*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-12-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #708 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous.*
*Discussions*
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - Well, Well, Bot! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Well,_Well,_Bot! - Task/s: Database imports, maintenance. - RijksBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RijksBot - Task/s: Adding Rijksmuseum IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13234 (P13234) to Wikidata items based on a CSV mapping of QIDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43649390 to Rijksmuseum https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25861166 URIs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61694. - CostamiriBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/CostamiriBot - Task/s: Chess https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q718 related tasks such as monthly updates to the elo https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105955 rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105955 of chess players https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10873124. - New draft: Wikidata:External identifiers/Obsolescence https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:External_identifiers/Obsolescence (opinions are welcome in its talk page)
*Events*
- Upcoming events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events: - How to view #25N with Wikidata? https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dikm7CrXSZ27EuPJA3r56w#/registration - a community hour with Wikimedia Chile, 21:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1765224000) - Fact-Checking with Wikidata Workshop https://luma.com/7fs5v7os - January 20, 2026, 16:30 ~ 18:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1768930200) - WMDE's Philippe Saadé will show hands-on methods using the Wikidata MCP to retrieve, filter and classify Wikidata statements with semantic search, reranker LLM and NLI models, registration required. - (Portuguese) Meeting Point Editatona II - Warm your hands modeling festival on Wikidata https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ponto_de_Encontro_Wikimedia/II: December 10, 2025, 15:00 - 19:00 UTC+1, Porto, Portugal. - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group session 9 December, 2025: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1765299600). WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. Sessions will be held on October 14, November 25, and December 9, 2025 at our regular time of 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gro... - Past Events: Digital Humanities Hub: Documenting epigraphic data, Wikidata ontology practice https://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities-research-hub/events/documenting-epigraphic-data-wikidata-ontology-practice - December 2 & 3, 2025, both 14:00 ~ 15:30 UTC.
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs: Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Lafia https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/12/03/celebrating-wikidatas-13th-birthday-in-lafia-a-day-of-learning-community-and-open-knowledge-%F0%9F%8E%89/ - Papers: - Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.00590 - Chepurova *et al*., (2025) - Victims of Posterity. Identifying Gaps on 19th-Century French Art History with Wikidata https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.399 - first paper in the *Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse* https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/wikidata_across_the_humanities collection by the Journal of Open Humanities Data. Authored by Claire Dupin de Beyssat. - Videos: GB Claude Code AI Agent: Fully Autonomous Wikidata Query & Visualization (Zero Human Intervention) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T6_l2aEKXM - (Taiwanese Mandarin) Wikidata Taiwan translation project on "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iadJst1IN8 (as published by the OCLC)
*Tool of the week*
- Wikiguessr Game https://ranjithsiji.github.io/wikiguessr/ Is a Wikidata game it guess the location from Image from anywhere around the world by User: Ranjithsiji https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ranjithsiji
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- Remembering Amos Bairoch, co-contributor to Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Semantic Web of data https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/52/D1/D44/7329473 and consulted often for TiagoLubiana's CellosaurusBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:CellosaurusBot.
*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: - GBFS feed URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13975 (URL of a GBFS feed for the bicycle-sharing system) - code of conduct URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13977 (URL of a resource that contains the Code of Conduct of a project or organization) - Newest External identifiers: BFXC authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13965, Out tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13967, GayCities ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13968, Fight.ru fighters ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13969, Personality Database group ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13970, Codes for the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13971, Macanese company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13972, MovieID film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13973, Teen Vogue tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13974, CRT Database model ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13976, PriceRunner product ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13978, BWB number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13979, Brandenburg School ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13980 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - fragrance gender https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fragrance_gender (category for which a fragrance is marketed) - perfumer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/perfumer (person who created a perfume) - Discharge regime https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Discharge_regime (The '''[[:en:Discharge regime|discharge regime]]''' can be Glacial, Nival or Pluvial. It can be a combination of 2 : Nivo-pluvial, Pluvio-nival, Nivo-glacial, etc. Be specific (e.g. pluvial tropical, meridional, etc.). Or be complex) - minimal pair of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/minimal_pair_of (lexeme that differ from this one in only one phonological element) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Cookpad Recipe ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cookpad_Recipe_ID , Sector.sk game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sector.sk_game_ID , Card Player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Card_Player_ID , Fragrantica perfume ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fragrantica_perfume_ID , Fragrantica perfume brand ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fragrantica_perfume_brand_ID , My Abandonware theme ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/My_Abandonware_theme_ID , Identificador Banrep Cultural https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identificador_Banrep_Cultural , izoh.uz word ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/izoh.uz_word_ID , VGChartz game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VGChartz_game_ID , Metacritic video game genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Metacritic_video_game_genre_ID , Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Place_Names_and_Places_of_Nova_Scotia_ID , Taking Stock ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Taking_Stock_ID , Game Font Library ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_Font_Library_ID , Fragrantica perfume notes ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fragrantica_perfume_notes_ID , EAGER game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EAGER_game_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples: - Birthplace of French Heads of State https://w.wiki/AA7J - Films starring Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hughes, available on YouTube https://w.wiki/ACWE - WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Turkmenistan https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Turkmenistan - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items : Goosebumps https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16994327 - 2015 film directed by Rob Letterman - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: course (L3958) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L3958 - English noun (kɔːrs) meaning "direction of movement", "program of study", or "part of a meal"
*Development*
- Mobile statement editing: - It's now possible to edit existing references (phab:T405236 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405236) - We fixed a number of issues such as a problem when adding the first statements to an item (phab:T409069 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409069) - We started work on showing constraint violation indicators ( phab:T400676 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400676) - We're working on showing errors in the edit form (phab:T408928 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408928) - We're improving the edit summaries (phab:T411247 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411247) - Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We continued working on improvements to the Databox Lua module and template - GraphQL: We continued working on the first version of GraphQL support
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: Togo https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Togo - 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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