* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-04-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #676 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/2025_04_22. Translations are available https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Current*
* Discussions *
- Open request for bureaucrat: Wüstenspringmaus https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bureaucrat/W%C3%BCstenspringmaus
* Events *
- Upcoming events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events: - Wikidata and Research Conference https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata_and_research June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence. - The 5th Wikidata Workshop https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2025/ is taking place November 2-3, 2025 during the 25th International Semantic Web Conference https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/ hosted in Nara, Japan. Call for Papers is open until 23:59 AoE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Anywhere_on_Earth, August 2. This year, the program tracks are *1. Novel Work* and *2. Previously Published Work*. Submission template and guidelines are available here https://www.overleaf.com/read/pwspggxsbdvy and you can submit your topic here https://openreview.net/group?id=swsa.semanticweb.org/ISWC/2025/Workshop/Wikidata . - The Wikidata and Sister Projects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects online conference approaches: May 29 - July 1, 2025. Have you registered https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/1291 yet?
* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
- Blogs - How to Build a Production-Ready Knowledge Graph(with Code): A Practical Guide https://datascientistsdiary.com/how-to-build-a-production-ready-knowledge-graph/ By Amit Yadav - Who are the Cardinal Electors of 2025 papal conclave? A typical question for Wikidata? https://nearby.hypotheses.org/2478 by Christian Erlinger (Q67173261) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67173261 - Papers - Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Web Conference 2025. https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3696410?tocHeading=heading2 By Guodong et. al., (2025) - Passage: Ensuring Completeness and Responsiveness of Public SPARQL Endpoints with SPARQL Continuation Queries https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3696410.3714757 By Thi Hoang et. al., (2025)
* Tool of the week *
- quarry.wmcloud.org is a public querying interface for Wiki Replicas, a set of live replica SQL databases of public Wikimedia Wikis. Quarry is designed to make running queries against Wiki Replicas easy. Quarry can also be used to query public databases stored in ToolsDB.
* Other Noteworthy Stuff *
- Scholia https://scholia.toolforge.org/ is running a user survey https://survey.wikimedia.it/index.php/179555 until the end of May . - Researchers from the University of Regina in Canada invite you to participate in the Open Data Community Survey 2025. Read more https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/XHXV4P6DILOUG6QFAO22FEJHXAWOS7YH/ !
*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: - BEACON file URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13449 (URL of an online service's BEACON file, a data interchange format for large numbers of uniform links.) - research projects that contributed to this data set https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13459 (research projects that have contributed to or otherwise created an item) - terminal speaker https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13464 (the last person able to speak the language fluently) - nomenclatural type of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13478 (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...) - interior designer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13497 (person responsible for the interior design of a notable building or structure) - kigo of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13504 (season which denotes the sense in haiku in Japanese) - Newest External identifiers: Homosaurus ID (V4) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13438, Helden van het Verzet person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13439, Our Campaigns container ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13440, Catálogo Histórico de Tese e Dissertações da Área de História ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13441, Congress.gov committee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13442, Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13443, Israeli Governmental Data Repository ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13444, Deutsche Genbank Obst (DGO) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13445, DVIDS photo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13446, FirstCycling race ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13447, FirstCycling team season ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13448, Hmong Studies Citations ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13450, Cartofaf organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13451, Calindex author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13452, Diocese of Lyon Museum person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13453, BnF dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13454, Dezède person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13455, Meta-Doctrinal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13456, Ordre national du Québec ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13457, Internet Game Database genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13458, Shazoo tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13460, OGDB genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13461, Tax Identification Number (Colombia) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13465, National Gallery (London) PID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13466, Kunstkamera ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13467, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13468, WSGF taxonomy term ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13469, World Higher Education Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13470, VD 16 ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13471, United Nations Terminology Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13472, Trafikplatssignatur https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13473, Top50 system ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13474, IndExs exsiccata ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13475, Markstammdatenregister ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13476, Ech-Chaab tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13479, SearchCulture.gr ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13480, RaiPlay Sound program ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13481, RaiPlay Sound playlist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13482, Modern China Biographical Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13483, Know Your Meme slug https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13484, LEMAV ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13485, PerformArt ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13486, Chilean NPO number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13487, TermTerm UUID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13488, Steam Deck HQ game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13489, SeqCode Registry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13490, School ID Schleswig-Holstein https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13491, Rodovid family ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13492, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Party) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13493, Captain Coaster park ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13494, Scilit scholar ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13495, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13496, PCPartPicker product ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13498, goal.com football match ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13499, The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13500, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) special ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13501, Eurobasket.com club ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13502, europlayers.com club ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13503, badmintoncn.com star ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13505, Danskefilmstemmer.dk work or dubbing ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13506 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - defined for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/defined_for (the subject takes the object as parameter (or parameter tuple)) - The Long Distance Walkers Association https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Long_Distance_Walkers_Association (External Identifier (URL slug) for a hiking route on The Long Distance Walkers Association website (United Kingdom only)) - New External identifier property proposals to review: IEC CDD for electronics https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IEC_CDD_for_electronics, GOG Dreamlist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GOG_Dreamlist_ID, IEC CDD units https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IEC_CDD_units, Urban Dictionary ID (2) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Urban_Dictionary_ID_(2), RCI number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RCI_number, Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Portable_Antiquities_Scheme_image_ID, myCast person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/myCast_person_ID, Personality Database category ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Personality_Database_category_ID, parliament.uk bill ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/parliament.uk_bill_ID, Bierista beer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bierista_beer_ID, Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_the_Serbian_National_Theatre_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
* Did you know? *
- Query examples: - All national parties that are members of a European party and whose country is a member of the European Union https://w.wiki/Dv$w ( source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Query_on_national_parties_and_their_seats ) - Related works from co-citation analysis https://w.wiki/Dw23 ( source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Scholia's_"Related_works_from_co-citation_analysis"_as_federated_query ) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects : WikiProject Saint Mary's College (IN) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Saint_Mary%27s_College_(IN) aims to improve the coverage of Saint Mary's and the scholarly works being created at Saint Mary's. - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: Córdoba (L642328) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L642328 - Spanish noun (kór-do-ba) that can mean "a city in Spain", "a city in Argentina", or "a Mexican city"
* Development *
- Bug: We fixed an issue where newly created Properties became inaccessible after adding a statement with a Property linking to an Item or Lexeme. The fix will go live on Wednesday. (phab:T374230 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374230) - Search: We continued implementing the new search that will make it easier to search for Properties and Lexemes in the UI (phab:T321543 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321543)
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/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review . - Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? . - Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/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/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next