Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- TopDevsBot - Task/s: Create new items for software-development, design, and consulting companies from source data: topdevs.ai
- SonalBot - Task/s: Reference Gardener (archive dead reference links) + Welcome Bot (welcome new users)
- New request for comments: WM Commons: Policy update for AI content - this RfC will seek opinions on the use and allowance of AI-generated and modified content. This can have downstream impacts on Wikidata.
Events
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Papers: MathModDB: A Database for Mathematical Models - The Mathematical Models Database (MathModDB), deployed on the MaRDI Portal within Germany’s National Research Data Infrastructure, provides researchers with a curated knowledge graph that organizes scattered mathematical models, formulas, and assumptions, connects to related tools like MathAlgoDB and MaRDMO, and demonstrates practical use through cases such as plasma physics modeling. By Fiedler et al., (2026)
- Videos:
Tool of the week
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July. A Q&A clinic will be held on 1 July at 15:00 UTC (join here).
- Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship, Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: Taiwan Central News Agency news topic ID, Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, Sceneweb artwork ID, Sceneweb production ID, Fantia ID, Finnish educational institution ID, altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, TV Guide film ID, FOD person ID, LRT topic ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Pure Adult actress ID, Taiwan Central News Agency News tag id, Pure Adult studio ID, Natural science/GBIF taxon ID, Digitaler Portraitindex person ID, torial ID, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, Samtrafiken-vehicle-id, Sundsvall Municipality opendata ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, KBS News topic ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur Autoroc, La Grange ID, Rakuten Books author ID
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Development
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are continuing to evaluate the prototype for reducing the number of unnecessary edits from Wikidata that show up in watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co. The approach is to look at the diff of the rendered article before and after the change from Wikidata is made. If there is no difference then the change is probably not relevant for that article. We are collecting a sample to further understand how it performs.
- To continue to address Wikidata's scaling issues, we are planning the migration of entity usage tables to the X1 cluster.
- Mobile editing of statements:
- We implemented more feedback from testing of the new mobile front-end. Specifically we worked on making it clearer when a statements already exist that the editor is trying to add to the Item.
- Additionally, we made minor improvements to the look and feel of the mobile front-end.
- REST API:
- GraphQL:
- We added support for requesting “best statements” for a given Property (phab:T428138)
- We are working on adding support for negation in Property value pair filters (phab:T429580)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
