；以及其他主题。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 2025年8月26日 (二) 08:13 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #695

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-25. Missed the previous one? See issue #694.

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!

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2025年第36期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

本周要闻

• 编辑团队正在收集编者在移除版权侵权内容时，在编辑摘要中使用的术语。这将用于统计因版权问题而被回退的编辑数量。我们邀请下列维基的社群成员在T402601列出相关术语，或将清单分享给Trizek (WMF)。维基清单：阿拉伯语维基百科、​捷克语维基百科、​德语维基百科、​英语维基百科、​西班牙语维基百科、​波斯语维基百科、​法语维基百科、​希伯来语维基百科、​印尼语维基百科、​意大利语维基百科、​日文维基百科、​韩文维基百科、​荷兰语维基百科、​波兰语维基百科、​葡萄牙语维基百科、​土耳其语维基百科、​乌克兰语维基百科、​越南语维基百科、​中文维基百科。团队将收集至2025年9月9日结束。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 所有维基文库站点现皆已启用CampaignEvents扩充功能。该扩充功能使筹办和参与维基内协作活动（如：编辑松、维基专题）变得更加容易。该扩充功能有三大功能：活动报名、协作清单和邀请名单。若其他维基想启用该扩充功能，请见部署资讯页的说明。 [44]
• 现在，编辑界面页尾的清单（例如“本页使用的模板”）在空间充足时，将以栏位形式排列。这项改进有助于编者在编辑长篇维基条目时减少卷动操作。 [45]
• 2025年9月3日，我们将把中文、法语、葡萄牙语维基百科中Special:RecentChanges、Special:Watchlist、Special:RelatedChanges页面的“按页面分组结果”实验的抽样比例提升至100%，让更多编辑者参与实验。这项调整旨在确保我们在评估实验结果时，能拥有足够数据来做出明智决策。 [46][47]
• 9月22日当周开始，在英语维基百科，未登入使用者点击空白搜寻列后将会看到延伸阅读条目建议。这项功能将同时在桌面版与行动版推出。所有非英语维基站点皆已于6、7月间获得这项功能。这项功能旨在帮助使用者更容易寻找条目。了解更多。
• 上周有37件由社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 维基函数新推出“轻量列举型别”（lightweight enumeration types）。列举型别本质上是型别定义中的一组固定值。这使定义该型别变得快速简便，并允许重复使用维基数据中已存在的值。参阅电子报了解更多。
• 读者电子报新期数发布。本期内容包括：两个新团队成立——读者成长团队与读者体验团队；解析页面浏览量与账号创建量下降的趋势；内罗毕维基媒体国际会议“改善阅读体验”专题讨论会重点摘要；即将展开的吸引新旧读者的实验计划；等等。

会议与活动

• 2025年维基媒体国际会议精选议程：
  • 透过搜寻无效ISBN号来识别AI生成文本：德国分会的Mathias Schindler分享协助社群搜寻此类文本的工具。（英语）
  • 面对当前和未来挑战，维基媒体运动的可持续性：在生成式AI、资讯过载、虚假讯息横行的时代，维基媒体如何保持其值得信赖的知识来源地位。（法语）

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

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This Month in Education: August 2025

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 8 • August 2025

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

• Bootcamp Wikipedia in Classroom
• Brazil launches campaign about Open Science on Wiki
• Breaking Barriers: Yoruba Wikipedia Fan Club Offa's Historic Wins
• Emerging Voices in Free Knowledge: The Journey of Wiki Club SATI
• From a Curious Student to a Wikimedia Leader
• From webinars to conferences: Wikimedia Ukraine’s approach to events for educators
• Higher education with Wikipedia in Spain
• Scientific Contribution from Serbia: Wikipedia in Education Research Published in a Prestigious Journal
• Teachers with Wikipedia. What if we create a Spanish-speaking collaboration network
• The brains behind Wikipedia
• Why EduWiki Should Be Considered by Policymakers
• Wikimedia Chile in Visviri: Free knowledge and education at Chile’s starting point
• Wikipedia as a tool presented at Media Education Summer School for Teachers
• Wikipedia vs AI at La Trobe University
• St Aloysius University – Wikipedia training session for newcomers
• Wiki Loves Academics, WUGN Kaduna
• In Just 3 Minutes: The Power of Wiki Education
• Sensing Cebu: Fieldnotes of an Academic as a Wiki Volunteer

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Wikidata weekly summary #696

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-09-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #695.

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!

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The Signpost: 9 September 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation loses a round in court

• In the media: Congress probes, mayor whitewashed, AI stinks

• Disinformation report: A guide for Congress

• Recent research: Minority-language Wikipedias, and Wikidata for botanists

• Technology report: A new way to read Wikisource

• Traffic report: Check out some new Weapons, weapon of choice

• Essay: The one question

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2025年第37期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

本周要闻

• 编辑团队正在开发一项新检查：贴上检查（Paste check）。这项检查会提醒将文字贴入维基百科的新手编者，其内容可能不被接受。这项检查旨在确保使用者在维基百科添加的内容符合维基媒体运动的承诺——基于自由内容授权提供资讯。这项检查即将在数个维基站点进行测试。若您的社群有兴趣参与测试，请在此工单中告知我们，或直接联络团队。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 本周稍晚，启用“增强版语法高亮”测试功能的使用者将能使用lint工具，实时检查wikitext中的错误或其他潜在问题。参阅说明页面。 [48]
• 浏览维基站点（如en.wikipedia.org）时，系统会以两种方式回应：显示桌面版网页，或转址至“m”开头网域的行动版网页（如en.m.wikipedia.org）。未来三周内，MediaWiki将开始在标准网域上直接向移动设备显示行动版网页，不再进行转址。此变更不会影响现存的m.开头网址或“桌面版检视”选项。了解更多。 [49]
• 现在，当编辑操作更改了页面的分类时，分类成员数量的更新会以异步方式进行。此变更可提升编辑储存速度——尤其是在将多个页面移入或移出同一分类时——并降低网站当机风险，但这也意味着分类数量可能会短暂显示过时资讯。 [50]
• 现在，对维基数据项目声明中的限定符（属性和值）和参考资料（属性和值）所做的编辑，不会出现在其他维基站点的近期变更和监视清单页面中。这是一项临时变更，旨在提升效能，待其他解决方案存在后将恢复原状。维基数据自身页面则维持不变。了解更多。 [51][52]
• 日语维基站点的搜寻文字解析功能获重大更新，引入了Sudachi分词器，应能提供更准确、更相关的搜寻结果。 [53]
• 上周有31件由社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年9月9日 (二) 09:15 (CST)

This Month in GLAM: August 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue VIII, August 2025 Headlines Albania report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign 2025 in Albania and Kosovo Brazil report: Expanding Cultural Heritage in Brazil: School communities, Wikisource course, GLAM-Wiki Impact and Wiki Takes Alcântara India report: Digitization starts at two more libraries in West Bengal Indonesia report: Grant for GLAM Indonesia is open! Italy report: From food festivals to PhD courses: Wikimedia in Italian academia New Zealand report: NZ species edit-a-thons, a scholarly article, a course, and Auckland Museum editors at Wikimania Nigeria report: Highlights from Wiki Heritage Fellowship and Policy Advocacy in Nigeria North Macedonia report: Wiki Loves Film – Collaboration with MakeDox Film Festival Poland report: WikiChełmoński: When Wikipedia Becomes a Guide in the Museum Switzerland report: BAM Hackathon, 3D for Cultural Heritage, Wiki Cite UK report: Working towards more image sharing USA report: Wiknics Biodiversity Heritage Library report: News on BHL transition and updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members AvoinGLAM report: Steps towards a sustainable cultural commons Memory of the World report: A pivotal month Wikisource report: Wikisource Reader app released on Google Play Store Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #697

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-09-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #696.

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!

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2025年第38期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 现在，当读者选用Vector 2022的“标准”字号与页面宽度设定时，使用<references/>标签建立的参考资料清单将自动以分栏形式显示。 [54]
• 自10月6日当周起，在启用CampaignEvents扩充功能的中、小型维基上，所有自动确认使用者皆可作为活动筹办人员使用活动报名功能。除非透过Phabricator提出请求，大型维基将维持现状。此变更旨在让更多人能更容易使用活动报名功能，特别是在较少制定活动筹办人员权限相关方针的维基上。了解更多。
• 站内搜寻的Regex功能更新，新增以下功能：
  • intitle:搜寻现可用：元字元如行首（^）和行尾（$）锚点。 [55]
  • intitle:、insource:搜寻现可用：字元集合如数字（\d）、空白（\s）、单词（\w）；跳脱字元如回车（\r）、换行（\n）、制表（\t）、Unicode（如\uHHHH）。 [56]
• 过去，当在站内搜寻看似IP地址的字串时，系统会跳转至该IP的贡献纪录。现在，系统会正常显示搜寻结果。 [57]
• 9月24日，所有维基媒体网站将进入只读状态几分钟，预定于15:00 UTC开始。这是半年一次的资料中心服务器切换备份测试。更多关于此次切换的背景和细节，请参阅Diff文章。
• 上周有24件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，先前编辑章节时，从wikitext切换到视觉化编辑器会造成其他内容被移除，此问题现已修正。 [58]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• MediaWiki界面团队正在运用Codex重新设计Wikimedia REST API沙盒。若您对API文件的改进方向，或让开发者体验变得顺畅（或令人沮丧）的因素有任何意见回馈，诚挚邀请您参与即将举行的探索访谈，或在维基内留下意见。了解更多。
• 现在，对维基数据别名（项目或属性的替代名称）的编辑，将较少出现在其他维基站点的近期变更和监视清单页面中，从而减少不必要的通知。此举将降低这些页面整体中的“噪声”数量。维基数据自身页面则维持不变。了解更多。 [59]
• Unicode 17.0发布，供Module:Unicode data使用的共享资源资料集已随之更新。未使用共享资源资料集的维基百科站点，应自行更新本地资料或改用共享资源资料集。
• 维基媒体企业服务的结构化内容（Structured Contents）端点的使用者现可存取已解析表格（Parsed Tables）。此新功能可撷取维基百科表格内容，并以结构化JSON格式呈现。作为结构化内容计划的一环，这提升了机器可读性。结构化内容输出可透过随选API或维基媒体云端服务自由取得。
• 维基媒体企业服务的英语维基百科人物传记资料集已在Kaggle平台发布，供评估与研究使用。此资料集提供逾150万篇传记的结构化数据，涵盖出生与逝世日期、教育背景、所属组织、职业经历、获奖纪录等资讯（截取自2024年6月快照）。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

会议与活动

• 在法国巴黎举行的2026年维基媒体国际会议现正开放奖助金申请，至10月31日截止。

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年9月16日 (二) 01:08 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #698

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-09-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #697.

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!

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2025年第39期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

本周要闻

• 9月24日 15:00 UTC，所有维基媒体网站使用者将经历短暂的只读状态，此为预定的资料中心服务器切换作业所致。维基媒体基金会的网站可靠性工程团队将把所有流量从主要服务器导向至备援服务器。您可透过“聆听维基百科”工具实际听到切换过程：在只读阶段，您将听到编辑操作暂停数分钟，随后恢复正常。这个半年一次的资料中心服务器切换作业，旨在透过测试备援资料中心来确保可靠性，让我们的网站即使在主要资料中心故障时仍能持续运作。更多详情请参阅Diff文章。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 不久后，60个维基词典的编辑者将能够呼叫维基函数的函数，并在页面中使用。函数能接受一个或多个输入，并将其转换成预期的输出，例如：相加两数、换算单位、计算时间跨度或转换大小写。加上先前完成部署的65个维基词典语言版本，目前共有125个维基词典站点可以从维基函数呼叫函数并在页面中嵌入使用。今年稍晚，我们计划进一步扩展至更多维基词典语言版本及维基孵育场。
• 新增了一个解析器函数：{{#contentmodel}}。模板编辑者与管理员可运用此函数取得特定页面的内容模型的本地名称或标准名称。此函数能让管理员等更容易建立和编辑系统讯息（如MediaWiki:editinginterface），即使在切换不同页面内容模型（如wikitext​、JavaScript、CSS、JSON）时亦然。 [60]
• 先前，在视觉化编辑器中新增或修改DISPLAYTITLE时会发生错误，现已修正此问题。此工单列出了可能受影响且可能需要清理的页面清单。
• Android版维基百科APP的Beta使用者现在可以试用重新设计过的“活动”标签页，取代旧有的“编辑”标签页。新设计的标签页为使用者提供其阅读、编辑、捐款活动的个人化洞察，同时简化导览流程，让应用程序的使用体验更具吸引力。
• 上周有12件由社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 维基函数使用者现可从维基数据汇入涉及地理坐标、数量值、时间值的诸多关键资讯。此功能得以实现，是因维基数据为这些数值建立了对应的维基函数类型，使其能被维基函数的函数所运用。欲深入了解运作原理，请参阅此影片，以及8月1日（关于数量值）与8月22日（关于地理坐标）的维基函数电子报。

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年9月23日 (二) 06:56 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #699

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-09-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #698.

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!

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2025年第40期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

本周要闻

• A major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more. [61]

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
• As announced on Diff blog, the production trial of the hCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
• The CampaignEvents extension has been deployed to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the event organizer right.
• Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can test the feature on testwiki or on betawiki as well. Please share your thoughts on using templates in sub-references or volunteer to become a pilot wiki.
• On wikis using the Mentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship. [62]
• The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
• The rollout of multiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on Special:Contributions and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, messages prefixed with sp-contributions-blocked-notice will be removed and replaced with those prefixed with blocked-notice-logextract in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
• There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as [ ] | after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed. [63]
• 已新建一个维基： 马来语维基语录 (q:ms:) [64]
• 上周有21件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，使用者资讯卡现在会显示生效中的全域锁定和全域封锁。 [65]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the mw.title.newBatch function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function count once.
• A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年9月30日 (二) 04:53 (CST)

The Signpost: 2 October 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"; WMF publishes transparency report

• In the media: Extraordinary eruption of "EVIL" explained

• Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client

• Discussion report: Sourcing, conduct, policy and LLMs: another 1,339 threads analyzed

• Community view: The pressing questions of the modern WWW, as seen from the Village Pump

• Recent research: Is Wikipedia a merchant of (non-)doubt for glyphosate?; eight projects awarded Wikimedia Research Fund grants

• Opinion: Some disputes aren't worth it

• Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt

• Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name

• Comix: A grand spectacle

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This Month in Education: September 2025

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 9 • September 2025

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

• Brazil organizes seminar to discuss open science and scientific dissemination
• CBSUA Recognizes Wiki Training Completers, Awards Feminism & Folklore 2025 Winners
• 2nd International Conference on Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures Mexico 2025
• Accredited seminar for teachers in Veliko Gradište
• Breaking Barriers, Why open Knowledge matters
• Cross-Continental Knowledge Exchange: Offa Youth Impact Initiative and St Aloysius University in 3D Education Outreach
• Igbo Language Audio Project in the Igbo Wiki Fan Club IMSU & Alvan
• Let's Read Wikipedia reached teachers of the Weenhayek indigenous nation in Bolivia
• Monograph on Wikipedia in the classroom, Docere Magazine
• The Third Training Course of the “Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom” Program in Jordan
• The Ukrainian Educators’ Wikimedia Conference 2025
• Wikimedia MKD's edit-a-thon: Lakes
• Free culture in the classroom
• Wikimedia Rwanda Wiki clubs

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Wikidata weekly summary #700

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #699.

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!

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2025年第41期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

本周要闻

• 贴上检查（Paste check）是新的编辑检查功能，旨在避免并对抗侵权著作权的行为。当编辑者将文字贴入条目时，贴上检查会提示其确认内容的来源与授权方式。自10月8日（三）起，22个维基站点将测试此功能。贴上检查将协助新手志愿者理解并遵循必要的方针与指引，从而为维基百科专案作出建设性贡献。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 移动设备将直接透过标准网域（如en.wikipedia.org）接收行动版条目，而非转址至“m”网域（如en.m.wikipedia.org）。此变更可提升效能。本周，各个维基百科站点将启用此变更。既有的行动版网址及“桌面版检视”选项仍可使用。了解更多。 [66]
• 维基搜索引擎新增两项日期筛选器：creationdate:、lasteditdate:。使用者可借此依据页面首次或最后修订日期来筛选搜寻结果。这些筛选器支援比较运算子（如>2024）与相对日期（如today-1d），让使用者更容易查找于特定时间范围内更新的内容或页面。 [67]
• 在已启用维基函数功能的150个维基站点中，现在支援嵌入呼叫富文本。为展示此功能，团队制作了一个拉丁语变格表产生器，供维基词典编辑者自动生成名词变格表，产出清晰且格式化的结果——参见范例输出。如需协助或有任何意见回馈，请联系维基函数团队。 [68]
• 现在，已登入使用者可在条目页面的分类框内见到编辑连结，点击后将直接开启视觉化编辑器的分类对话框。 [69]
• 上周有34件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，上周PDF下载功能曾发生问题，此问题现已解决。 [70]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 修订版本资料表中的rev_sha1栏位将被移除，并由内容资料表中的content_sha1栏位取代。详情请参阅公告。
• 2025年10月29日，读者体验团队将在所有维基媒体网站推出深色模式UI。所有维基媒体网站的未登入使用者皆可启用黑底白字的配色方案。此设计旨在提供更舒适的阅读体验，尤其适用于低光环境。诚挚邀请模板编者与技术贡献者于启用前，学习如何使页面支援深色模式，并解决模板可能出现的相容性问题。启用前若有任何疑问或需要支援，请透过此讨论页联系网页团队。 [71]
• 10月6日（一）开始，位于rest.php路径下的API端点将重新路由至新的内部API闸道。个别维基站点将依据标准MediaWiki版本更新分组进行更新，整体流量将随时间逐步提升。此变更应为非中断更新。若发现任何问题，请至Phabricator提交工单至服务运营团队看板。 [72]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年10月7日 (二) 01:24 (CST)

This Month in GLAM: September 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue IX, September 2025 Headlines Albania report: Wikipedia edit-a-thon at the Skampa Theater in Elbasan, Albania Aruba report: Wikipedia on Aruba Initiative: Building Knowledge and Visibility Australia report: State Library Victoria WikiFest Belgium report: Make cultural heritage freely accessible, Hasselt's collections shine online & Let's give women a voice on Wikipedia! Italy report: Hidden heritage unveiled: science, history and nature on Wikimedia Netherlands report: Wikimedia Commons birthday content donation New Zealand report: Wikimedian in Residence at the Bioeconomy Science Institute & Wikiproject NZ Women in Architecture North Macedonia report: Expanding Access to Culture and Knowledge through Key Partnerships Poland report: WikiChełmoński: the Special Guided Tour at the National Museum in Krakow Portugal report: GLAM Wiki 2025: Join the Conference Online and Explore Lisbon’s Culture Switzerland report: LibreABC, Feminist Voices, Grade Conference UK report: Awards season USA report: September edit-a-thons & meetings Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members Memory of the World report: The Memory of the World wiki challenge Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #701

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #700.

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!

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2025年第42期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

本周要闻

• 上周，所有维基站点已启用账号安全与双重验证（2FA）功能的改进措施。这些变更包括：Special:AccountSecurity界面优化，支援透过Authenticator应用程序与便携式安全金钥实现多种双重验证方式（先前仅限启用单一方式），以及新的“恢复代码模组”，此模组可减少因遗失双重验证应用程序或装置而导致账号锁定的状况。作为账号安全专案的一部分，我们将在2025年结束前持续推进使用者体验改进工作，并新增支援以通行金钥作为双重验证方式。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 账号安全专案的另一项目标，是将双重验证功能全面开放给所有使用者。不计已可启用双重验证的高级权限编辑者（如管理员与行政员），现在有40%的编辑者可启用双重验证。您可至Special:AccountSecurity页面确认自己可否使用双重验证功能，若可以，点击该区块任一按钮可进一步查看验证步骤。若经评估确认使用者支援系统足以支撑全球范围的使用，我们将持续扩大此功能的开放范围。 [73]
• 本周，在预设启用讨论页可用性改进的维基站点（即除了T379264列出的12个站点之外的所有站点），使用者将能够在讨论页中直接对个别留言表达“感谢”。在此之前，使用者只能在讨论页的修订纪录中传送“感谢”。 了解更多。 [74]
• 尚未验证电子邮件地址的使用者，将陆续收到每月发送的验证提醒通知。完成电子邮件验证的使用者能更容易恢复账号，因此我们建议使用者完成电子邮件验证。若使用者处于非活跃状态，或从账号中移除未验证的电子邮件地址，则不会收到此类提醒。 [75][76]
• 上周有21件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，内容翻译工具曾偶尔出现翻译段落储存错误，此问题现已解决，相关错误讯息也更容易被察觉。 [77]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 未受支援工具工作组已选定Video2Commons作为其试行周期的首个工具。该工作组将在未来数月内探索能改进与维持此工具的方案。了解更多。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 2025年10月14日 (二) 03:00 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #702

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #701.

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 周年聚会暨 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!

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2025年第43期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 为优化使用者资料在数据库中的储存方式，针对逾五年未登入且编辑次数低于100次的使用者，系统将自动清除其储存的偏好设定。此类使用者再次登入时，系统将自动套用预设设定。 [78]
• 上周有20件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，先前全域贡献界面讯息中的“XTools全域贡献”连结出错，此问题现已修正。 [79]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 重新路由作业现已完成，所有数据流量已透过共同API闸道重新路由至rest.php路径下的API端点。若发现任何问题，请至Phabricator提交工单至服务运营团队看板。
• 现在，对维基数据的限定符和参考资料的编辑，将较少出现在其他维基站点的近期变更和监视清单页面中，从而减少不必要的通知。此举将降低这些页面整体中的“噪声”数量。维基数据自身页面则维持不变。 [80]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 20 October 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Board shuffles, LLM blocks increase, IPs are going away

• Special report: The election that isn't

• Interview: The BoT bump

• In the media: An incident at WikiConference North America; WMF reports AI-related traffic drop and explains Wikipedia to US conservatives

• Traffic report: One click after another

• Humour: Wikipedia pay rates

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Growth News #35

A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.

New releases

English Wikipedia gets "Add a Link" Structured Task

We released the "Add a Link" Structured Task to 100% of accounts at English Wikipedia on Tuesday, September 2nd (before then it was available to 20% of accounts).

Growth features for Wikidata

After examining if the Growth features and Mentorship could be adapted to Wikidata, we activated the Growth features on Beta Wikidata to allow for testing and discussion (T400937). Although some features, like Suggested Edits, are Wikipedia-specific, the Growth team designed most features to be more wiki-agnostic.

Work in progress

Revise Tone Structured Task

The Growth team is making progress on the technical architecture, onboarding design, and early user testing. We are targeting an A/B test before the end of this year, with constructive edits by newcomers as the primary success metric.

Add a link to more wikis

The machine learning team has been working on a new model that can suggest links to more languages, including Urdu, Chinese, and Japanese Wikipedias. We are starting to release the “Add a Link” feature to Wikipedias that weren’t supported by the previous model.

Add a link, which can be configured by the community locally, increases the chance that a new contributor will make their first edit and then continue to participate in Wikipedia.

Research

The Growth team is involved in several research initiatives to help guide our future work:

Progression System – We have published initial findings from interviews with 10 English and French Wikipedia newcomers. The research examined motivations, challenges, and feedback on a prototype system intended to help editors build confidence, develop skills, and contribute more constructively over time.

Mobile Web Editing Research – This project combines quantitative and qualitative data, community feedback, and user journey analysis to identify possible ways to enhance the mobile editing experience.

Newcomers Survey – This project surveys successful newcomers on English Wikipedia to understand their early editing experiences, tool use, and community interactions.

Community events

The Growth team participated in several community events to listen, share, and collaborate on improving newcomer experiences across Wikimedia projects.

Wikimania - Organizers as key partners to support newcomers' growth in our movement

This session invited organizers to share how they introduce newcomers to Growth features and the challenges they encounter. The discussion focused on common newcomer questions and opportunities to strengthen collaboration in supporting new editors.

Wikimania - Lightning Talk: Structured Tasks

This talk demonstrated how Structured Tasks help newcomers take their first successful steps on Wikipedia. It shared impact data, community configurations, and a demo of “Add a Link,” illustrating how these tasks make editing more accessible and sustainable, particularly for mobile contributors.

Wikimania - Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors

With active editor numbers declining, the Contributors Strategy aims to create a clearer, more engaging path for participation. This session, led by the WMF Contributors group with involvement from the Editing, Growth, Moderator Tools, and Connection (formerly Campaigns) teams, highlighted efforts to streamline contributor experiences, offer structured and mobile-friendly workflows, and foster meaningful engagement. Participants learned about ongoing initiatives and shared feedback to help shape a more inclusive and sustainable future for Wikimedia contributors.

CEE Meeting - Retaining beginners and improving content moderation: an inclusive and sustainable future for Wikipedia contributors

Many communities face a decline in volunteer engagement. Newcomers often leave soon after joining, while experienced editors struggle to manage increasingly complex workflows and overwhelming backlogs. We presented the Contributors Strategy and the different features and workflows that can help communities to address these challenges. We listened to the specific needs of the CEE communities to help guide the Contributors teams' work.

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Wikidata weekly summary #703

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #702.

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 (留言) 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]) 链接资料文献翻译赛德克语成果发表会 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!

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2025年第44期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• iOS版维基百科APP现已在部分语言及地区开始一项关于“标签页”功能的A/B/C测试。这项测试名为“更多动态标签页”，旨在探索标签页浏览体验的可能性，现正计划加入“你知道吗”和“因为您阅读了”标签页，客制化提供文章建议。详见专案页面。
• 现在，在启用CampaignEvents扩充功能的中、小型维基上，自动确认使用者无需拥有活动筹办人员权限即可使用活动报名功能。该功能让活动筹办人员能启用报名机制、管理参与者，并简化使用者报名程序，仅需透过点击按钮即可完成，无需于活动页面手动签署报名。
• 上周有31件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前在Vector 2022的深色模式设定界面中，按住或按下方向键时会闪烁色彩，现已修正此问题。 [81]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 2025年11月17日当周，CampaignEvents扩充功能将部署至所有尚未部署的维基。该扩充功能目前有三项功能：活动报名、协作清单和邀请名单。本次部署中，除非有关社群提出请求，否则邀请清单功能将不会在维基函数和MediaWiki.org启用。详见部署页面。
• 基于SwaggerUI的REST沙盒现已在所有维基专案上线。您可至Special:RestSandbox页面使用该沙盒。若遇任何问题，请至Phabricator的MediaWiki界面团队看板回报，或参与专案启动页面列出的相关讨论。 [82]
• MediaWiki REST API中，路径带有结尾斜线（trailing slash）的转换端点现已标记为“已弃用”。这些端点目前仍可正常运作，但预计将于2026 年1月底前移除。建议所有目前呼叫这些端点的API使用者转用无结尾斜线版本。两种端点变体皆可透过REST沙盒进行查找与测试。关于API弃用方针与流程，请参阅MediaWiki REST API的弃用。
• MediaWiki REST API现设有专属更新日志。该更新日志提供变更概览，方便开发者追踪各项改进和迭代。相关公告仍将透过技术新闻与电子邮件清单等标准通讯管道发布，但更新日志将成为一个更便于引用的中央位置。若您对更新日志的风格、结构或内容有任何意见，欢迎参与讨论。
• JsonConfig扩充功能已不再使用，但由该扩充功能建立的追踪分类依然残留。管理员现可删除这些追踪分类，具体清单参见Q130635582。由于快取因素，这些分类可能会显示有页面残留。编辑页面会清除该页面的快取，而当快取被清除后，这些页面会自动从分类中消失。 [83]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年10月28日 (二) 03:32 (CST)

This Month in Education: October 2025

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 10 • October 2025

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

• "WikiDonne Internship: Wikimedia Platforms for Open Education and Inclusive Culture!" winner at the Open Education Awards 2025
• A Proud Chapter in My Wikimedia Journey 🇳🇬: From Editor to Organizer
• Debating open science and scientific dissemination in Brazil
• Enhancing Academic Articles on Wikipedia with the State University of Jakarta
• India’s Students and Educators Lead the Way in the Wiki Science Competition 2025
• JDACA & Amman Arab University
• New starting page for Wikipedia users had been launched in September
• Teaching Evidence Synthesis Automation with the Wikipedia–Kaggle Dataset
• Wikimedia MKD’s Education Program activities for October
• Wikimedia Serbia prepares eight annual Edu Wiki camp
• Wikivoyage editathon in Peshkopia, Albania

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Wikidata weekly summary #704

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #703.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Samoasambia
• New requests for permissions/Bot: langCodesBot - Task(s): Python script to automate the cleanup of deprecated language codes (e.g., kr) from Wikidata items. Delete or move labels, descriptions, and aliases based on comparisons with fallback and related languages. The script uses the Pywikibot framework to process each item and logs cases it skips due to data inconsistencies or ambiguity to a CSV file for manual review.
• New request for comments: Exhibition models by Hexatekin - This proposal focuses on standardizing models for art exhibitions. There is not a consistent data model used for art exhibitions that factors in parent-child relationships for traveling exhibitions, show series, or biennials, despite these being important and common types of events in international art history.

Events

• Past:
  • Happy Birthday, Wikidata 🎉! We celebrated Wikidata’s 13th birthday with a community call to unveil presents and play games. Check out the replay of the event and the cool gifts people made: Wikidata:Thirteenth Birthday/Presents & messages
  • WikidataCon: You can catch up on the recordings and slides in the program
  • Wikidata Workshop at ISWC: You can catch up on the published papers on the website.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Building an Internet for Everyone: Wikidata Recognized as a Digital Public Good
  • Enriching Wikidata with AuthorityBox. An interview with Stefano Bargioni
    • examples of AuthorityBox can be seen in PUSC catalogue, URBE catalogue (code), Keratsini-Drapetsona catalogue; cf. also Stefano Bargioni, From Authority Enrichment to AuthorityBox. Applying RDA in a Koha environment (2020)
  • Exploring Nairobi and Building a Global Network: The Inspiring Wikimania@20 Experience
  • Supercharging Cultural Institution Collections with Wikidata
• Videos:
  • Por qué el conocimiento libre importa más que nunca | Gustavo Candela | Jornadas Anuales 2025
  • Wikidata Ontology Course | A NotebookLM Deep Dive
  • Odia Wikimedians User Group Celebration of the 13th Wikidata Birthday
  • Como utilizar o OpenRefine para cadastrar artigos científicos na Wikidata? - WikiTutoriais #05
  • Supercharging Cultural Institution Collections with Wikidata [October 2025]
  • ¿Cómo es la ontología de Wikidata?
  • Wikidata @13 celebration by the Tyap Wikimedians

Tool of the week The Wikidata Reference Validator by User:JosefAnthony helps check and replace broken or outdated references — keeping Wikidata’s knowledge verifiable and trustworthy. It checks whether external references are still accessible or offline, so we can ensure that every statement on Wikidata shows how we know what we know.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance
• Wikimedia chapters are providing scholarships for Wikimania 2026. Apply here if you're interested: Wikipedia:Förderung/Wikimania/English

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎Newegg item ID, ‎Hardcore Gaming 101 game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Luminous flux (Numerical value of the luminous flux emitted by a lighting device or light source, measured in lumens)
  • anatomical structure in view (the anatomical structure in view in the photo, e.g. head, wing, habitus (body))
  • anatomical view (view of an anatomical structure, e.g. ventral, dorsal, frontal)
  • collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field)
  • Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: BG IISDA org ID, BG NACID person ID, GCatholic former diocese ID, Grokipedia ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland ID, Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID, Davis Cup player ID 2025, Eiga.com drama ID, AntCat ID, Last Address ID, Disney+ browse ID, Japanese Film Database ID, Japan Location Database ID, Fight.ru fighters ID, IMI person id

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of ~12.000 western European tram stops among their respective networks
  • Count of Wikipedia articles about UNESCO Memory of the World inscriptions
• Showcase Items: perestroïka

(Q167634) - political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform

• Showcase Lexemes:baseline (L46097) - English noun (ˈbeɪslaɪn) meaning "a starting point for comparison", "a benchmark in budgeting", or "a reference line in typography or surveying"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work on qualifiers and reference editing
• GraphQL: We are continuing the work on making labels of linked entities available in GraphQL (phab:T404692)
• Dumps: We are continuing to look into improvements for the dump process

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第45期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• Special:MergeHistory获更新，大幅提升了合并功能的灵活性，以便管理员使用。该特殊页面现在能够从来源页面历史的中段提取段落进行合并，而不仅限于从开头提取；同时，它也能将修订版本插入目标页面历史中的任意位置，而不仅限于插入开头。 [84]
• 现在，对于在偏好设定中启用“自动订阅话题”功能的使用者，无论其透过何种编辑界面来新增或回复话题，系统皆会自动为其订阅该话题。先前，仅当使用讨论工具（DiscussionTools）的“添加话题”或“回复”按钮时才会触发自动订阅。讨论工具最初推出时，既有账号并未预设启用自动订阅话题功能，因此本次变更主要影响较新账号，以及曾主动更改偏好设定的使用者。 [85]
• Scribunto模组现在能够生成SVG图像。此功能能透过Lua来动态建立图表、图形及其他视觉化内容，减少外部制图后上传档案的需求。 [86]
• 维基媒体网站现在为所有匿名使用者提供启用深色模式（黑底白字配色方案）的选项。这项改进旨在提供更舒适的阅读体验，尤其是在光线昏暗的环境下。 [87]
• 存有庞大监视清单的使用者长期以来在编辑Special:EditWatchlist页面时遭遇逾时（timeout）问题。如今透过分页（paging）机制更新，该页面将分批载入项目，而非一次性载入全部内容，使所有使用者皆能顺畅编辑监视清单。作为数据库更新的一部分，我们移除了按到期时间排序的功能，因其速度比按标题排序慢100倍以上。我们提交了一件社群愿望，探讨恢复按到期时间排序功能的替代方案。若该功能对您至关重要，敬请投票支持该愿望！ [88]
• 上周有31件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前在视觉化编辑器的“寻找与取代”功能中，即使修改寻找栏位的文字，页面中原先的文字仍持续高亮显示，此问题现已修正。 [89]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 自2019年起，维基媒体缩网址服务（网址：https://w.wiki）开放所有维基媒体维基站点使用，可为条目、永久连结、差异页面等内容建立短网址。该功能可透过侧边栏的“获取短链接”连结存取。目前仍有30个维基站点同时安装旧版“ShortUrl”扩充功能。旧版扩充功能即将移除，意味着/s/短网址（以带有class="title-shortlink"的标签包裹）将不再直接显示于条目标题下方。但/s/短网址将持续正常运作。 [90]
• 10月30日（四），MediaWiki界面团队与SRE服务运营团队开始将Action API流量重新路由至共同API闸道。各维基站点将依据标准MediaWiki版本更新分组进行更新，整体流量将随时间逐步提升。此变更应为非中断更新。若发现任何问题，请至Phabricator的服务运营团队看板提交工单。
• MediaWiki部署列车将于2025年最后两周（12月22日、29日）暂停。向后移植窗口亦将于2025年12月22日（一）至2026年1月2日（四）期间暂停。向后移植窗口系指预定执行错误修正与配置变更等作业的时段。2025年尚余七次列车部署作业。 [91]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 维基媒体基金会指出，由于AI系统与搜索引擎频繁引用维基百科内容，却未能将使用者导向该网站，导致2025年真人浏览量较2024年下降8%。在观察到机器人伪装成真人的现象后，维基媒体更新了流量数据以反映此变化。关于维基百科当前使用者趋势，请参阅Diff文章。

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2025年第45期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• Special:MergeHistory获更新，大幅提升了合并功能的灵活性，以便管理员使用。该特殊页面现在能够从来源页面历史的中段提取段落进行合并，而不仅限于从开头提取；同时，它也能将修订版本插入目标页面历史中的任意位置，而不仅限于插入开头。 [92]
• 现在，对于在偏好设定中启用“自动订阅话题”功能的使用者，无论其透过何种编辑界面来新增或回复话题，系统皆会自动为其订阅该话题。先前，仅当使用讨论工具（DiscussionTools）的“添加话题”或“回复”按钮时才会触发自动订阅。讨论工具最初推出时，既有账号并未预设启用自动订阅话题功能，因此本次变更主要影响较新账号，以及曾主动更改偏好设定的使用者。 [93]
• Scribunto模组现在能够生成SVG图像。此功能能透过Lua来动态建立图表、图形及其他视觉化内容，减少外部制图后上传档案的需求。 [94]
• 维基媒体网站现在为所有匿名使用者提供启用深色模式（黑底白字配色方案）的选项。这项改进旨在提供更舒适的阅读体验，尤其是在光线昏暗的环境下。 [95]
• 存有庞大监视清单的使用者长期以来在编辑Special:EditWatchlist页面时遭遇逾时（timeout）问题。如今透过分页（paging）机制更新，该页面将分批载入项目，而非一次性载入全部内容，使所有使用者皆能顺畅编辑监视清单。作为数据库更新的一部分，我们移除了按到期时间排序的功能，因其速度比按标题排序慢100倍以上。我们提交了一件社群愿望，探讨恢复按到期时间排序功能的替代方案。若该功能对您至关重要，敬请投票支持该愿望！ [96]
• 上周有31件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前在视觉化编辑器的“寻找与取代”功能中，即使修改寻找栏位的文字，页面中原先的文字仍持续高亮显示，此问题现已修正。 [97]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 自2019年起，维基媒体缩网址服务（网址：https://w.wiki）开放所有维基媒体维基站点使用，可为条目、永久连结、差异页面等内容建立短网址。该功能可透过侧边栏的“获取短链接”连结存取。目前仍有30个维基站点同时安装旧版“ShortUrl”扩充功能。旧版扩充功能即将移除，意味着/s/短网址（以带有class="title-shortlink"的标签包裹）将不再直接显示于条目标题下方。但/s/短网址将持续正常运作。 [98]
• 10月30日（四），MediaWiki界面团队与SRE服务运营团队开始将Action API流量重新路由至共同API闸道。各维基站点将依据标准MediaWiki版本更新分组进行更新，整体流量将随时间逐步提升。此变更应为非中断更新。若发现任何问题，请至Phabricator的服务运营团队看板提交工单。
• MediaWiki部署列车将于2025年最后两周（12月22日、29日）暂停。向后移植窗口亦将于2025年12月22日（一）至2026年1月2日（四）期间暂停。向后移植窗口系指预定执行错误修正与配置变更等作业的时段。2025年尚余七次列车部署作业。 [99]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 维基媒体基金会指出，由于AI系统与搜索引擎频繁引用维基百科内容，却未能将使用者导向该网站，导致2025年真人浏览量较2024年下降8%。在观察到机器人伪装成真人的现象后，维基媒体更新了流量数据以反映此变化。关于维基百科当前使用者趋势，请参阅Diff文章。

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This Month in GLAM: October 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue X, October 2025 Headlines Belgium report: From a small language to Wikipedia's Biggest, Share Your Story with the Industry Museum and War Diaries Croatia report: Autumn activities Indonesia report: WikiCommon community meet-ups, Wikisource trainings, and the announcement of Grant for GLAM Indonesia Italy report: Open culture on stage Mexico report: How Wikimedia México is training cultural and government institutions as wikimedians. Netherlands report: Open Topstukken project concludes; Network Archives Design and Digital Culture New Zealand report: Granny's Wonderful Chair, Preparing for Auckland Museum Wiki Summer Students and an the ASBS Introductory Wiki Webinar Nigeria report: Report on Participation at the 12th International Youth Conference Poland report: Promoting Open Data and Digital Commons in Culture and Research Portugal report: GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 Wrap-Up Serbia report: October in Wikimedia Serbia Switzerland report: DaSCHcon, 3D, Wiki GLAM conference UK report: A look at Grokipedia USA report: October edit-a-thons & meetings Biodiversity Heritage Library report: LivingData 2025, GLAMWiki and a "collector" Wikidata property proposal Memory of the World report: International outreach Sustainable CultureConnect Project report: Sustainable CultureConnect: Empowering Youth and Preserving Heritage through Open Knowledge and Leadership Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 10 November 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Temporary accounts go live and WMF board member self-suspends

• Community view: Six Wikipedians' thoughts on Grokipedia, and the humanity of it all

• Wikicup report: BeanieFan11, WikiCup victor of 2025, covers the results

• In the media: Jimbo's book, an argument about genocide, and a train of shame

• Recent research: Taking stock of the 2024–2025 research grants

• Opinion: With Grokipedia, top-down control of knowledge is new again

• Obituary: Struway

• Traffic report: The documentaried, the disowned, the deceased, Diwali and the Dodgers

• Comix: Head of steam

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Wikidata weekly summary #705

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #704.

Discussions

• Other: Draft policy for temporary account IP viewers. What requirements should be set for this user right?

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Introducing the Unicode Inflection Library Technical Preview Release : The Unicode Inflection Library leverages comprehensive lexicons from Wikidata to support standardized, multilingual grammatical transformations for global software applications.
• Videos:
  • Art+Feminism Celebrates Wikidata!
  • Day 5_Using WikiData with Spyral Notebook and Project Presentation
  • Wikidata and Wikipedia training for Art+Feminism 2025 in Uganda
  • What are Wikidata WikiProjects, and why should you join one? Watch this great explainer from the #LevelingUpDays2024 to see how these communities work together! Then, find your project: Wikidata:WikiProjects

Tool of the week

• User:Difool/WikidataCleanup.js: gadget allowing to do, in one click, a wide series of cleanups in an item: normalize labels, descriptions, and aliases (double spaces, certain Unicode characters), remove weak references, remove weakly referenced dates when they have lower precision than a strongly referenced date and downgrade unnecessary preferred ranks; about the general issue of redundancies in Wikidata, you can check WikiProject Redundancy
• Ghanasupremecases is a webapp that dynamically pulls and displays over 2,000 Supreme Court of Ghana cases from Wikidata, allowing users to access case details linked directly to Wikidata items. The goal is to make African legal data more open, structured, and discoverable, and to demonstrate how Wikidata can serve as a foundation for national-level legal archive

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Temporary accounts rollout: Starting November 12, the community will see logged‑out edits handled through temporary accounts instead of IPs, prompting tool and bot checks.
• Help shape the future WikidatCon! If you attended WikidataCon 2025, please take 10 minutes to share your feedback in this anonymous GDPR-compliant survey (sslsurvey)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • operating humidity (humidity at which a device operates)
  • collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field)
  • Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.)
• Newest External identifiers: CACI company ID, AEK Football player ID, Sultanlar Ligi player ID, BeWeb historical or artistic asset ID, SofaScore sports team ID, FootballFakts.ru football match ID, Kicker sports match ID, BDFutbol match ID, Foot Mercato / Fichajes / Fussball Transfers player ID, ‎Disney+ browse ID, ‎Filmarks ID, Memorial Book of Social Democracy-ID, NLAI ID, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain ID, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts ID, Antique Chinese and Japanese Porcelain Dictionary and Glossary of Terms entry, Filmfriend movie ID, Hesse School ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Dance entry ID, Saxony School ID, NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature periodical identifier, NZ Charities Register Number, IFES Election Guide ID, Arte de la Argentina ID, Democratic Memory Bank ID, Kicker competition ID, Soccer365.net team ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • time of deposition (date or point in time when an archaeological object or assemblage was buried, hidden, lost, or otherwise deposited.)
  • readiness (readiness)
  • greenhouse gases emissions (amount of greenhouse effect emited by a given company or industry sector)
  • neuter form of label (neuter form of name or title)
  • current season ({{TranslateThis | an identifier for the team's current season <!-- | xx = descriptions in other languages --> }})
  • flag carrier of (country of which the airline is the flag carrier)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: BFXC authority ID, BWB-nummer, Schulnummer Brandenburg, Encyclopedia of Shinto ID, Power Thesaurus ID, WDSF person ID, Blu-Ray.com film ID, Japanese Law Translation ID, USGS Publication ID, Afrikaregisteret ID, National cultural monument of Czechia ID, Admirable Façades styles ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID, Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID, TikTok User ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Map of all places related to persons with layers by property of the place (source)
• WikiProject Highlights: Passionate about highlighting women's achievements? WikiProject Women is dedicated to creating and improving data about women worldwide. Help close the gender gap in knowledge! #WikidataWikiProjects
• Showcase Items: Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (Q1136251) - cultural landscape in South Africa
• Showcase Lexemes: fold (L4479) - English verb (foʊld) meaning "to bend over on itself", "to mix ingredients gently", or "to fail or give in"

Development The development team were involved in roadmap planning meetings so not much happened in the past week.

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

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2025年第46期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

采用新设计的讨论页的范例，图为法语维基百科

• 11月12日开始，部分维基百科的讨论页外观将变更为新设计。几乎所有维基已采用新设计；英语维基百科将稍后获得更新。详见Diff文章。使用者可以在偏好设定中的“显示讨论活动”选项停用此变更。 [100]
• MediaWiki现可于页面受保护时自动显示页面状态指示器（顶部图示）。此功能预设停用，可透过社群请求启用。 [101]
• 现在，使用wikitext编辑器的“显示预览”或“显示更改”按钮时，特定URL参数（如useskin、uselang、section）将会保留。此次更新同时修正了以下问题：之前，若浏览器在预览单一章节编辑时崩溃，储存该编辑可能导致整页内容被该章节内容覆写。 [102][103][104]
• 维基导游站点可在条目内文使用彩色地图标记。此类标记的文字将改以对比鲜明的黑色或白色显示，不再始终显示为白色。针对此问题的本地暂时解方现可移除。 [105]
• Android版维基百科APP的“活动”标签页现已开放所有使用者使用。此新标签页为使用者提供阅读、编辑、捐款活动的个人化洞察，同时简化导览流程，让应用程序的使用体验更具吸引力。 [106]
• 读者成长团队（Reader Growth）正计划推出名为“图片浏览”（Image browsing）的实验，旨在测试如何让读者更轻松地浏览与探索维基百科条目中的图片。此实验为A/B测试，仅限移动设备，将于11月17日当周在英语维基百科上线，为期四周，影响该站0.05%的使用者。这项测试已于11月3日在中文、阿拉伯语、法语、印尼语和越南语维基百科推出，影响这些站点中至多10%的使用者。 [107]
• 上周有27件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，前阵子监管员无法在移动设备网站锁定账号，此问题现已修正。 [108]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• Wikitech正在进行Toolforge标准委员会的新委员提名。委员会职责包括监督Toolforge的分叉权方针和遗弃工具方针等。提名持续开放至11月28日。
• SUL维基站点的OAuth 2存取凭证中，JWT核发者栏位iss已变更为https://meta.wikimedia.org。旧版存取凭证仍可正常使用。 [109]
• OAuth 2存取凭证中的JWT使用者栏位sub即将从<user id>变更为mw:<identity type>:<user id>，其中<identity type>通常为CentralAuth:（适用于SUL维基站点）或local:<wiki id>（适用于其他维基）。此变更旨在避免不同使用者ID类型间的冲突，并使OAuth 2存取凭证与sessionJwt cookie格式更趋一致。旧版存取凭证仍可正常使用。 [110]
• MediaWiki的封锁讯息（blockedtext、blockedtext-partial、autoblockedtext、systemblockedtext、blockedtext-tempuser、autoblockedtext-tempuser）新增参数，用以标示使用者是否被禁止编辑自己的使用者讨论页（$9）或寄送电子邮件给其他使用者（MediaWiki:Blockedtext0）。 [111]
• 我们已在Wikimedia git仓库中为MediaWiki核心和各扩充功能与外观皮肤建立REL1_45分支。此为MediaWiki 1.45.0版本发布流程的第一步，该版本预计于今年11月下旬推出。若您正在修复关键错误或开发新功能，请留意此变更。 [112]
• 由于效能下降，我们更新了CirrusSearch转储档的生成流程。若您在改用新转储时遇到任何问题，请联系搜寻平台团队（Search Platform）寻求支援。 [113][114]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年11月11日 (二) 04:38 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #706

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #705.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Che-W-bot - Task(s): Possible duplicate of the bot below.
  • CheWikibot - Task(s): Import new articles created on Chechen Wikipedia (ce.wiki) to Wikidata.
  • DDResearchBot - Task(s): This bot will facilitate adding structured, cited data from trusted integrity sources to Wikidata for Dewey Digital.
• Closed request for comments:
  • Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks - While there is a general agreement for admins to block /64, no consensus to add to the blocking Policy was reached.
  • Proposal to better document featured SPARQL queries - Consensus was reached and a vote is planned.
  • Gender neutral Labels for occupations/positions in French - Majority support for using male and female forms in French labels and aliases, gender-neutral descriptions, and completing male/female label properties.
  • Items for videos of online platforms that represent notable Items - No consensus could be reached.
  • Should Labels of interlanguage links from other Wikipedia Projects? - There is general support to import labels, however there are concerns about the import as an Alias.
  • Signed Statements - No consensus could be reached.
  • Use of dates in descriptions of items regarding humans - Dates on Wikidata are community-specific; add only to disambiguate, don’t remove, and format per language conventions.
• Project chat: Proposal:Prohibiting LLM-generated content
• Other:
  • Wikidata:Temporary account IP viewer - users who may view IP addresses associated with temporary accounts.
  • Wikidata:Self-promotion - an essay on creating an Item about yourself, your organisation, or your work is a form of self-promotion and is strongly discouraged. Feel free to update this page.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikidata Days: IWUG and WAFTAI - A 4 day edit-a-thon beginning November 26, 2025, for Cameroonian and Nigerian educational institutions.
  • WikiLatih Wikidata - November 21, 08:50am (WIB), learning around Wikidata: how to reuse data and edit Items. Organised by the Faculty of Science and Technology Universitas Airlangga.
• Just missed it: First steps in Wikidata for the Wikimedia LGBT Community - two introductory workshops for English, French and Spanish Wikipedians with an interest in learning Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: GLAM Netherlands report The joint Radboud–Maastricht project Open Topstukken concluded at the Dutch National Library, showcasing 30 digitized collection highlights enriched with Linked Open Data via Wikidata and supported by new tools, documentation, and visualizations to enhance digital accessibility and interoperability.
• Videos:
  • (Spanish) Mujeres que Inspiran: Layla Michán - Wikidata e investigación (Women who inspire. Wikidata & research)
  • Wikidata Workshop: Improving African Authors and Books Items
  • (Spanish) Enriquecer, reutilizar y modelar datos y metadatos usando Wikidata. Tomás Saorín Pérez (Enrich, reuse, and model data and metadata using Wikidata.)
  • Guide to the Wikidata Notability Policy
  • Wikidata: Wikimedia's knowledge graph in a world of generative AI
  • (Portuguese) O que saber antes de editar no Wikidata (What to know before editing on Wikidata)
  • (Portuguese) Para além da Wikipédia: como os dados estruturados conectam saberes (Beyond Wikipedia: how structured data connect knowledge)

Tool of the week

• ArchiveExternaLinks is a UserScript by Poro26. The UserScript automates the archiving of all external links present in an item, whether they appear in statements, references or identifiers. For each external link, the script automatically adds an archive link [archive], similar to what is done on Wikipedia for web sources cited in references

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • data collection method (scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject)
  • time of deposition (point in time when an archaeological object or assemblage was buried, hidden, lost, or otherwise deposited)
  • Commonwealth Sport country code (code for countries participating in Commonwealth Sport events)
• Newest External identifiers: Japanese Film Database ID, GCatholic former diocese ID, Myanmar Company Registration Number, Team Austria athlete ID, ‎ECHL.com player ID, ‎Genbu.net ID, ISTAMPIE ID, HarmonyOS NEXT APP ID, Federal Legal Information ID, UNESCO Virtual Museum inventory ID, South Korean Business Registration Number, ‎Lämningsnummer, ‎Mackolik football manager ID, Biserici.org church ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review: role in naming (the role the namesake played in relation to this item, i.e. why the item is named after the namesake)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Korea Heritage Service Heritage Portal ID, Lubimyczytać version/edition ID, UEA catalogue ID, CRA program account number, PL-AED, Yandex Object Answer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Towns named after Alexander the great
  • Heritage added to the Memory of the World International Register in 2025 (newly added data)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject LGBTQ History - aims to improve and organize data related to the history, people, places, events, and organizations that have contributed to LGBTQ+ experiences across time and geography.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • 👩🔬Passionate about highlighting women's achievements? WikiProject Women is dedicated to creating and improving data about women worldwide. Help close the gender gap in knowledge! WikiProject Women
  • 🗳️ Interested in democracy and political data? Join WikiProject Elections to model data about elections, candidates, and results from around the globe. Make electoral data open and accessible! WikiProject Elections
  • 🏛️ How do you find info on government institutions? WikiProject Govdirectory has a structured data model for that! Help improve data about public agencies on Wikidata. WikiProject Govdirectory
  • 🎵 Into music? From classical to K-pop, WikiProject Music needs your expertise to harmonize data on songs, artists, and releases. Join the band! WikiProject Music
  • 🧬 Your skills can help model lifesaving data. WikiProject Medicine works on structured data for diseases, drugs, clinical trials, and anatomy. Join a project that matters. WikiProject Medicine
  • 🔍 Interested in how knowledge itself is structured? WikiProject Ontology delves into the fundamental classes and properties of Wikidata. Shape the backbone of the knowledge graph! WikiProject Ontology
• Showcase Items: Aboriginal Australians (Q12060728) - First Nations people of Australia
• Showcase Lexemes: ਦਿਮਾਗ਼ (L1078947) - Punjabi noun (dɪ.mäːɣ) meaning "brain (organ)", "intellect/mind", or "understanding/consciousness"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are working on editing statements that link to other entities in their value (phab:T403974, phab:T409149)
  • We enabled mobile statement editing as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org (phab:T407737)
• GraphQL prototype: We finished the work on making labels of linked entities available (phab:T404692)
• Dumps: We are continuing to work on making the dump process more robust

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第47期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 读者体验团队正在行动版网页上试验阅读清单功能，该功能让登入账号但不编辑的读者能够储存私人的条目阅读清单。自11月10日当周起，这项试验在中文、阿拉伯语、法语、印尼语和越南语维基百科上进行；11月17日当周，试验将开始在英语维基百科上进行。
• 使用者在登入阶段若无法收取电子邮件验证码，现在可在新设的特殊页面提交表单以取得协助。这项更新是账号安全计划的一部分。如果您的账号设有电子邮件地址，请确保您可以正常收取信件。当您从陌生装置或地点登入账号，并且您未启用2FA，系统可能会要求您输入透过电子邮件发送的6位数验证码以完成登入程序。了解更多。
• 已新建一个维基： 米南佳保语维基文库 (s:min:) [115]
• 上周有23件由社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 作为解析器统一专案的一部分，内容转换团队已将多个低流量维基百科部署Parsoid作为预设解析器，并正在为高流量维基百科的部署做准备。本通知邀请您参阅Extension:ParserMigration说明文件，按照说明主动选择启用Parsoid，并协助回报您在工作流使用机器人、工具或脚本时遇到的问题。请透过工具侧边栏的“回报视觉错误”连结，或建立phab工单并加上Content Transform Team标签来告知我们。
• 【不受支援工具工作组】Video2Commons的多项问题已修复，包括：与档案名称相关的上传失败、影片汇入全黑问题、重试处理机制等。现已支援AV1编码格式。目前进行中的工作着重于后端稳定性、ffmpeg错误、字幕汇入功能、元资料处理、播放清单上传功能。您可在此Phabricator看板追踪个别工单。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

会议与活动

• 2026年5月1日至3日，维基媒体黑客松将在意大利米兰举行。报名将于2026年1月开放。奖学金申请现正开放中，至2025年11月28日截止。若有任何疑问，请电邮至hackathon@wikimedia.org。

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年11月18日 (二) 01:27 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #707

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #706.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • News2DataBot - Task(s): Check for new, unlinked articles on Polish Wikinews and create relevant Items.
  • WikidataLiteraryWorksMetaDataUpload - Task(s): Upload metadata for literary works from research project.
• New request for comments: The Exhibition Models RfC was split into 2 Schema proposals: Exhibition Concept and Exhibition Manifestation.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Upcoming LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session on 25 November 2025: Join the community-driven effort led by WikiProject Personal Pronouns to improve pronoun data modeling and ethics in Wikidata. This is part of a three-session series (Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9) focused on implementing new best practices. No prior Wikidata experience required. Join at 17:00 UTC. Event page.
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 - Hosted in Milan, Italy, scholarships are now open, apply on Pretix.
  • Art+Feminism & Whose Knowledge? - A conversation on building a feminist data future, Dec 5, 2025, 13:00 UTC (Time zone converter).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Impact of Wikipedia and Wikidata on ChatGPT search results
  • Wikidata as an authority data source for private collectors
  • (German) Environmental and climate reference in large knowledge databases. Wikipedia, Wikidata and environmental portals in comparison
• Presentations: Wikidata as a challenge for rule systems (Declarative AI 2025 Conf.) - Slides / Recording
• Papers: Snapshot of bibliographic metadata from Wikidata for all Arabic periodicals published worldwide before 1930 - Project Jarāʾid, by T. Grallert, (2025).
• Videos:
  • An introduction to Wikidata and its use for librarians and researchers; slides available on Commons
  • WikidataCon 2025 Session Playlists (YouTube):
    Day 1 (31.10) / Day 2 (01.11) / Day 3 (02.11)
  • Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature - By Dr Thneed
  • Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate
  • Towards Linked Data Fluency: Takeaways from a Wikidata Workflow Pilot Program
  • Enhancing authority files through SPARQL federated queries - Thomas Kerboul and the Bibliothèque de Genève improved person data by comparing Wikidata and IdRef, with manual checks preventing ID mix-ups.
  • (Spanish) Inspiring Women: Layla Michán - Wikidata and research - Dr. Aguirre (UNAM) discusses Wikidata as a collaborative research tool and shared experiences in the “Women Who Inspire” series.

Tool of the week

• Timetrail is a website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations.
• The redesigned WikiProvenance is now live, featuring a new front end and backend for exploring and comparing Wikidata provenance information. Try examples like Johann Sebastian Bach or Human vs. City and Paris vs. London. Explore it here: https://wikiprovenance.toolforge.org/

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• LDF endpoint retirement considered: The unstable and low-traffic LDF endpoint may be retired to reduce maintenance effort and unnecessary load on WDQS. If your workflow depends on it and you would hate to see it go, please let the Wikidata development team know at Wikidata talk:Data access.
• WDQS Legacy endpoint deprecation: The legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be fully decommissioned on 7 January 2026. Please migrate tools and workflows to the supported endpoints: query.wikidata.org (Main) or query-scholarly.wikidata.org (Scholarly). Assistance is available on the Data Access and Request a Query pages.
• Insights from Data Governance Research Process 2025: Results of the research to better understand how the communities currently think about which data and communities are best served by Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud or Wikibase Suite respectively.
• Abstract Wikipedia naming contest: Help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project which is provisionally known as Abstract Wikipedia. The second phase of voting is now open until December 1.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: CUIT, REGAFI id, Hong Kong company ID, California Entity Number, Mã số doanh nghiệp, ‎InfoconDB series ID, ‎InfoconDB conference ID, ‎Biography.com ID, Hudobné centrum person ID, Hudobné centrum group ID, FAIR Epigraphic Vocabularies ID, NVLI ID, SerBenfiquista.com players ID, ‎BG IISDA org ID, ‎BG NACID person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland ID, Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID, National cultural monument of Czechia ID, ‎Davis Cup player ID since 2025, ‎Eiga.com drama ID, Last Address ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • parliamentary group leader (the identity of the leader of a parliamentary group)
  • SignWriting transcription (representation in SignWriting)
  • free height (vertical distance from the floor level to the lowest obstruction in the ceiling of an indoor or outdoor space)
  • thumbtime (Time for video thumbnail in seconds)
  • Credibly accused of (entity (person or organization) that has been credibly accused of a crime or serious misconduct, but is not (yet) convicted)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:: CHZZK streamer ID, FC Barcelona players ID, Qalamos person ID, KISTI conference ID, KaraokeTexty.cz artist ID, KaraokeTexty.cz song ID, DLSite dōjin circle ID, DLSite person ID, DLSite work ID, Showlabs ID, DEUMM Online ID, Kvinnehistorie.no persons ID, Foot Résultats player ID, Manga-DB person ID, Manga-DB publisher ID, Manga-DB magazine ID, Slekt og Data cemetery ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Videogames in the wrong genre (source)
  • People buried in Italian (or subregion) cemeteries (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Bookbindings - share metadata and images from the currently offline Database of Bookbindings at the British Library
  • Irish Traditional Music:Projects - aims to systematically create and enhance Wikidata items for people profiled in the 2024 edition of Fintan Vallely's The Companion to Irish Traditional Music.
  • Basketball: Western Illinois Leathernecks Women's
• WikiProject Highlights: Lost Media/Subpages - aim to list all media lost to time in Wikidata
• Showcase Items: arXiv (Q118398) - online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
• Showcase Lexemes: Bogucin (L1405411) - Polish proper noun (bɔˈɡu.t͡ɕin) meaning "village in Greater Poland", "village in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship", or "village in Lublin Voivodeship"

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第48期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 上周，维基媒体搜寻团队在服务器端重新实现了希伯来语和俄语维基百科的“DWIM”小工具功能（DWIM＝Do What I Mean，照我的意思做）。DWIM小工具让使用者即使误切输入法，也能在搜寻建议中找到原本打算输入的字。例如，在俄语维基百科搜寻“cxfcnmt”，搜寻建议中会出现“счастье”。团队预计于本周在其他希伯来语和俄语站点启用此功能。 [116]
• 本周稍晚，启用“增强版语法高亮”测试功能的使用者，将能在讨论工具（DiscussionTools）中使用语法高亮功能。使用者需要同时启用“在源代码模式下启用编辑工具”选项，才能使用上述功能。 [117]
• CampaignEvents扩充功能——这套用于协调活动及其他维基内协作的工具组，现已部署至所有维基媒体站点。新功能“协作贡献”可让活动筹办人员与参与者检视活动成效。欢迎参加即将举行的学习课程，亲身体验新功能并提供您的意见回馈。
• 上周有24件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，先前CodeReviewBot无法正常运作，现已修正此问题。 [118]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 邀请维基媒体API使用者参与可用性研究，协助验证Wikimedia REST API沙盒的新设计。有兴趣的参与者请填写招募问卷。 [119]
• MediaWiki界面团队正着手弃用Action API中的XSLT样式表。今年11月底，对format=xml&xlst={stylesheet}的支援将从维基媒体专案中移除。此外，MediaWiki的1.43（LTS）、1.44、1.45版本也将预设停用该功能。MediaWiki 1.46版本（预计于2026年4月至5月间发布）将全面移除对XSLT样式表的支援。 [120]
• WDQS旧版端点（query-legacy-full.wikidata.org）将于今年12月底停止运作，并于2026年1月7日正式关闭。该日之后，若使用者未改用SPARQL联合查询，则向query.wikidata.org发出的full图谱查询请求将失败或传回无效结果。团队建议使用者确保工具和工作流程改用受支援的WDQS端点（主图谱：https://query.wikidata.org/或学术图谱：https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/）。关于迁移和替代存取方式，详见资料存取与请求查询页面。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年11月24日 (一) 23:57 (CST)

This Month in Education: November 2025

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 11 • November 2025

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

• Auckland Museum's Wiki Summer Student Programme is back for 2025 & 2026
• Edu Wiki camp 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia
• Wikidata na Escola: estudantes da zona rural de Minas Gerais contribuem com dados sobre mulheres negras brasileiras
• 190 students from Oteitza Lizeoa create 48 articles on the history of the Basque Country for Txikipedia in one day
• 2nd International Congress Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures – WECUDI
• Africa and Proud Leads Wiki Classroom Project Across Three Nigerian States
• November 2025November 2025/Annual Czech Wiki Conference took place on Saturday, Nov 8th
• EduWiki Meetup at GLAM Wiki Conference 2025
• Highly productive autumn education activities in Macedonia
• Kannada Wikipedia Asian Month 2025: Edit-a-thon & Workshop Highlights from Loyola College, Karnataka
• Kosovo Wikivoyage Editathons in Gjakova and Krusha e Madhe
• Ukrainian educators create open lesson plans based on the «Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom» course
• United Architects of the Philippines Student Auxiliary – University of Nueva Caceres joins Wikisource Training
• Videos on Teaching Experiences with Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, and OSM
• Wiki as a tool for technological empowerment of indigenous knowledge
• Wiki Science Competition in Albania and Kosovo
• Wiki Workshop 2026 Call for Contributions
• Wikipedia Contribution with Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences Students in Kosovo
• Impact of Wikimedia Rwanda Wiki Clubs in Growth of Wikimedia User Group Rwanda Community

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The Signpost: 1 December 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!

• In the media: Wales walk-off, antisemitism, supernatural powers, feminism turmoil, saints, and sex

• Recent research: At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?

• Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress

• Traffic report: It's a family affair

• Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust

• From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."

• Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan

• Opinion: AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles

• Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025

• Comix: Madness

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Wikidata weekly summary #708

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #707.

Discussions

• A Project Chat discussion (here) on mul / fallback language for Labels, Descriptions and Aliases has continued on Help Talk: Default values for labels and aliases

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Mark your calendars
    • Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map
      February 2 & April 20 (German) / June 2 (French), 2026. Workshops are on-site and online, registration mandatory (closes January 20).
    • Citizen Technology Community Gathering and Taiwan Translation Launch of Linked Open Data Documents December 7 Time: 13:30-16:50 UTC+8 at Template:Q Xi Project
    • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #83 December 8 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wikidata 13th celebration in the Philippines
  • Wikidata 13th Birthday: Taiwan special event recap (part 3)
  • WikidataCon 2025: A conversation with Danny Benjafield
  • Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group
  • Africa Wiki Women Celebrates Wikidata’s 13th Birthday
• Papers: Benchmarking SPARQL Engines on Wikidata Queries - Four open-source SPARQL engines were benchmarked on Wikidata, with QLever fastest, Blazegraph slower, and all showing SPARQL standard deviations. By Peter F. Patel-Schneider (2025).
• Videos:
  • Records in Contexts (RiC) Wikibase Working Session - Regine Heberlein of the (SAA) Description Section Steering Committee hosts a workshop on Wikibase implementation of the Records in Context Conceptual Model (RiC-CM).
  • Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate - Follow along as WMDE's Lukas Werkmeister expands Items of Berlin Stoelpersteine.
  • Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature - by Dr Thneed

Tool of the week

• Prix Littéraires lists French-speaking literary prizes and their recipients, also computing statistics (see also WikiProject)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Nov 27: The Wikibase Community User Group met for a Wikibase Live Session and to discuss the Federated Values demonstration.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: Federal Taxpayer Registry ID, WDSF athlete ID, TikTok numeric user ID, USGS Publication ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • concurring opinion by (judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court agreeing with the majority's final decision but providing different or additional reasons)
  • audio version of text (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).)
  • Hong Kong fire alarm level (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
  • overnight stays (number of tourists that stay overnight at a place)
  • specimen determiner (person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
  • collection date (the date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
  • position holder name string (name of person holding a position)
  • Crowdfunding target (target goal of this Crowdfunding campaign)
    • image sensor format (shape and size of a digital camera's image sensor)
  • random page URL (link to random page on website)
  • translates from (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Twitter broadcast ID, Petal Maps Place ID, MJ character glyph name, Mastercaller player ID, dartn.de player ID, darts1.de player ID, pdpa.co.uk player ID, Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID, Theaterencyclopedie-identificatiecode, Buy Me a Coffee username, GoFundMe ID, Identifiant Maitron d'une biographie (nouvelle version), Michaelis Portuguese-English properties, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name slug, FCC ID Database company ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Objects bearing the handwriting of Moses Maimonides (Source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Uzbekistan, Natural History Specimen Data Model
• Newest database reports: Popular Items without Claims - these are the most-connected or linked Items that do not have any Statements.
• Showcase Items: The Walt Disney Company

(Q7414) - American multinational mass media company

• Showcase Lexemes: Showcase Lexemes: девочка (L103836) - Russian noun (dʲɪˈvot͡ɕkə) meaning "female child", "affectionate address to a woman", or "female organism"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements:
  • We have added editing support for more data types (entity IDs, geographical shapes and tabular data).
  • It is now available as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org. You can enable it here.
• Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are rolling out improvements to the Databox Lua module to a number of Wikipedias to make it easier to have out-of-the-box Wikidata-powered infoboxes
• Ontology federation: We are making progress with making it possible to use Wikidata Item's as statement values in other Wikibase instances
• GraphQL: We are continuing the work on the prototype, focusing on getting data from a batch of Items
• Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is working on benchmarking of different replacement options for Blazegraph, the software powering the Wikidata Query Service

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

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2025年第49期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 12月2日，iOS和Android版维基百科APP使用者将可查看自己的2025年维基百科年度回顾。今年的年度回顾为使用者带来全新个人化洞察、阅读历程摘要以及焕然一新的设计。详见专案页面。
• Growth团队正致力于改进发送给新使用者的验证邮件的内容与呈现方式，使其更具亲和力、更实用、更直观地呈现资讯。新邮件文案已草拟完成，并即将进行A/B测试，请协助翻译这些内容。详见Phabricator工单。
• 12月2日，“新增链接”功能将部署至中文、日语和乌尔都语维基百科。“新增链接”功能基于预测模型运作，该模型会建议应新增至条目中的链接。虽然此功能已在多数维基百科语言版本启用，但原有预测模型无法支援特定语言。目前已开发出新模型以处理这些语言，并将逐步推广至其他维基百科语言版本。若想进一步了解，请联系Trizek (WMF)。
• 上周有34件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，由于从SpecialSearch改为MediaSearch，维基共享资源上某些页面的搜寻框显示无结果，现已修正此问题。 [121]
• 已新建两个维基：
  • 道本语维基百科 (w:tok:) [122]
  • 尼日利亚皮钦语维基语录 (q:pcm:) [123]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 维基媒体基金会正处于探索条目引导方法的初期阶段。此计划旨在找出能协助新编辑者在撰写条目时，能够轻松理解并应用维基百科方针与现有惯例的干预措施。目前专案处于探索与早期实验设计阶段。诚挚邀请所有社群成员进一步了解此专案，并在讨论页分享您的想法。

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年12月2日 (二) 02:58 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #709

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #708.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Well, Well, Bot! - Task/s: Database imports, maintenance.
  • RijksBot - Task/s: Adding Rijksmuseum IDs (P13234) to Wikidata items based on a CSV mapping of QIDs to Rijksmuseum URIs.
  • CostamiriBot - Task/s: Chess related tasks such as monthly updates to the elo rating of chess players.
• New draft: Wikidata:External identifiers/Obsolescence (opinions are welcome in its talk page)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • How to view #25N with Wikidata? - a community hour with Wikimedia Chile, 21:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter)
  • Fact-Checking with Wikidata Workshop - January 20, 2026, 16:30 ~ 18:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter) - WMDE's Philippe Saadé will show hands-on methods using the Wikidata MCP to retrieve, filter and classify Wikidata statements with semantic search, reranker LLM and NLI models, registration required.
  • (Portuguese) Meeting Point Editatona II - Warm your hands modeling festival on Wikidata: December 10, 2025, 15:00 - 19:00 UTC+1, Porto, Portugal.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 9 December, 2025: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). 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 previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. Sessions will be held on October 14, November 25, and December 9, 2025 at our regular time of 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/PersonalPronouns
• Past Events: Digital Humanities Hub: Documenting epigraphic data, Wikidata ontology practice - December 2 & 3, 2025, both 14:00 ~ 15:30 UTC.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Lafia
• Papers:
  • Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models - Chepurova et al., (2025)
  • Victims of Posterity. Identifying Gaps on 19th-Century French Art History with Wikidata - first paper in the Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse collection by the Journal of Open Humanities Data. Authored by Claire Dupin de Beyssat.
• Videos: GB Claude Code AI Agent: Fully Autonomous Wikidata Query & Visualization (Zero Human Intervention)
  • (Taiwanese Mandarin) Wikidata Taiwan translation project on "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" (as published by the OCLC)

Tool of the week

• Wikiguessr Game Is a Wikidata game it guess the location from Image from anywhere around the world by User: Ranjithsiji

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Remembering Amos Bairoch, co-contributor to Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Semantic Web of data and consulted often for TiagoLubiana's CellosaurusBot.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎GBFS feed URL (URL of a GBFS feed for the bicycle-sharing system)
  • code of conduct URL (URL of a resource that contains the Code of Conduct of a project or organization)
• Newest External identifiers: BFXC authority ID, Out tag ID, GayCities ID, Fight.ru fighters ID, Personality Database group ID, ‎Codes for the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China, Macanese company ID, ‎MovieID film ID, Teen Vogue tag ID, ‎CRT Database model ID, PriceRunner product ID, BWB number, Brandenburg School ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • fragrance gender (category for which a fragrance is marketed)
  • perfumer (person who created a perfume)
  • Discharge regime (The '''[[:en:Discharge regime|discharge regime]]''' can be Glacial, Nival or Pluvial. It can be a combination of 2 : Nivo-pluvial, Pluvio-nival, Nivo-glacial, etc. Be specific (e.g. pluvial tropical, meridional, etc.). Or be complex)
  • minimal pair of (lexeme that differ from this one in only one phonological element)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Cookpad Recipe ID, Sector.sk game ID, Card Player ID, Fragrantica perfume ID, Fragrantica perfume brand ID, My Abandonware theme ID, Identificador Banrep Cultural, izoh.uz word ID, VGChartz game ID, Metacritic video game genre ID, Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID, Taking Stock ID, Game Font Library ID, Fragrantica perfume notes ID, EAGER game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Birthplace of French Heads of State
  • Films starring Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hughes, available on YouTube
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Turkmenistan
• Showcase Items: Goosebumps - 2015 film directed by Rob Letterman
• Showcase Lexemes: course (L3958) - English noun (kɔːrs) meaning "direction of movement", "program of study", or "part of a meal"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • It's now possible to edit existing references (phab:T405236)
  • We fixed a number of issues such as a problem when adding the first statements to an item (phab:T409069)
  • We started work on showing constraint violation indicators (phab:T400676)
  • We're working on showing errors in the edit form (phab:T408928)
  • We're improving the edit summaries (phab:T411247)
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We continued working on improvements to the Databox Lua module and template
• GraphQL: We continued working on the first version of GraphQL support

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

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2025年第50期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

本周要闻

• 所有维基媒体专案的注册使用者现可启用双重验证（2FA）来保护其账号，这是账号安全计划的一环。不久后，凡执行涉及安全或隐私敏感操作的使用者，皆须强制启用双重验证。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 继上周的部署后，“新增链接”功能将于12月9日起扩大部署至另外33个维基百科语言版本。该功能让编辑者能在编辑过程中加入建议连结。本次扩大部署得益于全新预测模型，该模型现已支援所有语言，包含先前未涵盖的语言。尽管此功能已在大多数维基百科版本运行一段时间，本次部署将使我们更接近全面采用改良版模型的目标。如有任何疑问或想了解更多详情，请联系Trizek (WMF)。
• 上周，搜寻平台团队为格鲁吉亚语维基百科新增了即时转写搜寻建议功能。若搜寻拉丁字母或西里尔字母仅出现少许常规搜寻建议，搜寻文字会转换为格鲁吉亚字母来寻找更多结果。例如，在搜寻栏输入“bedniereba”或“бедниереба”，搜寻建议中会出现现存条目“ბედნიერება”（“幸福”）。若有其他语言需要这类有关转写或错误键盘／输入法的搜寻建议功能，请在Phabricator提出建议，供未来开发参考。
• 本周稍晚，我们将针对前100大维基百科版本的编辑者，在行动版网页视觉化编辑器中展开一项对照实验。其中50%的编辑者将会看到新增的“编辑完整页面”按钮，可让编辑范围扩展至整页内容。此设计旨在让行动版网页使用者更容易编辑任何条目章节，无须受限于最初点击的章节编辑图示。此实验将持续约4周。详见工单。
• 本周稍晚，读者成长团队将进行一项行动版网页实验，预设展开所有条目章节（现行预设为折叠），并将使用者目前阅读的章节标题固定于页面顶端。此实验将影响中文、阿拉伯语、法语、印尼语、越南语维基百科中10%的使用者。 [124]
• The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
• A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. [125]
• 上周有23件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，先前从Microsoft Edge网址栏复制URL再贴到某些维基编辑器中，会错误贴上网页标题而非URL，现已修正此问题。 [126]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周开始，启用“增强版语法高亮”测试功能的使用者，其Lua、JavaScript、CSS、JSON、Vue内容模型的编辑器将从CodeEditor改为CodeMirror。此变更将同步升级linter。我们计划逐步取代CodeEditor并提供一致的程式码编辑体验。 [127]
• 邀请开发者填写2025年开发者满意度调查，开放填写至2026年1月5日。如果您为维基媒体生态系统开发软件，并乐意分享经验或提供意见回馈，我们诚挚欢迎您参与调查。 [128]
• 本周没有MediaWiki版本更新。

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This Month in GLAM: November 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue XI, November 2025 Headlines Belgium report: Call for volunteers, Computer's Day and upcoming events Czech Republic report: Czech Radio and Wikimedia CZ launched cooperation Indonesia report: Our Activities in November Italy report: Wrap up of the 2025 GLAM call New Zealand report: ASBS 2025 Conference, a NZBSI Wikimedian in Residence update & Auckland Museum Summer Students North Macedonia report: Wikimedia MKD and Cultural Institutions: A Year of Growth, Content, and Collaboration Poland report: GLAM Wiki 2025 conference, WiR Meeting and the First National Institute of Museums Training on GLAM–Wiki Switzerland report: IT Wikicon, Faces and Masks, Matrimoine @ Genève UK report: Awards season- again! USA report: November edit-a-thons & meetings Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members Content Partnerships Hub report: Here to Help: The Next Stage of the Content Partnerships Hub Memory of the World report: Enriching the data set Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #710

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #709.

Discussions

• The mass editing policy Request for Comments has a number of open questions looking for votes and comments to shape the mass-editing policy.

Events

• Upcoming events:
• A Scholia hackathon is ongoing this week, focused on completing the transition of Scholia to QLever as the SPARQL backend for its Wikidata queries.
• Data and Technology Week 2025 from 19th of December 2025 to 22 of December 2025, organized by Template:Q. Consisted of a Wikidata Workshop, a Wikifunction Introductory Seminar and Geodatathon. This event is in Indonesian.
  • (English) WM Malaysia / 2025 SEA Games Datathon - 20.12.2025, 1200 ~ 1400 UTC. Register to contribute to items about athletes competing in South East Asian Games 2025 (Q25041680)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (French) Facebook post: ArkéoTopia: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (CTHS) to begin integrating Wikidata
• Papers:
  • Open Data Practices of Art Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment - second paper of the Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse collection. By Dişli et al., (2025).
  • VIAF Governance Concerns about the Refurbished VIAF Web and API Interfaces by Stefano Bargioni (2025): a detailed account of the technical and governance issues experienced by VIAF in 2025 and its impact on its many external reusers, including Wikidata
• Videos:
  • (Italian) Wikidata and Wikibase for research: Camillo Pellizzari gives an overview of Wikidata, the data model, potential as scientific research subject and tool, then a Wikibase intro and its uses beyond Wikidata, with example instance: Hypotheseis; slides on Commons
  • Feminist Structured data: A Conversation with Art+Feminism and Whose Knowledge?: How feminist values can reshape structured data on Wikidata to address gaps, representation, and opportunities for collaboration across communities.
  • Community Hours: Art+Feminism community in Armenia: Former regional A+F ambassador, Arminé Aghayan-Flisch, tells us of her experiences growing the A+F Armenian community through GLAM, Wikidata and Wikipedia.
  • (Spanish) PADEP 2025: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Dr. Luis Álvarez Azcárraga teaches the course: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Open Databases for Social, Artistic, and Cultural Studies
  • See something, change something Webinar: @58:10, a presentation on the Wikidata agent plug-in for ArchivesSpace is given.
  • Wikibase Live Session / November 27: First demo presented of federation of values from Wikidata to Wikibases.

Tool of the week

• Broomstick - Broomstick is a tool to uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Congratulations to Govdirectory, the winner of the FSF's Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
• wikibase-cli got support for claim reconciliation. This is typically useful to add a claim unless it already exists.
• The Wikimedia Research Fund is open for funding applications for research projects around the Wikimedia Projects, including Wikidata.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: has grammatical number (grammatical number used in this language)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Cabinet minutes of the German Government ID, neodb.social ID, Flemish Community Masterpieces List item ID, Medicin.dk medical condition ID, ‎Mapillary username, ‎Sector.sk game ID, ‎My Abandonware theme ID, ‎Encyclopedia of Shinto ID, ‎Blu-Ray.com film ID, ‎Japanese Law Translation ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID, Getty Collections Archival Component ID, CRA program account number, FC Barcelona player ID, Qalamos person ID, ‎KISTI conference ID
• New External identifier property proposals to review: survivalhorrors.com ID, Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID, GamesIndustry.biz game ID, WhatsOnStage Stage Names ID, Adventure Game Hotspot game ID, identifiant Netflix titre, 4gamer.net game ID, Fragrantica perfumer ID, PC Guru game ID, British Newspaper Archive publication ID, GOG tag ID, Open Food Facts brand ID, Games for Change directory ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • All ports in Wikidata, sorted by the total number of statements
  • Queer and LGBT Literature that have won Literary Awards (source)
  • Bubble chart with numbers shown in the bubbles: Memory of the World inscriptions from Arab states
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject P244 maintenance - For coordination and improvement of Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAP) via Library of Congress authority ID
  • WikiProject Museum of Glass (Q2894440) - improving the visibility of visiting artists to the University of Washington Information School
• WikiProject Highlights: Egezort's efforts in Mereology: removing/migrating part of statements in Recipe relationships
• Newest database reports: 34 Bots operating without a Bot flag
• Showcase Items: Fort George

(Q1426707) - 18th-century fortress built in the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745

• Showcase Lexemes: mesa (L31222) - Spanish noun (ˈme.sa) meaning "table (furniture)", "mesa (flat-topped hill)", or "served table for dining"

Development

• Edit summaries: We made changes that will improve the automatic edit summaries of edits made using the wbeditentity API endpoint. Tools that use this endpoint to edit statements will, in some cases, now have more accurate edit summaries; this also affects how such edits are summarized in edit groups. (phab:T411247)
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are collecting feedback from the first wikis who got the new and improved Databox module.
• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are making remaining changes for the first roll-out as a beta-feature.
  • We are working on showing constraint violations. (phab:T411602, phab:T400676)
• GraphQL: We are working on making it possible to query for Items by Property/value pair (phab:T403576)
• REST API: We are improving error messages for requests that failed due to an IP block (phab:T404727)

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

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2025年第51期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 上周有18件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，先前当临时账号在条目加入外部链接，hCaptcha请求被异常地多次触发，导致首次尝试发布编辑时未跳出弹窗，现已修正此问题。 [129]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 为提升数据库与网站效能，导向维基媒体专案的连结将不再作为外部链接储存于数据库中。这意味着这些连结将无法透过Special:LinkSearch搜寻，不会被垃圾邮件黑名单或滥用过滤器视为新连结进行检查，亦不会出现在数据库复本的externallinks资料表中。未来此措施可能扩展至其他高连结量的可信网站，以维基站点为单位实施，例如维基共享资源上的知识共享连结。 [130]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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This Month in Education: December 2025

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 12 • December 2025

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

• WikiLatih Wiktionary with the Goethe-Institut: Strengthening the Digital Presence of Indonesia’s Local Languages
• Wiki in schools - Architecture and Open Heritage
• What are the challenges and opportunities in scientific dissemination? Reflecting on the topic in the Brazilian context
• WikipediaxAI: Wikipedia, AI, and the future of knowledge
• Wikipedia at University Another year of working alongside higher education institutions in Argentina
• WAM - Tulu Edit-a-thon & Workshop in St Aloysius University
• Visibilizando memórias negras: estudantes da UFRGS ampliam a Wikipédia com foco na imprensa e no associativismo pós-abolição
• Transforming Education Through Wikimedia in Kosovo: 2025
• New WikiClubs and educational partnership in Albania
• New WikiClub with the Dibra Youth Center in Albania
• Landmark Educational Initiatives and Wikimedia Programs Transform Learning in 2025
• Knowledge in the Digital Age: A WMUK Collaborative Workshop

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The Signpost: 17 December 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Interview: Part 1: Bernadette Meehan

• News and notes: We're gonna have a party!

• In the media: The "bigg" bosses: Robertsky and the Pope

• Traffic report: Death and stranger things

• Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols

• Obituary: Michal Lewi (Iwelam) and Alan R. King (A R King)

• Concept: List of xxtreme sports (redirected from Electrojousting)

• Comix: display: flex-inline;

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Wikidata weekly summary #711

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #710.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Vitaly Zdanevich
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Title markup bot - Task(s): There is a variety of HTML markup found in , violating various constraints on the property. The following task description is for a bot that can start the required cleanup process. I would like to request permission to implement the functionality outlined here as a first iteration, on the understanding that it will be extended and refined to cover more cases. It will operate within the limitation that it will only modify values, add qualifiers and update labels to keep them in-line with altered titles.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos:
  • Wikidata 13th Anniversary in the Tyap Wikimedians User Group
  • Remapping the Down Survey - By OSM for History Buffs
  • Open Data DEx Demo #1 - This week's topic: Astronomy in WikiData!

Tool of the week

• Timetrail - is a website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland jobs:
  • Director of Engineering (all genders)
  • Senior Data Analyst (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Japanese court rank (Japanese court rank of a person or a shrine)
  • ‎value of this mathematical characteristic (non-numeric value of this characteristic applied to this mathematical object)
• Newest External identifiers: Taking Stock ID, Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID, The Advocate tag ID, ‎Game Font Library ID, IMI person ID, ‎Metacritic video game genre ID, Banrep Cultural ID, FCC ID Database company slug, EDBO institution code, ‎GamesIndustry.biz game ID, ‎PC Guru game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • common organism (organisms known by a common name of a biological taxon)
  • part (exact number denoting the part of a creative work or edition)
  • heir apparent (person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Parfumo perfume ID, Parfumo perfumer ID, Parfumo perfumes ID, Parfumo fragrance notes ID, BoomerShooterDB game ID, identifiant Rappels d'une production théâtrale, Parfinity notes ID, Vandal game ID, Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID, GBIF ID, MetroidvaniaDB game ID, Games.cz game ID, Basenotes perfume brand ID, Basenotes perfume people ID, Basenotes perfume ID, CICAP Encyclopedia ID, Zelda Wiki ID, Yaba Sanshiro ID, identificador Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Finnish railway station code, Fight-A-Base game ID, Sketchfab model ID, Sketchfab channel ID, Sketchfab user ID, DVIDS Video ID, DeVuego game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Number of riots per country (source)
  • Country having the most female politicians (source)
• WikiProject Highlights: Niryhpr's efforts in organising the page User:Niryhpr/WikiProject_Ports (part of WikiProject Indonesia/Geodatathon)
• Newest database reports: Language statistics for Items
• Showcase Items: Mansa Musa - 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire
• Showcase Lexemes: ਮਰਨ (L689064) - Punjabi verb (mərəɳ) meaning "to die (cease living)", "to wither or spoil", or "to give up (lose hope/energy)"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We added an indicator showing which Properties are not yet supported when creating new statements in mobile editing (T412719)
  • We continued working on showing constraint violations on mobile (T411602, T411608)
  • We are working on musical notation statements on mobile (T407247)
  • We are improving error handling for incorrectly filled and unfilled fields in mobile editing (T408928)

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第52期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 明年1月起，编辑过滤器可以设定成自动监督隐藏过滤器详情，这包括触发条件以及触发过滤器的编辑和操作等。监督员可以用这项功能来防止个人资料外泄或其他应隐藏内容的传播。 [131]
• 因应年末假期，下一期技术新闻将于2026年1月12日发送。感谢今年所有协助翻译、贡献内容以及提供宝贵意见的各位。
• 上周有16件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，先前在Android版维基百科年度回顾功能中，点击“第一步”时可能会发生崩溃，现已修正此问题，该功能可正常开启。 [132]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 过去，MediaWiki生成的界面元素（如差异比较与分类）会用data-mw="interface"属性来区别于维基内容。此属性现已改为data-mw-interface=""，以避免与由Parsoid生成的其他data-mw属性产生潜在冲突。 [133]
• 本周及下周没有MediaWiki版本更新。

会议与活动

• 2026年西北欧维基媒体黑客松将于2026年3月13日至14日在荷兰阿纳姆举行。报名期限为12月中旬至1月中旬，额满即止。场地仅能容纳约100人，请尽早报名。

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年12月23日 (二) 05:46 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #712

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #711.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Ppolar bear - RfP scheduled to end after 3 January 2026 13:40 (UTC)
  • QubeCubeBot - Task/s: Continue import of Swedish Parliament documents inline with the modeling work in Wikidata:WikiProject Sweden/Swedish Riksdag documents.
  • AinaliBot 3 - Task/s: Continue import of Swedish Parliament documents inline with the modeling work in Wikidata:WikiProject Sweden/Swedish Riksdag documents.

Events

• This month's Scholia hackathon has moved Scholia closer to its planned switch to a QLever backend. Beta testers can assist by exploring the interim QLever-backed Scholia instance and reporting any issues.
• Upcoming events:
  • SWAT4HCLS 2026. Amsterdam, March 23-26, with a "Wikidata in healthcare and life sciences" session and Prof. Hannah Bast as one of the keynotes

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos:
  • (Indonesian) Introduction to Wikifunctions presented by NikolasKHF (Niko). In this session, Niko introduced Wikifunctions project, how to edit a function, how to add an implementation and test, and demonstrated them. This is the first Wikifunctions training in Indonesian. Slides are available on Commons.
  • (Indonesian) Wikidata for Academician presented by Wikimedia Indonesia's Data and Technology team. They introduced Wikimedia Indonesia, and then explained Wikidata, its underlying concepts and a glance to its history, how to add statements and references, how to query with Wikidata Query Services, Wikidata and its potential in research fields, Wikiprojects and Wikidata:For development resources. Slides are available on Commons.

Tool of the week

• WD-NearbyItems : browse Wikidata Items nearby
• Quizicle is a daily quiz/puzzle game that's not really a quiz and not really a puzzle. Deduce the answer from crossword-style clues with hot/cold feedback.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • random page URL (link to random page or item on website)
  • specimen classifier (person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
  • collection date (date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
  • land degradation (amount of land that is degraded by an object, mainly for infrastructure projects)
  • Hong Kong fire alarm level (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
  • page offset (difference between external page number printed on the work (P304) and the actual page in digital file (P7668))
  • logical implication (axiom or conjecture that this axiom or conjecture implies)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎survivalhorrors.com ID, ‎VGChartz ID, ‎Adventure Game Hotspot game ID, ‎BoomerShooterDB game ID, ‎Vandal game ID, GoFundMe fundraising ID, Adult Film Database director ID, S1 No.1 Style actress ID, ‎MetroidvaniaDB game ID, EAGER game ID, EAGER developer ID, ‎Games.cz game ID, ‎4gamer.net game ID, ‎GOG tag ID, ‎Yaba Sanshiro ID, ‎Games for Change directory ID, DLSite work ID, ‎DLSite person ID, ‎DLSite doujin circle ID, ‎Fight-A-Base game ID, ‎DeVuego game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review: Erdős Problem number (Erdős Problem number)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: PixelatedArcade genre ID, BRAHMS identifier, LegiStorm person ID, Game Boy Database game ID, NHK Archives Program ID, Wendingen object ID, Wendingen person ID, RetroCollect games ID, FIP.IT basketball player ID, Lenta.ru person ID, Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Polish version)., Télérama film ID., Bercail ID, Panoramax picture ID, InterSportStats athlete ID, Before I Play game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Showcase Lexemes: turn (L3568) - English verb (tɜːrn) meaning "to rotate", "to change direction", or "to transform"

Development

• No development happened in the past week as the team are on holidays. Happy new year everyone!

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #713

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #712.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Morne06 - RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2026 20:35 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Ppolar bear - general consensus is to reapply after gaining more experience.
• New request for comments: Notability policy reform: first drafted in 2013, Wikidata has grown vastly since the original Notability policy was created. This first-round discussion is intended to collect ideas, comments, and reflections on how to improve the Notability Policy for what Wikidata currently is and will become.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #84 January 12 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026: a two-day event that will take place from 13 to 14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Apply for a grant and join the event.
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 14th January 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Rescuing Scholia #2: getting closer
  • African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA)
  • Wikontic: Ontology-Aware KG Pipeline - this article introduces Wikontic, a pipeline that builds knowledge graphs from text by enforcing Wikidata's ontological rules and merging duplicate entities.
• Papers:
  • Using Wikidata’s Ontology in Practice: A Neuro-Symbolic, Community-Centred Workflow for Integrating and Reusing Humanities Datasets - This article introduces an ontology-first, community-driven workflow that aligns humanities datasets with Wikidata to address data silos and gender inequities, offering reusable modelling patterns, SPARQL-based analysis, and a neuro-symbolic AI framework that reduces bias and supports reproducible, ontology-backed knowledge graph practices. By Velilla & Ferran-Ferrer (2025).
  • A Semantic Wiki for Language Learning: The Case of the Baoulé Language - The BAOULE-WIKI project introduces a semantic wiki and homograph-detection model to preserve and teach the endangered Baoulé language, achieving high accuracy while paving the way for broader digital preservation of African languages through community collaboration and integration with knowledge bases like Wikidata and DBpedia. By Kra et al., (2026).
  • Transforming the Digital Landscape: Towards a Medieval Knowledge Graph - Digitization has transformed medieval studies by expanding access and enabling new research methods, with future progress hinging on Linked Open Data, shareable identifiers, and collaborative knowledge graphs to truly democratize and enrich scholarship. By Burrows, (2026).
  • Towards a Linked Open Index: Reconciling Museum Records to Wikidata for Index of American Design Constituents - The Index of American Design project’s reconciliation of thousands of records with Wikidata reveals both challenges and strategies for improving data alignment, while a linked Power BI tool supports ongoing monitoring of quality, access, and representation in humanities research. By Foster et al., (2026).
  • The “Dizionario Degli Scrittori Italiani Contemporanei Pseudonimi” in Wikidata. Pseudonymous Authors in Wikidata: Dataset and Queries - The dataset from the MA thesis structures biographical data on 19th–20th century pseudonymous Italian authors in Wikidata, including corpus items, SPARQL queries, and analysis documents, and is reusable for further research or case studies. By De Monaco, (2025).

Tool of the week

• Broomstick is a tool by Wikicollabs it uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.
• Explore your Wikimedia activity year in review with Wiki Year in Review
• Wikilokal (Android version): explore the world within a 3 km radius by Affandy Murad

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New project: Dissemination of polymer science through Wikipedia and Wikidata (Template:Q)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • crowdfunding target (target goal of this crowdfunding campaign)
  • free height (vertical distance from the floor level to the lowest obstruction in the ceiling of an indoor or outdoor space)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎PixelatedArcade genre ID, ‎Game Boy Database game ID, ‎RetroCollect games ID, MyWaifuList work ID, Nonbinary Wiki ID, Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID, DVIDS video ID, FIP.IT basketball player ID, Card Player ID, Télérama film ID, Boosty author ID, ‎Before I Play game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Fungal Names taxon ID (ID number in the [[:w:Fungal Names]] database.)
  • Braille transcription (transcription in Braille)
  • Braille represents (graphene or phone that the Braille cell represents)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: CNVD-ID, Trismegistos editor ID, woordenlijst lemma ID, European Vehicle Number, CourtListener person ID, Norwegian railway station code, Australian National Kennel Council ID, Museo del Marchio Italiano ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Schema examples: (E498) district electoral division: Schema to describe an electoral division (small political division of Ireland).
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project IrishForges: Describing forges and forge buildings of Ireland using Wikidata, Wikimedia and other sources.
  • Project Ireland: A hub for all Ireland-related Wikidata activities including cross-Wikiproject tasks.
  • Project Historic Irish Placenames: focusing on County Kilkenny, connect historic placenames with their modern counterparts or create new items for "lost places".
  • Svenska psalmodikon: A sub-project for the psalmodikon (Q3354977), a stringed-instrument popular in Sweden.
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiPojects as decentralized governance - this sub-page of the Limits of Wikidata project proposes WikiProjects become caretakers of collections or subgraphs of relevant items.
• Showcase Items: Venezuela (Q717) - country in South America
• Showcase Lexemes: размах (L155644) - Russian noun (rɐzˈmax) meaning "amplitude (of a swing)", "physical span or width", or "scale/scope (of an activity)"

Development

• No development happened in the past week as the team are just returning from the holidays.

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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This Month in GLAM: December 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue XII, December 2025 Headlines From the team: Global GLAM Calls Continue in 2026 Albania report: Wikimedian in Residence, 2025, in Elbasan Albania Argentina report: Resume of the year Australia report: AMaGA partnership, signing the Open Heritage Statement and South Australian Museum Partner Project Belgium report: Public Domain Day 2026, Circus Heritage and Fosdem Colombia report: Preparándonos para celebrar el día del dominio público - Getting ready for the Public Domain Day celebration Italy report: Exploring Italy and Unlocking Its Heritage: Touring Club Italiano and GLAM Call 2026–2028 New Zealand report: ASBS 2025 Conference follow-up Wiki webinar & Auckland Museum student update Poland report: Public Domain, Conferences, and Conversations on Open Culture Switzerland report: GLAM on Tour Bellinzona, Xmas Event, GLAM Wiki Group UK report: 2025 in review USA report: December meetings Public Domain Day report: Public Domain Day 2026 Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members Memory of the World report: 2025 in review Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #714

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #713.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: AmeisenBot 3 - Task/s: Adding descriptions (and possibly labels and aliases as well) to items based on their statements.
• New CheckUser requests: Saroj (RfP scheduled to end at 25 January 2026 09:31 UTC)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 14th January 2026 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.
  • WMF Wikidata Platform team is launching a new office hours series starting January 27th, 2026 and continuing on the first Tuesday of each month. The scope of this series is be limited to Blazegraph migration support for the entirety of 2026. Participants are encouraged to register in advance for each session and may optionally add a brief description of their migration-related questions to the shared Etherpad to help guide preparation. See Blazegraph Migration office hour page for more details

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Wikidata at 13: Fante Wikimedians Joins the Celebration
• Papers: Structuring the Sights and Stories of Pausanias with Wikidata - The Digital Periegesis project leverages Wikidata and linked open data tools to annotate, disambiguate, and connect Pausanias’s complex 2nd‑century text, enhancing accessibility, interoperability, and scholarly engagement with Greece’s historical and mythological landscape. By Kiesling et al., (2025)
• Videos: (Papiamento) Wikipedia on Aruba | Episode 8: How to add a new topic (item) to Wikidata

Tool of the week

• Knowledge Train A game to create a train of knowledge with the power of Wikidata - User:Athulvis

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile statement editing is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata. Enable the Beta feature in your preferences settings, head to Wikidata Sandbox (Q4115189) (in mobile view) to test it and share your feedback here: Mobile editing of statements.
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team has published its January 2026 newsletter. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. To have new issues of the WDP monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: common organism (organisms known by this common name)
• Newest External identifiers: Boosty author ID, ‎Before I Play game ID, ‎Korea Heritage Service Heritage Portal ID, ‎KaraokeTexty.cz artist ID, ‎KaraokeTexty.cz song ID, ‎Showlabs ID, DEUMM Online ID, Slekt og Data cemetery ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia ID, EZB library ID, topic of Dictionary of Canadian biography identifier, Cover Art Archive image, ‎X broadcast ID, Theaterencyclopedie ID, Maitron biography ID (new version), ‎Scilit organization ID, Fragrantica perfume ID, Fragrantica perfume brand ID, izoh.uz word ID, ‎Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID, Fragrantica perfume notes ID, Fragrantica perfumer ID, Parfumo perfume brand ID, Parfumo perfumer ID, Parfumo perfume ID, Parfumo fragrance notes ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Artistagraph ID (Identifies the Artistagraph for an artistIdentifier for creative works on Artistagraph, a platform for documenting and discovering artist information and creative work connections)
  • number of tunnel tubes (Number of parallel tubes in a tunnel.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:: Mapillary sequence ID, People's Graphic Design Archive creator ID, Uni24k indentifier, Brussels BeStAddress municipality ID, Brussels BeStAddress street name ID, Brussels BeStAddress address ID, Wikifunctions object, MAX username, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ID, The Retro Web company ID, Schulnummer Berlin, KCI article ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Timeline of coup d'états
  • All towns named Versailles
• Showcase Items: mojito - traditional Cuban highball cocktail

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We have released the first version of mobile statement editing as a beta feature (see details above). In addition we are improving it further and are adding missing functionality to get it ready for a full release. This includes adding editing support for additional data types such as date and musical notation.
• Blazegraph replacement: The Wikidata platform team is continuing their evaluation of alternative backends for the Wikidata Query Service.
• Graph QL: We are continuing to work on the prototype to get it ready for wider testing and are waiting on a security review.
• Dumps: We fixed an issue where the "latest" symlinks to data dumps weren't working correctly.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are investigating how to further reduce the number of unnecessary changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes coming from Wikidata. The work on this is also helping reduce the size of the recent changes database table, which is especially important on larger Wikipedias. In addition we are continuing to improve the Databox module to make it easier for smaller Wikipedias to get Wikidata-powered infoboxes.

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

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2026年第3期技术新闻

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其他语言的翻译版本。

本周要闻

• 维基媒体基金会在元维基和Diff平台发布了有关明年度（2026年7月—2027年6月）年度计划的若干指导性问题。这些问题聚焦于全球趋势、更快更健康的实验模式、强化新手支援、提升编辑者与高阶权限者的能力、促进跨专案协作，以及扩展与留存读者群。欢迎在讨论页提供意见与想法。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 作为社群技术团队目前在“多重监视清单”专案的工作之一，团队将更新EditWatchlist特殊页面的界面，向多重监视清单的实现迈出第一步。此外，为回应社群愿望“改进分页/页面导航”，Search特殊页面的分页显示机制也将更新。 [134]
• 全域监视清单是MediaWiki扩充功能，可查看不同维基的监视清单。现已更新，使其外观更接近常规监视清单，例如检视IP地址中临时账号的界面已最佳化（包含用户连结重定向到贡献页面），将页面标题加粗，及以新分页开启编辑摘要和标签中的连结。 [135][136][137][138]
• 上周有28件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，先前全域封锁界面中没有停用发送电子邮件的选项，现已修复此问题，将于1月13日当周启用。 [139]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• VisualEditor引用工具和参考文献预览现已支援“地图”方式的文献类型。 [140]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki/MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 15 January 2026

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikipedia's 25th anniversary is here!

• Special report: Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call

• Serendipity: The WMF wants to buy you books!

• WikiProject report: Time for a health check: the Vital Signs 2026 campaign

• In the media: Fake Acting President Trump and a Wikipedia infobox

• Community view: The inbox behind Wikipedia

• Recent research: Art museums on Wikidata; comparing three comparisons of Grokipedia and Wikipedia

• Traffic report: Tonight I'm gonna rock you

• Comix: Oh come on man.

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