Last chance to submit a session for WikidataCon 2025, the proposals deadline is imminent: head to this Call for Proposals page to submit an idea (drafts are welcome, they can be edited for a week after the deadline).
New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series: fourth session, Introduction to Wikidata/EMCO, with a hands-on exercise creating a corporate body item and adding statements. Tuesday, September 2 – 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). More info and Zoom links.
Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (all genders) for the Wikibase Suite, starting October 1, 2025. The role is full-time or part-time, hybrid, and based in Berlin, focused on building open-source tools for linked open data.
The Rapid Fund/Tech program, launched on July 24, 2025, provides up to $5,000 per project for coding tools that improve contributions to Wikimedia projects. Applications are reviewed every two months, with priority for impactful projects with clear, critical, and well-planned milestones.
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
game stat (metric to what extent a character in a role-playing game (or game with role-playing elements) possesses a specific natural, in-born characteristic common to all characters in the game)
open meeting page URL (Information page describing open meetings, public meetings or town hall meetings)
Islamic calligraphy (property that shows the Islamic calligraphy for a person)
Showcase Lexemes: øye (L303896) - Norwegian noun (ˈœʏə) meaning "organ of sight", "gaze or look", or "point of view"
Development
Mobile editing of statements: We developed the first pieces of the edit mode as well as the ability to add statements. You can always follow along on beta Wikidata and find more information on the project page.
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into reducing the number of changes that show up on Wikipedia and co's Recent changes and Watchlist (phab:T401284)
Federation: We looked at previous requests to add new endpoints to the list of SPARQL endpoints you can federate with and are cleaning up the process for getting new ones added. If you have one you'd like to write federated SPARQL queries to now is a good time to request them.
Lexicographical data: You can now limit searches to Lexemes with a Lemma in a specific spelling variant with the haslemma keywords and to Lexemes with a specific language with the in language keyword. Examples: 12 (phab:T271776)
The WikiCite 2025 conference took place in Berne, Switzerland. It showcased WikiCite-related efforts across multiple wikis, disciplines, languages and countries. Most of it was both streamed and recorded, and the videos are currently being processed.
Wikidata's 13th Birthday update: Funding applications are now closed, and the review process is underway. Applicants will be notified about the status of their submissions shortly. Are you planning to organize an event for the birthday but haven’t added it to the calendar yet? You can do so here: Wikidata:Thirteenth Birthday/Calendar 🎉
The deadline for the Fall 2025 MediaWiki Users & Developers Conference CfP is extended until September 15th. The conference will be held on October 28 - 30th, and hosted by the TIB Leibniz Centre in Hanover, Germany.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs: Past, Present and Future: a Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Biodiversity Heritage Library: TiagoLubiana reflects on their tenure at the BHL (Q172266), integrating the biodiversity collections into the Wikimedia projects. Read on Diff Blog
Papers: Revealing hidden figures within natural history collections by empowering students with data sleuthing skills - Mabry et al.,(2025) Read here
Videos:
WiLES Wikidata Lexicographical Event Semantics modeling for natural languages (LD4 2025) YouTube
Wikidata presentations and lightning talks (LD4 2025) YouTube
On Wikiskills 1st Wikidata Training (Africa Wiki Women) YouTube
(French) Lors de la 1ère formation Wikidata de Wikiskills YouTube
Plugging into the WikiVerse: A Plug for a Wikidata Plug-in for ArchivesSpace YouTube
Dacit is a listening-training app for cochlear implant users, built as part of a Master's Thesis for LMU Munich, it is powered by Wikidata-lexicographical data. Practice with 3 different excercises; identify (German-language) speakers, words and minimal pairs in your browser or as an android app
LexToWiktonaryis a userscript that adds a Wiktionary links button on Wikidata Lexeme pages. It checks the lemmas of a lexeme, finds matching entries across different Wiktionary language editions, and shows them in a popup for quick access, with an option to expand to all Wiktionaries.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The submission deadline for WikidataCon proposals has passed. Proposals that were submitted in time can still be edited until Sep 9. Proposals are hidden by default, but a page for sharing submissions is available and can facilitate coordination.
Help Panel has been deployed on Wikidata Beta.🎉 This is a feature designed to guide contributors with quick links to relevant help pages. It currently appears in read mode across most pages and can be configured by admins. You can enable it in your Beta preferences under "Newcomer features". To help shape its future on Wikidata, we're inviting you to test it and share feedback on this talk page.
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject ASBS 2025 - Aims to Engage the botanical community at the 2025 ASBS Conference to promote and enhance contributions to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia Commons.
Showcase Lexemes: PC (L739282) - English noun (ˌpiːˈsiː) meaning "Personal Computer", "Printed Circuit", or "Peace Corps"
Development
We're investigate options for improving information saved while publishing (phab:T403149)
Mobile Editing Experience: we added multi-language support (T402630)
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into reducing the number of changes that show up on Wikipedia and co's Recent changes and Watchlist from edits to aliases (phab:T401288), more info
Merhaba Anerka ve @Dr. Coal, nasılsınız, umarım herşey yolundadır. Daha önceden yaptığınız bir değerlendirme için tekrardan bir gözden geçirme yapabilir misiniz diye size sormak amacıyla size yazıyorum. Kullanıcının son BL'den çıkarılması üzerinden 1 yıl kadar bir süre geçmiş ve değişikliklerine sık rastlayan bir devriye olarak olumlu değişiklik örüntüsüne geri dönülmüş gibi göründüğünü söyleyebilirim. Tekrar değerlendirilmesi mümkün olabilir diye size bir yazmak istedim. Selamlar, Zafer(mesaj - e-posta)06.57, 10 Eylül 2025 (UTC)Yanıtla
The New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series introduces participants to Wikidata/EMCO. The session guides attendees through creating a project and project page, followed by an open working hour for creating and editing in Wikidata and asking questions. Join on Tuesday, September 16th at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. More details and Zoom links are on the project page.
Virtual course: Wikidata and public domain (in Spanish). On September 25th start this online course until March 26, 2026. Registration open on this form.
WikidataCon 2025 proposal reviews are about to end. We are currently building an initial programme and will soon inform Speakers before publishing a first Schedule!
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs: GLAM Newsletter: Biodiversity Heritage Library update, harvesting Wikidata identifiers and improving the BHL2Wiki Tool - Read the article
Wikidata Lab XLVI: Wikidata and Semantic Memory, don't miss the workshop! (scheduled: 18.09.25, 1700 UTC) - YouTube
WikiCite 2025 Presentations:
Extracting citation relations from legacy publications, by David Lindeman - watch on Commons
A proposal for managing personal collections in Wikidata, by Tania Maio - watch on Commons
Tool of the week
Paulina is a Wikidata-based tool for the GLAM community that facilitates searching for authors and works, helps identify their copyright status in different countries, and provides access to works when available.
The Wikimedia Foundation launched a new team, the Wikidata Platform Team, to lead development and maintenance of query services, aiming for stable, scalable data access in collaboration with WMDE and the community.
Showcase Lexemes:blow (L4476) - English verb (bloʊ) meaning "to push air", "to explode", or "to perform fellatio"
Development
Scalability/sustainability: We have rolled out changes to minimize the number of entries stored in the recent changes tables of Wikipedia and co that are edits coming from Wikidata. This also reduces the number of changes from Wikidata you will see showing up in Recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co further.
MCP for Wikidata: We are getting it ready for first testing.
Dumps: We are continuing to investigate how to provide smaller/subset dumps.
Mobile statement editing: We are continuing the work on making statements editable, especially qualifiers and multiple references.
Anubis (Q134301689) anti-bot software was deployed on Wikibase Cloud and XTools to prevent site outages caused by bot traffic. (T399851, T400229)
Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation 25 October .This event will showcase the Seediq communities’ translation of the OCLC white paper on Wikibase, followed by an overview of the full paper. It will conclude with an open discussion on the lessons learned during the translation project and broader reflections on linked data.
FREE virtual 1hr Wiki webinar focusing on plant biodiversity. Open to anyone wanting to improve their digital outreach skills by enriching Wikidata. Tuesday 14th of October at 3pm NZST. Register to get link.
Wikidata’s 13th Birthday is just around the corner! Are you planning to host a celebration but haven’t added it to the calendar yet? Join the party! Thirty-nine (39) events are already scheduled, and yours can be too: Birthday Calendar. It’s also the perfect time to contribute a birthday present or message to this list. Gifts can be anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community like a script you’ve written, a tool improvement, a visual, a poem... 🎉
Duplicity This tool can pick a random article on a wiki without associated Wikidata item, and offer some possible matches on Wikidata, so you can add it to an existing item, or create a new one.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 31! If you have some ideas for coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, outreach, research) projects, share them by Sept. 26, 2025, at 4 pm UTC
(Q33947) - famoumost widely spoken of all Sámi languages
Showcase Lexemes: Waage (L37547) – German noun (‘ˈvaːɡə’) meaning "scale (device for measuring mass)", "Libra constellation", or "equilibrium"
Development
Mobile statement editing: We are working more on the editing state of statements, especially qualifiers and progress indicators during saving (phab:T402620)
Dumps: We fixed an issue with some of the dumps (phab:T403882) and are improving the monitoring
GraphQL: We are working on making it easier to get labels of linked entities in an API response, starting with Items (phab:T404692)
Sustainability: We have now rolled out improvements to the tracking of Wikidata changes on the other Wikimedia projects on all projects in order to decrease the size of the database table that tracks these changes (phab:T401288)
Bug fixes: Tacsipacsi submitted fixes for two issues in error messages on Special:SetSiteLink. Thank you! (phab:T404499, phab:T404500)
Greetings from WMDE's Technical Wishes team. Today we've deployed sub-referencing to German Wikipedia, our first pilot wiki. A great milestone after so many years of work!
We'll continue to improve the feature based on community feedback and want to deploy to other pilot wikis in the upcoming months, once we've solved a couple of issues affecting many non-dewiki projects. You are invited to try sub-referencing on betawiki in the meantime.
We are currently thinking about how we could improve VisualEditor support for templates in sub-references if that's desired by the community. Read more about it on our talk page and share your feedback!
As always thank you very much for your support!
PS: You are receiving this message, because you signed-up to our sub-referencing newsletter. If you don't want to receive further updates, just remove your name from the list.
Selam Anerka. Birisi hakkında metin yazmak istiyorum. Fakat görsel eklemesi yapamıyorum. bu konuda yardımçı olabilir misin? Ne zaman yükleme yapabileceğim. --Kutay Beşlioğlu (mesaj) 13.46, 24 Eylül 2025 (UTC)Yanıtla
Evet ben çektim. Fakat görsel ekleyeceğim kişi için oluşturduğum sayfayı kaldırmışlar. Gün içinde tekrar yükleme yapacağım. Yönlendirebilirseniz memnun olurum. Teşekkür ederim dönüş yaptığınız için. Kutay Beşlioğlu (mesaj) 11.09, 27 Aralık 2025 (UTC)Yanıtla
PR amaçlı dosyalar silinecektir, ek olarak Vikipedi'de oluşturulan sayfalar buradaki kriterleri sağlamıyorlarsa ve/veya reklam amaçlı iseler silinirler.
New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our first session of our WikiProject Personal Pronouns event series, which will provide a high-level overview of WikiProject Personal Pronouns' goals, past work, and implementation plans. The session will also serve as a practical orientation to the implementation work for this project, ending with a demonstration of the workflow to be used in subsequent sessions. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. This session will be recorded. Slides and recordings will be found on the project page after the session. Join us Tuesday, September 30th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
Wikidata are hosting a webinar on the Embedding Project: AI/ML Project Manager Philippe Saadé (WMDE) will introduce the project, including early experiences, wins and pitfalls, and open up the floor to your questions.
🎁 Countdown to 13!🎁 Wikidata's 13th Birthday is fast approaching and this week marks the start of the first Birthday Events! For a full rundown of all Birthday Events, please see the Birthday Calendar.
Starting the month of celebrations this week include: Wali Wikimedians Community, Latin America in Wikidata 2025, Hausa Wikipedians User Group and the language communities of Zambia, Twi and Kinyarwanda and regional celebrations from the Northern Nigerian, Dagbani and Ghanaians Wikimedian communities!
Wikidata Workflows: with ORCiD and OpenRefine - a Binghamton University Case Study By Sasha Frizzell - This lightning talk outlines Binghamton University Libraries’ pilot project to convert ORCID faculty data into Wikidata entries, showcasing linked data integration, data cleaning workflows, and strategies for enhancing institutional research visibility.
Showcase Lexemes:Knoten (L298686) - German noun (ˈknoːtn̩) meaning "tied fastening of ropes/strings", "speed unit in aviation/shipping", or "tangled clump of hair"
Development
Mobile statement editing: We continue to make good progress, which you can check out on beta Wikidata. Specifically it is now possible to
save changes to edits made to string Properties on statements (without losing qualifier / reference information) (phab:T401405)
GraphQL: We are continuing to make labels of linked entities accessible in the GraphQL endpoint (phab:T404692)
Wikidata in Wikipedia and co: We are continuing to work on improvements to how we technically track the use of Wikidata in the other Wikimedia projects in order to reduce the amount of changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
Hocam merhabalar, bir konuda fikrinizi almak istedim. Hâli hazırda çok kötü durumda olan bir viki sayfasında (https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan) düzenleme yapmıştım zamanında. Tam tarih şu hatta: 23.02, 22 Kasım 2023.
Fakat düzenlenme şu sebeple onaylanmadı: +Nedensiz silinmiş içerik +Kaynak göstermeyi zorunlu kılan bilgi.
Ben bu viki sayfasına baktığımda zaten çok basit bir dil ve özensizlik görüyorum. Halbuki dünyada en çok dinlenen podcastci bu kişi. Benim yaptığım düzenlemedeki bariz hata nedir? Eğer tek eksik bir linkse onu düzenleyip kabul etmek daha mantıklı olan değil mi?
Merhaba sayın yetkili,
Ben 1999 yılımdan başlayarak Persek kelimesi hakkında bir araştırmaya başladım.Elde ettiğim bilgileri derleyip bloger sayfasında yayınladım.O bilgilerin aynısını wikipediaya ekledim.Fakat bana uyarı mesajı geldi.Yazımda telif hakları ihlali olduğu söylendi.Bu çalışmayı ben hazırladım faydalandığım kaynakları da yazımda belirttim.Telif hakkı ihlali bir konu olmadığını düşünüyorum.
Bu konuda yardımcı olursanız memnun olurum.
Saygılarımla. --Sureyyahoca38 (mesaj) 17.48, 4 Ekim 2025 (UTC)Yanıtla
Yazı size ait olsa dahi ilk yayınlandığı sitede telif hakları saklıdır ibaresi mevcutsa burada yayınlanmasının önünde engeldir. Buna ek olarak bloglar gibi siteler güvenilir kaynak kabul edilmemekte.
WikidataCon 2025 - The first version of the conference schedule has been released! See the Event page for links to the schedule (and to register if you haven't already).
13th Birthday Events - check the calendar to see which Birthday events are happening this week!
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 15th October 2025 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.
Past events:
Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 - Learning Day (September 25, at the Goethe Institut in Thessaloniki): the main topic was Wikidata and libraries; the program and the materials of the hands-on session are available in the Meta page, the slides of the presentations are available in the Commons category
Convegno NILDE (October 2-3, University of Genoa; website): in the first session, regarding Il futuro dei cataloghi [The future of the catalogs], many presentations (in Italian) have mentioned the use of Wikidata in collective library catalogs; the proceedings of the conference (in Italian) will be published in open access in early 2026:
Lianna D'Amato and Emanuela Secinaro, Cobis LOD: integrare e aumentare i cataloghi eterogenei delle biblioteche specialistiche [Cobis LOD: Integrating and Enhancing the Heterogeneous Catalogs of Specialized Libraries] (slides)
Stefano Bargioni, La catalogazione per entità, esperienze pratiche della rete URBE con Parsifal [Entity cataloging: practical experiences of the URBE network with Parsifal] (slides; Wikidata project page)
Elena Ravelli e Camillo Pellizzari, Authority file di SBN e Wikidata: un esempio di interoperabilità e riutilizzo dei dati [SBN Authority File and Wikidata: An Example of Data Interoperability and Reuse] (slides; Wikidata project page)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs: Diff: Building Wikidatacapacity in East Africa - Wikimedia Deutschland’s 2025 outreach initiative expanded Wikidata capacity in East Africa by training nearly 100 local Wikimedians across 13 countries, and fostering a new network of regional Wikidata champions
Open Tool Registries: Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata - Livestream (today!) Oct 6, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST. (Maybe in German but description is English)
Tool of the week
Script newentity.js is a UserScript by GZWDer it helps to generates new items (including lexemes) from the given JSON object.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikidata Team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to talk to developers who use Wikidata’s data dumps, or have tried using them but ran into challenges. Your feedback will help us make data dumps easier and more reliable to use. If you’re open to chatting, we’ll schedule a 60-minute user interview. As a thank-you for your time, you’ll be eligible for compensation. Sign up here.
For anyone interested in open and interoperable data, the DCMI 2025 Conference might be interesting. More information and registration here.
Showcase Lexemes: delve (L22859) – English verb (/dɛlv/) meaning "to investigate thoroughly", "to dig physically", or "to discuss in detail
Development
The {{USERLANGUAGE}}magic word is now enabled on Wikidata and Test Wikidata. It can be used to display templates in the user interface language, replacing the previous {{int:lang}} hack. (phab:T405830)
GraphQL: We have continued working on the functionality that provides labels of linked entities
Wikidata vector embedding and MCP: We have released the vector embedding and MCP
Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
We are continuing the rollout of improvements to ow we track Wikidata changes in Wikipedia's watchlist and recent changes in order to reduce the size of the database table and reduce the noise on editors' watchlists. (phab:T401288, phab:T401290)
We are working on some improvements to the Databox module and template (phab:T400322)
Mobile statement editing:
We improved the display of qualifiers and made it possible to add qualifiers (editing will still come) as well as the value type (value/some value/no value) (phab:T404991, phab:T404956, phab:T402431, phab:T403246)
We are working on adding editing support for more datatypes (tabular data and geoshape) (phab:T403973)
We are working on making it possible to edit references (phab:T402433)
The next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session: Tuesday 14 Oct, 2025 from 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (click for your Time zone) WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No prior Wikidata experience required. More info on the Personal Pronouns event page.
Upcoming LD4 Affinity Group sessions: Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9, at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 4pm UTC / 6pm CEST.
Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour, join us in the Wikidata Telegram channel for our Quarterly roundup of what's been happening with Wikidata and Wikibase. If you can't make it, read the transcript later. Oct 15, 18:00 - 19:00 CEST (UTC 16:00 - 17:00).
Developing an enhanced dataset for the history of Photography - National Archives researchers used Wikidata during a hackathon to link people and places from 19th-century photographic copyright records, enriching the archive’s metadata through linked open data.
Wikidata Useful is a UserScript by Magnus Manske that adds a box of quick "add statement" links to the right side of the page. Entity and phylogeny types, countries (location and citizenship). Also, tries to load and display a blurb from en or de Wikipedia.
Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking feedback on the Mobile Editing Experience prototype, especially from contributors who edit right-to-left (RTL) languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, etc. We’ve already received helpful input from various editors, but feedback from RTL language communities is still missing. Your perspective is important to ensure the design works well for everyone. Please go to Beta Wikidata (in mobile view) to test the prototype with the instructions below and share your feedback on this talk page.
Add "businessperson" as an occupation
Add a start date to the relationship with A$AP Rocky and provide a reference
Find the place of birth (Saint Michael) and open that page
We finished work on adding an icon to changes coming from Wikidata in recent changes and watchlist (phab:T397258)
We are finishing work on a new usage aspect for qualifiers and references so their use can be tracked separately. This will lead to less Wikidata changes showing up in recent changes and watchlist that don't actually affect the article (phab:T397258)
We are continuing the work on improving Databox (phab:T400322)
GraphQL: We are continuing to work on making labels of linked entities in the values of statements accessible (phab:T404692)
Mobile statement editing: We have been working on showing the different value types (phab:T404684) and making references editable (phab:T405236)
🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
The Dublin Core DCMI 2025 conference will take place in Barcelona, Oct 22-25.
Presentation: Derivative Relationships and Bibliographic Families Among Creative Works: A Systematic Study of Their Application by the Wikidata Community from the FRBR and BIBFRAME Perspective
Workshop by Jneubert on converting a complex web application into a large static site integrated with Wikidata
Tutorial from Jelabra on shaping linked data and knowledge graphs.
WikiLokal - The tool uses your device location to find Wikidata Items and Wikipedia articles within a 3 kilometre radius of your location. Created by User:Affandy Murad
Newest General datatypes: organizational chart (image that displays the structure of this organization or government agency and the relationships and relative ranks of its parts and positions/jobs)
(Q24101) - library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Showcase Lexemes: led (L762994) - Norwegian Nynorsk noun (leː) meaning "a joint between bones", "a movable body part", or "a generation"
Development
Mobile statement editing: We made progress on support for more datatypes for editing.
Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
We are investigating an issue with infoboxes using data from Wikidata after some recent changes to usage tracking (phab:T407684)
We are working on more improvements to the Databox module
Ontology federation: We are starting to work on making it possible for other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as values in their statements. This expands on previous work around federated properties.
Dumps: We have worked on fixing issues with the dumps that were failing recently. They should now be generated again and we continue to look into the cause.
🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
WikidataCon 2025, October 31 - November 2, make sure to register at the event page.
SPARQL workshop (in German): "From Zero to SPARQL. Eine Einführung in die Abfrage von Wissensgraphen (Schwerpunkt Wikidata)", 4 Nov 2025, 10-13, free and open to all, online via Zoom. more information and registration
The scholarship deadline for Wikimania 2026 is approaching fast: 31st of October. Apply today if you want to attend on a scholarship.
Presentations: Will AI Erase Us Again? The Role of Wikimedia Communities. Talk by John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2025 (Slides)
Tool of the week
Nemo is a new Wikidata query tool by User:Markus Krötzsch the tool can answer queries, extracts subsets, and perform analyses in ways that SPARQL alone can't. It also lets you combine Wikidata with other data sources.
Lämningsnummer ({{Q|Q10498015}} is a database of archaeological monuments in Sweden, maintained by {{Q|Q631844}}. Each item in the database has an identifier containing the year of registration and a number, e.g. ''L1970:5203''.)
(Q22530539) - lake in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada
Development
Wikidata in Wikipedia and co:
We worked on making Wikidata change summaries in recent changes and watchlist on the other Wikimedia projects more understandable by adding icons. This will be rolled out soon (phab:T397258)
New requests for permissions/Bot: langCodesBot - Task(s): Python script to automate the cleanup of deprecated language codes (e.g., kr) from Wikidata items. Delete or move labels, descriptions, and aliases based on comparisons with fallback and related languages. The script uses the Pywikibot framework to process each item and logs cases it skips due to data inconsistencies or ambiguity to a CSV file for manual review.
New request for comments: Exhibition models by Hexatekin - This proposal focuses on standardizing models for art exhibitions. There is not a consistent data model used for art exhibitions that factors in parent-child relationships for traveling exhibitions, show series, or biennials, despite these being important and common types of events in international art history.
Events
Past:
Happy Birthday, Wikidata 🎉! We celebrated Wikidata’s 13th birthday with a community call to unveil presents and play games. Check out the replay of the event and the cool gifts people made: Wikidata:Thirteenth Birthday/Presents & messages
WikidataCon: You can catch up on the recordings and slides in the program
Tool of the week The Wikidata Reference Validator by User:JosefAnthony helps check and replace broken or outdated references — keeping Wikidata’s knowledge verifiable and trustworthy. It checks whether external references are still accessible or offline, so we can ensure that every statement on Wikidata shows how we know what we know.
anatomical view (view of an anatomical structure, e.g. ventral, dorsal, frontal)
collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field)
Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.)
(Q167634) - political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform
Showcase Lexemes:baseline (L46097) - English noun (ˈbeɪslaɪn) meaning "a starting point for comparison", "a benchmark in budgeting", or "a reference line in typography or surveying"
Development
Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work on qualifiers and reference editing
GraphQL: We are continuing the work on making labels of linked entities available in GraphQL (phab:T404692)
Dumps: We are continuing to look into improvements for the dump process
What are Wikidata WikiProjects, and why should you join one? Watch this great explainer from the #LevelingUpDays2024 to see how these communities work together! Then, find your project: Wikidata:WikiProjects
Tool of the week
User:Difool/WikidataCleanup.js: gadget allowing to do, in one click, a wide series of cleanups in an item: normalize labels, descriptions, and aliases (double spaces, certain Unicode characters), remove weak references, remove weakly referenced dates when they have lower precision than a strongly referenced date and downgrade unnecessary preferred ranks; about the general issue of redundancies in Wikidata, you can check WikiProject Redundancy
Ghanasupremecases is a webapp that dynamically pulls and displays over 2,000 Supreme Court of Ghana cases from Wikidata, allowing users to access case details linked directly to Wikidata items. The goal is to make African legal data more open, structured, and discoverable, and to demonstrate how Wikidata can serve as a foundation for national-level legal archive
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Temporary accounts rollout: Starting November 12, the community will see logged‑out edits handled through temporary accounts instead of IPs, prompting tool and bot checks.
Help shape the future WikidatCon! If you attended WikidataCon 2025, please take 10 minutes to share your feedback in this anonymous GDPR-compliant survey (sslsurvey)
collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field)
Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.)
WikiProject Highlights: Passionate about highlighting women's achievements? WikiProject Women is dedicated to creating and improving data about women worldwide. Help close the gender gap in knowledge! #WikidataWikiProjects
Öncelikle hoşgeldin. Bir süredir buralarda değildim ancak yazabiliyorum.
Vikipedi'ye eklediğimiz bilgilerin doğrulanabilirliği önemli ve bu doğrulanabilirlikle kast ettiğimiz bildiklerinin doğru olması değil kaynaklarda işlenmiş olması.
Ansiklopediler sözlü tarihten ziyade yazıya dökülmüş ya da belgelenmiş tarihi baz alarak yazılabiliyor bu nedenle doğru da olsa bu bilgileri yazılı ve güvenilir sayılan kaynaklarla teyit edilebilecek şekilde aktarman gerekli.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-11-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #705.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
Che-W-bot - Task(s): Possible duplicate of the bot below.
CheWikibot - Task(s): Import new articles created on Chechen Wikipedia (ce.wiki) to Wikidata.
DDResearchBot - Task(s): This bot will facilitate adding structured, cited data from trusted integrity sources to Wikidata for Dewey Digital.
Closed request for comments:
Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks - While there is a general agreement for admins to block /64, no consensus to add to the blocking Policy was reached.
Wikidata:Self-promotion - an essay on creating an Item about yourself, your organisation, or your work is a form of self-promotion and is strongly discouraged. Feel free to update this page.
Wikidata Days: IWUG and WAFTAI - A 4 day edit-a-thon beginning November 26, 2025, for Cameroonian and Nigerian educational institutions.
WikiLatih Wikidata - November 21, 08:50am (WIB), learning around Wikidata: how to reuse data and edit Items. Organised by the Faculty of Science and Technology Universitas Airlangga.
Blogs: GLAM Netherlands report The joint Radboud–Maastricht project Open Topstukken concluded at the Dutch National Library, showcasing 30 digitized collection highlights enriched with Linked Open Data via Wikidata and supported by new tools, documentation, and visualizations to enhance digital accessibility and interoperability.
ArchiveExternaLinks is a UserScript by Poro26. The UserScript automates the archiving of all external links present in an item, whether they appear in statements, references or identifiers. For each external link, the script automatically adds an archive link [archive], similar to what is done on Wikipedia for web sources cited in references
New General datatypes property proposals to review: role in naming (the role the namesake played in relation to this item, i.e. why the item is named after the namesake)
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject LGBTQ History - aims to improve and organize data related to the history, people, places, events, and organizations that have contributed to LGBTQ+ experiences across time and geography.
WikiProject Highlights:
👩🔬Passionate about highlighting women's achievements? WikiProject Women is dedicated to creating and improving data about women worldwide. Help close the gender gap in knowledge! WikiProject Women
🗳️ Interested in democracy and political data? Join WikiProject Elections to model data about elections, candidates, and results from around the globe. Make electoral data open and accessible! WikiProject Elections
🏛️ How do you find info on government institutions? WikiProject Govdirectory has a structured data model for that! Help improve data about public agencies on Wikidata. WikiProject Govdirectory
🎵 Into music? From classical to K-pop, WikiProject Music needs your expertise to harmonize data on songs, artists, and releases. Join the band! WikiProject Music
🧬 Your skills can help model lifesaving data. WikiProject Medicine works on structured data for diseases, drugs, clinical trials, and anatomy. Join a project that matters. WikiProject Medicine
🔍 Interested in how knowledge itself is structured? WikiProject Ontology delves into the fundamental classes and properties of Wikidata. Shape the backbone of the knowledge graph! WikiProject Ontology
Hi, you are receiving this invitation as you are either patroller and/or admin in your community and CEE Hub is preparing a session called Tools and features for Users with Extended Rights, which we think that it will be interesting for you.
The session is organised by the CEE Hub along with Wikimedia Foundation’s Movement Communications regional specialist Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska. Speakers in the session are Product Managers and Software Engineers from Wikimedia Foundation, so you will hear recent updates, new developments, and they will answer questions. So, please think what you want to ask them and come to the session.
The session will be held on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 at 17:00 CET. Please register yourself here.
Upcoming LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session on 25 November 2025: Join the community-driven effort led by WikiProject Personal Pronouns to improve pronoun data modeling and ethics in Wikidata. This is part of a three-session series (Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9) focused on implementing new best practices. No prior Wikidata experience required. Join at 17:00 UTC. Event page.
LDF endpoint retirement considered: The unstable and low-traffic LDF endpoint may be retired to reduce maintenance effort and unnecessary load on WDQS. If your workflow depends on it and you would hate to see it go, please let the Wikidata development team know at Wikidata talk:Data access.
WDQS Legacy endpoint deprecation: The legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be fully decommissioned on 7 January 2026. Please migrate tools and workflows to the supported endpoints: query.wikidata.org (Main) or query-scholarly.wikidata.org (Scholarly). Assistance is available on the Data Access and Request a Query pages.
Insights from Data Governance Research Process 2025: Results of the research to better understand how the communities currently think about which data and communities are best served by Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud or Wikibase Suite respectively.
Abstract Wikipedia naming contest: Help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project which is provisionally known as Abstract Wikipedia. The second phase of voting is now open until December 1.
Bookbindings - share metadata and images from the currently offline Database of Bookbindings at the British Library
Irish Traditional Music:Projects - aims to systematically create and enhance Wikidata items for people profiled in the 2024 edition of Fintan Vallely's The Companion to Irish Traditional Music.
Showcase Lexemes: Bogucin (L1405411) - Polish proper noun (bɔˈɡu.t͡ɕin) meaning "village in Greater Poland", "village in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship", or "village in Lublin Voivodeship"
Weekly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Merhaba, Aziz Baylar için bir Wikipedia biyografi sayfası oluşturmak istiyoruz. Sayfa içeriğinin Wikipedia standartlarına uygun, tarafsız ve güvenilir kaynaklarla desteklenmiş olmasını sağlamamız gerekiyor. Bu süreçte aşağıdaki konularda yardıma ihtiyacımız var:
1. Sayfa Başlığı: Sayfa, gerçek ismi olan ‘Aziz Baylar’ şeklinde açılmalı.
2. Tarafsız ve doğrulanabilir içerik: Yazılacak bilgiler üçüncü kişi ağzıyla, ansiklopedik bir tarzda olmalı.
3. Kaynak zorunluluğu: Haber sitesi, dergi, röportaj, yerel basın veya resmi kurum/okul duyurusu gibi güvenilir kaynaklarla desteklenmeli.
4. Vikilink (iç bağlantı) kullanımı: Metinde Rize, Çamlıhemşin, Valencia, Erasmus Programı gibi uygun iç bağlantılar eklenmeli.
5. Kaynakça formatı: Wikipedia standart <ref> kaynak gösterme sistemi kullanılmalı.
6. Alıntı kutusu: Künye veya basın alıntısı eklenmeli, örnek format:
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Insert the text of the quote here, without quotation marks.
„
7. Sayfanın silinmemesi için kriterler: Reklam veya tanıtım görünümünden kaçınılmalı, metin tamamen ansiklopedik olmalı.
Bu maddeleri doğru şekilde uygulayarak, Aziz Baylar için profesyonel bir Wikipedia biyografi sayfası oluşturmak istiyoruz. Yardımcı olabilir misiniz?” --Deniz ozyurt (mesaj) 14.47, 26 Kasım 2025 (UTC)Yanıtla
Yapay zeka desteği almaya çalışmış gibi görünüyorsunuz ancak AI ile oluşturulan içeriklerin sıklıkla bu standartları karşılamadığını, Vikipedistlerin kendi araştırmalarını yaparak sonuçları doğruladığını iletmem gerekli.
Kişi kriterlerimizi karşılıyorsa elbet kendisinden bahsedilen bir sayfa açılacaktır.
Merhaba, Aziz Baylar için bir Wikipedia biyografi sayfası oluşturmak istiyoruz. Sayfa içeriğinin Wikipedia standartlarına uygun, tarafsız ve güvenilir kaynaklarla desteklenmiş olmasını sağlamamız gerekiyor. Bu süreçte aşağıdaki konularda yardıma ihtiyacımız var:
1. Sayfa Başlığı: Sayfa, gerçek ismi olan ‘Aziz Baylar’ şeklinde açılmalı.
2. Tarafsız ve doğrulanabilir içerik: Yazılacak bilgiler üçüncü kişi ağzıyla, ansiklopedik bir tarzda olmalı.
3. Kaynak zorunluluğu: Haber sitesi, dergi, röportaj, yerel basın veya resmi kurum/okul duyurusu gibi güvenilir kaynaklarla desteklenmeli.
4. Vikilink (iç bağlantı) kullanımı: Metinde Rize, Çamlıhemşin, Valencia, Erasmus Programı gibi uygun iç bağlantılar eklenmeli.
5. Kaynakça formatı: Wikipedia standart <ref> kaynak gösterme sistemi kullanılmalı.
6. Alıntı kutusu: Künye veya basın alıntısı eklenmeli, örnek format:
“
Insert the text of the quote here, without quotation marks.
„
7. Sayfanın silinmemesi için kriterler: Reklam veya tanıtım görünümünden kaçınılmalı, metin tamamen ansiklopedik olmalı.
Bu maddeleri doğru şekilde uygulayarak, Aziz Baylar için profesyonel bir Wikipedia biyografi sayfası oluşturmak istiyoruz. Yardımcı olabilir misiniz?” --Deniz ozyurt (mesaj) 14.48, 26 Kasım 2025 (UTC)Yanıtla
As are ending the year and will be wrapping up on the current annual plan we are doing a few sprints. If every member of the user group makes just one contribution, we will finish these easily and have a great resource for the entire community. Please check out these and see if you can help out:
Papers: Benchmarking SPARQL Engines on Wikidata Queries - Four open-source SPARQL engines were benchmarked on Wikidata, with QLever fastest, Blazegraph slower, and all showing SPARQL standard deviations. By Peter F. Patel-Schneider (2025).
Videos:
Records in Contexts (RiC) Wikibase Working Session - Regine Heberlein of the (SAA) Description Section Steering Committee hosts a workshop on Wikibase implementation of the Records in Context Conceptual Model (RiC-CM).
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
concurring opinion by (judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court agreeing with the majority's final decision but providing different or additional reasons)
audio version of text (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).)
We have added editing support for more data types (entity IDs, geographical shapes and tabular data).
It is now available as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org. You can enable it here.
Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are rolling out improvements to the Databox Lua module to a number of Wikipedias to make it easier to have out-of-the-box Wikidata-powered infoboxes
Ontology federation: We are making progress with making it possible to use Wikidata Item's as statement values in other Wikibase instances
GraphQL: We are continuing the work on the prototype, focusing on getting data from a batch of Items
Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is working on benchmarking of different replacement options for Blazegraph, the software powering the Wikidata Query Service
Fact-Checking with Wikidata Workshop - January 20, 2026, 16:30 ~ 18:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter) - WMDE's Philippe Saadé will show hands-on methods using the Wikidata MCP to retrieve, filter and classify Wikidata statements with semantic search, reranker LLM and NLI models, registration required.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 9 December, 2025: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. Sessions will be held on October 14, November 25, and December 9, 2025 at our regular time of 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/PersonalPronouns
Discharge regime (The '''[[:en:Discharge regime|discharge regime]]''' can be Glacial, Nival or Pluvial. It can be a combination of 2 : Nivo-pluvial, Pluvio-nival, Nivo-glacial, etc. Be specific (e.g. pluvial tropical, meridional, etc.). Or be complex)
minimal pair of (lexeme that differ from this one in only one phonological element)
İlgili kişinin buradaki kriterleri karşılayıp karşılamadığına bakmanda fayda var. Kriterleri karşılamayan sayfalar silinmekte, dolayısıyla yazmaya başlayıp başlamamaya karar vermek için burası ilk adres.
(Italian) Wikidata and Wikibase for research: Camillo Pellizzari gives an overview of Wikidata, the data model, potential as scientific research subject and tool, then a Wikibase intro and its uses beyond Wikidata, with example instance: Hypotheseis; slides on Commons
Community Hours: Art+Feminism community in Armenia: Former regional A+F ambassador, Arminé Aghayan-Flisch, tells us of her experiences growing the A+F Armenian community through GLAM, Wikidata and Wikipedia.
(Spanish) PADEP 2025: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Dr. Luis Álvarez Azcárraga teaches the course: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Open Databases for Social, Artistic, and Cultural Studies
Showcase Lexemes: mesa (L31222) - Spanish noun (ˈme.sa) meaning "table (furniture)", "mesa (flat-topped hill)", or "served table for dining"
Development
Edit summaries: We made changes that will improve the automatic edit summaries of edits made using the wbeditentity API endpoint. Tools that use this endpoint to edit statements will, in some cases, now have more accurate edit summaries; this also affects how such edits are summarized in edit groups. (phab:T411247)
Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are collecting feedback from the first wikis who got the new and improved Databox module.
Mobile statement editing:
We are making remaining changes for the first roll-out as a beta-feature.
New requests for permissions/Bot: Title markup bot - Task(s): There is a variety of HTML markup found in , violating various constraints on the property. The following task description is for a bot that can start the required cleanup process. I would like to request permission to implement the functionality outlined here as a first iteration, on the understanding that it will be extended and refined to cover more cases. It will operate within the limitation that it will only modify values, add qualifiers and update labels to keep them in-line with altered titles.
SWAT4HCLS 2026. Amsterdam, March 23-26, with a "Wikidata in healthcare and life sciences" session and Prof. Hannah Bast as one of the keynotes
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Videos:
(Indonesian) Introduction to Wikifunctions presented by NikolasKHF (Niko). In this session, Niko introduced Wikifunctions project, how to edit a function, how to add an implementation and test, and demonstrated them. This is the first Wikifunctions training in Indonesian. Slides are available on Commons.
(Indonesian) Wikidata for Academician presented by Wikimedia Indonesia's Data and Technology team. They introduced Wikimedia Indonesia, and then explained Wikidata, its underlying concepts and a glance to its history, how to add statements and references, how to query with Wikidata Query Services, Wikidata and its potential in research fields, Wikiprojects and Wikidata:For development resources. Slides are available on Commons.
Quizicle is a daily quiz/puzzle game that's not really a quiz and not really a puzzle. Deduce the answer from crossword-style clues with hot/cold feedback.
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