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Wikidata weekly summary #690
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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.
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:
- 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!
Tech News: 2025-31
[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 Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Please read the latest update, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish on the topic.
Updates for editors
- The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of widespread problems related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating the message or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction. [1]
- On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named
MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp. [2] 
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
- The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025 will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.
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