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This Month in GLAM: June 2025

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #688

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第29期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

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

会议与活动

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

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

The Signpost: 18 July 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Comix: Divorce

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

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

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

• Traffic report: God only knows

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #689

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第30期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

会议与活动

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

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #690

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第31期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

会议与活动

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

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

This Month in Education: July 2025

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

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 7 • July 2025

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

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

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Wikimedia CEE Newsletter – August 2025

Dear CEE Community,

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

In this issue:

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

Read the full newsletter here. Happy reading!

On behalf of the CEE Newsletter team,

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

Wikidata weekly summary #691

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第32期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

会议与活动

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

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

The Signpost: 9 August 2025

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

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

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

• Disinformation report: The article in the most languages

• Community view: News from the Villages Pump

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

• Crossword: Accidental typography

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

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

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This Month in GLAM: July 2025

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

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2025年第33期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #692

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Tool of the week

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #693

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第34期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #694

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第35期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

深入了解

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

会议与活动

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

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #695

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

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Rubah Hitam Vukova

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Last chance to submit a session for WikidataCon 2025, the proposals deadline is imminent: head to this Call for Proposals page to submit an idea (drafts are welcome, they can be edited for a week after the deadline).
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series: fourth session, Introduction to Wikidata/EMCO, with a hands-on exercise creating a corporate body item and adding statements. Tuesday, September 2 – 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). More info and Zoom links.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #80 September 15 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Press: Big Tech locks data away. Wikidata gives it back to the internet
• Blogs: Wikidata, instance of and subclass of through time (P31 & P279)
• Videos:
  • LD4 2025 - Wikidata Affinity Group Session - Introduction to Wikidata for Entity Management
  • How to create a work and edition in Wikidata

Tool of the week

• DerDieDas for Danish is a Wikidata-based game to practice Danish.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (all genders) for the Wikibase Suite, starting October 1, 2025. The role is full-time or part-time, hybrid, and based in Berlin, focused on building open-source tools for linked open data.
• The Rapid Fund/Tech program, launched on July 24, 2025, provides up to $5,000 per project for coding tools that improve contributions to Wikimedia projects. Applications are reviewed every two months, with priority for impactful projects with clear, critical, and well-planned milestones.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes:
  • parts per area (average number of parts per unit of area)
  • ‎display size (diagonal) (diagonal length of a rectangular electronic display)
• New External identifiers: Digital ROC people ID, Digital ROC event ID, T10 vendor ID string, Confederation of African Tennis player ID, ‎Nextroom building ID, Concept ID in Arab Encyclopedia
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • game stat (metric to what extent a character in a role-playing game (or game with role-playing elements) possesses a specific natural, in-born characteristic common to all characters in the game)
  • open meeting page URL (Information page describing open meetings, public meetings or town hall meetings)
  • Islamic calligraphy (property that shows the Islamic calligraphy for a person)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Minfin company ID, Swiss Performing Arts vocabularies ID, Doha Dictionary root id, Sharjah Dictionary root id, Fantacalcio ID, GayCities ID, Washington Blade tag ID, IN Magazine tag ID, Teen Vogue tag ID, Diva tag ID, Attitude tag ID, Metro Source tag ID, PLUS tag ID, Wussy Magazine tag ID, Plant Ontology ID, Dimensions.com element ID, ISU-Skating.com-Identifikator

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Species of birds and their sounds (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Art UK is an effort to document the various properties and volunteer (art-related) work on Wikidata.
• Showcase Items: SARS-CoV-2 (Q82069695) - virus that causes COVID-19
• Showcase Lexemes: øye (L303896) - Norwegian noun (ˈœʏə) meaning "organ of sight", "gaze or look", or "point of view"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We developed the first pieces of the edit mode as well as the ability to add statements. You can always follow along on beta Wikidata and find more information on the project page.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into reducing the number of changes that show up on Wikipedia and co's Recent changes and Watchlist (phab:T401284)
• Federation: We looked at previous requests to add new endpoints to the list of SPARQL endpoints you can federate with and are cleaning up the process for getting new ones added. If you have one you'd like to write federated SPARQL queries to now is a good time to request them.
• Lexicographical data: You can now limit searches to Lexemes with a Lemma in a specific spelling variant with the haslemma keywords and to Lexemes with a specific language with the in language keyword. Examples: 1 2 (phab:T271776)
• GraphQL: We are evaluating feedback we received so far. If you are developing applications with Wikidata's data it'd be great if you could have a look at the current prototype and provide feedback.
• Dumps: We are experimenting to see how we can provide smaller subset dumps for Wikidata (phab:T400870)

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第36期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

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

会议与活动

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

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

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This Month in Education: August 2025

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

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 8 • August 2025

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #696

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

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: IndExsBot - Task(s): Add Subject external identifier IndExs Exsiccata editor ID (P12371) to existing persons which are stated in the indexes of Exsiccatae database.

Events

• Past events:
  • The WikiCite 2025 conference took place in Berne, Switzerland. It showcased WikiCite-related efforts across multiple wikis, disciplines, languages and countries. Most of it was both streamed and recorded, and the videos are currently being processed.
  • The SEMANTICS 2025 conference took place in Vienna, Austria. Wikidata was mentioned in several keynotes and multiple other talks, posters and demos. The poster The Wikidata Query Service split and its impact on the scholarly graph zoomed in on the WDQS graph split.
• Upcoming events:
  • Wikidata's 13th Birthday update: Funding applications are now closed, and the review process is underway. Applicants will be notified about the status of their submissions shortly. Are you planning to organize an event for the birthday but haven’t added it to the calendar yet? You can do so here: Wikidata:Thirteenth Birthday/Calendar 🎉
  • The deadline for the Fall 2025 MediaWiki Users & Developers Conference CfP is extended until September 15th. The conference will be held on October 28 - 30th, and hosted by the TIB Leibniz Centre in Hanover, Germany.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Past, Present and Future: a Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Biodiversity Heritage Library: TiagoLubiana reflects on their tenure at the BHL (Q172266), integrating the biodiversity collections into the Wikimedia projects. Read on Diff Blog
• Papers: Revealing hidden figures within natural history collections by empowering students with data sleuthing skills - Mabry et al.,(2025) Read here
• Videos:
  • WiLES Wikidata Lexicographical Event Semantics modeling for natural languages (LD4 2025) YouTube
  • Wikidata presentations and lightning talks (LD4 2025) YouTube
  • On Wikiskills 1st Wikidata Training (Africa Wiki Women) YouTube
  • (French) Lors de la 1ère formation Wikidata de Wikiskills YouTube
  • Plugging into the WikiVerse: A Plug for a Wikidata Plug-in for ArchivesSpace YouTube
• Presentations:
  • WikiCite 2025 presentation slidedecks can be found linked individually from the programme page or collectively on the Commons category.
  • Wikidata / GLAM a few experiments... by Tim Sherratt showcasing reuse of Wikidata

Tool of the week

• Dacit is a listening-training app for cochlear implant users, built as part of a Master's Thesis for LMU Munich, it is powered by Wikidata-lexicographical data. Practice with 3 different excercises; identify (German-language) speakers, words and minimal pairs in your browser or as an android app
• LexToWiktonaryis a userscript that adds a Wiktionary links button on Wikidata Lexeme pages. It checks the lemmas of a lexeme, finds matching entries across different Wiktionary language editions, and shows them in a popup for quick access, with an option to expand to all Wiktionaries.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The submission deadline for WikidataCon proposals has passed. Proposals that were submitted in time can still be edited until Sep 9. Proposals are hidden by default, but a page for sharing submissions is available and can facilitate coordination.
• Help Panel has been deployed on Wikidata Beta.🎉 This is a feature designed to guide contributors with quick links to relevant help pages. It currently appears in read mode across most pages and can be configured by admins. You can enable it in your Beta preferences under "Newcomer features". To help shape its future on Wikidata, we're inviting you to test it and share feedback on this talk page.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes: form factor (physical design paradigm this object is aligned with)
• New External identifiers: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms entry ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military entry ID, Valais cantonal parliament ID, Arcanes ID, A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism entry ID, IGDB keyword ID, A Dictionary of Dentistry entry ID, Record Group Number of the National Archives Administration, National Development Council, Taiwan (R.O.C.), A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation entry ID, Doha Dictionary root id, Sharjah Dictionary root id, Saulchoir library ID, Observer tag, ‎Hamburger Frauenbiografien ID, Ophardt Team Sportevent person ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon object ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Release date of film (The date when a film was first released to the public)
  • part number 2 (identifier for a product or part designated by its manufacturer for inventory and ordering purposes)
  • backwards compatible with (backwards compatible with the identified platform, software, or system)
  • level or map of (video games that this video game level or map belongs to)
  • resistance (Resistance of organisms (systems) to common adverserial influences like pests, pathogens, drugs, attack vectors, ...)
  • GBFS feed URL (URL of a GBFS feed for the bicycle-sharing system)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: GENC 3-character code, L'Équipe athlete ID, Sancho el Sabio Foundation ID, British Authors author ID, Gamepadla ID, VGA Legacy MKIII ID, Noormags ID, qamus.inoor.ir entry ID, RSQV ID, Naturalis authority ID, Digital Library of the Community of Madrid ID, Trainspo model ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Number of hospital beds (Source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject ASBS 2025 - Aims to Engage the botanical community at the 2025 ASBS Conference to promote and enhance contributions to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia Commons.
• Showcase Lexemes: PC (L739282) - English noun (ˌpiːˈsiː) meaning "Personal Computer", "Printed Circuit", or "Peace Corps"

Development

• We're investigate options for improving information saved while publishing (phab:T403149)
• Mobile Editing Experience: we added multi-language support (T402630)
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into reducing the number of changes that show up on Wikipedia and co's Recent changes and Watchlist from edits to aliases (phab:T401288), more info

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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The Signpost: 9 September 2025

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

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

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

• Disinformation report: A guide for Congress

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

• Technology report: A new way to read Wikisource

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

• Essay: The one question

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2025年第37期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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

This Month in GLAM: August 2025

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #697

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

Discussions

• Project Chat: Multiple items linked to single categories, redux

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series introduces participants to Wikidata/EMCO. The session guides attendees through creating a project and project page, followed by an open working hour for creating and editing in Wikidata and asking questions. Join on Tuesday, September 16th at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. More details and Zoom links are on the project page.
  • Wikidata Lab XLVI: Wikidata and semantic memory (in English). On September 18th, at 17UTC. Live on Youtube.
  • Virtual course: Wikidata and public domain (in Spanish). On September 25th start this online course until March 26, 2026. Registration open on this form.
  • Govdirectory US office hour, 25 September
  • Apply now: Scholarships for Wikimania 2026 in Paris! Deadline is October 31, 2025 (anywhere in the world). Notification of decisions will be sent in January 2026.
  • Notifications for Wikidata Thirteenth Birthday microgrant applications are currently being sent out in batches. If you are planning to run an event but have not yet added your event to the calendar, please do so here: Wikidata:Thirteenth_Birthday/Calendar
  • WikidataCon 2025 proposal reviews are about to end. We are currently building an initial programme and will soon inform Speakers before publishing a first Schedule!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: GLAM Newsletter: Biodiversity Heritage Library update, harvesting Wikidata identifiers and improving the BHL2Wiki Tool - Read the article
• Videos:
  • EduWiki Conference - Using AI on Wikipedia and Wikidata Editing for Health Education
  • Using Duplicity: Link Wikipedia articles to Wikidata Items
  • How to Get the Used Language in WIKIDATA/SPARQL with [AUTO_LANGUAGE Parameter
  • (Spanish) Let's improve information about Carnival on Wikidata
  • Wikidata Lab XLVI: Wikidata and Semantic Memory, don't miss the workshop! (scheduled: 18.09.25, 1700 UTC) - YouTube
• WikiCite 2025 Presentations:
  • Extracting citation relations from legacy publications, by David Lindeman - watch on Commons
  • A proposal for managing personal collections in Wikidata, by Tania Maio - watch on Commons

Tool of the week

• Paulina is a Wikidata-based tool for the GLAM community that facilitates searching for authors and works, helps identify their copyright status in different countries, and provides access to works when available.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Help us test the new Help Panel feature, now enabled on Wikidata Beta
• The Wikimedia Foundation launched a new team, the Wikidata Platform Team, to lead development and maintenance of query services, aiming for stable, scalable data access in collaboration with WMDE and the community.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes:
  • open meeting page URL (information page describing open meetings, public meetings or town hall meetings)
  • ‎LSF rating (Indonesia film classification administered by the Film Censorship Board)
  • ‎designed for handedness (hand(s) that this object is intended to be used with)
• New External identifiers: Personnel de l'administration préfectorale depuis 1945 ID, La Fayette ID, Harper's tag, ‎TechnoMusicWorld artist ID, ‎TechnoMusicWorld track ID, ‎Serbian settlement ID, ‎setlist.fm festival ID, ScholarGPS scholar ID, ScholarGPS institution ID, ScholarGPS field and discipline ID, ScholarGPS specialty ID, The Digital Ark person ID, MHOBT ID, Gamepadla ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • NRK topic ID ()
  • result of addition (mathematical result obtained by adding two or more numbers or quantities together)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: OpenStreetMap key, Meetup.com Event ID, Biological Imaging Methods Ontology ID, Anne Frank House persond ID, PortableApps ID, Identifiant Maitron d'une commune, National Library Board Singapore ID (new scheme), NWO Project ID, OpenITI Author URI, DisplaySpecifications.com model ID, 网易云音乐专辑编号, PnP vendor ID, PnP device ID, Mellopedia

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Artworks owned by Perls Dynasty - see it visualised on YouTube
  • BubbleChart of Wikidata Lexeme forms by language
  • Institutions that host the most UNESCO Memory of the World International Register inscriptions (Source)
• Newest WikiProjects: University of Toronto Libraries EMCO, Jewish Studies and Heritage
• Showcase Items: Diary of Anne Frank (Q6911) - famous diary of a 13-year old Dutch Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis to escape the Holocaust
• Showcase Lexemes:blow (L4476) - English verb (bloʊ) meaning "to push air", "to explode", or "to perform fellatio"

Development

• Scalability/sustainability: We have rolled out changes to minimize the number of entries stored in the recent changes tables of Wikipedia and co that are edits coming from Wikidata. This also reduces the number of changes from Wikidata you will see showing up in Recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co further.
• MCP for Wikidata: We are getting it ready for first testing.
• Dumps: We are continuing to investigate how to provide smaller/subset dumps.
• Mobile statement editing: We are continuing the work on making statements editable, especially qualifiers and multiple references.
• Anubis (Q134301689) anti-bot software was deployed on Wikibase Cloud and XTools to prevent site outages caused by bot traffic. (T399851, T400229)

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第38期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

会议与活动

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #698

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

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation 25 October .This event will showcase the Seediq communities’ translation of the OCLC white paper on Wikibase, followed by an overview of the full paper. It will conclude with an open discussion on the lessons learned during the translation project and broader reflections on linked data.
  • Govdirectory US office hour, 25 September
  • FREE virtual 1hr Wiki webinar focusing on plant biodiversity. Open to anyone wanting to improve their digital outreach skills by enriching Wikidata. Tuesday 14th of October at 3pm NZST. Register to get link.
  • Wikidata’s 13th Birthday is just around the corner! Are you planning to host a celebration but haven’t added it to the calendar yet? Join the party! Thirty-nine (39) events are already scheduled, and yours can be too: Birthday Calendar. It’s also the perfect time to contribute a birthday present or message to this list. Gifts can be anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community like a script you’ve written, a tool improvement, a visual, a poem... 🎉

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos: (French) Formation Wikidata 2 de WikiSkills By Africa Wiki Women

Tool of the week

• Duplicity This tool can pick a random article on a wiki without associated Wikidata item, and offer some possible matches on Wikidata, so you can add it to an existing item, or create a new one.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 31! If you have some ideas for coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, outreach, research) projects, share them by Sept. 26, 2025, at 4 pm UTC

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes:
  • number of ray tracing cores (number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit)
  • VRAM capacity (amount of dual-ported video RAM (VRAM) modules used by this device)
  • ‎has wireless capabilities (type of wireless connectivity this device has/supports)
  • date filed (filing date for a document, e.g. a patent or court case)
• New External identifiers: Gamepadla ID, OpenStreetMap key, EU-ID, Roma road ID, ‎LTT Labs product ID, Swiss Performing Arts Vocabularies ID, wikiHow article ID, ‎GamesIndustry.biz tag ID, ‎Dimensions.com element ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • image+display resolution (pixel resolution of images generated or captured by this item (camera, software, etc))
  • firmware (firmware installed on this hardware)
  • excluding work (work or narration for or in which this statement is <em>false</em>)
  • has grammatical number (grammatical number used in this language)
  • Day of Reisai (Annual Festival done by a Shinto Shrine)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: https://football.aek.com/, Météo-France place ID, Hex package, Maptons ID, BVPB catalog ID, dati.lnb.lv ID, The Needle Drop tag ID, AfterEllen tag ID, OpenStreetMap relation type, Them.us tag ID, DOAB book ID, identifiant Liste unique des décorés, Deník tag ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture entry ID, qamus.inoor.ir root ID, Filmarks ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • A map of IEC 60320 power connectors - a cool SPARQL visualisation, by User:IagoQnsi
  • 350 people who were married, then married the sibling of their previous spouse (source)
• Showcase Items: Northern Sami

(Q33947) - famoumost widely spoken of all Sámi languages

• Showcase Lexemes: Waage (L37547) – German noun (‘ˈvaːɡə’) meaning "scale (device for measuring mass)", "Libra constellation", or "equilibrium"

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We are working more on the editing state of statements, especially qualifiers and progress indicators during saving (phab:T402620)
• Dumps: We fixed an issue with some of the dumps (phab:T403882) and are improving the monitoring
• GraphQL: We are working on making it easier to get labels of linked entities in an API response, starting with Items (phab:T404692)
• Sustainability: We have now rolled out improvements to the tracking of Wikidata changes on the other Wikimedia projects on all projects in order to decrease the size of the database table that tracks these changes (phab:T401288)
• Bug fixes: Tacsipacsi submitted fixes for two issues in error messages on Special:SetSiteLink. Thank you! (phab:T404499, phab:T404500)

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第39期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #699

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

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Empat Tilda: RfP scheduled to end after 3 October 2025 18:30 (UTC)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our first session of our WikiProject Personal Pronouns event series, which will provide a high-level overview of WikiProject Personal Pronouns' goals, past work, and implementation plans. The session will also serve as a practical orientation to the implementation work for this project, ending with a demonstration of the workflow to be used in subsequent sessions. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. This session will be recorded. Slides and recordings will be found on the project page after the session. Join us Tuesday, September 30th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
  • Wikidata are hosting a webinar on the Embedding Project: AI/ML Project Manager Philippe Saadé (WMDE) will introduce the project, including early experiences, wins and pitfalls, and open up the floor to your questions.
    • Takes place 1600 - 1700 UTC, October 9, 2025.
    • Embedding Project? Read about it here
    • Want to join the Webinar? Please register here with your Wiki account
  • 🎁 Countdown to 13!🎁 Wikidata's 13th Birthday is fast approaching and this week marks the start of the first Birthday Events! For a full rundown of all Birthday Events, please see the Birthday Calendar.
    

Starting the month of celebrations this week include: Wali Wikimedians Community, Latin America in Wikidata 2025, Hausa Wikipedians User Group and the language communities of Zambia, Twi and Kinyarwanda and regional celebrations from the Northern Nigerian, Dagbani and Ghanaians Wikimedian communities!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Enhanced Search for Wikibase
  • Suggesting new relations in ROR from Wikidata By Charles Tapley Hoyt
• Papers:
  • Protoknowledge Shapes Behaviour of LLMs: Text-to-SPARQL
  • Wikidata Workflows: with ORCiD and OpenRefine - a Binghamton University Case Study By Sasha Frizzell - This lightning talk outlines Binghamton University Libraries’ pilot project to convert ORCID faculty data into Wikidata entries, showcasing linked data integration, data cleaning workflows, and strategies for enhancing institutional research visibility.
• Videos:
  • Wikidata tutorial: how to merge duplicate items
  • Wikidata Wikishootme SAT
  • How to Fetch Subclasses and Parent Classes in Wikidata SPARQL Queries
  • (Portuguese) Black women in history through Wikidata
  • Provenance and Restitution: Shared knowledge graphs as a tool in recovering looted cultural heritage

Tool of the week

• senseItemLabel is a UserScript by User:Jon Harald Søby The Script Lets you add the lemma for the current lexeme as a label to items added to the lexeme's senses as item for this sense (P5137) in one click.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• If you've noticed a performance issue with Magnus Manske's MixMatch gagdet, User:IagoQnsi has suggested a fix, the comment and code is available from Talk:Magnus Manske#MixMatch performance

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎Lemmy instance URL (the Lemmy instance of or about the subject)
  • ‎part number (identifier for a product or part designated by its manufacturer for inventory and ordering purposes)
• Newest External identifiers: Noormags ID, PnP device ID, PnP vendor ID, ‎GENC 3-character code, ‎Sancho el Sabio Foundation ID, ‎British Authors author ID, VGA Legacy MKIII graphics card ID, ‎qamus.inoor.ir entry ID, PortableApps ID, Chinese Engineers Relational Database ID, ‎DisplaySpecifications.com model ID, Vix Vocal work id, Naturalis author ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • maximum supported display resolution (maximum pixel resolution that this computing hardware or technological standard supports)
  • cookie policy (cookie policy of this website, software or digital product)
  • yayasan ID (identifier for Indonesian foundation on vervalyayasan.data.kemdikbud.go.id)
  • luminance (measured quantity of photometric brightness (luminous intensity per area))
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Filmarks ID, Medicin.dk disorder ID, Interaktionsdatabasen ID, A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition entry ID, OpenStreetMap role, TechPowerUp CPU Specs Database ID, GPUZoo ID, CPU-World ID, Adebiportal author, RIA Novosti person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion entry ID, Qalamger.kz author ID, Does the Dog Die? media ID, Sultanlar Ligi player ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • maps of running and closed railway stations in Denmark
  • Formula One Teams by employee count - source: Discord
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Piano Rolls - has bee greatly expanded and subpages added.
  • Open Topstukken Maastricht University and Radboud University - A user manual for contributing.
• Showcase Items: Because You Left

(Q1059888) - episode of Lost (S5 E1)

• Showcase Lexemes:Knoten (L298686) - German noun (ˈknoːtn̩) meaning "tied fastening of ropes/strings", "speed unit in aviation/shipping", or "tangled clump of hair"

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We continue to make good progress, which you can check out on beta Wikidata. Specifically it is now possible to
  • save changes to edits made to string Properties on statements (without losing qualifier / reference information) (phab:T401405)
  • change the rank of statements (phab:T402436)
• Query Service UI: jhsoby submitted patches for two issues related to the example dialog. Thank you! (phab:T405747, phab:T405720)
• Lexicographical data: 1F616EMO submitted a patch to fix a localization issue on the Lexeme page. Thank you! (phab:T322526)
• Dumps: We fixed issues with the n-triples and truthy dumps generation and set up a dashboard for monitoring (phab:T403882)
• GraphQL: We are continuing to make labels of linked entities accessible in the GraphQL endpoint (phab:T404692)
• Wikidata in Wikipedia and co: We are continuing to work on improvements to how we technically track the use of Wikidata in the other Wikimedia projects in order to reduce the amount of changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
• Wikidata Query Service GUI: We deployed two fixes by User:Jon Harald Søby, thank you! (phab:T405720, phab:T405747)

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第40期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

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

The Signpost: 2 October 2025

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

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

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

• Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client

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

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

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

• Opinion: Some disputes aren't worth it

• Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt

• Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name

• Comix: A grand spectacle

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This Month in Education: September 2025

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

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 9 • September 2025

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #700

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

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikidataCon 2025 - The first version of the conference schedule has been released! See the Event page for links to the schedule (and to register if you haven't already).
  • 13th Birthday Events - check the calendar to see which Birthday events are happening this week!
  • Webinar: Embedding Project - join us this week, October 9 1600 ~ 1700 UTC, to hear a presentation and then pose your questions regarding the Embedding Project
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 15th October 2025 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
• Past events:
  • Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 - Learning Day (September 25, at the Goethe Institut in Thessaloniki): the main topic was Wikidata and libraries; the program and the materials of the hands-on session are available in the Meta page, the slides of the presentations are available in the Commons category
  • Convegno NILDE (October 2-3, University of Genoa; website): in the first session, regarding Il futuro dei cataloghi [The future of the catalogs], many presentations (in Italian) have mentioned the use of Wikidata in collective library catalogs; the proceedings of the conference (in Italian) will be published in open access in early 2026:
    • Lianna D'Amato and Emanuela Secinaro, Cobis LOD: integrare e aumentare i cataloghi eterogenei delle biblioteche specialistiche [Cobis LOD: Integrating and Enhancing the Heterogeneous Catalogs of Specialized Libraries] (slides)
    • Stefano Bargioni, La catalogazione per entità, esperienze pratiche della rete URBE con Parsifal [Entity cataloging: practical experiences of the URBE network with Parsifal] (slides; Wikidata project page)
    • Elena Ravelli e Camillo Pellizzari, Authority file di SBN e Wikidata: un esempio di interoperabilità e riutilizzo dei dati [SBN Authority File and Wikidata: An Example of Data Interoperability and Reuse] (slides; Wikidata project page)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Diff: Building Wikidatacapacity in East Africa - Wikimedia Deutschland’s 2025 outreach initiative expanded Wikidata capacity in East Africa by training nearly 100 local Wikimedians across 13 countries, and fostering a new network of regional Wikidata champions
• Press: A milestone for open AI: The Wikidata Embedding Project goes live, read also in Deutsch / TheVerge and TechCrunch blogs.
• Videos:
  • Africa Wiki Women - Wikidata Birthday Launch Celebration 2025
  • SAT - Wikidata - OSM - länkade data By Magnus Sälgö
  • Roman Provinces Project (RPP) WikiDataTraining (add WMC image)
  • Wikidata and public domain - Clase 1 (Spanish) By Wikimedistas de Uruguay
  • Open Tool Registries: Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata - Livestream (today!) Oct 6, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST. (Maybe in German but description is English)

Tool of the week

• Script newentity.js is a UserScript by GZWDer it helps to generates new items (including lexemes) from the given JSON object.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikidata Team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to talk to developers who use Wikidata’s data dumps, or have tried using them but ran into challenges. Your feedback will help us make data dumps easier and more reliable to use. If you’re open to chatting, we’ll schedule a 60-minute user interview. As a thank-you for your time, you’ll be eligible for compensation. Sign up here.
• For anyone interested in open and interoperable data, the DCMI 2025 Conference might be interesting. More information and registration here.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • calligraphy (calligraphy of this person)
  • cookie policy URL (cookie policy of this website, software or digital product)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎TechnoMusicWorld release ID, Biblioteca Digital de la Comunidad de Madrid ID, ‎Trainspo model ID, AGORHA UUID, ‎Biological Imaging Methods Ontology ID, ‎Anne Frank House person ID, Maitron municipality ID, National Library Board Singapore ID, Euploos Project ID, SpaceReference.org celestial object ID, Hex package
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • formally denounced by (person or organization which has publicly issued or enacted a denunciation of this item)
  • code of conduct (URL of a resource that contains the Code of Conduct of a project or organization)
  • award judge (judges for an award)
  • start and end work (work in which this statement begins to be valid)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Organ Index ID, BLGBL ID, American Kennel Club ID, CRT Database model ID, Jeune Afrique country ID, Vocabulary.com word ID, Newegg item ID, Catalogue of sundials ID, BeWeb historical or artistic asset ID, PriceRunner product ID, SofaScore sports team ID, FootballFakts.ru football match ID, Kicker sports match ID, BDFutbol match ID, Foot Mercato players ID, Meetup.com Event ID, Mapillary username, Soccerway player ID 2025

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Lexemes in sign languages (source)
  • List of films available for free on YouTube (source)
• Showcase Items: Kwame Nkrumah (Q8620) - Ghanaian pan-Africanist and the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana (1909-1972)
• Showcase Lexemes: delve (L22859) – English verb (/dɛlv/) meaning "to investigate thoroughly", "to dig physically", or "to discuss in detail

Development

• The {{USERLANGUAGE}} magic word is now enabled on Wikidata and Test Wikidata. It can be used to display templates in the user interface language, replacing the previous {{int:lang}} hack. (phab:T405830)

GraphQL: We have continued working on the functionality that provides labels of linked entities

• Wikidata vector embedding and MCP: We have released the vector embedding and MCP
• Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
  • We are continuing the rollout of improvements to ow we track Wikidata changes in Wikipedia's watchlist and recent changes in order to reduce the size of the database table and reduce the noise on editors' watchlists. (phab:T401288, phab:T401290)
  • We are working on some improvements to the Databox module and template (phab:T400322)
• Mobile statement editing:
  • We improved the display of qualifiers and made it possible to add qualifiers (editing will still come) as well as the value type (value/some value/no value) (phab:T404991, phab:T404956, phab:T402431, phab:T403246)
  • We are working on adding editing support for more datatypes (tabular data and geoshape) (phab:T403973)
  • We are working on making it possible to edit references (phab:T402433)

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第41期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

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

This Month in GLAM: September 2025

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #701

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

Discussions

• Closed request for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 7 - closed as approved.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session: Tuesday 14 Oct, 2025 from 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (click for your Time zone) WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No prior Wikidata experience required. More info on the Personal Pronouns event page.
  • Upcoming LD4 Affinity Group sessions: Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9, at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 4pm UTC / 6pm CEST.
  • Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour, join us in the Wikidata Telegram channel for our Quarterly roundup of what's been happening with Wikidata and Wikibase. If you can't make it, read the transcript later. Oct 15, 18:00 - 19:00 CEST (UTC 16:00 - 17:00).
  • The Next Wikimedia Research Showcase is Wednesday, October 15, at 9:30 AM PT / 16:30 UTC. The theme is "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture". Watch via the YouTube stream.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Developing an enhanced dataset for the history of Photography - National Archives researchers used Wikidata during a hackathon to link people and places from 19th-century photographic copyright records, enriching the archive’s metadata through linked open data.
  • Viusalisations of Philosophers Influence in history - Take a look if you're interested in the history of philosophy, temporal graphs, or Wikidata!
• Videos:
  • (Spanish) How to identify and fill information gaps in Wikidata Tabernacle and Integrality - In preparation for Latin America month on Wikidata, this tutorial will introduce the Tabernacle and Intergraality tools.
  • Curationist: 2024 Metadata Learning and Unlearning Summit - Curationist researches and debates on transitioning to a Wikidata/Wikibase style of schema for its images of digital open-access collections.
  • Data Ethics and Open Science - At 19:00 of the video, Lambert Heller discusses using Wikidata, and later Wikibase for the NFDI4 Culture Proposal.
  • Linked Open Data Location Identifiers for Pacific Archaeology - Hardy & Leclerc at the CAA Australia conference show how Wikidata identifiers enrich Kuden and Pacific island databses.
• Presentations: Slides for the Wikidata: Embedding Project Webinar presentation

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Useful is a UserScript by Magnus Manske that adds a box of quick "add statement" links to the right side of the page. Entity and phylogeny types, countries (location and citizenship). Also, tries to load and display a blurb from en or de Wikipedia.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The 2024 Wikidata Community Survey results are out! Read the full report on Commons: Wikidata Community Survey 2024 Report. If you have any thoughts or questions feel free to write on this discussion page: Wikidata talk:Usability and usefulness/2024-Community-Survey
• Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking feedback on the Mobile Editing Experience prototype, especially from contributors who edit right-to-left (RTL) languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, etc. We’ve already received helpful input from various editors, but feedback from RTL language communities is still missing. Your perspective is important to ensure the design works well for everyone. Please go to Beta Wikidata (in mobile view) to test the prototype with the instructions below and share your feedback on this talk page.
  • Add "businessperson" as an occupation
  • Add a start date to the relationship with A$AP Rocky and provide a reference
  • Find the place of birth (Saint Michael) and open that page
  • Add the coordinate location for Saint Michael

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • luminance (measured quantity of photometric brightness (luminous intensity per area))
  • excluding work (work or narration for or in which this statement is false)
  • intervener (name of a third-party group or person allowed to participate in a legal case)
• Newest External identifiers: NWO project ID, Vocabulary.com word ID, Fnac person ID, African Music Library band ID, ‎Spanish-German Dictionary ID, ‎Encyclopedia of Marxism ID, Kulturenvanteri place ID, Encyclopædia Universalis index ID, ISFDB award category ID, ‎CCCA Canadian Art Database work ID, ‎CCCA Canadian Art Database creator ID, CPU-World ID, AMNH entity ID
• New External identifier property proposals to review: NZ Charities Register Number, Memorial Book of Social Democracy-ID, Biographical Dictionary of Almería identifier, Operabase (additional) ID, NLAI ID, SIK-ISEA group ID, Wikimini article ID, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain entry ID, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts ID, Antique Chinese and Japanese Porcelain Dictionary and Glossary of Terms entry, Filmfriend Movie ID, Schulnummer Hessen, The Oxford Dictionary of Dance entry ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • What Wikidata album languages grew the most this week? (source)
  • Example query to show why papers cite each other (source)
• Showcase Items: Biodiversity Assessment of the Fishes of Saba Bank Atoll, Netherlands Antilles (Q15625490) - scholarly article by Williams, Jeffrey et al., 2010
• Showcase Lexemes: pukka (L339628) - English adjective (puh-kuh) that can mean "genuine", "highest class", or "complete"

Development

• Wikidata integration on Wikipedia and co:
  • We finished work on adding an icon to changes coming from Wikidata in recent changes and watchlist (phab:T397258)
  • We are finishing work on a new usage aspect for qualifiers and references so their use can be tracked separately. This will lead to less Wikidata changes showing up in recent changes and watchlist that don't actually affect the article (phab:T397258)
  • We are continuing the work on improving Databox (phab:T400322)
• GraphQL: We are continuing to work on making labels of linked entities in the values of statements accessible (phab:T404692)
• Mobile statement editing: We have been working on showing the different value types (phab:T404684) and making references editable (phab:T405236)

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第42期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #702

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

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Ternera - RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2025 16:10 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Rebot - Task: Make changes in w.wiki/Fed9, such as changing depicts (P180) = herbarium (Q181916) to herbarium specimen (Q61726742).

Events

• Upcoming:
  • WikidataCon 2025: Have you seen the Program yet?
    Available now on Pretalx, check now and plan your schedule.
  • 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit.
    Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
  • The Dublin Core DCMI 2025 conference will take place in Barcelona, Oct 22-25.
    • Presentation: Derivative Relationships and Bibliographic Families Among Creative Works: A Systematic Study of Their Application by the Wikidata Community from the FRBR and BIBFRAME Perspective
    • Workshop by Jneubert on converting a complex web application into a large static site integrated with Wikidata
    • Tutorial from Jelabra on shaping linked data and knowledge graphs.
  • Wikidata Lab XLVII: Wiki Infographics, about a tool for data visualization. On October 21, 17 UTC.
  • Wikimania 2026 Scholarships are open! Deadline is Friday, October 31st, 2025.
  • Wikidata 13th birthday celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group on October 24 and 25, 2025
• Past:
  • Missed the Q4 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-10-15 (Q4 2025)
  • Wikidata 13th birthday celebration in the WUGN Abuja Network

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (Finnish) From Wikidata to GEO (AI) optimization? by Johanna Janhonen
• Videos:
  • Genealogical tree creation with Wikidata - by Thimira Sahan
  • (Chinese) Wikidata 13 周年聚会暨 OpenRefine 工作坊 - by Wikidata Taiwan
  • (Spanish) Taller en línea: Introducción a Wikidata y Wikibase by bibliotecasUNAM
  • Wikimedia Research Showcase: Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

(Q24101) - library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第43期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

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The Signpost: 20 October 2025

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

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

• Special report: The election that isn't

• Interview: The BoT bump

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

• Traffic report: One click after another

• Humour: Wikipedia pay rates

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Growth News #35

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

New releases

English Wikipedia gets "Add a Link" Structured Task

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

Growth features for Wikidata

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

Work in progress

Revise Tone Structured Task

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

Add a link to more wikis

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

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

Research

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

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

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

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

Community events

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

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

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

Wikimania - Lightning Talk: Structured Tasks

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

Wikimania - Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors

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

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #703

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

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Samoasambia - RfP scheduled to end after 27 October 2025 15:10 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Ternera - Closed as successful by Ymblanter (留言) 19:24, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
  • WikidataCon 2025, October 31 - November 2, make sure to register at the event page.
  • SPARQL workshop (in German): "From Zero to SPARQL. Eine Einführung in die Abfrage von Wissensgraphen (Schwerpunkt Wikidata)", 4 Nov 2025, 10-13, free and open to all, online via Zoom. more information and registration
  • The scholarship deadline for Wikimania 2026 is approaching fast: 31st of October. Apply today if you want to attend on a scholarship.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos:
  • (Spanish) Visualizaciones con el Servicio de Consultas de Wikidata
  • (Spanish)¿Cómo identificar y completar vacíos de información en Wikidata? Tabernacle e integraality
  • I Have 1000s of Items in Commons – What Do I Do Now?: Utilization Opportunities on Wikimedia Commons
  • (Chinese [Trad]) 链接资料文献翻译赛德克语成果发表会 Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation
• Presentations: Will AI Erase Us Again? The Role of Wikimedia Communities. Talk by John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2025 (Slides)

Tool of the week

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

(Q22530539) - lake in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第44期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

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

This Month in Education: October 2025

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

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 10 • October 2025

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #704

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

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

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第45期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

深入了解

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

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2025年第45期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

深入了解

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

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This Month in GLAM: October 2025

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

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The Signpost: 10 November 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Obituary: Struway

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

• Comix: Head of steam

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Wikidata weekly summary #705

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

Discussions

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第46期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

采用新设计的讨论页的范例，图为法语维基百科

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #706

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第47期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

会议与活动

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #707

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第48期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

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

This Month in Education: November 2025

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

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 11 • November 2025

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

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

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The Signpost: 1 December 2025

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

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

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

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

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

• Traffic report: It's a family affair

• Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust

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

• Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan

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

• Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025

• Comix: Madness

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Wikidata weekly summary #708

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

(Q7414) - American multinational mass media company

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第49期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #709

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

Discussions

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

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • How to view #25N with Wikidata? - a community hour with Wikimedia Chile, 21:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter)
  • Fact-Checking with Wikidata Workshop - January 20, 2026, 16:30 ~ 18:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter) - WMDE's Philippe Saadé will show hands-on methods using the Wikidata MCP to retrieve, filter and classify Wikidata statements with semantic search, reranker LLM and NLI models, registration required.
  • (Portuguese) Meeting Point Editatona II - Warm your hands modeling festival on Wikidata: December 10, 2025, 15:00 - 19:00 UTC+1, Porto, Portugal.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 9 December, 2025: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. Sessions will be held on October 14, November 25, and December 9, 2025 at our regular time of 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/PersonalPronouns
• Past Events: Digital Humanities Hub: Documenting epigraphic data, Wikidata ontology practice - December 2 & 3, 2025, both 14:00 ~ 15:30 UTC.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第50期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2025年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期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

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

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The Signpost: 17 December 2025

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

• Interview: Part 1: Bernadette Meehan

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

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

• Traffic report: Death and stranger things

• Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols

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

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

• Comix: display: flex-inline;

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Wikidata weekly summary #711

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

Discussions

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2025年第52期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

会议与活动

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #712

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #713

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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This Month in GLAM: December 2025

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #714

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

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2026年第3期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

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

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

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

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The Signpost: 15 January 2026

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

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

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

• Serendipity: The WMF wants to buy you books!

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

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

• Community view: The inbox behind Wikipedia

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

• Traffic report: Tonight I'm gonna rock you

• Comix: Oh come on man.

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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期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 行动版Special:Diff页面中的Tray已重新设计。Tray现预设为折叠状态，并新增可复原当前检视编辑的按钮，让行动版编辑者与审阅者能更容易执行操作，同时保持界面简洁。 [141]
• 全域监视清单让使用者能够在一个页面检视多个维基站点的监视清单。此扩充功能目前正持续改进，现在能自动判断文字书写方向（而非依赖硬编码语言列表），并显示更详细的日志操作描述。本周稍晚，将为页面建立操作附上固定连结，并为每个项目元素加上专属CSS类别。 [142][143][144][145]
• 上周有32件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，先前在Vector 2022中，锚点连结的目标遭固定式页首遮挡，现已修正此问题。 [146]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 如2025年10月的弃用公告所述，MediaWiki界面团队将于1月26日当周起，逐步废弃MediaWiki REST API中所有带有结尾斜线的转换端点。预计所有维基站点将于1月30日或之前完成变更部署。目前仍呼叫这些端点的API使用者，请尽快转用不带结尾斜线的版本。两种端点变体皆可透过REST沙盒进行查找、比对与测试。如有疑问或遇到问题，请至Phabricator的#MW-Interfaces-Team面板提交工单。
• Wikimedia REST API的互动式参考文件已移动。先前透过RESTBase托管的API文件请求（如https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/）现已重新导向至REST沙盒。
• 维基媒体基金会维基数据平台团队（WDP）发布了2026年1月电子报。本期内容包括：旧版完整图谱端点（full-graph endpoint）的退役；使用者代理（User-Agent）方针的修订；关于Blazegraph迁移的每月咨询时段；因应旧版端点关闭所引发回归问题的改善措施。欢迎订阅WDP电子报！
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

会议与活动

• 2026年西北欧维基媒体黑客松将于2026年3月13日至14日在荷兰阿纳姆举行。报名自12月中旬开始，将于近期截止或额满为止。这是一场为期两天、以技术为导向的黑客松，将吸引当地维基人一同参与。期待与您相会！

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年1月20日 (二) 04:30 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #716

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #715.

Events

• Upcoming events:

• Reminder: Blazegraph Migration Office Hours: The WMF Wikidata Platform team is kicking off its monthly Blazegraph migeration office hours tomorrow, Template:Zonestamp. These sessions focus exclusively on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). See the office hours page for details and future sessions.
• Art+Feminism online hands-on training session: Intro to Wikidata + Archives. January 29, 15:00 UTC (16:00 CET). Alan Ang (WMDE) and d:User:Epìdosis host this workshop on collective editing and how Wikidata connects with archives. More info and Zoom registration @ Art+Feminism.org
• OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #85 February 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
• Mapping Africa: Visualizing Knowledge and Communities - 28.01.2026, 16:00 UTC. Episode #54 of the WikiAfrica Hour explores the power of maps and geospatial data.

• General Registration is Open! 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon - May 1-3, 2026

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Wikidata replaces the CLARIN Concept Registry in the Component Registry
• Papers:
  • Analysis and Generation of Wikidata Descriptions Focusing on Bangla Language - A rule-based Grammatical Framework resource grammar for Bangla generates accurate, consistent Wikidata descriptions across diverse entities, achieving over 99% coverage and enhancing low-resource language content in multilingual knowledge bases. By Mohammad, (2025).
• Videos:
  • Fact-Checking with Wikidata by Philippe Saadé - a recording of the workshop hosted by DataTalks.Club in collaboration with User:Philippe Saadé
  • Wikimedia and Biodiversity Data: A Mutualistic Relationship in the Open Knowledge Ecosystem
  • Collaborative Cultural Heritage Geodata, session 2 of SunoikisisDC's Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage. Discusses how Wikidata is used and contributes data to the field of spatial and geographic technologies.
  • Wikimedia projects & smell-related content: WMUK Sandbox Session - User:Lajmmoore describes how to add and model sensory experiences such as smell, to Wikidata.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Property Creation Helper is a tool by ArthurPSmith. The tool takes a property proposal page and translates it into a QuickStatements batch (and then a second one for the examples) that a property creator can use to quickly create a new property.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland 2026 first quarter development plan has been published: Wikidata:Linked Open Data development plan.
• Job opening: The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Platform Backend Migration Specialist (contract position) to support backend migration work on the Wikidata Query Service. This role focuses on technical work related to the migration away from Blazegraph. If you're interested in the role or want to learn more, see the full job description and application details.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • translates from (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from)
  • translates into (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works and texts into)
• Newest External identifiers: MAX username, CriticDB game ID, ‎Finnish railway station code, Sketchfab model ID, Sketchfab channel ID, Sketchfab user ID, BRAHMS identifier, LegiStorm person ID, NHK Archives program ID, Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Polish version), Bercail ID, ‎InterSportStats athlete ID, ‎Erdős Problem number, Trismegistos editor ID, ‎woordenlijst lemma ID, ‎European Vehicle Number, CourtListener person ID, Australian National Kennel Council ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review: incompatible type (instances of this type or of its subclasses cannot be instances of that type nor of its subclasses)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: KaraokeTexty.cz album ID, Biographical encyclopedia of Maros County-ID, ShotOnWhat film ID, Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 ID, CardCow.com publisher ID, Stockholms SL Realtidsinformation identificator, Lost Pubs Project ID, Handball Base ID, Handballnews.pl person ID, SFDb förlaga-ID, RITVA company ID, RITVA corporate body ID, TC Infos network identifier, French Trade Mark Number

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Wikidata Items with a frequency (hertz) within human-hearing range (source)
• Schema examples: WikiProject Schemas: A tutorial - to create a simple ShEx schema and apply it to a set of Wikidata items.
• Newest WikiProjects: No Longer at the Margins - 2026 Hackathon
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Bahamas - list of buildings in Nassau
• Newest database reports: Entities missing a description - choose a language and entity type (Item or Property) and generate a list of entities that have no description.
• Showcase Items: Mount Kilimanjaro - mountain massif in Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania
• Showcase Lexemes: мундштук (L130056) - Russian noun (mʊnʂˈtuk) meaning "mouthpiece (of a musical instrument)", "mouthpiece (of a pipe/cigar holder)", or "a horse's bit"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We started working on supporting editing of monolingual text statements
  • We continued working on supporting editing of geocoordinate and quantity statements
  • We are fixing display issues with date statements
  • We continued work on showing constraint violations
• GraphQL:
  • The security review was finished, removing a blocker to deploying GraphQL support to Wikidata
  • We added pagination to querying items by statement properties or values
  • We are extending the labels of linked entities functionality to also let you get the descriptions of the Items linked in a statement
• 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.
• 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 countries: Albania and Kosovo
• 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5期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on proposed future of the Product and Technology Advisory Council until 28 February.
• All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the Account Security project.
• Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page. [147]
• 上周有20件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，双重验证（2FA）管理页面上的双重验证方法说明已更新。现在说明文字更清晰易懂，使用者能更容易理解并运用相关功能。 [148]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• A new AbuseFilter variable, account_type, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the createaccount and autocreateaccount actions. As part of this change, the variable accountname has been renamed to account_name, and accountname is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable. [149]
• Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to upload.wikimedia.org/… will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task.
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年1月27日 (二) 05:18 (CST)

This Month in Education: January 2026

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

This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 1 • January 2026

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

• Strengthening Wikimedia Education and Digital Literacy in 2026
• Dzongkha Wikipedia Education Program in Bhutan
• Wikipedia Education Program – Train The Trainer in Nepal
• Wikipedia 25 celebration in the Igbo Wiki Fan Club Alvan and IMSU
• CBSUA boosts Open Knowledge and Local Culture through expanded Wiki Education Program
• WikiChallenge African Schools: Young voices, real impact, and continued (reasonable) growth
• Updates on Auckland Museum Summer Student Programme
• Stronger and bolder Wikiforhumanrights 2025 in Anambra Network
• Official Opening of IFAK Secondary School Wiki Club: Engaging Youth in Learning Through Open Knowledge
• Greetings from the Jeronim de Rada WikiClub in Elbasan, Albania, for Christmas 2025
• Great and productive final activities of 2025 Wikimedia MKD education programme
• Envisioning an Open Future together – WikiForAll
• A look back: reviewing the main education activities in Brazil in 2025
• A 147-Year-Old Institution Celebrates 25 Years of Wikipedia: St Aloysius University and the Spirit of Open Knowledge
• Celebrating 25 years of free knowledge! The '25x25' Project reaches the classrooms of Córdoba, Argentina
• The collaborative efforts of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora for the dissemination of free knowledge on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 29 January 2026

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

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2025

• News and notes: Good news... but also bad news for the Public Domain

• News from Diff: Solving puzzles together

• In the media: Every view on the 25th anniversary of everything

• Comix: Perspectives

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 2026年1月29日 (四) 14:32 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #717

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #716.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Sapper-bot 2 - Task: Monthly updates of the Dead Sea level and the "lowest point" property for Israel, Jordan, and Asia.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: LiteraryWorksMetaDataUploadBot - Task: Upload metadata for literary works from research project. (Approved)
• Other: Proposal to configure the Newcomer Dashboard for Wikidata

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Call for Sessions: Wikimania 2026 is Coming to Paris! The submission form will remain open until March 1. Results will be published in May.
  • Who's hiding behind museum collections? - A Wikidata Edit-a-thon by WiNoDa Knowledge Lab (February 24th, 1:00pm-4:30pm CET). This online Edit-a-thon will focus on the many collectors that contributed to the Arachnida and Miryapoda collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Join us to uncover the unspoken human networks that shaped the history of science! Register here: http://winoda.de/en/event/wikidata-edit-a-thon/

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Strengthening the Latin American public domain with Wikidata
• Thesis: Hebeis, Maximilian (2026): Entity Matching for Person Records in Authority Files, Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Master thesis in computer science: "a case study into applying learningbased entity matching to person records from two large authority databases, namely the German national Integrated Authority File (GND) and the crowd-sourced open knowledge base Wikidata")
• Papers: Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD): Wikidata across the humanities: datasets, methodologies, reuse, https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/wikidata_across_the_humanities (new papers have been published during the last week; see a list at d:Q136325279#P527)
• Videos:
  • Africa Wiki Women 1st Newbies Community Meetup - held an orientation for new members on editing Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Commons, to help bridge knowledge gaps of African women on Wiki platforms.
  • Mapping Africa: Visualizing Knowledge and Communities - explores how African communities use maps and geospatial data to enhance Wikidata, improve Wikimedia articles, and make local knowledge more visible globally.

Tool of the week

• Wdlist : Create and manage a personal list of Wikidata items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland Job vacancy - Architect of Storage Solutions - (freelance contract / 4-6 weeks)
• You can now nominate your favorite Wikidata research award for 2025. Call for Nominations now open until February 15, 2026.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name ID, Lenta.ru person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • value type of this mathematical property (type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects)
  • Gifu Prefectural Shrine Association ranking (One of the three rankings given by the Gifu Prefectural Shrine Association)
  • instances must not have (instances of this class or of its subclasses must not have given property or statement)
  • African Scientists Directory ID (identifier for a scientist in the African Scientists Directory)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Center for Jewish History person ID, LINCS ID, Artdoc.Media film ID, Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 practice ID, Walloon-French dictionary ID, Russian Register of Film Distribution Certificates ID, Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID, Identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Woordenboek van Nieuwe Woorden ID, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal ID, Woordcombinaties ID, Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands ID, Database of the Southern Dutch Dialects concept ID, GiveSendGo ID, CrowdRepublic project ID, European Dictionary Portal ID, Gravestone Project Cemetery ID, Uzbek-Russian dictionary ID, Ruwiki ID, Swedish National Archives ID, GDUNO ID, JMRC person id, Catalunya Romànica ID, Mercantile Navy List ID, Igromania author ID, Danmarks Kirker, Medvik ID, Obálky knih ID, National Theatre in Prague artist ID, National Theatre in Prague performance ID, Alpine Linux Wiki article, Microsoft Store developer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Item with a Wikipedia page in lang. X but not Y (source) - modify the wd: QID and the schema:isPartOf for your own purposes.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Chess - Rubinstein-Memorial list
  • WikiProject Units of Measurement
  • Wikiproject Medicine - List of Italian Doctors
  • WikiProject Evanion Collection
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject every Politician / Canada - all Commons lists were updated.
• Newest database reports: Variety of reports for deletion candidates

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are making progress with identifying additional ways in which we can reduce the number of irrelevant changes from Wikidata showing up in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co.
  • We are discussing with pilot Wikipedias about turning on showing Wikidata changes by default in watchlist and recent changes (moving it from opt-in to opt-out)
• GraphQL: We are putting the last touches on a GraphQL endpoint for Wikidata. We are planning to get it live later this month for feedback.
• LDF endpoint: We are planning to decommission the endpoint in preparation for the migration away from Blazegraph on the 18th of February (phab:T415696)
• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are almost done with adding support for editing statements with quantity and monolingual text datatype and finished support for mathematical expression statements. We started support for editing coordinate statements.
  • We are continuing the work on showing constraint violations.
• Wikibase Ecosystem: We are in the process of setting up a demo system for ontology federation (i.e. using Wikidata Items as values in statements on another Wikibase instance)

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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery（留言） 2026年2月2日 (一) 23:42 (CST)

2026年第6期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• “页面信息”功能（范例）现在自动包含目次。若您的维基站点有在本地建立MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header页面，现可将它删除。 [150]
• 上周有21件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前视觉化编辑器会在连结显示文字内添加粗体或斜体格式，导致wikitext复杂化，现已修正此问题。 [151]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 1月20日没有生成XML转储。即日起，转储将改为每月生成一次。 [152]
• MediaWiki界面团队已停止支援MediaWiki REST API中所有带有结尾斜线的转换端点。目前仍呼叫这些端点的API使用者，请尽快转用不带结尾斜线的版本。如有疑问或遇到问题，请至Phabricator的#MW-Interfaces-Team面板提交工单。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

本周要闻

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

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年2月3日 (二) 01:44 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #718

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #717.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Numishare Blog: Improving searchability using Natural language Processing + Wikidata - How NLP-based search improvements for numismatic collections for the American Numismatic Society. Python NLP tools and Wikidata add a semantic layer that links equivalent terms (e.g. “serpent” and “snake”) to improve discovery across coin databases such as OCRE and MANTIS. Author: Ethan Gruber.
• Videos:
  • Art+Feminism Conversations / Intro to Wikidata + Archives: Led by User:Epìdosis and User:Alan Ang (WMDE), this recording covers tools that support collaborative Wikidata editing, and includes with brief updates on mobile editing, Wikibase software, and work at the intersection of AI and Wikidata. Find more info and tools covered on Meta:Art+Feminism
  • Custom Upload Funnel Creation on Wikimedia Commons: Wiki Loves Africa 2026 - User:Kambai Akau and the Tyap User Group demonstrate how to contribute to the Wiki Loves Africa 2026 contest, incl. how to add a Wikidata Infobox to your contributions, and how to create Wikidata Items if they are missing.
  • (Papiamento) Add a different language Label to a Wikidata Item Wikipedia Above Aruba|Ep. 9 - it's not always obvious how to add labels, descriptions and aliases of different languages to Wikidata items, this short video demonstrates how.
  • Hands-on Exercise: Data Cleaning & Preparation with OpenRefine - Daniel Garjio guides through exercises to cluster and merge duplicate values, standardise formats, reconcile data with external authority sources such as Wikidata.
  • (Spanish) Mapeo colaborativo, plataformas libres y autonomía local, part of the Conference on Climate Justice, Indigenous Voices, and Wikimedia Platforms (2024) - speaker: Túllio Morais Franca shows how to integrate mapping tools suchas OpenStreetMap and Mapillary with Wikidata, Commons and Wikipedia.

Tool of the week

• Wiki Clarity Tool: Clarity Tool is a lightweight web application built to empower editors across Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. It helps contributors identify missing information in articles and suggests structured data from Wikidata to fill those gaps.

• Name Suggestion Index : Submit a Brand - A tool that links Wikidata brand items to the Name Suggestion Index project on OpenStreetMap.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editors can now edit String and External ID datatypes directly in the mobile view. To help improve this new interface, Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for volunteers for UX testing sessions. Participants will be compensated for their time. Sign up here (greatquestion) and learn more on the project page: Mobile editing of statements

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎braille transcription (transcription in Braille)
  • location collected (geographic location where a specimen or sample was collected in the field)
• Newest External identifiers: Rappels theatrical production ID, Berlin School ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Siège occupé ({{TranslateThis | fr = siège occupé par une personne au sein d'une académie ou autre société à ''numerus clausus'' }})
  • Standard Number (A standard serial number)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: MusicaPopular.cl ID, JMRC person id (en), Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography ID, CAMEO page ID, TeamNL athlete ID (new), World Flora Online Plant List, radeberger-stadtgeschichte.de Objekt Identifikator, Master Ideographs Seeker Character ID, Flohic ID, Oricon News person ID, radiko person ID, Xcity actress ID, TV Drama Database Program ID, Van Dale Rijmwoordenboek sentences ID, Van Dale Rijmwoordenboek word ID, BISMaL taxon ID, Vlaams Woordenboek ID, Kotobank Japanese ID, Nişanyan Adlar ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Items with two or more Olympedia people ID (source) - find duplicate external identifier.
  • Music roll releases with recordings of works performed by composer (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject progressive Metal
  • Wikiproject Basque Cultural heritage and GLAM
• Newest database reports: 'Template' items with only one sitelink - per Wikidata:Notability, "If a link is a template, the item must contain at least two such sitelinks..."
• Showcase Items: Template:Q - a 2025 thriller film, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
• Showcase Lexemes:

Development

• Dumps: We published the report from our research into the user experience with Wikidata's dumps.
• Mobile editing: We are finalizing the support for quantity, monolingual text, mathematical expression and musical notation statements as well as a first version for coordinate statements.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We have continued our investigation into existing Lua modules in order to find more ways in which we can reduce unwanted entries from Wikidata in Recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We found a number of options that we are looking into now. (phab:T416822, phab:T416825, phab:T416826, phab:T416827)
• Wikidata Vector embedding: We added German to the embedding (next to English, French and Arabic)

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7期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 监视清单中存有大量页面的编辑者现可用新功能“监视清单标签”^※来整理与筛选监视清单，帮助优化工作流程。透过新增自订标签（如：自己建立的页面、需监控破坏行为的页面、讨论页），使用者能更快速辨识需关注的编辑，降低认知负荷，并更有效率地应对。此功能让监视清单更容易使用，对活跃编辑者尤为助益。（※＝Watchlist labels，勿与编辑标签“tag”混淆）
• Special:Contributions推出新功能，可显示很可能由同一人操作的临时账号，从而减少巡查耗时。当查核临时账号的贡献时，具有临时账号IP地址存取权限的使用者，现在能查看其他相关临时账号的贡献。此功能会在资料保留期间内，查询与特定临时账号关联的所有IP地址，并显示曾使用这些IP地址的所有临时账号的贡献纪录。了解更多。 [153]
• 预览wikitext编辑时，顶部显示的提醒框（“这只是预览……”）背景色已由警告黄底改为中性灰底。此变更有助于区分预览提示与实际警告讯息（如编辑冲突或重定向目标错误），后者现改以独立的警告框或错误框呈现。 [154]
• 全域监视清单让使用者能够在一个页面检视多个维基站点的监视清单。此扩充功能目前正持续改进，现已完整支援多个Wikibase站点，例如同时涵盖维基数据与测试版维基数据。此外，已修正右至左（RTL）文字显示问题。 [155][156]
• 因缺乏弹性且难以本地化，wikitext中为ISBN、RFC、PMID编号自动生成连结的“魔术连结”功能已于2021年弃用。RFC与PMID魔术连结能以等效外部链接取代（部分维基站点已完成替换），但ISBN魔术连结通常需要模板才能完成替换。现已推出内建解析器函数{{#isbn}}，可取代ISBN魔术连结的基本功能，方便完成替换作业。 [157]
• 已新建两个维基：
  • 卡捷语维基百科 (w:kaj:) [158]
  • Nawat语维基百科 (w:ppl:) [159]
• 上周有23件由社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 新增了一个全域使用者群组：局域机器人。此群组将由软件内部使用，允许社群机器人绕过针对恶意网页抓取工具所施加的速率限制。凡在至少一个维基媒体站点获准为机器人的账号，将自动加入此群组。此举不会改变机器人原有的使用者权限。 [160]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

会议与活动

• 2026年春季MediaWiki使用者与开发者大会将于3月25日至27日在美国盐湖城举行。本活动由第三方MediaWiki社群主办，并面向该社群。您可以提出议程并报名参加。 [161]

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年2月10日 (二) 07:31 (CST)

This Month in GLAM: January 2026

This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue I, January 2026 Headlines From the team: Wikipedia at 25 Aruba report: Pap-Wikipedia Turns 20: A Milestone for Papiamento/u Knowledge Colombia report: Celebrando el día del dominio público 2026/Celebrating the public domain day 2026 France report: Wikipedia's Birthday in France Germany report: Gifted by our friends: Loads of presents for Wikipedia25 by German and Austrian GLAMs Indonesia report: Activities in December-January Italy report: Knowledge in action: Barindelli collection and Wikipedia 25 Netherlands report: Image donation Dutch Book History New Zealand report: Auckland Museum Student Edit-a-thon, the NZBSI Wikimedian in Residence project, and other residencies North Macedonia report: GLAM Program of Wikimedia MKD – 2026 Overview Poland report: Explore Historic Portraits from the Museum of Photography in Kraków Serbia report: January in Wikimedia Serbia Switzerland report: Museum in Chiasso, Alpine Museum, Women Monuments UK report: Sharing more of the Enamels of the World Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members Map the GLAM report: Wiki and GLAM: Harnessing Knowledge to Foster Gender Equality Memory of the World report: Manuscripts on Arabic Wikipedia Wikidata report: Two key Wikidata Requests for Comments, relevant for future GLAM-Wiki work Calendar: February'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 #719

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #718.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Sjö - RfP scheduled to end after 17 February 2026 10:02 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: SEEKCommonsBot - Task: Synchronize Wikidata records created by the SEEKCommons project with OpenAlex
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • AmeisenBot 3 - Task: Adding descriptions (and possibly labels and aliases as well) to items based on their statements. Request closed as approved.
  • Che-W-bot - Request withdrawn.

Events

• Upcoming events: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 17 February, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, February 17 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikiproject P244 maintenance uses SPARQL queries to identify and resolve two types of constraint violations in Wikidata: instances of Wikidata items with more than one LCNAF identifier and instances of the same LCNAF identifier existing on more than one Wikidata item. The February 17th session will walk participants through how to resolve the former issue, while the March 3rd session will focus on the latter. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/LCNAF_Duplicate_Detection_P244_Maintenance

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wiki for Botanists, why thematic engagement matters: WMNZ/Aotearoa on how sustained outreach with botanists via Wikidata workshops, edit-a-thons, and conferences is improving plant-related knowledge on the Wikimedia projects and building strong collaborative relationships with scientific communities.
  • Tech News Week 7 / Global Watchlists extension: now supports multiple Wikibase instance (i.e. Wikidata + Test Wikidata) and fixes right-to-left (RTL) text directionality issues.
  • The Spark of Linked Data and Libraries: OCLC Passage Project White Paper Translation Report
• Papers: Federating Open Knowledge through Wikibase: the case of the Finno-Ugric data sharing space: Antal et al. (2026) present a community-driven, federated prototype to link multilingual cultural heritage data, open ontologies and preserve local epistemologies.
• Videos:
  • How to Unlock Knowledge Graph Data for LLMs with AI Retrieval - User:Philippe Saade (WMDE), AI/ML Project Manager talks to Chad Jennings of Beyond the Blueprints (IBM Product Hub) on making Wikidata more accessible for AI developers, replacing SPARQL-heavy workflows with vector search and hybrid retrieval.
  • (French) Créer une carte uMap à partir de données géolocalisées extraites de Wikidata - video presentation of 2026 Digital Encounters "Mapping territorial data in uMap"
  • Africa Wiki Women 2026 On Wiki Skills Mentorship Program - Introduction to Wikidata
  • Africa Wiki Women 2026 On Wiki Skills Mentorship Program - Major and Minor edits on Wikidata
  • EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-01-28) - participants discuss progress on the early adopter phase, incl. how to categorise and track contributions, what statistics to measure and progress on MCO application profiles (persons + corporate bodies)

Tool of the week

• Queer Memory multilingual web app that explores global queer history through live Wikidata timelines, places, rights, culture, and activism. Currently available in English, French, and Spanish.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Etherpad cleanup, save your pads now. All pads after 1st March 2026 willbe deleted so if you need any of your pads, please make a local backup.
• The Wikibase REST API search endpoints are now available on v1 and considered stable! It's important to note that the older v0, which has been live on Wikidata since July 2025, will remain available for a two month transition period until mid-April 2026. We encourage all users to migrate to the new v1 endpoints during this time to ensure that their applications can continue to work seamlessly.
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team has published its February 2026 newsletter. It includes result of an initial evaluation of open-source triple store candidates as part of the migration away from Blazegraph, the next Blazegraph migration office hour, and more. 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: category for music in this language (link to category item that contains music in this language)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎DOAB book ID, ‎qamus.inoor.ir root ID, ‎The Session tune ID, Parfumo fragrance note ID, ‎KaraokeTexty.cz album ID, Biographical encyclopedia of Maros County, Alpine Linux Wiki article, ‎Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 person ID, Igromania author ID, French Trade Mark Number, ‎Bane NOR location code, ‎CardCow.com publisher ID, ‎Lost Pubs Project ID, Handball Base ID, Handballnews.pl person ID, Center for Jewish History person ID, African Scientists Directory ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Number of translations (Number of translations)
  • Panoramax instance URL (the Panoramax instance of/about the subject)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID, Bach digital person ID, Bach digital work ID, YList ID, identificativo Antenati, Pesistulokset.fi player ID, Liiga.fi player ID, Letterboxd producer ID, Topplista artist ID, Apple Music Classical work ID, Fragplace brands ID, Fragplace fragrances ID, Fragplace notes ID, Fragplace perfumers ID, Sport Express person ID, ciss.org sportsperson ID (deaf sport)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects: Learned Societies
• WikiProject Highlights: a discussion regarding how to standardise the data model of the membership of learned societies
• Showcase Items: Template:Q - French radio program and audio podcast
• Showcase Lexemes: collection (L3941) - English noun (kəˈlɛkʃən) meaning "a group of gathered items", "money gathered for charity/church", or "the act of acquiring"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are putting finishing touches on editing support for external ID, URL, monolingual text, quantities and coordinate statements.
  • We worked on visually highlighting preferred and deprecated statements on the mobile site similar to how it is done on desktop.
  • We worked on showing more than one constraint violation when a statement violates multiple constraints.
• Ontology Federation: We continued working allowing other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata Items in their statements (and later from other Wikibase instances). You can see a demo video of the current development state at ontology federation demo.
• GraphQL: We worked on documentation to get get the GraphQL endpoint ready for a first release.
• Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team published their report of the evaluation of Blazegraph alternatives. You can read it at File:WDQS Triple Store Evaluation - Benchmark Results Report.pdf.

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8期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• SRE团队将对维基媒体托管的Etherpad实例进行清理作业。Etherpad是一款网页式即时协作文件编辑器。所有Pad文件将于2026年4月30日后永久删除，若届时仍有进行中的迁移专案，团队可视个别情况重新评估日期。资料删除后无法复原，请务必为希望保留的内容建立本地备份。本次清理旨在缩减数据库规模并降低基础设施占用资源。Etherpad将持续支援即时协作功能，但请勿将其视为长期储存服务。未来可能再次进行清理作业，届时恕不另行通知。 [162]

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 资讯检索团队将在Android版维基百科APP展开实验，测试能够同时处理语义查询与关键字查询的混合搜寻功能。这项改进将使读者更容易直接在维基百科上找到所需内容。实验将于2月下旬首先在希腊语维基百科上线，随后于3月在英语、法语、葡萄牙语推出。更多详情请参阅Diff文章。 [163]
• The Reader Growth team will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
• 先前，网站公告（MediaWiki:Sitenotice和MediaWiki:Anonnotice）只会在桌面版显示。现在，这些公告将显示在所有平台。行动版网页使用者将能看见这些公告并获取相关资讯。管理员应准备测试并修正网站公告在移动设备上的显示情况，以避免影响条目阅读体验。若需停用此变更，界面管理员可在MediaWiki:Minerva.css中加入样式规则：#siteNotice { display: none; }。 [164][165]
• 上周有19件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，先前在Special:RecentChanges中，点击筛选器的“隐藏”会导致“查看……之后的新更改”按钮消失，但该按钮理应保持可见状态。现已修正此问题，按钮功能恢复正常运作。 [166]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more. [167]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 17 February 2026

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

• In the media: Global powers see Wikipedia as fundamental target for manipulation

• News and notes: Discussions open for the next WMF Annual Plan

• Serendipity: Maintenance crews continue to slog through Wikipedia's oldest Featured Articles

• Disinformation report: Epstein's obsessions

• Technology report: Wikidata Graph Split and how we address major challenges

• Traffic report: Deaths, killings, films, and the Olympics

• Opinion: Incoming Incurables

• Crossword: Pop quiz

• Comix: herculean

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Wikidata weekly summary #720

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #719.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Jan Myšák - RfP scheduled to end after 28 February 2026 11:11 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Sjö - Closed as successful, congratulations User:Sjö.
• New request for comments: Notability policy reform: Round 2, where policy is suggested based on round 1 discussions.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Apply Now: Scholarships for the Language Diversity Conference 2026 - scholarship application deadline: 13 March 2026 / Conference dates: 2 - 4 October 2026 in Accra, Ghana.
  • Office Hour: Notability Policy - February 26th 2026 at 5PM UTC (your timezone).
  • (Catalan) They were not witches, they were women from Andorra - a Wikimarathon for Witches edit-a-thon to make biographies of Andorran women accused of witchcraft more visible on Wikidata and Wikipedia. Sign-up on Meta: 09:30 – 12:30 UTC, 7 March 2026.
• Ongoing: International Mother Language Day 2026 Datathon - February 21, 2026 – March 3, 2026

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Stack Overflow: Even GenAI uses Wikipedia (+Wikidata) as a source - transcript of the podcast audio between Ryan Donovan and Philippe Saade, on the Wikidata Embedding Project and vectorizing 30 million entities for semantic search.
  • Diff Blog: Revitalizing UK History, Series 2: Expanding Multilingual Access on Wikidata - Josef Anthony describes the projects efforts in documenting underrepresented UK historical figures in multiple languages.
  • Diff blog: Into the Spotlight: Sharing Archival Objects through Wikimedia Commons by User:LadyRabbit. Experience documenting Ellen Winstone, a historical figure, non-notability on Wikipedia doesn't mean they are not worth documenting. Wikidata and Commons can help.
• Papers: The Wikidata Query Logs Dataset (WDQL) - presenting a dataset of 200,000 question-query pairs intended to help train Natural Language questions into SPARQL. By S. Walter, H. Bast (2026).
• Videos: 3rd Wikidata Training of the On Wiki Skill Mentorship Program by Africa Wiki Women. Dives deeper into the core data modelling concepts, Wikidata-speciifc terminology and practical editing tips for beginners. Led by User:King ChristLike

Tool of the week

• Dagbanli dictionary - a monolingual Dagbanli dictionary built using Wikidata lexemes, with 20000 native audio recordings as usage examples pulled from Mozilla Common Voice. This means when you look up a word, you can hear it spoken in example sentences. See this in action here: suɣulo

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimania:2026 - The call for submissions for the program is open until March 1, 2026.
• OpenSanctions: As the CIA closes The World Factbook, we’re opening our global map of political power - introduces EveryPolitician.org, a global database of 690,000+ political office-holders across the globe. PoliLoom, GovDirectory, a dedicated WikiProject and the Wikidata community are helping make structured data on politicians transparent. Learn how you can contribute.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: annual greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by this entity in a year)
• Newest External identifiers: RFI topic ID, ‎Delfi.lv theme ID, SFDb original ID, Artdoc.Media film ID, ‎Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 practice ID, ‎Walloon-French dictionary ID, Bolivia INE code, Russian Register of Film Distribution Certificates ID, ‎Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek ID, ‎Woordenboek van Nieuwe Woorden ID, ‎Woordcombinaties ID, ‎Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands ID, Uzbek-Russian dictionary ID, ‎JMRC person id (he), Catalunya Romànica ID, ‎IEC 61355 identifier, Yandex Object Answer id, Michaelis Portuguese-English Modern Dictionary ID, Michaelis English-Portuguese Modern Dictionary ID, Uni24k indentifier, The Retro Web company ID, Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID, ‎Gravestone Project Cemetery ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • CWSAC classification ()
  • IBAN countries (The country which the bank with this property may create accounts in. For example "MyBank" can create bank accounts in "France" with the prefix "FR". Some banks have a single country they may create accounts in and other have many.)
  • Kloekecode (identifier for locations in the Netherlands, Flanders, French Flanders, and north-western Germany)
  • ICAO 24-bit aircraft address (Unique 24-bit ICAO aircraft address assigned to an individual aircraft’s Mode S transponder, expressed as a six-character hexadecimal code and used in ADS-B and air traffic surveillance systems.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Faulhaber-Edition ID, OldRacingCars.com drivers ID, ID Prix de Lausanne, Spellingwijzer Onze Taal ID, Uitleenwoordenbank ID, EpiMedDat ID, REVENCYT code, X Games athlete ID (new), Pinkhof ID, Scheikunde ID, JWS II ID, Buitenlandse aardrijkskundige namen in het Nederlands ID, PeeringDB Facility ID, DBNL place ID, DBNL country ID, DBNL titel ID, Movist person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Property table for a set of Wikidata items (the Memory of the World International Register)
  • People with PolSys ID (P1980), and with or without Norwegian historical register of persons ID (P4574) - (source)
• Schema examples: federally recognized tribe (E502): required and optional properties for items representing federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Ski - The goal of WikiProject Ski is to improve items about athletes, events and results from the different skiiing and snowboarding disciplines.
  • Nonprofit Orgs: South Africa - aims to add financial data to the biggest nonprofits
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Ontology: List of Ontology Pages
  • Sociotechnology: Resources
  • Chantiers MNBAQ
  • India: International Mother Language Day 2026 Datathon
• Showcase Lexemes: чурка (L179567) - Russian noun (ˈtɕurkə) meaning "a wooden block or stump", "a short piece of wood used in games", or "an offensive term for a person"чурка (L179567) - Russian noun (ˈtɕurkə) meaning "a wooden block or stump", "a short piece of wood used in games", or "an offensive term for a person"

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are preparing to reach out to editors about improving specific templates that are written in a way that creates a lot of unnecessary entries in Recent Changes and Watchlists.
• Mobile statement editing: We are getting close to having editing support for all datatypes. We are currently still working on the support for globe coordinates. We also added support for showing constraint violations on qualifiers and references.
• Data quality: We are doing technical investigations about how to make constraint violations available for querying again.
• GraphQL: We are getting ready to make GraphQL available on Wikidata 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: Spain
• 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9期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• 参考文献检查功能已在英语维基百科部署完成，标志着该功能已在所有维基百科语言版本推广完成。该功能会在新用户发布内容前提示他们添加引用，有助于减少因缺乏引用而被撤销的情况，并提高条目的可验证性。在A/B测试中，该功能效果显著：A/B测试显示效果显著：使用该功能的新用户在桌面端添加引用的比例增加约2.2倍，在移动端则增加约17.5倍。 [168]

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 维基百科已撤销部署跨wiki排序扩展，该扩展曾提供跨wiki链接排序功能。因此，之前在“非紧凑模式（完整列表）”下进行跨维基链接排序的编辑者，他们的链接顺序将发生变化。今后链接将按语言代码的字母顺序显示。 [169]
• 本周稍晚，使用移动版可视化编辑器按段编辑页面的用户将看到新增的“编辑整页”按钮。点击后可切换到整页编辑，便于在修改内容跨段时一次性编辑整篇条目。当需要修改的内容超出当前段落时，该功能可省去反复打开其他段落的步骤，使用更方便。 [170][171]
• 读者体验团队正在邀请编辑者并根据他们在桌面端和移动端的使用情况，评估深色模式是否仍需在各自站点维持“测试版”状态。如果认为该功能已经成熟，编辑者可以更新MediaWiki:skin-theme-description和MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag中的界面提示，说明深色模式已可正式使用，不再处于测试阶段。
• 改进后的活动标签页现已向维基百科iOS应用程序（7.9.0及以上版本）的所有用户开放。A/B测试显示，启用该功能的用户注册率显著提高；因此我们已向所有用户全面推送该功能，并同时推出若干更新。活动标签页现在会在时间轴中显示用户编辑过的条目，提供编辑影响洞察（例如贡献次数与条目浏览趋势），并支持自定义选项以优化应用内体验。
• 上周有21件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，先前讨论工具（DiscussionTools）在移动设备上无法正常使用，功能现已全面恢复。 [172]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 全域监视列表可在同一页面显示来自多个维基站点的监视列表。此扩展目前正持续改进，最新增加了新钩子ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild，该钩子会在每次重建监视列表后触发。这使您能在该页面运行小工具和用户脚本。 [173]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年2月24日 (二) 03:04 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #721

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #720.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Jan Myšák: Closed as successful, congratulations to Wikidata's newest admin!
• New request for comments: Notability Policy - Round 2: we are still requesting your input on the new Notablity policy. Including whether to elevate the self-promotion essay to a policy.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 3 March, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, March 3 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikiproject P244 maintenance uses SPARQL queries to identify and resolve two types of constraint violations in Wikidata: instances of Wikidata items with more than one LCNAF identifier and instances of the same LCNAF identifier existing on more than one Wikidata item. The February 17th session walked participants through how to resolve the former issue, while the March 3rd session will focus on the latter. This session will be more discussion-focused, since instances where two LCNAF identifier have the same Wikidata item can be difficult to resolve because of Wikidata’s innate quirks. Maybe your ideas will become the official best practice! Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/LCNAF_Duplicate_Detection_P244_Maintenance
  • Bring-Your-Own-Data-Lab, on 24.04.2026, the HERMES Data Competence centre hosts an online BYODL. Dr. Katrin Moeller and Dr. Olaf Simons will share how to enrich your own personal data with standard data and the Wikibase FactGrid. Click the link for registration and more information.
  • Wikidata Workshop w/ Wikipedia Riba Aruba + University of Aruba Research Center (UARC), March 2, 12 - 2pm GMT-4. Click here to register.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The Museo del Prado and Wikimedia Spain consolidate Wikidata as the connector axis of digital cultural heritage - gathering of the second edition of Connected Heritage: Wikidata in the GLAM Ecosystem
  • (Dutch) Wikipielen: an informal mini-hackathon for the GLAM sector, Olaf Janssen (WM coordinator at National Library of Netherlands) on the 10th edition of this micro-hackathon for people in cultural and heritage sector interested in Wikidata, Wikibase, SPARQL, OpenRefine and other technical skills.
  • Boundary Issues—Michal Migurski on representing disputed boundaries using Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
• Papers:
  • From Websites to Wikidata: Digitising Scotland’s Stories by Ross et al. (2026)
  • Entity Linking with Wikidata: A Systematic Literature Review
  • A Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction from Art-historical Image Descriptions by Schneider et al. (2026)., introduces FRAME for extracting art-historical entities and relationships from texts, enabling automatic linking of artworks, artists, and related metadata via Wikidata.
  • Review of Ethics in Linked Data by Rebecca Fried.
• Videos:
  • (Swedish) Fotbollsspelare Wikipedia / Wikidata - using QuickStatements to add P54 (member of sports team) to football players
  • Jukun Wikipedia Outreach, day 2 took attendees through adding interwiki links, Wikidata essentials and adding Template:Databox to Jukun Wiki articles.
  • Set-up Tutorial: Language Preferences and Gadgets on Wikidata, the International [Digital] Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) takes us through enabling gadgets and setting your preferred languages (Babel).

Tool of the week

• Maps Of the World / Stadiums - explore the stadiums of the world (at least the ones with Wikidata Items), mapped by SPARQL.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: SignWriting transcription (representation in SignWriting)
• Newest External identifiers: Microsoft Store developer ID, Apple Music Classical work ID, ‎SIK-ISEA group ID, ‎CHZZK streamer ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review::
  • Objectif plumes (Database managed by the General Service for Literature and Books, a department of the Cultural Administration of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (basically the Ministry of Culture for the French-speaking part of Belgium). The database currently includes entries on books by more than 8.000 Belgian writers.)
  • usual forename (A name usually derived from a given name used to address a person in everyday life.)
    • apportionment diagram (image that displays the representation of seats won by party in an election to an assembly)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: LibriVox reader ID, All Skies Encyclopaedia ID, KCUE academy ID, Catálogo de autoridades da BUSC, ISSN-H, Hong Kong Cinema title ID, NPPM ID, Parlement.com ID, Kokugakuin University god name database ID, Czech National Register of Health Service Providers ID, Génération Nintendo game ID developer ID, Génération Nintendo game ID publisher ID, wikiru.jp wiki ID, Tribuna.com football players ID, SnokaDB, abadis.ir Persian word ID, AIK soccer player ID, BOIShistory

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Works in Scottish museums by female artists, lacking an English Wikipedia article (source)
  • Graph of Moominworld
• Showcase Items: Template:Q - semi-autonomous part of Tanzania
• Showcase Lexemes: snap (L14515) - English verb (snæp) meaning "to break suddenly", "to lose control emotionally", or "to take a photograph"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We worked on removing the constraint violations indicator from a statement after an edit that fixed it.
  • We are fixing bugs uncovered in testing, such as phab:T218477, phab:T418104, phab:T417861 and phab:T417647.
• GraphQL: We are getting ready to launch the first version later this week, including preparing the documentation for how to use it.

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10期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• 维基百科25周年生日模式现已在中文、布列塔尼语、印尼语、西西里语、西班牙语、贝塔维语、法语、科隆达罗语、英语、泰语、马都拉语、捷克语、荷兰语、越南语、意大利语及卢森堡语维基百科上线！此限时活动为庆祝维基百科成立25周年，特别推出生日吉祥物“拼图球宝宝”（Baby Globe）。启用生日模式后，拼图球宝宝将出现在约2500篇条目中，静待读者发现。要在本地维基启用生日模式，管理员可在社群取得共识后启用此功能，亦可在社群配置功能中进行自订。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 子引用功能已在瑞典语、波兰语维基百科及其他数个维基站点推出，此新功能可在重复使用参考资料时能修改部分细节。您可在上述站点、测试维基或Beta维基来试用此功能。首个试行站点——德语维基百科的实施经验已汇整成报告发布。若您的社群有意参与试行，请联系德国维基媒体协会团队。
• 本周，贴上检查（Paste check）功能将在所有维基百科站点上线。此功能针对使用视觉化编辑器的新编者，当他们将由他人撰写的内容贴入条目时，此功能会提示其思考此举是否可能侵犯著作权。凡触发此功能的编辑内容，系统皆会标上标签供其他编者审核。本地管理员可透过Special:EditChecks页面设定此功能的各项参数。横跨22个维基站点的研究显示，相较于对照组，贴上检查功能使编辑回退率减少了18%。诚挚邀请翻译者协助本地化此功能及相关功能。
• 阅读体验团队将为所有行动版使用者统一右上角的使用者选单，使其更贴近桌面版的使用体验。目前此选单仅对启用行动版进阶模式（AMC）的使用者显示。本次变更后，未启用AMC的使用者将有若干按钮从左侧选单移至右上角。此变更旨在改善UI，预计于3月9日推出。 [174]
• 自3月2日当周起，当账号新增、移除或变更电子邮件地址时，系统发送的通知邮件将由原先的纯文字格式，更改为更美观清晰的HTML格式电子邮件。 [175]
• 目前，每位使用者的通知匣最多可储存2000笔纪录，可追溯至2013年该功能推出之初。这将调整为仅储存近五年内的通知记录，但数量上限提升至1万笔。此变更有助于基础设施的长期稳定运行，并避免近期通知过早消失。 [176]
• 全域监视清单可在同一页面显示来自多个维基站点的监视清单。此扩充功能目前正持续改进，最新改进了维基数据项目标签的使用体验。现在，全域监视清单为维基数据等站点启用了语言备援系统，若维基数据项目缺少使用者检视语言的标签，将以备援语言或使用者偏好的维基数据语言显示这些标签（若提供uselang= URL参数则以该语言为检视语言）。 [177][178]
• 维基百科Android团队已在希腊语维基百科启动混合搜寻功能的Beta测试。混合搜寻功能可同时处理语义查询与关键字查询，让读者能更容易直接在维基百科上找到所需内容。
• 出于安全考量，位于特定使用者群组的使用者将必须启用双重认证（2FA）。当前，只有在使用相关权限时才会检查并要求启用2FA，而单纯位于相关使用者群组内则不需要。考量到即便如此依然可能存在安全漏洞，基金会自三月起将逐步改变现状。处于这些使用者群组的使用者只要还拥有相关使用者群组身份便不能从自己的账号中移除全部的2FA方式，同时有权者亦无法将没有启用2FA的使用者加入到这些群组中。只要账号中至少还留有一个2FA方式，这些使用者依然可以自由添加和移除额外的2FA方式。目前决定以下使用者群组将受到新规则的限制：CentralNotice administrators、使用者查核员、界面管理员、监督员、Wikidata staff、Wikifunctions staff、WMF Office IT和WMF Trust & Safety。其他使用者不受影响。关于新规定生效的时程详见连结的工单。 [179]
• 上周有27件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，先前有个问题导致使用者无法在Wikibase.cloud建立实例，现已修正此问题。 [180]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 为确保基础设施的合理使用，维基媒体基金会将于未来一个月内对所有API全面实施速率限制。3月初，针对并非来自Toolforge/WMCS且未经身份验证的请求，以及透过网页浏览器发出的API请求，将实施更严格的流量限制。4月起，已验证流量将适用较高限额。此限额刻意设定得尽可能高，以尽量减少对社群的影响。目前在Toolforge/WMCS运行的机器人和拥有站内机器人权限的机器人应不受影响。不过，我们建议所有开发者遵循最新的最佳实践。详情请参阅维基媒体API/速率限制。（WMCS＝Wikimedia Cloud Services）
• 维基数据查询服务的链接资料片段（LDF）端点将于2月停止运作。此端点原本服务流量有限，现已成功迁移至其他更适合支援现有用例的资料存取方式。原本用于支援LDF端点的硬件设备将重新分配，以支援进行中的后端迁移工作。 [181]
• 新版解析器Parsoid正持续部署至更多维基站点，这不仅能提升平台永续性，亦有助于导入新的阅读与编辑功能。目前Parsoid已成为488个维基媒体站点（含268个维基百科站点）的预设解析器，涵盖超过10%的维基百科页面浏览量。
• 维基媒体企业服务API高流量资料源的特殊存取权限申请流程与标准现已正式发布（符合维基媒体使命的用例可免费取得）。此举旨在为使用者提供更详尽清晰的说明文件。
• Tech Blog，这个专为维基媒体技术社群设立的部落格，预计将迁移至社群新闻与活动部落格——Diff。迁移作业预计于2026年4月完成，之后将开放刊登新文章。读者可在入口页面浏览所有新旧文章。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年3月3日 (二) 01:52 (CST)

翻译通知：Wikimania:Reports

梦蝶葬花，您好：

因您曾在Wikimania注册成为中文翻译者，现向您发来通知。“Wikimania:Reports”页面现已可供翻译，链接于下：

• 翻译为中文

We would like to request your support in translating the Wikimania Reports page (https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Reports) into your desired language to make it more accessible to our global community. This page serves as an important institutional memory, documenting evaluations, outcomes, and lessons learned from past Wikimania conferences. It provides valuable insights into attendee demographics, inclusivity efforts, and strategic directions for future organizers.

Your translation work will help ensure that these reports are available to a wider audience, fostering inclusivity and knowledge-sharing across diverse communities. Please let us know if you are available to assist with this task, and feel free to coordinate directly on the translation interface linked on the page. We greatly appreciate your time, effort, and dedication in making Wikimania resources accessible to all.

对于您的努力我们深表感谢。有了您和其他翻译者的努力，才让Wikimania得以成为多语言社区。

若要取消订阅或更改翻译通知设置，请访问“特殊:翻译者注册”。

敬请！

Wikimania翻译协调员示‎, 2026年3月3日 (二) 10:58 (CST)

翻译通知：Wikimania:Future of Wikimania

梦蝶葬花，您好：

因您曾在Wikimania注册成为中文翻译者，现向您发来通知。“Wikimania:Future of Wikimania”页面现已可供翻译，链接于下：

• 翻译为中文

We would like to request your support in translating the Future of Wikimania page (https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Future_of_Wikimania) into your desired language. This page outlines important discussions and directions about how Wikimania will evolve in the coming years, including community involvement, event formats, and strategic priorities.

Making this content available in diverse languages will ensure that more community members can engage with and contribute to shaping the future of Wikimania. Your translation work is vital in helping us foster inclusivity, transparency, and shared ownership across the movement. Please let us know if you are available to assist, and feel free to coordinate directly on the translation interface linked on the page. We deeply appreciate your time, effort, and dedication in making Wikimania resources accessible to all.

对于您的努力我们深表感谢。有了您和其他翻译者的努力，才让Wikimania得以成为多语言社区。

若要取消订阅或更改翻译通知设置，请访问“特殊:翻译者注册”。

敬请！

Wikimania翻译协调员示‎, 2026年3月3日 (二) 11:01 (CST)

This Month in Education: February 2026

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

This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 2 • February 2026

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

• Cairo University Spanish Language Volunteers document Madrid’s Historic and Contemporary Palaces
• Celebrating 25 Years of Wikipedia in Uzbekistan
• Meeting of the Latin American Network of Feminist Artificial Intelligence: building possible futures
• Farewelling the Auckland Museum Summer Students
• Inclusive Climate Learning with Wikimedia Reaches Special School in Kumasi
• Introducing Wikimedia in Academic curriculum for students of higher education in universities of Telangana
• Learning from Finland: Edit-a-thon on Finnish Education set to take place in Belgrade
• Library of IME-USP Workshop: Edits in History of Mathematics
• LitFest 2026: Room to Dream to amplify local voices across Wikimedia
• New online workshops for the German language Wikipedia
• Road to Wiki Cohort 1: Building India's Next Generation of Wikimedia Technical Contributors
• The history of the Wikimedia movement in a Brazil: a book about stories and projects
• Wiki Club Federal Government Boys College Celebrates Mother Tongue Day
• Wiki Club Minalabac joins Freedom to Read 2026: One World, Many Languages
• Wiki Love Folklore Photowalk at Khajuraho Dance Festival 2026
• Wiki Loves Fish Workshop Empowers Students to Document Coastal Biodiversity
• WikiCendekia 2026: Insights from our training of admins in Indonesia
• Wikimedia MKD's activities- new wiki club and a lots of new training workshops
• WikiPatrimoine Senghor : Valuation of African cultural heritage at the University Senghor
• Wikipedia Turns 25: Young Voices, Big Future

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Wikidata weekly summary 722

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #721.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 8 - Task: Remove Wikipedia import references from statements where the referenced article has since been deleted.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The 6th Wikidata Workshop has been announced for ISWC 2026. If you are interested in joining the wWorkshop for the scientific Wikidata community, contact: 6th-wikidata-workshop@googlegroups.com
  • Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - April 22, 2026, 13:00 - 14:30, at the University of Central Florida.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Diff blog: Becoming a Trainer Assistant at Wikilatih Wikidata BRIN: A Journey of Sharing Knowledge by Affandy Murad
  • Diff blog: Why Dagbanli Needs a Dictionary (And How We Built One with Wikidata) - by User:Masssly
• Papers: Scholia 2026: Compliance with SPARQL 1.1, to be presented at SWAT4HCLS 2026
• Videos:
  • (Swedish) Mix'n'Match IFKDB / Mix'n'Match DIF Historia - Magnus Sälgö
  • (Spanish) Introducción a Wikidata, Dinah M. W.Fraites and Dr. Claudia De Souza give a comprehensive tour and introduciotn of Wikidata for the Centro para la Excelencia Académica
  • Accessibility and Gen AI - Ep 15 w/ Denny Vrandečić (Head of Special Projects at Wikimedia Foundation) - a conversation about Abstract Wikipedia, the relationship between Wikimedia, Wikipedia and other Projects and how the Foundation will adopt and adapt to emergent technologies such as LLM's.
  • Epigraphic Object Encoding - Session 7 of the SunoikisisDC Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage. Experiences encoding epigraphic data into Wikidata starts at 58:27.
  • (Arabic) Arabic Wikidata Days 2025: Adding Wikidata to include Arabic Content (example: Hijri Calendar), Saeed Hubaishan presents a practical example of adapting Wikibase to enable adding new data types that haven't previously been modelled, such as dates in the Hijri Calendar.
  • Wikimania 2025 - Unpopular Opinions: Bold Lightning Talks to Shake Up Wikimedia: Moving Categories to Wikidata ((Ad Huikeshoven)) / Introducing Wiki AI (Sam Klein)
  • Unlocking Government Data for Wikidata: Stories, Impacts & Open Dialogue from Wikimania 2025. Panelists: Butch Bustria, James M. Heilman (Doc James), Jan Ainali, Vanj Padilla, Wisdom Ferrer, Seddon explore how the reuse of public domain & government datasets enriches Wikidata & bolsters public engagement with Wikimedia projects.Slides

Tool of the week

• Data2Go : An iOS app for browsing and editing Wikidata with a mobile-first UI. It combines fast search, rich item detail views, statement editing, map previews, media galleries, and account-based write access to Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata now has a GraphQL API! Read more about it and try it out or sign up for the usability tests.
• The WMF is in the process of rolling out new global API rate limits. This will also affect Wikidata. For more details see mw:Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ICAO 24-bit aircraft address, BISMaL taxon ID, Xcity actress ID, All Skies Encyclopaedia ID, Power Thesaurus ID, Kvinnehistorie.no persons ID, Mastercaller player ID, dartn.de player ID, darts1.de player ID, pdpa.co.uk player ID, ‎People's Graphic Design Archive creator ID, HKCinema film ID, Medvik ID, Obálky knih ID, MusicaPopular.cl ID, CAMEO page ID, ciss.org sportsperson ID (deaf sport)
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • maximum vehicle length (maximum authorized length for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • Peer-review propertiy for journals or publications ({{TranslateThis | de = <!-- Beschreibung auf Deutsch --> <!-- | xx = Beschreibungen in anderen Sprachen --> }}Scholarly journals or publications should have a property "peer review process" indicating which peer review process (if any) is applied for the publication.)
  • maximum vehicle width (maximum authorized width for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • maximum vehicle weight (maximum authorized weight (tonnage / gross vehicle weight) for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (load limit))
  • regional conservation status (conservation status of species in national or regional Red List publications that follow the IUCN red list criteria)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: LINE official account ID, Kulturbase.no ID, CROWCASS file number, Integbio Database Catalog ID, norsk fangeregister historie ID, Census of Italian Architecture since 1945, TMDB award ID, SocioMap ID, AVefi ID, NSK new ID, Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Property count of characters in Tolkien's Universe (source)
  • Data about Norwegians in captivity during WWII (using Norwegian prisoner register person ID (P8269) + others (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Beer
• Showcase Items: Template:Q - international airport serving Melbourne, Australia
• Showcase Lexemes: sampaa (L1154759) - Dagbanli noun that translates to a hut within a compound to provide shelter for people during the warm season.

Development

• GraphQL: We have released the first version of this new API. You can read more about it and try it out.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We have worked with editors to improve some highly-used modules that access Wikidata in a suboptimal way. They have been adjusted to lead to less unneeded change notification in people's watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
• Mobile statement editing: We fixed an issue where certain Properties were not accessible in the new mobile UI. We are also working on fixing a bug with saving musical notation statements. We are continuing the work on supporting editing of geocoordinates.

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: agencies for the environment and nature conservation.
• 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11期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• 3月25日，所有维基媒体站点将进入只读状态几分钟，预定于15:00 UTC开始。这是资料中心服务器切换备份测试的必要程序，每年执行两次。切换作业期间，所有维基媒体网站流量将从主要资料中心转移至备援资料中心，以测试系统可用性，并确保即使面临突发状况，服务依然能维持不中断。
• 上周，所有维基媒体站点进入了为期2小时的只读状态，且使用者脚本与小工具功能在当日间暂时停用。此情况源于一件安全事故，目前已获解决。相关团队正在研拟防范措施，以避免类似问题再度发生。最新资讯请参阅监管员布告板的公告（翻译版本）。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 在移动设备上遭遇多重封锁的使用者，现在将能分别查看每项封锁的具体原因，而非笼统的提示讯息。这将有助于使用者理解封锁原因及可采取的解决措施。例如，因使用常见VPN（如iCloud私密转送）而受影响的使用者，将获得更清晰的指引，说明如何恢复编辑功能。 [182]
• 本周稍晚，建议模式将作为测试功能在所有维基百科的视觉化编辑器中上线。此功能会主动建议使用者可执行的各种编辑操作，以改善维基百科条目，同时协助使用者了解相关指引。此功能支援本地配置，亦可自订“建议”项目来扩充此功能。现行设定可在Special:EditChecks页面查看，该页亦提供管理员操作指引，来设定“建议”中的连结应该指向哪个本地指引。此功能与编辑检查功能连动，能在使用者撰写新内容时提供改进建议。编辑团队未来将透过控制实验评估此功能对新使用者的影响。 [183]
• 上周有23件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前使用CodeMirror的语法高亮功能（此功能可让wikitext与代码更易于阅读）时，游标位置可能会出现错位，现已修正此问题。这个问题特别影响到在个人CSS中自订字型，并使用讨论工具（DiscussionTools）建立新话题的使用者。 [184]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 【API速率限制更新】为确保基础设施的合理使用，本周起将对以下请求实施全面API速率限制：并非来自Toolforge/WMCS且未使用合规使用者代理的请求；来自网页浏览器且未经身份验证的请求。4月起，已验证流量将适用较高限额。目前在Toolforge/WMCS运行的机器人和拥有站内机器人权限的机器人应不受影响。不过，我们建议所有开发者遵循最新的最佳实践。详情请参阅维基媒体API/速率限制。（WMCS＝Wikimedia Cloud Services）
• 新的GraphQL API现已发布。此API旨在成为维基数据查询服务（WDQS）特定功能的弹性替代方案，以期提升开发者体验、促进适应性，并实现高效数据存取。欢迎试用并提供意见回馈，您亦可报名参与可用性测试。
• 遗弃工具支援工作组（PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group）于2月持续改进Video2Commons，解决了验证错误、大型档案处理等问题，同时提升了任务伫列可见度，并使上传行为更明确。部分工作仍在进行中，包括与已弃用服务器端上传相关的变更。了解更多。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 条目导引团队诚邀选定试行维基的资深维基百科编辑者，以及其他维基百科的热心贡献者填写这份问卷。问卷提供英语、阿拉伯语、孟加拉语、日语、葡萄牙语、波斯语及土耳其语版本。您的回复将协助团队为经验较少的编辑者量身打造导引，使其在撰写条目时能同步学习社群方针与惯例。更多详情请参阅专案页面。

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年3月10日 (二) 02:53 (CST)

The Signpost: 10 March 2026

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

• Interview: Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

• News and notes: Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki

• Special report: What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?

• In the media: Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware

• Recent research: To wiki, perchance to groki

• Obituary: Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet

• Opinion: Interface administrators and trusting trust

• Technology report: English Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content

• Op-ed: Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?

• Essay: The pursuit of a button click

• In focus: Short descriptions: One year later

• WikiProject report: Unreferenced articles backlog drive

• Community view: Speaking of planning ...

• Traffic report: Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds

• Crossword: "It will never happen"

• Comix: BRIEn't

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This Month in GLAM: February 2026

This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue II, February 2026 Headlines From the team: GLAM in 2026 is calling to action! Belgium report: A photo safari through Wiki Loves Fashion & a rescue mission with Mission Gourmande! Czech Republic report: National Library overview of 2025 Italy report: Cultural Heritage and Memory: 2026 GLAM Call and Executed Renaissance Edit-a-thon New Zealand report: Farewelling the Auckland Museum Summer Students and an update on the NZBSI WiR Poland report: Wikipedia in Cultural Marketing at Crash Mondays Warsaw Serbia report: February in Wikimedia Serbia Spain report: Wikidata in the GLAM context II Switzerland report: Neocomensia, SAPA, Atelier Winterthur, GLAM-on-Tour Disentis UK report: New content in African and Asian languages Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members Memory of the World report: Focus on Indigenous issues Calendar: March'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 #723

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #722.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) project - The ALMEDA project’s key outcome is a linked, open, and searchable metadata repository—built from extensive cataloguing of previously uncatalogued materials and enriched through a user-friendly interface launching in 2025, designed to support ongoing growth beyond the project’s initial five-year funding.
  • https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/13/structuring-dagbanli-on-wikidata-lexemes-senses-and-the-digraph-challenge/
• Papers: Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy - This study develops a refined taxonomy of Wikidata qualifiers—based on their semantics, frequency, and diversity—to help contributors select appropriate qualifiers, improve querying and inference, and enhance knowledge graph design, ultimately offering a structured framework that covers the most important qualifiers and supports better recommendation systems. By Falquet & Aljalbout (2026).
• Videos: LIVE Wikidata editing #118 at the Open Data Day - Wikipedia Weekly Network:
  • Introduction to editing Wikidata on mobile - Art + Feminism in Wikimedia Botswana
  • Queer women in the Arts (English): A panel discussion and Wikidata workshop
• Podcasts: Wikipediapodden interviews Lydia Pintscher about the ongoing Wikidata notability reform (also available on Commons)
• Notebooks: Who gets a biography on French-language Wikipedia? A country-by-country portrait of biographical coverage for people born between 1950 and 2000.

Tool of the week

• Wdquery : GraphQL-powered Wikidata item advanced search.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• https://casier-politique.fr
• Fornland—aggregates over a million cultural heritage sites from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland into one interface, combining Wikidata and other sources .
• m:Coolest Tool Award
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team has published its March 2026 newsletter. To have new issues of the WDP monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!
• Reminder that the 4 week grace period for switching to the v1 route for the Wikibase REST API search endpoints will end this week. The v0 route will be turned off and hence will no longer function.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • river regime (predominant pattern of annual changes to a stream's discharge at a particular period)
  • seat occupied (seat held by a person within an academy or other society)
• Newest External identifiers: Génération Nintendo publisher ID, KCI article ID, ‎LINCS ID, radeberger-stadtgeschichte.de Object Identificator, Flohic ID, ‎Vlaams Woordenboek ID, ‎Bach digital person ID, ‎Bach digital work ID, Identificativo Antenati, ‎Liiga.fi player ID, ‎Pesistulokset.fi player ID, ‎Letterboxd producer ID, Fragplace brands ID, Fragplace fragrances ID, Fragplace notes ID, Fragplace perfumers ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • population pyramid (Age pyramid image for demography articles)
  • StatsF1 ID (Link to a Formula 1 specific database)
  • maximum vehicle height (maximum authorized height for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (regulatory limit from signage))
  • Bibliografi.dk (Bibliografi.dk)
  • PeerTube instance URL (the PeerTube instance of/about the subject)
  • Central Registration Number (Indonesia) (primary service registration number assigned to a member of the Indonesian Armed Forces or Indonesian National Police)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Digital Public Good, LUBW-RIPS-Wasserkraftanlage-ID, Identifiant QueenBallers.com d'une joueuse, Foto Atlas taxonomy ID, Brewver beer ID, Göteborgsalliansen, Consumer Rights Wiki article ID, Royal Air Force service number, Identifiant d'une personne dans le Bianco, Tajik-Russian Dictionary word ID, AmericanAristocracy person ID, AmericanAristocracy house ID, Shinmei database ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Showcase Items: Template:Q - Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • If you have not tried it yet, now is an excellent time to turn it on in the beta features section of your preferences, test it and give feedback.
  • We have added support for editing globe coordinate statements
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to work on the issue of too many Wikidata in recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We are currently prototyping a way to only consider changes that actually have an impact on the article (phab:T419823). We also finished the work on an emergency switch to turn off sending changes for qualifiers and references to Wikipedia and co in case of major database disruptions (phab:T412956).
• Ontology federation: We are working towards getting the code for ontology federation (in its first version of using Wikidata Items as values on other Wikibase instances) ready for wider testing.

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: Bangladesh
• 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 · JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery（留言） 2026年3月16日 (一) 23:35 (CST)

2026年第12期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 2024年11月，⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽（亦称为CodeMirror 6）以测试功能推出，用于wikitext的语法高亮显示。此功能预计将于2026年5月正式推出，向所有使用该功能的编辑者提供改进与新功能。若您对此功能的正式推出有任何疑问或顾虑，敬请提出。 [185]
• Some changes to local user groups are performed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and logged there only. Now, interwiki rights changes will be logged both on Meta-Wiki and the wiki of the target user to make it easier to access a full record of user's rights changes on a local wiki. Past log entries for such changes will be backfilled in the coming weeks. [186]
• On wikis using Flagged Revisions, the number of pending changes shown on Special:待定更改 previously counted pages which were no longer pending review, because they have been removed from the system without being reviewed, e.g. due to being deleted, moved to a different namespace, or due to wiki configuration changes. The count will be correct now. On some wikis the number shown will be much smaller than before. There should be no change to the list of pages itself. [187]
• 维基函数的复合语言（composition language）已重新编写。此次重写旨在透过降低协调器的记忆体消耗，来提升服务的稳定性。此次重写还带来了显著的延迟降低、代码简化以及更好的抽象化，为日后的功能扩展奠定基础。了解更多。
• Users can now sort search results alphabetically by page title. The update gives an additional option to finding pages more easily and quickly. Previously, results could be sorted by Edit date, Creation date, or Relevance. To use the new option, open 'Advanced Search' on the search results page and select 'Alphabetically' under 'Sorting Order'. [188]
• 上周有28件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前维基共享资源的上传向导出现异常，无法从Flickr汇入档案，现已修正此问题。 [189]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• A new special page, Special:LintTemplateErrors, has been created to list transcluded pages that are flagged as containing lint errors to help users discover them easily. The list is sorted by the number of transclusions with errors. For example: Special:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color. [190]
• 一段时间以来，对于启用“⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽”测试功能的使用者，在编辑JavaScript、CSS、JSON、Vue、Lua内容页面时，编辑器已改用CodeMirror取代CodeEditor进行语法高亮。随着CodeMirror 6的正式推出，我们预计于2026年5月以CodeMirror取代CodeEditor，作为这些内容模型的标准编辑器。欢迎提出意见或疑虑。 [191]
• CodeMirror的JavaScript模组即将升级至CodeMirror 6。在此次升级之前，在小工具和使用者脚本中载入ext.CodeMirror或ext.CodeMirror.lib模组的方法已于2025年7月标为弃用。此外，ext.CodeMirror.switch钩子的使用亦已于2025年3月标为弃用。贡献者现在可以修改脚本或小工具，使其与CodeMirror 6相容。详情请参阅迁移指南。 [192]
• MediaWiki界面团队正在扩大REST API模组的定义范围，将“扩充功能API”纳入其中。REST API模组是由一系列相关端点组成的群组，可独立进行管理与版本控制。目前已为GrowthExperiments和维基函数API建立模组。随着我们将“扩充功能API”迁移至此架构中，相关文件将从MediaWiki OpenAPI主要规格及REST沙盒检视中移出，改为透过REST沙盒（即Special:RestSandbox，所有维基专案皆可使用）下拉选单中的模组专属选项存取。
• Scribunto扩充功能透过mw.site函式库，为模组提供维基站点的各项资讯。自上周起，该函式库亦提供了一种存取维基站点ID的方式，可用于简化跨维基模组的维护工作。 [193]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• The 2026 Coolest Tool Award celebrating outstanding community tools, is now open for nominations! Nominate your favorite tool using the nomination survey form by 23 March 2026. For more information on privacy and data handling, please see the survey privacy statement.

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年3月17日 (二) 03:36 (CST)

2026年第12期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 2024年11月，⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽（亦称为CodeMirror 6）以测试功能推出，用于wikitext的语法高亮显示。此功能预计将于2026年5月正式推出，向所有使用该功能的编辑者提供改进与新功能。若您对此功能的正式推出有任何疑问或顾虑，敬请提出。 [194]
• 部分对本地使用者群组的变更由监管员在元维基执行，且仅记录于元维基的日志。现在，跨维基权限变更将同时记录于元维基及目标使用者的维基站点中，以便查阅使用者在本地维基的完整权限变更纪录。过去的此类变更日志项目将于未来数周内补录。 [195]
• On wikis using Flagged Revisions, the number of pending changes shown on Special:待定更改 previously counted pages which were no longer pending review, because they have been removed from the system without being reviewed, e.g. due to being deleted, moved to a different namespace, or due to wiki configuration changes. The count will be correct now. On some wikis the number shown will be much smaller than before. There should be no change to the list of pages itself. [196]
• 维基函数的复合语言（composition language）已重新编写。此次重写旨在透过降低协调器的记忆体消耗，来提升服务的稳定性。此次重写还带来了显著的延迟降低、代码简化以及更好的抽象化，为日后的功能扩展奠定基础。了解更多。
• 使用者现在可以按页面标题的字母顺序对搜寻结果进行排序。此更新为使用者提供另一种更简便、快速查找页面的选项。先前，搜寻结果可依“编辑日期”、“建立日期”或“相关性”进行排序。若要使用此新功能，请在搜寻结果页面上点开“进阶搜寻”，并在“排序方式”下选取“字母顺序”。 [197]
• 上周有28件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前维基共享资源的上传向导出现异常，无法从Flickr汇入档案，现已修正此问题。 [198]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 新增了一个特殊页面Special:LintTemplateErrors，用以列出被标记为含有Lint错误的被嵌入页面，让使用者更容易发现这些页面。该清单是根据含有错误的嵌入次数进行排序。例如：Special:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color。 [199]
• 一段时间以来，对于启用“⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽”测试功能的使用者，在编辑JavaScript、CSS、JSON、Vue、Lua内容页面时，编辑器已改用CodeMirror取代CodeEditor进行语法高亮。随着CodeMirror 6的正式推出，我们预计于2026年5月以CodeMirror取代CodeEditor，作为这些内容模型的标准编辑器。欢迎提出意见或疑虑。 [200]
• CodeMirror的JavaScript模组即将升级至CodeMirror 6。在此次升级之前，在小工具和使用者脚本中载入ext.CodeMirror或ext.CodeMirror.lib模组的方法已于2025年7月标为弃用。此外，ext.CodeMirror.switch钩子的使用亦已于2025年3月标为弃用。贡献者现在可以修改脚本或小工具，使其与CodeMirror 6相容。详情请参阅迁移指南。 [201]
• MediaWiki界面团队正在扩大REST API模组的定义范围，将“扩充功能API”纳入其中。REST API模组是由一系列相关端点组成的群组，可独立进行管理与版本控制。目前已为GrowthExperiments和维基函数API建立模组。随着我们将“扩充功能API”迁移至此架构中，相关文件将从MediaWiki OpenAPI主要规格及REST沙盒检视中移出，改为透过REST沙盒（即Special:RestSandbox，所有维基专案皆可使用）下拉选单中的模组专属选项存取。
• Scribunto扩充功能透过mw.site函式库，为模组提供维基站点的各项资讯。自上周起，该函式库亦提供了一种存取维基站点ID的方式，可用于简化跨维基模组的维护工作。 [202]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• The 2026 Coolest Tool Award celebrating outstanding community tools, is now open for nominations! Nominate your favorite tool using the nomination survey form by 23 March 2026. For more information on privacy and data handling, please see the survey privacy statement.

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年3月17日 (二) 20:09 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #724

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #723.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • AraBot - Tasks: Adding Aragonese sitelinks and updating articles on Aragonese Wikipedia with Wikidata's data.
  • InventaireBot - Task: Make automated edits generated by the inventaire.io (Q32193244) server and manual edits on behalf of users without a Wikidata account.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: DelintBot - Task: Fix lint errors on pages across all namespaces where Wikitext can be written (namespaces not managed by Wikibase).
• New request for comments: archive.today - due to a RfC and policy on enwiki, this discussion needs your input on whether Wikidata will continue listing archive.today links.
• Ongoing request for comments: Notability policy reform is looking for input about remaining questions around marginalized knowledge and external identifiers

Events

• Upcoming events: (German) Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen, YouTube livestream – 28 March 2026 (UTC+1): presentations by Lisa Dieckmann at 12.30 - 12.50 (“Bilder verknüpfen – prometheus, Normdaten und Wikidata”), Lucy Patterson & Lukas Fuchsgruber at 16.30 - 16.45 (“Kritische Arbeit mit Sammlungsdaten auf Wikidata”), and Max Kristen at 17.30 - 17.45 (“usefulQueries: Unkompliziert Kunstgeschichte in Wikidata erkunden”).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Structuring Dagbanli on Wikidata: Lexemes, Senses, and the Digraph Challenge by Masssly and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
  • Open Knowledge Graphs: A Search Engine for Ontologies, Controlled Vocabularies, and Semantic Web Tools, by Steve Hedden
  • (German) Erinnerungskultur zum Mitmachen: eine digitale Landkarte zum Gestapoterror in Niedersachsen by Gabriele Fahrenkrog
• Papers: Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy presents an analysis of Wikidata qualifiers, focusing on semantics and usage, in order to develop a taxonomy to help in selecting appropriate qualifiers, querying the knowledge graph, and making logical inferences. By Gilles Falquet and Sahar Aljalbout (2026).
• Videos:
  • Creating a Wikidata item for a Historic Building - OpenStreetMap for History Buffs gives a practical example of creating a Wikidata Item for a historic Irish building, but you can adapt it for other historical or archeological sites.
  • Introduction to Wikidata (Creating items, Statements & References) - Africa Wiki Women continue their introductory series with trainer, Blessing Timothy.
  • (French) Introduction à Wikidata is also provided by Africa Wiki Women.
  • Simple steps to edit Wikidata Episode 1(WAMP) - User:Dsp13 of the Wiki Afrodemics Project covers a variety of topics to help new editors make meaningful contributions to Wikidata.
  • (French) Introduction à la modification de Wikidata sur mobile - Art+Feminism in partnership with WM Botswana provide a training session for mobile editing (with a focus on women artists, feminist movements and underrepresented cultural contributions).
  • Queer Women in the Arts: Art+Feminism teamed up with WikiLGBT+ (Event page) for a panel discussion and Wikidata training centering on Queer Women in the Arts, in honour of International Women's Day. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
  • Wikidata tools: Pet Scan - User:Epìdosis introduces this handy tool that allows you to query and generate lists of Wikipedia pages or Wikidata items based on defined criteria such as Categories, Properties, Templates, and others.
  • Introduction to Wikidata & Property Dashboard - Essential Wikidata Tools: Automating Your Workflow workshop given 13 March 2026. Hosted by Alan Ang, Camillo Pellizari, Pru Mitchell, and Taufik Rosman for the ESEAP community.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Property Creation Helper takes a property proposal page and translates it into a QuickStatements batch (and then a second one for the examples) that a property creator can use to quickly create a new property. By ArthurPSmith

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• GraphQL API ongoing feedback: If you haven’t tried it yet, you can still explore it as a developer-friendly alternative to select WDQS features. Please Share your feedback on the project page, or sign up for deeper usability testing.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • mass number (total number of baryons in an atomic nucleus)
  • soil acidity preference (soil acidity preference of a plant species or lichen)
  • Diepkloof (Place in Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • paid-up capital (portion of a company’s issued share capital that has been paid by shareholders)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:: Shinmei database ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Baden-Württemberg, Central Registration Number (Police), NIP 9-digit, MeetStadium ID, indexxx.com performer ID, BGAFD actress ID, Shellers From the Past ID, معرف منشور في قاعدة بيانات معرفة, London Book Trades ID, KCI journal ID, KCI publisher ID, PeerJ person ID, BIORAB–FRANKFURT ID, BIORAB–WEIMAR, BIORAB-KAISERREICH, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID, Wikiparfum perfumer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject LAGL (Linked Ancient and Greek Latin) has been established to develop guidelines for adding statements for ancient authors.
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject IDEA: Oral Histories - International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) added a subpage for resources, guidelines and progress for adding oral history Items and Statements.
• Showcase Items: Template:Q - worship of water oracles and associated cultural traditions among the Sawa

Development

• Infrastructure sustainability: We started working with a contractor to look at Wikidata's data storage to find opportunities for improving it.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing the work on a prototype to compare a wiki page before and after it has been parsed to see if this is a feasible way to reduce the number of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist that do not affect the article (phab:T419823)

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13期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• 现在，维基媒体网站使用者可以使用通行密钥（passkeys）无需密码即可登入。这是一种支援指纹、脸部辨识和PIN码的安全登入方式。随着这项变更，所有选择无密码登入的使用者，将能更加便捷、快速、安全地使用任何装置登入账号。目前，新的通行密钥登入选项会以“自动填入建议”的形式出现在使用者名称栏位中。不久后，将为已注册通行密钥的使用者提供额外的“使用通行密钥登入”按钮。此更新将提升安全性与使用者体验。参看萤幕录影影片逐步演示无密码登入的流程。
• 3月25日，所有维基媒体站点将进入只读状态几分钟，预定于15:00 UTC开始。这是资料中心服务器切换备份测试的必要程序，每年执行两次。切换作业期间，所有维基媒体网站流量将从主要资料中心转移至备援资料中心，以测试系统可用性，并确保即使面临突发状况，服务依然能维持不中断。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 维基媒体网站的使用者现在可以透过新的Toolforge工具，汇出超过5年的通知。这将确保使用者能保留重要通知，并避免因先前公告的变更计划——删除超过5年的通知——而导致通知遗失。 [203]
• 土耳其语、印尼语、泰语、简单英语维基百科的编辑者，现已可使用Special:PersonalDashboard。这是该功能的早期版本，旨在引导新编辑者熟悉巡查工作流程，协助他们更容易从编辑工作，过渡到参与专案中的进阶维护管理工作。 [204]
• Special:Block页面有两项小幅界面调整。管理员现可透过“期限”区块中的专用单选钮，轻松执行无限期封锁。此外，选择“无限期”时，系统会提供另一组常见理由供选择，可在以下页面修改：MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown。 [205]
• 得益于Growth团队最近的更新，多个维基站点的行动版编辑者现在可以看到经过改进的“未登入编辑”警告。这些于上周发布的变更，是我们持续努力和测试的一部分，旨在提升行动端的账号建立体验，进而增加参与度。 [206]
• 上周有36件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前行动版网页使用者在受到多重封锁影响时无法查看封锁资讯，现已修正此问题。现在，当他们浏览维基百科时，可查看所有目前影响他们的封锁的相关讯息。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 使用Toolforge建立的映像档即将升级至新版建构包，此版本将支援较新的语言版本，并包含其他上游的改进与修正。如果您使用Toolforge建构服务，请查阅最近的cloud-announce电子邮件，并视需要更新您的建构配置，以确保您的工具相容。 [207][208]

• API Portal这一说明文件维基将于2026年6月关闭。在API Portal上建立的API金钥将继续正常运作。api.wikimedia.org端点将自2026年7月起逐步停用。API Portal上的文件将移动至MediaWiki.org。了解更多。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• WMDE技术愿望专案正在考虑改进视觉化编辑器中自动生成的参考名称（name=）。请查看解决方案提案，并参与意见征询。

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MediaWiki message delivery 2026年3月24日 (二) 00:52 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #725

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #724.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Thetalentone - Tasks: Adding and updating references, qualifiers, publication dates, and provenance on my own personal and company items (Q138324775 and Q138324581) to improve entity confidence for Google Knowledge Graph. Small batches only, no edits to unrelated items.
  • Dušan Kreheľ - Task: Sitelinks existing and newly created municipality pages on hrwiki and Wikidata.
• New request for comments: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Mass-editing policy has a new proposal incorporating feedback and is awaiting votes.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 08th April 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.
  • Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit takes place until 20:00 CET, 30 May 2026.
  • "Wikidata in der Sammlungserschließung" (free online event in German on how GLAM institutions can use Wikidata, 20 April 2026, 10-11:30 CET, organized by Research and Competence Centre Digitalisation Berlin (Q51845259). More info and registration here.
  • Wikidata Ontology Course: The second offering of the Wikidata ontology course will be given in May and June 2026, with sessions 1-3 pm EDT (UTC-4) on Thursdays. The Wikidata ontology provides structure and organization for the rest of Wikidata and is thus fundamental to Wikidata. The course starts with the basic notions underlying the Wikidata ontology and goes on to cover querying using SPARQL, inference, constraints, advanced ontology notions, problems with the ontology, and other ontology-related aspects of Wikidata. Participants in the course are expected to complete weekly exercise sets and a project. More information on the course can be found at WikiProject Ontology/Ontology Course. To register for this offering fill in and submit the Google form.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wikidata contains many gaps in its political data. We’ve built a tool to change that (PoliLoom)
  • From a summer school idea to an ESWC paper: Teaching AI to “repair” Wikidata
• Papers:
  • Did AI Crawlers Kill SPARQL Federation?, including Wikidata examples
  • Gender and intersectional bias in featured biographies on the front page of the Italian edition of Wikipedia, 2014–2024 Open Access - Wikidata featured heavily in the design and methodology. By Rovira et al., (2026).
• Videos:
  • Adding architectural data to a Wikidata item for a Historic Building from OpenStreetMap for History Buffs.
  • Live Wikidata Editing #119 - Ainali and Abbe98 are back to edit Wikidata and explain their thinking along the way.
  • (Spanish) Wikidata and the public domain - Tools for bulk editing in Wikidata: Mix n Match and QuickStatements, last class of a 9-part series provided by Jorge Gemetto.
  • (German) Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen, day 2, digital/local collection loves wiki.
  • (German) Von OpenStreetMap zu semantisch vernetzten Wissensgraphen FOSSGIS 2026 Conference.
  • Using Wikibase as an Integration Platform with Matthew Ong. Originally given at the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin, 19 November 2024.

Tool of the week

• WikiVisage - Train a machine learning model to detect depicted subjects in Wikimedia Commons images and assist with adding the P180 (depicts) property.
• Yesterdays - A web platform for cataloging and georeferencing historical images of Richmond, Virginia. It uses Wikidata items to help organize the georeferenced images.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editing user testing: join the participant panel: Wikimedia Deutschland is planning new user tests for the mobile editing experience (including more data types as a beta feature) in late April–early May. Participants of all experience levels are welcome, and users of right‑to‑left scripts are especially encouraged to sign up. Register here. Participants will be compensated for their time.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Digital Public Good ID (identifier of a digital public good in the Digital Public Goods Registry)
  • apportionment diagram (image that displays the representation of seats won by party in an election to an assembly)
  • peer-review process for scholarly journals or publications (''(without English description)'')
• Newest External identifiers: ‎X Games athlete ID (new), AIK soccer player ID, ‎Uitleenwoordenbank ID, abadis.ir word ID, ‎AmericanAristocracy house ID, ‎AmericanAristocracy person ID, British Newspaper Archive publication ID, ‎Buitenlandse aardrijkskundige namen in het Nederlands ID, Landskrona BoIS player ID, Library of the University of Santiago de Compostela authority ID, ‎DBNL place ID, Faulhaber edition ID, Foto Atlas taxonomy ID, ‎Integbio Database Catalog ID, ‎KCUE academy ID, ‎LibriVox reader ID, ‎Manga-DB person ID, ‎Manga-DB magazine ID, ‎Manga-DB publisher ID, Digital Public Goods Registry, NSK ID, Tribuna.com football players ID, Sport Express person ID, ‎Open Food Facts brand ID, ‎RITVA company ID, OldRacingCars.com drivers ID, ‎Spellingwijzer Onze Taal ID, ‎EpiMedDat ID, ‎Pinkhof ID, ‎Scheikunde ID, ‎Movist person ID, ‎ISSN-H, Names, Persons, and Groups of People of the Middle Ages ID, ‎Parlement.com object ID, wikiru.jp wiki ID, BGAFD actress ID, IFK Norrköping player, ‎LINE official account ID, Norwegian war prisoner histories ID, ‎indexxx.com performer ID, SetesdalWiki ID, ‎Shellers From the Past ID, ‎SocioMap ID, Publication ID in e-Marefa database
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • civil service position level (classification level of a civilian public service position within a government administrative hierarchy)
  • Usenet newsgroup (Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
  • predicted winning party (the party predicted to win an election, according to some source)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Numen ID, member of the Azorean assembly ID, identifiant Rappels d'une personne, Identifiant dans la base de noms France Archives, Anarâš aavis topic ID, Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID, MangaBaka manga ID, JVID performer ID, PlayStation Trophies achievement ID, BERON lexeme ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Hogback - Hogbacks are a type of gravestone marker used in 10th - 12th Century Northern England.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • University of Otago/Books of Mana
  • Schnütgen Museum Collection/Sum of all paintings
  • Govdirectory/United Nations
  • Nonprofit Organisations
• Newest database reports: Humans with the same date of birth year (P569) and date of death year (P570).
• Showcase Items: Australia (Q275180) - 2008 film by Baz Luhrmann
• Showcase Lexemes: viɛla - Dagbanli adjective (of quality that is pleasing to human senses).

Development

• Wikibase GraphQL: We added support for a number of additional datatypes and started working on the functionality for querying Items by the external ID statement values or site links.
• Mobile editing of statements: We spent time testing the current state and fixing remaining issues we found.

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: Mongolia
• 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14期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• 在上周，Abstract Wikipedia（抽象维基百科、摘要维基百科）的Beta版本正式推出。Abstract Wikipedia是全新的基金会专案，旨在成为不依赖特定单一语言的维基百科，让社群可以用自己的语言构筑文章，读者也能用自己的语言读取文章。该wiki由Wikifunctions提供文字搭建支援，内容来源于维基数据中的结构化资料。了解详情。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• Growth团队正在针对一项改进创建账号提示词的变更进行A/B测试。当前，手机使用者在未登入的状态下开始编辑的时候，他们会看到一则警告提示，突兀、劝退、暗示使用临时账号就好、也不鼓励创建账号。提议的变更将更加友善，并且鼓励创建账号。该测试目前在十个维基百科中实装，包括中文、阿拉伯语、法语、西班牙语和德语。了解详情。
• 移动应用程序团队现正针对编辑功能应如何在应用程序中展现一事征求意见。讨论将聚焦于如何改善使用者按下编辑按钮后接触编辑工具的方式。放眼全局，这关切到如何友善地将对编辑有兴趣的读者，转变为确实的编者。
• 上周有45件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前无法从报纸档案库Newspapers.com撷取引用，这是由于Citoid请求遭到封锁，现已修正此问题。 [209]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2026年3月31日 (二) 03:26 (CST)

The Signpost: 31 March 2026

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

• News and notes: Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down

• In the media: AI ban, newspapers disrupt archiving; and antisemitism complaints

• Community view: Videos from WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC

• Disinformation report: Cleaning up after Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Nygard, and Mohamed Al-Fayed

• WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC review

• Obituary: Dr. Subas Chandra Rout

• Traffic report: Call in the dogs of war, soldier of fortune

• Gallery: Canadian Rangers participate in Operation Enduring Encyclopedia

• Comix: n00bsitting

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This Month in Education: March 2026

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

This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 3 • March 2026

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

• Advancing 21st-Century Education: Proposal to Establish the Yorùbá Wikipedia Fan Club at Arolu College of Education, Ilemona
• Awareness Programme on Language and Culture Protection by KWUG
• Teachers from Various Institutions in Rio de Janeiro Explore Wikipedia as a Means of Preserving Memory and Checking Sources
• Edu Wiki Nigeria Co-Founder Facilitates Textbook Donation to AHAJAS Integrated School, Gombe
• Inside Wikimedia Ukraine's education program
• Karavali Wikimedians at Mangaluru Design Summit 2026
• One School, One Article Campaign Wrap Up
• Seeds of Knowledge: A Wiki Project that Sparked a Community at ADUN
• Student workshops at Serbian Universities: enriching Wikipedia with topics on culture and technology
• The Open Knowledge Alliance: Wikimedia and Libraries
• Wikimedia CR published updated guide for beginners
• Wikimedia goes back to the classroom in Brazil
• Workshop on Feminism and Folklore 2026 by Wiki Club SATI
• “Wikimedia MKD in Action: Teacher Conferences and Education Activities
• Wikipedia & Libraries: Building New Contributors

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CEE Newsletter is out now!

Dear all,

The first CEE Newsletter issue of 2026 is now live, and we are happy to share it with you.

The past few months have been anything but quiet across our region. From Wikimedia CEE Spring and the CEE Women Campaign, to cross-border collaborations, youth initiatives, and new ideas taking shape, there is a lot happening -- and this issue brings together many of those stories in one place.

You will find highlights from community activities, updates from the CEE Hub, international news, and a wide range of contributions from across the region. It is a good snapshot of what we have been working on together at the start of the year.

As always, thank you to everyone who contributed -- by writing, sharing updates, or supporting behind the scenes.

Take a moment to explore the issue and see what is going on across the region: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/March_2026

As always, we have prepared a Russian version of the same issue: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/March_2026/ru

Happy reading!

On behalf of the CEE Newsletter team, Karo

2026年第15期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• The CampaignEvents extension now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in the documentation.
• The new watchlist labels feature (announced in Tech News 2026-07) is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the 'watchstar' (or watch link, for skins that don't have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist. In all three places it is a new field following the expiry field.
• 上周有23件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前在行动版网页上，用Parsoid解析的讨论页若有空白话题标题，会导致该处以下的讨论页无法正常使用，现已修正此问题。 [210]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• The sub-referencing feature, which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to more wikis later this year. Wikis using the Reference Tooltips gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js as shown here) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected. [211]
• All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions. Read more.
• The Action API has had several formats for requested output. One of them, format=php, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the JSON format. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots. [212]
• The Special:NamespaceInfo page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia. [213]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年4月7日 (二) 00:19 (CST)

2026年第15期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• CampaignEvents扩充功能新增了一项设定群组目标的功能，让活动筹办人员能够设定并即时追踪活动目标，例如建立的条目数量及参与的贡献者人数。同样地，参与者也能朝着共同目标努力，并在活动过程中见证众人集体产生的影响。此功能现已在所有维基媒体站点上线。了解详情。
• 今年新推出的“监视清单标签”（于本刊2026-07公告）有新功能。使用者现可透过视觉化编辑器、源代码编辑器，以及“监视星标”（或“监视连结”）来为页面套用/移除标签。之前仅能透过Special:EditWatchlist页面设定标签。在这三处，用来设定标签的新栏位会在“监视期限”栏位之后。（此处的“标签”为“label”，勿与编辑标签“tag”混淆）
• 上周有23件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前在行动版网页上，用Parsoid解析的讨论页若有空白话题标题，会导致该处以下的讨论页无法正常使用，现已修正此问题。 [214]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 子引用功能可让编辑者在不重复建立引用的情况下，为既有引用新增详细资讯。该功能将于今年稍晚逐步推广至更多维基站点。建议使用“参考文献提示工具”小工具的维基站点更新至最新版本（通常位于w:en:MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js，Diff），以确保相容性。其他与引用相关的小工具也可能受到影响。 [215]
• 所有维基新闻语言版本将于2026年5月4日关闭，并转为只读模式。届时，内容仍将开放阅览，但将无法再进行编辑或发布新文章。维基媒体基金会理事会经过审慎讨论后，批准了此次关闭。了解详情。
• Action API提供多种请求输出格式。其中一种格式format=php即将被移除。请确保您的脚本或机器人使用JSON格式。此项变更应该只会影响极少数的脚本和机器人。 [216]
• Special:NamespaceInfo页面现在会列出命名空间别名。例如，中文维基百科中，“Project”（“Wikipedia”）命名空间有“WP”等别名。 [217]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2026年4月7日 (二) 12:41 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #726

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #725.

Discussions

• Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Oversight: EPIC (2) (RfP scheduled to end at 9 April 2026 12:35 UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • ChooseLocal - Task/s: Read-only harvest of Wikidata entities (businesses, banks, etc.) by country, for use in a Canadia-centric local business directory.
  • JigildikBot - Task/s: Sitelink Management: Connecting newly created articles on kaa.wiki to their corresponding Wikidata items using Pywikibot. Label and Description Updates: Adding or updating Karakalpak (kaa) labels and descriptions for various items (especially geographical and biographical items) using OpenRefine.
  • JJPMaster (bot) - Task/s: Automatically add sitelinks for Abstract Wikipedia articles
  • TracklisterBot - Task/s: Adding missing external identifiers to Wikidata items for music artists, sourced from Tracklister (Q138905706), a music database that aggregates data from 20+ platforms. Properties: Discogs artist ID (P1953), Spotify artist ID (P1902), SoundCloud ID (P3040), Bandcamp ID (P3283), Beatport artist ID (P5765), Deezer artist ID (P2722), Last.fm ID (P3192), AllMusic artist ID (P1728), Apple Music artist ID (P2850), Tidal artist ID (P11853). Each claim includes a reference with stated in: Tracklister + reference URL pointing to the artist's page on tracklist.live.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dušan Kreheľ (bot) (approved)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 08th April 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.
  • Blazegraph Migration Office Hours: Blazegraph migeration office hours April edition is today, 7th January, Template:Zonestamp. These sessions focus exclusively on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). See the office hour page for details and future sessions.
  • digiS Workshop: Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung - 20 April 2026, 10.00 CEST (08:00 UTC), this online workshop (held in German) will practice Wikidata skills across SPARQL, OpenRefine and QuickStatements with a focus on using Wikidata for GLAM Institutions. To register, visit the link.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wikidata graphs for data visualisation of endangered horse breeds in Wikipedia By Tsaag Valren
  • Does country of birth have an effect on the probability to have a biography in French-language Wikipedia? (Le pays de naissance a-t-il un effet sur les chances d'avoir une biographie sur Wikipédia ?), published in RAW-Regards sur l'actualité de Wikimedia in Wikipedia in French.
  • (German) Wikidata ist ein teil von Wikimedia Enterprise - an update from Wikimedia Germany on Wikidata's inclusion with Wikimedia Enterprise.
  • (German) How to edit nearby: Notizen für regionale Open GLAM-Labore und offene Daten by Jens Bemme.
  • Building the Dagbanli Dictionary’s Audio Pipeline: OGG, iOS, and Transcoding, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
• Papers:
  • OntoKG: Ontology-Oriented Knowledge Graph Construction with Intrinsic-Relational Routing by Li et al., (2026), includes a case study of cleaning and resolving entity labels and descriptions from a 100 million entity dump.
  • ENEIDE: A High Quality Silver Standard Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Historical Italian by Santinia et al., (2026), the ENEIDE dataset links over 2000 historical documents to 8,000+ Wikidata entities.
  • CADEL: A Corpus of Administrative Web Documents for Japanese Entity Linking by Higashiyama et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • Using content from Wikidata in your apps, lightning talk by Jan Ainali
  • 2025: OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Collaboration: Taiwan Case
  • 2025: The Ugandan Geo Quests: Mapping Libraries and Museums into the Knowledge Commons
  • Using Wikidata for data enrichment in museums
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 1: What is Wikidata & Why Does It Matter?
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 2: Wikidata Building Blocks
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 3: Create an Account & Your First Edits
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 4: First Edits: Adding References
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 5: Creating a New Item

Tool of the week

• An AI chat interface to Wikidata by Santhosh Thottingal is a tool that gives answers to almost everything on Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editing user testing: Wikimedia Deutschland is planning new user tests for the mobile editing experience (including more data types as a beta feature) in late April–early May. Participants of all experience levels are welcome, and users of right‑to‑left scripts are especially encouraged to sign up. Register here. Participants will be compensated for their time.
• Wikidata's data is now also available via Wikimedia Enterprise APIs. (Wikimedia Enterprise blog post, WMDE announcement)
• Wikidata embedding: The vectors of the embedding are now also published.
• (Job vacancy) Engineering Manager, Wikidata Platform (WMF)
• (Job vacancy in Indonesian) Wikimedia Indonesia: Data and Technology Apprenticeship Vacancy, April-June 2026 - apply by April 10. Duties include recording Wikidata editing tutorial videos, prepare datathons and training materials and events.
• Research workshop on content verifiability in Wikidata: Researchers from King's College London (in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation) invite Wikidata contributors of all experience levels to a 2‑hour online workshop. Participants receive £90 compensation. Research details and registration.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • regional conservation status (conservation status of species in national or regional Red List publications that follow the IUCN red list criteria)
  • ‎PeerTube instance URL (the PeerTube instance of/about the subject)
• Newest External identifiers: PeerJ person ID, ‎RITVA corporate body ID, ‎Royal Air Force service number, LUBW-RIPS hydroelectric power station-ID, Biorab-Frankfurt ID, ‎Minfin company ID for banks, Wikiparfum perfumer ID, Cultural heritage ID in Baden-Württemberg, MangaBaka manga ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Wikimedia Commons content descriptor (Wikimedia Commons content descriptor which applies to this media file)
  • energy density (amount of energy extractable from a substance (e.g. in a combustion engine) per unit of volume or of mass)
  • main page URL (link to main page or item on website)
  • Bayerische Naturdenkmal-ID (identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt)
  • election result (map that displays the result of this election)
  • meta-category for (topic or class of items covered by the lowest categories in this meta-category's hierarchy)
  • Cast (Cast)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID, lit.link ID, WikiKids page ID, KuLaDig ID, Wikiparfum brand ID, Turkey district ID, Turkey province ID, OSDev, Giant Bomb Wiki ID, Myrotvorets ID, Fraktionsprotokolle.de-ID, KISTI article ID, Irish State Administration Database Unit ID, Hessische Parlamentarismusgeschichte Abgeordneten-ID, ocremix.org game ID, Tube8 ID, YourPorn ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Wikispecies pages linked to Wikidata items via a specific property (example given: Family Name (Q101352)) - (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Salon de Paris - a list of annual temporary exhibitions usually held in the Salon Carré of the Louvre Palace.
  • Mesocosms - about modelling research infrastructure, processes and outcomes involving use of mesocosm (Q138857216) (experimental system to examine the natural environment under controlled conditions).
  • Archive WikiProject for Wikimedia Indonesia February 2025 Datahon
• WikiProject Highlights: Govdirectory: Eswatini
• Newest database reports: Badged Items without Claims - this report lists items that have received a badge (such as Good / Featured Article) but have 0 statements.
• Showcase Items: Académie Julian (Q337480) - former art school in Paris, France
• Showcase Lexemes: kurugu (L724819) - Dagbanli noun that translate to English as metal, harem trousers, hour or coin.

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate how to reduce the number of irrelevant changes showing up in Recent changes and Watchlist by seeing if we can compare the articles before and after the Wikidata change and detect a change in the article (phab:T419823)
• GraphQL: You can now do lookups using itemByExternalId and itemBySitelink
• Mobile statement editing: We worked on fixing remaining bugs (phab:T420585 , phab:T420028, phab:T419586)

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: Eswatini
• 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: March 2026

This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue III, March 2026 Headlines From the team: GLAM in Equinox Albania report: Wikigap 2026 in Tirana, Albania Aruba report: Celebrating 20 Years of Papiamentu/o Wikipedia Bolivia report: The Family Treasures Project Returns, with New GLAM Partners Brazil report: Wiki Loves Folklore Brazil defines six categories to represent Brazilian culture on Commons Colombia report: Architecture in the public domain in libraries in Nariño/Arquitectura en dominio público en bibliotecas nariñenses Czech Republic report: Main Wikimedian in Residence report for 2025 is here Germany report: Art History Loves Wiki 2026 – digital/local. collection loves wiki India report: Collaboration resumes with the British Library for Bangla Wikisource Italy report: 2026 winners projects New Zealand report: New Zealand Bioeconomy Science Institute Wikimedian in Residence update, a letter published in Nature & Architecture + Women NZ North Macedonia report: Wikimedia MKD's GLAM Highlights: Botany and Beyond Portugal report: March in Portugal Serbia report: March in Wikimedia Serbia Sweden report: Looking for similar images Switzerland report: GLAM Wiki Group, Donna, CoCreation PTT-Archive UK report: CILIP MDG 2026 Conference, Library meetups and the World's Enamels Ukraine report: Spring 2026 news from Ukraine – Wiki Loves Folklore & more #1Lib1Ref USA report: MoMA's International Traveling Exhibitions and Wikidata on the LD4 Arts Affinity Group April Community Call Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHL-Wiki Working Group members AvoinGLAM report: Oulu Löyly Memory of the World report: Indigenous languages on the Main Page Calendar: April'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 #727

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #726.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: ZI Jony (2) - RfP scheduled to end after 17 April 2026 13:09 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Nirmos Bot 3 - Task(s): Turn one or more consecutive hard (non-breaking) spaces into one regular space in Swedish descriptions.
  • Alex NB OT - Task(s): Correction of incorrectly specified links to population data sources containing wikitext artifacts with categories, which leads to incorrect categorization of articles.
  • Alex NB OT 2 - Task(s): Extract KCI article ID from P953 and add it to P14184.
  • ReNeuralAgent - Task(s): (1) add descriptions, (2) Latvian labels/descriptions, (3) 'retrieved from' and 'source URL' to unreferenced Statements, (4) missing aliases from external Identifier sources, (5) Geo coordinates, (6) external identifiers, (7) Population numbers, (8) remove 'dead sitelinks', (9) constraint violations.
• Open request for comment: Mass-editing policy is still open and requires your input.

Events

• Past: Missed the second quarter Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session transcript here: 2026-04-08 (Q2 2026)
• Current: (Spanish) Public Domain in Latin America 2026 - 1st edition of the campaign to improve public domain data for Latin America is running until 15 June.
• Upcoming events:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 14 April, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). QuickStatements is one of the most widely used tools in Wikidata, enabling users to upload and edit large volumes of structured data efficiently. Originally developed by Magnus Manske, the tool has become essential for institutions, researchers, and volunteers working with open data. The new QuickStatements 3.0, developed by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, introduces a modernized interface, improved performance, and new features shaped by community input, making it easier than ever to contribute high-quality data to the Wikimedia ecosystem. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/QuickStatements3
  • Art+Feminism is hosting a Community Hours session on April 17 to introduce their new Wikidata modules — don’t miss it!
  • digiS Workshop „Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung“ am 20.04. - (German), registration closes 16.04, takes place online (10:00 – 11:30 CEST), room link after registration.
  • Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - Wednesday, April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida.
  • Visibility of Communities in Nigeria 2.0: 17.04 - 25.04, (please register on the link). Help enrich Wikidata with cultural preservation, tourism and inclusive development data for items on South Nigerian communities.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (Spanish) Connecting: Basque documentary heritage on Wikipedia and Wikidata - a program to make Basque heritage data more visible, with events scheduled through April - June.
• Videos:
  • Live Wikidata Editing #120 with Jan Ainali and Abbe98
  • Can AI Replace Wikipedia? Jonathan Fraine & Raja Amelung Explain Why It Cannot - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan and Raja discuss why human knowledge and contribution to Wikipedia and Wikidata will always be important.
  • Interfacing with Wikidata for fun and profit - Yaron Koren
  • Introduction to Lexicographical data - By Chinonso Chidi
  • WMUK Wikidata Training (1/2) - Why & how to add data to Wikidata - a beginner-friendly introduction to Wikidata editing hosted by Dr. Martin Poulter.
  • WMUK Wikidata training (2/2) - Make your first Wikidata query using SPARQL - How to query Wikidata's vast store of knowledge using SPARQL.
  • Wikidata and personal pronouns (P6553) by Clair Kronk and Crystal Yragui - part of the Queering Wikipedia Conference (2025)
  • (Spanish) Queering the public domain using Wikidata and Wikipedia - with User:Hiperterminal.
  • (Spanish) Taller de OpenRefine por David Ramírez-Ordóñez (User:Hiperterminal) - a workshop on OpenRefine with a geder perspective.
  • Introducing lgbtDB: A Collaborative Queer Resource and Pilot Data Area by Clair Kronk.

Tool of the week

• HumansMap - a connection-visualiser and explorer app for 3 million notable humans, all data sourced from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for tool builders: EntitySchemas listening tour: The Wikidata team wants your feedback on EntitySchemas to improve data quality and discoverability. Share your experiences, pain points, and needs via the project talk page or this short Google form (including option for a 30-min video call).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ConLang Code Registry code (3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3)
  • ‎official roster page (URL of a team's official page about this player)
  • ‎value type of this mathematical property (type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects)
  • ‎Usenet newsgroup (Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
  • hardware is incompatible with (significant elements with which a computer hardware or electronic device is incompatible and which indicates a significant property of this hardware.)
  • Peh-oe-ji (writing system for Taiwanese Hokkien (Q36778) or other Southern Min (Q36495) language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
  • ‎heir apparent (person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
  • thumbtime (time for video thumbnail in seconds)
• Newest External identifiers: Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), ‎BERON lexeme ID, ‎Brussels BeStAddress street ID, ‎Brussels BeStAddress address ID, ‎Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID, Anarâš aavis topic ID, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID, TMDB award ID, Open Library Collection, ‎Ohio University ArchiveSpace subject ID, VAi Archiefhub agent ID, ‎PBA.com player ID, ‎IRIS UNIL author ID, IPRESS ID, GEMI Number, ‎StandardsMap ID, ‎Japanese Location Database ID, ‎IRDI, ‎Wendingen object ID, ‎Wendingen person ID, Oricon News ID, ‎JMRC person id (en), Rappels person ID, KCI journal ID, KCI publisher ID, BIORAB-Kaiserreich ID, BIORAB–WEIMAR ID, ‎Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID, Göteborgsalliansen player ID, ‎Fungal Names taxon ID, ‎Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID, ‎Brewver beer ID, Central Registration Number (Indonesian police), ‎UEA catalogue ID, ‎lit.link ID, kulturbase.no ID, KuLaDig-ID, Topplista artist ID, TV Drama Database program ID, ‎Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID, ‎Swedish National Archives ID, Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID, ‎PeeringDB facility ID, ‎Nişanyan Adlar ID, National Theatre in Prague performance ID, National Theatre in Prague artist ID, ‎JVID performer ID, CICAP Encyclopedia ID, ‎MJ character glyph name, member of the Azorean parliament ID, Master Ideographs Seeker character ID, ‎London Book Trades ID, ‎Kloekecode, ID Prix de Lausanne, ‎GDUNO ID, ‎fotbolltransfers.com ID, Foot Résultats player ID, ‎Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography ID, ‎DBNL country ID, ‎CROWCASS file number, ‎European Dictionary Portal ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType)
  • OpenType language system tag (identifier for a language (system) in OpenType)
  • tattoos (anatomical location of a tattoo that this person or character have)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: organization in cooperation with ISO ID, EDAM Ontology ID, FISH Evidence Thesaurus Identifier, FISH Thesaurus of Monument Types ID, ScriptSource script ID, ScriptSource language code, Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Max username, BE-monumen ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • List of sitelinked small items to a single Wiki (source) - example wiki: Maori Wikipedia
  • People who have herbarium specimens in Herbarium Dresdense (on a timeline) (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Collectors affiliated with the Herbarium Dresdense (DR)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/QuickStatements3 - don't forget to add yourself to the participants section if you plan to attend the 14.04 Zoom call.
  • Temples in Roman Britain/Data Model subpage was added.
  • Library and Information Science added subpages: Librarians dashboard, Indexers dashboard
• Newest database reports: Short Pages - A list of pages (mostly Items) that are very small, often appear completely blank. A review to judge whether they are suitable for deletion, victims of vandalism or require merging or expanding may be appropriate.
• Showcase Items: Baldur's gate II: Shadows of Amn - an isometric CRPG created with the Infinity engine, adapting the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition ruleset.
• Showcase Lexemes: spegnere (Italian verb) to turn off, switch off, extinguish.

Development

• The Wikibase Reuse Team is working on ensuring language fallback works on the GraphQL labels of linked entities functionality and improving the technical infrastructure behind wbsearchentities.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: is working on introducing metrics that help observe the impact of Recent Change related work. Work continues on improving the Diff (T419244, T419823)

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 Nations
• 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16期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• 诚挚邀请资深编辑者参与测试“条目建立指南”功能，此功能旨在协助经验较少的编辑者创建结构完善且符合方针指引的维基百科条目。请参阅测试说明。此外，请在审阅完大纲后，于专案讨论页提供意见回馈。我们将根据您的回馈来优化该功能，并移交至参与试行的维基百科站点以进行翻译与调整。请观看此功能的介绍影片。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 在大多数维基，所有自动确认使用者现在可使用Special:ChangeContentModel页面来自订新页面的内容模型（如大量信息递送列表）并建立，让更多人能利用wikitext以外的内容格式。查看Special:ListGroupRights来确认您的维基是否有这项变更。 [218]
• 成长团队已启动一项账户创建实验，旨在评估在移动网页页眉中添加账户创建按钮，是否能增加新账户注册量，并鼓励更多移动用户参与维基百科的贡献。该实验目前已在印地语、印度尼西亚语、孟加拉语、泰语和希伯来语维基百科上线，面向10%的未登录移动网页用户。
• 上周有30件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前在微软Windows装置上，若“动画效果”设为关闭，维基视觉化编辑器可能会在载入时卡住，现已修正此问题。 [219]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周稍晚起，对于启用“⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽”测试功能的滥用过滤器编辑者，Special:AbuseFilter中的编辑器将从CodeEditor改为CodeMirror。我们计划让所有编辑器的UX更加一致。 [220][221]
• 访问通知API(action=query&meta=notifications)的工具和机器人，需要更新其OAuth或BotPassword授权，以包含对私有通知的访问权限。 [222]
• 由于库升级，自4月20日（星期一）起，分类页面上的列表显示顺序可能会出现错乱。我们将运行迁移脚本来修复此问题；根据维基规模的大小，修复过程可能耗时数小时至数天（对于英语维基百科，最长可能需要一周）。 [223]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2026年4月13日 (一) 23:19 (CST)

2026年第17期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• 经过两年的开发，⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽（亦称为CodeMirror 6）将于4月21日（二）正式推出。此功能将为所有使用标准语法高亮的编辑者带来更佳的代码与wikitext可读性、减少输入错误，以及其他诸多好处。特别感谢志愿者Bhsd，他开发了许多新功能，包括代码折叠、自动完成和Lint检查。 [224]
• 维基百科iOS版应用程序推出重大更新，重新设计了界面，以符合Apple最新的“Liquid Glass”视觉设计。请下载最新版本来体验此次更新。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• “阅读清单”功能可让读者将条目储存至清单中，以便日后阅读。此功能目前已在中文、印尼语、法语、阿拉伯语及越南语维基百科上开放测试，并为所有维基百科新账号预设启用。
• 4月20日当周将启动将“页面预览”功能扩展至行动版网页的实验，在法语、波兰语、阿拉伯语、英语、越南语、意大利语维基百科上推出。“页面预览”是一种弹窗，会显示条目的缩图、序言，以及一个可点击开启完整条目的蓝色链接，借此提升内容的探索体验。此功能已在桌面版网页及手机APP中提供。了解详情。
• 在多个维基站点上，已登入但尚未验证电子邮件地址的编辑者，现在会看到一则横幅，鼓励他们进行验证。验证电子邮件地址后，若使用者遗失账号，即可借此取回对该账号的存取权限。了解详情。 [225]
• 上周有15件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前在2017年版wikitext编辑器中编辑内容庞大的维基页面时，会出现载入缓慢、预览与卷动延迟，以及在选取、剪下或贴上内容时出现效能问题，现已修正此问题。 [226]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 随着CodeMirror正式推出，所有使用者在编辑JavaScript、CSS、JSON、Vue、Lua内容页面时，将改用CodeMirror进行语法高亮，取代CodeEditor。 [227]
• 专为Debian和Ubuntu使用者提供的mirrors.wikimedia.org服务将于5月15日停止运作。该服务的软硬件资源将更换为更先进的设备。部分使用者可能需要切换至其他服务器，此过程约需一分钟。了解详情。 [228]
• image和oldimage资料表将从Wiki Replicas中移除。若您的工具或查询会直接存取image或oldimage资料表，请务必于5月28日之前更新相关程式，改用file和filerevision资料表。 [229]
• 继近期针对未经身份验证流量实施全面API速率限制后，维基媒体基金会将持续致力于确保基础设施的合理使用，并将自4月最后一周起，对已验证的API流量实施全面限制。此限额刻意设定得尽可能高，以尽量减少对社群的影响。目前在Toolforge/WMCS运行的机器人和拥有站内机器人权限的机器人应不受影响。不过，我们建议所有开发者遵循最新的最佳实践。详情请参阅维基媒体API/速率限制及常见问题解答。（WMCS＝Wikimedia Cloud Services）
• 姓名标示API现已开放Beta测试。此API可在任何使用维基媒体条目及媒体档案之处，撷取用于标示来源的资讯。相关参考文件可透过所有维基媒体站点上的REST沙盒特殊页面查阅（例如中文维基百科上的REST沙盒）。请在专案讨论页分享您的意见回馈。
• 本周没有MediaWiki版本更新。

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MediaWiki message delivery 2026年4月20日 (一) 23:01 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #728

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #727.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Yamato Shiya - RfP scheduled to end after 26 April 2026 11:10 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: ZI Jony 2 - Closed as successful

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #88 May 11 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Wikidata turns 14 this October, and it’s time to start thinking about birthday celebrations🥳. See the various ways in which you can participate.
  • Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida and requires registration (see link).
  • University of Central Illinois - How does data power Wikipedia and Wikidata? Discover how your data skills can make an impact. Join the two onsite sessions (April 21, follow the link for registration details). Module 1 - GLAM Wiki and the Wikimedia Ecosystem: Commons and Structured Data: 0930 - 1130 CDT - An overview of GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). Module 2 - Wikidata: Editing, Querying, Citations and GIS Applications, 1300 - 1500 CDT

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Women in Photography – Wikidata Workshop with LightBox Photo Library - to address the underrepresentation of women photographers in the Wikimedia Projects, this workshop brought tech reporters, librarians, researchers and photography enthusiasts to understand how Wikidata can unlock data silos and connect different projects (in the Wikiverse and external) to make data on women photographers more searchable.
  • Her Heritage Wiki Challenge: Art+Feminism in Ghana Month
  • No Signal? No Problem: Building the Dagbanli Dictionary for Offline Use, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
• Papers: Optimising university web visibility: strategies using Wikidata identifiers and statements in Webometrics rankings By Backory et al., (2026), this study analyses Webometrics rankings of universities, applying clustering algorithms (K-means, hierarchical clustering, fuzzy C-means, GMM, and DBSCAN) to identify which identifiers and statements the top-ranked institutions have in common on their Wikidata entities.
• Videos:
  • OKI Internship 2026 - Wikidata & Screening Test Preparation - Part of the Open Knowledge Initiative, hosted by Ankit V & Kasyap P.
  • Charted Roots - Genealogy and worldbuilding in Obsidian - includes an example of linking to Wikidata to quickly add location data to your visualised family history.

Tool of the week

• Depictor by Hay Kranen is a tool that add structured data statements to Wikimedia Commons using a game-like interface

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• What is Wikidata? - Library Carpentry is part of The Carpentries, a registered non-profit teaching foundational coding and data science skills. They recently updated their introductory course to Wikidata and knowledge graph concepts.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎ocremix.org game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • especially (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, but applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
  • independent of theory (theory that proves neither this proposition nor its negation)
  • EPBC conservation status (the conservation status from the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 assigned by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water)
  • part of discography (discography that this musical release is a part of)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Thai Government Agency GFMIS Code, Conlang Database ID, Plataforma Acácia, Observatório Terras Quilombolas, LMTA folkloro archyvo ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Rheinland-Pfalz, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID, Код Вестра, 19star performer ID, EM-DAT disaster number, ColBase ID, BIOSOP ID, BIOKAND ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Depthness of subway stations in meters (by Bouzinac)
• Newest database reports: Children of unborn parents, this list shows the child entity's birth date predates the parent entity's birth date: good candidates to check if the birth and relationship statements need correcting.
• Showcase Items: Haïlé Sélassié Ier - Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
• Showcase Lexemes: slide (L9704) - English noun (slaɪd) meaning "a photographic transparency", "a playground or gym apparatus", or "a mass movement of earth or snow"

Development

• The Wikibase Reuse team continued their work on ensuring language fallback works for labels of linked entities in GraphQL and on refactoring wbsearchentities
• The Wikidata team worked on explored how to reduce load for low data users T400325, fixed some bugs on the new mobile editing on Items T418110, T414454 and improved some error messages T417797, T412145

• In the WIT team, engineering continued working on the LilDiffCheck 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: 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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The Signpost: 21 April 2026

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

• News and notes: Six Serbian Wikipedia editors banned following controversy about political bias

• In the media: Could Wikipedia be involved in Massachusetts' proposed social media ban for minors?

• Gallery: March equinox

• Traffic report: Time to change my galaxy in case, we outta space!

• Comix: Of skirts and articles

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Wikidata weekly summary #729

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-04-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #728.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Yamato Shiya - Congratulations to our newest Admin!
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Chamiln17@FineWiki - Task/s: Read-only Wikidata entity cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.

Events

• Upcoming events: Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session — 28 April 2026 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. This session covers QuickStatements 3.0, the updated batch-editing tool for Wikidata, redeveloped by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, featuring a modern interface and improved performance. Watch the previous session recording: on youtube. More details: QuickStatements3

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The Gballi Browser: Designing for the Dagbanli Alphabet, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
  • Building Visibility for African Women on Wikimedia: The EmpowerHer Fellowship by Andikan Efiok Eduok.
• Papers:
  • Call for Edits Nearby: Open Archives Metadata from Saxony by J. Bemme & M. Munke (2026), latest paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data series.
  • (Deutsch) [PDF] Art History Loves Wiki 2026 | digital/local.collection loves wiki - report from ArtHist.net on the recent 3rd edition of the conference, held at the Museum Schnütgen, Köln, from 27 – 29 March.
• Videos:
  • Live Wikidata Editing, #121 with Jan Ainali and Abbe98.
  • (Español) Build with Wikimedia open data: APIs, SPARQL and visualization with Carla Toro Fernández, Director Technology WM Chile.
  • Every Airport Ever Built (1909-2024) - an animated map showing where and when airports were built. Powered by Wikidata and OurAirports.
  • (Catalan) Barcelona Free Software: How to use Wikidata to make public domain digital works visible?, User:Hiperterminal presents Paulina, discusses the work done in digitising collections and how to make public domain works visible.
• Notebooks: Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography? by User:PAC2

Tools of the week

• The Human History Atlas (WikiTime), a browser-based atlas that uses Wikidata and Wikipedia-sourced data to construct timelines and allows exploration of significant historical events.
• Wikilympians, a real-time list of all 153,412 known Olympic competitors with Wikidata and Wikipedia coverage statistics

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikibase Suite 7.0 and Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.0.0 have been launched! It brings Wikibase closer to feature parity with Wikidata. Here's what's in the latest release:
  • Echo Extension: User activity alerts and notifications.
  • Discussion Tools Extension: Set of tools to enhance discussion pages.
  • Temporary Accounts: The support for temporary accounts without IP address exposure has been added. It will, however, remain disabled by default, in line with Wikibase Cloud.
  • Grouped External Identifiers (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310898): External identifiers are now grouped on entity pages for better readability.
  • “Mul” (multi-language) support: Adds support for multi-language values.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • perspective (point of view for an image of an object, for example an anatomical structure (ventral, dorsal, frontal))
  • Bavarian natural monuments ID (identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt)
  • ‎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).)
  • ‎motive (verified reasoning behind an action)
  • ‎award category or rank ((qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎BE-monumen ID, Team Norway athlete ID, ‎Kantonsspital St.Gallen author ID, ‎Consumer Rights Wiki article ID, Central Registration Number (Indonesia Military), ‎Conlang Database ID, EM-DAT disaster number, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID, ‎EDAM Ontology ID, ‎Turkey province ID, Kvinnehistorie.no topic ID, CNVD-ID, GiveSendGo fundraising ID, radiko person ID, Wikiparfum brand ID, ‎Turkey district ID, OSDev article ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • different from property (This property is to be distinguished from the other property)
  • SELL rating (classification in the Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs rating system)
  • time expansion (factor by which a recording's duration has been extended or compressed relative to the original real-time event, without pitch correction; values greater than 1 indicate time expansion (e.g. 10 = ten times longer than real life, pitch lowered tenfold); values less than 1 indicate time compression (e.g. 0.1 = ten times shorter, pitch raised tenfold); 1 = real-time)
  • Parental Advisory System rating (content rating for coin-operated video games)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: CINEFOX film ID (reproposal), CINEFOX parson ID (reproposal), VK video ID, Brew TV, CycleBase cyclist ID (new), Royal Australian Air Force service number, Files of the Reich Chancellery ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: List of treaties/truces in the time by Bouzinac
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Occupations for enriching items occupation (P106), occupation (Q12737077) with data verified from official national occupation classification systems.
• Newest database reports: Without Claims by Site - this report will list how many Wikidata Items have 0 Statements, with a linked Wiki Article/page. Click reports/all items for a per wiki list, and consider expanding.
• Showcase Items: Okazaki fragments - short DNA sequences synthesized discontinuously during DNA replication
• Showcase Lexemes: transfer (L29733) - English noun/verb (ˈtræns.fɜːr) meaning "to move from one place to another", "a sports team member moving to another team", or "a ticket allowing continuation of a journey"

Development

• Query Service: It is now possible to download query results in Wikidata Query Service that include coordinates as KML & GPX (GeoJSON has been available since last year). Text from the first column in the results is used as the value for naming POIs. Thanks again to Atom.oil.2 for the patch. (phab:T414376)
• The Wikidata team continued working on a prototype to make WikiProjects more visible (phab:T420907) and made the new Wikidata mobile UI use auto-resizing text areas instead of single-line text inputs, in order to make longer values easier to edit (phab:T414420)
• The Wikidata Integrations team now has a working prototype of LilDiffCheck, injecting wikidata changes into recent changes only if there was a change on the wikipedia html (phab:T421390)
• Language fallback will be available this week on the labels of linked entities functionality in GraphQL (phab:T413655)

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: field of work
• 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 Education: April 2026

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

This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 4 • April 2026

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

• Empowering Knowledge: Wikimedia MKD Education Update
• WikiScholar: A School-Level Initiative to Promote Free Knowledge in Bangladesh
• Wikipedia for School 2025–2026: A Competition That Continued Despite Frost, Power Outages, and War
• Wikimedia UK and Thoughtful delivery new media literacy teacher training course
• Wikimedia CR supporting SDG's in Czech schools
• University Students’ Mandatory Internships at Wikimedia Armenia
• Third year of collaboration with Aleksandër Xhuvani University in Elbasan, Albania
• Students Discover Open Source and Learn Wikipedia and Wikidata Skills for the First Time in Zarqa, Jordan
• Leveraging on Wikipedia as a tool for curbing Health Misinformation and Disinformation in Akwa Ibom and Rivers State, Nigeria
• Governance and Public Knowledge: Wikipedia as a Learning Tool in Sustainability Education through UNESCO Designated Sites
• A month full of encounters with students in Brazil

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2026年第18期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 为提升反破坏保护的效果，新的使用者获得自动确认身份的方式将有变更。目前，账号注册后达到指定日数和编辑数的使用者会自动被归入自动确认用户群组中，但是这种认定方式目前有被部分破坏者利用的趋势，他们会特意囤积新账号，等到时间到了再启用。为了减少这种恶用的冲击，下周起，在授予自动确认身份的时候所认定的账号年龄将从第一笔编辑之日算起，而不再是从注册时算起。规定的日数阈值本身不变。此变更仅会部署至将“至少进行一次编辑”列为自动确认条件的维基站点。 [230]
• 所有新注册的维基百科使用者，以及在偏好设定中启用“自动启用大部分测试功能”选项的维基百科使用者，现在皆可以使用“阅读清单”测试功能，将条目储存起来以便日后阅读。这有助于将有兴趣的条目集中管理于一处，方便随时查阅。
• 上周有30件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前在Firefox中，资讯框图片有过宽的Padding，现已修正此问题。 [231]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 谨此提醒，本周将对已验证的API流量实施全面API速率限制。此举旨在确保基础设施的合理使用。目前在Toolforge/WMCS运行的机器人和拥有站内机器人权限的机器人应不受影响。不过，我们建议所有开发者遵循最新的最佳实践。关于速率限制的具体数值等详情，请参阅维基媒体API/速率限制及常见问题解答。（WMCS＝Wikimedia Cloud Services）
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2026年4月28日 (二) 02:07 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #730

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #729.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Chamiln17@FineWiki - Task: This bot performs a read-only cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.
• Other: better tools to support constraints implied by properties like disjoint union of

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 (online, June 19 to 21). A community gathering focused on making WikiProjects more useful, visible, and alive. Propose a session (deadline for proposals: May 26, 2026) or register now.
  • Language Diversity Conference - Call for Submissions ends 15 May 2026.
  • Wikidata Community Summit 2026 @ COSCUP - Call for Proposals ends May 9, 2026.
  • LIC Photo Walking Tour + Wikipedia & Wikidata Workshop - May 16, 12:30 - 16:00 EDT (UTC-4). A historical walking tour of Long Island City, New York, concluding with a Wiki-skills workshop at LaGuardia. Registration on the event link.
• Ongoing: COORDINATE ME 2026 - a Wikidata competition for geolocatable content has just started and ends 31 May 2026. Visit the link for details on how to participate.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Visualised Blog metadata through SPARQL queries - ChristianMahnke blog.
  • Mozilla Common Voice Meets Wikidata (How the Dagbanli Dictionary Got Audio Usage Examples)
  • Wiki Loves Mother Tongue 2026 in the Igbo Community
  • EduWiki Workshop Highlights Practical Uses of Wikimedia Commons in Education
  • Recap: Wiki for Human Rights, LGBTIQ+ Nigeria, February and March Training
  • The new Art+Feminism’s Wikidata Modules are here!
• Videos:
  • Panel on Wikidata and public domain in Colombia (Spanish): on April 24th, the National Library of Colombia, The Cultural Network of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia, Wikimedia Colombia and Fundación Conector discussed about digital heritage and Wikidata, its challenges and opportunities for collaboration.
  • Wikibase - an introduction by Jason Evans (Open Data Manager, National Library of Wales). Produced by the Wikimedian in Residence channel, University of Edinburgh.
  • A uMap based on Wikidata - a use-case of Holy Wells located in Ireland, associated with female Saints, powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
  • Wikifunctions in practice: Reusable Logic for Wikimedia - Presentation given by Toby Hudson (User:99of9) at the Wikiconference Australia 2026.
  • Mentor Me! Session 3A - This in-person and hands-on session is provided by the Wikimedia Tyap User Group, and continues in the following sessions: Mentor Me! Session 3B and Mentor Me! Session 3C. Led by Gwakhap D. Anthony, it will cover how to document languages with Wikidata lexemes.
• Africa Wiki Women:
  • Linking images from Commons to Wikidata and Wikipedia - how images are used across the Projects with examples documenting African Women.
  • Newbies Monthly Meetup for Africa Wiki Women - further training and introductory skills for Wikidata and how it interacts with the other Wikimedia Projects.
  • EditHer Africa Contest (April) - a beginner-friendly hands-on Wikidata item creation guide and launch of the monthly contest, with a focus on African Women in Works and Leadership.

Tool of the week

• OpenHistory – interactive historical atlas of 21k+ Wikidata-sourced historical events, polities, and territories on a timeline+map. SPARQL-driven pipeline, MIT/CC BY-SA. (GitHub)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WikiTrivia - the webgame about putting historical events in the correct order recently got a huge update, thanks to creator Tom Watson.
• Wikimedia API's / Rate limits - new rate limits are being added for all Wikimedia projects, to ensure sustainable use to the REST an ACTION API's. If you operate a bot and it has recently started producing an error message for producing too many API requests, please consult the linked MediaWiki page and amend your bot as needed.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: ‎meta-category for (topic or class of items covered by the lowest categories in this meta-category's hierarchy)
• Newest External identifiers: KISTI article ID, FISH Monument Types Thesaurus ID, FISH Evidence Thesaurus ID, Organization in cooperation with ISO ID, ScriptSource script code, ‎ScriptSource language code, Tube8 performer ID, Bundestag Group Minutes ID, Westra code, Myrotvorets ID, ‎Irish State Administration Database Unit ID, Hessische Parlamentarismusgeschichte Abgeordneten-ID, YouPorn performer ID, ‎GFMIS Agency Code, ‎Royal Australian Air Force service number, ‎Plataforma Acácia ID, ‎Observatório Terras Quilombolas ID, BIOSOP ID, BIOKAND ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • (found) liable of (tort or civil wrong a person or organization was found liable of)
  • DMCA takedown policy URL (DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown policy or submitting page of this hosting site or UGC (User Generated Content) distributor)
  • 18 U.S.C. § 2257 policy URL (age requirement documentation URL statement of this website or company)
  • monolingual text name properties ((with an associated language code) name by which a subject is recorded in a database, mentioned as a contributor of a work, or is referred to in a particular context)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Gidrologicheskaya Izuchennost Code, QBWiki article ID, Dijital İstanbul ID, NaPTAN stop area code, Identifiant Cairn d'un éditeur, Darwin Correspondence person ID, ACM Digital Library institution ID, SensCritique person ID, National Archives of Japan Digital Archive ID, VGs drapsoversikt ID, Semanticscience Integrated Ontology ID, Senkyo.com, Objectif plumes author pages, Maoyan personage ID, critify.de publication ID, BookNotification author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Script style of manuscript Qur'ans
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Early Modern Silesia
  • Tango
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Ontology has gathered a list of potential projects for the second offering of the Wikidata Ontology course, and has published a subpage to discuss the future of Ontology Classes and Properties.
• Newest database reports: Unmarked Supercentenarians - this list displays humans who do not have a claim supercentenarian (Q1200828) (or alleged supercentenarian (Q106991708)), but the difference between their Date of Birth and Date of Death is greater than 110 years.
• Showcase Items: Raiders of the Lost Ark - a 1981 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, and John Rhys-Davies.
• Showcase Lexemes: gje (L2205) - Norwegian verb (jeː) meaning "to give", "to perform/hold", or "to diminish in strength"

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We continued fixing issues uncovered in testing
• WikiProjects: We are working on adding links to the sidebar of Items to lead people to the respective WikiProjects for that Item. This way we hope to help people more easily find data modelling documentation as well as other editors interested in the same topic.

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19期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• 条目指南团队诚挚邀请参与试行的维基百科站点（土耳其语、日语、西班牙语、孟加拉语、法语、波斯语、阿拉伯语、葡萄牙语、简单英语）的资深编辑者，协助翻译并调整范例大纲。该功能预定于2026年5月上线，届时这些大纲将引导编辑者撰写清晰、结构完善且符合方针指引的条目。请参阅关于如何翻译及调整大纲的简易说明。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 产品与技术咨询委员会发布了一份建议草案，内容针对自治体在参与技术领域时可遵循的模式。诚邀社群成员于5月8日前在讨论页上针对草案提供意见回馈。
• 作为持续提升效能并减轻缩图服务负担的一环，偏好设定中的可用缩图尺寸将精简为三种标准选项：小（180px）、中（250px）、大（400px）。现有设定将映射至最接近且较大的尺寸（例如，120px或150px将以180px显示，300px或360px将以400px显示）。偏好设定界面将很快更新以反映这些变更，使用者若希望选择非标准尺寸或提供意见回馈，请参阅工单。 [232]
• 从现在起，使用者将在权限自动到期时收到类似权限变更通知的Echo通知。这与全域提醒机器人不同，该机器人会在权限即将到期前一周提醒使用者，以便他们能及时申请延长权限。
• 上周有32件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前Special:Translate页面中ULS语言选择器在不该卷动时垂直卷动，现已修正此问题。 [233]
• 全域监视清单可在同一页面显示来自多个维基站点的监视清单。此功能目前正持续改进，更新包括：Wikibase站点（如维基数据）的监视清单现已支援EntitySchema元素，以实现更完善的追踪功能；动态更新模式现在每60秒刷新一次，以符合最新的全域API速率限制，从而提升即时响应能力；此外，之前混合不同书写方向的清单会将连结显示为“changes 3”而非“3 changes”，现已修正此问题。 [234][235][236]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 全域API速率限制的第二阶段已正式实施，旨在减轻AI爬虫的影响，并确保维基媒体资源能获得合理且可持续的存取，优先处理真人及符合维基媒体使命的流量。流量限额已从每小时调整为每分钟计量，从而使流量模式更为平稳，API负载也更容易预测。社群使用者应不受影响，且无需采取任何行动。初步迹象显示，部分基于使用者代理的请求者正在调整行为，目前约有64%的自动化API流量可被识别身份。监控工作仍在持续进行，维基媒体企业服务（Wikimedia Enterprise）仍提供商业支援服务。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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This Month in GLAM: April 2026

This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue IV, April 2026 Headlines From the team: How the GLAM Community Can Shine in the 2026–27 Annual Plan Albania report: International Roma Day 2026 in Tirana, Albania Argentina report: WikiConf Argentina and GLAM projects Asia report: Documenting and citing oral knowledge in audio and video Australia report: WikiCon Australia, ICIP, Orphan works and Trans-Tasman partnerships Brazil report: Wikimedia Brasil publishes book on the power and challenges of free knowledge Colombia report: We celebrate Public Domain Day with an expert panel / Celebramos el día del dominio público con un Panel de expertas Italy report: Ongoing and New GLAM-Wiki Projects New Zealand report: Women in Wartime event at Auckland Museum & an update for WiR NZBSI Nigeria report: Wikimedia Commons Upload Campaign North Macedonia report: Wikimedia MKD in Action: Digitization, Wikisource and Educational Workshops Poland report: GLAM-Wiki Developments: Residencies, Partnerships and Audiovisual Heritage Serbia report: April in Wikimedia Serbia Switzerland report: Le Donne di Villa Massimo UK report: A tenth-century Quran and Islamic Art in Urdu USA report: Wiki MIT launches and US meetups Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Update on the BHL Annual Meeting 27 April - 1 May & BHL Day Memory of the World report: Eight new articles on MoW inscriptions Calendar: May'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 #731

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-11. Missed the previous one? See issue #730.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: AAU Research NLP Bot 1 - Task(s): Querying Wikidata for entities and relations and paths between them. From 1-hop until 3-hops.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: MarisDreshmanisBot (formerly ReNeuralAgent Bot) has been approved after a community intervention, see the discussion here.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 will take place between 19 - 21 June.
    WikiProjects are crucial to improving data quality and onboarding newcomers to specific areas of Wikidata. This event is the place for all editors to discover WikiProjects, find ones to join, learn about their modelling practices and how to improve the content and tools of your favourite WikiProjects. Register here to get any news or updates about this new Wikidata X Days event. The Call for Proposals is open! If you have an idea for a session, please submit it here by 26 May.
  • Wikidata Live Editing, 11 May
  • AI Bridges Symposium is taking place at Senate House, University of London across 28 and 29 May. (Free) Registration for this on-site event closes 21 May. The event will begin with introductions to Wikidata, Wikibase, connecting AI with Wikidata and follow on day 2 bringing the full ecosystem together for dialogue, debate, and collaborative action.
• Ongoing: Coordinate Me 2026 - edit items with a P625 (coordinate location) from the focus countries and be in the running for a prize. Ends 31 May 2026.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Building Wikimedia tools in Northern Nigeria: launch of Arewa TechCom through the Arewa Wikimedia Hackathon 2026
  • Editing wikibase.world (a MediaWiki site), with Jules (an AI agent) by Addshore.
  • Libraries as AI Infrastructure: The African Edition - reflections on overlooked African contributions to linked data and AI infrastructure, highlighting Wikibase-powered projects African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) and Nigeria’s Semantic Name Authority Recognition (SNAR). By Stuart Michael Edelenbos
  • Tabakalera promotes open access to cultural knowledge by linking their medialab catalogue to Wikidata
  • The Stoa: a Review for Digital Classics - report on Linked Pasts 11 - Epigraphic Data in Wikidata, from Ontology to Practice
  • Technical tinkering for CommonsDB at the WM Hackathon by Ainali.
  • Ezra Brand - Introducing a New Index of Biblical, Talmudic, and Medieval Jewish Figures - Wikidata helps index and categorise Jewish figures into distinct periods.
  • (Deutsch) ArtHist: New Art-Historical Resource on the Web and TIB Blog: Embossed story – the Meistersiegel-Wiki is online are both articles about the new Meistersiegel Wikibase instance.
• Papers: Volume 12,2 of Digital Classics Online contains many papers regarding the use Wikidata and Wikibase in the field of Classics:
  • Hypotheseis, a Database of Named Entities Surrounding Greek Rhetorical Exercises by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
  • Altinum: a Wikidata Project for Digital Epigraphy and Prosopography by Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini
  • The NIKAW Project: An Infrastructure of Texts, Entities and Language Models to Study the Circulation of Knowledge in the Ancient World by Margherita Fantoli
• Videos:
  • OpenDataDEx - Exploring Supreme Court Rulings in Wikidata, for The Knowledge Commons project. Try it out for yourself: Open Data Explorer
  • Wikidata: Introduction and Basics - an introductory session provided by WMUG Uganda.
  • (Arabic) Introduction to Wikidata hosted by Michel Bakhni for the channel: Wikimedia group for those interested in Islamic civilization
• Presentations:
  • (Deutsch) Wikidata in Museums, Archives and Libraries
  • White Paper (PDF) - Wikidata Days and Wikicite (2025) - Open bibliographic metadata in practice, what was learned in Bern and what libraries and the community can do next.

Tool of the week

• Open Data DEx Explorer - "an interactive graph visualizer of semantic Open Data. Relationships are discovered heuristically and a graph structure created in real time, allowing navigation and insight into raw data without building formal ontologies."Read more on The Knowledge Commons blog, by Michelle Tomlyn.
• GapMap.Wiki - explore knowledge gaps between different language Wikipedia's. GapMap identifies Wikipedia articles that exist in many languages but missing from the target, helping editors prioritize which articles to translate or create. No AI is used, just comparing publicly available databases.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editors can now edit all datatypes directly in the mobile view. To help improve this new interface, Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for volunteers (especially editors from Right-to-left languages) for UX testing sessions. Participants will be compensated for their time. Sign up here (greatquestion) and learn more on the project page: Mobile editing of statements

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎energy density (amount of energy extractable from a substance (e.g. in a combustion engine) per unit of volume or of mass)
  • ‎Parental Advisory System rating (content rating for coin-operated video games)
• Newest External identifierss: Cyprus company ID, ‎DBNL title ID, ShotOnWhat film ID, ‎Shinmei database ID, ‎ColBase ID, Lubimyczytać version/edition ID, Files of the Reich Chancellery ID, ‎Darwin Correspondence person ID, ‎Gidrologicheskaya Izuchennost Code, ‎Brew TV movie ID, National Archives of Japan Digital Archive ID, PlayStation Trophies trophy ID, Tax Identification Number (Spain), ‎19star actor ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review: concentration camp prisoner number (registration or prisoner number assigned to a person in camps operated under Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1945)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: ID für Kulturdenkmale in Lübeck, Datenbank-ID für Kulturdenkmale in Lübeck, Prime Video URL ID, Prime Video GTI, Portable Antiquities Scheme record ID, Identifiant d'un(e) éditeurice dans le DEF19 2.0, Apple TV parson ID, CINEMATODAY film ID, Verfassungsblog author ID, Blätter author ID, EGAFD film ID, Museum of Canadian Music artist ID, Museum of Canadian Music work ID, BGAFD film ID, Movielens ID, Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon ID, parliament.scot member ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Astronauts members of Space Missions
  • All Horses in Wikidata
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Horse Racing : On topics relating to horse racing.
  • Project William & May Law School EMCO - to create and enhance entities for persons and corporate bodies related to the law school, for use in the library's metadata and archival work.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project GovDirectory: How to use QuickStatements 3.0 to add data to GovDir
  • Ontology Course: Projects Offering 2 - Modelling Dictionary Usage Labels in Wikidata, Roots and Rhythms: Modelling music as cultural heritage.
• Showcase Items: Catch Me If You Can - a 2002 film by Steven Spielberg starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. A dramatic re-telling of the life and exploits of serial confidence man Frank Abegnale Jr., ironically the events of the film were later found to be mostly fabricated.

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We are continuing to improve the UX and fix issues uncovered in testing
• Making WikiProjects more visible: We are working on adding links to the sidebar menu of Items to make it easier for people to find the WikiProject(s) associated with an Item, find like-minded people and learn about data modelling conventions etc in that particular area
• Query Service: The service is being hit quite heavily and the Wikidata Platform team is working on blocking scrapers and misbehaving tools
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing our experiment to further reduce the amount of Wikidata changes that show up on Recent changes and Watchlist but don't actually change the article. Specifically we are looking at checking if there is any difference in the rendered article before and after the change coming from Wikidata

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: public universities
• 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20期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• 社群技术团队发布了新的愿望指南，说明社群愿望清单中的愿望如何进行分级筛选以决定优先级。这份指南旨在厘清影响决策的各项因素，以期能协助贡献者撰写更具说服力的提案。该指南强调，除了票数外，愿望是否获得采纳还需考量诸如对社群的潜在影响等各种因素。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 读者成长团队即将启动一项实验，测试新的“分享卡片”功能。此功能让读者能从维基百科条目或其中的特定章节，制作出引人注目的卡片并在网络上分享，每张卡片皆会连结回条目，借此扩大读者群并提升条目曝光度。这项仅限移动设备的A/B测试将开放给中文、法语、阿拉伯语、英语、越南语维基百科的部分读者参与，以更深入了解阅读与分享习惯，预计于5月18日当周开始，为期四周。
• Android和iOS版维基百科APP最近推出了“25天阅读挑战”的Beta测试版，旨在鼓励使用者达成阅读里程碑，借此提升读者参与度。为了在挑战期间追踪自己的“连胜”天数，APP使用者可将一个以“拼图球宝宝”（Baby Globe）为主题的Widget加到主画面。挑战将于5月11日正式开始。
• 上周有17件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，全域偏好设定中的语法高亮显示选项，在启用后可能会意外地自动停用，现已修正此问题。 [237]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 于2023年9月宣告弃用后，资源载入模组mediawiki.ui.input将于本周移除。对于任何使用此模组的工具，请参阅MediaWiki UI至Codex的迁移指南。 [238]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年5月12日 (二) 03:21 (CST)

Wiki Loves Eurovision 2026

Hello everyone!

You are invited to participate in the "Wiki Loves Eurovision" article writing contest, where our goal is to create new Eurovision-related articles in the CEE-language Wikipedia editions and improve existing ones. The contest will take place from May 10 to June 10, 2026, and prizes are available:

• 1st prize: a voucher worth €60
• 2nd prize: a voucher worth €50
• 3rd prize: a voucher worth €40
• 4th–10th prize: a voucher worth €30

To participate in the contest and learn more, please visit this link. --MHeidarzadeh-CEEhub (talk) 14:00, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #732

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #731.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • PatsaBot 1 - Task/s: Add sitelink from Template:Taxonomy/* on thwiki to same entry from enwiki and update Thai description from generic template format to "แม่แบบอนุกรมวิธาน" (taxonomy template).
  • MarisDreshmanisBot 2 - Task/s: Create occupation Q-items and add native-language labels on existing occupation Q-items from 33 state-issued national occupation classifiers (165 national registries, 154 countries, ~30,000 new Q-items, ~120,000 native labels across 53 languages).
  • ias-kbase - Task/s: Read-only bulk entity lookups for an internal knowledge graph project. Fetches labels, claims, and sitelinks from Wikidata and intro-paragraph extracts from English Wikipedia. No writes.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Reminder: Propose a session for WikiProject Days 2026. Your proposal can be just one or two sentences. Suggestions include topics on how to use WikiProjects to connect with others and improve data modelling, how to revive a neglected WikiProject, and what makes a good WikiProject. Propose a session now. Deadline Sunday May 24.
  • Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting the 2026 Data Visualization Competition from 10th to 31st May 2026. We welcome visualization and essay submissions from Indonesian participants on various topics ranging from Indonesian history to biological diversity.
  • The three-hundred online Wikidata meetup in Swedish, May 24
  • Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond, a workshop on-site at the Digital Humanities Lab (C2003), University Hamburg, 27 May, 14:15 – 15:45 CEST. Registration (via link).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Easy way to add images to Wikipedia & Wikidata items, with WikiShootMe and Mapillary
• Papers:
  • Wikidata and authority files: reconciliation and cooperation procedures by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo: an overview of the interactions between Wikidata and library authority files and of the usage of Wikibase by library authority files up to July 2025
  • Institutional practices in gender recording: an analysis of National Libraries by Novaes de Mendonça, and Ana Carolina Simionato Arakaki: contains references to Wikidata and its interconnection with library authority files
  • Modellizzazione delle conoscenze: Thesaurus Nuovo soggettario e Wikidata, due strumenti a confronto by Elena Cencetti, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo and Elisabetta Viti (in Italian): a detailed comparison of Wikidata and the Nuovo soggettario Thesaurus as knowledge organization systems, with a case study regarding the reconciliation with Wikidata of a group of terms of the Nuovo soggettario Thesaurus regarding photography
• Videos:
  • Curating shared knowledge about artifacts on Wikidata with Till Grallert, it explores how the Jarāʾid project used Wikidata to build a multilingual, open knowledge graph of pre-1930 Arabic periodicals.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #122 with User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what they are doing and why they do it.
  • Every Major Oil and Gas Pipeline in History Mapped - a visualisation utilising Wikidata, OpenStreetmap, Wikipedia and Global Energy Monitor.
• Presentations
  • La fabrique collective des histoires queer dans les communs numériques. Presentation by John Samuel and panel, 2e Rencontres du Reseau Jeune Recherche LGBTQI+, Université Lyon 1, 12 May 2026

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Property Explorer is a tool by user Steven Liu. The tool is used for exploring Wikidata properties
• securitybaseline use Wikidata to get the domain names for institutions

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• MapRoulette Challenge (Chile): Improve heritage-related items around Santiago, Chile, linking them to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
• The Wikidata Platform team has published its backend replacement recommendation and accompanying technical architecture for the migration of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from Blazegraph. Feedback is invited until May 25th 2026, especially on potential gaps and impacts on advanced use cases. Wikidata community members and WDQS users are also encouraged to help identify high-impact tools and workflows that may need attention on this page. Feedback can be shared on the Migration talk page or during the next office hour. See the WDP team newsletter for more details

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • contains cadastral area (cadastral area that is wholly or partly contained by a municipality)
  • algebraic closure (‎algebraic closure of the field)
  • real closure (real closure of the formally real field)
  • eusocial caste (specialized type of an eusocial animal)
  • Wikimedia Commons content descriptor (Wikimedia Commons content descriptor which applies to this media file)
  • ‎time expansion (factor by which a recording's duration has been extended or compressed relative to the original real-time event, without pitch correction.)
  • ‎SELL rating (French video game content rating (1999–2003))
  • age requirement documentation URL (URL for a website's statement of compliance with U.S. legal record-keeping requirements related to visual depictions of actual sexually explicit conduct)
  • maximum vehicle length (maximum authorized length for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • maximum vehicle width (maximum authorized width for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment)
  • maximum vehicle weight (maximum authorized weight (tonnage / gross vehicle weight) for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (load limit))
  • maximum vehicle height (maximum authorized height for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (regulatory limit from signage))
  • ‎independent of theory (theory that proves neither this proposition nor its negation)
  • ‎gender-neutral form of label (form of name or title with no assumption of gender)
  • subject named as (monolingual text) (with an associated language code) name by which a subject is recorded in a database, mentioned as a contributor of a work, or is referred to in a particular context)
  • alternative name (monolingual text) (with an associated language code) qualifier for alternative name(s), given for a subject in a database entry, or preserved in references (even these are no longer the preferred name)
  • ‎CWSAC classification (Level of military significance for American Civil War battles as defined by the 1993 Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) report.)
  • DMCA takedown policy URL (DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown policy or submitting page of this hosting site or UGC (User Generated Content) distributor)
  • election result map (map that displays the result of this election)
  • ‎paid-up capital (portion of a company’s issued share capital that has been paid by shareholders)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎19star actor ID, ACM Digital Library institution ID, Stockholm public transport stop ID, Go2Senkyo.com politician ID, SensCritique person ID, Census of Italian Architecture since 1945, CINEFOX film ID, ‎CINEFOX person ID, Cultural heritage Database-ID in Lübeck, Dijital İstanbul cultural property ID, VG homicide ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme record ID, ‎EGAFD film ID, Cairn.info publisher ID, ‎BGAFD film ID, ‎Apple TV person ID, Blätter author ID, ‎critify.de publication ID, Semanticscience Integrated Ontology ID, Prime Video ID, Objectif plumes author ID, ‎Museum of Canadian Music artist ID, ‎Museum of Canadian Music work ID, Lübeck Culturul heritage ID, Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural heritage ID, DEF19 2.0 publisher ID, MovieLens movie ID, Verfassungsblog author ID, QueenBallers player ID, NaPTAN stop area code, CycleBase cyclist ID (new), ‎Book Notification author ID, ‎Prime Video GTI, ‎parliament.scot member ID, Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon ID, Goodreads genre ID, ‎Giant Bomb Wiki ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to reviews:
  • contributed to narrative universe (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
  • Grokipedia page title (page title used in a Grokipedia article URL)
  • especially (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, but applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
  • Common Vulnerability Scoring System score (Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score)
  • Depicts taxon (depicts taxon)
  • Still taken from the film (Still taken from the film)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: StaphBase ID, Geohashing wiki page, identifiant d'un fonds au catalogue collectif de France, Oireachtas bill ID, Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number, European System of Accounts ID (Germany), Identifiant d'un éditeur sur OpenEdition, Natalie ID, AV CHANNEL actress ID, Mineral Resources Data System deposit ID, Wikimedia Phabricator project, AWA artist ID, Rakuten Music artist, recochoku artist ID, identifiant AnnuSéries d'une série télévisée

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Library of Congress occupations by Label and Lccn no. (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Malaysia / Wiki x K-pop 2026 Datathon
  • Project Occupations / Roadmap
  • Project LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group / SummerCoworking
• Newest database reports: Children born after Mothers death date

Development

• Tighter connection of the Wikibase Ecosystem: We've been working on making it possible to use Wikidata Items (and later from other Wikibase instances) as values in statements on other Wikibase instances. You can now try it out on a demo system or set up your own test instance to give it a try. More details in the announcement.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are continuing the work on showing less irrelevant changes on recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co by trying to determine if an edit from Wikidata actually changed the rendered article or not
• Mobile statement editing:
  • We worked on reducing the load for users with limited data
  • We are continuing to fix issues uncovered in testing
• Making Wikiprojects more visible: We are getting ready for testing of the prototype. We'll be adding links to the respective Wikirojects on Item pages in the tools menu to make it easier for people to find the corresponding Wikiprojects. This is based on statements already on the Item such as specific external IDs.

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21期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• 抽象维基百科团队已选定五个潜在的试行维基，团队将评估这些维基是否有意愿采用抽象条目。这些维基站点包括印尼语、孟加拉语、阿拉伯语、马拉雅拉姆语、达巴尼语维基百科。意见征集期将持续至5月22日。若您的社群有兴趣参与试行，请在元维基告知我们。

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 5月18日，行动版网页将启动一项实验，向未登入读者提供“阅读清单”功能。实验将在土耳其语、西班牙语、波兰语、乌尔都语、荷兰语、意大利语、葡萄牙语、德语维基百科上线，为期一个月。此举旨在协助读者收藏及整理条目以便日后阅读，同时培养未来可能促成贡献维基百科的习惯。
• To support a bookmark button in the Reading List beta feature, the "Tools > Action" menu has been updated to display icons, including the watch star indicator that helps editors identify temporarily watched articles. The icons now also match those used on mobile, improving consistency across platforms. The change is currently limited to the actions menu and mainly affects editors with privileged user rights. [239]
• “建议模式”已在约15个维基百科（包括中文）站点的行动版网页上，针对新手编辑者展开A/B测试。此实验将衡量“建议模式”对“新手编辑者在行动版网页上产生具建设性（未被撤销）条目编辑的编辑阶段比例”所产生的影响。此外，实验亦将评估此功能对编辑者留存率的影响，并监测撤销率与封锁率的变化。
• 上周有27件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前在维基百科Android版APP中，开启“推荐阅读清单”通知后，图片有时可能无法载入，现已修正此问题。 [240]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 维基数据平台团队（WDP）已发布其后端替换建议及相关技术架构，用于将维基数据查询服务（WDQS）从Blazegraph迁移出去。欢迎提供意见回馈（2026年5月25日截止），特别是针对潜在缺口以及对进阶用例的影响。我们也鼓励维基数据社群成员和WDQS使用者在此页面协助找出可能需要关注的高影响力工具和工作流程。意见回馈可于迁移讨论页或下一次咨询时段提出。详情请参阅WDP团队电子报。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 在英语、法语、日语、中文及其他几个维基百科站点上，曾针对第三方机器人侦测服务hCaptcha进行试行。试行结果显示，hCaptcha不仅能独立有效侦测并遏止某些恶意自动化活动，还能向用户查核员和监管员提供线索以供进一步调查。由于试行结果令人满意，hCaptcha将于未来几周内在所有维基站点全面推行。有关实施细节及隐私保护措施的技术资讯，请参阅hCaptcha专案页面。了解更多。
• 社群技术团队发布最新消息，提及多项社群愿望清单计划的进展，包括将“阅读清单”功能从APP扩展至网页版、“谁写的”功能与个人面板新增支援语言、3D渲染与Chart图表功能的改进，以及即将进行的讨论页排序、音讯播放和编辑工作流程等相关工作。本次亦分享了当前的优先事项、愿望清单状态趋势，以及针对未来重点领域与维基媒体基金会2026–2027年度计划的社群回馈机会。阅读全文了解更多。

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The Signpost: 22 May 2026

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

• News and notes: Offline: Osama Khalid still in prison

• In the media: Indonesian editors, you shall return!

• Disinformation report: Who is a typical paid editor? Who are their typical clients?

• Recent research: WikiLambda the Ultimate

• Traffic report: This is where I'll be, so heavenly, so come and dance with me Michael!

• Forum: WikiAnnotate: help us build a dataset of article quality evaluations

• In focus: Demystifying the 2026-27 Annual Plan

• Opinion: Wikipedia isn't a battleground. So why does it feel like one?

• Serendipity: Wikinews: Into the Wikiverse

• Special report: Wikimedia Foundation closes Wikinews after 21 years

• Community view: Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness

• Gallery: Earth Day and Mother's Day

• Comix: Brother, can you spare a page?

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Wikidata weekly summary #733

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-05-25. Missed the previous one? See issue #732.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Skolkoll-bot 1 - Task(s): Adding Skolverket identifiers and source URLs to Swedish school items

Events

• Upcoming events: Wikicafé May Edition: De Wikidata à Wikipédia abstraite : promesses et illusions du savoir structuré (From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: Promises and Illusions of Structured Knowledge), Presentation by Jsamwrites, May 26, 2026 at 13:00 video link, organized by DMontagne en résidence.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers: Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini, Pietro Ortimini, and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Wikibase and Wikidata for Greek and Latin Epigraphy: Modelling, Analysing, and Making Reusable Linked Open Data
• Videos: Monica Berti and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Wikidata Queries for Greek and Latin Philology (SunoikisisDC, Summer 2026); slides on Commons + video on Youtube; for more information, cf. the WikiProjects Antiquity/Pauly-Wissowa and LAGL

Tool of the week

• LexeMap - is a lexeme coverage mapper that audits Wikidata lexeme data across languages. It runs live SPARQL queries against Wikidata and cross-references against Wiktionary to identify gaps in lexicographical data.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Starting May 28, 2026, the Special:EntityData page will no longer support the PHP‑serialized format (e.g .php URLs). Affected requests will return HTTP errors. Please switch to a stable format like JSON (example: Q42.json). The change is already active on test and beta wikis. (full announcement)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎SIK-ISEA document ID, identifiant d'un fonds au catalogue collectif de France, ‎StaphBase ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • PCBS Locality code (Locality Code of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics)
  • nameplate image (image of a name-plate or similar identifying plate of the subject)
  • photographer (photographer)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant Bibliothèques patrimoniales de Paris, CUEAnexo, Enciclopedia Católica Wikitólica ID, Adult Film Database film series ID, Adult Film Database studio ID, Satker ID, Inaproc Instance ID, British Libray catalogue ID, Swedish-Danish Dictionary ID, Roller-results.com skater ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: People born at the sea (source)

• Newest database reports: List of items with links to Wiktionary main space.
• Showcase Items: Boeing(Q66)

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We continued working on reducing the page size to make it easier on mobile data plans
  • We are improving how error messages are shown
• Making WikiProjects more visible: We are continuing the work on getting it ready for a first rollout.

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22期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• 在账号建立实验成功完成后，改良版的“未登入编辑警告讯息”将于6月第一周部署至所有维基媒体站点。此变更仅会影响在行动版网页编辑的未登入使用者。更新后的体验旨在更明确地鼓励建立账号，同时仍允许使用者透过临时账号贡献编辑。实验结果显示，账号建立数量显著增加，看到新版讯息的使用者中，账号建立率相对提升了27%。如预期所料，随着更多人转向建立账号，临时账号的使用量相对减少了16%。实验未显示建设性编辑的占比或其他监测中的贡献者指标有任何显著变化。 [241]

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 出于安全考量，位于特定使用者群组的使用者将必须启用双重认证（2FA）。处于这些使用者群组的使用者只要还拥有相关使用者群组身份便不能从自己的账号中移除全部的2FA方式，同时有权者亦无法将没有启用2FA的使用者加入到这些群组中。只要账号中至少还留有一个2FA方式，这些使用者依然可以自由新增和移除额外的2FA方式。在未来几周内，未启用2FA的使用者将会被移出这些群组。请特别注意，此规定同样适用于行政员。关于新规定生效的时程详见连结的工单。 [242][243]
• WMDE技术愿望团队将在指定的10个wiki专案上进行一项A/B测试。这项测试事关参考文献预览功能相关的可能改进。实验会在5月底6月初之间的大约2周时间内进行；在参与实验的wiki站点中，10%的桌面版使用者会受到实验的影响。
• Reader Growth团队先前执行的两个实验结果很成功，所以决定从5月25日起，将Image Browsing功能作为beta测试功能提供给所有维基百科语言版本的手机版。任何人若设定预设启用所有beta功能则会立刻看到变化，其他人若在偏好设定中勾选该功能对应的复选框也能看到变化。这个新功能会在所有条目的页面顶端展示一个可以左右卷动的条目全部图片速览，编者可以设定排除单张图像出现在当前条目的图片速览中，或者完全排除当前条目出现图片速览。
• 上周有30件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，之前媒体检视器3D扩充功能无法正确渲染三维STL档案，现已修正此功能。 [244]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 以下两个过时的CSS class tleft和tright现已被替换为floatleft和floatright。被替换掉的CSS class未能在所有MediaWiki所支援的平台上都拥有一致的行为，该问题在手机版网页和手机版App中尤为突出。若您的专案有依赖于这两个CSS class的代码，请尽快检视他们并准备迁移。顺带一提，floatleft和floatright在未来可能也会被弃用，但是现在没有时间表。了解详情。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2026年5月26日 (二) 05:52 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #734

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #733.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 13 - Task/s:
  • Per Project Chat, replace "estauxunidense" in Asturian descriptions with "d'Estaos Xuníos". Example manual edits here and here.
  • Also adds a default label, per d:Help:Default values for labels and aliases#When should I use default values for labels and aliases? and remove redundant labels in the simplest cases.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Temporaer Haus: OpenDataMonday, today, 1 June, 19:30 - 22:00 CEST, Augsburger Str. 23-25, 89231 Neu-Ulm.
  • WikiKult Netzwerktreffen 2026: “Wikidata in Kulturerbeinstitutionen”, 11-12th June, Wikimedia Deutschland. German-speaking event for people working with Wikidata in the cultural heritage sector. Open to experienced contributors and newcomers alike.
  • Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey, 11 June 17:00 - 18:00 CEST, online (English with German translation) – Keynote by Jason Evans.
  • (Deutsch) Workshop // Wikibases, Knowledge Graphs und Wikidata, Tue 14 July, 10:00 - 13:00 CEST. Participation is for project members, Zentral Institut staff, and interested guests, on-site at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte. See link for registration details.
  • Doing Migration History with Digital Methods: Beyond a Database - Wikibase as Research Infrastructure for Migration Prosopography Summer University at the German Historical Institute Paris, 8, rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris, 23 June 16:00 CEST.
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 - preparing the Program - watch this space next week for the first edition of the Event Program or register to be notified of updates.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Behind the QIDs by User:Niryhpr
  • Improving the interconnection between Wikidata and the CERL Thesaurus by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, also presented (in Italian) in Videos.
  • Digitally mapping the Philippines’ historical markers by Eugene Alvin Villar.
• Papers:
  • A data-driven analysis of automotive model evolution and technological lineage using Wikidata and Python network visualization by P. Trunova (2026).
  • (Italiano) De Catulo a Wikidata by Nusch et al. (2026).
• Videos:
  • Adding lifting stones to Wikidata - OSM for History Buffs
  • (O'zbekcha) Participate in the Interlingual Relations Marathon and win! - Oʻzbekcha Vikipediyadagi (ukwiki) has over 12,000 articles missing a sitelink...time to change that.
  • (Italiano) Wikidata and Library Catalogs: Building and Enabling a Digital Resources Network by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
• Presentations:
  • De Wikidata à Wikipédia abstraite : promesses et illusions du savoir structuré (From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: Promises and Illusions of Structured Knowledge), Presentation by Jsamwrites, May 26, 2026, Wikicafé May Edition, organized by DMontagne en résidence. (video)
  • DARIAH-EU WG DHwiki - A first year of activity by D. Lindemann and G. Candela (2026).

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Recent Changes API: This API lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• On 31 May, item Q140000000 ("Maxx", about a cinema in Delmenhorst, Germany) was created.
• Feedback wanted: To support improving Wikidata integration on the Programs & Events Dashboard, the EduWiki Hub invites Wikidata organizers, trainers, and contributors to share suggestions on metrics, tracking features, and workflows you would like to see in the dashboard. In addition, try out the new Advanced Search share your thoughts on the Dashboard talk page. (full announcement)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • found liable for (tort or civil wrong a person or organization was found liable of)
  • ‎PCBS Locality code (Locality Code of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics)
• Newest External identifiers: AV CHANNEL actress ID, AWA artist ID, CUE/Anexo, ‎Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number, Catholic Encyclopedia Wikitólica ID, European System of Accounts ID (Germany), OpenEdition Publisher ID, ‎Mineral Resources Data System deposit ID, ‎Natalie ID, ‎Oireachtas bill ID, Rakuten Music artist ID, recochoku artist ID, ‎Adult Film Database film series ID, ‎Adult Film Database studio ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • category's topic is member of the class (qualifier for use with {{p|14387}} and {{P|4224}} to describe certain sets of categories)
  • applicable Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: School ID of the Department of Education, Philippines, Beeld en Geluid series identifier, DAM artist ID, DAM song ID, Joysound artist ID, Joysound song ID, K-MIB performer ID, DUGA actress ID, Chilean Museums Registry ID, Sokmil actress ID, Filmmakers Person ID, Model Mayhem ID, OCHA Place Code, Sri Lanka NGO Secretariat Registration Number, Sri Lanka Company Registration Number, AV CHANNEL director ID, DUGA director ID, AllMyLinks ID, AV CHANNEL maker ID, thegamerdex.com game ID, MyDirtyHobby ID, Fontaines de Belgique ID, Wikiparfum fragrance ID, Canadian Trademark Registration Number, DMM director ID, Pantheon.World ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
• Newest WikiProjects: Project Sri Lanka for editors who would like to focus on adding materials for Sri Lanka (Q854).
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Govdirectory added Cape Verde subpage
  • Project P244 maintenance progress - a manually-updated progress tracker, is there a way to automate it?
• Newest database reports: Identified duplicates - this list shows items that most likely need merging but cannot due to conflicting sitelinks.
• Showcase Items: Q140000000: Wikidata's 140 Millionth Item

Development

• Mobile editing of statements:
  • We fixed how we handle statements with deleted Properties (phab:T402619)
  • We improved the behaviour when using the browser's back button (phab:T414454)
  • We continued working on improving the way error responses are shown (phab:T423613)
  • We addressed issues found in testing
• Improving the visibility of WikiProjects: We added support for finding the associated WikiProject of an Item based on statements on the Item
• GraphQL:
  • We are working on expanding the data available through search. Specifically we are including all Item data in search result nodes (phab:T427389) and extending the query by Item and Property value to return all Item data (phab:T416885)
  • We are improving the documentation.

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: Nigeria
• 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 Education: May 2026

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

This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 5 • May 2026

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In This Issue

• Teaching innovation with Wikimedia. Shared experiences in Spanish Universities
• Editing Wikipedia with Viktor Hygo High School in Albania
• Debating free license in Brazil
• Microclimatic Explainers: A short-form media approach to build micro-level environmental awareness in India
• Ukraine publishes the first academic collection of papers on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects
• Wiki Digital Youth Club Launches in Tanzania: Youth Build Digital Skills Through Competitive Quest Challenges
• Wiki Youth Participation in Building Rwanda’s Open Knowledge Ecosystem
• Wikimedia Digi-Youth Club in Nigeria
• Wikimedia MKD's Education News & Activities
• Wikipedia Serbia's interns and Wiki Ambassadors provide crucial support towards end of the school year

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2026年第23期技术新闻

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近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 读者体验团队正在进行一项实验，向未登入的行动端读者展示开发中的“阅读清单”功能，以测试相较于“监视”按钮，此功能是否能提升账号注册率。实验已于5月18日在土耳其语、西班牙语、波兰语、乌尔都语、荷兰语、意大利语、葡萄牙语、德语维基百科上线，为期一个月。
• 维基媒体App团队在Android公测版App中推出了“首页动态”重新设计的第一阶段。全新的“首页动态”包含改版的“社群”分页，以及个人化的“为您推荐”分页，提供每日更新的阅读推荐。此次重新设计旨在改善维基百科App中的内容探索功能，并创造更具吸引力的学习体验。
• 上周有18件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，先前Special:Homepage上的某些建议编辑中，图片可能无法载入，导致缩图停留在载入状态，现已修正此问题。 [245]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

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Travel page has been updated with practical information about Transport and traffic disruptions due to the Tour de France.

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Wikidata weekly summary #735

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #734.

Discussions

• RfC: Mass editing policy: The community is currently voting on a proposed policy to regulate mass edits on Wikidata. More input is needed to reach a broad consensus. Please review the proposal and join the discussion/vote on the RFC page.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 - see the first version of the program! The online event takes place during the weekend of June 19 - 21. Register for updates and access links.
  • Mezi bajty 0 - meetup of the Czech Wikidata community in Prague and online, 10th June 17:00 - 19:00 CEST (in Czech, Slovak, English)
  • GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei) SPARQL Workshop|, 17th July 17:00 - 19:30 CEST (in German) - workshop from the German National Library on use of their SPARQL-endpoint for the GND (Gemeinsamer Normdatei) national authority file for wikidata users and wikipedians.
  • (Deutsch) Workshop: Make Research Software Findable using the Software Marketplace Wikidata - August 18, 14:00 – 16:00 Uhr (CEST), Zoom-link on registration.
  • Blazegraph Migration Office Hour (June session) will take place on Tuesday, 9 June 2026 (Tomorrow) at 16:00 UTC. This office hour is focused on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of WDQS. Whether you have questions, need clarification, or want to discuss how your use case may be affected. You can register for the session via the event page. In preparation, add questions, feedback, or migration-related support needs to this etherpad.
• Ongoing: Wiki Loves Pride 2026 (Meta) is ongoing and now has a dedicated Wikidata subpage: Event: Wiki Loves Pride 2026.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • (日本语/Japanese) [Practice drill: SPARQL basics to make and learn - Let's master Wikidata Query Service by Shoku_pan_65. Page offers AI translations.
  • Behind the <P812: academic major> Property by rtnf.
  • Adding Visual Context to the Dagbanli Dictionary: How the University of Ghana HCI Lab Dataset Powered our Sentence Matching System. Diff post by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan.
• Papers:
  • Volume 16, Issue 5 of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out! - includes 7 papers on Wikidata topics.
  • Rosetta Statements: simplifying FAIR knowledge graph construction with a user-centred approach - Vogt et al., (2026)
  • (Русский/Russian) Automated Analysis and Visualization of Geographic Data on Global Volcanoes Based on the Wikidata Semantic Graph - by Мария Паландер (2026).
  • Speaker Mining: FAIR Data on Public Broadcasts for Question Answering by Wittenborg et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • (Español) Wikidata for Climate Change, Wikipedia for Sustainable Futures by Daniel Canedo, a workshop on using Wikidata to record linked open data from extreme weather events.
  • (Svenska) Merge Wikidata samma som by Magnus Sälgö. What to do when you find duplicate Wikidata Items pointing at the same location on OpenStreetMap.
  • (Español) EntreWikis - Hacerwiki: Progress of Free Knowledge Projects in Colombia - Colombian Art in Open Data: training and infrastructure on Wikidata
  • (Français) Wikidata for research and teaching by Pascal Martinolli. Introduces Wikidata basics, SPARQL, practical examples of data visualisation, enriching research data and exploring the opportunities and limitations of linked open personal data.
  • (Français) Literature review: FAIR data sharing | FAIR Data Spring 2026 - Presentation slides, given by Adélie Ranville on their experiences organizing and sharing data using Zenodo, DOI, Zotero, Wikidata, and OpenRefine.
  • (Deutsch) Building a shared knowledge infrastructure: a federated wikibase for video and podcasts hosted by Tim @BorgNetzWerk.

Tool of the week

• AutoSuggestSitelink: New features available. See the update post on Project Chat

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The WMF Wikidata pltaform team monthly newsletter (June edition) is out
• Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's occupation articles
• Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's articles about fields of knowledge

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes::
  • trailer of (works that this trailer video represents)
  • ‎EPBC conservation status (the conservation status from the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 assigned by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎Joysound artist ID, ‎Joysound song ID, DUGA performer ID, Sri Lanka Company Registration Number, Wikimedia Phabricator project PHID, ‎Indonesian government work unit ID (satker ID), ‎DAM artist ID, ‎British Library catalogue ID, ‎OCHA Place Code, Philippines ‎School ID, ‎Swedish-Danish Dictionary ID, Filmmakers actor ID, Chilean Museums Registry ID, Sri Lanka NGO Secretariat Registration Number, Beeld & Geluid series ID, ‎INAPROC instance ID (Indonesia), DUGA director ID, AV CHANNEL maker ID, AV CHANNEL director ID, AllMyLinks ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • applicable Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • IAU member ID (new) (ID of members in the [https://www.iau.org/IAU/Default.aspx International Astronomical Union (IAU)].)
  • height above ground level (a property intended to indicate the height of any objects from the ground)
  • Storm intensity classification (category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585))
  • service status (the operational status of something like ship or building)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: PTS News Network topic ID, OTOTOY ID, identifiant EU sanctions tracker, OpenParlData ID, Catholica.cz ID, KSW person ID, KSW organization ID, KSW place ID, Myludo ID, Identifiant dans La Basa, PurplePort ID, Sokmil idol ID, Hancinema company ID, LinkMe ID, Netmath Glossary ID, Sokmil director ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Table of civic tech organizations with details (source)
  • Timeline of legalisation of same-sex marriage (source)
• Schema examples: Nazareth Padilla Montero (Q139959656) has been added as a showcase example of human (E10)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Civic Tech - for anyone developing datasets about civic resources in cities, and discuss best practices for Wikidata collaboration in civic tech.
  • Project AI Cleanup - for reporting, monitoring and combatting edits and contributions from LLM and AI sources.
  • Project: Whos who in marine taxonomy? - inititated by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), this project will document and enrich entities of the persons who have described marine species.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project LGBT added an Abstract Wikipedia subpage.
  • Project Roads added a subpage for Greece National roads with highly-visual tables.
  • Wiki x K-Pop datathon 2.0 - there is still some work to do to reach the goal on modelling the album: BABYMONSTER.
• Newest database reports: Deleted Wikidata entities that are connected to Commons files structured data (SDC)
• Showcase Lexemes: kafuni - Dagbanli noun that translate to "fan" in English

Development

• The team was involved in workshops last week so there are no updates.

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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Tech News: 2026-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content. [246]

Updates for editors

• The refreshed Explore Feed, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: Community and For You. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the For You tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.
• The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements.
• Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips, which may require updates to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the cite-tracking-category-ref-details tracking category as a hidden category using __HIDDENCAT__ (or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848. [247]
• The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.
• The user interface icon library will be updated later this week or next week. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.
• The Universal Language Selector (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page.
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed. [248]

Updates for technical contributors

• The function signature for mw.util.addPortletLink() has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of: mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page'); use mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses of addPortletLink() and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement. [249]
• Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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This Month in GLAM: May 2026

This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue V, May 2026 Headlines From the team: May Global GLAM Call Recording and June Call Announcement Australia report: Celebrating #1Lib1Ref Australasia Brazil report: GLAM Connection: Fashion, History, and Biodiversity in May France report: New Wikimedian in Residence Italy report: Connecting the Arctic and Sicily through Wikimedia Projects Mexico report: How the cultural, governmental, educational, and museum sectors contributed in unison to Wikimedia projects Netherlands report: Setting up your own platform (part 1): from wish to the creation of a wiki New Zealand report: ESEAP Conference 2026 and the NZBSI WiR update North Macedonia report: Wikimedia MKD Shares GLAM Experience at International Conferences Poland report: Partnerships, Participation, and Open Knowledge Serbia report: May in Wikimedia Serbia Spain report: El Prado en femenino III Switzerland report: Museum for Communication, Panel IMD, Wikipedia Day UK report: Early Qurans on the front page of Wikipedia Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members Special story: New tools for multilingual audio, video and metadata Memory of the World report: New articles in Urdu Calendar: June'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 #736

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #735.

Discussions

• Request for comments: The discussion about reforming Wikidata's notability policy is ongoing. There is now a new proposal waiting for your feedback.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiLoves Pride 2026 - six fortnightly editing sessions to add, expand and translate LGBTQ+ content on the Wikimedia projects.
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 is taking place this coming weekend, 19-21 June. Check out the daily program...(click UTC for your local timezone)
    • Day 1 / Friday, 19.06, 17:00 UTC - 20:00 UTC
    • Day 2 / Saturday, 20.06, 10:00 UTC - 18:00 UTC
    • Day 3 / Sunday, 21.06, 14:00 UTC - 18:00 UTC
  • Click here -> Register <- for access links to the event.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Preserving Pride, Across Languages : From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: A New Way to Think About Knowledge
  • Visibility of Communities in Nigeria on Wikidata 2.0: Expanding Digital Representation for Nigerian Communities
  • The Year’s First Quarter with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group - Expanding partnerships and contributions to Wikidata, Wikipedia and other sister projects.
  • Introducing the Wiki Afrodemics Mentorship Project Cohort 1 - A pan-african and guided multilingual training on Wikipedia editing, Wikidata contribution, and resource mobilisation.
  • Amplifying Women’s Stories and Indigenous Knowledge: Feminism and Folklore 2026 in the Igbo Community - Improving the representation of women and cultural heritage in Igbo language on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiquote.
  • A Reflection on What I Learned at My First International Women’s Day Celebration - Celebrating and documenting women activists and politicians on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • Three Tools that bring digital botany within reach (spoiler: One of them is Wikidata) - article available in DE, ES, FR, JA, PT and ZH-CN.
• Papers: Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata by Grallert et al., (2026). As digital humanities tools proliferate, this paper argues that Wikidata can help connect the research landscape by documenting, citing and connecting tool registries.
• Videos:
  • OSM / Lifting Stones in Wikidata - a video tutorial on mapping lifting stones on OpenStreetMap, using two examples from County Kilkenny, Ireland.
  • Mapping Every Wonder on Earth - animated visualisation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites recorded in Wikidata.
  • 2025: Tales of Discovery - Museums and Heritage channel mentions how Wikidata is being used as a bridge between several sites and projects for 3D modelling ships, wrecks and other artifacts from maritime history.
  • Mentor Me! Session 6 with Jinoy Tom Jacob, who will show us how to use OpenRefine to batch edit Wikidata and the Commons.

Tool of the week

• BisikBekasi : Community-curated knowledge base where local data items are integrated with Wikidata items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Newcomer Dashboard will be deployed to Wikidata pending on-wiki configuration by Admins. The dashboard aims to provide guidance, helpful links, and mentorship opportunities for new editors.
• Guido Gezelle on Wikidata: networking in map - this project created 5 visualisations produced from Wikidata on the poet Guido Gezelle.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • print matrix state (in printmaking, a stage of development of the relief matrix after a permanent modification)
  • body modification (deliberate altering of the human anatomy for non-medical reasons that this person or fictional character has undergone)
• Newest External identifiers: Roller-results.com skater ID, Wikiparfum fragrance ID, EU sanctions tracker subject ID, Maoyan celebrity ID, CINEMATODAY film ID, DMM director ID, Model Mayhem ID, ‎DAM song ID, OpenParlData ID, ‎IAU member ID, PurplePort ID, LinkMe ID

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Vistonline (Agenzia italiana di visti consolari e legalizzazione documenti, con sede a Roma)
  • Natural science/Taxon footprint (Taxon footprint)
  • Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number (Unique identification number assigned to a school by the Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka, used in the annual school census and official examinations (G.C.E. O/L, A/L))
  • sport title (link to sport title (like master of sports or yokodzuna), besides chess and martial arts titles)
  • dual notion in category theory (dual notion in category theory)
  • penalty shootout kicked by (Indicates the person who took an individual penalty kick during a penalty shoot-out.)
  • Finnish educational institution ID (Five-digit identification number for Finnish educational institutes assigned by Statistics Finland.)

• New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant d'une personne sur ZicTrad, Skeivopedia ID, Artistas Visuales Chilenos ID, Mathlib declaration ID, FES digital collections person ID, BBC Bitesize topic ID, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), Sceneweb artwork ID, Sceneweb production ID, regjeringen.no government ID, regjeringen.no ministry ID, regjeringen.no politician ID, Maoyan film ID, Identifiant livres-cinema.info d'un auteur, National Operator Code (UK)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Wiki x K-pop 2026: Datathon 3.0 a.k.a the ICONIC BY MISTAKE EDITING party.
  • Ontology Course 2 / GLAM Authority Entity Ontology in Wikidata
• Newest database reports: Thanks Log - who's thanking who and on what.
• Showcase Items: 2026 FIFA World Cup (Q5020214) - in the United States, Mexico and Canada in 2026
• Showcase Lexemes: alikaali (L720932) - Dagbanli noun (derived from ha <--ar) which can mean soothsayer, judge or Muslim scholar

Development

• Ontology federation: The development team is looking for people to give feedback on the new feature that allows editors on other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as statement values. (more details)
• GraphQL:
  • We extended the searchItems field so that developers can now get all Item data immediately from the search results (phab:T416885)
  • We are working on the ability to get only best ranked statements (phab:T428138)
• MCP: The Wikidata MCP has been extended. You can now also use an MCP for other Wikibase instances. (more details)
• Wikibase Cloud: We are looking into making it possible to log into Wikibase Cloud instances with your Wikidata account to make it easier for Wikimedians to contribute on Cloud instances.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are planning the migration of the entity usage table to a new database cluster to handle increased usage of Wikidata's data across the Wikimedia projects.
  • We are continuing our work to decrease the number of irrelevant changes coming from Wikidata that show up in Wikipedia's recent changes and watchlist. Specifically we are evaluating a prototype that looks at the rendered article before and after the change and determines if anything actually changed in the article before adding an entry to recent changes and watchlist.
• Mobile editing of statements:
  • We are improving support for RTL languages.(phab:T360854, phab:T427655, phab:T427658, phab:T427661, phab:T428246)
  • We started fixing multiple UI layout and spacing issues, including mandatory fields, value fields, snak types, references, and add-statement button usability (phab:T428766, phab:T428761, phab:T428759, phab:T428450)
  • We are improving the server-side rendering (phab:T409827)

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25期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• The Reader Growth team has launched an Image Browsing beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use class=notpageimage excluding it from thumbnail previews, or class=noviewer excluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word __NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page.
• Wikitables can now be sorted in descending order on the first click by adding data-sort-order="desc" to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged. [250]

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• The Article guidance feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
• 如果您的维基站点想要替换Special:Block页面中针对临时账号的“不限期”按钮（例如，您的维基站点想要在临时账号过期时解除封锁），您可以建立MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account并设定所需的封锁期限来达成此目的。设定方法请见此处说明。 [251]
• 上周有41件由社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
• 全域API速率限制的所有阶段均已推出，所有API均已实施限制，且各使用者群组的限额均依照文件记载的标准执行。目前在Toolforge/WMCS运行的机器人和拥有站内机器人权限的机器人不受此限制。所有机器人应继续遵循文件中记载的最佳实践，以避免受到速率限制。
• API Portal维基将从本周（6月15日至18日）起转为只读模式。下周（6月22日至25日），所有API Portal维基的网址都将重新导向至MediaWiki.org的“Wikimedia APIs”页面。参阅专案页面了解详情。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

会议与活动

• 维基媒体基金会将于6月17日 18:00 UTC举行一场以“程式码审查”为主题的Discord通话会议。我们透过“开发者满意度调查”得知，志愿者在进行程式码审查时面临不少困难，因此我们希望借此机会讨论这些经验，以期找出可行的解决方案。您可以在维基媒体社群Discord服务器加入本次会议。
• 拉丁美洲维基媒体会议将举办一场区域性黑客松，邀请维基媒体技术社群中的开发者、系统管理员、资料科学家以及站内的高阶权限者一同共襄盛举。有兴趣参与的技术贡献者可申请奖助金，申请期间至6月21日午夜（玻利维亚时间，UTC-4）截止。
• 欢迎报名参加维基媒体国际会议团队挑战赛，一同参与这场特别活动。团队挑战赛将于维基媒体国际会议召开前的7月21日至22日，以线上及实体形式举行。无论技术水准或是否报名参加维基媒体国际会议，皆欢迎参与。各团队将共同完成10项为维基媒体社群提供支援的重要挑战。详情请参阅团队挑战赛页面并于该处报名（或点此报名）。报名期间至6月20日 23:00 UTC截止。

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The Signpost: 21 June 2026

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

• From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism

• News and notes: Community Tech development team disbanded

• Disinformation report: PR for the people?

• Recent research: Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors

• In the media: Who won a 14th century battle and who won the 2026 Iran war?

• Community view: Putting the Wish into the Wishlist

• In focus: A global standard for Neutral Point of View

• On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth

• Op-ed: Breathe, Don’t Panic, there is a different story about Wikimedia + AI futures

• Opinion: Wikimedia Foundation staff develop union and Wikimedia user community reacts

• Technology report: Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts

• Traffic report: 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night

• WikiConference report: Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026

• Comix: Take your turn

• Humour: Group of banned T-shirt makers comes out of hiding to sell new Wikipedia-themed merchandise

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Wikidata weekly summary #736

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #736.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Ziv - RfP scheduled to end after 24 June 2026 19:26 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Nabbot 1 - Task: Adding Turkish descriptions for scientific articles

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The Wikimania 2026 program has been revealed, go bookmark your favourite sessions.
  • Physical Training; Improving Health Articles in Africa - 21 June, 10:00, University of Ibadan.
  • The WikiIndaba Call for Proposals ends June 30th - don't forget to submit your Wikidata-sessions.
  • Sessions of the WikiProjects Days 2026 event will shortly be available on Commons: Presentations / Videos

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • WikiTiddler; Tiddlywiki as a live Wikidata frontend - if you run a TiddlyWiki instance, you can now run queries to the Wikidata Query Service and convert the results to Tiddlers.
  • TIB: What do we mean when we talk about AI and open knowledge? - Lozana Rossenova details their experiences at the AI+Bridges Symposium.
• Papers:
  • How to use Wikibase for Mixed-Methods Research, a book published by F. Bailo, E. Booth, and J. Williams
  • Wikimedia as a Platform for Evidence Synthesis: Quantifying Bias and Literature Coverage in Crowd-Sourced Knowledge Graphs by D. Mietchen, and J. Dearborn, (2026).
  • From Wikidata to Smart Tourism: A Reproducible Pipeline Based on AI and Fuzzy Logic for Interpretable Multi-Category Classification of Points of Interest - This paper develops a reproducible pipeline that converts Wikidata POIs into an interpretable tourism taxonomy, enabling multi-category classification and personalized smart tourism applications. By Kontogianni et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • Name Suggestion Index Explained: How OpenStreetMap Standardizes Brands
  • EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-06-04)
  • Using the Duplicity and WD Fist Tools to edit Wikidata
  • Unlocking Data through Semantic Linking, presented at ENDORSE 2025 by Thora Hagen. Experiences using 19th-century German encyclopedias, demonstrating how semantic enrichment via Wikidata can reveal fascinating patterns.
  • (Deutsch) From your pocket to the knowledge graph: SquirrelBase is a Wikibase instance that functions as a semantic metadata and reference platform. Make 3D smartphone captures of cultural assets, artworks, and ephemeral structures FAIR.

Tool of the week

• MotusArtium : Wikidata GraphQL showcase application for exploring and understanding art movements (alpha version). GraphQL queries used
• As seen during WikiProjects Days 2026 - Classification.js, visualise parent classes and identify incorrections, detect superclass tree loops. To use, click Activate and copy the two lines into your Common.js page.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Reminder: Try Ontology Federation to import Items from Wikidata to your Wikibase instance. Share your feedback in the linked survey. (full announcement)
• A session at WikiProjects Days 2026 was devoted to general-purpose tools for WikiProjects. A new page under the main Wikidata tools page was created with a list and description of these tools. Take a look at Wikidata:Tools/WikiProjects and add any missing tools.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • meteorological intensity classification (category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585))
  • perfumer (person who created a perfume)
  • ‎dual notion (category theory) (dual of the concept in category theory)
• External identifiers: catholica.cz ID, ‎Skeivopedia ID, Mathlib Declaration ID, Annuséries series ID, FES digital collections person ID, ‎BBC Bitesize topic ID, Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), OTOTOY artist ID, livres-cinema.info author ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
  • Gmedia rating (video games) (Video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system ({{Q|Q28717438}}))
• External identifiers: altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, some properties for category theory, Farzonagon ID, TV Guide film ID, Letterboxd Writer ID, d Hits artist ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, Fantia ID, 17LIVE ID, CFLapedia player ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, U-NEXT Parson ID, U-NEXT Video ID, H-NEXT Parson ID, ABEMA Video ID, FOD Parson ID, LRT topic ID, FOD Video ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, belarusenc.by ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Writing Systems Technical Resources script code, Répertoire des films classés film ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID, Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, Kanal Architecture entry ID, Web The Television Parson ID, Web The Television Work ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Showcase Items: ship (Q11446) - large buoyant watercraft

Development

• We enabled links to WikiProjects in the sidebar and added links to WikiProjects Music, Medicine, Datasets, sum of all paintings, and elections (T422935, T422935)
• We added a floating “add statement” button that makes it easier to add statements without looking through the existing statements (T417641, T428450).
• We’re working on making sure that users can tell when statements exist before they add new ones (T424009).
• We made some layout fixes to wbui2025 / MEX (T428766, T428761, T428759, T427658, T428853).
• We refactored error handling (T423613).
• We’re refactoring the server-side rendering so we don’t need separate .less style files (T409827).
• We’re working on the interaction between scrollable values and indicator icons (T425974).

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26期技术新闻

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

本周要闻

• Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 新建了特殊页面Special:RangeCalculator。使用者可直接利用该页面查询IP地址范围，无需仰赖外部工具。此前，此工具仅供用户查核员使用。 [252]
• “子引用”是MediaWiki的新功能，可在重复使用参考资料时修改部分细节。此功能将于6月23日部署至大多数中小型维基百科语言版本。常见问题解答列出了您可在维基站点上采取的相关措施，以支援此次部署。请查阅部署计划，了解后续的部署阶段。 [253]
• 从下周起，当使用者被封锁或解封，或者封锁状态发生变更时，系统将会发送通知给该使用者。 [254]
• 上周有32件由社群提交的工单得到解决。

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 从下周起，设定为“需要CAPTCHA验证”的滥用过滤器，将开始影响拥有skipcaptcha权限的使用者，这包括大多数自动确认使用者。机器人则不受此限制。此变更仅影响触发滥用过滤器的编辑操作。在一般情况下，skipcaptcha权限将继续让使用者在正常使用维基时免受CAPTCHA干扰。 [255]
• Lift Wing API的参考文件已从API Portal移至互动式的REST沙盒。
• API Portal维基现已关闭。如需查阅API文件，请前往MediaWiki.org的“Wikimedia APIs”页面。6月22日起，所有API Portal维基网址（https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/）都将重新导向至该页面。 [256]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

会议与活动

• 欢迎于6月25日 14:30 UTC参加线上会议，与目前参与Google Summer of Code及Outreachy的维基媒体实习生见面。实习生将介绍他们的专案概况，并简要展示迄今为止的工作成果。欢迎与会者分享想法，并介绍各自社群中的相关资源与人脉。

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MediaWiki message delivery 2026年6月23日 (二) 21:05 (CST)

June 2026 CEE Newsletter is out

Dear all,

The June 2026 issue of the CEE Newsletter has been published.

After a three years of being an editor of the Newsletter, this will be my last issue. Over the years, I've been putting on multiple hats and now is time to take one off. I would like to share many thanks to everyone I had the honor of collaborating with. Many of you are not only readers, but also authors. It was always a great joy to read all the amazing stories from all around the region, you are the ones making this newsletter special.

Read the full newsletter here. As always, we have prepared a Russian version of the same issue. Happy reading!

Take care,

Jan

--janbery (talk) 2026年6月26日 (五) 22:03 (CST)

This Month in Education: June 2026

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

This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 6 • June 2026

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

• Wikipedia Editathon at Dinajpur Govt. College: Empowering Graduate Students in the Open Knowledge Movement
• Wikimedia Serbia prepares for Edu Wiki camp 2026
• Wiki Digi-Youth Clubs pilot explores challenge-based learning across three countries
• Why the EduWiki Hub Starter Kit Matters for the Future of Education
• Portuguese Universities adopt free knowledge tools: Wikipedia is the favorite
• Translating on Wikipedia used as extra – credit assignment in University of Prishtina, Kosovo
• Strengthening Wikimedia Education Through Community Learning and Digital Literacy Initiatives
• Small Group, Big Impact: Building Skills Through the Wikimedia Volunteer Focus Group in Botswana
• "25x25 Project – Celebrating Wikipedia" in Córdoba, Argentina
• Mapping and gathering educational activities on Wiki in Brazilian universities
• Growing Wiki Education in the Philippines: Highlights from Bikol WikiConference 2026
• From Mentee to Builder: Six Months in the EduWiki Hub Mentorship Program
• EduWiki Hub publishes its first Community Newsletter
• Click, Capture, and Contribute: Scaling Open Knowledge Through Mobile Photography
• Education in Action: Limkokwing School Adoption Program 2026 and Wikimedia Learning Outcomes
• Impact of Wiki Digi youth Clubs initiative in education of Rwanda

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Tech News: 2026-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• As part of the Account Creation Experiments, the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July. [257]
• After a successful experiment, logged-in users who did not confirm their email address when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the Account Security project. [258]
• An update to Search is refining how the -prefix: behaves when used to exclude results. Previously, using -prefix: with negation could unintentionally broaden search results by adding the namespaces included in the search scope, leading to confusing behavior for users expecting a straightforward exclusion filter. With the update, -prefix: will now strictly exclude matching page titles as intended and may display a warning if the relevant namespace has not been explicitly selected. The behavior of prefix: without negation however remains unchanged. [259]
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where reviewers using the Page Curation toolbar were not automatically subscribed to talk page discussions they started has now been fixed. Reviewers will now receive notifications when someone replies to those discussions. [260]

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the user-agent policy. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. This is a follow up to the announcement made in the 2026/25 issue of Tech News.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2026年6月29日 (一) 19:48 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #738

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #737.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • TopDevsBot - Task/s: Create new items for software-development, design, and consulting companies from source data: topdevs.ai
  • SonalBot - Task/s: Reference Gardener (archive dead reference links) + Welcome Bot (welcome new users)
• New request for comments: WM Commons: Policy update for AI content - this RfC will seek opinions on the use and allowance of AI-generated and modified content. This can have downstream impacts on Wikidata.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • 2026 Chiayi Streetview Workshop July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Tâi-uân tôo-su-sik, Chiayi, Taiwan.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #90 July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Lobid Blog: NWBibBot – Making a regional bibliography visible in Wikipedia with help from Wikidata
  • Tech News (WMDE) Knowledge wants to be found - We interview Tim Wittenborg about the WissKomm Wiki, from the Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology in TIB Hannover.
  • Bridging Open Knowledge And Digital Rights: Reflections From DRIF 2026 And The Wikimedia Community
• Papers: MathModDB: A Database for Mathematical Models - The Mathematical Models Database (MathModDB), deployed on the MaRDI Portal within Germany’s National Research Data Infrastructure, provides researchers with a curated knowledge graph that organizes scattered mathematical models, formulas, and assumptions, connects to related tools like MathAlgoDB and MaRDMO, and demonstrates practical use through cases such as plasma physics modeling. By Fiedler et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 - recordings now on Commons, if you missed the event or want to recap what was discussed, individual session recordings are now available from the Event program.
  • Jason Evans: Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey

Tool of the week

• Altilunium Panoply : A lightweight Wikibase alternative for creating collaborative knowledge bases, written as a single PHP file with no dependencies.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July. A Q&A clinic will be held on 1 July at 15:00 UTC (join here).
• Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship, Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎Taiwan Central News Agency news topic ID, ‎Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, ‎Sceneweb artwork ID, ‎Sceneweb production ID, Fantia ID, Finnish educational institution ID, ‎altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, TV Guide film ID, FOD person ID, LRT topic ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • subdiscipline of (less specific academic discipline)
  • has garden (Object is a {{Q|1107656}} related to this {{Q|16222597}})
  • ranking by (issuer of a ranking)
  • linguistic group (group of people who share the same language, regardless of their ancestry or ethnicity)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pure Adult actress ID, Taiwan Central News Agency News tag id, Pure Adult studio ID, Natural science/GBIF taxon ID, Digitaler Portraitindex person ID, torial ID, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, Samtrafiken-vehicle-id, Sundsvall Municipality opendata ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, KBS News topic ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur Autoroc, La Grange ID, Rakuten Books author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Roles and contributions of ? in Fictional Universes and Media franchises (source)
• Schema examples: it's World Cup time so here's 2 soccer/football-related EntitySchemas.
  • E404:Swedish Soccer Player and E183:Chilean Women's Football Players
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Logic
  • WikiProject Roots and Rhythms
• WikiProject Highlights: GovDirectory has opened a Madagascar page.
• Showcase Items: Lionel Messi - 6 World Cups, scoring in the last 7 consecutive matches.

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are continuing to evaluate the prototype for reducing the number of unnecessary edits from Wikidata that show up in watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co. The approach is to look at the diff of the rendered article before and after the change from Wikidata is made. If there is no difference then the change is probably not relevant for that article. We are collecting a sample to further understand how it performs.
  • To continue to address Wikidata's scaling issues, we are planning the migration of entity usage tables to the X1 cluster.
• Mobile editing of statements:
  • We implemented more feedback from testing of the new mobile front-end. Specifically we worked on making it clearer when a statements already exist that the editor is trying to add to the Item.
  • Additionally, we made minor improvements to the look and feel of the mobile front-end.
• REST API:
  • REST search routes now take apihighlimits right into account (phab:T428032)
  • We are starting to work on Lexeme support (phab:T429572, phab:T429332)
• GraphQL:
  • We added support for requesting “best statements” for a given Property (phab:T428138)
  • We are working on adding support for negation in Property value pair filters (phab:T429580)

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: Poland
• 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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Updates to page in light of new Mascot page!

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2026年第28期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• 上周有34件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，此前维基数据搜索栏结果显示的是英语内容，而非针对语言变体用户采用正确的语言回退机制，这一问题现已修复。现在的搜索建议将遵循预期的语言回退链。 [261]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 为筹备计划于2027年3月开展的颂扬女性（Celebrate Women）活动，维基媒体基金会的内容赋能团队发起了一项包含22个问题的问卷调查，旨在深入了解女性+群体（即任何认同自己为女性的人士）在维基媒体各项目中的技术贡献情况。该问卷预计耗时15至20分钟，并将持续开放至2026年7月20日。相关问题也已发布在维基站点上，供您提前查阅。
• 乐谱扩展现已支持将乐谱渲染为SVG格式的图像（此前仅支持 PNG），从而满足了一项由来已久的功能请求，并解决了以往存在的图像质量问题。系统现向客户端同时提供这两种格式：PNG格式包含在src属性中，SVG格式则包含在srcset属性中。
• 新的Parsoid解析器正继续部署至更多维基站点，这将有助于更轻松地引入新的阅读与编辑功能。该解析器已在法语维基百科启用，使其覆盖的维基百科页面浏览量总占比达到78.9%。针对英语维基百科桌面版的部署工作将在本周内持续进行。
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 2026年维基媒体黑客松的回顾文章现已发布。文中重点介绍了本届活动期间的项目、议程及社交活动，并分享了关于2027年维基媒体黑客松的初步规划。

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年7月6日 (一) 21:57 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #739

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #738.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship:
  • 1Veertje - Closed as Successful
  • Ziv - Closed as Successful
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • gov-wikidata-match 1 - Task/s: Link existing GOV (historical gazetteer) building-like objects to existing Wikidata building-like objects.
  • AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task/s: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to Wikidata items about people, only where the OpenLibrary author and the Wikidata person have been confirmed to be the same individual, with a source on every statement.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • JigildikBot - Approved
  • SonalBot - Approved
  • ias-kbase - Approved

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The Wikidata Platform (WDP) monthly office hour takes place tomorrow, Template:Zonestamp. These office hours are focus on the Blazegraph migration work, and the team is inviting all community members to join the discussion. Register via the event page
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST (in your timezone), 08th July 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.
  • Sandbox sessions: Wikidata Reference Validator Tool - improving Wikidata references - Aug 15, 17:00 - 18:00 UTC.
  • Wiki Education + AASLH: Documenting America with Wikidata, a collaboration between Wiki Education and the American Association for State and Local History is offering six hour-long meetings held weekly to introduce attendees to Wikidata and improve content for Wikidata and Wikipedia on American history. Registration ends: July 17, 23:59 Pacific Time (PT)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (fr) Le point sur la diversité de genre dans les articles in *Regards sur l'actualité du mouvement Wikimedia*
• Papers:
  • Spatiotemporal-Heuristic A* Search for Pruning - Historical Influence and Succession Paths in Wikidata - Paper, by Michael James Liman (2026).
  • Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models - Paper by Chepurova et al., (2026).
• Videos: (Español) Introduction to Wikidata - Dr. Claudia De Souza and Prof. Dinah Wilson Fraites introduce Wikidata with Spanish-slides.

Tool of the week

• Zelph: Offers powerful analysis capabilities for the complete Wikidata knowledge graph while remaining adaptable for any semantic domain.
• World Cup Heights: An interactive data‑viz app that shows the heights of FIFA World Cup players, arranged so you can quickly compare teams, positions, and overall height distributions.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July.
• The Wikidata Platform team has published the 8th issue of its monthly newsletter. This edition includes updates on the migration of WDQS backend away from Blazegraph, including a transition into the next phase Initial Implementation (pilot) phase following completion of the installation phase. This update also include some Documentation on Query Rewrites the team will like the Wikidata community and all WDQS users to help review and leave feedbacks. see WDP monthly newsletter for more details

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • prisoner number (number or identifier assigned to a prisoner, to be used as a qualifier for P2632 (place of detention))
  • photographer (person who took this photograph)
  • ‎Gmedia rating (video games) (video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system)
  • visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
  • garden (garden of this subject)
  • objects (category theory) (the precise objects of the category (category theory))
  • morphisms (the precise morphisms of the category (category theory))
  • terminal object (the precise terminal object of the category (category theory))
  • initial object (the precise initial object of the category (category theory))
  • products (category theory) (the precise products of the category (category theory))
  • coproducts (category theory) (the precise coproducts of the category (category theory))
  • isomorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • monomorphisms (the precise monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • epimorphisms (the precise epimorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • regular monomorphisms (the precise regular monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • regular epimorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • left adjoint (the left adjoint of the functor)
  • enriched over (the base monoidal category, bicategory, etc. of the enriched category)
  • monoidal category operation (the “tensor product” bifunctor of the monoidal category)
  • 2-morphisms (the precise 2-morphisms of the 2-category)
  • taxon footprint (image of a footprint of this taxon)
• Newest External identifiers: Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, ‎Taiwan Central News Agency news tag ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, Web The Television work ID, Web The Television person ID, U-NEXT person ID, U-NEXT video ID, Sokmil director ID, Sokmil idol ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Répertoire des films classés film ID, ‎regjeringen.no ministry ID, ‎regjeringen.no politician ID, Objectif plumes work ID, National Operator Code (UK), ‎Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Myludo game ID, MyDirtyHobby ID, Maoyan film ID, ‎Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Letterboxd writer ID, KSW organization ID, KSW person ID, KSW place ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, ‎Artistas Visuales Chilenos propertyvalue ID, ‎Canadian Trademark Registration Number, occitanica.eu ID, Hancinema company ID, ZicTrad person ID, H-NEXT Person ID, FOD video ID, Farzonagon ID, d Hits artist ID, ABEMA video ID, 17LIVE ID, ‎regjeringen.no government ID, Pure Adult actress ID, Pure Adult studio ID, ‎GBIF taxon ID, Digital portrait index person (GND) ID, torial username, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, CatDat category ID, CatDat functor ID, CatDat category property ID, CatDat functor property ID, ‎Samtrafiken-vehicle ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Olyrix artist ID, AutorÒc 16-18 author ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review::
  • dielectric strenght (maximum electric field a material can withstand before electrical breakdown occurs)
  • about page URL (URL to the official about page)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Rakuten Books author ID, Rakuten TV adult Person ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, Le GRoG ID, NHK On Demand Program ID, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, GCD character ID, Identificador de agente econômico na ANCINE, 1SCREEN Program ID, Architectenregister-id, LUDAP ID, TakaWiki ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID, BiDünyaFilm film ID, CNUC code, Steady username, NHK ONE Program ID, SongLyrics.com song ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, ClayArena shooter profile ID, Open Collective ID, Anobii author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

• The development team are at an offsite retreat 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: France
• 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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Updates on what to pack (including an umbrella in case it rains whether the weather is hot...or not).

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This Month in GLAM: June 2026

This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue VI, June 2026 Headlines From the team: Tools, tech, and Wikimania Argentina report: New digitization partner Bangladesh report: International Museum Day Edit-a-thon and Workshop held in Dinajpur, Bangladesh Belgium report: Postal Mission on Wikimedia Brazil report: Empowering Institutions through Wikisource Education and GLAM Capacity Building Czech Republic report: Bridging the gap between labs and Wikipedia: continuing cooperation with FZU Egypt report: From Museum Celebrations to Archival Documentation Finland report: Northern Wikimedist meetup in Oulu France report: #1lib1ref Recap and International Archives Week Italy report: Heritage and Community Action Mexico report: Open GLAM in Puebla Netherlands report: Interview with Olaf Janssen, Wikimedia coordinator of the KB, National library of the Netherlands New Zealand report: BAU at Auckland Museum, Otago Uni Library Life and the NZBSI WiR is complete North Macedonia report: Collaboration with the Botanical garden at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Skopje Poland report: Poland Report: New Partnerships, Conferences, and Wikimedians in Residence Serbia report: Opening the Doors of Serbian Heritage: Wikimedia Serbia’s Recent GLAM and Wikidata Successes Spain report: GLAM Labs Futures 2026 Sweden report: Finnish-Swedish cooperation Switzerland report: Exhibition, International Archives Week Panel UK report: Ninth Good Article from Khalili partnership USA report: Philadelphia WikiSalon Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members AvoinGLAM report: Is the sauna still hot? Memory of the World report: New articles 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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The Signpost: 13 July 2026

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

• News and notes: An exclusive club

• In the media: Battle for a soul - who won?

• Opinion: We need to innovate with Wikimedia decision-making

• Recent research: LLMs and NPOV, 20 years of user blocks, Esperanto and Volapük Wikipedias

• News from Diff: How to host Wikicurious in your own community

• Community view: CUNY Newmark Wikimedian-in-Residence Quarterly Brief – April to June 2026

• Special report: Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act - for now

• On the bright side: Fatherhood, weather, and diplomacy

• Op-ed: A Layup Easy Proposal for Wikimedia at 25: Spend 25% of Donations on the Community

• Traffic report: The grass was greener, the light was brighter

• Comix: schnozzed

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2026年第29期技术新闻

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

近况更新 - 面向编辑者

• “调整语气”（Revise Tone）功能可帮助新手编者辨识维基百科条目中可能包含非百科式表述的段落，并鼓励他们考虑调整语气。此功能已在法语、阿拉伯语、英语、葡萄牙语维基百科上进行A/B测试；结果显示，在新手任务中，相较于预设的“修订”（Copyedit）任务，“调整语气”任务的完成率提高了38.7%，且编辑品质并未下降。测试于7月9日结束，该功能现已开放给上述维基站点的所有使用者使用，并可透过社群配置功能来配置。未来计划将“调整语气”功能推广至更多维基站点。
• 7月16日（四），可自订活跃标准来自动移除非活跃导师的社群配置项，将在部分维基站点启用，以确保导师名单保持最新。导师是维基百科的资深贡献者，透过Growth功能自愿在维基上协助新使用者。管理员现可透过Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship进行配置；相关配置将自周四起生效。
• 上周有38件由社群提交的工单得到解决。 例如，维基百科Android应用程序的部分使用者在登入后随即被登出，导致他们无法保持登入状态并编辑页面，此问题现已修正。 [262]

近况更新 - 面向技术贡献者

• 先前，透过使用者脚本或小工具编辑页面时，会导致使用者为该页面设定的监视清单标签被重置，此问题现已修正。 [263]
• 用Safari浏览启用Parsoid的维基站点时出现链接颜色错误（参见phab:T425211）。作为替代措施，在这些站点，维基链接的href属性值将从协定相对URL改为绝对URL（即//...改为https://...）。REST API的输出将保持不变，继续使用协定相对URL。如果有小工具、使用者脚本、机器人、CSS依赖维基连结href属性中的协定相对URL，可能需要更新。 [264]
• 本周软件更新细节： MediaWiki

深入了解

• The Wikimedia Foundation’s Experiment Platform Team has published a blog post reflecting on its first year of structured experimentation. It highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes. Read more.

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

MediaWiki message delivery 2026年7月14日 (二) 00:12 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary #740

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #739.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: GA Kevin - RfP scheduled to end after 14 July 2026 18:40 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Nabbot 2 - Task: Translating English descriptions to Turkish using a predefined dictionary mapping.
  • AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to items about people, where the OpenLibrary author and Wikidata person are the same individual, when every statement is sourced.
  • EquipboardBot - Task: Add Equipboard artist ID (P6912) to Wikidata items for musicians, sourced from Equipboard's own database of public artist identifiers.
• Call for Participation in Improving Constraints
  • Just about any aspect of constraints is in scope, from rewriting existing bots to expanding the power of property constraints to adding new kinds of constraint. If you are interested, sign up in WikiProject Property Constraints/improving.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimania 2026 is fast approaching. Taking place 21 - 25 July in Paris, France. Can't attend? Register for a ticket to the virtual event and watch sessions online.
  • Interested in Wikibase Ontology Federation? Join the July 14 call, see the Cleaning Task Force page for more details.
• Previous events:
  • The 3rd Quarter Wikidata + Wikibase office hour was held. The transcript is available to read:
    Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2026 07 08

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Behind Better Data: Inside Wikidata’s First WikiProjects Days
  • Africa Wiki Challenge 2026 in the Ghanaian Pidgin Community: Documenting “Water for Life” Through Wikimedia Projects
  • Reflecting on progress and planning ahead: Dagbani Wikimedians User Group holds its last quarter team meeting
  • EduWiki Workshop: Combining PETScan and Generative AI for Smarter Wikipedia Editing
  • Why Computational Historians need Wikidata - a substack article by Jim Clifford
• Papers
  • A Demonstration of WikiRAG: An Evidence-based Link Prediction for Wikidata with Retrieval Augmented Generation - WikiRAG is an interactive framework that combines automated link prediction with retrieval‑augmented generation and human validation to reliably complete knowledge graphs like Wikidata by generating candidate links, retrieving supporting evidence, and enabling users to confirm and export validated triples. By Sabu, et al., (2026)
• Videos
  • Using Open Refine by Wikimedia Australia, Paul Duchesne presents "Using OpenRefine" during WikiCon Australia 2026, (National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra).
  • Let’s Get Mappy - making maps on Wikimedia platforms by Wikimedia Australia, Alex Lum presents how location (pushpin) maps, locator maps, and interactive "slippy" local maps end up on Wikipedia, and how infoboxes, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap works together to generate them
  • (繁体中文/zh-TW) Tutorial on Editing Temple Data for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons - recording of a workshop (July 5) on Tutorial on Editing Temple Data for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, held by Wikimedia Taiwan Community and OSM Taiwan.
  • Open data tools for cultural heritage 2nd session in the workshop series “Open Data to Strengthen Online Cultural Heritage,” held March 24, 2026, and organized by the National Library of Uruguay (BNU), Wikimedians of Uruguay, Datysoc, and Data Uruguay.
  • GLAMs and Citizen Science Encouraging and Enabling Participation - Siobhan Leachman presents "citizen science workflows" (BHL, iNaturalist, Bionomia, Wikidata) to show how GLAM's can empower citizen scientists to reuse their collections.

Tool of the week

• rudof can be used as a command line tool or can be embedded as a library using cargo. It can be used to validate RDF data represented with different syntaxes like Turtle, NTriples, to name a few. As well as RDF data available through SPARQL endpoints like Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A Project Chat discussion on the new Mentorship features. Self-enrollment has been enabled with the following requirements - account age: 365 days, edits: 500.
• There is also a proposal to add an advisory message to new accounts that create multiple items.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Rakuten TV adult person ID, KBS News topic ID, Rakuten Books author ID, PTS News Network topic ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, ‎La Grange person ID, ‎Fontaines de Belgique ID, NHK On Demand program ID, 1SCREEN program ID, LUDAP ID, Bianco keyword ID, Architectenregister ID, ‎ClayArena shooter profile ID, ‎Sundsvall Municipality opendata beach ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • relocated from (Object is the original or former {{Q|17334923}} of the permanently relocated {{Q|16222597}})
    • OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType)
    • transforms from (this fictional or mythical entity transforms from that form)
    • Korean Classification of Administrative Districts (code assigned to an administrative district of South Korea in the Korean Classification of Administrative Districts)
  • External identifiers: Anobii book ID, Google Maps Place ID, Viberate Artist ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage style ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage designer ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, Deltarune Wiki article ID, INAPP OA author ID, CNR-IRIS ID, AnimeOshi anime ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal Artist ID, CIDIM Artist ID, Operabook Artist ID, Mizan al-Arab poet ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, OpenStreetMap data item ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, A World Made by Travel person ID, Scent Base notes ID, radio.net IDs, Scent Base perfumer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Items only connected to Telugu Wikipedia (source) - change the language code 'te' to make it work with any other Wikipedia
• Schema examples: French historic monument (E269) - With Wikimania taking place in the French Capital, you can use this entity schema if you feel inspired to or expand items on French monuments.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - a Chinese-animated television franchise.
  • (Français) Project Orthodox Christianity
  • Project SUNY Libraries EMCO
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Govdirectory Poland added several new subpages detailing coverage and progress on State, Local Agencies and Marshall's Offices.
  • Project Property Constraints added a subpage: Improving - a call for participation, as a result of discussions during WikiProjects Days 2026.
• Newest database reports: Most sitelinked Items (with statements)

Development

• Blazegraph migration: We are continuing to prepare the Query UI, Query Builder, constraint checks, etc for the migration to QLever (phab:T425618)
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are investigating some Lua modules to find ones responsible for a lot of unnecessary entries in Watchlist and Recent changes on Wikipedia and co (phab:T429366)
• GraphQL: Added support for negation in property value pair filters (phab:T429580)
• REST API: We are working on the first pieces of support for Lexemes: retrieving a full Lexeme (phab:T429332)

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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翻译通知：2026:Photography policy

梦蝶葬花，您好：

因您曾在Wikimania注册成为中文翻译者，现向您发来通知。“2026:Photography policy”页面现已可供翻译，链接于下：

• 翻译为中文

New section on Copyright rules in France and what they mean in practice.

对于您的努力我们深表感谢。有了您和其他翻译者的努力，才让Wikimania得以成为多语言社区。

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Wikimania翻译协调员示‎, 2026年7月14日 (二) 18:13 (CST)

Wikidata weekly summary 741

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #740.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • RupumpedBot - Task/s: When an Item on a Kenyan river has a Swahili label but no English version, this bot will derive an English label and description.
  • William Avery Bot 14 - Task/s: Change values of url properties in mainspace that link to http://web.archive.org/ to use the https protocol (requested at Bot requests#Make HTTPS for Wayback Machine recurrent)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimania is about to begin. Whether you're attending on-site or virtually, plan your sessions so you don't miss any.
    • Full program / Wikidata-only program
    • Get your virtual ticket
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #91 Aug 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Force11 webinar: Metadata for all with Wikidata will look at three novel applications, WikiCite, the Trans Music Achive and the Pratt Institute. Held online August 26, 13-14:00 UTC. Please register for the access link.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Calling Wikifunctions for der, die, das
  • How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata
  • Altilunium Panoply v26.7.19 : In this latest release, the external Wikidata connection logic has undergone a major architectural overhaul to improve internal trace mapping.
• Videos:
  • (Svenska) Strategic inclusion of library data on Wikidata - first recorded at Digikult 2019, with Alicia Fagerving.
  • (Français) I’ll explain how Wikidata works! (Livestream recording), User:Lyokoï will introduce Wikidata and its concepts and the fundamentals of editing.
  • (繁体中文/zh-TW) Wikivoyage Guidelines for editing Temple information
  • How to use Wikibase for Mixed Methods Research, with Francesco Bailo. Recorded at SICSS Melbourne 2026 (Summer Institute in Computational Social Science).
• Games: Webwoven - a new game has surfaced, powered by Wikidata. Race from start to finish in as few connections as possible. Already includes Leaderboards, daily challenges and multiplayer. Sure to be a hit at future Wikidata events.

Tool of the week

• wikivibes is a tool by Magnus Magnus that play public domain music from Commons, tracked by Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Jobs:
  • (Interim) Engineering Manager - Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects - Hybrid
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform - Remote
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform - Remote

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
    • ‎about page URL (URL to the official about page)
  • External identifiers: Western Orthodox Wiki ID, Steady publication ID, ‎Open Collective ID, ‎Guide du Rôliste Galactique ID, CNUC code, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, CNR-IRIS author ID, Anobii Book ID, Anobii author ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, TakaWiki numeric page ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal artist ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • autoptic examination (time of last direct examination of the inscribed object)
    • Tabular data series (A tabular data series in Commons that models the given concept)
    • data series (A data series about the given topic.)
    • incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
    • former operator (entity, company, military service, or organisation which is notable for previously operated the item, aircraft, vehicle, or other equipment)
    • número de la plaza (square number)
  • External identifiers: PISAI ID, Ko-fi page ID, Scent Base brand ID, Etsy shop name, Overcast podcast ID, Grillplatser.nu ID, Criticker Film ID, HAND ID, Open Language Archives Community language code, identifiant Ciel d'oc d'une publication, ODiD ID, Generic/Numero de Registre Tributari, UntitledDb People ID, MissEvan drama ID, MissEvan sound ID, MissEvan ID, MissEvan voice actor ID, Fmfenxiang FM ID, Fmfenxiang sound ID, Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

• Wikidata Query Service: We are working on adapting the Query Service UI to get it ready for the move to QLever
• Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing to fix small issues found in testing
• Lexemes: We are continuing the work on adding support for Lexemes to the REST API
• Sustainability:
  • We are preparing the migration of some database tables on the client wikis that track the usage of Wikidata's data in articles on Wikipedia and co
  • We are further investigating how many changes from Wikidata that currently get sent to Wikipedia and co don't actually lead to a change in the article to be able to reduce these cases further

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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery（留言） 2026年7月20日 (一) 23:56 (CST)

Tech News: 2026-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Reader Experience team has incorporated community feedback around the placement of watchstar and watchlist buttons for the Reading Lists beta feature, which would allow for saving articles for later reading – a wishlist item to bring the functionality to web. Editors are invited to enable the beta feature to test it out and share their thoughts.
• Suggestion Mode offers edit suggestions within the VisualEditor for improving Wikipedia articles. All suggestions are community-configurable. The TextMatch feature is a way for volunteers to create custom local suggestions. The feature searches in articles for strings of text, and now includes support for regular expressions. This gives volunteers greater precision and flexibility over the kinds of local suggestions they can create. Note: Suggestions can be targeted based on the edit count of the person editing as well as other aspects of the page. You can find examples from other communities for inspiration, including TextMatches that detect: typos, grammar-errors, potential advertisements, clichés, incorrect dash or hyphen usage, non-specific time keywords, outdated names, and more. Any feedback is appreciated.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the SVG Translate tool could use an outdated version of a file, causing existing translations to be overwritten when new ones were uploaded, has now been fixed. Overall, in the last quarter from April – June 2026 about 337 community tasks were resolved by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Updates for technical contributors

• On Parsoid-enabled wikis, Parsoid now renders a maximum of 1,250 images per page. A new tracking category, "media-limit-reached", will be soon made available to identify pages where this limit is reached, making it easier to find content whose media output may have been restricted during rendering. See phab:T430854 for more information and to provide feedback.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2026年7月21日 (二) 13:47 (CST)