*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2026-04-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #727 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous.*
*Discussions*
- Open request for adminship: Yamato Shiya https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Yamato_Shiya - RfP scheduled to end after 26 April 2026 11:10 (UTC) - Closed request for adminship: ZI Jony 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/ZI_Jony_2 - Closed as successful
*Events*
- Upcoming events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events: - OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #88 May 11 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61752245. - Wikidata turns 14 this October, and it’s time to start thinking about birthday celebrations🥳. See the various ways in which you can participate https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/O6V5RI7VMZCQGFTJZNNFOYZPJ6OPPK2R/ . - Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata https://events.ucf.edu/event/4102698/open-scholarly-profiles-with-wikidata - April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida and requires registration (see link). - University of Central Illinois - How does data power Wikipedia and Wikidata? https://www.instagram.com/p/DXNPK8jkl7p Discover how your data skills can make an impact. Join the two onsite sessions (April 21, follow the link for registration details). *Module 1* - GLAM Wiki and the Wikimedia Ecosystem: Commons and Structured Data: 0930 - 1130 CDT - An overview of GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). *Module 2* - Wikidata: Editing, Querying, Citations and GIS Applications, 1300 - 1500 CDT
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs: - Women in Photography – Wikidata Workshop with LightBox Photo Library https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/04/14/women-in-photography-wikidata-workshop-with-lightbox-library - to address the underrepresentation of women photographers in the Wikimedia Projects, this workshop brought tech reporters, librarians, researchers and photography enthusiasts to understand how Wikidata can unlock data silos and connect different projects (in the Wikiverse and external) to make data on women photographers more searchable. - Her Heritage Wiki Challenge: Art+Feminism in Ghana Month https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/04/14/her-heritage-wiki-challenge-artfeminism-in-ghana-month/ - No Signal? No Problem: Building the Dagbanli Dictionary for Offline Use https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/18/no-signal-no-problem-building-the-dagbanli-dictionary-for-offline-use/, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan - Papers: Optimising university web visibility: strategies using Wikidata identifiers and statements in Webometrics rankings https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-026-05621-1 By Backory et al., (2026), this study analyses Webometrics rankings of universities, applying clustering algorithms (K-means, hierarchical clustering, fuzzy C-means, GMM, and DBSCAN) to identify which identifiers and statements the top-ranked institutions have in common on their Wikidata entities. - Videos: - OKI Internship 2026 - Wikidata & Screening Test Preparation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8qG2QxqsQE - Part of the Open Knowledge Initiative, hosted by Ankit V & Kasyap P. - Charted Roots - Genealogy and worldbuilding in Obsidian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnOHrG_nVvY - includes an example of linking to Wikidata to quickly add location data to your visualised family history.
*Tool of the week*
- Depictor https://hay.toolforge.org/depictor/index.php by Hay Kranen is a tool that add structured data statements to Wikimedia Commons using a game-like interface
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- What is Wikidata? - Library Carpentry https://librarycarpentry.github.io/lc-wikidata/01-introduction.html is part of *The Carpentries*, a registered non-profit teaching foundational coding and data science skills. They recently updated their introductory course to Wikidata and knowledge graph concepts.
*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: ocremix.org game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14344 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - especially https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/especially (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, but applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012)) - independent of theory https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/independent_of_theory (theory that proves neither this proposition nor its negation) - EPBC conservation status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPBC_conservation_status (the conservation status from the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 assigned by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water) - part of discography https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/part_of_discography (discography that this musical release is a part of) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Thai Government Agency GFMIS Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Thai_Government_Agency_GFMIS_Code , Conlang Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Conlang_Database_ID , Plataforma Acácia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Plataforma_Ac%C3%A1cia , Observatório Terras Quilombolas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Observat%C3%B3rio_Terras_Quilombolas , LMTA folkloro archyvo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LMTA_folkloro_archyvo_ID , Kulturdenkmal-ID Rheinland-Pfalz https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kulturdenkmal-ID_Rheinland-Pfalz , UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UNDRR-ISC_Hazard_Information_Profile_ID , Код Вестра https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0 , 19star performer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/19star_performer_ID , EM-DAT disaster number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EM-DAT_disaster_number , ColBase ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ColBase_ID, BIOSOP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BIOSOP_ID, BIOKAND ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BIOKAND_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples: Depthness of subway stations in meters https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002BJC71J4LUqy0w0MAAygQUkoMc46KQ2QeA28GuQ6saU (by Bouzinac https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bouzinac) - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: Children of unborn parents https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/children_of_unborn_parents, this list shows the child entity's birth date predates the parent entity's birth date: good candidates to check if the birth and relationship statements need correcting. - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items : Haïlé Sélassié Ier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41178 - Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: slide (L9704) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L9704 - English noun (slaɪd) meaning "a photographic transparency", "a playground or gym apparatus", or "a mass movement of earth or snow"
*Development*
- The Wikibase Reuse team continued their work on ensuring language fallback works for labels of linked entities in GraphQL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413655 and on refactoring wbsearchentities https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421994 - The Wikidata team worked on explored how to reduce load for low data users T400325 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400325, fixed some bugs on the new mobile editing on Items T418110 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418110, T414454 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414454 and improved some error messages T417797 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T417797, T412145 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T412145
- In the WIT team, engineering continued working on the LilDiffCheck prototype https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419823
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/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review . - Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? . - Govdirectory weekly focus country: South Korea https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/South_Korea - 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
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