* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2025-06-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #681 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous. Help with Translations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Current.*
* Discussions *
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Wikidata Translation Bot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Wikidata_Translation_Bot - task/s: Automate translation of Item Labels and Descriptions across supported languages and submit them using the official Wikidata API. - New request for comments: Mass-editing policy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Mass-editing_policy - Closed request for comments: - Rename PeakFinder ID (P3770) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Rename_PeakFinder_ID_(P3770) - Property was renamed. - Domain name as data https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Domain_name_as_data - property domain name (P13337) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13337 was created.
* 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 first event will include guests from the Wikidata Search team to discuss the recent graph split project. Join us Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our GraphSplit project page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/GraphSplit for more information and Zoom links. - OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #77 June 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Q61752245 - Revitalizing UK History #June 7 Time 16:00 UTC Revitalizing UK History https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Revitalizing_UK_History - Just missed it? - Wikidata and Sister Projects: full daily videos and presentation slides are being made available on the program page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects#Sessions . - Coordinate Me 2025 https://wikimedia.es/evento/concurso-coordinate-me-2025-online/, the contest to add geographic coordinates (P625) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P625 for countries with low representation has ended. Who will be declared winner?
* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
- Blogs - Wikidata promotes Sister Projects through interwiki links https://osl.hypotheses.org/16774 SLUB Open Science Lab writer Jens Bemme has put together a comprehensive article covering the recent online event and many examples of Wikidata being used. - Papers - MAKIEVAL: A Multilingual Automatic Wikidata-based Framework for Cultural Awareness Evaluation for LLMs https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.21693 By Zhao et al., (2025) - This paper presents MAKIEVAL, a framework for evaluating cultural awareness in LLMs across languages, showing that models exhibit stronger cultural awareness when prompted in English. - Conversational Lexicography: Querying Lexicographic Data on Knowledge Graphs with SPARQL through Natural Language https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2505.19971 By Sennrich & Ahmadi (2025) - This paper develops a natural language interface for retrieving lexicographic data from Wikidata, creating a taxonomy and dataset, and evaluating language models, with GPT-3.5-Turbo showing the best generalization despite scalability challenges. - UAQFact: Evaluating Factual Knowledge Utilization of LLMs on Unanswerable Questions https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23461 By Tan et al., (2025) - This paper introduces UAQFact, a bilingual dataset for evaluating LLMs on unanswerable questions, showing that models struggle to fully utilize stored factual knowledge even with external support. - Videos - Listful Thinking:Using Wikidata to support editing workflows https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NC6zkOznAeM By Dr Thneed - (French) Using Wikidata to gain visibility on the internet? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sdsPS8Af6YE By Nelly Darbois - How to create a SPARQL Query to search Wikidata Item Description https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BY_2T6yB56Q By vlogize - (Spanish) Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata tutorial for the subject of Virreinal Art https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1j6pHOBRqt0 By Luis Alvaz - Wikidata and Sister Projects (YouTube Playlist) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejPiMknpyQFM43rivJbn33Ff&si=F7kedfs1h48e-xQ7 - full daily recordings from the Wikidata and Sister Projects event.
* Tool of the week *
- Wikidata Qrank https://github.com/brawer/wikidata-qrank is a ranking signal for Wikidata entities. It gets computed by aggregating page view statistics for Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikibooks, Wikispecies and other Wikimedia projects. For example, according to the QRank signal, the fictional character Pippi Longstocking ranks lower than Harry Potter, but still much higher than the obscure Äffle & Pferdle.
* Other Noteworthy Stuff *
- Should I watch this? https://www.should-i-watch-this.com - Enter a film title or IMDb ID to get a recommendation, uses data from Wikidata. - Job Openings - want to help shape the future of Wikidata or Wikibase? - Software Engineer (Wikidata) https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/56640059/Software-Engineer-Wikidata-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=220899039&l=en - Staff Engineer (Wikidata) https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/55063868/Staff-Engineer-Wikidata-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=209936577&l=en - UX Designer (Wikibase Cloud) https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/56244967/UX-Designer-Wikibase-Cloud-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=216209752&l=en
* 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 properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - reason for no value https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13589 (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value") - cosplay of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13593 (characters that are cosplayed in this image or video) - External identifiers: espn.com soccer team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13590, Yale LUX ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13591, Židovski biografski leksikon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13592, verkiezingsuitslagen database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13594, Norwegian soldier register 1940 ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13595, Polish Music Library PBM ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13596, MCW-PL article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13597 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - UK Mutual Registration Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK_Mutual_Registration_Number (identifier for an organisation in the UK's Mutuals Public Register) - External identifiers: Scilit organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Scilit_organization_ID, paleo.ru person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/paleo.ru_person_ID, identifiant Assemblée nationale du Québec non-élu https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Assembl%C3%A9e_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec_non-%C3%A9lu, ThinkyGames genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ThinkyGames_genre_ID, Letopis of MSU person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Letopis_of_MSU_person_ID, MAI person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MAI_person_ID, istina.msu.ru journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/istina.msu.ru_journal_ID, MultimediaWiki page ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MultimediaWiki_page_ID, Submarine Cable Map ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Submarine_Cable_Map_ID, Nederlands Film Festival person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nederlands_Film_Festival_person_ID, CTS URN https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CTS_URN, Scientific heritage of Russia person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Scientific_heritage_of_Russia_person_ID, Virtual necropolis of Ukrainian emigration person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Virtual_necropolis_of_Ukrainian_emigration_person_ID, Russian Cycling Federation person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russian_Cycling_Federation_person_ID, The Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Memories_of_the_Gulag_and_Their_Authors_person_ID, Yandex Books author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Yandex_Books_author_ID, Theatre museums of Russia person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Theatre_museums_of_Russia_person_ID, Reabilitovani istoriyeyu person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Reabilitovani_istoriyeyu_person_ID, CARLA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CARLA_ID, Boosty author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Boosty_author_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
* Did you know? *
- Query examples: - All lexemes in Minangkabau (sorted chronologically by their entry time) https://w.wiki/ELXS - Film Directors who are still alive https://w.wiki/EMbF - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: WikiProject WordNet https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports:list of the most linked category page items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Most_linked_category_items - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Captain America: Civil War (Q18407657) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18407657 - 22016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo. - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: (L1250690) spegnere (L1250690) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L1250690 - Italian verb "switch off" or "to die"
* Development *
- Vector 2022 skin: We enabled dark mode for Items, Properties and Lexemes on Wikidata (phab:T389330 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389330) - Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with the technical investigation. - Diffs: We merged a volunteer patch by Matěj Suchánek to format quantity diffs a bit more sensibly (phab:T394585 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394585) - Search in the UI: We enabled the new search on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org. It lets you easily search in other entity types as well now, not just Items. Please give it a try. - Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on integrating simple search, specifically phrase matching (phab:T389011 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389011) - Query Service: We are working on an experiment to add a small dialog to inform people about alternative access methods for very simple queries that don't require SPARQL (phab:T391261 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391261)
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
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