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Wikidata weekly summary #678
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #677.
Translations are available
week leading up to 2025-05-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #677.
Translations are available
Discussions
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: Mr Robot - No consensus reached.
Events
- Past events: Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
- Upcoming events:
- Volunteer Supporters Network/Wikidata for beginners May 16, 2025
- Wikidata and Sister Projects May 29 - June 1, 2025. register here
- Wikidata and Research Conference June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence.
- Call for Proposals:Wikidata Taiwan x OpenStreetMap Taiwam @ COSCUP 2025,Submission Deadline: May 10, 2025 (AoE).
- WikidataCon 2025 Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2025. Register here
- Ongoing event: Coordinate Me 2025 May 1 - May 31, 2025
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- WikidataCon 2025 - programme track categories are ready - time to start thinking about session proposals!
- checking OSM IDs between OSM and Wikidata By Michaël
- WikiFlix, a new free streaming platform goes live
- Papers
- How to Develop a Privacy-First Entity Recognition System By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
- Detecting and Masking Personal Data in Text By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
- EA2N: Evidence-Based AMR Attention Network for Fake News Detection By Gupta et. al., (2025)
Tool of the week
- OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap, is a project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. It was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways .
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ever played Redactle? Lucas put together a Wikidata version of it. Can you guess the Item? Still needs a bit of work but you can try it out now.
- EditGroups has a new maintainer
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- organization unit code (organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item)
- likes of fictional character (particular likes which applies to this fictional character as (usually) stated in their official profile or biography)
- dislikes of fictional character (particular dislikes which applies to this fictional character as stated in their official profile or biography)
- number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
- RAM capacity (amount of volatile random-access memory (RAM) modules used by this device)
- species protection status (Links species, habitat or biotope type with the regulation international or national that protects this species)
- Nation Ranking (primary) (main/general ranking for a cycling tournament season)
- Nation Ranking (secondary) (youth/U23 ranking for this cycling tournament season)
- External identifiers: badmintoncn.com star ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk work or dubbing ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, JSIC code, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, Dark Ride Database ride ID, Dark Ride Database park ID, Dark Ride Database manufacturer ID, Databáze her platform ID, Mourisco Catalogue work ID, Radiomuseum vacuum tube/transistor ID, CAMRA pub ID, MobyGames attribute ID, MetalTabs.com track ID, Moure's Catalog ID, PromoDJ track ID, Euronews topic ID, Audiomack artist ID, Audiomack album ID, Europe PMC preprint ID, SMB-digital asset ID, Audiomack song ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (glossary and index of terms) ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, Itch.io tag ID, Corago singer ID, MoNA spectrum ID, La Croix author ID, Billie Jean King Cup player ID 2024, TeamUSA.com athlete ID, Snopes ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID, PyPI organization name, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID, PlayStation Museum product ID, Urban Dictionary ID, GOG Dreamlist ID, RCI number, Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID, Orthodox World ID, Coasterpedia ID, Ethnologue language family ID, factordb ID, SCImago Institutions Rankings ID, UniRank ID, Bibliometrics of Ukrainian science person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Context Window (The maximum length of an input token in the language model.)
- contains nutrient (Food contains nutrient)
- underlying data (this mathematical structure has these data as part)
- échelle de Beaufort (empirical measure describing wind speed based on observed conditions)
- External identifiers: vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Mobility Database ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, Substack username, Private Enterprise Number, ComputerLanguage.com definition, otzovik.com review ID, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Persoon)
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know ?
- Newest WikiProjects :
- Newest database reports : Descriptions with QID - These Item descriptions contain a QID or Item ID.
- Showcase Items: Hans van Mierlo (Q288771) - Dutch politician (1931–2010)
- Showcase Lexemes: Tribe (L28956) - English noun (trīb) that can mean "a social division in traditional society", "a political subdivision", or "a genre of Techno Music":
Development
- Wikidata Query Service: The search platform team finished the remaining work for the graph split and it is going live this week.
- We took part in the Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
- Wikipedia and co: We continued working on improving how Wikidata edits are shown on the watchlist on Wikipedia and co. We are focusing on showing labels instead of IDs for the entities (Items, Properties, ...) linked in the edit summaries (phab:T388685)
- UI: We continued doing small fixes for dark mode support in the UI (phab:T385039)
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the search endpoint (phab:T383126)
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: Philippines
- 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: 2025-19
[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 Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.
Updates for editors
- For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
- Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
- Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Special:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers who use the
momentlibrary in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like theIntllibrary or the newmediawiki.DateFormatterlibrary. Themomentlibrary has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task. - Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (
wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available. [1] - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.
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