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Wikidata weekly summary #672

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670

Discussions

• New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 - of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)?

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
  • Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at 9am PT / 16:00 UTC to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack here. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."
  • (German) Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.
  • REST in Rust by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"
• Videos
  • Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases. Put together by Valerie
  • Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities
  • (Chinese) Open Data Day Taiwan 2025: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page
  • Wikidata as an Open Data Resource: Ian Watt at Open Source SG
  • Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.

Tool of the week

• Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• An update regarding the WDQS backend has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.
• Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.
• The Wikidata Vector Database prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saadewikimedia.de
• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting services)
  • AI-generation prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate this AI-generated media or work)
  • data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
• Newest External identifiers: Wikishire article ID, HelloAsso organization ID, Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise person ID, Graceful17 entity ID, ‎Game Input Database ID, DRTV ID, Calindex person ID, Historia Hispánica ID, ‎TERMDAT ID, Kulturdatenbank ID, DDLC entry ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, ‎Captain Coaster coaster ID, Memoria Chilena ID, Jamendo track ID, MikuWiki article ID, ‎ZOOM Platform product ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online organization ID, ‎SteamDB tech ID, ‎Big Fish Games game ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, Newsweek topic ID, booru tag
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations)
  • accused (person or organization who has been accused of carrying out this harmful, illegal, or immoral act without having received a criminal conviction or where the accused have been acquitted in a court of law)
  • applies to volume (volume of the item (usually edition of a work) to which the claim applies)
  • oxygen endurance (The maximum time a submarine, spacecraft or enclosed vehicle can sustain life using its onboard oxygen supply.)
  • Coefficient of thermal expansion ()
  • fracture toughness ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, Yale LUX ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, Swimcloud swimmer ID, CACI company ID, VD 16 ID, World Higher Education Database ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, JSIC code, Macrotransactions game ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, NexusMods mod ID, Thunderstore game ID, SideQuest app ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, National Academy of Engineering member ID, DGO ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, Encyclopaedia of Islam (Arabic edition) ID, Rodovid family ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Location of fire stations in Spain (source)
  • Oldest known individual per taxon (pre-20th century) (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: AncientMaths
• WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and on cividata.org. Help expanding it!
• Newest database reports: German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category (source)
• Showcase Items: Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
• Showcase Lexemes: Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
• Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
• Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
• Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)

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 #672 (correct version!)

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #671

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:Request for admin flag for MsynBot - From 2021 through 2024, this bot has implemented the 2019 RfC “semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items” by maintaining page protections based on the outcome, d:Wikidata:Protection policy#Highly used items. The admin flag got lost due to bot inactivity but the bot operation could be resumed immediately if the admin flag is given back.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • AAFRennes2025, 26-28 Mars 2025
  • 5-6 April & 12 April: Scholia Hackathon
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects to take place May 29 - June 1. Please send us your session ideas, we still have lots of space for proposals. This is a great chance to highlight the benefits of Wikidata use in other WM projects. See Talk page for proposals.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Enhance Your Wikibase With Extensions
  • Editing Lexemes with your little finger
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition by Jean-Fred
• Thread: Who wins in a Wikipedia race between GPT-4.5, o1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and @OpenAI's new Computer-Using Agent?

Tool of the week

• Lexica - a mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile Editing of Statements - You have been asking for the ability to edit statements from mobile devices for years, this project will make editing statements on Wikidata Items more accessible and user-friendly for mobile users. Sign up to participate in prototype testing and interviews with our UX team
• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
  • External identifiers: booru tag, Steam Group numeric ID, Kompass company ID, ‎Macrotransactions game ID, Thunderstore game ID, ‎JSR package ID, ‎GitLab topic ID, Amazon Music track ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • levels (levels, maps, episodes, chapters or stages of this video game)
    • Scilit scholar ID (author identifier on {{Q|77125337}})
    • وزن صرفي عربي (A feature to adjust the pattern of Arabic words in lexemes)
    • باب صرفي للأفعال العربية الثلاثية المجردة (Morphology of the Arabic triliteral verbs)
    • land degradation (The amount of land that is degraded by an object. Mainly for infrastructure projects)
    • Research projects that contributed to this data set (This property allows to identify research projects that they have contributed to or created an item)
    • Platform height (platform height above the top of the rail (or above the road for buses))
    • extended by (addons for this item) (Class of software this software is extended by)
  • External identifiers: Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Delfi.ee theme ID, identifiant Dezède d'un individu, SeqCode Registry ID, Openalfa street ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, A Dictionary of Education entry ID, TDKIV wikibase ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • 2024 Population Census in Uganda (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal/Liste des artistes de la collection
• Showcase Items: Cinderella (Q15046091) - 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
• Showcase Lexemes: страсть (L166968) - Russian noun that can mean "love", "passion", "desire", or "suffering."

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We finished work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126) and started on the one for Properties (phab:T386377)
• Vector 2022 skin: We fixed a number of the remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039) and sitelink positioning (phab:T316797)
• Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search in other entity types (Properties, Lexemes, EntitySchemas) besides Items (phab:T321543)

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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

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The Signpost: 14 May 2025

• News and notes: WMF to kick off new-CEO quest as Iskandar preps to move on — Supreme Court nixes gag of Wiki page for other India court row on ANI — code-heads give fix-up date for Charts in lieu of long-dead Graph gizmo

• In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide

• Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?

• In focus: On the hunt for sources: Swedish AfD discussions

• Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie

• Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing

• Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)

• Comix: Collection

• From the archives: Humor from the Archives

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #202 is out: Location of Abstract Content

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we invite you to a consultation about where should the content of Abstract Wikipedia be stored, we invite you to our next online presentation, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:56, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 4

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	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2025 1 — 30 April

Volume 3 — Issue 4
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News On 1 April, Fram2 became the first crewed mission to enter into a retrograde orbit around Earth's poles.
Article of the month Apollo Abort Guidance System The Apollo Abort Guidance System (AGS, also known as Abort Guidance Section) was a backup computer system providing an abort capability in the event of failure of the Lunar Module's primary guidance system (Apollo PGNCS) during descent, ascent or rendezvous. As an abort system, it did not support guidance for a lunar landing. The AGS was designed by TRW independently of the development of the Apollo Guidance Computer and PGNCS. It was the first navigation system to use a strapdown Inertial Measurement Unit rather than a gimbaled gyrostabilized IMU (as used by PGNCS). Although not as accurate as the gimbaled IMU, it provided satisfactory accuracy with the help of the optical telescope and rendezvous radar. It was also lighter and smaller in size.	Image of the month Falcon 9 Full Thrust Starting development in 2014, the Falcon 9 Full Thrust is a variant of the Falcon 9 that is the first orbital rocket to have a first stage successfully land vertically after launch. The stage shown here is from the April 2016 SpaceX CRS-8 mission, after landing on the autonomous spaceport drone ship Of Course I Still Love You.
Members New Members: Willbill6272 (14 April) Elleh3113 (16 April) Number of active members: 208. Total number of members: 433. April Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 Block 5 — Fram2 (1 Apr. at 00:46 UTC) (success) Long March 2F/G — Shenzhou 20 (24 Apr. at 09:17 UTC) (success) Atlas V 551 — 27 KuiperSats (28 Apr. at 23:01) (success) Firefly Alpha — LM-400 Demo (29 Apr. at 13:37) (launch failure)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 30 April 2025. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 28 15 8 58 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 123 123 A 1 2 2 5 GA 11 27 33 55 1 127 B 15 84 200 221 1 521 C 45 162 581 774 31 1,593 Start 16 144 1,017 2,584 444 4,205 Stub 9 204 2,049 244 2,506 List 10 120 108 236 1 30 505 Category 1,264 1,264 Disambig 47 47 File 223 223 Portal 55 55 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 42 131 1,243 1,418 Template 528 528 NA 1 1 Other 29 29 Assessed 105 579 2,206 6,064 3,623 751 13,328 Unassessed 14 125 139 Total 105 579 2,206 6,078 3,623 876 13,467 Monthly Changes Since March 2025, four new high-importance, two new mid-importance, twenty new low-importance, and two new NA-importance articles have been created. Four unknown-importance articles have been removed, for a total of 24 new articles. One article has been promoted to Featured Article status. There are also five more B-class articles, eighteen more C-class articles, eleven more Start-class articles, six fewer Stub-class articles, and six more lists. Special thanks to Neopeius for significantly working on some of the Timeline of spaceflight articles (specifically 1953, 54, 55, and most recently 56). Thanks also to Sotakarhu for table work in the latter.
Discuss & propose changes to The Downlink at The Downlink talk page. To unsubscribe from the newsletter remove your name from the Mailing list. Newsletter contributors: Ships&Space

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Wikidata weekly summary #680

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #679.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: THEbotIT 2 - New functional aspect to automatic creation of items describing lexicographical articles of Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). The described topics of an RE article should also link back to the article.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • On Thursday, 22 May 2025, from 10:00 to 12:00 (CEST), digiS Berlin will offer an online workshop titled "Wikidata for GLAMs." The event is free, open to all, and conducted in German. More information and registration is here.
  • (Italian) Introduction to Wikidata and Wikimedia projects - LM43 May 29, 2025 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
  • The Wikidata and Sister Projects online event is nearly here! Four days of sessions on the use of Wikidata in the Wikimedia Projects, join us from May 29 - June 1. Register here. See the Program schedule.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Diff Blog: Spotlight on Wikidata in the WikiLearn newsletter: WikiLearn's May 2025 update highlights how its online courses, including Wikidata 101, are effectively helping Wikimedians develop key skills, reduce edit reversion rates, and foster engagement across multiple language communities.
  • The Meaning Behind Our Place Names - The Open Etymology Map uses Wikidata-linked etymology tags in OpenStreetMap to reveal the origins of place names, offering an interactive way to explore the historical and linguistic roots of streets, towns, and landmarks
• Papers
  • Preprint: Scholia Chemistry: access to chemistry in Wikidata - This study explores Wikidata's role in chemistry, highlighting how thousands of new chemicals were added, how new properties and database links enhance chemical representation, and how Scholia
  • Making an Under-Resourced Language Available on the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: Quechua Language By Huaman et. al., (2025) - This study integrates Quechua lexical data into Wikidata, adding 1,591 lexemes along with senses, forms, and pronunciation audio, demonstrating how Wikidata can support under-resourced languages in AI-driven Knowledge Graphs to promote linguistic diversity and inclusivity.
  • Knowledge-Based Aerospace Engineering - A Systematic Literature Review By Wittenborg et al., (2025) - This study systematically reviews Knowledge-Based Aerospace Engineering, analyzing over 1,000 articles, constructing a knowledge graph mapped to Wikidata, and demonstrating how structured, semantic-based approaches can enhance aerospace design, collaboration, and sustainable aviation
• Videos
  • (Italian) Introduction to Wikidata for archives
  • (Sweden) Stockholm Archipelago Trail OSM Wikidata SDC By Magnus Salgo
  • (German) Instructional video on SPARQL queries in Wikidata By OER4SDI

Tool of the week

• Wikidata-Taxonomy is a Command-line tool and library to extract taxonomies from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We are improving and expanding our Help and documentation pages, please tell us what you think: Parser Functions

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes
  • third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
  • context window (maximum length of an input token in the language model)
  • ‎most populous urban area (city or town with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
• Newest External identifiers: Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID, vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, ‎Substack handle, Sport Express football match ID, R-Sport match ID, ‎ComputerLanguage.com definition, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Person), ‎RFI station ID (timetables), Geographicus cartographer ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • related video (less fitting video, used only because a better alternative is not available. If an appropriate video of the item is available, use P10 instead. Value should not be a generic placeholder.)
  • cosplay of (character(s) that are cosplayed in this image or video)
  • breed belongs to taxon (taxon to which members of this breed (or these breeds) belong)
  • Reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
  • over (base field of this vector space, base ring of this module, pair of base rings for this bimodule, base monoidal category of this enriched category, etc.)
  • has WikiProject (WikiProject which has this topic as its main subject)
  • mixing engineer (person responsible for mixing the different sonic elements of a piece of recorded music into a final version of a track)
  • normally caused by (item that normally causes this effect, but that is not necessarily the cause here)
  • criminal motive (verified reasoning behind a crime)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: registration number of japanese invoice system, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Harper's tag, Database of Czech Librarians ID, Open Location Code, CABR-identifier, Onsland-identifier, National Library of Spain Alma ID (BNE v2.0), PC98 Images game ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki-ID, R-Sport team ID, WürzburgWiki ID, AW-Wiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, OberpfalzWiki article ID, Tüik village id, viberate.com Artist Id, African Music Library Band ID, Delfi.lv theme ID, ESPN soccer team ID, 15min.lt theme ID, trove.scot ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur PRET19, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, IMDb Interest ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of pubs in Scotland (source)
  • Data about all 60 members of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject_zelph - WikiProject zelph focuses on integrating a semantic network system with Wikidata to enhance data quality.
• Showcase Items: The Jungle Book (Q16857406) - 2016 film directed by Jon Favreau
• Showcase Lexemes: pukka (L339628) - English adjective (puh-kuh) that can mean "genuine", "highest class", or "complete"

Development

• UI: We are putting the finishing touches on the new search box that will make it easier to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas as well (phab:T321543)
• Dark mode: We fixed the last known issues and are getting ready to roll it out
• Mobile statement editing: We are refining prototypes for testing and started technical investigations
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on simple search, focusing on phrase matching now (phab:T389011)
• Query Service: We are working on a small experiment to show a notification for simple queries that are better run on other APIs (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!

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Tech News: 2025-21

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 Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock 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 Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.

Updates for editors

• From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more.
• Multiblocks will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please contact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to Special:Block?usecodex=1, and can test the full multiblocks functionality on testwiki. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the help page for more information. [1]
• Later this week, the Special:SpecialPages listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been redesigned to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be previewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task. [2]
• The Chart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the deployment timeline.
• Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries: Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam, and Dhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
• Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement understand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are generated video, the Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game and the Discord bot.
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed. [3]

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets and user scripts that interact with Special:Block may need to be updated to work with the new manage blocks interface. Please review the developer guide for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the talk page. [4]
• The mw.title object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named isDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function. [5]
• User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with mw.loader.load. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop 2025, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can register now.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 9

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on 6 May. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

• Global Trends Community Workshop: Join Foundation staff and trustees on May 28th from 16:00 UTC for an online community workshop about global trends impacting Wikimedia. This workshop is part of continuous conversations aimed at connecting the movement and collaborating on the Foundation's annual plan.
• Wiki Causerie: Wiki Causerie call with a focus on discussing the global trends to help shape the Foundation's annual plan will be held on May 23.
• ESEAP Summit: The ESEAP Strategy Summit 2025 will take place in Manila, Philippines on May 23–25.
• EduWiki Conference 2025: The EduWiki Conference 2025 will take place in Bogotá, Colombia on May 30–June 1.
• Wiki Workshop 2025: The 12th annual Wiki Workshop will take place online on May 21–22.
• U4C Call for Candidates: The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee 2025 elections are accepting candidates until May 28.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Content Translation: A decade of consistent improvements to the Content Translation tool yields over two million Wikipedia articles.
• Charts Extension: After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment. Please consult our page to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki.
• Abstract Wikipedia: Where Abstract Wikipedia fits into the new Wikimedia AI strategy.
• Tech News: The “Get shortened URL” link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently. More updates from Tech News week 19 and 20.
• Topical Lists: Read about the important role of topical lists in supporting campaigns and editing, as well as strategies for the future development, implementation, and sustainment of list-building support.
• Two-factor Authentication: From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Read the announcement.
• Mobile Apps: The iOS app team is experimenting with an "Activity Tab" on Turkish, Spanish, French, and Chinese Wikipedias to see if inviting new editors to add images through Suggested Edits increases engagement. This insight will guide future improvements to the app experience.

Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity
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• Learning Clinic: The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic will be about "Communication and Cultural Sensitivity in Conflict Resolution - Best practices (Part 2)" and will take place on May 27 at 13:00 UTC.
• The Wikipedia Library: An important milestone for The Wikipedia Library (TWL) has been reached. More than a million links have been added to Wikimedia projects by Library users.
• Wikisource: Watch the video celebrating the global Wikisource community in safeguarding our cultural heritage for future generations.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• India Legal Update: Good news from our legal team, the Supreme Court of India set aside the Delhi High Court’s order directing the takedown of the Asian News International v. Wikimedia Foundation English Wikipedia article. The Supreme Court’s verdict upholds the right to report and share information on matters of public interest, including legal proceedings in open courts.
• UK Legal Challenge: Wikimedia Foundation brings legal challenge to new UK Online Safety Act requirements.
• UCoC Updates: The Universal Code of Conduct 2025 annual review concluded, with community voting approving the proposed changes to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:45, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #203 is out: Ongoing consultation about the Location for Abstract Content

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we invite you again to a consultation about where should the content of Abstract Wikipedia be stored, we present some updates about existing and new types, we remind you of our next online presentation, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:54, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-22

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. [6]
• 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. [7]
• 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 new block and block_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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MediaWiki message delivery 20:02, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #681

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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)

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

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!

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