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Tech News: 2025-22
[edit]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
- A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
Updates for editors
- Since last week, on all wikis except the largest 20, people using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the new
+
toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is scheduled to happen in June. The
#ifexist
parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of Special:WantedPages, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated. [1]- This week, the Moderator Tools team will launch a new filter to Recent Changes, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.
- Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more. Learn more.
- Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers, WikiGames, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.
- The Newsletter extension that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation of various newsletters for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue. [2]
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- The previously deprecated
ipblocks
views in Wiki Replicas will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the newblock
andblock_target
views instead. Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Wikidata and Sister Projects is a multi-day online event that will focus on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The event runs from May 29 – June 1. You can read the Program schedule and register.
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Wikidata weekly summary #681
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week leading up to 2025-05-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #680.
Help with Translations.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 12 - Task(s): Add PubMed publication ID(P698) to items that lack it, but have DOI(P356), which allows it to be looked up using the PubMed API.
- Talk: Wikidata Identifiers (No value for missing Ids): about how to indicate that a certain entity is absent in a given database
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wikidata and Sister Projects
During 4 half-days of sessions showcasing and showing how Wikidata supports and is integrated to the other Wikimedia projects
From Thursday, May 29 from 16:00 UTC to Sunday, June 1 13:30 UTC.
Registration link - Program - Questions? (Talk page)
- Wikidata and Sister Projects
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Taiwan Street-view Expedition (Huwei and Tuku, Yunlin, Taiwan) - joint OSM and Wikidata activity
- Papers
- (Italian) Termini, dati e collegamenti: ‘conversazioni’ tra il Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario e Wikidata: This study is about the history of the cooperation between the Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario (the main thesaurus used by Italian libraries for subject indexing) and Wikimedia projects, initially Wikipedia and now mainly Wikidata
- WikiDBGraph: Large-Scale Database Graph of Wikidata for Collaborative Learning By Wu et al., (2025) — This study introduces WikiDBGraph, a network of 100,000 linked databases from Wikidata, using 17 million connections to improve AI learning and reveal challenges in handling interconnected data.
- Filling in the Blanks? A Systematic Review and Theoretical Conceptualisation for Measuring WikiData Content Gaps By Ripoll et al., (2025) – The paper systematically reviews content gaps in Wikidata, proposing a typology of missing data and a framework to measure these gaps, highlighting their impact on knowledge quality and completeness.
- AI in Data Management and Analysis By Haber et al., (2025) – This paper explores how AI streamlines academic data tasks like cleaning and analysis, whike tools like Google DataPrep, Airtable and Wikidata help researchers, but human oversight is key to maintaining accuracy and ethics in research.
- Videos
- Using PetScan to create lists from Wikipedia and Wikidata By Tamsin Braisher (Dr Thneed).
- (Spanish) Connecting Collections: Wikidata as a Bridge between Museums and Communities By Museo de los Museos and Carla Toro.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Toolkit The Wikidata Toolkit is an open-source Java library for using data from Wikidata and other Wikibase sites. Its main goal is to make it easy for external developers to take advantage of this data in their own applications.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Some of the hypothesis involve Wikidata. You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Geographicus cartographer ID, Wikibase of Czech Librarians ID, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Ons Land ID, VejinBooks author ID, PC98 Images game ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki ID, CvLAC ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, WürzburgWiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, AW-Wiki ID, Tüik village ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- LSF rating (Indonesia film classification administered by the Indonesian Film Censorship Board)
- image of cosplay (cosplay that depicts this character or person)
- Classificazione Guizzi degli strumenti musicali (Guizzi's classification system of musical instruments)
- name translation (translation into native language)
- External identifiers: Concertzender ID, MCW-PL article ID, Polska Biblioteka Muzyczna PBM, norsk soldatregister person ID, Databank verkiezingsuitslagen, TNT Sports soccer team ID, NHK Archives Portal Broadcasting History ID, Lithuanian lake ID, Sierra Wiki article ID, Fondazione Ragghianti Fototeca image ID, archive creator archieven.nl
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Exemplars of the Magna Carta (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Revitalizing UK History- A wikiproject with the aim of enriching UK historical figures.
- Showcase Items:The BFG (Q19689203) - 2016 film by Steven Spielberg
- Showcase Lexemes: trucco (L580449) - Italian noun (ˈtruk.ko) meaning "deceptive ploy", "makeup", or "strategic maneuver"
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #682
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week leading up to 2025-06-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #681.
Help with Translations.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Wikidata Translation Bot - task/s: Automate translation of Item Labels and Descriptions across supported languages and submit them using the official Wikidata API.
- New request for comments: Mass-editing policy
- Closed request for comments:
- Rename PeakFinder ID (P3770) - Property was renamed.
- Domain name as data - property domain name (P13337) was created.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our first event will include guests from the Wikidata Search team to discuss the recent graph split project. Join us Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #77 June 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- Revitalizing UK History #June 7 Time 16:00 UTC Revitalizing UK History
- Just missed it?
- Wikidata and Sister Projects: full day videos and presentation slides are being made available on the program page.
- Coordinate Me 2025, the contest to add geographic coordinates (P625) for countries with low representation has ended. Who will be declared winner?
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Wikidata promotes Sister Projects through interwiki links SLUB Open Science Lab writer Jens Bemme has put together a comprehensive article covering the recent online event and many examples of Wikidata being used.
- Papers
- MAKIEVAL: A Multilingual Automatic Wikidata-based Framework for Cultural Awareness Evaluation for LLMs By Zhao et al., (2025) - This paper presents MAKIEVAL, a framework for evaluating cultural awareness in LLMs across languages, showing that models exhibit stronger cultural awareness when prompted in English.
- Conversational Lexicography: Querying Lexicographic Data on Knowledge Graphs with SPARQL through Natural Language By Sennrich & Ahmadi (2025) - This paper develops a natural language interface for retrieving lexicographic data from Wikidata, creating a taxonomy and dataset, and evaluating language models, with GPT-3.5-Turbo showing the best generalization despite scalability challenges.
- UAQFact: Evaluating Factual Knowledge Utilization of LLMs on Unanswerable Questions By Tan et al., (2025) - This paper introduces UAQFact, a bilingual dataset for evaluating LLMs on unanswerable questions, showing that models struggle to fully utilize stored factual knowledge even with external support.
- Videos
- Listful Thinking:Using Wikidata to support editing workflows By Dr Thneed
- (French) Using Wikidata to gain visibility on the internet? By Nelly Darbois
- How to create a SPARQL Query to search Wikidata Item Description By vlogize
- (Spanish) Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata tutorial for the subject of Virreinal Art By Luis Alvaz
- Wikidata and Sister Projects (YouTube Playlist) - full daily recordings from the Wikidata and Sister Projects event.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Qrank is a ranking signal for Wikidata entities. It gets computed by aggregating page view statistics for Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikibooks, Wikispecies and other Wikimedia projects. For example, according to the QRank signal, the fictional character Pippi Longstocking ranks lower than Harry Potter, but still much higher than the obscure Äffle & Pferdle.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Should I watch this? - Enter a film title or IMDb ID to get a recommendation, uses data from Wikidata.
- Job Openings - want to help shape the future of Wikidata or Wikibase?
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
- cosplay of (characters that are cosplayed in this image or video)
- External identifiers: espn.com soccer team ID, Yale LUX ID, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, verkiezingsuitslagen database ID, Norwegian soldier register 1940 ID, Polish Music Library PBM ID, MCW-PL article ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- UK Mutual Registration Number (identifier for an organisation in the UK's Mutuals Public Register)
- External identifiers: Scilit organization ID, paleo.ru person ID, identifiant Assemblée nationale du Québec non-élu, ThinkyGames genre ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, MAI person ID, istina.msu.ru journal ID, MultimediaWiki page ID, Submarine Cable Map ID, Nederlands Film Festival person ID, CTS URN, Scientific heritage of Russia person ID, Virtual necropolis of Ukrainian emigration person ID, Russian Cycling Federation person ID, The Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors person ID, Yandex Books author ID, Theatre museums of Russia person ID, Reabilitovani istoriyeyu person ID, CARLA ID, Boosty author ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Schema examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject WordNet
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Newest database reports:list of the most linked category page items
- Showcase Items: Captain America: Civil War (Q18407657) - 22016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo
- Showcase Lexemes: (L1250690) spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb "switch off" or "to die"
Development
- Vector 2022 skin: We enabled dark mode for Items, Properties and Lexemes on Wikidata (phab:T389330)
- Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with the technical investigation.
- Diffs: We merged a volunteer patch by Matěj Suchánek to format quantity diffs a bit more sensibly (phab:T394585)
- Search in the UI: We enabled the new search on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org. It lets you easily search in other entity types as well now, not just Items. Please give it a try.
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on integrating simple search, specifically phrase matching (phab:T389011)
- Query Service: We are working on an experiment to add a small dialog to inform people about alternative access methods for very simple queries that don't require SPARQL (phab:T391261)
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!
Tech News: 2025-23
[edit]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
- The Chart extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy Graph extension.
Updates for editors
- It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's citation generator. Administrators can now set a default template by using the
_default
key in the local MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when new item types are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template. [3] View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using
action=login
oraction=clientlogin
will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using bot passwords or using a loginless authentication method such as OAuth are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; usingaction=login
without a bot password was deprecated in 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses. [4] - From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is
async
/await
syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015. [5] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Scholarship applications to participate in the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can apply here. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).
- An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.
- A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
- History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.
- An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
- An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in June 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Tech News: 2025-24
[edit]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
- The Trust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page, and join a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.
Updates for editors
The watchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback. [6]

- The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some have already received this design change, a few will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). [7][8]
- Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts revealed automatically during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards. [9]
- This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [10]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator.
- Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects, named
pageImage
andpageAssessments
. [11][12] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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This Month in GLAM: May 2025
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Wikidata weekly summary #683
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week leading up to 2025-06-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #682.
Help with Translations.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Coinhoe - RfP scheduled to end after 10 June 2025 23:49 (UTC)
Events
- Upcoming events: New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our second event will be a conversation with Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, the Wikidata frontend which generates and presents scholarly profiles based on WikiCite content. They'll speak to Scholia's current state and roadmap, with consideration for the recent Wikidata graph split. Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. More info and Zoom links: project page.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Graph-Linguistic Fusion: Using Language Models for Wikidata Vandalism Detection: resources to reproduce training and evaluation procedure for the paper Graph-Linguistic Fusion: Using Language Models for Wikidata Vandalism Detection
- Cataloguing guidelines for representing the Memory of the World International Register on Wikidata Google Doc to shape the process of a coming data upload: comments are open.
- GLAM:Memory of the World Report: Hannah Drummen at UNESCO, alongside data expert Martin, has completed a structured dataset of 496 International Register items, ready for bulk upload to Wikidata in June, with an aim to enhance accessibility and define best practices for future updates.
- Wikidata QID updates to BHL catalogue: The BHL Lead Developer, Mike Lichtenberg, is ensuring periodic Wikidata Qid refreshes in the BHL Catalogue, with the working group advising a downloadable post-refresh report for OpenRefine integration, to be sent to the BHL Metacat group for reconciliation by Siobhan or other Wikidata editors.
- Wikidata training & Datathon in Indonesia: Wikimedia Indonesia hosts WikiLatih Wikidata training to enhance skills in editing Indonesian cultural heritage data on Wikidata, while Datathon challenges participants to make the most edits on museum-related topics in Indonesia.
- Papers
- Wikidata for Botanists: Benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data By von Mering et al., (2025) - This paper explores Wikidata as a multilingual open knowledge base for botany, highlighting its role in connecting botanical information across sources, and calling on the botanical community to enhance its content.
- CS-KG 2.0: A Large-scale Knowledge Graph of Computer Science By Dessí et al., (2025) - This paper introduces CS-KG 2.0, an advanced AI-powered knowledge graph built from 15 million research papers, designed to enhance scientific exploration by structuring and interconnecting vast amounts of computer science literature.
- Videos
- Using the Wiki List tool - GoogleSheet with formulae for retrieving Wikidata values and writing QuickStatements commands.
- Introduction to Wikidata By Robin Isadora Brown and Lane Rasberry
- Wikidata Editing By Kusaal Wikipedia Community
- (Portuguese) Federating academic SPARQL searches in Wikidata By Tiago Lubiana
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Phonemes This is the web application developed specifically for Wikidata IOLab. In here you can add phonemes to a whole bunch of languages, basing your work on the work that the brazilian students of their national olympiad did while editing Wikipedia.
- Should I watch this? is a tool that helps users decide whether a movie or show is worth watching.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes
- Guizzi's classification of musical instruments (Guizzi's classification system of musical instruments)
- single taken from the album (indicates the album from which the item is taken)
- Newest External identifiers: GameSpot platform ID, OberpfalzWiki article ID, Private Enterprise Number, TNT Sports soccer team ID, Fondazione Ragghianti Fototeca image ID, ROAR ID, 15min.lt theme ID, FMJD person ID, NAQ non-elected person ID, paleo.ru person ID, Sierra Wiki article ID
- New External identifier property proposals to review:
- Biblioteca Pública (<nowiki>{{TranslateThis</nowiki>)
- Libretexts ID (the world's largest collection of free OER textbooks online)
- External identifiers: identifiant Évêques suisses, Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID, Deaf Movie Database, Biographical Dictionary of Affiliated Dissemination of Literacy among Georgians ID, Biographical Dictionary of Physicians of Georgia ID, Biographical Dictionary of Athletes of Georgia ID, Biographical Dictionary of Winemakers of Georgia ID, matricule number, inn, Debian Wiki article, Desura game ID (archived), Diccionario de catedráticos españoles de derecho ID, QUDT dimension ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject highlights: Names/Belarusian - This WikiProject aims to add structured and linguistic data to Wikidata to enable the study of people's names across all time periods, regions, and languages.
- Showcase Items: Ant-Man (Q5901134) - 2015 film directed by Peyton Reed
Development
- Mobile editing of statements: We are doing initial development focusing on technical investigations and basic UI elements (phab:T394292, phab:T394886)
- Lexemes: We are looking into a rare error when trying to do undo certain Lexeme edits (phab:T392372)
- Watchlist/Recent changes on Wikipedia: We continued working on showing labels instead of IDs in the edit summaries of Wikidata changes that are shown in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co (phab:T388685)
- Wikibase REST API: Finishing touches on simple search (phab:T383126)
- Query Service UI: Added experimental popup to point people running very simple queries to other available access methods (phab:T391264)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- 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!
Feedback requests from the Feedback Request Service
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Wikidata weekly summary #684
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week leading up to 2025-06-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #683.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 - Program Call-for-Proposals: Deadline 15 June.
- COSCUP 2025 (Q134950534) Open Street Map x Wikidata Track - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Q699543) 9 August - 10 August.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Wikibase Faceted Search Released (demo video)
- DecomissionedAircraftMap (see tool below) - The Decommissioned Aircraft Map project uses Wikidata to enhance its mapping of historic aircraft by pulling images from linked Wikidata entries. Users can contribute by adding or correcting Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap, ensuring accurate representation of aircraft locations and visuals. By Watmildon.
- Videos: Querying Wikidata using tools such as QuickStatements and Petscan - Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Visualization: a visualization tool for Wikidata SPARQL queries
- DecomissionedAircraftMap (as a demonstration of the power of OpenStreetMap into Wikidata): pulls geodata for displayed aircraft from OpenStreetMap and generates thumbnails from linked Wikidata entries.
- Query split tester (Beta): webtool to see the impact on the graph split on your SPARQL query.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Nominations for the Coolest Tools Award 2025 are open. Nominate your favorite tool! Nominations are due by the 25th of this month already.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes
- breed belongs to taxon (taxon to which members of this breed (or these breeds) belong)
- Newest External identifiers: CARLA ID, Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID, ThinkyGames genre ID
- New External identifier property proposals to review:
- worn on (part of the body where an item of clothing, equipment, or jewelry is worn)
- rewards this type of work (kind of work for which an award is given)
- sign meaning ()
- trailer of (works that this trailer video represents)
- External identifiers: Facebook image ID, DE-BIAS ID, Author identifier in FragTrag, Niedersächsische Personen-ID, FBref match ID, FBref competition ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: EMCO Wikidata CoP - EMCO promotes the discovery and use of the world’s knowledge by supporting metadata producers in library and other cultural heritage communities.
- Showcase Items: The Times (Q50008) - British daily national newspaper based in London
- Showcase Lexemes: right (L3348) - English adjective (rīt) meaning "opposite of left", "correct/just", or "politically conservative"
Development
- Mobile editing:
- Share your feedback on the new prototype that brings statement editing on Items to mobile.
- We continued base work for making editing statements on mobile possible.
- Simple search is now available in the Wikibase REST API! You can find information and leave feedback here.
- Lexemes: We’re working on a WikibaseLexeme error that happens when trying to revert the deletion of a form that was already undeleted (phab:T392372)
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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Updates for editors
- You can nominate your favorite tools for the sixth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.
View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post.
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