*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2025-10-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #701 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous.*

*Discussions*

- Open request for adminship: Ternera https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Ternera - RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2025 16:10 (UTC) - New requests for permissions/Bot: Rebot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Rebot - Task: Make changes in w.wiki/Fed9, such as changing depicts (P180) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P180 = herbarium (Q181916) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181916 to herbarium specimen (Q61726742) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61726742.

*Events*

- Upcoming: - WikidataCon 2025: Have you seen the Program yet? https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/schedule/ Available now on Pretalx, check now and plan your schedule. - 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1761757200) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣*surprise announcement* (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_Thirteenth_Birthday/Presents_%26_messages_call . - The Dublin Core DCMI 2025 https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2025/ conference will take place in Barcelona, Oct 22-25. - Presentation https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2025/sessions/papers-metadata-quality-bibframe/#reczeEWTeASPr4XmW : *Derivative Relationships and Bibliographic Families Among Creative Works: A Systematic Study of Their Application by the Wikidata Community from the FRBR and BIBFRAME Perspective* - Workshop https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2025/sessions/workshop-web-app-to-static-site/#session-information by Jneubert https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jneubert on converting a complex web application into a large static site integrated with Wikidata - Tutorial https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2025/sessions/tutorial-shaping-linked-data-knowledge-graphs/#session-information from Jelabra https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jelabra on shaping linked data and knowledge graphs. - Wikidata Lab XLVII: Wiki Infographics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJQ7JxQ0XBg, about a tool https://iw.toolforge.org/infographics for data visualization. On October 21, 17 UTC. - Wikimania 2026 Scholarships are open https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Scholarships! Deadline is Friday, October 31st, 2025. - Wikidata 13th birthday celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_13th_Birthday_Celebration_in_Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group on October 24 and 25, 2025 - Past: - Missed the Q4 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-10-15 (Q4 2025) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/Telegram_office_hour_2025-10-15 - Wikidata 13th birthday celebration in the WUGN Abuja Network https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_13th_birthday_celebration_in_the_WUGN_Abuja_Network

*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*

- Blogs: (Finnish) From Wikidata to GEO (AI) optimization? https://piilotettuaarre.blogspot.com/2025/10/wikidatasta-vauhtia-geo-eli.html by Johanna Janhonen - Videos: - Genealogical tree creation with Wikidata https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cYJ9kfFBE - by Thimira Sahan - (Chinese) Wikidata 13 週年聚會暨 OpenRefine 工作坊 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=35Z1IoXA7t8 - by Wikidata Taiwan - (Spanish) Taller en línea: Introducción a Wikidata y Wikibase https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pFWfJIEs6Bw by bibliotecasUNAM - Wikimedia Research Showcase: Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture https://www.youtube.com/live/3NMOvOUCd8Q

*Tool of the week*

- WikiLokal https://affandymurad.github.io/wikilokal/ - The tool uses your device location to find Wikidata Items and Wikipedia articles within a 3 kilometre radius of your location. Created by User:Affandy Murad https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Affandy_Murad

*Other Noteworthy Stuff*

- Project Chat: - Help choose a name for the Abstract Wikipedia Project https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Help_us_decide_the_name_of_the_new_Abstract_Wikipedia_project - combining WikiFunctions and Wikidata, a voting contest will run from Oct 20 - Nov 17, 2025. - How can Wikidata be useful IRL if it has less data than Wikipedia? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#How_can_Wikidata_be_useful_IRL_if_it_has_less_data_than_Wikipedia? - an ongoing discussion touching on data scraping tools such as Harvest templates (github) https://github.com/Pascalco/harvesttemplates and data consistency between Wikipedia and Wikidata in places such as Infoboxes.

*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: organizational chart https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13847 (image that displays the structure of this organization or government agency and the relationships and relative ranks of its parts and positions/jobs) - Newest External identifiers: The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13843, TechPowerUp CPU Specs Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13844, Catalogue of sundials ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13845, A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13846, GPUZoo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13848, NetEase Music album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13849, Corporation Number in Canada https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13850, Biographical Dictionary of Almería identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13851 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - image of outdoor seating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/image_of_outdoor_seating (an image of the outdoor seating) - Elo rating (rapid) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Elo_rating_(rapid) (Current or historical Elo rating of a player in rapid time control chess games) - ECHL profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ECHL_profile_ID (Id (number) used by ECHL on their website ehcl.com. URL takes a slug.) - award category or rank https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/award_category_or_rank ((qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank) - public key https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/public_key (cryptographic public key (some ASCII encoding of it)) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Schulnummer Sachsen https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Schulnummer_Sachsen , Team Austria ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Team_Austria_ID , IFES Election Guide ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IFES_Election_Guide_ID , BNB agent ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BNB_agent_ID, Arte de la Argentina ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Arte_de_la_Argentina_ID , Democratic Memory Bank ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Democratic_Memory_Bank_ID , Kicker competition ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kicker_competition_ID , Soccer365.net team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Soccer365.net_team_ID , LUDAP https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LUDAP , Genbu.net ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Genbu.net_ID, ztgd.com https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ztgd.com, ISTAMPIE entity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISTAMPIE_entity , MIT Press edition id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MIT_Press_edition_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 Airports/Airstrips in Florida, USA https://w.wiki/FkPH - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects : WikiProject IDEA (translation tasks) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_IDEA/Translation_Work - WikiProject Highlights: Govdirectory South Korea https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/South_Korea was created. - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items : Jagiellonian Library (Q24101) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24101 - library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: led (L762994) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L762994 - Norwegian Nynorsk noun (leː) meaning "a joint between bones", "a movable body part", or "a generation"

*Development*

- Mobile statement editing: We made progress on support for more datatypes for editing. - Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: - We are investigating an issue with infoboxes using data from Wikidata after some recent changes to usage tracking (phab:T407684 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T407684) - We are working on more improvements to the Databox module - Ontology federation: We are starting to work on making it possible for other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as values in their statements. This expands on previous work around federated properties. - Dumps: We have worked on fixing issues with the dumps that were failing recently. They should now be generated again and we continue to look into the cause.

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: Bahamas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Bahamas - 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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