*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2025-12-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #709 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous.*
*Discussions*
- The mass editing policy Request for Comments https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Requests_for_comment/Mass-editing_policy has a number of open questions looking for votes and comments to shape the mass-editing policy.
*Events*
- Upcoming events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events: - A Scholia hackathon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Scholia/Events/2025_12 is ongoing this week, focused on completing the transition of Scholia to QLever https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:QLever as the SPARQL backend for its Wikidata queries. - Data and Technology Week 2025 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Pekan_Data_dan_Teknologi_2025 from 19th of December 2025 to 22 of December 2025, organized by Wikimedia Indonesia (Q13098516) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13098516. Consisted of a Wikidata Workshop, a Wikifunction Introductory Seminar and Geodatathon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Indonesia/Kegiatan/Datathon. This event is in Indonesian. - (English) WM Malaysia / 2025 SEA Games Datathon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:2025_SEA_Games_Datathon - 20.12.2025, 1200 ~ 1400 UTC. Register https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/2677 to contribute to items about athletes competing in South East Asian Games 2025 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25041680(Q25041680 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25041680)
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs: (French) Facebook post: ArkéoTopia https://www.facebook.com/reel/2155010721972790/: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (CTHS) to begin integrating Wikidata - Papers: - Open Data Practices of Art Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.438 - second paper of the *Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse* https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/wikidata_across_the_humanities collection. By Dişli et al., (2025). - VIAF Governance Concerns about the Refurbished VIAF Web and API Interfaces https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17384 by Stefano Bargioni (2025): a detailed account of the technical and governance issues experienced by VIAF https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54919 in 2025 and its impact on its many external reusers, including Wikidata - Videos: - (Italian) Wikidata and Wikibase for research https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k3VZpTDOJTQ: Camillo Pellizzari gives an overview of Wikidata, the data model, potential as scientific research subject and tool, then a Wikibase intro and its uses beyond Wikidata, with example instance: Hypotheseis https://hypotheseis.wikibase.cloud/; slides on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_e_Wikibase_per_la_ricerca_(Seminario_di_cultura_digitale).pdf - Feminist Structured data: A Conversation with Art+Feminism and Whose Knowledge? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM4SJeJhcvg: How feminist values can reshape structured data on Wikidata to address gaps, representation, and opportunities for collaboration across communities. - Community Hours: Art+Feminism community in Armenia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwxdyWHEhpw: Former regional A+F ambassador, Arminé Aghayan-Flisch, tells us of her experiences growing the A+F Armenian community through GLAM, Wikidata and Wikipedia. - (Spanish) PADEP 2025: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sD0G2Obfw: Dr. Luis Álvarez Azcárraga teaches the course: *Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Open Databases for Social, Artistic, and Cultural Studies* - See something, change something Webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3hM9hc2tyM: @58:10 https://www.youtube.com/?si=1fp2tMPLBvkNmrPJ, a presentation on the Wikidata agent plug-in for ArchivesSpace is given. - Wikibase Live Session / November 27 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibase_Live_Session_November_2025_-_Federated_Values_Demo.webm: First demo presented of federation of values from Wikidata to Wikibases.
*Tool of the week*
- Broomstick https://broomstick.toolforge.org/ - Broomstick is a tool to uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- Congratulations to Govdirectory https://www.govdirectory.org/, the winner of the FSF's Award for Projects of Social Benefit https://www.fsf.org/news/2024-free-software-awards-winners. - wikibase-cli https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/WikibaseJS-cli got support for claim reconciliation https://github.com/maxlath/wikibase-cli/blob/main/docs/write_operations.md#add-claim-unless-it-already-exists%7Cimproved. This is typically useful to add a claim unless it already exists. - The Wikimedia Research Fund https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund/Wikimedia_Research_Fund is open for funding applications for research projects around the Wikimedia Projects, including Wikidata.
*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 General datatypes: has grammatical number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13986 (grammatical number used in this language) - Newest External identifiers: NLI Newspaper Collection ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13982, Cabinet minutes of the German Government ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13983, neodb.social ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13984, Flemish Community Masterpieces List item ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13985 , Medicin.dk medical condition ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13987, Mapillary username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13988, Sector.sk game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13989, My Abandonware theme ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13990, Encyclopedia of Shinto ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13991, Blu-Ray.com film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13992, Japanese Law Translation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13993, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13994, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13995, Getty Collections Archival Component ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13996, CRA program account number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13997, FC Barcelona player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13998, Qalamos person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13999, KISTI conference ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14000 - New External identifier property proposals to review: survivalhorrors.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/survivalhorrors.com_ID , Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diccionari_de_la_llengua_catalana_entry_ID , GamesIndustry.biz game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GamesIndustry.biz_game_ID , WhatsOnStage Stage Names ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WhatsOnStage_Stage_Names_ID , Adventure Game Hotspot game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Adventure_Game_Hotspot_game_ID , identifiant Netflix titre https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Netflix_titre , 4gamer.net game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/4gamer.net_game_ID , Fragrantica perfumer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fragrantica_perfumer_ID , PC Guru game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PC_Guru_game_ID , British Newspaper Archive publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/British_Newspaper_Archive_publication_ID , GOG tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GOG_tag_ID, Open Food Facts brand ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Food_Facts_brand_ID , Games for Change directory ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Games_for_Change_directory_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples: - All ports in Wikidata, sorted by the total number of statements https://w.wiki/GbVa - Queer and LGBT Literature that have won Literary Awards https://w.wiki/Ghiv (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Improving_a_query ) - Bubble chart with numbers shown in the bubbles: Memory of the World inscriptions from Arab states https://w.wiki/GiaY - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: - WikiProject P244 maintenance https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_P244_maintenance - For coordination and improvement of Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAP) via Library of Congress authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P244 - WikiProject Museum of Glass https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Museum_of_Glass ( Q2894440 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2894440) - improving the visibility of visiting artists to the University of Washington Information School https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7896574 - WikiProject Highlights: Egezort's efforts in Mereology: removing/migrating part of statements in Recipe relationships https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Mereology_Task_Force/Effort_0001:_Removing_or_migrating_part_of_statements_in_recipe_relationships - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: 34 Bots operating without a Bot flag https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Unauthorized_bots - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items : Fort George (Q1426707) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1426707 - 18th-century fortress built in the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: mesa (L31222) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L31222 - Spanish noun (ˈme.sa) meaning "table (furniture)", "mesa (flat-topped hill)", or "served table for dining"
*Development*
- Edit summaries: We made changes that will improve the automatic edit summaries of edits made using the wbeditentity API endpoint. Tools that use this endpoint to edit statements will, in some cases, now have more accurate edit summaries; this also affects how such edits are summarized in edit groups https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_groups. ( phab:T411247 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411247) - Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are collecting feedback from the first wikis who got the new and improved Databox module. - Mobile statement editing: - We are making remaining changes for the first roll-out as a beta-feature. - We are working on showing constraint violations. (phab:T411602 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411602, phab:T400676 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400676) - GraphQL: We are working on making it possible to query for Items by Property/value pair (phab:T403576 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T403576) - REST API: We are improving error messages for requests that failed due to an IP block (phab:T404727 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404727)
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: Germany https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Germany - 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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Idoko Joseph (JosefAnthony)
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