*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2026-04-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #728 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous.*
*Discussions*
- Closed request for adminship: *Yamato Shiya https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Yamato_Shiya* - Congratulations to our newest Admin! - New requests for permissions/Bot: *Chamiln17@FineWiki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Chamiln17@FineWiki* - *Task/s:* Read-only Wikidata entity cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset.
*Events*
- Upcoming events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events: Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkd_W_K2CEQ. More details: QuickStatements3 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/QuickStatements3
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs: - The Gballi Browser: Designing for the Dagbanli Alphabet https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/04/10/the-gballi-browser-designing-for-the-dagbanli-alphabet/, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan - Building Visibility for African Women on Wikimedia: The EmpowerHer Fellowship https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/04/21/building-visibility-for-african-women-on-wikimedia-the-empowerher-fellowship by Andikan Efiok Eduok. - Papers: - Call for Edits Nearby: Open Archives Metadata from Saxony https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.430 by J. Bemme & M. Munke (2026), latest paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data series. - (Deutsch) [PDF] Art History Loves Wiki 2026 | digital/local.collection loves wiki https://arthist.net/reviews/52225/view=pdf - report from ArtHist.net on the recent 3rd edition of the conference, held at the Museum Schnütgen, Köln, from 27 – 29 March. - Videos: - Live Wikidata Editing, #121 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GAI0MXlYBE with Jan Ainali and Abbe98. - (Español) Build with Wikimedia open data: APIs, SPARQL and visualization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci-TFUyvnAU with Carla Toro Fernández, Director Technology WM Chile. - Every Airport Ever Built (1909-2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mehivb26qI - an animated map showing where and when airports were built. Powered by Wikidata and OurAirports. - (Catalan) Barcelona Free Software: How to use Wikidata to make public domain digital works visible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xFbsSRMncs, User:Hiperterminal https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Hiperterminal presents Paulina, discusses the work done in digitising collections and how to make public domain works visible. - Notebooks: Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography? https://observablehq.com/@pac02/does-the-country-of-birth-affect-the-likelihood-of by User:PAC2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2
*Tools of the week*
- The Human History Atlas (WikiTime) https://app.wikitime.live/, a browser-based atlas that uses Wikidata and Wikipedia-sourced data to construct timelines and allows exploration of significant historical events. - Wikilympians https://olympians.toolforge.org/athletes, 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 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo: User activity alerts and notifications. - Discussion Tools Extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DiscussionTools: Set of tools to enhance discussion pages. - Temporary Accounts https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/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 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: - perspective https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14345 (point of view for an image of an object, for example an anatomical structure (ventral, dorsal, frontal)) - Bavarian natural monuments ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14347 (identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt) - audio version of text https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14351 (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).) - motive https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14359 (verified reasoning behind an action) - award category or rank https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14360 ((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 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14346, Team Norway athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14348, Kantonsspital St.Gallen author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14349, Consumer Rights Wiki article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14350, Central Registration Number (Indonesia Military) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14353, Conlang Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14354, EM-DAT disaster number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14355, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14356, EDAM Ontology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14357, Turkey province ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14358, Kvinnehistorie.no topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14361, CNVD-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14362, GiveSendGo fundraising ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14363, radiko person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14364, Wikiparfum brand ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14365, Turkey district ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14366, OSDev article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14367 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - different from property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/different_from_property (This property is to be distinguished from the other property) - SELL rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SELL_rating (classification in the Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs rating system) - time expansion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/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 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Parental_Advisory_System_rating (content rating for coin-operated video games) - New External identifier property proposals to review: CINEFOX film ID (reproposal) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CINEFOX_film_ID_(reproposal) , CINEFOX parson ID (reproposal) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CINEFOX_parson_ID_(reproposal) , VK video ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VK_video_ID, Brew TV https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Brew_TV, CycleBase cyclist ID (new) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CycleBase_cyclist_ID_(new) , Royal Australian Air Force service number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Royal_Australian_Air_Force_service_number , Files of the Reich Chancellery ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Files_of_the_Reich_Chancellery_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples: List of treaties/truces in the time https://w.wiki/MDpD by User:Bouzinac https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bouzinac - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects : WikiProject Occupations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Occupations for enriching items occupation *(P106)* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P106, occupation *(Q12737077)* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12737077 with data verified from official national occupation classification systems. - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: Without Claims by Site https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/without_claims_by_site - this report will list how many Wikidata Items have 0 Statements, with a linked Wiki Article/page. Click *reports/all items* for a per wiki list, and consider expanding. - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items : Okazaki fragments https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q845661 - short DNA sequences synthesized discontinuously during DNA replication - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: transfer (L29733) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L29733 - English noun/verb (ˈtræns.fɜːr) meaning "to move from one place to another", "a sports team member moving to another team", or "a ticket allowing continuation of a journey"
*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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414376) - The Wikidata team continued working on a prototype to make WikiProjects more visible (phab:T420907 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421390) - Language fallback will be available this week on the labels of linked entities functionality in GraphQL (phab:T413655 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413655)
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: field of work https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Main_dashboard - 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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