*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2025-07-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #689 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous.*
*Discussions*
- Open request for adminship: Aqurs1 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Aqurs1 (RfP scheduled to end after 31 July 2025 16:35 UTC) - New requests for permissions/Bot: THEbotIT 3 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/THEbotIT_3 - New functional aspect to automatic creation of items describing the articles of Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Paulys_Realencyclop%C3%A4die_der_classischen_Altertumswissenschaft (RE). We want to model now the articles, which amends the main articles, as those information where suppressed so far.
*Events*
- Upcoming events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events: - Wikidata's 13th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2025. Feel free to browse the documentation pages https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Thirteenth_Birthday to learn how to organize an event in your area, get funding, and get in touch with other organizers. Help translate the documentation pages into your language. - COSCUP 2025 (Q134950534) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134950534 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Track https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/Wikidata_Taiwan/COSCUP_2025 will be held at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Q699543) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q699543 on August 9-10. - Wikimania https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025 starts next week August 6 through August 9. Check out the Wikidata related session in the program https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Wikimania/Program and start marking your preferred Wikimania sessions (⭐/like) on your mobile apps or calendars. If you are joining online to watch live stream and use the interactive features, please register on eventyay through wikimania.org. Note also the Wikidata meetups organised outside the official conference hours. - Past: WikiCon Brasil 2025 happened in person in Salvador (Q36947) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36947 including a technical session with two Wikidata-focused presentations https://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCon_Brasil_2025/Programa/Tecnologia (in Portuguese)
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs: - Making Question-Answering Systems Smarter with Knowledge Graphs Using FrOG: A Wikidata Research Fund 2024 Highlight https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/07/23/making-question-answering-systems-smarter-with-knowledge-graphs-using-frog-a-wikidata-research-fund-2024-highlight/ - How can large language models become more accurate using structured knowledge? A research team from Universitas Indonesia and WU Vienna explored this through FrOG, a framework that integrates Wikidata into question-answering language model. This research is supported by Wikimedia Indonesia through the Wikidata Research Fund 2024 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Hibah_Riset_Wikidata_2024 program. - Wikidata’s next leap: the open database powering tomorrow’s AI and Wikipedia https://www.techradar.com/pro/wikidatas-next-leap-the-open-database-powering-tomorrows-ai-and-wikipedia By Lydia Pintscher
- Presentations: O herbário da Universidade de Coimbra na Wikidata https://zenodo.org/records/15609570 (Using Wikidata in Natural History Collection Management, in Portuguese) - Papers: Wiki-Quantities and Wiki-Measurements: Datasets of quantities and their measurement context from Wikipedia https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40695850/ - Researchers developed two large, validated datasets; Wiki-Quantities and Wiki-Measurements, from Wikipedia and Wikidata to improve automated extraction of quantitative data and its context using natural language processing techniques. By Göpfert et al., (2025) - Videos: Wikidata:The shadow power behind Wikipedia and AI https://m.youtube.com/shorts/MXQBNG4Wjgk
*Tool of the week*
- Flashback Fiesta https://flashbackfiesta.app/ - is a trivia game that challenges players to guess the year of historical events using data from Wikidata.
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- The Wikidata:WikiProject Personal Pronouns https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Personal_Pronouns drafted a new Wikidata Personal Pronouns Policy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Personal_pronouns, using this recent RFC https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Pronouns_P6553 as a basis. It's the first time a policy on this topic has been proposed, and the Wikidata Living People Policy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Living_people served as a reference. Feedback is encouraged and appreciated. - The modeling of agrégation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q397610 ("the most competitive and prestigious examination for civil service in the French public education system" according to w:en:Agrégation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Agr%C3%A9gation) has been reviewed in various aspects: a summary is available in d:Talk:Q397610#Modeling agrégation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q397610#Modeling_agr%C3%A9gation. Suggestions are welcome. - Wikimedia Deutschland is inviting further feedback on the Mobile Editing Experience prototype https://www.figma.com/proto/IdZ6rdm8FqDuLYIfQTvEer/ALICE-meets-MEX?page-id=0%3A1&node-id=3-9092&viewport=-14617%2C-894%2C0.76&t=jFYlzZdmBq4NcDU2-1&scaling=min-zoom&content-scaling=fixed (currently just a design file so not everything is clickable). Please follow the instructions below and share your thoughts at Wikidata talk:Usability and usefulness/Item editing experience/Mobile editing of statements https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Usability_and_usefulness/Item_editing_experience/Mobile_editing_of_statements : - Add "business woman" as an occupation - Add a start date to the relationship with A$AP Rocky and provide a reference - Find the place of birth (Saint Michael) and open that page - Add the coordinate location for Saint Michael
*Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties and property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review*
- New General datatypes: operating cost https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13668 (estimated or average ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object) - New External identifiers: Ukrainian Memorial person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13651, Portal of united hromadas of Ukraine ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13652, Portal Decentralization hromada ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13653, Facebook image ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13654, archieven.nl creator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13655, Elonet company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13656, Embryo Project Encyclopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13657, Film Atlas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13658, Klimadashboard.de region ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13659, Knowledge Graph for Irish History person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13660, myCast person or character ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13661, nasljerseys.com player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13662, speedrun.com level ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13663, FBref competition ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13664, FBref match ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13665, parlament.fyi person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13666, Swimcloud swimmer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13667 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - organizational chart https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/organizational_chart (image that displays the structure of this organization or government agency and the relationships and relative ranks of it's parts and positions/jobs) - Source Shrine https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Source_Shrine (The shrine that the gods of this shinto shrine came from through Bunrei and Kanjo) - botanical photographs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/botanical_photographs (a distinctive image of a flower, inflorescence, or a similar reproductive structure for this taxon) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Deaf Movie Database language ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Deaf_Movie_Database_language_ID , Deaf Movie Database genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Deaf_Movie_Database_genre_ID , Deaf Movie Database country ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Deaf_Movie_Database_country_ID , Swiss Films person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swiss_Films_person_ID , My Abandonware company https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/My_Abandonware_company , Encyclopedia of Indianapolis ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Indianapolis_ID , Database dei fondi musicali toscani ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Database_dei_fondi_musicali_toscani_ID , NeoDB Movie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NeoDB_Movie_ID , Serbian settlement ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Serbian_settlement_ID , c64.cz game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/c64.cz_game_ID , NuGet package https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NuGet_package , Swiss Films company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swiss_Films_company_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples: - Church buildings in Sweden on OpenStreetMap with links to Wikidata, but without the inverse link https://qlever.cs.uni-freiburg.de/wikidata/Bc3bpD?exec=true. - Tennis tournament titles won by specific player https://w.wiki/EsMN (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Tennis_tournament_titles_won_by_specific_player ) - BarChart of chemical compound identifiers in Wikidata https://w.wiki/EsMS (source https://wikis.world/@egonw@social.edu.nl/114918734141640378) - WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Sweden https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sweden - A project to centralize, expand, and translate Sweden-related data on Wikidata while supporting the Swedish contributor community. - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items : Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Q43361) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43361 - 1997 novel by J. K. Rowling - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes:ножницы (L9436) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L9436 - Russian noun (nɐˈʐnʲitsɨ) meaning "cutting tool", "window hardware mechanism", or "ski position with split tips"
*Development*
- Mobile statement editing: - We finished a first version of formatting references (phab:T396098 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396098); qualifiers (phab:T396099 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396099); various data types ( phab:T394888 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394888, phab:T394890 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394890, phab:T394904 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394904, phab:T394907 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394907); and multiple statements for one property (phab:T396637 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396637) - We enabled the new mobile editing experience on beta Wikidata https://www.wikidata.beta.wmcloud.org/ so you can now try the very rough version there and follow along with development - Wikibase REST API: We finished the simple Property prefix search endpoint and it will go live in the next days (phab:T397838 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397838) - Additional APIs: We are working on a prototype for GraphQL to see if that is a going to be helpful for accessing Wikidata's data (phab:T399452 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399452)
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: Kenya https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Kenya - 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