Wikidata June 2025

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Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—June 4, 2025
by Guillaume Lederrey 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

Hello all! The Search Platform Team usually holds an open meeting on the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our next meeting: Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927 Have fun and see you soon! Guillaume *Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him) Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Weekly Summary #682
by Danny Benjafield 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2025-06-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #681 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Pr…>. Help with Translations <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Cu…>.* * Discussions * - New requests for permissions/Bot: Wikidata Translation Bot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Wikidat…> - task/s: Automate translation of Item Labels and Descriptions across supported languages and submit them using the official Wikidata API. - New request for comments: Mass-editing policy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Mass-editing_po…> - Closed request for comments: - Rename PeakFinder ID (P3770) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Rename_PeakFind…> - Property was renamed. - Domain name as data <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Domain_name_as_…> - property domain name (P13337) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13337> was created. * Events * - Upcoming events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>: - New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our first event will include guests from the Wikidata Search team to discuss the recent graph split project. Join us Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our GraphSplit project page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> for more information and Zoom links. - OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #77 June 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Q61752245> - Revitalizing UK History #June 7 Time 16:00 UTC Revitalizing UK History <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Revitalizing_UK_History> - Just missed it? - Wikidata and Sister Projects: full daily videos and presentation slides are being made available on the program page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects#Sessions> . - Coordinate Me 2025 <https://wikimedia.es/evento/concurso-coordinate-me-2025-online/>, the contest to add geographic coordinates (P625) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P625> for countries with low representation has ended. Who will be declared winner? * Press, articles, blog posts, videos * - Blogs - Wikidata promotes Sister Projects through interwiki links <https://osl.hypotheses.org/16774> SLUB Open Science Lab writer Jens Bemme has put together a comprehensive article covering the recent online event and many examples of Wikidata being used. - Papers - MAKIEVAL: A Multilingual Automatic Wikidata-based Framework for Cultural Awareness Evaluation for LLMs <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.21693> By Zhao et al., (2025) - This paper presents MAKIEVAL, a framework for evaluating cultural awareness in LLMs across languages, showing that models exhibit stronger cultural awareness when prompted in English. - Conversational Lexicography: Querying Lexicographic Data on Knowledge Graphs with SPARQL through Natural Language <https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2505.19971> By Sennrich & Ahmadi (2025) - This paper develops a natural language interface for retrieving lexicographic data from Wikidata, creating a taxonomy and dataset, and evaluating language models, with GPT-3.5-Turbo showing the best generalization despite scalability challenges. - UAQFact: Evaluating Factual Knowledge Utilization of LLMs on Unanswerable Questions <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23461> By Tan et al., (2025) - This paper introduces UAQFact, a bilingual dataset for evaluating LLMs on unanswerable questions, showing that models struggle to fully utilize stored factual knowledge even with external support. - Videos - Listful Thinking:Using Wikidata to support editing workflows <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NC6zkOznAeM> By Dr Thneed - (French) Using Wikidata to gain visibility on the internet? <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sdsPS8Af6YE> By Nelly Darbois - How to create a SPARQL Query to search Wikidata Item Description <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BY_2T6yB56Q> By vlogize - (Spanish) Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata tutorial for the subject of Virreinal Art <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1j6pHOBRqt0> By Luis Alvaz - Wikidata and Sister Projects (YouTube Playlist) <https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejPiMknpyQFM43rivJbn33Ff&si=F7k…> - full daily recordings from the Wikidata and Sister Projects event. * Tool of the week * - Wikidata Qrank <https://github.com/brawer/wikidata-qrank> is a ranking signal for Wikidata entities. It gets computed by aggregating page view statistics for Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikibooks, Wikispecies and other Wikimedia projects. For example, according to the QRank signal, the fictional character Pippi Longstocking ranks lower than Harry Potter, but still much higher than the obscure Äffle & Pferdle. * Other Noteworthy Stuff * - Should I watch this? <https://www.should-i-watch-this.com> - Enter a film title or IMDb ID to get a recommendation, uses data from Wikidata. - Job Openings - want to help shape the future of Wikidata or Wikibase? - Software Engineer (Wikidata) <https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/56640059/Software-Engineer-…> - Staff Engineer (Wikidata) <https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/55063868/Staff-Engineer-Wik…> - UX Designer (Wikibase Cloud) <https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/56244967/UX-Designer-Wikiba…> * 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 properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: - ‎reason for no value <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13589> (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value") - cosplay of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13593> (characters that are cosplayed in this image or video) - External identifiers: espn.com soccer team ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13590>, ‎Yale LUX ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13591>, Židovski biografski leksikon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13592>, verkiezingsuitslagen database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13594>, Norwegian soldier register 1940 ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13595>, Polish Music Library PBM ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13596>, ‎MCW-PL article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13597> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - UK Mutual Registration Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK_Mutual_Registra…> (identifier for an organisation in the UK's Mutuals Public Register) - External identifiers: Scilit organization ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Scilit_organizatio…>, paleo.ru person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/paleo.ru_person_ID>, identifiant Assemblée nationale du Québec non-élu <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Assemb…>, ThinkyGames genre ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ThinkyGames_genre_…>, Letopis of MSU person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Letopis_of_MSU_per…>, MAI person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MAI_person_ID>, istina.msu.ru journal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/istina.msu.ru_jour…>, MultimediaWiki page ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MultimediaWiki_pag…>, Submarine Cable Map ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Submarine_Cable_Ma…>, Nederlands Film Festival person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nederlands_Film_Fe…>, CTS URN <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CTS_URN>, Scientific heritage of Russia person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Scientific_heritag…>, Virtual necropolis of Ukrainian emigration person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Virtual_necropolis…>, Russian Cycling Federation person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russian_Cycling_Fe…>, The Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Memories_of_th…>, Yandex Books author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Yandex_Books_autho…>, Theatre museums of Russia person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Theatre_museums_of…>, Reabilitovani istoriyeyu person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Reabilitovani_isto…>, CARLA ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CARLA_ID>, Boosty author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Boosty_author_ID> You can comment on all open property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>! * Did you know? * - Query examples: - All lexemes in Minangkabau (sorted chronologically by their entry time) <https://w.wiki/ELXS> - Film Directors who are still alive <https://w.wiki/EMbF> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: WikiProject WordNet <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Newest database reports <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>:list of the most linked category page items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Most_linked_categor…> - Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>: Captain America: Civil War (Q18407657) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18407657> - 22016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo. - Showcase Lexemes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: (L1250690) spegnere (L1250690) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L1250690> - Italian verb "switch off" or "to die" * Development * - Vector 2022 skin: We enabled dark mode for Items, Properties and Lexemes on Wikidata (phab:T389330 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389330>) - Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with the technical investigation. - Diffs: We merged a volunteer patch by Matěj Suchánek to format quantity diffs a bit more sensibly (phab:T394585 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394585>) - Search in the UI: We enabled the new search on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org. It lets you easily search in other entity types as well now, not just Items. Please give it a try. - Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on integrating simple search, specifically phrase matching (phab:T389011 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389011>) - Query Service: We are working on an experiment to add a small dialog to inform people about alternative access methods for very simple queries that don't require SPARQL (phab:T391261 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391261>) 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?> - 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…> · Unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikidata> · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE)> talk <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE)> ·* -- *Danny Benjafield* Community Communications Manager Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e. 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