*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2026-02-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #716 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous.*

*Discussions*

- New requests for permissions/Bot: Sapper-bot 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Sapper-bot_2 - Task: Monthly updates of the Dead Sea https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23883 level and the "lowest point" property for Israel https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q801, Jordan https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q810, and Asia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48. - Closed request for permissions/Bot: LiteraryWorksMetaDataUploadBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/LiteraryWorksMetaDataUploadBot - Task: Upload metadata for literary works from research project. (Approved) - Other: Proposal to configure the Newcomer Dashboard for Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Proposal_to_configure_the_Newcomer_Dashboard_for_Wikidata

*Events*

- Upcoming events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events: - Call for Sessions: Wikimania 2026 is Coming to Paris https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/01/27/call-for-sessions-wikimania-2026-is-coming-to-paris/! The submission form will remain open until March 1. Results will be published in May. - Who's hiding behind museum collections? - A Wikidata Edit-a-thon by WiNoDa Knowledge Lab https://winoda.de/en/english/ (February 24th, 1:00pm-4:30pm CET). This online Edit-a-thon will focus on the many collectors that contributed to the Arachnida and Miryapoda collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Q136406087. Join us to uncover the unspoken human networks that shaped the history of science! Register here: http://winoda.de/en/event/wikidata-edit-a-thon/

*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*

- Blogs: Strengthening the Latin American public domain with Wikidata https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/02/01/celebrating-latin-american-public-domain-in-2026/ - Thesis: Hebeis, Maximilian (2026): *Entity Matching for Person Records in Authority Files* https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-112660, Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Master thesis in computer science: "a case study into applying learningbased entity matching to person records from two large authority databases, namely the German national Integrated Authority File (GND) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36578 and the crowd-sourced open knowledge base Wikidata") - Papers: Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD): *Wikidata across the humanities: datasets, methodologies, reuse* , https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/wikidata_across_the_human... (new papers have been published during the last week; see a list at d:Q136325279#P527 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136325279#P527) - Videos: - Africa Wiki Women 1st Newbies Community Meetup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUtvW94US_M - held an orientation for new members on editing Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Commons, to help bridge knowledge gaps of African women on Wiki platforms. - Mapping Africa: Visualizing Knowledge and Communities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czndc9Ekzb8 - explores how African communities use maps and geospatial data to enhance Wikidata, improve Wikimedia articles, and make local knowledge more visible globally.

*Tool of the week*

- Wdlist : Create and manage a personal list of Wikidata items. https://github.com/altilunium/wdlist

*Other Noteworthy Stuff*

- Wikimedia Deutschland Job vacancy - Architect of Storage Solutions https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/62397164/Architect-of-Storage-Solutions-all-genders---6-weeks-Freelance-contract/ - (freelance contract / 4-6 weeks) - You can now nominate your favorite Wikidata research award for 2025. Call for Nominations https://research.wikimedia.org/awards.html now open until February 15, 2026.

*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: U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14112, Lenta.ru person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14113 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - value type of this mathematical property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/value_type_of_this_mathematical_property (type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects) - Gifu Prefectural Shrine Association ranking https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gifu_Prefectural_Shrine_Association_ranking (One of the three rankings given by the Gifu Prefectural Shrine Association) - instances must not have https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/instances_must_not_have (instances of this class or of its subclasses must not have given property or statement) - African Scientists Directory ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/African_Scientists_Directory_ID (identifier for a scientist in the African Scientists Directory) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Center for Jewish History person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Center_for_Jewish_History_person_ID , LINCS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LINCS_ID, Artdoc.Media film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artdoc.Media_film_ID , Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 practice ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographical_Dictionary_of_British_and_Irish_Architects_1800-1950_practice_ID , Walloon-French dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Walloon-French_dictionary_ID , Russian Register of Film Distribution Certificates ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russian_Register_of_Film_Distribution_Certificates_ID , Hentaigana for Academic Information Exchange ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hentaigana_for_Academic_Information_Exchange_ID , Identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_inventaire_Nouvelle-Aquitaine , Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Algemeen_Nederlands_Woordenboek_ID , Woordenboek van Nieuwe Woorden ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Woordenboek_van_Nieuwe_Woorden_ID , Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Instituut_voor_de_Nederlandse_Taal_ID , Woordcombinaties ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Woordcombinaties_ID , Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Etymologisch_Woordenboek_van_het_Nederlands_ID , Database of the Southern Dutch Dialects concept ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Database_of_the_Southern_Dutch_Dialects_concept_ID , GiveSendGo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GiveSendGo_ID , CrowdRepublic project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CrowdRepublic_project_ID , European Dictionary Portal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Dictionary_Portal_ID , Gravestone Project Cemetery ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gravestone_Project_Cemetery_ID , Uzbek-Russian dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Uzbek-Russian_dictionary_ID , Ruwiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ruwiki_ID, Swedish National Archives ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swedish_National_Archives_ID , GDUNO ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GDUNO_ID, JMRC person id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JMRC_person_id , Catalunya Romànica ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Catalunya_Rom%C3%A0nica_ID , Mercantile Navy List ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mercantile_Navy_List_ID , Igromania author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Igromania_author_ID , Danmarks Kirker https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Danmarks_Kirker , Medvik ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Medvik_ID, Obálky knih ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ob%C3%A1lky_knih_ID , National Theatre in Prague artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Theatre_in_Prague_artist_ID , National Theatre in Prague performance ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Theatre_in_Prague_performance_ID , Alpine Linux Wiki article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alpine_Linux_Wiki_article , Microsoft Store developer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Microsoft_Store_developer_ID

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

*Did you know?*

- Query examples: Item with a Wikipedia page in lang. X but not Y https://w.wiki/Hg$g (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Wikidata_instance_with_page_on_language_wikis) - modify the wd: QID and the schema:isPartOf for your own purposes. - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: - WikiProject Chess - Rubinstein-Memorial list https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Chess/Lists/Rubinstein-Memorial - WikiProject Units of Measurement https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiproject_Units_of_Measurement - Wikiproject Medicine - List of Italian Doctors https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Medicine/List_of_Italian_doctors - WikiProject Evanion Collection https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Evanion_Collection - WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject every Politician / Canada https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_every_politician/Canada - all Commons lists were updated. - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: Variety of reports for deletion candidates https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/to_delete

*Development*

- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: - We are making progress with identifying additional ways in which we can reduce the number of irrelevant changes from Wikidata showing up in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co. - We are discussing with pilot Wikipedias about turning on showing Wikidata changes by default in watchlist and recent changes (moving it from opt-in to opt-out) - GraphQL: We are putting the last touches on a GraphQL endpoint for Wikidata. We are planning to get it live later this month for feedback. - LDF endpoint: We are planning to decommission the endpoint in preparation for the migration away from Blazegraph on the 18th of February ( phab:T415696 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415696) - Mobile statement editing: - We are almost done with adding support for editing statements with quantity and monolingual text datatype and finished support for mathematical expression statements. We started support for editing coordinate statements. - We are continuing the work on showing constraint violations. - Wikibase Ecosystem: We are in the process of setting up a demo system for ontology federation (i.e. using Wikidata Items as values in statements on another Wikibase instance)

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: - 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)

Wikimedia Volunteer | Open Knowledge Advocate

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