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Wikidata weekly summary #674
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2025-04-07. Please help Translate.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2025-04-07. Please help Translate.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wiki Workshop Registration is Now Open! The event will be held virtually over two days on May 21 & 22, 2025.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #75 April 14 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- (French) Collection and use of Wikipedia and Wikidata data in SHS searches - 17 June, 2025. Participation via video-conference available, register here and program info here.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Inference, continued - Magnus Manske adds 2 new functions to WD-infernal. The Whelming
- (French) Illustrious women in public spaces. Streets, buildings and other places overwhelmingly feature men Porte Plumpe
- Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) receives ProjectUil from Dutch Wikipedia
- Papers: Enabling disaggregation of Asian American subgroups: a dataset of Wikidata names for disparity estimation - Paper by Lin, Q. et al (2025).
- Videos
- Curationist: What is it and how does it work? - Curationist utilises Wikidata to help discover, curate and share public-domian art and cultural heritage content. YouTube
- (Swedish) Connecting Wikidata, OpenStreetMap and the National Archives with Magnus Sälgö YouTube
- (French) Focus on Wikidata, Wikifying Science, a presentation from Delphine Montagne and Pierre-Yves Beaudouin. Canal-U TV: C@fé Renatis
- Other
- (Portuguese) Wikidata at School: expanding access to knowledge and tackling gender gaps! Instagram: Projeto Mais
Tool of the week
- Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata for Web - also known as Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that displays data from Wikidata on various websites, enhancing the information you are already looking at, and also allows extraction of data from these websites.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details available here.
- Job Vacancy - Are you interested in helping shape the technical future of Wikimedia's knowledge graph? We are looking for a Staff Engineer (Wikidata)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- beam energy (kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator))
- External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- interior decorator (A property for the interior decorator of notable buildings)
- incompatible with (significant elements with which an entity is incompatible and indicates a significant property of this entity)
- warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
- Trafikplatssignatur (Swedish station code)
- outcome 2 (outcome of a criminal charge or a civil complaint)
- External identifiers: TechPowerup GPU ID, ISFDB category of an award ID, L'Expression topic ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque du Saulchoir, National Gallery (London) PID, Identifiant sur Orthodox World
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest database reports: Items with identical Birth and Death dates - another way to identify duplicate items.
- Showcase Items: Game of Thrones (Q23572) - American fantasy drama television series
- Showcase Lexemes: umuyagankuba (L1215369) - "electricity" in Kirundi
Development
- We made some progress on the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature by improving the UI, and making it translatable (phab:T390269)
- We continued working on dark mode support (phab:T389633)
- Wikibase REST API: We are almost done adding the last few features on the simple item and property search endpoint. We'll be happy to get feedback on these from 15.04 when they're completed
- We will begin user testing to improve Mobile Editing Experience: Mobile editing of statements
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: European Union
- 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!
Administrators' newsletter – April 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2025).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Miscellaneous
- Sign up for The Core Contest, a competition running from 15 April to 31 May to improve vital articles.
This Month in GLAM: March 2025
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The Signpost: 9 April 2025
[edit]- Opinion: Crawlers, hogs and gorillas
- Debriefing: Giraffer's RfA debriefing
- Obituary: RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM
- Traffic report: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...
- News from Diff: Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view
- Comix: Thirteen
Wikidata weekly summary #675
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #674
week leading up to 2025-04-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #674
Events
- Upcoming events: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 16th April 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Introducing m3api, By Lucas Werkmeister
- Wikidata Query Service graph database reload at home, 2025 edition. By Adam Baso
- Videos
- Other: Wikidata references made easier. "Several tricks to make it easier and faster, using various scripts and gadgets" to add references to Wikidata statements. By Spinster
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Topic Curator is a React-based web application. It’s a new and improved version of ItemSubjector created to help Wikimedians connect items on Wikidata to the right topics. By entering a topic QID, it finds related articles using the topic’s label, aliases, or custom terms.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Join the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- beam energy (kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator))
- number of downloads (number of downloads of times this application or creative work have been downloaded)
- Taiwanese Taigi Romanization System (Romanization system for Taiwan Taigi or other Southern Min language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia)
- Newest External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, TechPowerUp GPU Specs Database ID, iNaturalist photo ID, Climate Policy Radar ID, LIBRIS library ID, Dizionario della Musica in Italia ID, Untappd beer ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy ID, KnowWhereGraph entity ID, GCMD keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, CBFC record ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- interior decorator (A property for the interior decorator of notable buildings)
- incompatible with (significant elements with which an entity is incompatible and indicates a significant property of this entity)
- warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
- Trafikplatssignatur (Swedish station code)
- outcome 2 (outcome of a criminal charge or a civil complaint)
- output color (color of the generated images)
- proposal of (Qualifier for the statement {{P|31}} {{Q|64728694}} to state what the proposed thing is.)
- floral diagram (picture on commons of a floral diagram of a Taxon)
- member of sequence or class of number (The number is of a special form or class or member of a sequence)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: ISFDB category of an award ID, L'Expression topic ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque du Saulchoir, National Gallery (London) PID, Identifiant sur Orthodox World, Steam Deck HQ game ID, Hardcore gaming 101 ID, torial username, BirdLife DataZone species ID, BirdLife DataZone site ID, Schulnummer Schleswig-Holstein, Kunstkamera ID, Corago singer ID, MoNA spectrum ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans La Croix, identifiant Meta-Doctrinal.org, CvLAC ID, OGDB genre ID, IGDB genre ID, WSGF taxonomy term ID, GameSpot platform ID, PerformArt ID, Billie Jean King Cup player ID 2024
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject USC Libraries A WikiProject for work done at University of Southern California Libraries to connect library data with Wikidata.
- WikiProject Highlights: Nonprofit Organizations/Kosovo - Add the most important NGOs of Kosovo
- Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/Connectivity - Connectivity between Wikimedia projects
- Showcase Items: Nea Salamis Famagusta FC (Q714581) - professional association football club based in Ammochostos (Famagusta)
- Showcase Lexemes: Straße (L44061) - German noun that can mean "road", "straight", "street", "strait", "group of people inhabiting buildings along a perticular street" or "production line".
Development
- We merged and prepared changes to rename
wikibase:EntitySchematowikibase:WikibaseEntitySchemain RDF (phab:T371196) – this has been announced as a breaking change and will be deployed to Wikidata on 24 April - We made some more improvements to dark mode support (phab:T389633)
- We’re working on tests for the
ScopedTypeaheadSearchfeature (phab:T385790) - Wikibase REST API: We're going to wrap up pagination on the simple Item and property search endpoint and are working to improve our test architecture for search (phab:T386691). We're going to pick up prefix search for Items and phrase matching next!
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Chile
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Nomination of Laleshwar Singh for deletion
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laleshwar Singh until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.