* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-04-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #675 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/2025_04_14. Translations are available https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Current*
* Events *
- Upcoming https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events: Yunlin Liu Fang Tien Shang Sheng Mu OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Workshop https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/Wikidata_Taiwan/2025%E5%B9%B44%E6%9C%88%E9%9B%B2%E6%9E%97%E7%B6%AD%E5%9F%BA%E8%A1%97%E6%99%AF%E8%B8%8F%E6%9F%A5%E5%9C%98%E6%9A%A8%E5%B7%A5%E4%BD%9C%E5%9D%8A April 27 Time: 09:30-17:00 UTC+8 at Tuku Township (Q708809) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708809 Red Altar (Hongtan). - Past: Missed the Q2 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-04-16 (Q2 2025) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/Telegram_office_hour_2025-04-16
* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
- Blogs - qjson: Fetching all properties of a Wikidata item in a single API call https://thottingal.in/blog/2025/04/15/qjson/ By Santhosh Thottingal - A Wikibase call for action at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 https://olea.org/diario/2025/04/14/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2025-proposals-Wikibase.html By Ismael Olea - Putting UK collections on the map https://museumdata.uk/blog/putting-uk-collections-on-the-map/ by the Museum Data Service - The April 2025 Scholia Hackathon https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/04/20/the-april-2025-scholia-hackathon.html by Egon Willighagen - Papers - Talking Wikidata: Communication Patterns and Their Impact on Community Engagement in Collaborative Knowledge Graphs https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/talking-wikidata-communication-patterns-and-their-impact-on-commu - Investigative study on Wikidata discussions, revealing that the community is generally inclusive and conflict is rare, but many controversial topics lack consensus, and valuable contributors disengage early. By Koutsiana et. al., (2025) - Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited https://zenodo.org/records/15226371 - By Latham (2025) - Videos - Wiki Workshop 2025 - Wikidata Inconsistencies with Language Models and Data Mining in a Pipeline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWoNZLBj7mM by Houcemeddine Turki - (Italian) Cla-G, an instance of Wikibase as a tool to support game classification https://youtube.com/dL9JEfHpU68?si=RXymgDS8-ZE687aE by Carlo Bianchini - Other - Wikidata & Wikibase for Authority Control & Knowledge Organization Workshop https://x.com/afliacon/status/1908928893727211669?s=46 By AfLIA - Mastodon bot https://github.com/oolonek/daily-lotus that "highlights natural compounds found in plants, fungi, bacteria or animals — and includes Wikidata references and visual structure depictions."
*Tool of the week*
- User:Spinster/Wikidata references made easier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:Spinster/Wikidata_references_made_easier: The script helps in adding references to statements, in order to provide context for our data, make the data more reliable, transparent and trustworthy for anyone who uses it .
* Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- Registration is open for a Wikidata ontology course led by Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan. To register, email pfpschneider[image: @] gmail.com with your Wikidata username and a brief note on your interest. The course starts 1 May, with weekly lectures on Thursdays from 1–3pm EDT (skipping 29 May and 12 June). Space may be limited; priority goes to those already interested. Participants should know Wikidata, attend sessions, complete weekly exercises (~1 hour), and join a group project. Details: Course page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Ontology_Course - Wikifunctions https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Main_Page is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles. - Wikidata job openings at the The Wikimedia Foundation - Lead Product Manager, Wikidata Platform https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6814912 (remote) - Tech Lead, Wikidata Platform https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6816145 (remote)
*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 General datatypes: - number of texture mapping units https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13430 (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit) - Newest External identifiers: Saarland Biografien ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13429, A Dictionary of Education entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13431, Cultural Heritage in Japan site ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13432, BirdLife DataZone site ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13433, BirdLife DataZone species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13434, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13435, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13436, Chtyvo author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13437, Homosaurus ID (V4) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13438 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - terminal speaker https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/terminal_speaker () - organization code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/organization_code (the organization code of the organization item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}.) - organization unit code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/organization_unit_code (the organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}.) - Picture composition https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Picture_composition (Description of a picture composition (design rules) analogous to the Commons category “[[:commons:Category:Picture composition]]”) - MANDALA Tibetan Living Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MANDALA_Tibetan_Living_Dictionary_ID (entry for a lexeme in the Tibetan Living Dictionary by MANDALA) - Monarque régnant https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Monarque_r%C3%A9gnant (Person who has held or is holding the role of king, queen, sultan, or other monarch at the head of a kingdom or empire.) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Moure's Catalog ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moure%27s_Catalog_ID, MobyGames attribute ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MobyGames_attribute_ID, Número RPJ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/N%C3%BAmero_RPJ, Identificador de obra no Catálogo Mourisco https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identificador_de_obra_no_Cat%C3%A1logo_Mourisco, IPRESS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IPRESS_ID, TeamUSA.com athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TeamUSA.com_athlete_ID, IEC document kind classification code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IEC_document_kind_classification_code, Europe PMC Preprint identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Europe_PMC_Preprint_identifier, Snopes ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Snopes_ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/A_Dictionary_of_Media_and_Communication_entry_ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Black_Sea_Cultural_Inventory_ID, PyPI organization name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PyPI_organization_name, PlayStation Museum product ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PlayStation_Museum_product_ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Concise_Oxford_Dictionary_of_Archaeology_entry_ID, A Dictionary of Public Health entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/A_Dictionary_of_Public_Health_entry_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
*Did you know? *
- Query examples: - All Genres of Classical Musical Compositions and their Labels in English and German https://w.wiki/Dk9f (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#All_Genres_of_Classical_Musical_Compositions_and_their_Labels_in_English_and_German ) - WikiProject Highlights: Taiwan Travel https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProject_Taiwan/Travel - aims to create travel related items about Taiwan - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items : Pete's Dragon (Q18786473) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18786473 - 2016, film by David Lowery - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: Bill (L3855) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L3855 - English noun (/bɪl/) that can mean "invoice", "proposed law", "bird's beak", or "a given name":
* Development *
- Wikidata changes in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co: We are continuing the work on making the edit summaries more understandable (phab:T386200 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386200) - Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to build out the simple search functionality (phab:T389011 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389011) - Dark mode: We are fixing a few remaining issues with dark mode support in the Vector 2022 theme (phab:T389633 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389633)
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/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority.
* Weekly Tasks *
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review . - Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? . - Govdirectory weekly focus country: Chile https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Chile - Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/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/Special:MyLanguage/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects . - Help write the next summary! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next