* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-06-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #684 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous.*

* Events *

- Join us for the third LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group event on the Wikidata Graph Split project, Tuesday, June 24 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1750780800. We’ll share updates on the Query Service, tools, and SPARQL learning resources. Stanford researchers Shicheng Liu and Sina Jandaghi Semnani will present their Spinach Wikidata Agent, which translates complex questions into SPARQL queries Project page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/GraphSplit

* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *

- Presentations - Slides of the panel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15690771 *MediaWiki-based tools and services in Digital Humanities workflows*, part of the DARIAH-EU Annual Event 2025 in Göttingen: (the panel was about Wikibase instances, including Wikidata) - Blogs - Who appeared how often on Lanz? https://stefan.bloggt.es/2025/06/wer-war-wie-oft-bei-lanz-schoener-leben-mit-linked-data/ (in German) - Wikidata’s Lydia Pintscher on importance of open data in the age of AI https://techinformed.com/wikidata-leader-on-open-data-in-age-of-ai/ - Papers - Scientists uncover surprisingly consistent pattern of scholarly curiosity throughout history https://www.psypost.org/scientists-uncover-surprisingly-consistent-pattern-of-scholarly-curiosity-throughout-history/ - *The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality* https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.70050 by Ambrosia10 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10 and colleagues used Wikidata to publicly curate the information. - Videos - Holy wells and OpenData - a talk about Wikidata et al. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j8hxYuqCVm4 - Wikidata Graph Split - Writing an FAQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek629n_-2v4&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD - By Tiago Lubiana - Taller introducción a Wikidata - Erika Guetti Suca https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mI9KmLI_NNA - Wikidata Lab XLV: Quick Statements 3.0 - Part II https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2177TktBLok By Wikimedia Brasil - (Spanish) ¿Qué es Wikidata y cómo se edita? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W74pw00i4IQ By Wikimedia Colombia

* Tool of the week *

- FEMIber https://femiber.upf.edu/: a digital humanities tool that uses structured data aligned with Wikidata principles to document and analyze how women are represented in medieval Iberian chronicles.

* 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: The Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13615, Debian Wiki article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13616, UK Parliament bill ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13617, CPJ topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13618, Desura game ID (archived) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13619, Diccionario de catedráticos españoles de derecho ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13620, Swiss Bishops ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13621, KNDB person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13622, MAI person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13623, necropolis.uinp.gov.ua person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13624 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - état https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%C3%A9tat (state of the matrix while printing) - Russian Federal Tax Service ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russian_Federal_Tax_Service_ID (identifier of Russian Tax Service for people or organization) - donation URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/donation_URL (official URL for making donations to the subject) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Ukrainian Memorial person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ukrainian_Memorial_person_ID, Memorial Platform person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Memorial_Platform_person_ID, Klimadashboard.de region ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Klimadashboard.de_region_ID, Taiwan Central News Agency News topic id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Taiwan_Central_News_Agency_News_topic_id, identifiant HAL d'une collection https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_HAL_d%27une_collection, CoreTennis.net player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CoreTennis.net_player_ID, identifiant sujet du dictionnaire biographique du Canada https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_sujet_du_dictionnaire_biographique_du_Canada, AMNH entity ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AMNH_entity_ID, nasljerseys.com player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/nasljerseys.com_player_ID, Portal Decentralization hromada ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Portal_Decentralization_hromada_ID, Portal of united hromadas of Ukraine hromada ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Portal_of_united_hromadas_of_Ukraine_hromada_ID, Archive of Our Own story ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archive_of_Our_Own_story_ID, rada.info council ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/rada.info_council_ID, International Tennis Federation player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/International_Tennis_Federation_player_ID, Confederation of African Tennis player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Confederation_of_African_Tennis_player_ID, Artvee artwork ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artvee_artwork_ID

You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!

* Did you know? *

- Query examples: - Place of birth to Place of Death - arrow indicator https://w.wiki/EKb5 (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query) - Map with place of birth and years of cartographers https://w.wiki/tZJ (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Place_of_birth_to_Place_of_Death_-_arrow_indicator? ) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: WikiProject Personal Collections https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Personal_Collections - The WikiProject Personal Collections aims to develop standardized terms, multilingual ontologies, and best practices for consistently describing personal collections and archives on Wikidata. - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: David Duchovny (Q484365) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q484365 - American actor and writer - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: газ (L183915) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L183915 - Russian noun (ɡas) meaning "gas (physical state)", "natural gas", or "accelerator pedal"

* Development *

- Query Service: It is now possible to download query results in Wikidata Query Service that include coordinates as GeoJSON (KML & GPX should also be available soon). Thanks to Atom.oil.2 for the patch. ( phab:T216601 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216601) - Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are continuing the work on improving how Wikidata changes show up in watchlist and recent changes, specifically showing labels instead of IDs in the future. (phab:T388685 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388685) - Search: We enabled the new search box that makes it easier to search in Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas as well. We are working on minor fixes based on feedback. - Mobile statement editing: We are working on showing the first statements in the new way - mostly tech demo and nothing to see yet ( phab:T394886 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394886) - Federation: We are looking into measuring and better understanding queries that use SPARQL federation. - REST API: We continued working on prefix search for Items in the API ( phab:T388209 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388209)

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: Norway https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Norway - 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