Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) project - The ALMEDA project’s key outcome is a linked, open, and searchable metadata repository—built from extensive cataloguing of previously uncatalogued materials and enriched through a user-friendly interface launching in 2025, designed to support ongoing growth beyond the project’s initial five-year funding.
  • https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/13/structuring-dagbanli-on-wikidata-lexemes-senses-and-the-digraph-challenge/
• Papers: Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy - This study develops a refined taxonomy of Wikidata qualifiers—based on their semantics, frequency, and diversity—to help contributors select appropriate qualifiers, improve querying and inference, and enhance knowledge graph design, ultimately offering a structured framework that covers the most important qualifiers and supports better recommendation systems. By Falquet & Aljalbout (2026).
• Videos: LIVE Wikidata editing #118 at the Open Data Day - Wikipedia Weekly Network:
  • Introduction to editing Wikidata on mobile - Art + Feminism in Wikimedia Botswana
  • Queer women in the Arts (English): A panel discussion and Wikidata workshop
• Podcasts: Wikipediapodden interviews Lydia Pintscher about the ongoing Wikidata notability reform (also available on Commons)
• Notebooks: Who gets a biography on French-language Wikipedia? A country-by-country portrait of biographical coverage for people born between 1950 and 2000.

Tool of the week

• Wdquery : GraphQL-powered Wikidata item advanced search.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• https://casier-politique.fr
• Fornland—aggregates over a million cultural heritage sites from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland into one interface, combining Wikidata and other sources .
• m:Coolest Tool Award
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team has published its March 2026 newsletter. To have new issues of the WDP monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!
• Reminder that the 4 week grace period for switching to the v1 route for the Wikibase REST API search endpoints will end this week. The v0 route will be turned off and hence will no longer function.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • river regime (predominant pattern of annual changes to a stream's discharge at a particular period)
  • seat occupied (seat held by a person within an academy or other society)
• Newest External identifiers: Génération Nintendo publisher ID, KCI article ID, ‎LINCS ID, radeberger-stadtgeschichte.de Object Identificator, Flohic ID, ‎Vlaams Woordenboek ID, ‎Bach digital person ID, ‎Bach digital work ID, Identificativo Antenati, ‎Liiga.fi player ID, ‎Pesistulokset.fi player ID, ‎Letterboxd producer ID, Fragplace brands ID, Fragplace fragrances ID, Fragplace notes ID, Fragplace perfumers ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • population pyramid (Age pyramid image for demography articles)
  • StatsF1 ID (Link to a Formula 1 specific database)
  • maximum vehicle height (maximum authorized height for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a bridge, tunnel or road segment (regulatory limit from signage))
  • Bibliografi.dk (Bibliografi.dk)
  • PeerTube instance URL (the PeerTube instance of/about the subject)
  • Central Registration Number (Indonesia) (primary service registration number assigned to a member of the Indonesian Armed Forces or Indonesian National Police)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Digital Public Good, LUBW-RIPS-Wasserkraftanlage-ID, Identifiant QueenBallers.com d'une joueuse, Foto Atlas taxonomy ID, Brewver beer ID, Göteborgsalliansen, Consumer Rights Wiki article ID, Royal Air Force service number, Identifiant d'une personne dans le Bianco, Tajik-Russian Dictionary word ID, AmericanAristocracy person ID, AmericanAristocracy house ID, Shinmei database ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Showcase Items: Patrice Lumumba - Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • If you have not tried it yet, now is an excellent time to turn it on in the beta features section of your preferences, test it and give feedback.
  • We have added support for editing globe coordinate statements
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to work on the issue of too many Wikidata in recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We are currently prototyping a way to only consider changes that actually have an impact on the article (phab:T419823). We also finished the work on an emergency switch to turn off sending changes for qualifiers and references to Wikipedia and co in case of major database disruptions (phab:T412956).
• Ontology federation: We are working towards getting the code for ontology federation (in its first version of using Wikidata Items as values on other Wikibase instances) ready for wider testing.

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: Bangladesh
• 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!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • AraBot - Tasks: Adding Aragonese sitelinks and updating articles on Aragonese Wikipedia with Wikidata's data.
  • InventaireBot - Task: Make automated edits generated by the inventaire.io (Q32193244) server and manual edits on behalf of users without a Wikidata account.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: DelintBot - Task: Fix lint errors on pages across all namespaces where Wikitext can be written (namespaces not managed by Wikibase).
• New request for comments: archive.today - due to a RfC and policy on enwiki, this discussion needs your input on whether Wikidata will continue listing archive.today links.
• Ongoing request for comments: Notability policy reform is looking for input about remaining questions around marginalized knowledge and external identifiers

Events

• Upcoming events: (German) Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen, YouTube livestream – 28 March 2026 (UTC+1): presentations by Lisa Dieckmann at 12.30 - 12.50 (“Bilder verknüpfen – prometheus, Normdaten und Wikidata”), Lucy Patterson & Lukas Fuchsgruber at 16.30 - 16.45 (“Kritische Arbeit mit Sammlungsdaten auf Wikidata”), and Max Kristen at 17.30 - 17.45 (“usefulQueries: Unkompliziert Kunstgeschichte in Wikidata erkunden”).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Structuring Dagbanli on Wikidata: Lexemes, Senses, and the Digraph Challenge by Masssly and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
  • Open Knowledge Graphs: A Search Engine for Ontologies, Controlled Vocabularies, and Semantic Web Tools, by Steve Hedden
  • (German) Erinnerungskultur zum Mitmachen: eine digitale Landkarte zum Gestapoterror in Niedersachsen by Gabriele Fahrenkrog
• Papers: Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy presents an analysis of Wikidata qualifiers, focusing on semantics and usage, in order to develop a taxonomy to help in selecting appropriate qualifiers, querying the knowledge graph, and making logical inferences. By Gilles Falquet and Sahar Aljalbout (2026).
• Videos:
  • Creating a Wikidata item for a Historic Building - OpenStreetMap for History Buffs gives a practical example of creating a Wikidata Item for a historic Irish building, but you can adapt it for other historical or archeological sites.
  • Introduction to Wikidata (Creating items, Statements & References) - Africa Wiki Women continue their introductory series with trainer, Blessing Timothy.
  • (French) Introduction à Wikidata is also provided by Africa Wiki Women.
  • Simple steps to edit Wikidata Episode 1(WAMP) - User:Dsp13 of the Wiki Afrodemics Project covers a variety of topics to help new editors make meaningful contributions to Wikidata.
  • (French) Introduction à la modification de Wikidata sur mobile - Art+Feminism in partnership with WM Botswana provide a training session for mobile editing (with a focus on women artists, feminist movements and underrepresented cultural contributions).
  • Queer Women in the Arts: Art+Feminism teamed up with WikiLGBT+ (Event page) for a panel discussion and Wikidata training centering on Queer Women in the Arts, in honour of International Women's Day. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
  • Wikidata tools: Pet Scan - User:Epìdosis introduces this handy tool that allows you to query and generate lists of Wikipedia pages or Wikidata items based on defined criteria such as Categories, Properties, Templates, and others.
  • Introduction to Wikidata & Property Dashboard - Essential Wikidata Tools: Automating Your Workflow workshop given 13 March 2026. Hosted by Alan Ang, Camillo Pellizari, Pru Mitchell, and Taufik Rosman for the ESEAP community.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Property Creation Helper takes a property proposal page and translates it into a QuickStatements batch (and then a second one for the examples) that a property creator can use to quickly create a new property. By ArthurPSmith

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• GraphQL API ongoing feedback: If you haven’t tried it yet, you can still explore it as a developer-friendly alternative to select WDQS features. Please Share your feedback on the project page, or sign up for deeper usability testing.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • mass number (total number of baryons in an atomic nucleus)
  • soil acidity preference (soil acidity preference of a plant species or lichen)
  • Diepkloof (Place in Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • paid-up capital (portion of a company’s issued share capital that has been paid by shareholders)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:: Shinmei database ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Baden-Württemberg, Central Registration Number (Police), NIP 9-digit, MeetStadium ID, indexxx.com performer ID, BGAFD actress ID, Shellers From the Past ID, معرف منشور في قاعدة بيانات معرفة, London Book Trades ID, KCI journal ID, KCI publisher ID, PeerJ person ID, BIORAB–FRANKFURT ID, BIORAB–WEIMAR, BIORAB-KAISERREICH, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID, Wikiparfum perfumer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject LAGL (Linked Ancient and Greek Latin) has been established to develop guidelines for adding statements for ancient authors.
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject IDEA: Oral Histories - International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) added a subpage for resources, guidelines and progress for adding oral history Items and Statements.
• Showcase Items: Ngondo - worship of water oracles and associated cultural traditions among the Sawa

Development

• Infrastructure sustainability: We started working with a contractor to look at Wikidata's data storage to find opportunities for improving it.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing the work on a prototype to compare a wiki page before and after it has been parsed to see if this is a feasible way to reduce the number of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist that do not affect the article (phab:T419823)

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!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Thetalentone - Tasks: Adding and updating references, qualifiers, publication dates, and provenance on my own personal and company items (Q138324775 and Q138324581) to improve entity confidence for Google Knowledge Graph. Small batches only, no edits to unrelated items.
  • Dušan Kreheľ - Task: Sitelinks existing and newly created municipality pages on hrwiki and Wikidata.
• New request for comments: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Mass-editing policy has a new proposal incorporating feedback and is awaiting votes.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 08th April 2026 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.
  • Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit takes place until 20:00 CET, 30 May 2026.
  • "Wikidata in der Sammlungserschließung" (free online event in German on how GLAM institutions can use Wikidata, 20 April 2026, 10-11:30 CET, organized by Research and Competence Centre Digitalisation Berlin (Q51845259). More info and registration here.
  • Wikidata Ontology Course: The second offering of the Wikidata ontology course will be given in May and June 2026, with sessions 1-3 pm EDT (UTC-4) on Thursdays. The Wikidata ontology provides structure and organization for the rest of Wikidata and is thus fundamental to Wikidata. The course starts with the basic notions underlying the Wikidata ontology and goes on to cover querying using SPARQL, inference, constraints, advanced ontology notions, problems with the ontology, and other ontology-related aspects of Wikidata. Participants in the course are expected to complete weekly exercise sets and a project. More information on the course can be found at WikiProject Ontology/Ontology Course. To register for this offering fill in and submit the Google form.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wikidata contains many gaps in its political data. We’ve built a tool to change that (PoliLoom)
  • From a summer school idea to an ESWC paper: Teaching AI to “repair” Wikidata
• Papers:
  • Did AI Crawlers Kill SPARQL Federation?, including Wikidata examples
  • Gender and intersectional bias in featured biographies on the front page of the Italian edition of Wikipedia, 2014–2024 Open Access - Wikidata featured heavily in the design and methodology. By Rovira et al., (2026).
• Videos:
  • Adding architectural data to a Wikidata item for a Historic Building from OpenStreetMap for History Buffs.
  • Live Wikidata Editing #119 - Ainali and Abbe98 are back to edit Wikidata and explain their thinking along the way.
  • (Spanish) Wikidata and the public domain - Tools for bulk editing in Wikidata: Mix n Match and QuickStatements, last class of a 9-part series provided by Jorge Gemetto.
  • (German) Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen, day 2, digital/local collection loves wiki.
  • (German) Von OpenStreetMap zu semantisch vernetzten Wissensgraphen FOSSGIS 2026 Conference.
  • Using Wikibase as an Integration Platform with Matthew Ong. Originally given at the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin, 19 November 2024.

Tool of the week

• WikiVisage - Train a machine learning model to detect depicted subjects in Wikimedia Commons images and assist with adding the P180 (depicts) property.
• Yesterdays - A web platform for cataloging and georeferencing historical images of Richmond, Virginia. It uses Wikidata items to help organize the georeferenced images.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editing user testing: join the participant panel: Wikimedia Deutschland is planning new user tests for the mobile editing experience (including more data types as a beta feature) in late April–early May. Participants of all experience levels are welcome, and users of right‑to‑left scripts are especially encouraged to sign up. Register here. Participants will be compensated for their time.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Digital Public Good ID (identifier of a digital public good in the Digital Public Goods Registry)
  • apportionment diagram (image that displays the representation of seats won by party in an election to an assembly)
  • peer-review process for scholarly journals or publications (''(without English description)'')
• Newest External identifiers: ‎X Games athlete ID (new), AIK soccer player ID, ‎Uitleenwoordenbank ID, abadis.ir word ID, ‎AmericanAristocracy house ID, ‎AmericanAristocracy person ID, British Newspaper Archive publication ID, ‎Buitenlandse aardrijkskundige namen in het Nederlands ID, Landskrona BoIS player ID, Library of the University of Santiago de Compostela authority ID, ‎DBNL place ID, Faulhaber edition ID, Foto Atlas taxonomy ID, ‎Integbio Database Catalog ID, ‎KCUE academy ID, ‎LibriVox reader ID, ‎Manga-DB person ID, ‎Manga-DB magazine ID, ‎Manga-DB publisher ID, Digital Public Goods Registry, NSK ID, Tribuna.com football players ID, Sport Express person ID, ‎Open Food Facts brand ID, ‎RITVA company ID, OldRacingCars.com drivers ID, ‎Spellingwijzer Onze Taal ID, ‎EpiMedDat ID, ‎Pinkhof ID, ‎Scheikunde ID, ‎Movist person ID, ‎ISSN-H, Names, Persons, and Groups of People of the Middle Ages ID, ‎Parlement.com object ID, wikiru.jp wiki ID, BGAFD actress ID, IFK Norrköping player, ‎LINE official account ID, Norwegian war prisoner histories ID, ‎indexxx.com performer ID, SetesdalWiki ID, ‎Shellers From the Past ID, ‎SocioMap ID, Publication ID in e-Marefa database
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • civil service position level (classification level of a civilian public service position within a government administrative hierarchy)
  • Usenet newsgroup (Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
  • predicted winning party (the party predicted to win an election, according to some source)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Numen ID, member of the Azorean assembly ID, identifiant Rappels d'une personne, Identifiant dans la base de noms France Archives, Anarâš aavis topic ID, Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID, MangaBaka manga ID, JVID performer ID, PlayStation Trophies achievement ID, BERON lexeme ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Hogback - Hogbacks are a type of gravestone marker used in 10th - 12th Century Northern England.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • University of Otago/Books of Mana
  • Schnütgen Museum Collection/Sum of all paintings
  • Govdirectory/United Nations
  • Nonprofit Organisations
• Newest database reports: Humans with the same date of birth year (P569) and date of death year (P570).
• Showcase Items: Australia (Q275180) - 2008 film by Baz Luhrmann
• Showcase Lexemes: viɛla - Dagbanli adjective (of quality that is pleasing to human senses).

Development

• Wikibase GraphQL: We added support for a number of additional datatypes and started working on the functionality for querying Items by the external ID statement values or site links.
• Mobile editing of statements: We spent time testing the current state and fixing remaining issues we found.

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: Mongolia
• 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!

Discussions

• Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Oversight: EPIC (2) (RfP scheduled to end at 9 April 2026 12:35 UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • ChooseLocal - Task/s: Read-only harvest of Wikidata entities (businesses, banks, etc.) by country, for use in a Canadia-centric local business directory.
  • JigildikBot - Task/s: Sitelink Management: Connecting newly created articles on kaa.wiki to their corresponding Wikidata items using Pywikibot. Label and Description Updates: Adding or updating Karakalpak (kaa) labels and descriptions for various items (especially geographical and biographical items) using OpenRefine.
  • JJPMaster (bot) - Task/s: Automatically add sitelinks for Abstract Wikipedia articles
  • TracklisterBot - Task/s: Adding missing external identifiers to Wikidata items for music artists, sourced from Tracklister (Q138905706), a music database that aggregates data from 20+ platforms. Properties: Discogs artist ID (P1953), Spotify artist ID (P1902), SoundCloud ID (P3040), Bandcamp ID (P3283), Beatport artist ID (P5765), Deezer artist ID (P2722), Last.fm ID (P3192), AllMusic artist ID (P1728), Apple Music artist ID (P2850), Tidal artist ID (P11853). Each claim includes a reference with stated in: Tracklister + reference URL pointing to the artist's page on tracklist.live.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dušan Kreheľ (bot) (approved)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 08th April 2026 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.
  • Blazegraph Migration Office Hours: Blazegraph migeration office hours April edition is today, 7th January, 16:00 UTC. These sessions focus exclusively on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). See the office hour page for details and future sessions.
  • digiS Workshop: Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung - 20 April 2026, 10.00 CEST (08:00 UTC), this online workshop (held in German) will practice Wikidata skills across SPARQL, OpenRefine and QuickStatements with a focus on using Wikidata for GLAM Institutions. To register, visit the link.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wikidata graphs for data visualisation of endangered horse breeds in Wikipedia By Tsaag Valren
  • Does country of birth have an effect on the probability to have a biography in French-language Wikipedia? (Le pays de naissance a-t-il un effet sur les chances d'avoir une biographie sur Wikipédia ?), published in RAW-Regards sur l'actualité de Wikimedia in Wikipedia in French.
  • (German) Wikidata ist ein teil von Wikimedia Enterprise - an update from Wikimedia Germany on Wikidata's inclusion with Wikimedia Enterprise.
  • (German) How to edit nearby: Notizen für regionale Open GLAM-Labore und offene Daten by Jens Bemme.
  • Building the Dagbanli Dictionary’s Audio Pipeline: OGG, iOS, and Transcoding, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
• Papers:
  • OntoKG: Ontology-Oriented Knowledge Graph Construction with Intrinsic-Relational Routing by Li et al., (2026), includes a case study of cleaning and resolving entity labels and descriptions from a 100 million entity dump.
  • ENEIDE: A High Quality Silver Standard Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Historical Italian by Santinia et al., (2026), the ENEIDE dataset links over 2000 historical documents to 8,000+ Wikidata entities.
  • CADEL: A Corpus of Administrative Web Documents for Japanese Entity Linking by Higashiyama et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • Using content from Wikidata in your apps, lightning talk by Jan Ainali
  • 2025: OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Collaboration: Taiwan Case
  • 2025: The Ugandan Geo Quests: Mapping Libraries and Museums into the Knowledge Commons
  • Using Wikidata for data enrichment in museums
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 1: What is Wikidata & Why Does It Matter?
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 2: Wikidata Building Blocks
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 3: Create an Account & Your First Edits
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 4: First Edits: Adding References
  • Art + Feminism | Introduction to Wikidata – Module 5: Creating a New Item

Tool of the week

• An AI chat interface to Wikidata by Santhosh Thottingal is a tool that gives answers to almost everything on Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editing user testing: Wikimedia Deutschland is planning new user tests for the mobile editing experience (including more data types as a beta feature) in late April–early May. Participants of all experience levels are welcome, and users of right‑to‑left scripts are especially encouraged to sign up. Register here. Participants will be compensated for their time.
• Wikidata's data is now also available via Wikimedia Enterprise APIs. (Wikimedia Enterprise blog post, WMDE announcement)
• Wikidata embedding: The vectors of the embedding are now also published.
• (Job vacancy) Engineering Manager, Wikidata Platform (WMF)
• (Job vacancy in Indonesian) Wikimedia Indonesia: Data and Technology Apprenticeship Vacancy, April-June 2026 - apply by April 10. Duties include recording Wikidata editing tutorial videos, prepare datathons and training materials and events.
• Research workshop on content verifiability in Wikidata: Researchers from King's College London (in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation) invite Wikidata contributors of all experience levels to a 2‑hour online workshop. Participants receive £90 compensation. Research details and registration.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • regional conservation status (conservation status of species in national or regional Red List publications that follow the IUCN red list criteria)
  • ‎PeerTube instance URL (the PeerTube instance of/about the subject)
• Newest External identifiers: PeerJ person ID, ‎RITVA corporate body ID, ‎Royal Air Force service number, LUBW-RIPS hydroelectric power station-ID, Biorab-Frankfurt ID, ‎Minfin company ID for banks, Wikiparfum perfumer ID, Cultural heritage ID in Baden-Württemberg, MangaBaka manga ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Wikimedia Commons content descriptor (Wikimedia Commons content descriptor which applies to this media file)
  • energy density (amount of energy extractable from a substance (e.g. in a combustion engine) per unit of volume or of mass)
  • main page URL (link to main page or item on website)
  • Bayerische Naturdenkmal-ID (identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt)
  • election result (map that displays the result of this election)
  • meta-category for (topic or class of items covered by the lowest categories in this meta-category's hierarchy)
  • Cast (Cast)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID, lit.link ID, WikiKids page ID, KuLaDig ID, Wikiparfum brand ID, Turkey district ID, Turkey province ID, OSDev, Giant Bomb Wiki ID, Myrotvorets ID, Fraktionsprotokolle.de-ID, KISTI article ID, Irish State Administration Database Unit ID, Hessische Parlamentarismusgeschichte Abgeordneten-ID, ocremix.org game ID, Tube8 ID, YourPorn ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Wikispecies pages linked to Wikidata items via a specific property (example given: Family Name (Q101352)) - (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Salon de Paris - a list of annual temporary exhibitions usually held in the Salon Carré of the Louvre Palace.
  • Mesocosms - about modelling research infrastructure, processes and outcomes involving use of mesocosm (Q138857216) (experimental system to examine the natural environment under controlled conditions).
  • Archive WikiProject for Wikimedia Indonesia February 2025 Datahon
• WikiProject Highlights: Govdirectory: Eswatini
• Newest database reports: Badged Items without Claims - this report lists items that have received a badge (such as Good / Featured Article) but have 0 statements.
• Showcase Items: Académie Julian (Q337480) - former art school in Paris, France
• Showcase Lexemes: kurugu (L724819) - Dagbanli noun that translate to English as metal, harem trousers, hour or coin.

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate how to reduce the number of irrelevant changes showing up in Recent changes and Watchlist by seeing if we can compare the articles before and after the Wikidata change and detect a change in the article (phab:T419823)
• GraphQL: You can now do lookups using itemByExternalId and itemBySitelink
• Mobile statement editing: We worked on fixing remaining bugs (phab:T420585 , phab:T420028, phab:T419586)

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: Eswatini
• 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!