* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-06-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #682 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous.*
* Discussions *
- Open request for adminship: Coinhoe https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Coinhote - RfP scheduled to end after 10 June 2025 23:49 (UTC)
* Events *
- Upcoming events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events: New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our second event will be a conversation with Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia https://scholia.toolforge.org/, the Wikidata frontend which generates and presents scholarly profiles based on WikiCite content. They'll speak to Scholia's current state and roadmap, with consideration for the recent Wikidata graph split. Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. More info and Zoom links: project page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/GraphSplit .
* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
- Blogs - Graph-Linguistic Fusion: Using Language Models for Wikidata Vandalism Detection https://github.com/trokhymovych/wikidata-vandalism-detection: resources to reproduce training and evaluation procedure for the paper Graph-Linguistic Fusion: Using Language Models for Wikidata Vandalism Detection - Cataloguing guidelines for representing the Memory of the World International Register on Wikidata https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EyInxNXvz3rmmlTeYOKg6Sr5EKG--4mzBXlaz_HhYRY/edit?usp=sharing Google Doc to shape the process of a coming data upload: comments are open. - GLAM:Memory of the World Report: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2025/Contents/Memory_of_the_World_report Hannah Drummen at UNESCO, alongside data expert Martin, has completed a structured dataset of 496 International Register items, ready for bulk upload to Wikidata in June, with an aim to enhance accessibility and define best practices for future updates. - Wikidata QID updates to BHL catalogue https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2025/Contents/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library_report: The BHL Lead Developer, Mike Lichtenberg, is ensuring periodic Wikidata Qid refreshes in the BHL Catalogue, with the working group advising a downloadable post-refresh report for OpenRefine integration, to be sent to the BHL Metacat group for reconciliation by Siobhan or other Wikidata editors. - Wikidata training & Datathon in Indonesia https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2025/Contents/Indonesia_report_GLAM_Wiki: Wikimedia Indonesia hosts WikiLatih Wikidata training to enhance skills in editing Indonesian cultural heritage data on Wikidata, while Datathon challenges participants to make the most edits on museum-related topics in Indonesia. - Papers - Wikidata for Botanists: Benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40481658/ By von Mering et al., (2025) - This paper explores Wikidata as a multilingual open knowledge base for botany, highlighting its role in connecting botanical information across sources, and calling on the botanical community to enhance its content. - CS-KG 2.0: A Large-scale Knowledge Graph of Computer Science https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05200-8 By Dessí et al., (2025) - This paper introduces CS-KG 2.0, an advanced AI-powered knowledge graph built from 15 million research papers, designed to enhance scientific exploration by structuring and interconnecting vast amounts of computer science literature. - Videos - Using the Wiki List tool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHhvcvvFPsA - GoogleSheet with formulae for retrieving Wikidata values and writing QuickStatements commands. - Introduction to Wikidata https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0eGNxqvW89M By Robin Isadora Brown and Lane Rasberry - Wikidata Editing https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwiYthh6CY By Kusaal Wikipedia Community - (Portuguese) Federating academic SPARQL searches in Wikidata https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuRQstMm8E By Tiago Lubiana
* Tool of the week *
- Wikidata Phonemes https://phonemes.toolforge.org/ This is the web application developed specifically for Wikidata IOLab. Here you can add phonemes to a whole bunch of languages, basing your work on the work that the Brazilian students of their national olympiad did while editing Wikipedia. - Should I watch this? https://www.should-i-watch-this.com/Mission%20Imposible/2018 is a tool that helps users decide whether a movie or show is worth watching.
* 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 - Guizzi's classification of musical instruments https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13598 (Guizzi's classification system of musical instruments) - single taken from the album https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13602 (indicates the album from which the item is taken) - Newest External identifiers: GameSpot platform ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13599, OberpfalzWiki article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13600, Private Enterprise Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13601, TNT Sports soccer team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13603, Fondazione Ragghianti Fototeca image ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13604, ROAR ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13605, 15min.lt theme ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13606, FMJD person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13607, NAQ non-elected person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13608, paleo.ru person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13609, Sierra Wiki article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13610 - New External identifier property proposals to review: - Biblioteca Pública https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblioteca_P%C3%BAblica (<nowiki>{{TranslateThis</nowiki>) - Libretexts ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Libretexts_ID (the world's largest collection of free OER textbooks online) - External identifiers: identifiant Évêques suisses https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_%C3%89v%C3%AAques_suisses, Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Enciclopedia_Galega_Universal_ID, Deaf Movie Database https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Deaf_Movie_Database, Biographical Dictionary of Affiliated Dissemination of Literacy among Georgians ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographical_Dictionary_of_Affiliated_Dissemination_of_Literacy_among_Georgians_ID, Biographical Dictionary of Physicians of Georgia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographical_Dictionary_of_Physicians_of_Georgia_ID, Biographical Dictionary of Athletes of Georgia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographical_Dictionary_of_Athletes_of_Georgia_ID, Biographical Dictionary of Winemakers of Georgia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographical_Dictionary_of_Winemakers_of_Georgia_ID, matricule number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/matricule_number, inn https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/inn, Debian Wiki article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Debian_Wiki_article, Desura game ID (archived) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Desura_game_ID_(archived), Diccionario de catedráticos españoles de derecho ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diccionario_de_catedr%C3%A1ticos_espa%C3%B1oles_de_derecho_ID, QUDT dimension ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/QUDT_dimension_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
* Did you know? *
- Query examples: - Wikisource transcriptions of texts on the Memory of the World International Register https://w.wiki/ERgB, (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter/queries/memory_of_the_world#Wikisource_transcriptions_of_individual_texts ) - Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures) https://w.wiki/4cn2 - WikiProject https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects highlights: Names/Belarusian https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Names/be-tarask - This WikiProject aims to add structured and linguistic data to Wikidata to enable the study of people's names across all time periods, regions, and languages. - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Ant-Man (Q5901134) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5901134 - 2015 film directed by Peyton Reed
* Development *
- Mobile editing of statements: We are doing initial development focusing on technical investigations and basic UI elements (phab:T394292 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394292, phab:T394886 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394886) - Lexemes: We are looking into a rare error when trying to do undo certain Lexeme edits (phab:T392372 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392372) - Watchlist/Recent changes on Wikipedia: We continued working on showing labels instead of IDs in the edit summaries of Wikidata changes that are shown in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co ( phab:T388685 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388685) - Wikibase REST API: Finishing touches on simple search (phab:T383126 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383126) - Query Service UI: Added experimental popup to point people running very simple queries to other available access methods (phab:T391264 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391264)
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? . - 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