*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2026-08-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #745 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous.*
*Events*
- Upcoming events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events: Wikidata Lab XLVIII: Outreach Dashboard https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_Lab_XLVIII, August 27, at 15:30 UTC. Come see and discuss new Wikidata functionalities of the Outreach Dashboard!
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs: Finishing Outreachy with Wikidata support for Wikiscore https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/08/20/finishing-outreachy-with-wikidata-support-for-wikiscore/ by ACorrea WMB and AnaMRRuiz - Papers: Climate Knowledge Graph (ClimateKG) https://zenodo.org/records/21032521 - A partnership project to make a knowledge graph of the 10,000 page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report.
*Tool of the week*
- Lex-Olympia https://lex-olympia.toolforge.org/ — A new tool for improving Wikidata Lexemes. Try it out and share your feedback with the developer and community.
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- Research study: AI tools for content verifiability on Wikidata. Researchers from King's College London are inviting Wikidata editors (especially those working on health or GLAM/cultural heritage content) to participate in a two-stage study (1-hour interview + 2-hour workshop) exploring how AI tools can support content verifiability. Participants receive compensation via Love2Shop vouchers. Sign up here https://qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_brAn2DKOrDz0fum (Qualtrics form).
*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: none - External identifiers: BBFC release ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14801, Silloria brands ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14802, Silloria notes ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14804, Silloria perfumer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14805, Kinolights person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14806, Kinolights work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14808, BeerAdvocate beer style ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14809, immaterieelerfgoed.be ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14810, idw member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14811, Geoshape Repository municipality ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14812, Filmová databáze seriál ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14813, FIBA.basketball event ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14814, dbv member slug https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14815, Silloria perfumes ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14816, SEASLUG.WORLD species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14817, parliament.uk constituency ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14818, Judoresults judoka ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14819, Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14820, IMCDB work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14821, Norwegian polarhistory ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14822, CREDD'O catalog ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14824 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - substance control status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/substance_control_status (control regime a substance is placed under in a jurisdiction or by an international treaty — schedule, class, or explicitly uncontrolled; qualify with "applies to jurisdiction" (P1001) and start/end time) - Bibcode access status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bibcode_access_status (Indicator of the access statement for a document on Bibcode) - External identifiers: wowKorea Parson ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/wowKorea_Parson_ID , wowKorea Work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/wowKorea_Work_ID , TOWER RECORDS ONLINE artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TOWER_RECORDS_ONLINE_artist_ID , Antarctic Protected Areas database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Antarctic_Protected_Areas_database_ID , WikiPepper pepper ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiPepper_pepper_ID , Inventory Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inventory_Intangible_Cultural_Heritage_in_the_Netherlands_ID , NAKED(X-DIABLO) actress ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NAKED(X-DIABLO)_actress_ID , Weibo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Weibo_ID, Umamusume Wiki article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Umamusume_Wiki_article_ID , Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du CREDD'O https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_d%27un(e)_auteurice_dans_le_catalogue_du_CREDD%27O , Georgian NAPR identification number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Georgian_NAPR_identification_number , Companyinfo.ge corporation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Companyinfo.ge_corporation_ID , T&F NCAAdb athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/T%26F_NCAAdb_athlete_ID , UkrBIN ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UkrBIN_ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture record identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Platform_for_Taiwan_Religion_and_Folk_Culture_record_identifier
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples:Railway stations map in the two Koreas https://w.wiki/Tc4r
*Development*
- REST API: We are continuing the work on making it possible to create a Lexeme and will then move on to adding statements to Lexemes. - GraphQL: We are working on moving the Item search from cirrussearch to mariadb to be able to add more functionality. - Newcomer homepage: We are updating the text to move it away from some Wikipedia-specific phrases (e.g. articles) - Mobile editing: We worked on not showing edit links on old revisions and diffs since those can not be edited. - Page load times: We continued looking into unnecessarily loaded modules related to the Wikidata Bridge to see if we can remove them and speed up page load times.
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: - 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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