Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Yamato Shiya - Congratulations to our newest Admin!
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Chamiln17@FineWiki - Task/s: Read-only Wikidata entity cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.
Events
- Upcoming events: Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session — 28 April 2026 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. This session covers QuickStatements 3.0, the updated batch-editing tool for Wikidata, redeveloped by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, featuring a modern interface and improved performance. Watch the previous session recording: on youtube. More details: QuickStatements3
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Tools of the week
- The Human History Atlas (WikiTime), a browser-based atlas that uses Wikidata and Wikipedia-sourced data to construct timelines and allows exploration of significant historical events.
- Wikilympians, a real-time list of all 153,412 known Olympic competitors with Wikidata and Wikipedia coverage statistics
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibase Suite 7.0 and Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.0.0 have been launched! It brings Wikibase closer to feature parity with Wikidata. Here's what's in the latest release:
- Echo Extension: User activity alerts and notifications.
- Discussion Tools Extension: Set of tools to enhance discussion pages.
- Temporary Accounts: The support for temporary accounts without IP address exposure has been added. It will, however, remain disabled by default, in line with Wikibase Cloud.
- Grouped External Identifiers (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310898): External identifiers are now grouped on entity pages for better readability.
- “Mul” (multi-language) support: Adds support for multi-language values.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- perspective (point of view for an image of an object, for example an anatomical structure (ventral, dorsal, frontal))
- Bavarian natural monuments ID (identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt)
- audio version of text (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).)
- motive (verified reasoning behind an action)
- award category or rank ((qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank)
- Newest External identifiers: BE-monumen ID, Team Norway athlete ID, Kantonsspital St.Gallen author ID, Consumer Rights Wiki article ID, Central Registration Number (Indonesia Military), Conlang Database ID, EM-DAT disaster number, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID, EDAM Ontology ID, Turkey province ID, Kvinnehistorie.no topic ID, CNVD-ID, GiveSendGo fundraising ID, radiko person ID, Wikiparfum brand ID, Turkey district ID, OSDev article ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- different from property (This property is to be distinguished from the other property)
- SELL rating (classification in the Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs rating system)
- time expansion (factor by which a recording's duration has been extended or compressed relative to the original real-time event, without pitch correction; values greater than 1 indicate time expansion (e.g. 10 = ten times longer than real life, pitch lowered tenfold); values less than 1 indicate time compression (e.g. 0.1 = ten times shorter, pitch raised tenfold); 1 = real-time)
- Parental Advisory System rating (content rating for coin-operated video games)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: CINEFOX film ID (reproposal), CINEFOX parson ID (reproposal), VK video ID, Brew TV, CycleBase cyclist ID (new), Royal Australian Air Force service number, Files of the Reich Chancellery ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
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Development
- Query Service: It is now possible to download query results in Wikidata Query Service that include coordinates as KML & GPX (GeoJSON has been available since last year). Text from the first column in the results is used as the value for naming POIs. Thanks again to Atom.oil.2 for the patch. (phab:T414376)
- The Wikidata team continued working on a prototype to make WikiProjects more visible (phab:T420907) and made the new Wikidata mobile UI use auto-resizing text areas instead of single-line text inputs, in order to make longer values easier to edit (phab:T414420)
- The Wikidata Integrations team now has a working prototype of LilDiffCheck, injecting wikidata changes into recent changes only if there was a change on the wikipedia html (phab:T421390)
- Language fallback will be available this week on the labels of linked entities functionality in GraphQL (phab:T413655)
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
