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Weekly Summary #708
by josef anthony 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #707 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Pr…>.* *Discussions* - A Project Chat discussion (here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#default_for_all_languag…>) on mul / fallback language for Labels, Descriptions and Aliases has continued on Help Talk: Default values for labels and aliases <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help_talk:Default_values_for_labels_and_alias…> *Events* - Upcoming events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>: - Mark your calendars - Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map <https://vsa-aas.ch/event/workshop-die-schweizer-archivlandschaft-wikidata-u…> February 2 & April 20 (German) / June 2 (French), 2026. Workshops are on-site and online, registration mandatory (closes January 20). - Citizen Technology Community Gathering and Taiwan Translation Launch of Linked Open Data Documents <https://g0v.hackmd.io/@jothon/20251207> December 7 Time: 13:30-16:50 UTC+8 at West District (Q707524) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707524> Xi Project - OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #83 December 8 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61752245>. *Press, articles, blog posts, videos* - Blogs: - Wikidata 13th celebration in the Philippines <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/27/new-tools-new-contributors-new-energy…> - Wikidata 13th Birthday: Taiwan special event recap (part 3) <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/26/wikidata-13th-birthday-taiwan-special…> - WikidataCon 2025: A conversation with Danny Benjafield <https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newsletter/2025-11/en#WikidataCon_2025:_a_con…> - Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/28/wikidata-13th-birthday-celebration-in…> - Africa Wiki Women Celebrates Wikidata’s 13th Birthday <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/28/africa-wiki-women-celebrates-wikidata…> - Papers: Benchmarking SPARQL Engines on Wikidata Queries <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4108/paper3.pdf> - Four open-source SPARQL engines were benchmarked on Wikidata, with QLever fastest, Blazegraph slower, and all showing SPARQL standard deviations. By Peter F. Patel-Schneider (2025). - Videos: - Records in Contexts (RiC) Wikibase Working Session <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hda2mRjJ3Q> - Regine Heberlein of the (SAA) Description Section Steering Committee hosts a workshop on Wikibase implementation of the Records in Context Conceptual Model (RiC-CM). - Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXIZBfft7A> - Follow along as WMDE's Lukas Werkmeister expands Items of Berlin Stoelpersteine. - Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S4ujNG8w5M> - by Dr Thneed *Tool of the week* - Prix Littéraires <https://www.prixlitteraires.fr/> lists French-speaking literary prizes and their recipients, also computing statistics <https://www.prixlitteraires.fr/graph/Q3113738> (see also WikiProject <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_French-speaking_literary…> ) *Other Noteworthy Stuff* - Nov 27: The Wikibase Community User Group met for a Wikibase Live Session and to discuss the Federated Values demonstration. *Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties> and property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review* - Newest External identifiers: Federal Taxpayer Registry ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13961>, WDSF athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13962>, TikTok numeric user ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13963>, USGS Publication ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13964> - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - concurring opinion by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/concurring_opinion…> (judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court agreeing with the majority's final decision but providing different or additional reasons) - audio version of text <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/audio_version_of_t…> (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).) - Hong Kong fire alarm level <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hong_Kong_fire_ala…> (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system) - overnight stays <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/overnight_stays> (number of tourists that stay overnight at a place) - specimen determiner <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/specimen_determiner> (person who assigned the identification to a specimen) - collection date <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/collection_date> (the date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field) - position holder name string <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/position_holder_na…> (name of person holding a position) - Crowdfunding target <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Crowdfunding_target> (target goal of this Crowdfunding campaign) - image sensor format <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/image_sensor_format> (shape and size of a digital camera's image sensor) - random page URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/random_page_URL> (link to random page on website) - translates from <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/translates_from> (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Twitter broadcast ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Twitter_broadcast_…> , Petal Maps Place ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Petal_Maps_Place_ID> , MJ character glyph name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MJ_character_glyph…> , Mastercaller player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mastercaller_playe…> , dartn.de player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/dartn.de_player_ID> , darts1.de player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/darts1.de_player_ID> , pdpa.co.uk player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/pdpa.co.uk_player_…> , Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Antiquitatum_Thesa…> , Theaterencyclopedie-identificatiecode <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Theaterencyclopedi…> , Buy Me a Coffee username <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Buy_Me_a_Coffee_us…> , GoFundMe ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GoFundMe_ID>, Identifiant Maitron d'une biographie (nouvelle version) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Maitro…> , Michaelis Portuguese-English properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Michaelis_Portugue…> , U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name slug <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/U.S._Copyright_Off…> , FCC ID Database company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FCC_ID_Database_co…> You can comment on all open property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>! *Did you know?* - Query examples: Objects bearing the handwriting of Moses Maimonides <https://w.wiki/GMoW> (Source) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter/queries/genizah> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects> : Uzbekistan <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Uzbekistan>, Natural History Specimen Data Model <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Natural_History_Specimen…> - Newest database reports <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>: Popular Items without Claims <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Popular_items_witho…> - these are the most-connected or linked Items that do not have any Statements. - Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> : The Walt Disney Company (Q7414) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7414> - American multinational mass media company - Showcase Lexemes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: Showcase Lexemes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: девочка (L103836) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L103836> - Russian noun (dʲɪˈvot͡ɕkə) meaning "female child", "affectionate address to a woman", or "female organism" *Development* - Mobile editing of statements: - We have added editing support for more data types (entity IDs, geographical shapes and tabular data). - It is now available as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org. You can enable it here <https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatu…> . - Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are rolling out improvements to the Databox Lua module to a number of Wikipedias to make it easier to have out-of-the-box Wikidata-powered infoboxes - Ontology federation: We are making progress with making it possible to use Wikidata Item's as statement values in other Wikibase instances - GraphQL: We are continuing the work on the prototype, focusing on getting data from a batch of Items - Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is working on benchmarking of different replacement options for Blazegraph, the software powering the Wikidata Query Service You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt…> . *Weekly Tasks* - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_propertie…> . - Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?> . - Govdirectory weekly focus country: Togo <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Togo> - Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?> in one or two sentences. - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> *· Previous issue <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Pr…> · JosefAnthony <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:JosefAnthony> talk <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:JosefAnthony> ·* Idoko Joseph (JosefAnthony) Wikimedia Volunteer | Open Knowledge Advocate *View my contributions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JosefAnthony/Contributions>*

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