*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #707 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous.*

*Discussions*

- A Project Chat discussion (here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#default_for_all_languages_(mul)) on mul / fallback language for Labels, Descriptions and Aliases has continued on Help Talk: Default values for labels and aliases https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help_talk:Default_values_for_labels_and_aliases#In_the_long_run,_we_should_have_separate_mul_properties_for_different_scripts

*Events*

- Upcoming events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events: - Mark your calendars - Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map https://vsa-aas.ch/event/workshop-die-schweizer-archivlandschaft-wikidata-und-interaktive-karte/ February 2 & April 20 (German) / June 2 (French), 2026. Workshops are on-site and online, registration mandatory (closes January 20). - Citizen Technology Community Gathering and Taiwan Translation Launch of Linked Open Data Documents https://g0v.hackmd.io/@jothon/20251207 December 7 Time: 13:30-16:50 UTC+8 at West District (Q707524) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707524 Xi Project - OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #83 December 8 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61752245.

*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*

- Blogs: - Wikidata 13th celebration in the Philippines https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/27/new-tools-new-contributors-new-energy-wikidata-13-celebration-in-the-philippines - Wikidata 13th Birthday: Taiwan special event recap (part 3) https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/26/wikidata-13th-birthday-taiwan-special-event-recap-part-3 - WikidataCon 2025: A conversation with Danny Benjafield https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newsletter/2025-11/en#WikidataCon_2025:_a_conversation_with_organizer_Danny_Benjafield - Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/28/wikidata-13th-birthday-celebration-in-the-igbo-wikimedians-user-group/ - Africa Wiki Women Celebrates Wikidata’s 13th Birthday https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/28/africa-wiki-women-celebrates-wikidatas-13th-birthday/ - Papers: Benchmarking SPARQL Engines on Wikidata Queries https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4108/paper3.pdf - Four open-source SPARQL engines were benchmarked on Wikidata, with QLever fastest, Blazegraph slower, and all showing SPARQL standard deviations. By Peter F. Patel-Schneider (2025). - Videos: - Records in Contexts (RiC) Wikibase Working Session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hda2mRjJ3Q - Regine Heberlein of the (SAA) Description Section Steering Committee hosts a workshop on Wikibase implementation of the Records in Context Conceptual Model (RiC-CM). - Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXIZBfft7A - Follow along as WMDE's Lukas Werkmeister expands Items of Berlin Stoelpersteine. - Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S4ujNG8w5M - by Dr Thneed

*Tool of the week*

- Prix Littéraires https://www.prixlitteraires.fr/ lists French-speaking literary prizes and their recipients, also computing statistics https://www.prixlitteraires.fr/graph/Q3113738 (see also WikiProject https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_French-speaking_literary_prizes )

*Other Noteworthy Stuff*

- Nov 27: The Wikibase Community User Group met for a Wikibase Live Session and to discuss the Federated Values demonstration.

*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: Federal Taxpayer Registry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13961, WDSF athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13962, TikTok numeric user ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13963, USGS Publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13964 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - concurring opinion by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/concurring_opinion_by (judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court agreeing with the majority's final decision but providing different or additional reasons) - audio version of text https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/audio_version_of_text (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).) - Hong Kong fire alarm level https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hong_Kong_fire_alarm_level (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system) - overnight stays https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/overnight_stays (number of tourists that stay overnight at a place) - specimen determiner https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/specimen_determiner (person who assigned the identification to a specimen) - collection date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/collection_date (the date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field) - position holder name string https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/position_holder_name_string (name of person holding a position) - Crowdfunding target https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Crowdfunding_target (target goal of this Crowdfunding campaign) - image sensor format https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/image_sensor_format (shape and size of a digital camera's image sensor) - random page URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/random_page_URL (link to random page on website) - translates from https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/translates_from (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Twitter broadcast ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Twitter_broadcast_ID , Petal Maps Place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Petal_Maps_Place_ID , MJ character glyph name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MJ_character_glyph_name , Mastercaller player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mastercaller_player_ID , dartn.de player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/dartn.de_player_ID , darts1.de player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/darts1.de_player_ID , pdpa.co.uk player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/pdpa.co.uk_player_ID , Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Antiquitatum_Thesaurus_ID , Theaterencyclopedie-identificatiecode https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Theaterencyclopedie-identificatiecode , Buy Me a Coffee username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Buy_Me_a_Coffee_username , GoFundMe ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GoFundMe_ID, Identifiant Maitron d'une biographie (nouvelle version) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Maitron_d%27une_biographie_(nouvelle_version) , Michaelis Portuguese-English properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Michaelis_Portuguese-English_properties , U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name slug https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/U.S._Copyright_Office_Public_Records_System_name_slug , FCC ID Database company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FCC_ID_Database_company_ID

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

*Did you know?*

- Query examples: Objects bearing the handwriting of Moses Maimonides https://w.wiki/GMoW (Source) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter/queries/genizah - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects : Uzbekistan https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Uzbekistan, Natural History Specimen Data Model https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Natural_History_Specimen_Data_Model - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: Popular Items without Claims https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Popular_items_without_claims - these are the most-connected or linked Items that do not have any Statements. - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items : The Walt Disney Company (Q7414) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7414 - American multinational mass media company - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: девочка (L103836) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L103836 - Russian noun (dʲɪˈvot͡ɕkə) meaning "female child", "affectionate address to a woman", or "female organism"

*Development*

- Mobile editing of statements: - We have added editing support for more data types (entity IDs, geographical shapes and tabular data). - It is now available as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org. You can enable it here https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures . - Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are rolling out improvements to the Databox Lua module to a number of Wikipedias to make it easier to have out-of-the-box Wikidata-powered infoboxes - Ontology federation: We are making progress with making it possible to use Wikidata Item's as statement values in other Wikibase instances - GraphQL: We are continuing the work on the prototype, focusing on getting data from a batch of Items - Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is working on benchmarking of different replacement options for Blazegraph, the software powering the Wikidata Query Service

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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Idoko Joseph (JosefAnthony)

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