User talk:Powerek38

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Welcome to Wikidata, Powerek38!

Wikidata is a free knowledge base that you can edit! It can be read and edited by humans and machines alike and you can go to any item page now and add to this ever-growing database!

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Best regards! Bill william compton (talk) 18:44, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #736

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #736.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Ziv - RfP scheduled to end after 24 June 2026 19:26 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Nabbot 1 - Task: Adding Turkish descriptions for scientific articles

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The Wikimania 2026 program has been revealed, go bookmark your favourite sessions.
  • Physical Training; Improving Health Articles in Africa - 21 June, 10:00, University of Ibadan.
  • The WikiIndaba Call for Proposals ends June 30th - don't forget to submit your Wikidata-sessions.
  • Sessions of the WikiProjects Days 2026 event will shortly be available on Commons: Presentations / Videos

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • WikiTiddler; Tiddlywiki as a live Wikidata frontend - if you run a TiddlyWiki instance, you can now run queries to the Wikidata Query Service and convert the results to Tiddlers.
  • TIB: What do we mean when we talk about AI and open knowledge? - Lozana Rossenova details their experiences at the AI+Bridges Symposium.
• Papers:
  • How to use Wikibase for Mixed-Methods Research, a book published by F. Bailo, E. Booth, and J. Williams
  • Wikimedia as a Platform for Evidence Synthesis: Quantifying Bias and Literature Coverage in Crowd-Sourced Knowledge Graphs by D. Mietchen, and J. Dearborn, (2026).
  • From Wikidata to Smart Tourism: A Reproducible Pipeline Based on AI and Fuzzy Logic for Interpretable Multi-Category Classification of Points of Interest - This paper develops a reproducible pipeline that converts Wikidata POIs into an interpretable tourism taxonomy, enabling multi-category classification and personalized smart tourism applications. By Kontogianni et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • Name Suggestion Index Explained: How OpenStreetMap Standardizes Brands
  • EMCO Wikidata CoP meeting (2026-06-04)
  • Using the Duplicity and WD Fist Tools to edit Wikidata
  • Unlocking Data through Semantic Linking, presented at ENDORSE 2025 by Thora Hagen. Experiences using 19th-century German encyclopedias, demonstrating how semantic enrichment via Wikidata can reveal fascinating patterns.
  • (Deutsch) From your pocket to the knowledge graph: SquirrelBase is a Wikibase instance that functions as a semantic metadata and reference platform. Make 3D smartphone captures of cultural assets, artworks, and ephemeral structures FAIR.

Tool of the week

• MotusArtium : Wikidata GraphQL showcase application for exploring and understanding art movements (alpha version). GraphQL queries used
• As seen during WikiProjects Days 2026 - Classification.js, visualise parent classes and identify incorrections, detect superclass tree loops. To use, click Activate and copy the two lines into your Common.js page.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Reminder: Try Ontology Federation to import Items from Wikidata to your Wikibase instance. Share your feedback in the linked survey. (full announcement)
• A session at WikiProjects Days 2026 was devoted to general-purpose tools for WikiProjects. A new page under the main Wikidata tools page was created with a list and description of these tools. Take a look at Wikidata:Tools/WikiProjects and add any missing tools.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • meteorological intensity classification (category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585))
  • perfumer (person who created a perfume)
  • ‎dual notion (category theory) (dual of the concept in category theory)
• External identifiers: catholica.cz ID, ‎Skeivopedia ID, Mathlib Declaration ID, Annuséries series ID, FES digital collections person ID, ‎BBC Bitesize topic ID, Sri Lanka Ministry of Education school census number, Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026), OTOTOY artist ID, livres-cinema.info author ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
  • Gmedia rating (video games) (Video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system ({{Q|Q28717438}}))
• External identifiers: altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, some properties for category theory, Farzonagon ID, TV Guide film ID, Letterboxd Writer ID, d Hits artist ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, Fantia ID, 17LIVE ID, CFLapedia player ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, U-NEXT Parson ID, U-NEXT Video ID, H-NEXT Parson ID, ABEMA Video ID, FOD Parson ID, LRT topic ID, FOD Video ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, belarusenc.by ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Writing Systems Technical Resources script code, Répertoire des films classés film ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID, Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, Kanal Architecture entry ID, Web The Television Parson ID, Web The Television Work ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Showcase Items: ship (Q11446) - large buoyant watercraft

Development

• We enabled links to WikiProjects in the sidebar and added links to WikiProjects Music, Medicine, Datasets, sum of all paintings, and elections (T422935, T422935)
• We added a floating “add statement” button that makes it easier to add statements without looking through the existing statements (T417641, T428450).
• We’re working on making sure that users can tell when statements exist before they add new ones (T424009).
• We made some layout fixes to wbui2025 / MEX (T428766, T428761, T428759, T427658, T428853).
• We refactored error handling (T423613).
• We’re refactoring the server-side rendering so we don’t need separate .less style files (T409827).
• We’re working on the interaction between scrollable values and indicator icons (T425974).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:31, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #738

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #737.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • TopDevsBot - Task/s: Create new items for software-development, design, and consulting companies from source data: topdevs.ai
  • SonalBot - Task/s: Reference Gardener (archive dead reference links) + Welcome Bot (welcome new users)
• New request for comments: WM Commons: Policy update for AI content - this RfC will seek opinions on the use and allowance of AI-generated and modified content. This can have downstream impacts on Wikidata.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • 2026 Chiayi Streetview Workshop July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Tâi-uân tôo-su-sik, Chiayi, Taiwan.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #90 July 13 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Lobid Blog: NWBibBot – Making a regional bibliography visible in Wikipedia with help from Wikidata
  • Tech News (WMDE) Knowledge wants to be found - We interview Tim Wittenborg about the WissKomm Wiki, from the Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology in TIB Hannover.
  • Bridging Open Knowledge And Digital Rights: Reflections From DRIF 2026 And The Wikimedia Community
• Papers: MathModDB: A Database for Mathematical Models - The Mathematical Models Database (MathModDB), deployed on the MaRDI Portal within Germany’s National Research Data Infrastructure, provides researchers with a curated knowledge graph that organizes scattered mathematical models, formulas, and assumptions, connects to related tools like MathAlgoDB and MaRDMO, and demonstrates practical use through cases such as plasma physics modeling. By Fiedler et al., (2026)
• Videos:
  • WikiProjects Days 2026 - recordings now on Commons, if you missed the event or want to recap what was discussed, individual session recordings are now available from the Event program.
  • Jason Evans: Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey

Tool of the week

• Altilunium Panoply : A lightweight Wikibase alternative for creating collaborative knowledge bases, written as a single PHP file with no dependencies.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July. A Q&A clinic will be held on 1 July at 15:00 UTC (join here).
• Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship, Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎Taiwan Central News Agency news topic ID, ‎Stockholm Archipelago Trail ID, ‎Sceneweb artwork ID, ‎Sceneweb production ID, Fantia ID, Finnish educational institution ID, ‎altinget.se person ID, Il cinema ritrovato film ID, TV Guide film ID, FOD person ID, LRT topic ID, Jiji Press Member of Parliament ID, Huellas Digitales de la Memoria ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • subdiscipline of (less specific academic discipline)
  • has garden (Object is a {{Q|1107656}} related to this {{Q|16222597}})
  • ranking by (issuer of a ranking)
  • linguistic group (group of people who share the same language, regardless of their ancestry or ethnicity)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pure Adult actress ID, Taiwan Central News Agency News tag id, Pure Adult studio ID, Natural science/GBIF taxon ID, Digitaler Portraitindex person ID, torial ID, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, Samtrafiken-vehicle-id, Sundsvall Municipality opendata ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, KBS News topic ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur Autoroc, La Grange ID, Rakuten Books author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Roles and contributions of ? in Fictional Universes and Media franchises (source)
• Schema examples: it's World Cup time so here's 2 soccer/football-related EntitySchemas.
  • E404:Swedish Soccer Player and E183:Chilean Women's Football Players
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Logic
  • WikiProject Roots and Rhythms
• WikiProject Highlights: GovDirectory has opened a Madagascar page.
• Showcase Items: Lionel Messi - 6 World Cups, scoring in the last 7 consecutive matches.

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are continuing to evaluate the prototype for reducing the number of unnecessary edits from Wikidata that show up in watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co. The approach is to look at the diff of the rendered article before and after the change from Wikidata is made. If there is no difference then the change is probably not relevant for that article. We are collecting a sample to further understand how it performs.
  • To continue to address Wikidata's scaling issues, we are planning the migration of entity usage tables to the X1 cluster.
• Mobile editing of statements:
  • We implemented more feedback from testing of the new mobile front-end. Specifically we worked on making it clearer when a statements already exist that the editor is trying to add to the Item.
  • Additionally, we made minor improvements to the look and feel of the mobile front-end.
• REST API:
  • REST search routes now take apihighlimits right into account (phab:T428032)
  • We are starting to work on Lexeme support (phab:T429572, phab:T429332)
• GraphQL:
  • We added support for requesting “best statements” for a given Property (phab:T428138)
  • We are working on adding support for negation in Property value pair filters (phab:T429580)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Poland
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:51, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #739

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #738.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship:
  • 1Veertje - Closed as Successful
  • Ziv - Closed as Successful
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • gov-wikidata-match 1 - Task/s: Link existing GOV (historical gazetteer) building-like objects to existing Wikidata building-like objects.
  • AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task/s: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to Wikidata items about people, only where the OpenLibrary author and the Wikidata person have been confirmed to be the same individual, with a source on every statement.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • JigildikBot - Approved
  • SonalBot - Approved
  • ias-kbase - Approved

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The Wikidata Platform (WDP) monthly office hour takes place tomorrow, 7th July at 16:00 UTC. These office hours are focus on the Blazegraph migration work, and the team is inviting all community members to join the discussion. Register via the event page
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST (in your timezone), 08th July 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Sandbox sessions: Wikidata Reference Validator Tool - improving Wikidata references - Aug 15, 17:00 - 18:00 UTC.
  • Wiki Education + AASLH: Documenting America with Wikidata, a collaboration between Wiki Education and the American Association for State and Local History is offering six hour-long meetings held weekly to introduce attendees to Wikidata and improve content for Wikidata and Wikipedia on American history. Registration ends: July 17, 23:59 Pacific Time (PT)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (fr) Le point sur la diversité de genre dans les articles in *Regards sur l'actualité du mouvement Wikimedia*
• Papers:
  • Spatiotemporal-Heuristic A* Search for Pruning - Historical Influence and Succession Paths in Wikidata - Paper, by Michael James Liman (2026).
  • Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models - Paper by Chepurova et al., (2026).
• Videos: (Español) Introduction to Wikidata - Dr. Claudia De Souza and Prof. Dinah Wilson Fraites introduce Wikidata with Spanish-slides.

Tool of the week

• Zelph: Offers powerful analysis capabilities for the complete Wikidata knowledge graph while remaining adaptable for any semantic domain.
• World Cup Heights: An interactive data‑viz app that shows the heights of FIFA World Cup players, arranged so you can quickly compare teams, positions, and overall height distributions.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July.
• The Wikidata Platform team has published the 8th issue of its monthly newsletter. This edition includes updates on the migration of WDQS backend away from Blazegraph, including a transition into the next phase Initial Implementation (pilot) phase following completion of the installation phase. This update also include some Documentation on Query Rewrites the team will like the Wikidata community and all WDQS users to help review and leave feedbacks. see WDP monthly newsletter for more details

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • prisoner number (number or identifier assigned to a prisoner, to be used as a qualifier for P2632 (place of detention))
  • photographer (person who took this photograph)
  • ‎Gmedia rating (video games) (video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system)
  • visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
  • garden (garden of this subject)
  • objects (category theory) (the precise objects of the category (category theory))
  • morphisms (the precise morphisms of the category (category theory))
  • terminal object (the precise terminal object of the category (category theory))
  • initial object (the precise initial object of the category (category theory))
  • products (category theory) (the precise products of the category (category theory))
  • coproducts (category theory) (the precise coproducts of the category (category theory))
  • isomorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • monomorphisms (the precise monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • epimorphisms (the precise epimorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • regular monomorphisms (the precise regular monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • regular epimorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
  • left adjoint (the left adjoint of the functor)
  • enriched over (the base monoidal category, bicategory, etc. of the enriched category)
  • monoidal category operation (the “tensor product” bifunctor of the monoidal category)
  • 2-morphisms (the precise 2-morphisms of the 2-category)
  • taxon footprint (image of a footprint of this taxon)
• Newest External identifiers: Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, ‎Taiwan Central News Agency news tag ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, Web The Television work ID, Web The Television person ID, U-NEXT person ID, U-NEXT video ID, Sokmil director ID, Sokmil idol ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Répertoire des films classés film ID, ‎regjeringen.no ministry ID, ‎regjeringen.no politician ID, Objectif plumes work ID, National Operator Code (UK), ‎Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Myludo game ID, MyDirtyHobby ID, Maoyan film ID, ‎Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Letterboxd writer ID, KSW organization ID, KSW person ID, KSW place ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, ‎Artistas Visuales Chilenos propertyvalue ID, ‎Canadian Trademark Registration Number, occitanica.eu ID, Hancinema company ID, ZicTrad person ID, H-NEXT Person ID, FOD video ID, Farzonagon ID, d Hits artist ID, ABEMA video ID, 17LIVE ID, ‎regjeringen.no government ID, Pure Adult actress ID, Pure Adult studio ID, ‎GBIF taxon ID, Digital portrait index person (GND) ID, torial username, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, CatDat category ID, CatDat functor ID, CatDat category property ID, CatDat functor property ID, ‎Samtrafiken-vehicle ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Olyrix artist ID, AutorÒc 16-18 author ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review::
  • dielectric strenght (maximum electric field a material can withstand before electrical breakdown occurs)
  • about page URL (URL to the official about page)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Rakuten Books author ID, Rakuten TV adult Person ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, Le GRoG ID, NHK On Demand Program ID, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, GCD character ID, Identificador de agente econômico na ANCINE, 1SCREEN Program ID, Architectenregister-id, LUDAP ID, TakaWiki ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID, BiDünyaFilm film ID, CNUC code, Steady username, NHK ONE Program ID, SongLyrics.com song ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, ClayArena shooter profile ID, Open Collective ID, Anobii author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

• The development team are at an offsite retreat this week.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: France
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:04, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #740

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #739.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: GA Kevin - RfP scheduled to end after 14 July 2026 18:40 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Nabbot 2 - Task: Translating English descriptions to Turkish using a predefined dictionary mapping.
  • AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to items about people, where the OpenLibrary author and Wikidata person are the same individual, when every statement is sourced.
  • EquipboardBot - Task: Add Equipboard artist ID (P6912) to Wikidata items for musicians, sourced from Equipboard's own database of public artist identifiers.
• Call for Participation in Improving Constraints
  • Just about any aspect of constraints is in scope, from rewriting existing bots to expanding the power of property constraints to adding new kinds of constraint. If you are interested, sign up in WikiProject Property Constraints/improving.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimania 2026 is fast approaching. Taking place 21 - 25 July in Paris, France. Can't attend? Register for a ticket to the virtual event and watch sessions online.
  • Interested in Wikibase Ontology Federation? Join the July 14 call, see the Cleaning Task Force page for more details.
• Previous events:
  • The 3rd Quarter Wikidata + Wikibase office hour was held. The transcript is available to read:
    Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2026 07 08

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Behind Better Data: Inside Wikidata’s First WikiProjects Days
  • Africa Wiki Challenge 2026 in the Ghanaian Pidgin Community: Documenting “Water for Life” Through Wikimedia Projects
  • Reflecting on progress and planning ahead: Dagbani Wikimedians User Group holds its last quarter team meeting
  • EduWiki Workshop: Combining PETScan and Generative AI for Smarter Wikipedia Editing
  • Why Computational Historians need Wikidata - a substack article by Jim Clifford
• Papers
  • A Demonstration of WikiRAG: An Evidence-based Link Prediction for Wikidata with Retrieval Augmented Generation - WikiRAG is an interactive framework that combines automated link prediction with retrieval‑augmented generation and human validation to reliably complete knowledge graphs like Wikidata by generating candidate links, retrieving supporting evidence, and enabling users to confirm and export validated triples. By Sabu, et al., (2026)
• Videos
  • Using Open Refine by Wikimedia Australia, Paul Duchesne presents "Using OpenRefine" during WikiCon Australia 2026, (National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra).
  • Let’s Get Mappy - making maps on Wikimedia platforms by Wikimedia Australia, Alex Lum presents how location (pushpin) maps, locator maps, and interactive "slippy" local maps end up on Wikipedia, and how infoboxes, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap works together to generate them
  • (繁體中文/zh-TW) Tutorial on Editing Temple Data for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons - recording of a workshop (July 5) on Tutorial on Editing Temple Data for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, held by Wikimedia Taiwan Community and OSM Taiwan.
  • Open data tools for cultural heritage 2nd session in the workshop series “Open Data to Strengthen Online Cultural Heritage,” held March 24, 2026, and organized by the National Library of Uruguay (BNU), Wikimedians of Uruguay, Datysoc, and Data Uruguay.
  • GLAMs and Citizen Science Encouraging and Enabling Participation - Siobhan Leachman presents "citizen science workflows" (BHL, iNaturalist, Bionomia, Wikidata) to show how GLAM's can empower citizen scientists to reuse their collections.

Tool of the week

• rudof can be used as a command line tool or can be embedded as a library using cargo. It can be used to validate RDF data represented with different syntaxes like Turtle, NTriples, to name a few. As well as RDF data available through SPARQL endpoints like Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A Project Chat discussion on the new Mentorship features. Self-enrollment has been enabled with the following requirements - account age: 365 days, edits: 500.
• There is also a proposal to add an advisory message to new accounts that create multiple items.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Rakuten TV adult person ID, KBS News topic ID, Rakuten Books author ID, PTS News Network topic ID, Nakamura Kikaku ID, ‎La Grange person ID, ‎Fontaines de Belgique ID, NHK On Demand program ID, 1SCREEN program ID, LUDAP ID, Bianco keyword ID, Architectenregister ID, ‎ClayArena shooter profile ID, ‎Sundsvall Municipality opendata beach ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • relocated from (Object is the original or former {{Q|17334923}} of the permanently relocated {{Q|16222597}})
    • OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType)
    • transforms from (this fictional or mythical entity transforms from that form)
    • Korean Classification of Administrative Districts (code assigned to an administrative district of South Korea in the Korean Classification of Administrative Districts)
  • External identifiers: Anobii book ID, Google Maps Place ID, Viberate Artist ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage style ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage designer ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, Deltarune Wiki article ID, INAPP OA author ID, CNR-IRIS ID, AnimeOshi anime ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal Artist ID, CIDIM Artist ID, Operabook Artist ID, Mizan al-Arab poet ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, OpenStreetMap data item ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, A World Made by Travel person ID, Scent Base notes ID, radio.net IDs, Scent Base perfumer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Items only connected to Telugu Wikipedia (source) - change the language code 'te' to make it work with any other Wikipedia
• Schema examples: French historic monument (E269) - With Wikimania taking place in the French Capital, you can use this entity schema if you feel inspired to or expand items on French monuments.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - a Chinese-animated television franchise.
  • (Français) Project Orthodox Christianity
  • Project SUNY Libraries EMCO
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Govdirectory Poland added several new subpages detailing coverage and progress on State, Local Agencies and Marshall's Offices.
  • Project Property Constraints added a subpage: Improving - a call for participation, as a result of discussions during WikiProjects Days 2026.
• Newest database reports: Most sitelinked Items (with statements)

Development

• Blazegraph migration: We are continuing to prepare the Query UI, Query Builder, constraint checks, etc for the migration to QLever (phab:T425618)
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are investigating some Lua modules to find ones responsible for a lot of unnecessary entries in Watchlist and Recent changes on Wikipedia and co (phab:T429366)
• GraphQL: Added support for negation in property value pair filters (phab:T429580)
• REST API: We are working on the first pieces of support for Lexemes: retrieving a full Lexeme (phab:T429332)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Previous issue · Help translate · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:00, 13 July 2026 (UTC)