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Portals and transclusion

Portal:Free and open-source software/Did you know is updated by a bot. User:JL-Bot will pull content from the article's talk page. So if you need to update a link or fix a typo or anything like that, it makes more sense to do so at Talk:Delta (emulator). Otherwise the bot will wipe the changes away at the next update. Portals in general do a lot of automation and transclusion and are more complicated that nearly any regular article. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 05:26, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, I'm pretty new to all of this Spiral6800 (talk) 12:09, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

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CopperheadOS hatnote discussion at WP:3O

Hi Spiral6800. Just a heads up - I've listed our discussion at Talk:CopperheadOS#GrapheneOS hatnote at WP:3O so that we can get a third opinion. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:48, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I think that's a good idea. — Spiral6800 talk contributions • 19:15, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

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Fanfix, assistance requested

Pleasure to meet you, Spiral6800. I am the declared COI editor for Fanfix. I noted your participation in Project Software and Project Computing and hope you'd be willing to implement the edit request I posted with additions and changes to be made to the Fanfix article. If you prefer, I can make these modifications myself with your approval. Looking forward to hearing from you, Bluecenter2020 (talk) 21:41, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi Bluecenter2020,

Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. I reviewed your proposed changes and don't see any issues. You stuck to WP:NPOV and used reliable sources, and I don't see anything biased or controversial about your edits. Splitting the History and operations section makes sense, but I think the newly added content about the acquisition should be located in the history section, not operations. You can go ahead and make the edits.

Thank you for your contribution and have a nice day! — Spiral6800 talk contributions • 17:34, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me, Spiral6800. A different editor got to this, but they didn't split the sections. Now that they are involved, I'm not sure I should do that myself. Would you mind taking care of that, please? Thanks again, Bluecenter2020 (talk) 14:11, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of GrapheneOS is under review

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Your nomination of GrapheneOS has failed

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GA nomination of Threat actor

Hi there, I noticed you opened a GA nom review at Talk:Threat_actor/GA1 on 2 June 2026, but it appears you haven't started it since you opened it. Are you still intending to complete the review? If not, I would be willing to take it over. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Thank you. AdaCiccone (talk) 03:31, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

Main list

Could you please stop adding a "main list" template to sections that are empty. It doesn't make sense to direct readers to a "more comprehensive list"...from an empty section. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 14:39, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

That makes sense, I'll update my regex query to exclude empty sections. Thanks for the notice! — Spiral6800 talk contributions • 14:41, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #742

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #741.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • AuntuBot - Task/s: Per the approved bot request at commons:Commons:Bots/Requests/AuntuBot, I am in the process of uploading approximately 50,000 issues of the Bangladesh Gazette to Wikimedia Commons. We need to a parent Wikidata item for each specific issue/volume to import and organize these files on Bengali Wikisource. Note that AuntuBot has already been granted a bot flag on Wikimedia Commons for the file uploads.
  • Rebot 2 - Task/s: We recently created the new property perspective (P14345) (Wikidata:Property proposal/anatomical view). With Rebot, I plan to move:
• About 570 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a property
• About 1400 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a qualifier of image (P18)
  • Rebot 3 - Task/s: Import 1389 instances of taxon author citation (P6507) from this Catalan Wikipedia list, compiled by bot from the articles.
  • Rebot 4 - Task/s: The task consists in changing these 1072 items. It has to change creator (P170) to the new property photographer (P14574). Also there are 1000+ items in which the property should be used as a qualifier.
  • Openpep - Task/s: Maintenance of Politically Exposed Person (PEP) data on Wikidata for Thai government officials. Specifically:
• Creating new Wikidata items for Thai politicians not yet in the database
• Adding P39 (position held) claims with proper qualifiers (P580 start time, P582 end time, P2937 legislative term for legislators, P1365/P1366 replaces/replaced by, P1545 series ordinal)
• Adding P102 (member of political party) with date qualifiers
• Adding P569 (date of birth), P106 (occupation), P21 (sex or gender), P19 (place of birth), P1559 (name in native language)
• Setting and correcting labels, descriptions, and aliases
• Removing incorrect claims and deduplicating
• Adding social media profiles (P2003 Instagram, P2013 Facebook, P11705 Facebook numeric ID)
  • DutchFixer - Task/s: Reformat Dutch verb forms that are listed as past tense (Q1994301), participle (Q814722) to simply use past participle (Q12717679)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Vladimir Terentyev used the set of names for every dish from Wikidata -- labels and aliases in every language -- along with restaurant data from OpenStreetMap to develop a world map of dish names, attempting to answer the research question: "Where does plov end and biryani begin, and who really draws these borders?"
  • Giving Open Source Hardware a Place on Wikidata
  • Simplified entry of complex data into Wikibase
  • Grateful and Growing: Reflecting on My Wiki Afrodemics Fellowship, Pilot Cohort
• Papers: DivinWD: Exploring the Diversity of Scientific Publications in Wikidata - DivinWD is a large open-source dataset of over 23 million triples and 1.2 million scholarly articles (2010–2024), integrating Wikidata with five bibliographic sources and gender data to enable transparent diversity analyses in science while documenting biases and infrastructural limitations. By Saletti et. al., (2026)

Tool of the week

• OWL Places, the Wikidata-OpenStreetMap matching tool, can now add OpenStreetMap IDs to Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.1.0 and other upgrades

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • dielectric strength (electric field strength that causes electrical breakdown of an insulating material under specified test conditions)
    • still taken from the audiovisual work (image comes from the given audiovisual work)
  • External identifiers: Operabook artist ID, ‎MPA certificate number, ‎Deltarune Wiki article ID, A World Made by Travel person ID, UntitledDb person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Fediverse app (Fediverse platform of the instance or address)
    • Fediverse instance URL (Ferdiverse instance of/about the subject)
    • reference amount (Amount of the food that contains a particular quantity of a nutrient.)
    • Qidian Book ID ()
  • External identifiers: Garance item ID, Kinorating, IGN producer, Fediverse address, Music & Opera artist ID, LFL player ID, Soccer365.net tournament ID, kicker.de coach ID, BeSoccer team ID, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID, SofaScore tournament ID, Foot Mercato club ID, Lithuanian movie register ID, Foot Mercato referee ID, BeSoccer referee ID, Kicker.de referee ID, Soccer365.net referee ID, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID, Soccer365.net stadium ID, MFL player ID, Okko movie ID, RIA Novosti organization ID, OpenParliamentTV person ID, OpenParliamentTV organization ID, OpenParliamentTV term ID, Camping.se ID, classicalive artist ID, Chess Games tournament ID, Chess.com tournament ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, Flemish educational institution number, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, Lulu spotlight ID, RPGnet Index ID, EU Treaties and Agreements database ID

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Development

• The team were at Wikimania this past week so not much development happened.

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!

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Tech News: 2026-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Content Translation now supports dark mode, fulfilling a Community Wishlist request. This brings the tool in line with the accessibility features available in the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins, helping reduce visual fatigue for users translating content.
• DiscussionTools' source mode and the 2017 wikitext editor will now offer autocomplete for links ([[), templates ({{), HTML and parser tags (<), and magic words (__), making it quicker and easier to insert links, templates, and other wiki markup while editing.
• The Readers Growth team has concluded its experiment with mobile page previews and will not roll out the feature. Page Previews are a pop-up bottom sheet that appears when readers tap a blue link, showing a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and an option to open the article. The experiment showed flat retention and negative indicator metrics, suggesting that mobile web readers preferred navigating directly to linked articles rather than using page previews.
• The Reader Experience team has seen encouraging early results from the Reading Lists feature, with 93% of participating users reporting that it was useful. Reading Lists help active readers save articles for future reading and support their learning goals on Wikimedia projects. The team plans further improvements before expanding the feature to more users.
• The Explore Feed Refresh initiative was tested with new and casual Wikipedia app readers. The refreshed feed helps readers discover new and relevant content. After a 10.5% increase in engagement with the feed, Wikimedia Apps team has decided to scale the Home Feed redesign to iOS with the learnings from the Android release applied.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where subject names in the Article Guidance feature were displayed with incorrect capitalization on French Wikipedia, has now been fixed. Subject names will now follow the correct capitalization rules for the language.

Updates for technical contributors

• After running several Account Creation Experiments to improve registration completion rates, a new version of the username field on Create Account has been rolled out. It includes a popover summarizing the username policy to provide clearer guidance during account creation. As part of this change, the messages createacct-helpusername and createacct-username-help that several communities have configured will no longer be used. If communities want to customize the guidance shown in the new popover, they can instead edit the following messages: createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet1, createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet2, and createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet3.
• Later this week, the CodeMirror syntax highlighter will offer themes. The themes can be picked from a dropdown menu in the full CodeMirror preferences dialog. For wikitext, available themes are default, colorblind-friendly (previously the colorblind preference option on Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing) and no-highlighting. For code languages (i.e., CSS/JavaScript/JSON/Vue/Lua), there are several themes available. These same themes will eventually be available for wikitext, too.
• From now on, wikis can restrict editing in the "User" namespace to only the page owner and certain user groups. Read the configuration documentation to learn more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Reader Experience team has developed a patch demo that wraps the page toolbar onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, which can occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
• The Reader Experience team is planning to launch Reading Lists, a Community Wishlist item, which is currently available to try in beta, as a full feature in September. Before then, volunteer translator help is needed for string translations into a number of languages. The feature supports reading and learning goals on Wikipedia.
• Next week, the table of contents on Wikimedia Commons file pages will be improved by consolidating the file page table of contents with the page table of contents. This will make it easier to understand a file page’s structure, navigate to specific sections, and share links to individual sections.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some TIFF images failed to load after clicking their thumbnail, causing a broken image to be displayed instead of the full-size image, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The variable and function selector in AbuseFilter has been updated to support search and autocomplete. It will allow filter maintainers to find the desired variable or function more quickly.
• The MJPEG and VP8 formats are removed from the video player. The MP4 format (MPEG-4 Part 2) is added instead, which provides higher quality videos to older iPhone devices. It may take a few weeks to retroactively update all existing videos. The default format for modern devices stays the same (VP9/WebM).
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #743

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #742.

Discussions

• INAPerson 1 - Task/s: Create Wikidata pages entries for mostly French journalists, using INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) catalogue as reference.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimedia & Research conference in the CEE region: programme coming in August, registration open - follow link for registration instructions, (onsite) open until August 26, (online) open until at least October 5. Event takes place Katowice, Poland, October 9-10, 2026.
  • Workshop: Wikidata for Open Innovation - DCMI 226. Held on August 3 by Kalliopi Mathios, participants will get hands-on experience of Wikidata for use in Libraries, Industry and Communities.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers:
  • the proceedings of the conference Wikidata and Research (cf. Meta page), held in Florence (Italy) on June 5-6, 2025, have been published on July 2026 and are available in CC-BY 4.0 license: Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences; 32 papers, 25 in English and 7 in Italian, deal with the usage of Wikidata and other Wikibase instances in different fields of academic research
  • Detecting Knowledge Inconsistencies Across Text, Tables, and Knowledge Graphs by Wei et al., (2026). This paper introduces Kontrast: a tool for comparing Wikidata's statements against Wikipedia tables (and text) to find conflicting information or inconsistencies and missing data.
• Videos: LIVE Wikidata Editing #123 with hosts User:Ainali and User:Abbe98

Tool of the week

• Leximap: Create a colour-coded map of Lexemes from a Wikisource page's text, roll-over individual words to discover more about the lemma
• Filmmap: a free interactive map of filming locations built from Wikidata. Search the title to see where it’s shot or a place to see what was made there
• Cradle-gadget – A new user script embeds the Cradle form editor into Wikidata item pages, enabling schema-based editing with ShEx.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Job vacancy: (Remote) Software Engineer for the Wikidata Platform team.
• Wikibase Cloud has a new hosting policy (pilot version)
• Subster - a timeline-based Wikidata-powered game that plays songs from your own music collection and asks you to rank it against other songs in your hand. Like a digital, cardless version of Hitster. Requires a subsonic-compatible music server to connect to.
• Uyen developed a tool in which you can visualize and inspect content gaps and shared content between different Wikipedia editions, as well as topic distributions: https://wiki-gap-finder.toolforge.org/ Check it out and give them feedback.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • tabular data series (A tabular data series in Commons that models the given concept)
    • infobox chronology (indicate the place of an item in an Infobox chronology, as seen on the Wikipedias.)
    • ‎OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType, without trailing spaces)
    • ‎Fediverse app (Fediverse platform of the instance or address)
    • ‎Fediverse instance URL (Ferdiverse instance of/about the subject)
  • External identifiers: Viberate artist ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage style ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage designer ID, radio.net station ID, radio.net podcast ID, Sokmil AV performer ID, Scent Base brand ID, Scent Base notes ID, Scent Base perfumers ID, PISAI ID, CIDIM Artist ID, Etsy shop name, ‎Open Language Archives Community language code, ‎OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID, Ko-fi page ID, KinoRating ID, ‎Korean Classification of Administrative Districts, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID, SofaScore tournament ID, RIA Novosti organization ID, MFL player ID, ‎MissEvan username, Soccer365.net referee ID, Soccer365.net stadium ID, Soccer365.net tournament ID, ‎IGN producer ID, kicker.de coach ID, Kicker.de referee ID, Lithuanian movie register ID, LFL player ID, BeSoccer referee ID, BeSoccer team ID, OpenParliamentTV organization ID, OpenParliamentTV person ID, OpenParliamentTV term ID, Foot Mercato referee ID, Foot Mercato club ID, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID, Chess Games tournament ID, Chess.com tournament ID, ‎Camping.se ID, Garance item ID, ‎OpenType language system tag, Okko movie ID, ‎Grillplatser.nu ID, Número de Registre Tributari, ‎MissEvan sound ID, ‎MissEvan drama ID, ‎Flemish educational institution number, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID, RPGnet Index ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • ENS name (Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain associated with a person or entity)
    • Inventaire régional du patrimoine en Wallonie ID ()
    • member of musical group (member of musical group)
    • name type (type of noun or name the sense is)
  • External identifiers: CINE21 Program ID, Rakuten TV adult maker ID, DMM maker ID, sukumizu.tv actress ID, GAS actress ID, Paradise TV Parson ID, syukou-club(X-DIABLO) actress ID, Brazilian Fauna Taxonomic Catalogue ID, CINE21 company ID, STAPI Book ID, STAPI Comics ID, STAPI Episode ID, STAPI Performer ID, Qidian Author ID, Medieval Unicode Font Initiative ID, Apple Maps place id, Filmycast person ID, EORI, GBIF Specimen (occurrence), d anime store Parson ID, d anime store work ID, Crank-in! Parson ID, Crank-in! drama ID, Crank-in! animation ID, Crank-in! movie ID, Elite Prospects team ID, r-hockey.ru team ID, Elite Prospects stadium ID, izohli.uz word ID, Dubbinfo ID, DBNL chamber of rhetoric ID, BLS Code, JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia article ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Retrieve all Belgian writers without an article on French Wikipedia (source)
• Schema examples: Swedish barbecue areas (E408)
• Newest WikiProjects: Project Occitan
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Broadcasting - after 10 years of inactivity, the project has been revived with a flurry of activity . Of particular interest is the change in broadcasting scope from primarily airwave to internet transmission.
  • Wiki x K-pop 2026 • Editing Party - Japan Week Datathon
• Newest database reports: Wikidata Terminator - find items that lack Label, description or sitelink.
• Showcase Items: Oman (Q842) - state in western Asia
• Showcase Lexemes: cheche (L648863)

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We reviewed samples of Wikidata-related entries in Recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co in order to see which additional changes we can remove because they don't change the article.
  • We are preparing for the migration of the entity usage table to the extension database cluster to address database scalability issues (phab:T424133)
• Wikidata Query Service: We are continuing to adapt the Query Service UI and the Quality Constraints extension for the upcoming move from Blazegraph to QLever.
• REST API: We are continuing to add support for Lexemes, specifically retrieving a full Lexeme (GET) (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: Seychelles
• 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #744

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #743.

Discussions

• The order of properties on Wikidata is governed by MediaWiki/Wikibase-SortedProperties. We propose moving (P2559) Wikidata usage instructions to the top, so important guidance is more visible and less likely to be overlooked. To comment on this change, please visit MediaWiki_talk#prominently displaying (P2559).
• Closed request for comments: 19 RfC's were closed recently, too many to list here. Please see the RfC page for more information.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • (Deutsch) nfdi4 / Workshop: Make Research Software Findable using the Software Marketplace Wikidata, 18.08.2026, 14:00–16:00 CEST (register for Zoom-link)
  • Improving Wikidata References: The hands-on session will explore how to identify and improve broken references on Wikidata , 15.08.2026, 17:00–18:00 WAT (UTC+1).
• Looking ahead: (Deutsch) Freie Universitat / Tidy data version control - Wikidata in research: 22.10.2026, 09:00 - 16:00 CEST.
• Previous events: August 04 - Blazegraph Migration office hour - see the Etherpad notes for questions and answers.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • gdottv / The Weekly Edge article: demonstrating the Wikidata Query Logs (WDQL) Dataset talks about a paper released in February this year, (Wikidata Query Logs Dataset)
  • LinkedIn - User:Orthodoc10 describes their experience mapping and modelling knee replacement surgical practices into Wikidata
  • Wikisignals.org: Helping Editors Evaluate Reference Reliability
  • Zero-budget programs you could start tommorrow - Lessons from Wikimania Paris]
  • OpenSpeaks Tools Update: Subtitler, Tome, and Bento Go Stable — Meet Media Dashboard
  • [[Diffblog:a-look-at-a-2026-wikimania-hackathon-project-wikidata-bias-detector|A look at a 2026 Wikimania Hackathon Project – Wikidata Bias Detector]
  • nlnet Foundation / Inventaire Split - a short article on this standalone Wikidata-federated Bibliographic database.
  • Maltese national Book Council and WM Malta renew partnerhship: Wikidata to support and feed Maltese Wikipedia.
  • [Diffblog:wikisignals-org-helping-editors-evaluate-reference-reliability|Wikisignals.org: Helping Editors Evaluate Reference Reliability] - the project aims to add to news-related organisation entities to help feed Wikipedia infoboxes with structured data.
• Videos:
  • India's Software Stories: A Hands-on Workshop with Software Heritage, Commons and Wikidata - a Wikimania Lightning talk with Mathilde Fichen and Pavan Santhosh. (Session page)
  • The Art of Editing Wikidata (Africa Wiki Women) - Guest host David Palfrey will share valuable insights and help newcomers uncover the mysteries of editing Wikidata, this session is in collaboration with Art+Feminism.
  • (no audio) Tutorial: Add Geoshape to Wikimedia Commons and connect it to its Wikidata Item - Anne Chen gives a visual demonstration of the steps provided in this google doc, found on the WikiProject IDEA page.
  • LIVE Wikidata Editing #124 is streaming today, 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC)!
  • (Bahasa Indonesian) Wikimedia Indonesia have released 4 short videos on editing practices, querying, basic structure and data quality of Wikidata.
  • (Deutsch) ZB MED LAB | The Carpentries - aimed at researchers and professionals who work with data, a series of tutorials and workshops to teach you Wikidata, Python, R, OpenRefine and more.

Tool of the week

• Cradle-gadget is a tool by User:DanielyepezgarcesThis is an interactive, schema-based form editor that works directly within Wikidata item pages. It allows users to check, view, add, modify, or delete claims in a modern sidebar drawer or a dedicated special page, aligned with the Wikimedia design guidelines. This is the easiest way to exploit the benefits of Wikidata entity schemas, powered by ShEx.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The 2026 OpenRefine User Survey is now open. (Note that a link to a feature-prioritization survey is provided at the end of the Google Form so don't miss that if you want to influence what should get more focus.)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • particularly (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, when the statement applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
    • ‎incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
  • External identifiers: CINE21 TV program ID, GCD character ID, ODiD ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, NHK ONE program ID, CINE21 company ID, ‎Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID, ‎Fmfenxiang sound ID, Elite Prospects team ID, Elite Prospects stadium ID, r-hockey.ru team ID, Classicalive artist ID, Apple Maps place id, ‎HAND ID, Brazilian Fauna Taxonomic Catalogue ID, ‎Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, ‎MissEvan voice actor ID, Music & Opera artist ID, Dubbinfo ID, GAS actress ID, ‎EU Treaties and Agreements database ID, syukou-club(X-DIABLO) actress ID, sukumizu.tv model ID, Paradise TV Person ID, Regional heritage of Wallonia ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • filing unit code
    • has Member (has member)
    • introduced to (region outside the natural range of a taxon into which it was introduced through direct or indirect human activity)
  • External identifiers: Lift-World lift ID, Schiffsdatenliste ID, marketswiki, National Palace Museum Digital Archive ID, Information Commissioner's Office registration reference, Registry of Type Design ID, Ariana Museum ID, Emulation General Wiki article ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal immovable object ID, Sofia monuments register ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal museum ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal movable object ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal stone carving ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal protection zone ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal wall painting ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal documentation record ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage Portal movable object ID, RIdIM ID, Weibo ID, Weibo username

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Ten longest State of the Union adress in the USA
• Schema examples: object with inscription - schema for objects with inscriptions (Q1640824)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Brigham Young University Library
  • Project Perth Women on Wikipedia
  • Project UC Riverside Library Jay Kay Klein Photographs
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Ontology added a Metaclasses page
• Newest database reports: Sitelink statistics by User:Pasleim.

Development

• Sustainability: We continued the work on migrating usage tracking on Wikipedia and co to the extension database cluster (phab:T424185)
• Watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co: We finished our review of a sample of Wikidata edits sent to Wikidata and co in order to better understand which remaining ones are not useful. It will soon be published on Commons.
• Query Service: We continued the work on preparing the Query Service UI for the migration from Blazegraph to QLever and will move to Query Builder and Quality Constraints next

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: Seychelles
• 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!

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Tech News: 2026-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• A new ChartWizard is now available on Wikimedia Commons for users interested in creating charts from their own data. The wizard makes the Chart extension more beginner-friendly by allowing editors to create charts, such as bar and pie charts, without needing to use JSON. Users can still switch to the JSON editor if they prefer. Feedback on the new tool is welcome on the wish talk page.
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Wikipedia iOS app’s Picture of the Day widget displayed the same image every day instead of updating daily, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Math formula SVG images will soon be generated in the browser instead of on the server. MathML continues to be generated on the server and renders in the browser without JavaScript. Wikibooks will see this change on 12 August, Wikisource on 19 August and Wikipedia from 20-27 August. You can try this by selecting "MathML with SVG image (client side MathJax rendering)" in your preferences. This change is part of deprecating RESTBase and deprecating Mathoid.
• Category pages will soon support sorting entries by the time they are added to a category. This will make it easier to find recently or long-standing categorized pages. It will also improve workflows for maintenance categories such as deletion backlogs and other time-based review tasks. You can use cldsort=timestamp URL argument in category view to sort the entries.
• Gadgets and user scripts on Wikimedia wikis may now use ES2018 features and ES2019 features in JavaScript code. Previously, the platform only allowed up to ES2017. MediaWiki validates the source code to protect functionality from syntax errors and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:43, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #745

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #744.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikiLoves Pride / Australia, 15 August, drop-in online for a collaborative editing session on LGBT+ representation on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons.
  • Drop-in and Wikidata, 27 August, WM Australia also hold a drop-in Wikidata ediitng sesison.
  • Open Heritage - Wikidata Islamic Civilization Contest from September 1 - 30, 2026. Register for news.
    • A Wikidata training webinar will be held August 25.
• Looking ahead: Hands-on workshop: Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond - Digital Humanities Lab, 12.11.2026, 14:15-15:45 CEST.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Introductory lesson on Wikidata at the Programming Historian
  • Making open knowledge Gen-AI-ready by IBM
  • How to describe a place on Earth using text? Part 1: Wikidata by Noé Flandre
• Papers: Cultural information bubbles: A new approach for automatic ethical evaluation of digital artwork collections based on Wikidata by M. Zhitomirsky-Geffet and S. Minster, (2026).

Tool of the week

• This tool lets you edit the rank of multiple statements at once.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WM Australia is funding partner projects for 2026 - 2027, for Australian organisations or individuals who want to build projects for open and free knowledge, including Wikidata.
• Job Vacancies: (Interim) Engineering Manager / Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
• Survey: What content would you like to see on the Wikidata Social media channels? - only want to hear about Wikidata events or news, would like to see more use-cases of Wikidata, or perhaps you'd like more beginner or advanced Wikidata tutorials? Let us know in this short survey.
• We are setting up to apply for recognition of a new Wikimedia user group, Wikimedians for Data Organization and Quality. The group's goal will be to improve the organization and quality of data, particularly structured data, in Wikimedia projects. You can see more details in the group's home page and, if you wish, you can contribute to the discussion in its talk page. We invite you to be a part of this proposed user group by adding your Wikimedia signature to the Interested Parties section of the group's page.
  Ege Atacan Doğan and Peter Patel-Schneider

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • located at a height (a property intended to indicate the height of any objects from the ground)
    • contributed to narrative universe (narrative universe that a person contributed to)
    • ‎name type (type of noun or name the sense is)
    • introduced to (region outside the natural range of a taxon into which it was introduced through direct or indirect human activity)
  • External identifiers: d anime store Work ID, d anime store Person ID, Crank-in! drama ID, Crank-in! animation ID, Crank-in! person ID, ‎STAPI Book ID, ‎STAPI Episode ID, ‎STAPI Performer ID, ‎Qidian Author ID, Crank-in! movie ID, ‎DBNL chamber of rhetoric ID, ‎Criticker Film ID, Lulu spotlight ID, German Maritime Museum Ship ID, Rakuten TV adult maker ID, izohli.uz word ID, Ciel d'oc publication ID, Lift-World lift ID, ‎STAPI Comics ID, Qidian Book ID, National Palace Museum Digital Archive ID, DMM maker ID, Registry of Type Design ID, ‎Fediverse address, Information Commissioner's Office registration reference, ‎WorldFootball.net ID (new), Sofia monuments register ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal immovable object ID, Ariana Museum ID, RIdIM ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • school of martial arts (school or style of martial arts this person studied)
    • has official Italian government website (tems that the item has an official website operated by or belonging to the Government of Italy)
    • Infraestructuras de Portugal ID (station code Infraestruturas de Portugal)
  • External identifiers: Silloria perfumer ID, Silloria notes ID, Beer Advocate beer style ID, BBFC release ID, Identifier for a person in norwegian polar history, Filmová databáze seriál ID, Serbo-Croatian Literary Language entry ID, dbv member slug, idw member ID, Sky programme ID, immaterieelerfgoed.be ID, Geoshape Repository ID, FIBA.basketball event ID, SEASLUG.WORLD species ID, Silloria brands ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du COMDT, Identifiant d'un(e) ou plusieurs musicien(ne)s sur Paraulas en òc, Identifiant d'un(e) ou plusieurs musicien(ne)s sur Trobasons, Kinolights Parson ID, Kinolights Work ID, Identifiant d'un ouvrage dans le catalogue du CREDD'O, parliament.uk constituency ID, Europeans In East Africa ID, Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke ID, Judoresults judoka ID, Silloria perfumes ID, Scent Base perfumes ID, IMCDB work ID, identificador de sardana de somarxiu.cat, Xcity maker ID, CrashPad Series performer ID, PinkLabel.TV performer ID, Seiyu Grand Prix Person ID, animehack Person ID, animehack Program ID, animehack movie ID, XBIZ.com topic ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • roughly ~4.000 massacres reported in Wikidata
  • Passports cover that have at least 4 languages
  • Landkreis Reutlingen Items missing a picture, displayed on a map (source)
  • Radio stations in Virginia, USA, plotted on a map (source)
• Schema examples: (E528) Space Telescope, instrument in outer space for observing distant space objects
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Côte d'Ivoire
  • Project Indonesia: Hari Domain Public International Datathon 2026
  • Project Immigration and Visas
  • Project University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill EMC0
• Newest database reports: Recent deaths (this report can help for updating Wikipedia articles

Development

• Query Service: We started preparing the constraint checks for the migration from Blazegraph to QLever.
• Page load times: We looked into unnecessarily loaded modules related to the Wikidata Bridge to see if we can remove them and speed up page load times.
• Wikipedia and co:
  • We worked with English Wikipedia to optimize the CiteQ module code to generate less usage tracking for "Anonymous".
  • We checked a variety of Mediawiki areas where Parsoid deprecation may lead to breakages.*
• Sustainability: We are planning to migrate the usage tracking data to the X1 extension cluster. We are checking which queries involving entity usage will need re-writing or updating.
• REST API: We finished adding support for getting a full Lexeme and started work on creating Lexemes.

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: Seychelles
• 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!

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Tech News: 2026-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Worklist feature for the Event Registration tool is now live on all Wikimedia wikis. With Worklist, event organizers can add the articles their event will focus on directly to the event page. The Worklist also powers Event Pathways which notifies other editors of the upcoming or ongoing event when they edit an article featured in the event's Worklist. This is the minimum viable version (MVP), and feedback is welcome. Organizers are encouraged to try the feature. A hands-on Worklist Setup Workshop will take place on 18 August at 16:00 UTC and 19 August at 11:00 UTC.

Updates for editors

• Special:ShortPages displays short pages by their size, but in many cases it gets filled with disambiguations and soft redirects, making it harder to find the short articles themselves. Starting this weekend, you will be able to choose not to include an article in the special page by adding the magic word __EXPECTSHORTPAGE__.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Bole (w:bol:)
• Starting the week of August 17, the page toolbar will wrap onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This is a fully merged patch from the Reader Experience team which aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, that may occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
• View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, uploading large files to Wikimedia Commons has become more stable and less prone to failure following some fixes related to the “Could not acquire lock” upload error.

Updates for technical contributors

• Debian Bullseye will reach the end of its Long Term Support on 31 August 2026. Some Cloud VPS projects still have instances running Debian Bullseye. Maintainers of those projects are encouraged to migrate to Debian Bookworm or Debian Trixie. A migration guide is available to help with the process, and users may also want to consider whether their workload is better suited to Toolforge. If you need help or cannot complete the migration by 31 August, please contact the Cloud VPS admins as soon as possible. Read more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:02, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #746

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #745.

Events

• Upcoming events: Wikidata Lab XLVIII: Outreach Dashboard, 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 by ACorrea WMB and AnaMRRuiz
• Papers: Climate Knowledge Graph (ClimateKG) - 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 — 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 (Qualtrics form).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: ‎BBFC release ID, Silloria brands ID, Silloria notes ID, Silloria perfumer ID, Kinolights person ID, Kinolights work ID, ‎BeerAdvocate beer style ID, ‎immaterieelerfgoed.be ID, idw member ID, Geoshape Repository municipality ID, Filmová databáze seriál ID, FIBA.basketball event ID, dbv member slug, Silloria perfumes ID, SEASLUG.WORLD species ID, parliament.uk constituency ID, ‎Judoresults judoka ID, ‎Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke ID, IMCDB work ID, Norwegian polarhistory ID, CREDD'O catalog ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • 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 (Indicator of the access statement for a document on Bibcode)
  • External identifiers: wowKorea Parson ID, wowKorea Work ID, TOWER RECORDS ONLINE artist ID, Antarctic Protected Areas database ID, WikiPepper pepper ID, Inventory Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands ID, NAKED(X-DIABLO) actress ID, Weibo ID, Umamusume Wiki article ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du CREDD'O, Georgian NAPR identification number, Companyinfo.ge corporation ID, T&F NCAAdb athlete ID, UkrBIN ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture record identifier

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:Railway stations map in the two Koreas

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. 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!

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Tech News: 2026-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Special:CreateAccount page has been simplified as part of ongoing work to modernize the account creation experience. The panel showing project statistics no longer appears next to the form on desktop and mobile web. Multiple account creation experiments show that a simpler form helps newcomers complete registration.
• In order to improve page performance, images now load when they are viewed. This means images lower down an article will not load if a reader never scrolls to that part of the page, which may affect some image-related metrics.

• View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where image thumbnails in Abstract Wikipedia could fail to display after the corresponding file was moved on Wikimedia Commons, has now been fixed. Thumbnails will now update correctly when files are moved.

Updates for technical contributors

• User Info card is a feature that helps patrollers see information about user accounts. So far, it has been available only in places such as page history, logs and recent changes. Now, it's possible to place it in the page content as well, using the {{#uic:}} parser function. It can be particularly useful in templates like {{Userlinks}} (or their specialized variants), as it will make it easier to see the context about a user on various noticeboard pages. The card will be displayed only to users who have it enabled in their preferences.
• Due to user security and privacy risks, we have disabled access to Special:MyPage URLs when specifically using action=raw. If you are impacted by this, consider whether you can use an alternative approach. Special:MyPage URLs can still be accessed and used without action=raw. Specified user page URLs (e.g. User:Myusername) can still be used with action=raw.
• Due to an update, the thumbnailing software has been improved. This includes upgrading librsvg to 2.60 and ImageMagick to 7, as well as resolving a number of long-standing thumbnailing bugs like rendering errors.

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:43, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #747

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-31. Missed the previous one? See issue #746.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • INAPerson 1 - Task/s: Create Wikidata pages entries for mostly French journalists, using INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) catalogue as reference.
  • DifoolBot 9 - Task/s: (1) Fix VIAF cluster ID (P214) statements deprecated for conflation (Q14946528) once VIAF has split the cluster. (2) Deprecate VIAF ID values that VIAF has since redirected or abandoned, and add the redirect target if it is not already on another Wikidata item.
  • Openpep - Task/s: Maintenance of Politically Exposed Person (PEP) data on Wikidata for Thai government officials.
  • DutchFixer - Task/s: Reformat Dutch verb forms that are listed as past tense (Q1994301), participle (Q814722) to simply use past participle (Q12717679)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • DL2204bot 4 - Closed as Approved
  • Yirbot - Closed as Approved
  • RupumpedBot - Closed as Approved
• Survey: The OpenRefine 2026 User Survey is open.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • WikidataCon 2027 will be hosted in Istanbul, Türkiye from 29 to 31 October 2027, in partnership with the Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group. The dates mark Wikidata's 15th birthday. More details to follow.
  • Wikidata Query Service Days, October 17-23: The next online event by Wikimedia Deutschland will be about the migration from Blazegraph to QLever. Learn what's changing, try the new system, and get help rewriting your queries. Register now!
  • Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session – 1 September 2026: Adélie Ranville will present how Wikidata can support literature reviews. Event page — 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #92 Sep. 7 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
• Looking ahead: Wikidata Day in New York City 2026 - hosted by the Pratt Institute School of Information on October 30, 19:00 - 23:00 CEST.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Beyond Wikipedia: A Technical Workshop Introducing Moroccan Teachers to Wikidata and the Wikimedia Technical Ecosystem
  • Wiki OTO 2026: A new collaboration to make African women more visible
  • Six Months of Building Leaders, Bridging Knowledge Gaps, and Strengthening Community by Africa Wiki Women
  • Wikidata as a PID Hub for Research Entities: QIDs Alongside ORCID, ROR, and ISNI - by CASRAI, a community-maintained open vocabulary for research administration project.
• Videos:
  • Wikidata Lab XLVIII: Outreach Dashboard, WM Brasil and EduWiki present Wikidata functionalities on the dashboard, including some new things coming.
  • WikiTree How-To: BEE Extension for Wikidata - WikiTree is a family-tree generator and now includes a Wikidata-powered extension that will help surface notables for inclusion.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #125
  • Wikidata plug-in for ArchivesSpace

Tool of the week

• Timetrail is a tool by Nahom Araya it visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations. Enter an Item ID/Name and select a supported property from the dropdown list to fetch a timetrail.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikimedia Deutschland software development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the third quarter (Q3).
• The Wikidata development team is proposing a redesign of Special:NewItem with a warning banner and conflict-of-interest checkbox to reduce the increase in promotional editing. We need your feedback on the wording and designs. Head over to Wikidata:Reducing promotional editing and share your thoughts on the talk page by 15 September.
• Due to an increase of non-notable item creation, and their subsequent request for deletion (and undeletion), a new page has been created. Requests for new items exists for those who are unsure if their item idea is notable enough, or have a conflict of interest. The Wikidata Community can help by reviewing requests and offering advice.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • 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)
  • External identifiers: animehack program ID, animehack movie ID, animehack person ID, Xcity maker ID, XBIZ.com topic ID, WikiPepper pepper ID, Seiyu Grand Prix person ID, PinkLabel.TV performer ID, ‎Antarctic Protected Areas database ID, Infraestructuras de Portugal ID, ‎Umamusume Wiki article ID, Tower Records Online artist ID, ‎Inventory Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands ID, SOMARXIU.CAT sardana ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Texas Legislators: Past & Present ID (identifier for a legislator on the Legislative Reference Library of Texas website)
    • file page start and file page end (indicate a page number of a pdf file, if multiple pages is involved)
    • Clubhouse (A proposal to denote the buildings occupied by members clubs. This can be useful when the clubs change clubhouse or merge or cease to exist.)
    • LPF rating (film and media rating in Malaysia by the Film Censorship Board)
    • phonetic synthesis method (phonetic synthesis method used to process the recorded voice from a human source to build a voice bank)
  • External identifiers: Identifiant dans le Mémorial du clergé (1914-1918), sgpbusiness.com ID, Redalyc author ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage glossary ID, Brussels Inventory of Natural Heritage taxon ID, Inventory of Movable Heritage designer ID, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage object type ID, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage material ID, Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage technique ID, Lunarstorm person ID, World Athletics competition ID, Archive in Baden-Württemberg ID, Arcinsys Niedersachsen/Bremen ID, Arcinsys Hessen ID, Sharjah Dictionary word ID, GenWiki, Stereo Ve Mono release ID, Kudos author ID, Stiftungsarchive ID, Archivportal Thüringen ID, findbuch.net subdomain, Onderwijstermen Taalunie ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology function ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology process ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology quality ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology role ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology result ID, Identifiant de l'annuaire Drag France, Statistics Finland Concept Database ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Items with a P275 value (copyright licence) - (source)
  • English adverbs missing a P5238 (combines lexemes) value - (source)
• Schema examples: English adverb (E311)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Organized Labour, a companion Project to Wikipedia's WikiProject, it is established to expand articles and items, properties and ontologies for collective bargaining/organised labour and trade union practices.
  • Project Chublets Software
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Ontology added subpages for CC0, DOLCE and BFO Class order.
• Newest database reports: Deaths at Wikipedia - This report collects items missing a P570 (date of death) but they do feature in a Wikipedia 'Recent Deaths' article.

Development

• Query Service: We have continued adapting the Constraints system for the migration from Blazegraph to QLever.
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects:
  • We are investigating how to treat watchlist and recent changes entries from Wikidata that are about adding, changing or removing a sitelink. These seem to be category of Wikidata changes not everyone is interested in and a candidate for filtering.
  • We looked into how to make the process of adding Wikidata support for a newly created Wikimedia projects less manual for the team and did a proof of concept for automating some of the database operations.

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: Tunisia
• 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!

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Tech News: 2026-36

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• A new format for the Community Wishlist is open for feedback. You can read the proposed ideas on Meta. This new process plans to improve how wishes are triaged, voted on, and prioritized in a way that is transparent and balanced across project families and language editions. This consultation is open for two weeks.

Updates for editors

• The latest release of the Wikipedia Android app includes updates to the Saved feature, bringing the app’s saving experience closer to iOS and Web. The update redesigns the Saved tab with an “All articles” view, removes the default “Saved” reading list, renames reading lists to “Collections,” and modernizes the article-saving experience.
• The Reading Lists feature was enabled for all logged-in users on Bengali, Chinese, Czech and Vietnamese Wikipedias on August 25, after several months as a beta feature. Reading Lists will be available to all logged-in users on Arabic, French and Indonesian Wikipedias on September 1, followed by English Wikipedia on September 14, and all other Wikipedia wikis on September 28.
• At the end of the month, some logged-out readers on Bengali, Czech, Persian, English, and Polish Wikipedias using the Minerva skin on mobile will see an updated navigation bar in an A/B test. The test will compare the current navigation bar with a new version designed to make it easier to find information more quickly. The goal is to determine whether these changes encourage readers to return more often. This experiment will not change the experience for logged-in readers and/or editors.
• Editors who maintain redirects, templates, and categories used on redirect pages now have improved ways for finding and curating redirects. Previously, redirects pages could not be searched. Two new search keywords, onlyredirects: and withredirects:, now allow redirects to be searched directly and can be combined with existing keywords such as incategory:, intitle:, and insource:.
• The ISBN lookup tools for generating citations were recently not working because of external service problems. Developers are working on solutions.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where searching for pages by category using deepcat could return no results or unrelated results has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The domain of URLs for thumbnails is changing from upload.wikimedia.org to thumb.wikimedia.org. The old URLs will continue to work for the foreseeable future but MediaWiki will advertise the new domain instead. URLs to other types of media such as original files, videos and transcodes will still be served from upload.wikimedia.org.
• The Wikimedia Math API is now deprecated. These endpoints will be fully sunset by the end of September 2026. Developers who call these endpoints should transition to alternative math rendering solutions, such as the native MathML or MathJax. Third-party MediaWiki installations that utilize the Math extension for formula rendering are required to upgrade to v1.43+ to avoid disruption of service.

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Read more about TextMatch in a Diff post titled, Custom edit suggestions for every wiki: How communities are shaping Suggestion Mode with TextMatch.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:51, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #748

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #747.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • HsfBot - Task/s: Mostly add missing Indonesian Wikipedia sitelinks to Wikidata items for taxonomy templates created by HsfBot on idwiki.
  • CrossrefIDsBot - Task/s: Adding Crossref ID, DOI, Print ISSN, and Online ISSN from Crossref dataset where they are missing in Wikidata.
  • CatmapperBot - Task/s: Add SocioMap ID statements for reviewed SocioMap category mappings, and provisionally add exact match URLs for reviewed ArchaMap category mappings until Wikidata approves an ArchaMap-specific identifier property.
  • BenchfolkBot - Task/s: Add or correct sourced statements on existing items after explicit human approval.
• New request for comments:
  • Class Q1048835 as a not valid value-type constraint - To remove an incorrect value for value-type constraint (Q21510865) for P27 (country of citizenship)
  • Project chat: What images are appropriate for P18? - a lengthy discussion about quality control and what is acceptable for a P18 (image) value.

Events

• Upcoming events: Open Workshop: Connecting Basque heritage authors (Persons and entities) in Wikipedia and Wikidata - 22 September - 09:00 - 11:30 CEST.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: What Does a Wikidata-Powered Abstract Wikipedia Article Look Like? (Links: Substack and Medium)
• Papers: Bemme, J., & Winkler, A. (2026). Mehr Edits wagen? Virtuelle Ausstellungen erschließen mit Wikidata und Commons. LIBREAS. Library Ideas, (48). https://doi.org/10.18452/37905 / https://libreas.eu/ausgabe48/bemme/

Tool of the week

• Tabernacle is a tool by User: Magnus Manske it generates a table of Wikidata items and statements. Allows for quick addition of some types via WiDaR.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The 10th issue of the Wikidata Platform Newsletter is out. Also remember to join the next Blazegraph Migration Office Hour, that will take place Tuesday, 8th September 2026 at 16:00 UTC
• The Castle Map - every Castle, Fortress and Palace recorded on Wikidata, on a map.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: CREDDO author ID, ‎World Athletics competition ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture record identifier, T&F NCAAdb athlete ID, COMDT author ID, Clergy Memorial (1914-1918) ID, ‎Texas Legislators: Past & Present ID, Stiftungsarchive ID, Redalyc author ID, Kudos author ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Pokémon Ability (Pokémon Ability assigned to this Pokémon species or form in games of the Pokémon series)
    • Collective bargaining coverage (Percentage of workers covered by collective agreement coverage. This is distinct from union membership rate, because non-union members can also be covered, for example France has 7% union density but 98% collective bargaining coverage.)
    • encompasses (specific entity this placeholder item may represent when the exact one is unknown)
    • marionetteist (Person who manipulates a marionette in real time to create the illusion of life.)
    • has expression of concern ((article) has an expression of concern (expression of concern notice))
  • External identifiers: Common Core Ontologies concept ID, AbeBooks author ID, DEHIO digital Deutschland Bauwerk ID, VocaDB tag ID, CCLI song ID, LIDO concept ID, The Telegraph topic ID, BLL-Ontology concept ID, GOLD linguistic concept ID, ISBNdb author ID, BookWyrm author ID, BookWyrm book ID, China Railway station telegraph code, Darija.io ID, Vietnamese Administrative Unit Codes, Officials of Nazi Reich Ministries ID, Fandom.com universe page, KennisWest ID, identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du Centre Delavouët, Phenotype and Trait Ontology ID, National Governors’ Association ID, Numista engraver or designer ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID (new schema)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: UNESCO Heritage sites 100km or less from the centre of the Meditrranean Sea (source)
• Schema examples: spaceport (E213): schema for spaceport (Q194188) locations, used to launch and receive spacecraft.
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Medicine / Knee Arthroplasty - a comprehensive subpage to model the techniques and procedures for knee-related surgery.
• Newest database reports: Same Humans/List by Occupations - this report presents possible human duplicates by comparing name and birth/death dates. They can be reviewed and flagged for merging and/or deletion.

Development

• Sustainability:
  • We are looking into improvements to caching for Property labels (phab:T434204)
  • We are continuing to prepare the move of the entity_usage table to the extension database cluster. Moving the tables is tentatively scheduled to begin after 24. September. (phab:T427472)
• Newcomer homepage: We are working on making the Newcomer Homepage show labels for Items instead of just the ID (phab:T429345)
• Wikidata changes in Watchlist and Recent changes of Wikipedia and co: We are deciding how filtering will look for hiding language link changes on wikis where the sitelink has not changed (phab:T435904)
• REST API: We are continuing to expand the support for Lexemes in the API, specifically creating a Lexeme, adding a statement to a Lexeme and adding a Form to a Lexeme

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: Tunisia
• 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!

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Tech News: 2026-37

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Add a Link has been upgraded for English Wikipedia users with improved detection of links that have different capitalization. This will help reduce ambiguous suggestions caused by differences in capitalization in article titles, including articles about cultural goods. A second phase of improvements is planned, which will also prepare the feature for release in other languages.
• The Article guidance feature will be enabled by default for junior editors on Simple English and Turkish Wikipedia starting 10 September 2026 following an experiment. Junior editors with 0 to 99 edits will automatically see the feature when they click a red link or use the "Madde oluşturto" option on Turkish Wikipedia to create a new article. The change is intended to help junior editors create higher-quality articles that meet each Wikipedia’s standards. Additional improvements will continue based on the experiment results and community feedback.
• The Pageviews Analysis tool which allows users to compare pageviews across multiple pages, turns 10 years old this year and several new features have been added. They include WikiNav which provides insights into how readers of Wikipedia explore the content, editing stats in Siteviews, the ability to lookup articles belonging to a WikiProject, and support for dark mode.
• A visually simplified Minerva navigation bar is being tested for logged-out readers using mobile web on the Bengali, Czech, English, Farsi, and Polish Wikipedias. The experiment aims to determine whether simplifying the navigation improves reader retention. The test will run from August 31 to September 28, and no action is required from users.
• WMDE Technical Wishes is working on improving auto-generated reference names in VisualEditor. Editors will only notice a slight change starting this week. When adding automatic reference names the numbering will start at :1 instead of :0. Read more on the project page.
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 23. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where Parsoid could mishandle nested nowiki tags, causing content to be lost and displaying unwanted text has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Interface administrators can configure gadgets from MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. The definition format has been updated and no longer requires the ResourceLoader option, as gadgets are always loaded through ResourceLoader. This simplifies gadget configuration by removing an option that is no longer necessary, making gadget definitions easier for administrators.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:42, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Future Audiences team has started a discussion on English Wikipedia about a proposed new experiment to show a temporary notice about the new Google Preferred Sources feature to Wikipedia readers coming from Google. The experiment is to test whether this notice makes visitors come back to Wikipedia more often. Preferred Sources feature lets users choose websites they trust so Google can highlight content from those sources more prominently in Search and AI experiences. We are interested in testing this on other languages that Google supports and would welcome assistance with starting conversations on other wikis. If interested, please reach out to Future Audiences on the talk page.

Updates for editors

• The chat platform Discord is releasing a new self-service framework that websites can use to specify how their links should look when shared on Discord. The Future Audiences team is planning to start using this new framework to improve how Wikipedia links look when shared on Discord, giving better attribution and credit to contributors. The link appearance and behavior won't change in the first phase of this project as we want to first collect some baseline data to assess the impact of future changes. However, if community members who are active on Discord spot any issues, they can reach out on Phabricator or Metawiki.
• The Reader Growth team will be running an experiment to test whether compacting article lead sections on mobiles with the addition of a "read more" button improves reader retention. The test will begin on September 17 on Arabic, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and will run for four weeks.
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 23. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming week.
• View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where Wikistats for Wikipedias was returning an HTTP 500 error and could not be reached, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikimedia Commons links tables need to update their code to connect to the new x4 database cluster. The links tables have been moved from the s4 cluster to x4, and will no longer receive updates on s4. The page and redirect tables remain available on both clusters. A wiki replica for the x4 cluster will be set up afterwards. The change is being made because the s4 cluster has grown too large to operate efficiently. You can read more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 15:29, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #749

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #748.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Chrisahn
  • Amitie 10g

Both RfPs are scheduled to end after 17 September 2026 21:56 (UTC)

• New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 15 - Task/s: Automatically update Wikidata:Administrators by language, as requested at Wikidata:Bot requests#Request to automatically update Wikidata:Administrators by language (2026-08-04)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: CrossrefIDsBot - Closed as Approved
• New request for comments: Should class political territorial entity (Q1048835) as a valid value-type constraint (Q21510865) be removed from country of citizenship (P27) ?

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #93 Oct. 5 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Adélie Ranville demonstrates useful tools around bibliographic data and citations in Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiversity, including Zotero, Cita, and Tabernacle.::Event page: WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Project Series/Wikidata for literature review
• Wikidata's 14th Birthday is approaching! Join us October 29 for a Birthday call.
  • Register to receive updates and news
  • Run a local event or find events to join near you.
  • Join the Birthday Call and see what Presents and Messages will be shared.
• WikiCon (Regensburg) 2026 - the conference dedicated to the German-speaking Wikipedia and sister projects communities, is taking place from 18 - 20 September. The sessions involving Wikidata: Wikidata - 9 Years later, Enter sources in Wikidata, Easily explore Wikidata (UsefulQueries), and WikiProject Stolpersteine goes Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Medium: How I inferred the family relationships of nearly 1 million people, from Wikidata
  • (Deutsch) Wikidata in Museen, Archiven und Bibliotheken (PDF)
• Videos:
  • Live Wikidata Editing #126
  • (Español) Workshop: Digital Humanities Methodologies Applied to Research
  • Sep 2026 Community Call: International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) & Wikimedia - can IIIF be integrated with Wikimedia platforms, or as a Wikibase instance?
  • 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign Launch 2026 using Wikidata

Tool of the week

• Lex-Olympia is a tool by User: Luca.favorido it is an open, gamified challenge platform for exploring Wikidata lexemes, born as a successor to the now-unmaintained Lexeme Challenge tool. Players test their language knowledge by matching audio, hyphenations, and concepts to lexemes, competing via scores and a weekly leaderboard.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WM Turkic languages user group (instagram post): official co-hosts of WikidataCon 2027; Istanbul, Türkiye, in collaboration with Üsküdar University.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • phonetic synthesis method (phonetic synthesis method used to process the recorded voice from a human source to build a voice bank)
    • ‎LPF rating (film and media rating in Malaysia by the Film Censorship Board)
    • ‎Collective bargaining coverage (Percentage of workers covered by collective agreement coverage. This is distinct from union membership rate, because non-union members can also be covered, for example France has 7% union density but 98% collective bargaining coverage.)
    • has Pokémon Ability (Pokémon Ability assigned to this Pokémon species or form in games of the Pokémon series)
  • External identifiers: ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology function ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology process ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology quality ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology result ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology role ID, Arcinsys Hessen ID, Arcinsys Niedersachsen/Bremen ID, Archivportal Thüringen ID, Baden-Württemberg archives ID, BookWyrm author ID, BookWyrm book ID, VocaDB tag ID, Statistics Finland Concept Database ID, sgpbusiness.com ID, ‎LIDO concept ID, ‎Common Core Ontologies concept ID, GenWiki article ID, findbuch ID, Darija.io ID, ‎China Railway telegraph code, ‎Sharjah Dictionary word ID, CCLI song ID, ‎DEHIO digital Deutschland Bauwerk ID, Vietnamese administrative unit code, UkrBIN ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • stylized representation (stylized visual representation of the subject)
    • Former country (Historical country that was in force at the time of this event/object or in the past)
    • North Dakota Legislative Assembly biography ID (identifier for a biography at the North Dakota Legislative Assembly)
    • Wyoming Legislator Database ID (identifier for a biography in the Wyoming Legislator Database)
    • European Legislation Identifier (EU legislation identifier for documents published by the EU, its member states and other (non-EU) countries)
    • Visa requirement (Requirement for a non-citizen to enter a country)
  • External identifiers: FilmBaze people ID, EHRI Institution ID, Climate Policy Radar Topics, SEASLUG.WORLD taxon ID, Verenigingsloket vCode, StoryGraph book ID, China Railway Pinyin code, ZFIN person ID, BallotReady person ID, National Film Archive of Japan ID, Baza osób polskich ID, Mycelium entity ID, identifiant DDH, Alberta Legislative Assembly member ID, Homeostasis imbalance process ontology, Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga (DBBL) Spieler ID, Digital Momijiyama Bunko ID, Kunaicho Shoryobu Shuzo Kanseki Shuran ID, Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts ID, Siwar entry ID, ISDCF studio identifier, ISDCF facility identifier

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Tram stops per network map
• Schema examples: adminstrative district in Turkey (E133)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Medicine/Knee Arthroplasty maintains structured data for knee replacement on Wikidata, covering the procedure tree and the taxonomy of surgical techniques, with a literature layer of referenced scholarly articles.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • WikiProject LGBT / Duga
  • Project Victims of National Socialism / Data model

Development

• Query Service migration: We are adapting more of the example queries for QLever
• Mobile editing: We are making minor adjustments in preparation for the rollout for everyone
• Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
  • We are continuing to automate the connection of Wikidata to newly-created wikis, and replace the sites table with a Sitematrix lookup, which is more efficient (phab:T431093)
  • We are continuing the research into how best to handle changes for language link updates in Recent changes and Watchlist, which are mostly considered not relevant for editors

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: Tunisia
• 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #750

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #749.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Kvazimodo

RfP is scheduled to end after 26 September 2026 08:42 (UTC)

• Closed request for adminship: Chrisahn - voting has been closed.
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • BenchfolkBot - Task/s: Add or correct sourced statements on existing items after explicit human approval.
  • CatmapperBot - Task/s: Add SocioMap ID statements for reviewed SocioMap category mappings, and provisionally add exact match URLs for reviewed ArchaMap category mappings until Wikidata approves an ArchaMap-specific identifier property.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: HsfBot - Closed as Approved
• New request for comments: Add properties to the Deletion policy - following a Project Chat discussion, suggestions for an amendment to the policy are being discussed and your feedback is welcome.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Open Knowledge Wikimedia Research in the CEE Region, online participation to the Conference is still open, register here: 09 - 10 October.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers:
  • WiCleanData: Guaranteeing the Type Consistency of Wikidata by Taxonomy Refinement and Constraint Enforcement by Peng et al., (2026).
  • The Wikibase Ecosystem in Digital Humanities and GLAM by Lindemann et al., (2026).
• Videos: (Swedish) The SAT trail in OSM and Wikidata by Magnus Sälgö.

Tool of the week

• Concept cloud - Shows language labels for Wikipedia links from a Wikidata item, and allows label editing.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Job vacancy: Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • Wyoming Legislator Database ID (identifier for a biography in the Wyoming Legislator Database)
    • ‎has expression of concern ((article) has an expression of concern (expression of concern notice))
  • External identifiers: National Governors’ Association ID, Numista engraver or designer ID, ‎Phenotype and Trait Ontology ID, ‎ZFIN person ID, Association Service Desk vCode, Nazi Reich Ministries ID, ‎North Dakota Legislative Assembly biography ID, KennisWest ID, ‎GOLD linguistic concept ID, ‎Alberta Legislative Assembly member ID, EHRI Institution ID, ‎Encyclopedia of Alabama ID (new schema), National Film Archive of Japan ID, ‎Homeostasis imbalance process ontology, DDH ID, Economic Operators Registration and Identification number, wowKorea work ID, wowKorea Person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • illustrator (character) (artist who illustrated the character)
    • contribution URL (URL of a page explaining how to participate in or contribute to a project or organization)
    • Holy See cardinal biography ID (identifier for a cardinal's biography at the website of the Holy See)
    • Atomic radius, covalent radius and van der Waals radius (measured or calculated radius of an atom of a chemical element)
  • External identifiers: Register of British Slave Traders person ID, Tric Trac, PsychonautWiki article ID, Hitchwiki article ID, Raras disease ID, Heritage Overlay Number, Techniques de l'Ingénieur author ID, nbsearch, Indian Film History film ID, Indian Film History person ID, VideoGamesCritic game ID, identificador Eldoblatge d'actor original, identificador Eldoblatge d'actor de doblatge

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Schema examples: (E206) Stolperstein: Stumbling blocks, commemorative plaques set into the ground for victims of Nazism.
• Newest WikiProjects: (Traditional Chinese) Project Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Ontology: Course Offering 3
• Newest database reports: Categories (to merge) - this list generated by User:Ivan A. Krestinin suggests potential duplicate categories.

Development

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: Tunisia
• 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!

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Tech News: 2026-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 23 September 2026 at 14:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.

Updates for editors

• The Growth team tested a new post-edit notice designed to encourage Temporary Account holders to register for a permanent account. The new notice replaced multiple dialogs and a simultaneous welcome notification with a single message highlighting the benefits of creating an account. The experiment increased permanent account creation from 1.94% to 3.66%, an 87% relative increase. The change will now be released to all wikis.
• For Wikipedia editors using the "Suggestion mode" Beta Feature, there is a new opt-in user preference for showing "experimental" edit checks and suggestions. These types are listed at Special:EditChecks, and are intended for early developer-testing and for gathering feedback from experienced users. Administrators can change the configuration details for each suggestion as usual. Administrators can also use this feature to help test their community's ideas for locally created checks and suggestions. Experimental types will have a more distinct visual style later this week. Feedback is welcome.
• The CEE Technical Village Pump has been launched as a space for technical discussions and collaboration among Wikimedia communities in Central and Eastern Europe.
• A new tool, Starter Kit, is now available for new and small language Wikipedia communities. It brings together guided tasks, tools, and resources to help communities get started, monitor their progress, and collaborate with the broader Wikimedia community. Starter Kit is hosted on Wikimedia Toolforge and is designed for Wikipedias with fewer than 50,000 articles. Learn more about how Starter Kit works and how communities have been using it in this Diff blog post.
• The Reader Growth team is launching a retest of the image carousel experiment. The retest will use three new versions of the design, updated based on community feedback. The team will assess results and determine with communities whether or not to proceed with the feature. The experiment will begin the week of September 28 and will run on Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English, Farsi, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
• After successful rollouts to Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias, the Reading Lists feature from the Reader Experience team will be available to all logged-in users on all Wikipedia wikis starting September 28.
• View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the mentor status script repeatedly updated mentors’ status even when nothing had changed, creating unnecessary Recent Changes entries, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The abusefilters list query API, used to retrieve specific details about active or historical abuse filters configured on a wiki, has been updated to support the formatversion=2 configuration parameter, thereby leading to breaking changes to the API response. All users who maintain user-scripts or other code need to check if they use the abusefilters list query API, and respond to any breaking changes.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 11:54, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Users of default skins on desktop and mobile web (Vector 2022 and Minerva respectively) will now be informed if the search suggestions displayed as they type into Search come from page redirects. Previously, users could get confused when the top search suggestions did not match exactly what they had typed. The new redirect notice clarifies that these suggestions are not random, but related to the search. The suggested pages may be redirects to the most relevant destination articles being searched for.
• Logged-out Wikipedia users on mobile web will begin to see a bookmark button for saving articles to their reading lists instead of the current Watchstar button. When clicked, the bookmark button prompts users to log in or create an account to save an article for later. An earlier experiment found that the bookmark icon was four times more likely than the Watchstar button to encourage logged-out users to create an account. This change is part of efforts to encourage more readers to become account holders and use features that help them save and return to content.
• An experiment will begin on September 29 on Spanish, Arabic, English, and French Wikipedias to simplify the experience users encounter immediately after account creation. The test will explore whether removing friction from the current Welcome Survey helps new users understand what to do next more easily. The experiment will run through the end of October.

• The Product and Technology Advisory Council has put out a call for the community to suggest topics that it should consider and discuss with the Wikimedia Foundation. Editors and technical contributors are invited to add topics to the council's talk page.
• Later this week, it will be possible for communities to configure Edit Checks and Suggestions so that they are shown within additional namespaces, such as a Draft: namespace. Feedback is welcome.
• A bug in the Global Watchlist is causing the page to fail to load for users that have unseen changes on Wikimedia Commons. Developers are working on a fix. Until then, affected users can follow the workarounds described in the relevant help section.
• New magic words {{CATEGORYSORT:TIMESTAMP}} and {{CATEGORYSORT:RTIMESTAMP}} are now available for use. They are able to change the default sorting of categories to be based on timestamp of categorization.
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where Wikistats for Wikipedias was not reachable has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The datacenter switchover, scheduled on September 23, has been postponed. The equinox exercise revealed capacity issues, preventing the switch of all services to the other datacenter. The process has been paused, prioritizing investigating that issue, to ensure that we continue to be able to serve our users reliably. A new exercise will be scheduled. Meanwhile, all traffic and edits continue to work as usual.
• On September 23, a power loss briefly affected all wikis, creating intermittent issues on both reading and editing modes. This also affected Gerrit. This is unrelated to the datacenter switchover postponement.
• Produnto has been deployed to mediawiki.org and some Indic language wikis. We want to hear your feedback on this experimental product. Produnto allows users to use Lua modules hosted in Wikimedia's GitLab. It simplifies the sharing of Lua code between wikis. Instead of copying each individual Lua module from one wiki to another, users will be able to easily share packages across all wikis.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• A Cross-wiki code collaboration workshop will be held online on October 2 at 12:30 UTC, bringing together South Asian technical contributors to learn about Produnto and begin piloting it on Hindi, Punjabi, Odia, Telugu, and Malayalam Wikipedias. Produnto is a package manager for deploying Lua modules hosted on GitLab to Wikimedia wikis, and was recently deployed on some pilot wikis.

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MediaWiki message delivery 10:47, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #751

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #750.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • MamouriBot, Task/s: Add census demographics — population, male population, female population, and no. of households — to existing Iranian settlement items identified by Iran statistics ID (P1010), from the Statistical Center of Iran censuses of 1385 (2006) and 1395 (2016).

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The program for the Wikidata Query Service Days (October 17-23) is now published, covering the migration from Blazegraph to QLever with sessions for editors, reusers, and tool builders; see the event page for details and schedule.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • From University Research to Free Knowledge: Academics Discover Wikimedia by User:Osps7
  • WM Enterprise: Wikidata Bulk snapshots
  • Wiki OTO 2026: Wiki Loves Women and Africa Wiki Women join forces!
  • Making African Restitution Efforts More Visible
• Papers: CodeGraph: Open-Taxonomy Knowledge Graph for Source Code with Wikidata Grounding by Pennino et al., (2026).
• Videos:
  • When the Old Constraints Disappear: Work and Creativity in the Age of AI (Wikipedia->Wikidata->Wikifunctions->Abstract Wikipedia), John Samuel, Mindstone AI Meetup, September 22, 2026, Lyon, France (Video, Slides)
  • AI BRIDGES Open Forum meeting - September 2026

Tool of the week

• HumansMap Gallery - The site offers various type of visualizations, and offers the possibility to navigate through connections between people and organizations, based on your interests, powered by Wikidata.
• 📚 Wikidata Book Itemizer It is a simple tool to catalog books on Wikidata! Creating work and edition items manually on Wikidata with proper metadata and multilingual labels can often be tedious and error-prone. Wikidata Book Itemizer automates this entire process with a simple form!

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland is researching how to improve interoperability between Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud, and Wikibase Suite. If you've worked with data imports or staging, or even if you haven't, your input would be valuable. The survey takes 5 to 10 minutes and is anonymous. More information on the background of the questions: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Mass-editing policy#Context

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts ID, ‎Siwar entry ID, Kunaicho Shoryobu Shuzo Kanseki Shuran ID, ‎Emulation General Wiki article ID, Digital Momijiyama Bunko ID, Raras disease ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Writers at Risk database ID (Identifier in the PEN America Writers at Risk database, cataloging writers threatened, imprisoned, and jailed worldwide)
  • External identifiers: Ohio Entity Number, NZPCN legacy ID, Žmonės.lt topic ID, Jersey HER Reference, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le Maitron, Google Search profile handle, Leipziger Biographie ID, LEO-BW person ID, Biopsa ID, Isle of Man Registered Building No., Waymark code, Identifiant dans OrthodoxWiki en français, WE League player ID, WE League manager ID, Delfi.lt topic ID, Lrytas.lt topic ID, Baidu Baike article

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Latin American Cinema / Films with an English or Portuguese Wikipedia page, but not Spanish
• Schema examples: (E422) 'Golden age of illustration' book from the Maastricht University Library collection.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Schlaraffia - for enriching items about the German-language fraternity Schlaraffia (Q1305789) and its international and local associations.
  • Project Tamil Nadu dedicated to creating and improving Wikidata content related to Tamil Nadu (Q1445) and Tamil (Q5885).
• WikiProject Highlights: Project PCC EMCO Wikidata CoP added a subpage for listing Properties normally associated with Corporate bodies.

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with UX fixes. This is primarily visual polish and consistency as well as fixing bugs related to RTL display.
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We are finishing the support for creating Lexemes and the statements on them.
  • We are continuing working on support for adding Forms to a Lexeme.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are going to stop sending language link changes to the first few wikis. An initial deployment to group1 wikis is now planned for Monday, 05.10.2026. (Click group1 on this Toolforge page to see which Wikis are included.) This will help reduce noise in Watchlists and Recent changes and help reduce the size of the database table holding recent changes on these wikis.
  • Connecting a newly created Wiki to Wikidata is a manual task, we are automating that and optimising the SitesTable at the same time, making a 'single source of truth' that all wikis point to, rather than a table per Wiki that are all clones of each other.
  • We are experimenting with raising the entity usage limit on wikis. If this is feasible, we can reduce the amount of bundled changes. This would reduce the quantity of Wikidata-triggered Recent Changes rows being created.

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: The Gambia
• 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!

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