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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期技術新聞

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近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 新功能精選模板（featured templates）將於本週部署至所有維基媒體專案。透過此功能，編輯者將能夠快速存取實用模板的清單。這些模板將在模板探索介面的「精選」標籤下的清單中顯示。管理員可以透過社群配置介面定義該清單。此功能滿足了社群透過社群願望清單提出的請求，為重點領域「模板調用和探索」的一部分。 [1][2]
• 上週有31件社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，在維基文庫電子書匯出工具中加入馬拉雅拉姆文字型的請求現已解決。現在，該工具所匯出的維基文庫電子書將正確呈現馬拉雅拉姆文字母。 [3]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 歡迎開發者、設計師和所有維基人為2025年維基媒體國際會議黑客松提交專案構想。參閱這篇Diff文章了解更多。

會議與活動

• 2025年WikiIndaba獎助金申請與議程提案至7月20日 23:59 UTC截止。WikiIndaba是一個區域會議，旨在讓非洲大陸和散居海外的非洲維基人團結一致，共同成長。立即提交您的獎助金申請和議程提案！
• 2025年巴西維基會議將於7月19日至20日在巴西巴伊亞州薩爾瓦多市舉行。歡迎巴西社群成員報名參加！

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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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 內容翻譯工具中的翻譯建議功能現已在「...更多」分類中新增另一級條目篩選器。使用建議功能的譯者現在可以使用新的「地區」篩選器選擇並接收根據其感興趣的地理位置定製的條目建議。 [4]
• 管理員現在可以將「新增連結」功能限制為僅限新手使用。「新增連結」結構化任務可協助新帳號持有者開始編輯，但一些社群要求該功能應能夠限制於目標受眾：新手。管理員可以在社群配置功能中配置此設定。
• 上週有29件社群提交的工單得到解決。

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 部分維基的過濾器編輯者，現在可以根據編輯嘗試的回退風險評分來過濾編輯。只有當評估的操作是編輯時，才會產生該評分。更多資訊請參閱 ORES/AbuseFilter變數說明文件。
• Beta Cluster維基已從beta.wmflabs.org移至beta.wmcloud.org。使用者可能需要更新工具或密碼管理員中的URL。若有任何相關問題請在此工單回報。
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

會議與活動

• 2025年WikiCite將於8月29日至31日在瑞士伯恩以線上和線下形式舉行。本次活動旨在重新聯繫從事開放參考資料、書目資料以及Wikidata/Wikibase生態系統工作的社群、機構和個人。活動現開放報名，提案徵集即將公布。 [5]

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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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

本週要聞

• 今後幾個月，社群技術團隊將專注於與監視清單和近期變更頁面相關的願望。團隊正在尋求意見回饋。參閱最新的近況更新，如果您有任何想法，請就相關主題提交願望。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 經維基共享資源社群決定，自8月16日起，禁止所有未在維基共享資源上擁有自動確認權限的使用者跨維基上傳檔案。此舉是由於新使用者上傳檔案時普遍存在問題。受此影響的使用者將收到一則錯誤訊息，其中包含指向限制較少的維基共享資源上傳精靈的連結。請協助翻譯該訊息或就訊息文字提供回饋。另也請更新您本地維基的說明頁面，以解釋這項限制。 [6]
• 在元維基和已啟用臨時帳號的維基站點上，管理員現在可以為臨時帳號的Special:Contributions頁面設定頁尾，類似於IP和使用者帳號頁面的頁尾。管理員可以透過建立名為MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp的頁面來實現。 [7]
• 上週有21件社群提交的工單得到解決。

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

會議與活動

• 2025年維基媒體國際會議將於8月6日至9日舉行。議程現已公布，供您參考規劃您想參加的會議。大多數會議將進行直播，但顯示「無攝影機」圖示的會議除外。如果您想在線上觀看直播並使用互動功能，請報名獲取免費虛擬門票。 例如，您可能會對以下技術會議感興趣：
  • 臨時帳號：增強未註冊編輯者的隱私
  • 為維基媒體貢獻者建立永續未來
  • wikitext的一打願景！
  • 與產品與技術諮詢委員會協調各方利益相關者
• 2025年秋季MediaWiki使用者與開發者大會將於2025年10月28日至30日在德國漢諾威舉行。此活動由第三方MediaWiki社群舉辦，並面向該社群。您可以提交會議提案並報名參加。

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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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 編輯者現在可以啟用使用者資訊卡功能。此功能可在頁面修訂紀錄、使用者貢獻日誌等類似頁面中的使用者名稱旁新增一個圖示。當用滑鼠或觸控螢幕按一下圖示後，它會顯示該使用者帳號的相關資料，例如編輯次數、被回退編輯數、被封鎖次數等。這是一個更廣泛專案的一部分，旨在讓網站維護者能更容易評估帳號的可信度。此功能現可在全域偏好設定中啟用，本週稍晚將可在本地偏好設定中啟用。 [8]
• 歡迎任何人就Connection團隊最近啟動的「協作貢獻」專案發表意見。該專案旨在創造一種新的方式來展示協作編輯活動（如編輯松、積壓消化作業、維基專題）對維基的影響。請在此討論頁發表您的意見。 [9]
• 管理員現在可以定義臨時帳號的預設封鎖時長。為此，管理員需要建立MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account頁面，並使用MediaWiki:Ipboptions中定義的值。這讓管理員可以輕易將臨時帳號封鎖90天，由於臨時帳號的活動效期同為90天，這類封鎖實質等同於無限期封鎖。此解決方案的優點是讓Special:BlockList中不會堆滿永封臨時帳號。參見說明文件。 [10]
• 上週有27件社群提交的工單得到解決。

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 小工具現在可以包含.vue檔案。這讓使用Vue.js開發現代UI變得更容易，尤其是使用維基媒體官方設計系統Codex。Codex圖示集可以透過小工具定義載入。參見說明文件中的範例。對於使用Vue.js的腳本，現在有一個API模組可以用於載入Codex圖示集。 [11][12]
• 模組開發者現在可以使用一個Lua介面來簡化在元維基上翻譯Lua模組的準備工作。這項改進使翻譯人員能夠更容易找到和編輯模組中的字串，而無需處理Lua原始碼。這有助於避免翻譯過程中出差錯，導致模組損壞。歡迎模組開發者和翻譯人員觀看示範影片，閱讀更多關於可翻譯模組的資訊以了解其運作方式，參考元維基的Module:User Wikimedia project作為使用範例，並對於如何解決工作流程中的挑戰分享意見回饋。該介面仍有一些效能問題，因此目前還不適合用於廣泛使用的模組。 [13]
• 與維基媒體網頁連接的外部工具的開發者，請務必設定符合使用者代理方針的使用者代理。由於外部爬蟲過度使用維基媒體資源，該方針將於8月開始嚴格執行。託管在維基媒體Toolforge或Cloud VPS上的工具暫時不會受此影響，但仍應設定使用者代理。在工單參閱更多技術細節，歡迎在工單中提出相關問題。
• 繼維基導遊和維基詞典成功轉換成Parsoid閱讀視圖之後，未來幾週內，Parsoid閱讀視圖將在一些小型維基百科推出。參閱Parsoid/解析器統一了解更多。 [14]
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

會議與活動

• 2025年維基媒體國際會議將於8月6日至9日舉行。議程現已公布，供您參考規劃想參加的會議。大多數會議將進行直播，但顯示「無攝影機」圖示的會議除外。如果您想在線上觀看直播並使用互動功能，請報名獲取免費虛擬門票。 您可能會對以下技術會議感興趣：
  • 身處不斷變化的網際網路中的維基媒體知識基礎設施：建立內容再利用的永續途徑
  • 維基函數即將登陸至您附近的維基！
  • 塑造維基百科讀者體驗的未來
  • 讓維基百科更容易閱讀：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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 2010年版wikitext編輯器的工具按鈕的提示現在會包含快捷鍵，讓使用者更容易發現這些快捷鍵。 [15]
• 產品與技術諮詢委員會發布了一系列實驗方案，供維基媒體基金會嘗試以改善與社群的溝通。歡迎於8月22日前在此討論頁對這些方案給予意見回饋。
• Minerva外觀（手機版網頁）的搜尋欄已更新，改為使用與Vector 2022相同的Type-ahead搜尋元件。搜尋功能並未改變，僅在視覺上有些許變化。具體來說，搜尋欄的關閉按鈕已從叉號 改為返回箭頭 ，並改動了按鈕位置，避免與用於清除文字的另一個叉號按鈕混淆。 [16]
• 部分維基百科的編輯者將在監視清單、相關變更和近期變更頁面上看到新的「按頁面分組結果」開關。這是一項A/B實驗，計劃於8月11日開始，在中文、孟加拉語、捷克語、法語、希臘語、葡萄牙語、烏爾都語維基百科上進行3至6週。實驗旨在探討讓這項既有功能更容易被發現，會如何影響編輯者在這些特殊頁面中尋找編輯的能力。 [17]
• 上週有31件由社群提交的工單得到解決。

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 多個維基的Module:Unicode data皆有的相同資料集已移至維基共享資源（Category:Unicode Module Datasets），以遵循「一個共同資料來源，多個本地維基」的理念。大多數維基已更新為使用共享資源資料的版本。若有問題請在討論頁提出。 [18]
• 在Lua中，模組編者可以用mw.addWarning()函數，讓模組在發生錯誤時新增警告。先前，新的警告會取代舊的警告。現在，您可以多次呼叫該函數來新增多個警告。如果您有在維護使用警告的Lua模組，請檢查它是否仍然如預期運作。 [19]
• 本週軟體更新細節： 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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 本週稍晚，登入且已啟用「討論工具（DiscussionTools）」測試功能的使用者，將能夠在閱讀討論頁時直接對個別留言表達「感謝」，無需前往頁面修訂紀錄。進一步了解此功能。 [20]
• 一項A/B測試於8月12日在測試維基、於8月14日在英語維基百科啟動。這項測試旨在比較兩個版本的贊助連結，測試對象為0.1%的未登入桌面板網頁使用者。測試將持續三週，於9月12日結束。 [21]
• 8月12日，一項A/A測試透過XLab啟動，測量讀者留存率的基線。這項測試旨在測量使用者初次造訪維基站點後，在14天內再次造訪該維基站點的百分比。這預期不會有任何視覺變化。測試將持續至8月31日結束。 [22]
• 已新建五個維基：
  • 他加祿語維基文庫 (s:tl:) [23]
  • 馬都拉語維基文庫 (s:mad:) [24]
  • 若開語維基百科 (w:rki:) [25]
  • 米南佳保語維基教科書 (b:min:) [26]
  • 標準摩洛哥柏柏語維基詞典 (wikt:zgh:) [27]
• 上週有46件由社群提交的工單得到解決。

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

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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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 用於模板樣式的CSS過濾器更新，模板編者現在可以在運用更多CSS屬性。例如：width: fit-content；ruby-align；相對單位如lh；在list-style-type設定字串值。這些改進實現了一件社群願望。 [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]
• 在大型維基中，Special:RecentChanges頁面中顯示編輯的預設時間段已從7天改為1天。這是效能改進計畫的一部分。由於這些維基的編輯數量眾多，這項變更應不會對使用者造成影響。 [38]
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains頁面現已列於Special:CommunityConfiguration中，方便管理員尋找。 [39]
• 過去，維基共享資源的影片未出現在Google搜尋的「影片」結果類型中。我們已調查此問題並回報給Google，目前Google已修復此問題。 [40][41]
• 已新建一個維基： 巴達維語維基詞典 (wikt:bew:) [42]
• 上週有39件由社群提交的工單得到解決。

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• recentchanges資料表中的rc_new、rc_type兩個欄位將被移除，並由rc_source取代。本週起，對這些舊欄位的查詢將開始失敗，開發者應改用rc_source。這些舊欄位早在十多年前就已棄用，不應再使用。我們正在設法提升recentchanges資料表的查詢效能與穩定性，此變更為該計畫的一部分。 [43]
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 季刊語言與國際化電子報新期數發布。本期內容包括：MediaWiki和translatewiki新增支援語言；旨在幫助支援新、小型維基成長的「語言啟動與發展」專案啟動；研究專案的更新資訊；等等。

會議與活動

• 下一次語言社群會議即將於8月29日 15:00 UTC舉行。本次會議將討論：來自孟加拉維基媒體協會的Avro Keyboard開發者，他們最近因對該輸入法工具的貢獻而獲頒國家級榮譽獎；以及其他主題。

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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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

本週要聞

• 編輯團隊正在收集編者在移除版權侵權內容時，在編輯摘要中使用的術語。這將用於統計因版權問題而被回退的編輯數量。我們邀請下列維基的社群成員在T402601列出相關術語，或將清單分享給Trizek (WMF)。維基清單：阿拉伯語維基百科、​捷克語維基百科、​德語維基百科、​英語維基百科、​西班牙語維基百科、​波斯語維基百科、​法語維基百科、​希伯來語維基百科、​印尼語維基百科、​意大利語維基百科、​日文維基百科、​韓文維基百科、​荷蘭語維基百科、​波蘭語維基百科、​葡萄牙語維基百科、​土耳其語維基百科、​烏克蘭語維基百科、​越南語維基百科、​中文維基百科。團隊將收集至2025年9月9日結束。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 所有維基文庫站點現皆已啟用CampaignEvents擴充功能。該擴充功能使籌辦和參與維基內協作活動（如：編輯松、維基專題）變得更加容易。該擴充功能有三大功能：活動報名、協作清單和邀請名單。若其他維基想啟用該擴充功能，請見部署資訊頁的說明。 [44]
• 現在，編輯介面頁尾的清單（例如「本頁使用的模板」）在空間充足時，將以欄位形式排列。這項改進有助於編者在編輯長篇維基條目時減少捲動操作。 [45]
• 2025年9月3日，我們將把中文、法語、葡萄牙語維基百科中Special:RecentChanges、Special:Watchlist、Special:RelatedChanges頁面的「按頁面分組結果」實驗的抽樣比例提升至100%，讓更多編輯者參與實驗。這項調整旨在確保我們在評估實驗結果時，能擁有足夠數據來做出明智決策。 [46][47]
• 9月22日當週開始，在英語維基百科，未登入使用者點擊空白搜尋列後將會看到延伸閱讀條目建議。這項功能將同時在桌面版與行動版推出。所有非英語維基站點皆已於6、7月間獲得這項功能。這項功能旨在幫助使用者更容易尋找條目。了解更多。
• 上週有37件由社群提交的工單得到解決。

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 維基函數新推出「輕量列舉型別」（lightweight enumeration types）。列舉型別本質上是型別定義中的一組固定值。這使定義該型別變得快速簡便，並允許重複使用維基數據中已存在的值。參閱電子報了解更多。
• 讀者電子報新期數發布。本期內容包括：兩個新團隊成立——讀者成長團隊與讀者體驗團隊；解析頁面瀏覽量與帳號創建量下降的趨勢；奈洛比維基媒體國際會議「改善閱讀體驗」專題討論會重點摘要；即將展開的吸引新舊讀者的實驗計畫；等等。

會議與活動

• 2025年維基媒體國際會議精選議程：
  • 透過搜尋無效ISBN號來識別AI生成文本：德國分會的Mathias Schindler分享協助社群搜尋此類文本的工具。（英語）
  • 面對當前和未來挑戰，維基媒體運動的可持續性：在生成式AI、資訊過載、虛假訊息橫行的時代，維基媒體如何保持其值得信賴的知識來源地位。（法語）

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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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

本週要聞

• 編輯團隊正在開發一項新檢查：貼上檢查（Paste check）。這項檢查會提醒將文字貼入維基百科的新手編者，其內容可能不被接受。這項檢查旨在確保使用者在維基百科添加的內容符合維基媒體運動的承諾——基於自由內容授權提供資訊。這項檢查即將在數個維基站點進行測試。若您的社群有興趣參與測試，請在此工單中告知我們，或直接聯絡團隊。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 本週稍晚，啟用「增強版語法醒目標示」測試功能的使用者將能使用lint工具，實時檢查wikitext中的錯誤或其他潛在問題。參閱說明頁面。 [48]
• 瀏覽維基站點（如en.wikipedia.org）時，系統會以兩種方式回應：顯示桌面版網頁，或轉址至「m」開頭網域的行動版網頁（如en.m.wikipedia.org）。未來三週內，MediaWiki將開始在標準網域上直接向行動裝置顯示行動版網頁，不再進行轉址。此變更不會影響現存的m.開頭網址或「桌面版檢視」選項。了解更多。 [49]
• 現在，當編輯操作更改了頁面的分類時，分類成員數量的更新會以非同步方式進行。此變更可提升編輯儲存速度——尤其是在將多個頁面移入或移出同一分類時——並降低網站當機風險，但這也意味著分類數量可能會短暫顯示過時資訊。 [50]
• 現在，對維基數據項目聲明中的限定符（屬性和值）和參考資料（屬性和值）所做的編輯，不會出現在其他維基站點的近期變更和監視清單頁面中。這是一項臨時變更，旨在提升效能，待其他解決方案存在後將恢復原狀。維基數據自身頁面則維持不變。了解更多。 [51][52]
• 日語維基站點的搜尋文字解析功能獲重大更新，引入了Sudachi分詞器，應能提供更準確、更相關的搜尋結果。 [53]
• 上週有31件由社群提交的工單得到解決。

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

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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, 網易雲音樂專輯編號, 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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 現在，當讀者選用Vector 2022的「標準」字型大小與頁面寬度設定時，使用<references/>標籤建立的參考資料清單將自動以分欄形式顯示。 [54]
• 自10月6日當週起，在啟用CampaignEvents擴充功能的中、小型維基上，所有自動確認使用者皆可作為活動籌辦人員使用活動報名功能。除非透過Phabricator提出請求，大型維基將維持現狀。此變更旨在讓更多人能更容易使用活動報名功能，特別是在較少制定活動籌辦人員權限相關方針的維基上。了解更多。
• 站內搜尋的Regex功能更新，新增以下功能：
  • intitle:搜尋現可用：元字元如行首（^）和行尾（$）錨點。 [55]
  • intitle:、insource:搜尋現可用：字元集合如數字（\d）、空白（\s）、單詞（\w）；跳脫字元如回車（\r）、換行（\n）、制表（\t）、Unicode（如\uHHHH）。 [56]
• 過去，當在站內搜尋看似IP位址的字串時，系統會跳轉至該IP的貢獻紀錄。現在，系統會正常顯示搜尋結果。 [57]
• 9月24日，所有維基媒體網站將進入唯讀狀態幾分鐘，預定於15:00 UTC開始。這是半年一次的資料中心伺服器切換備份測試。更多關於此次切換的背景和細節，請參閱Diff文章。
• 上週有24件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，先前編輯章節時，從wikitext切換到視覺化編輯器會造成其他內容被移除，此問題現已修正。 [58]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• MediaWiki介面團隊正在運用Codex重新設計Wikimedia REST API沙盒。若您對API文件的改進方向，或讓開發者體驗變得順暢（或令人沮喪）的因素有任何意見回饋，誠摯邀請您參與即將舉行的探索訪談，或在維基內留下意見。了解更多。
• 現在，對維基數據別名（項目或屬性的替代名稱）的編輯，將較少出現在其他維基站點的近期變更和監視清單頁面中，從而減少不必要的通知。此舉將降低這些頁面整體中的「雜訊」數量。維基數據自身頁面則維持不變。了解更多。 [59]
• Unicode 17.0發布，供Module:Unicode data使用的共享資源資料集已隨之更新。未使用共享資源資料集的維基百科站點，應自行更新本地資料或改用共享資源資料集。
• 維基媒體企業服務的結構化內容（Structured Contents）端點的使用者現可存取已解析表格（Parsed Tables）。此新功能可擷取維基百科表格內容，並以結構化JSON格式呈現。作為結構化內容計畫的一環，這提升了機器可讀性。結構化內容輸出可透過隨選API或維基媒體雲端服務自由取得。
• 維基媒體企業服務的英語維基百科人物傳記資料集已在Kaggle平台發布，供評估與研究使用。此資料集提供逾150萬篇傳記的結構化數據，涵蓋出生與逝世日期、教育背景、所屬組織、職業經歷、獲獎紀錄等資訊（截取自2024年6月快照）。
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

會議與活動

• 在法國巴黎舉行的2026年維基媒體國際會議現正開放獎助金申請，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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

本週要聞

• 9月24日 15:00 UTC，所有維基媒體網站使用者將經歷短暫的唯讀狀態，此為預定的資料中心伺服器切換作業所致。維基媒體基金會的網站可靠性工程團隊將把所有流量從主要伺服器導向至備援伺服器。您可透過「聆聽維基百科」工具實際聽到切換過程：在唯讀階段，您將聽到編輯操作暫停數分鐘，隨後恢復正常。這個半年一次的資料中心伺服器切換作業，旨在透過測試備援資料中心來確保可靠性，讓我們的網站即使在主要資料中心故障時仍能持續運作。更多詳情請參閱Diff文章。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 不久後，60個維基詞典的編輯者將能夠呼叫維基函數的函數，並在頁面中使用。函數能接受一個或多個輸入，並將其轉換成預期的輸出，例如：相加兩數、換算單位、計算時間跨度或轉換大小寫。加上先前完成部署的65個維基詞典語言版本，目前共有125個維基詞典站點可以從維基函數呼叫函數並在頁面中嵌入使用。今年稍晚，我們計畫進一步擴展至更多維基詞典語言版本及維基孵育場。
• 新增了一個解析器函數：{{#contentmodel}}。模板編輯者與管理員可運用此函數取得特定頁面的內容模型的本地名稱或標準名稱。此函數能讓管理員等更容易建立和編輯系統訊息（如MediaWiki:editinginterface），即使在切換不同頁面內容模型（如wikitext​、JavaScript、CSS、JSON）時亦然。 [60]
• 先前，在視覺化編輯器中新增或修改DISPLAYTITLE時會發生錯誤，現已修正此問題。此工單列出了可能受影響且可能需要清理的頁面清單。
• Android版維基百科APP的Beta使用者現在可以試用重新設計過的「活動」標籤頁，取代舊有的「編輯」標籤頁。新設計的標籤頁為使用者提供其閱讀、編輯、捐款活動的個人化洞察，同時簡化導覽流程，讓應用程式的使用體驗更具吸引力。
• 上週有12件由社群提交的工單得到解決。

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 維基函數使用者現可從維基數據匯入涉及地理座標、數量值、時間值的諸多關鍵資訊。此功能得以實現，是因維基數據為這些數值建立了對應的維基函數類型，使其能被維基函數的函數所運用。欲深入了解運作原理，請參閱此影片，以及8月1日（關於數量值）與8月22日（關於地理座標）的維基函數電子報。

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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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

本週要聞

• 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]

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 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]
• 已新建一個維基： 馬來語維基語錄 (q:ms:) [64]
• 上週有21件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，使用者資訊卡現在會顯示生效中的全域鎖定和全域封鎖。 [65]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 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.
• 本週軟體更新細節： 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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

本週要聞

• 貼上檢查（Paste check）是新的編輯檢查功能，旨在避免並對抗侵權著作權的行為。當編輯者將文字貼入條目時，貼上檢查會提示其確認內容的來源與授權方式。自10月8日（三）起，22個維基站點將測試此功能。貼上檢查將協助新手志願者理解並遵循必要的方針與指引，從而為維基百科專案作出建設性貢獻。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 行動裝置將直接透過標準網域（如en.wikipedia.org）接收行動版條目，而非轉址至「m」網域（如en.m.wikipedia.org）。此變更可提升效能。本週，各個維基百科站點將啟用此變更。既有的行動版網址及「桌面版檢視」選項仍可使用。了解更多。 [66]
• 維基搜尋引擎新增兩項日期篩選器：creationdate:、lasteditdate:。使用者可藉此依據頁面首次或最後修訂日期來篩選搜尋結果。這些篩選器支援比較運算子（如>2024）與相對日期（如today-1d），讓使用者更容易查找於特定時間範圍內更新的內容或頁面。 [67]
• 在已啟用維基函數功能的150個維基站點中，現在支援嵌入呼叫富文本。為展示此功能，團隊製作了一個拉丁語變格表產生器，供維基詞典編輯者自動生成名詞變格表，產出清晰且格式化的結果——參見範例輸出。如需協助或有任何意見回饋，請聯繫維基函數團隊。 [68]
• 現在，已登入使用者可在條目頁面的分類框內見到編輯連結，點擊後將直接開啟視覺化編輯器的分類對話框。 [69]
• 上週有34件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，上週PDF下載功能曾發生問題，此問題現已解決。 [70]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 修訂版本資料表中的rev_sha1欄位將被移除，並由內容資料表中的content_sha1欄位取代。詳情請參閱公告。
• 2025年10月29日，讀者體驗團隊將在所有維基媒體網站推出深色模式UI。所有維基媒體網站的未登入使用者皆可啟用黑底白字的配色方案。此設計旨在提供更舒適的閱讀體驗，尤其適用於低光環境。誠摯邀請模板編者與技術貢獻者於啟用前，學習如何使頁面支援深色模式，並解決模板可能出現的相容性問題。啟用前若有任何疑問或需要支援，請透過此討論頁聯繫網頁團隊。 [71]
• 10月6日（一）開始，位於rest.php路徑下的API端點將重新路由至新的內部API閘道。個別維基站點將依據標準MediaWiki版本更新分組進行更新，整體流量將隨時間逐步提升。此變更應為非中斷更新。若發現任何問題，請至Phabricator提交工單至服務運營團隊看板。 [72]
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

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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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

本週要聞

• 上週，所有維基站點已啟用帳號安全與雙重驗證（2FA）功能的改進措施。這些變更包括：Special:AccountSecurity介面優化，支援透過Authenticator應用程式與可攜式安全金鑰實現多種雙重驗證方式（先前僅限啟用單一方式），以及新的「恢復代碼模組」，此模組可減少因遺失雙重驗證應用程式或裝置而導致帳號鎖定的狀況。作為帳號安全專案的一部分，我們將在2025年結束前持續推進使用者體驗改進工作，並新增支援以通行金鑰作為雙重驗證方式。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 帳號安全專案的另一項目標，是將雙重驗證功能全面開放給所有使用者。不計已可啟用雙重驗證的高級權限編輯者（如管理員與行政員），現在有40%的編輯者可啟用雙重驗證。您可至Special:AccountSecurity頁面確認自己可否使用雙重驗證功能，若可以，點擊該區塊任一按鈕可進一步查看驗證步驟。若經評估確認使用者支援系統足以支撐全球範圍的使用，我們將持續擴大此功能的開放範圍。 [73]
• 本週，在預設啟用討論頁可用性改進的維基站點（即除了T379264列出的12個站點之外的所有站點），使用者將能夠在討論頁中直接對個別留言表達「感謝」。在此之前，使用者只能在討論頁的修訂紀錄中傳送「感謝」。 了解更多。 [74]
• 尚未驗證電子郵件地址的使用者，將陸續收到每月發送的驗證提醒通知。完成電子郵件驗證的使用者能更容易恢復帳號，因此我們建議使用者完成電子郵件驗證。若使用者處於非活躍狀態，或從帳號中移除未驗證的電子郵件地址，則不會收到此類提醒。 [75][76]
• 上週有21件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，內容翻譯工具曾偶爾出現翻譯段落儲存錯誤，此問題現已解決，相關錯誤訊息也更容易被察覺。 [77]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 未受支援工具工作組已選定Video2Commons作為其試行週期的首個工具。該工作組將在未來數月內探索能改進與維持此工具的方案。了解更多。
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

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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 週年聚會暨 OpenRefine 工作坊 - by Wikidata Taiwan
  • (Spanish) Taller en línea: Introducción a Wikidata y Wikibase by bibliotecasUNAM
  • Wikimedia Research Showcase: Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: List of Airports/Airstrips in Florida, USA
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject IDEA (translation tasks)
• WikiProject Highlights: Govdirectory South Korea was created.
• Showcase Items: Jagiellonian Library

(Q24101) - library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków

• Showcase Lexemes: led (L762994) - Norwegian Nynorsk noun (leː) meaning "a joint between bones", "a movable body part", or "a generation"

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第43期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 為優化使用者資料在資料庫中的儲存方式，針對逾五年未登入且編輯次數低於100次的使用者，系統將自動清除其儲存的偏好設定。此類使用者再次登入時，系統將自動套用預設設定。 [78]
• 上週有20件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，先前全域貢獻介面訊息中的「XTools全域貢獻」連結出錯，此問題現已修正。 [79]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 重新路由作業現已完成，所有數據流量已透過共同API閘道重新路由至rest.php路徑下的API端點。若發現任何問題，請至Phabricator提交工單至服務運營團隊看板。
• 現在，對維基數據的限定符和參考資料的編輯，將較少出現在其他維基站點的近期變更和監視清單頁面中，從而減少不必要的通知。此舉將降低這些頁面整體中的「雜訊」數量。維基數據自身頁面則維持不變。 [80]
• 本週軟體更新細節： 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]) 鏈結資料文獻翻譯賽德克語成果發表會 Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation
• Presentations: Will AI Erase Us Again? The Role of Wikimedia Communities. Talk by John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2025 (Slides)

Tool of the week

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Map of pubs in Scotland (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kazakhstan
• Showcase Items:Lake Zanzibar

(Q22530539) - lake in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第44期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• iOS版維基百科APP現已在部分語言及地區開始一項關於「標籤頁」功能的A/B/C測試。這項測試名為「更多動態標籤頁」，旨在探索標籤頁瀏覽體驗的可能性，現正計畫加入「你知道嗎」和「因為您閱讀了」標籤頁，客製化提供文章建議。詳見專案頁面。
• 現在，在啟用CampaignEvents擴充功能的中、小型維基上，自動確認使用者無需擁有活動籌辦人員權限即可使用活動報名功能。該功能讓活動籌辦人員能啟用報名機制、管理參與者，並簡化使用者報名程序，僅需透過點擊按鈕即可完成，無需於活動頁面手動簽署報名。
• 上週有31件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，之前在Vector 2022的深色模式設定介面中，按住或按下方向鍵時會閃爍色彩，現已修正此問題。 [81]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 2025年11月17日當週，CampaignEvents擴充功能將部署至所有尚未部署的維基。該擴充功能目前有三項功能：活動報名、協作清單和邀請名單。本次部署中，除非有關社群提出請求，否則邀請清單功能將不會在維基函數和MediaWiki.org啟用。詳見部署頁面。
• 基於SwaggerUI的REST沙盒現已在所有維基專案上線。您可至Special:RestSandbox頁面使用該沙盒。若遇任何問題，請至Phabricator的MediaWiki介面團隊看板回報，或參與專案啟動頁面列出的相關討論。 [82]
• MediaWiki REST API中，路徑帶有結尾斜線（trailing slash）的轉換端點現已標記為「已棄用」。這些端點目前仍可正常運作，但預計將於2026 年1月底前移除。建議所有目前呼叫這些端點的API使用者轉用無結尾斜線版本。兩種端點變體皆可透過REST沙盒進行查找與測試。關於API棄用方針與流程，請參閱MediaWiki REST API的棄用。
• MediaWiki REST API現設有專屬更新日誌。該更新日誌提供變更概覽，方便開發者追蹤各項改進和迭代。相關公告仍將透過技術新聞與電子郵件清單等標準通訊管道發布，但更新日誌將成為一個更便於引用的中央位置。若您對更新日誌的風格、結構或內容有任何意見，歡迎參與討論。
• JsonConfig擴充功能已不再使用，但由該擴充功能建立的追蹤分類依然殘留。管理員現可刪除這些追蹤分類，具體清單參見Q130635582。由於快取因素，這些分類可能會顯示有頁面殘留。編輯頁面會清除該頁面的快取，而當快取被清除後，這些頁面會自動從分類中消失。 [83]
• 本週軟體更新細節： 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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• Special:MergeHistory獲更新，大幅提升了合併功能的靈活性，以便管理員使用。該特殊頁面現在能夠從來源頁面歷史的中段提取段落進行合併，而不僅限於從開頭提取；同時，它也能將修訂版本插入目標頁面歷史中的任意位置，而不僅限於插入開頭。 [84]
• 現在，對於在偏好設定中啟用「自動訂閱話題」功能的使用者，無論其透過何種編輯介面來新增或回覆話題，系統皆會自動為其訂閱該話題。先前，僅當使用討論工具（DiscussionTools）的「新增話題」或「回覆」按鈕時才會觸發自動訂閱。討論工具最初推出時，既有帳號並未預設啟用自動訂閱話題功能，因此本次變更主要影響較新帳號，以及曾主動更改偏好設定的使用者。 [85]
• Scribunto模組現在能夠生成SVG圖像。此功能能透過Lua來動態建立圖表、圖形及其他視覺化內容，減少外部製圖後上傳檔案的需求。 [86]
• 維基媒體網站現在為所有匿名使用者提供啟用深色模式（黑底白字配色方案）的選項。這項改進旨在提供更舒適的閱讀體驗，尤其是在光線昏暗的環境下。 [87]
• 存有龐大監視清單的使用者長期以來在編輯Special:EditWatchlist頁面時遭遇逾時（timeout）問題。如今透過分頁（paging）機制更新，該頁面將分批載入項目，而非一次性載入全部內容，使所有使用者皆能順暢編輯監視清單。作為資料庫更新的一部分，我們移除了按到期時間排序的功能，因其速度比按標題排序慢100倍以上。我們提交了一件社群願望，探討恢復按到期時間排序功能的替代方案。若該功能對您至關重要，敬請投票支持該願望！ [88]
• 上週有31件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，之前在視覺化編輯器的「尋找與取代」功能中，即使修改尋找欄位的文字，頁面中原先的文字仍持續高亮顯示，此問題現已修正。 [89]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 自2019年起，維基媒體縮網址服務（網址：https://w.wiki）開放所有維基媒體維基站點使用，可為條目、永久連結、差異頁面等內容建立短網址。該功能可透過側邊欄的「取得短連結」連結存取。目前仍有30個維基站點同時安裝舊版「ShortUrl」擴充功能。舊版擴充功能即將移除，意味著/s/短網址（以帶有class="title-shortlink"的標籤包裹）將不再直接顯示於條目標題下方。但/s/短網址將持續正常運作。 [90]
• 10月30日（四），MediaWiki介面團隊與SRE服務運營團隊開始將Action API流量重新路由至共同API閘道。各維基站點將依據標準MediaWiki版本更新分組進行更新，整體流量將隨時間逐步提升。此變更應為非中斷更新。若發現任何問題，請至Phabricator的服務運營團隊看板提交工單。
• MediaWiki部署列車將於2025年最後兩週（12月22日、29日）暫停。向後移植窗口亦將於2025年12月22日（一）至2026年1月2日（四）期間暫停。向後移植窗口係指預定執行錯誤修正與配置變更等作業的時段。2025年尚餘七次列車部署作業。 [91]
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 維基媒體基金會指出，由於AI系統與搜尋引擎頻繁引用維基百科內容，卻未能將使用者導向該網站，導致2025年真人瀏覽量較2024年下降8%。在觀察到機器人偽裝成真人的現象後，維基媒體更新了流量數據以反映此變化。關於維基百科當前使用者趨勢，請參閱Diff文章。

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2025年第45期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• Special:MergeHistory獲更新，大幅提升了合併功能的靈活性，以便管理員使用。該特殊頁面現在能夠從來源頁面歷史的中段提取段落進行合併，而不僅限於從開頭提取；同時，它也能將修訂版本插入目標頁面歷史中的任意位置，而不僅限於插入開頭。 [92]
• 現在，對於在偏好設定中啟用「自動訂閱話題」功能的使用者，無論其透過何種編輯介面來新增或回覆話題，系統皆會自動為其訂閱該話題。先前，僅當使用討論工具（DiscussionTools）的「新增話題」或「回覆」按鈕時才會觸發自動訂閱。討論工具最初推出時，既有帳號並未預設啟用自動訂閱話題功能，因此本次變更主要影響較新帳號，以及曾主動更改偏好設定的使用者。 [93]
• Scribunto模組現在能夠生成SVG圖像。此功能能透過Lua來動態建立圖表、圖形及其他視覺化內容，減少外部製圖後上傳檔案的需求。 [94]
• 維基媒體網站現在為所有匿名使用者提供啟用深色模式（黑底白字配色方案）的選項。這項改進旨在提供更舒適的閱讀體驗，尤其是在光線昏暗的環境下。 [95]
• 存有龐大監視清單的使用者長期以來在編輯Special:EditWatchlist頁面時遭遇逾時（timeout）問題。如今透過分頁（paging）機制更新，該頁面將分批載入項目，而非一次性載入全部內容，使所有使用者皆能順暢編輯監視清單。作為資料庫更新的一部分，我們移除了按到期時間排序的功能，因其速度比按標題排序慢100倍以上。我們提交了一件社群願望，探討恢復按到期時間排序功能的替代方案。若該功能對您至關重要，敬請投票支持該願望！ [96]
• 上週有31件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，之前在視覺化編輯器的「尋找與取代」功能中，即使修改尋找欄位的文字，頁面中原先的文字仍持續高亮顯示，此問題現已修正。 [97]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 自2019年起，維基媒體縮網址服務（網址：https://w.wiki）開放所有維基媒體維基站點使用，可為條目、永久連結、差異頁面等內容建立短網址。該功能可透過側邊欄的「取得短連結」連結存取。目前仍有30個維基站點同時安裝舊版「ShortUrl」擴充功能。舊版擴充功能即將移除，意味著/s/短網址（以帶有class="title-shortlink"的標籤包裹）將不再直接顯示於條目標題下方。但/s/短網址將持續正常運作。 [98]
• 10月30日（四），MediaWiki介面團隊與SRE服務運營團隊開始將Action API流量重新路由至共同API閘道。各維基站點將依據標準MediaWiki版本更新分組進行更新，整體流量將隨時間逐步提升。此變更應為非中斷更新。若發現任何問題，請至Phabricator的服務運營團隊看板提交工單。
• MediaWiki部署列車將於2025年最後兩週（12月22日、29日）暫停。向後移植窗口亦將於2025年12月22日（一）至2026年1月2日（四）期間暫停。向後移植窗口係指預定執行錯誤修正與配置變更等作業的時段。2025年尚餘七次列車部署作業。 [99]
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 維基媒體基金會指出，由於AI系統與搜尋引擎頻繁引用維基百科內容，卻未能將使用者導向該網站，導致2025年真人瀏覽量較2024年下降8%。在觀察到機器人偽裝成真人的現象後，維基媒體更新了流量數據以反映此變化。關於維基百科當前使用者趨勢，請參閱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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

採用新設計的討論頁的範例，圖為法語維基百科

• 11月12日開始，部分維基百科的討論頁外觀將變更為新設計。幾乎所有維基已採用新設計；英語維基百科將稍後獲得更新。詳見Diff文章。使用者可以在偏好設定中的「顯示討論活動」選項停用此變更。 [100]
• MediaWiki現可於頁面受保護時自動顯示頁面狀態指示器（頂部圖示）。此功能預設停用，可透過社群請求啟用。 [101]
• 現在，使用wikitext編輯器的「顯示預覽」或「顯示變更」按鈕時，特定URL參數（如useskin、uselang、section）將會保留。此次更新同時修正了以下問題：之前，若瀏覽器在預覽單一章節編輯時崩潰，儲存該編輯可能導致整頁內容被該章節內容覆寫。 [102][103][104]
• 維基導遊站點可在條目內文使用彩色地圖標記。此類標記的文字將改以對比鮮明的黑色或白色顯示，不再始終顯示為白色。針對此問題的本地暫時解方現可移除。 [105]
• Android版維基百科APP的「活動」標籤頁現已開放所有使用者使用。此新標籤頁為使用者提供閱讀、編輯、捐款活動的個人化洞察，同時簡化導覽流程，讓應用程式的使用體驗更具吸引力。 [106]
• 讀者成長團隊（Reader Growth）正計劃推出名為「圖片瀏覽」（Image browsing）的實驗，旨在測試如何讓讀者更輕鬆地瀏覽與探索維基百科條目中的圖片。此實驗為A/B測試，僅限行動裝置，將於11月17日當週在英語維基百科上線，為期四週，影響該站0.05%的使用者。這項測試已於11月3日在中文、阿拉伯語、法語、印尼語和越南語維基百科推出，影響這些站點中至多10%的使用者。 [107]
• 上週有27件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，前陣子監管員無法在行動裝置網站鎖定帳號，此問題現已修正。 [108]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• Wikitech正在進行Toolforge標準委員會的新委員提名。委員會職責包括監督Toolforge的分叉權方針和遺棄工具方針等。提名持續開放至11月28日。
• SUL維基站點的OAuth 2存取憑證中，JWT核發者欄位iss已變更為https://meta.wikimedia.org。舊版存取憑證仍可正常使用。 [109]
• OAuth 2存取憑證中的JWT使用者欄位sub即將從<user id>變更為mw:<identity type>:<user id>，其中<identity type>通常為CentralAuth:（適用於SUL維基站點）或local:<wiki id>（適用於其他維基）。此變更旨在避免不同使用者ID類型間的衝突，並使OAuth 2存取憑證與sessionJwt cookie格式更趨一致。舊版存取憑證仍可正常使用。 [110]
• MediaWiki的封鎖訊息（blockedtext、blockedtext-partial、autoblockedtext、systemblockedtext、blockedtext-tempuser、autoblockedtext-tempuser）新增參數，用以標示使用者是否被禁止編輯自己的使用者討論頁（$9）或寄送電子郵件給其他使用者（MediaWiki:Blockedtext0）。 [111]
• 我們已在Wikimedia git倉庫中為MediaWiki核心和各擴充功能與外觀皮膚建立REL1_45分支。此為MediaWiki 1.45.0版本發布流程的第一步，該版本預計於今年11月下旬推出。若您正在修復關鍵錯誤或開發新功能，請留意此變更。 [112]
• 由於效能下降，我們更新了CirrusSearch轉儲檔的生成流程。若您在改用新轉儲時遇到任何問題，請聯繫搜尋平台團隊（Search Platform）尋求支援。 [113][114]
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

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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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 讀者體驗團隊正在行動版網頁上試驗閱讀清單功能，該功能讓登入帳號但不編輯的讀者能夠儲存私人的條目閱讀清單。自11月10日當週起，這項試驗在中文、阿拉伯語、法語、印尼語和越南語維基百科上進行；11月17日當週，試驗將開始在英語維基百科上進行。
• 使用者在登入階段若無法收取電子郵件驗證碼，現在可在新設的特殊頁面提交表單以取得協助。這項更新是帳號安全計畫的一部分。如果您的帳號設有電子郵件地址，請確保您可以正常收取信件。當您從陌生裝置或地點登入帳號，並且您未啟用2FA，系統可能會要求您輸入透過電子郵件發送的6位數驗證碼以完成登入程序。了解更多。
• 已新建一個維基： 米南佳保語維基文庫 (s:min:) [115]
• 上週有23件由社群提交的工單得到解決。

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 作為解析器統一專案的一部分，內容轉換團隊已將多個低流量維基百科部署Parsoid作為預設解析器，並正在為高流量維基百科的部署做準備。本通知邀請您參閱Extension:ParserMigration說明文件，按照說明主動選擇啟用Parsoid，並協助回報您在工作流使用機器人、工具或腳本時遇到的問題。請透過工具側邊欄的「回報視覺錯誤」連結，或建立phab工單並加上Content Transform Team標籤來告知我們。
• 【不受支援工具工作組】Video2Commons的多項問題已修復，包括：與檔案名稱相關的上傳失敗、影片匯入全黑問題、重試處理機制等。現已支援AV1編碼格式。目前進行中的工作著重於後端穩定性、ffmpeg錯誤、字幕匯入功能、元資料處理、播放清單上傳功能。您可在此Phabricator看板追蹤個別工單。
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

會議與活動

• 2026年5月1日至3日，維基媒體黑客松將在義大利米蘭舉行。報名將於2026年1月開放。獎學金申請現正開放中，至2025年11月28日截止。若有任何疑問，請電郵至hackathon@wikimedia.org。

技術新聞由技術新聞編者準備，並由機器人送達 • 貢獻 • 翻譯 • 取得協助 • 提供回饋 • 訂閱或退訂。

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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 上週，維基媒體搜尋團隊在伺服器端重新實現了希伯來語和俄語維基百科的「DWIM」小工具功能（DWIM＝Do What I Mean，照我的意思做）。DWIM小工具讓使用者即使誤切輸入法，也能在搜尋建議中找到原本打算輸入的字。例如，在俄語維基百科搜尋「cxfcnmt」，搜尋建議中會出現「счастье」。團隊預計於本週在其他希伯來語和俄語站點啟用此功能。 [116]
• 本週稍晚，啟用「增強版語法醒目標示」測試功能的使用者，將能在討論工具（DiscussionTools）中使用語法醒目標示功能。使用者需要同時啟用「以原始碼模式啟用編輯工具」選項，才能使用上述功能。 [117]
• CampaignEvents擴充功能——這套用於協調活動及其他維基內協作的工具組，現已部署至所有維基媒體站點。新功能「協作貢獻」可讓活動籌辦人員與參與者檢視活動成效。歡迎參加即將舉行的學習課程，親身體驗新功能並提供您的意見回饋。
• 上週有24件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，先前CodeReviewBot無法正常運作，現已修正此問題。 [118]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 邀請維基媒體API使用者參與可用性研究，協助驗證Wikimedia REST API沙盒的新設計。有興趣的參與者請填寫招募問卷。 [119]
• MediaWiki介面團隊正著手棄用Action API中的XSLT樣式表。今年11月底，對format=xml&xlst={stylesheet}的支援將從維基媒體專案中移除。此外，MediaWiki的1.43（LTS）、1.44、1.45版本也將預設停用該功能。MediaWiki 1.46版本（預計於2026年4月至5月間發布）將全面移除對XSLT樣式表的支援。 [120]
• WDQS舊版端點（query-legacy-full.wikidata.org）將於今年12月底停止運作，並於2026年1月7日正式關閉。該日之後，若使用者未改用SPARQL聯合查詢，則向query.wikidata.org發出的full圖譜查詢請求將失敗或傳回無效結果。團隊建議使用者確保工具和工作流程改用受支援的WDQS端點（主圖譜：https://query.wikidata.org/或學術圖譜：https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/）。關於遷移和替代存取方式，詳見資料存取與請求查詢頁面。
• 本週軟體更新細節： 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

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 2025年12月1日 (一) 08:17 (CST)

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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 12月2日，iOS和Android版維基百科APP使用者將可查看自己的2025年維基百科年度回顧。今年的年度回顧為使用者帶來全新個人化洞察、閱讀歷程摘要以及煥然一新的設計。詳見專案頁面。
• Growth團隊正致力於改進發送給新使用者的驗證郵件的內容與呈現方式，使其更具親和力、更實用、更直觀地呈現資訊。新郵件文案已草擬完成，並即將進行A/B測試，請協助翻譯這些內容。詳見Phabricator工單。
• 12月2日，「新增鏈接」功能將部署至中文、日語和烏爾都語維基百科。「新增鏈接」功能基於預測模型運作，該模型會建議應新增至條目中的鏈接。雖然此功能已在多數維基百科語言版本啟用，但原有預測模型無法支援特定語言。目前已開發出新模型以處理這些語言，並將逐步推廣至其他維基百科語言版本。若想進一步了解，請聯繫Trizek (WMF)。
• 上週有34件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，由於從SpecialSearch改為MediaSearch，維基共享資源上某些頁面的搜尋框顯示無結果，現已修正此問題。 [121]
• 已新建兩個維基：
  • 道本語維基百科 (w:tok:) [122]
  • 奈及利亞皮欽語維基語錄 (q:pcm:) [123]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 維基媒體基金會正處於探索條目引導方法的初期階段。此計畫旨在找出能協助新編輯者在撰寫條目時，能夠輕鬆理解並應用維基百科方針與現有慣例的干預措施。目前專案處於探索與早期實驗設計階段。誠摯邀請所有社群成員進一步了解此專案，並在討論頁分享您的想法。

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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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

本週要聞

• 所有維基媒體專案的註冊使用者現可啟用雙重驗證（2FA）來保護其帳號，這是帳號安全計畫的一環。不久後，凡執行涉及安全或隱私敏感操作的使用者，皆須強制啟用雙重驗證。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 繼上週的部署後，「新增鏈接」功能將於12月9日起擴大部署至另外33個維基百科語言版本。該功能讓編輯者能在編輯過程中加入建議連結。本次擴大部署得益於全新預測模型，該模型現已支援所有語言，包含先前未涵蓋的語言。儘管此功能已在大多數維基百科版本運行一段時間，本次部署將使我們更接近全面採用改良版模型的目標。如有任何疑問或想了解更多詳情，請聯繫Trizek (WMF)。
• 上週，搜尋平台團隊為喬治亞語維基百科新增了即時轉寫搜尋建議功能。若搜尋拉丁字母或西里爾字母僅出現少許常規搜尋建議，搜尋文字會轉換為喬治亞字母來尋找更多結果。例如，在搜尋欄輸入「bedniereba」或「бедниереба」，搜尋建議中會出現現存條目「ბედნიერება」（「幸福」）。若有其他語言需要這類有關轉寫或錯誤鍵盤／輸入法的搜尋建議功能，請在Phabricator提出建議，供未來開發參考。
• 本週稍晚，我們將針對前100大維基百科版本的編輯者，在行動版網頁視覺化編輯器中展開一項對照實驗。其中50%的編輯者將會看到新增的「編輯完整頁面」按鈕，可讓編輯範圍擴展至整頁內容。此設計旨在讓行動版網頁使用者更容易編輯任何條目章節，無須受限於最初點擊的章節編輯圖示。此實驗將持續約4週。詳見工單。
• 本週稍晚，讀者成長團隊將進行一項行動版網頁實驗，預設展開所有條目章節（現行預設為摺疊），並將使用者目前閱讀的章節標題固定於頁面頂端。此實驗將影響中文、阿拉伯語、法語、印尼語、越南語維基百科中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]
• 上週有23件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，先前從Microsoft Edge網址欄複製URL再貼到某些維基編輯器中，會錯誤貼上網頁標題而非URL，現已修正此問題。 [126]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 本週開始，啟用「增強版語法醒目標示」測試功能的使用者，其Lua、JavaScript、CSS、JSON、Vue內容模型的編輯器將從CodeEditor改為CodeMirror。此變更將同步升級linter。我們計畫逐步取代CodeEditor並提供一致的程式碼編輯體驗。 [127]
• 邀請開發者填寫2025年開發者滿意度調查，開放填寫至2026年1月5日。如果您為維基媒體生態系統開發軟體，並樂意分享經驗或提供意見回饋，我們誠摯歡迎您參與調查。 [128]
• 本週沒有MediaWiki版本更新。

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年12月9日 (二) 01:46 (CST)

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期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 上週有18件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，先前當臨時帳號在條目加入外部連結，hCaptcha請求被異常地多次觸發，導致首次嘗試發布編輯時未跳出彈窗，現已修正此問題。 [129]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 為提升資料庫與網站效能，導向維基媒體專案的連結將不再作為外部連結儲存於資料庫中。這意味著這些連結將無法透過Special:LinkSearch搜尋，不會被垃圾郵件黑名單或濫用過濾器視為新連結進行檢查，亦不會出現在資料庫複本的externallinks資料表中。未來此措施可能擴展至其他高連結量的可信網站，以維基站點為單位實施，例如維基共享資源上的創用CC連結。 [130]
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年12月16日 (二) 03:03 (CST)

This Month in Education: December 2025

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 12 • December 2025

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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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery（留言） 2025年12月23日 (二) 00:37 (CST)

2025年第52期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 明年1月起，編輯過濾器可以設定成自動監督隱藏過濾器詳情，這包括觸發條件以及觸發過濾器的編輯和操作等。監督員可以用這項功能來防止個人資料外洩或其他應隱藏內容的傳播。 [131]
• 因應年末假期，下一期技術新聞將於2026年1月12日發送。感謝今年所有協助翻譯、貢獻內容以及提供寶貴意見的各位。
• 上週有16件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，先前在Android版維基百科年度回顧功能中，點擊「第一步」時可能會發生崩潰，現已修正此問題，該功能可正常開啟。 [132]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 過去，MediaWiki生成的介面元素（如差異比較與分類）會用data-mw="interface"屬性來區別於維基內容。此屬性現已改為data-mw-interface=""，以避免與由Parsoid生成的其他data-mw屬性產生潛在衝突。 [133]
• 本週及下週沒有MediaWiki版本更新。

會議與活動

• 2026年西北歐維基媒體黑客松將於2026年3月13日至14日在荷蘭阿納姆舉行。報名期限為12月中旬至1月中旬，額滿即止。場地僅能容納約100人，請盡早報名。

技術新聞由技術新聞編者準備，並由機器人送達 • 貢獻 • 翻譯 • 取得協助 • 提供回饋 • 訂閱或退訂。

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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery（留言） 2025年12月30日 (二) 00:12 (CST)

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.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 2026年1月12日 (一) 20:58 (CST)

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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery（留言） 2026年1月12日 (一) 22:59 (CST)

2026年第3期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

本週要聞

• 維基媒體基金會在元維基和Diff平台發布了有關明年度（2026年7月—2027年6月）年度計畫的若干指導性問題。這些問題聚焦於全球趨勢、更快更健康的實驗模式、強化新手支援、提升編輯者與高階權限者的能力、促進跨專案協作，以及擴展與留存讀者群。歡迎在討論頁提供意見與想法。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 作為社群技術團隊目前在「多重監視清單」專案的工作之一，團隊將更新EditWatchlist特殊頁面的介面，向多重監視清單的實現邁出第一步。此外，為回應社群願望「改進分頁/頁面導航」，Search特殊頁面的分頁顯示機制也將更新。 [134]
• 全域監視清單是MediaWiki擴充功能，可查看不同維基的監視清單。現已更新，使其外觀更接近常規監視清單，例如檢視IP位址中臨時帳號的介面已最佳化（包含用戶連結重定向到貢獻頁面），將頁面標題加粗，及以新分頁開啟編輯摘要和標籤中的連結。 [135][136][137][138]
• 上週有28件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，先前全域封鎖介面中沒有停用發送電子郵件的選項，現已修復此問題，將於1月13日當週啟用。 [139]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• VisualEditor引用工具和參考文獻預覽現已支援「地圖」方式的文獻類型。 [140]
• 本週軟體更新細節： 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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Wikidata weekly summary #715

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #714.

Discussions

• Closed request for comments: Deprecate P642? - Consensus to deprecate was reached.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikifying Te Tiriti 10-workshop series, attendees will learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and create Wikidata items, to increase the visibility of people and their projects working in Te Tiriti and anti-racism areas. Further information can be found on the WikiProject page / Workshop timetable. Register to attend.
  • Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 in Uganda - contribute to the project by expanding or creating Wikidata Items connected to the project categories, such as Ugandan folklore, food, music, dances, traditional clothing, and more.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The London School of Economics and Political Science have employed a Wikimedian in Residence
  • Wikimedia Indonesia held Data and Technology Week 2025 in last December 2025, organized introductory workshops on Wikidata and Wikifunctions. Read key takeaways and participants' discussion at Diff.
  • Wikidata Days 2025 Journey in Africa: Building Knowledge, Languages and Communities
  • Wikidata Botswana 2025: Celebrating 13 Years (And We Really Showed Up!)
• Papers:
  • A new monographic number of JLIS.it has been published regarding the OPAC SBN (the biggest collective library catalogue in Italy, with more than 7 thousands of libraries participating; about its collaboration with Wikidata, see the Wikidata coordination page); it contains 3 papers focusing on the use of Wikidata for authority control (all in Italian, with abstract in English):
    • Wikidata and SBN: An Assessment of Two Years of Work (2023–2025): an overview Wikidata-SBN of the collaboration in 2023-2025, focusing on the methods of reconciliation
    • Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN: a description of the procedure to extract data from Wikidata items matches with SBN authority records and adapt these data to be copied into non-individualised SBN authority records
    • NaMo, utility for populating missing date fields in authority records: a description of an utility to keep an authority file up-to-date finding missing death dates through Wikidata
  • Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN - A collaboration between Wikimedia Italy and ICCU is enriching incomplete SBN authority records using Wikidata identifiers, enhancing catalogue accuracy and accessibility as entries continue to grow. By Ravelli, (2026).

Tool of the week

• Puzzles By Nathan is a game that arrange words so each connects to the next

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editing for RTL languages: The Wikimedia Deutschland team is seeking users of right-to-left (RTL) scripts, including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu, to help test and improve the mobile statement editing experience. If you edit in an RTL language and would like to join user interviews or deeper testing, sign up here.
• (French) Gendered place names in the public space of French-speaking Switzerland

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: Parfinity notes ID, ‎Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID, Basenotes perfume brand ID, Basenotes perfume people ID, Basenotes perfume ID, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ID, MAX username
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • location collected (geographic location where a specimen or sample was collected in the field)
  • Category for music in this language (link to category item that contains music in this language)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID, CriticDB IDs, MPA certificate number, WorldFootball.net person ID (new), The Session tune ID, Parfumo fragrance note ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Timeline of elected germanic Roman emperors
  • Universities without a P625 (coordinate location) - Source
• Schema examples: film director (E24)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Rijksmonumenten Unmerge list - list of items with more than one P359 (Rijksmonumenten ID).
  • Stanford Libraries added an event: Love Data Week 2026
• Newest database reports: Entities without a Label - this list is dynamically created, search by language code and entity type: Item or Property.
• Showcase Items: FIFA (Q253414) - international governing body of association football
• Showcase Lexemes: charge (L3922) - English verb (tʃɑːrdʒ) meaning "to supply with energy", "to rush forward", or "to have responsibility for"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We continued work on supporting more datatypes for editing, specifically date, musical notation and monolingual text.
  • We worked on displaying constraint violation indicators.
  • You can try out the current state by enabling it in the beta features section of your preferences.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate options for further reducing the amount of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist on the other wikis to reduce the size of the database tables.
• Dumps: We finished our research on dumps, especially looking into different ways to define subsets. We will publish the report with results by end of February.
• Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is continuing the evaluation of potential replacements for Blazegraph.

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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2026年第4期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 行動版Special:Diff頁面中的Tray已重新設計。Tray現預設為折疊狀態，並新增可復原當前檢視編輯的按鈕，讓行動版編輯者與審閱者能更容易執行操作，同時保持介面簡潔。 [141]
• 全域監視清單讓使用者能夠在一個頁面檢視多個維基站點的監視清單。此擴充功能目前正持續改進，現在能自動判斷文字書寫方向（而非依賴硬編碼語言列表），並顯示更詳細的日誌操作描述。本週稍晚，將為頁面建立操作附上固定連結，並為每個項目元素加上專屬CSS類別。 [142][143][144][145]
• 上週有32件由社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如，先前在Vector 2022中，錨點連結的目標遭固定式頁首遮擋，現已修正此問題。 [146]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 如2025年10月的棄用公告所述，MediaWiki介面團隊將於1月26日當週起，逐步廢棄MediaWiki REST API中所有帶有結尾斜線的轉換端點。預計所有維基站點將於1月30日或之前完成變更部署。目前仍呼叫這些端點的API使用者，請盡快轉用不帶結尾斜線的版本。兩種端點變體皆可透過REST沙盒進行查找、比對與測試。如有疑問或遇到問題，請至Phabricator的#MW-Interfaces-Team面板提交工單。
• Wikimedia REST API的互動式參考文件已移動。先前透過RESTBase託管的API文件請求（如https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/）現已重新導向至REST沙盒。
• 維基媒體基金會維基數據平台團隊（WDP）發布了2026年1月電子報。本期內容包括：舊版完整圖譜端點（full-graph endpoint）的退役；使用者代理（User-Agent）方針的修訂；關於Blazegraph遷移的每月諮詢時段；因應舊版端點關閉所引發迴歸問題的改善措施。歡迎訂閱WDP電子報！
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

會議與活動

• 2026年西北歐維基媒體黑客松將於2026年3月13日至14日在荷蘭阿納姆舉行。報名自12月中旬開始，將於近期截止或額滿為止。這是一場為期兩天、以技術為導向的黑客松，將吸引當地維基人一同參與。期待與您相會！

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