* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in

the week leading up to 2025-03-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #671

*Discussions*

• New requests for permissions/Bot:Request for admin flag for MsynBot - From 2021 through 2024, this bot has implemented the 2019 RfC “semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items” by maintaining page protections based on the outcome, Wikidata:Protection policy#Highly used items.the admin flag got lost due to bot inactivity. But bot operation could be resumed immediately if the admin flag is given back.

*Events*

• Upcoming events:

• AAFRennes2025, 26-28 Mars 2025

• 5-6 April & 12 April: Scholia Hackathon

• Wikidata and Sister Projects to take place May 29 - June 1. Currently welcoming session ideas and proposals on the event Talk page until March 31.The event will focus on the ways Wikidata is integrated and supports the other Wikimedia (sister) Projects.

*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*

• Blogs

• Enhance Your Wikibase With Extensions

• Editing Lexemes with your little finger

• Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition by Jean-Fred

• Thread: Who wins in a Wikipedia race between GPT-4.5, o1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and @OpenAI's new Computer-Using Agent?

*Tool of the week*

• Lexica - a mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels.

*Other Noteworthy Stuff*

• Mobile Editing of Statements - You have been asking for the ability to edit statements from mobile devices for years, this project will make editing statements on Wikidata Items more accessible and user-friendly for mobile users. Sign up to participate in prototype testing and interviews with our UX team

• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)

*Newest properties and property proposals to review*

• Newest properties:

• General datatypes:

• data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)

• External identifiers: booru tag, Steam Group numeric ID, Kompass company ID, ‎Macrotransactions game ID, Thunderstore game ID, ‎JSR package ID, ‎GitLab topic ID, Amazon Music track ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID

• New property proposals to review:

• General datatypes:

• levels (levels, maps, episodes, chapters or stages of this video game)

• Scilit scholar ID (author identifier on {{Q|77125337}})

• وزن صرفي عربي (A feature to adjust the pattern of Arabic words in lexemes)

• باب صرفي للأفعال العربية الثلاثية المجردة (Morphology of the Arabic triliteral verbs)

• land degradation (The amount of land that is degraded by an object. Mainly for infrastructure projects)

• Research projects that contributed to this data set (This property allows to identify research projects that they have contributed to or created an item)

• Platform height (platform height above the top of the rail (or above the road for buses))

• extended by (addons for this item) (Class of software this software is extended by)

• External identifiers: Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Delfi.ee theme ID, identifiant Dezède d'un individu, SeqCode Registry ID, Openalfa street ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, A Dictionary of Education entry ID, TDKIV wikibase ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

*Did you know?*

• Query examples:

• 2024 Population Census in Uganda (source)

• WikiProject Highlights:

• Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal/Liste des artistes de la collection

• Showcase Items:Cinderella (Q15046091) - 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

• Showcase Lexemes:страсть (L166968) - Russian noun that can mean "love", "passion", "desire", or "suffering."

*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!