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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #270: Wikiabstrak app
[edit]There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we introduce the latest app created by a Wikimedia volunteer about Abstract Wikipedia, and we take a look at the latest functions created by the community.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:28, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #755
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week leading up to 2026-10-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #754.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Chemobot - Task/s: Add german substance name in existing wikidata entries.
- KnutuxBot - Task/s: Add "described by source" (P1343) statements citing the 1925 gazetteer Lietuvos apgyventos vietos (Q141805965) to about 14,000 existing Lithuanian settlement and rural-district (valsčius) items, with page, name-as-printed and Wikisource-URL qualifiers.
- AipAerobot - Task/s: Add described at URL (P973) (described at URL) to aerodrome items that carry ICAO airport code (P239) (ICAO code), pointing to that aerodrome's page on aip.aero, qualified with language of work or name (P407) (language of work or name).
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: all closed as successful - EZBIDsBot, Alex NB OT, Wahl.de Bot, FoxfindingBot and OKA bot 2
Events
- Upcoming events:
- 🎂 Wikidata turns 14 on 29 October! Join an event, add a birthday gift, or hop on the birthday call at 17:00 UTC (see in your own time zone). Find everything here: Wikidata Fourteenth Birthday. Share with #Wikidata14 or #WikidataBirthday. See you Thursday 🥳
- AI-BRIDGES project invites organisations to submit questions for Wikidata
- Wikidata Day NYC 2026 - this meetup is at capacity, but anyone is welcome to join the livestream. See event for details.
- (Deutsch) Share research – Basics for the participation in the Wikiverse using the example of the Gotha Research Library, a free webinar via Zoom taking place 25 November 14:00-14:30 CEST.
- Past Events: Query Service Days 2026 - catch up on all recorded sessions from the Event page.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: The Art of Information "From Wikidata to Axiell Collections: Automating Geographic Data for Museum Collections"
- Papers:
- [preprint] “A Dictionary Without Its Own Database: Building an Offline-First Dagbanli Dictionary on Wikidata Lexemes” (zenodo). Describes the Dagbanli Dictionary, reporting data-quality findings from linking recorded speech to Lexemes and noting that two-thirds of Lexemes have only one Form and some frequent words are missing from Wikidata entirely. By Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
- AC-IQuAD: Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata
- Videos:
- Wikidata Workshop: Black Artists on Wikidata Project - by Wiki Activate Africa, aims to improve representation and visibility of Black artists, creatives, and cultural practitioners in global digital knowledge ecosystem.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #126 Wikidata Query Service Days 2026 - User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 will do some livestreaming (in English), and discuss how to adapt the queries of WikiProject Govdirectory and the thought process behind it.
- Canvas vs SVG: drawing a Wikidata graph No. 10 from the "Building smollerGraph" series.
- EMCO Wikidata Community of Practice autumn meeting (Part 2)
- (zh-TW/Chinese) Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2026 - part of the Fourteenth Birthday events
Tool of the week
- A Wikidata Merge Assistance By connorshea web-based tool designed to help editors find, evaluate, and resolve duplicate items on Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Castles QA is a tool to see which data properties are still missing in Wikidata in the domain of castles, palaces and fortresses. Feedback welcome!
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- martial arts style (school or style of martial arts this person studied or practiced)
- has language or spelling variant (the (multilingual) label of the linked item is a a language, spelling or etymological variation of the label of this item)
- biome (biome in which a geographical area is wholly or partly located, according to a documented ecological classification)
- juvenile form of (instances of the subject item are juveniles of one of these class(es) of organisms)
- development code (code assigned by a company or research organisation to a drug substance or product during development, before or alongside its nonproprietary name)
- External identifiers: RETE ID, Tabularius entity ID, On Think Tanks Directory ID, Mappola ID, GBIF occurrence key, NicoNicoPedia article ID, German War Memorial ID, ERef Bayreuth ID, EPub Bayreuth ID, AbeBooks author ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum ID, Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon, AVN company ID, AVN person ID, SPL person ID, Victorian Heritage Overlay Number, Centre Delavouët catalog author ID, The Session composer ID, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021 ID, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (2007) ID, Filmoteket ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- accumulated cyclone energy (sum of the squared maximum sustained winds at 6-hour intervals of a tropical cyclone, a tropical cyclone season, or a time period, where the winds at that particular point in time are at least gale-force (34 knots or higher), in units of 10 kilo-square-knots (unit implied))
- full work formatter URL (formatter URL for the web page containing this work; URI template from which "$1" can be automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items. If the site goes offline, set it to deprecated rank. If the formatter URL changes, add a new statement with preferred rank.)
- Key or index image (Secondary image which acts as an index or key to the contents of the subject image)
- External identifiers: The Montessorians ID, FEI Horse ID, IT History Forum Data Archive ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology equipment ID, Historical East German Biographies ID, TURKPATENT geographical indication ID, BGA ID, MEMO ID, Hong Kong Jockey Club horse ID, Der Spiegel sports data ID, GitHub Advisory Database ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Japanese Ethnic Group Claims
- Schema example: (E257) Politician - simple schema for validating a politician (occupation = Q82955)
Development
- hCaptcha support: We've added hCaptcha support to Special:Set* forms and started implementing support on Special:NewItem/Special:NewProperty forms
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are verifying that not bundling entity usages reduces the amount of unnecessary changes coming from Wikidata in the Recent changes and Watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T440856)
- We are conducting interviews and prototype testing on wireframe versions of a new filter for language link changes under "Wikidata Edits" in the filters on Recent changes and Watchlist
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!
Tech News: 2026-44
[edit]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
- An experiment launched on September 29 is testing article recommendations for new account holders who also identify as readers. By suggesting articles to read, similar to recommendations in the Wikipedia app for logged-in readers, the experiment aims to encourage new account holders to read and return to the website regularly, with the goal of increasing internal referrals by 1%. See the related Community Wishlist proposal.
- Several Wikimedia services were taken offline last week because of a security vulnerability in PHP. This is because they need to be updated before they are safe to put back online. This is not a problem just for the Wikimedia movement but affects a lot of websites. You can follow updates on Wikitech. Cloud VPS and Toolforge will take longer to bring back online. This is to make sure that applications which run on Cloud VPS or Toolforge are not affected. Tool developers can see updates and more information on the Cloud-announce mailing list.
- Last week we shared that to measure the impact of incorporating some community-requested features on logged-out reader retention, a test for the Image Carousel feature would be pushed to logged-out readers. Due to an issue, we will be restarting the test, but it will be live on October 26, not November 20 as initially announced.
Updates for editors
- A new bot detection system to better identify automated traffic that disguises itself as human visitors, is coming to the Wikimedia wikis. This might cause sudden changes to visitor statistics starting from 26 October, going back to 20 June 2026.
- The Score extension which renders musical notation inside wiki pages, has been temporarily disabled on all wikis due to a security issue. Affected pages will display a notice instead of musical scores, but the underlying code remains intact. No action is needed from editors, and a fix is in progress. A separate announcement will follow when the extension is re-enabled. Read more on Phabricator.
View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where CodeMirror syntax highlighter appears to have been enabled in error for existing editors has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, October 28 2026 at 15:00 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.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Scholarship and sponsorship applications for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon will close on Friday, October 30th. Submit your application through Pretix before the deadline!
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 20
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Highlights
- Community Wishlist: The process for this year’s Community Wishlist has been published, incorporating community feedback. The wish submission process will end on November 8. The triage is expected to be completed by late November. Votes for wishes will start in January.
- Visual editor now on mobile: Editors can now easily access visual editor directly from the iOS and Android apps. This enables readers to make quick contributions while casually reading.
- Mobile editing for Wikidata: New and existing editors can now edit Wikidata statements on mobile devices. Please share your feedback and report bugs.
- Behind the scenes: What happened on 25 August as hundreds of edits were made to Dolly Parton's article on English and German Wikipedia – and why code stewardship and the Service Catalog matter.
- Security update: Due to a critical security advisory about the PHP language, many Wikimedia services are going to be affected. Events are developing rapidly. See this page for list of affected services and the most updated information.
Annual Goals Progress on Engage
See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia
- Identifying LLM edits easily: LLM Paste Check is now available on all Wikipedias. The feature will notify editors using the visual editor when they paste text that is likely to have initially been copied from one of five external generative AI chatbots. Edits will also be tagged so that patrollers can review them more closely.
- The Future of Wikimedia Hackathon: A proposal to hold the Wikimedia Hackathon every three years, with regional hackathons in between has been shared. It explores making the event more accessible to technical communities in different regions. Share your feedback on the proposal’s talk page before November 6.
- Re-testing Image Carousel on readers: Starting November 20, a test for Image Carousel will run for logged-out readers. Readers will browse community-uploaded images, selected by editors as relevant to specific articles. It will measure the impact of incorporating some community-requested features on logged-out reader retention.
- Changes to Watchlist view: Moderator Tools will be removing the list view of the Watchlist and defaulting everyone to the changelog view. By defaulting to the changelog view, we are simplifying the codebase and avoiding the likelihood of missing bugs.
- Wikifunctions quarterly planning: For October–December 2026, Wikifunctions will focus on two main areas: working with pilot communities towards bringing abstract articles into their Wikipedias, and making it easier to create and edit articles on Abstract Wikipedia.
- Suggestion Mode: To encourage newcomers to publish their first suggestion when using Suggestion Mode, implementation of the publish prompt on mobile has been completed.
- Onboarding newcomers: To encourage new editors to make their first edit, the early onboarding A/B test went live.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 42 and 43 include CodeMirror syntax highlighting was enabled by default for all logged out and newly registered users on the English Wikipedia. See also the 54 community-submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Enable
See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Open geospatial dataset now released: Wikimedia Enterprise has released an open geospatial dataset containing 17 million OpenStreetMap elements linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Wikivoyage, as Parquet and GeoParquet files on Hugging Face and Kaggle.
- Wikimedia Enterprise partnership: How CoMaps Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Bring Wikipedia to Their Offline Maps.
Annual Goals Progress on Protect
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- Better bot detection: There is a new bot detection system for traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. There might be sudden changes to visitor statistics starting on 26 October and going back to 20 June. This is because we will now be better at finding automated traffic which is trying to hide that it is coming from bots.
Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- The Wikipedia Library: Datawrapper is now available in The Wikipedia Library. This is a data visualisation platform to create and publish responsive charts, maps, and tables. If you're a contributor who qualifies for TWL, please feel free to apply for access and make use of this tool.
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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 9
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The Downlink | The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter |
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Sakigake (さきがけ; lit. 'pioneer', 'pathfinder'), known before launch as MS-T5, was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the US or the Soviet Union. It aimed to demonstrate the performance of the new launch vehicle, test its ability to escape from Earth gravity, and observe the interplanetary medium and magnetic field. Sakigake also served as a reference probe for Halley's Comet. Early measurements would be used to improve the mission of the Suisei probe launched several months later. Sakigake was developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science for the National Space Development Agency (both of which are now part of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA). It became a part of the Halley Armada together with Suisei, the Soviet Vega probes, the ESA Giotto and the NASA International Cometary Explorer, to explore Halley's Comet during its 1986 sojourn through the inner Solar System. |
Image of the month
Hubble Extreme Deep Field
.png) The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (HXDF), released on September 25, 2012, is an image of a portion of space in the center of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image. Representing a total of two million seconds (about 23 days) of exposure time collected over 10 years, the image covers an area of 2.3 arcminutes by 2 arcminutes, or about 80% of the area of the HUDF. This represents about one thirty-two millionth of the sky. Long-time readers will recognize this image from the July 2021 issue of The Downlink. The explanatory text is excerpted from the original article. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:22, 31 October 2026 (UTC)
WikiCup 2026 November newsletter
[edit]The 2026 WikiCup has come to an end. Our top scorers, based on the tournament point rankings (which can be seen here), are:
Generalissima (submissions) with 1077 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1046 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
MCE89 (submissions) with 762 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
A.Cython (submissions) with 606' tournament points
Vestrian24Bio (submissions) with 537 tournament points
Reconrabbit (submissions) with 349 tournament points
BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 297 tournament points
Arconning (submissions) with 183 tournament points
Our three high scorers in the final round, who each got over 1,000 points, happen to all be among the top 8 as well:
- Generalissima (submissions) with 2846 round points from 40 good articles, 4 pieces of featured content (including 2 featured articles), 11 DYK articles, and various reviews.
- Bgsu98 (submissions) with 2603 round points from 43 good articles, 5 pieces of featured content (1 featured article and 4 featuyred lists), and various reviews.
- Vestrian24Bio (submissions) with 1141 round points from 20 good articles, a good topic, a featured list, and 30 good article reviews.
The final round was very productive, and contestants had 29 featured articles, 8 featured lists, 1 featured picture, 150 good articles, 43 good topic articles, 189 article reviews, 28 did you know articles, and 4 in the news articles. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!
The top eight scorers will receive awards shortly. The following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. These prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field over the course of the competition.
- Generalissima (submissions) wins the following prizes:
- The featured article prize, for 12 featured articles.
- The featured picture prize, for submitting the only featured picture for the second year in a row.
- The good article prize, for 82 good articles.
- Bgsu98 (submissions) wins the following prizes:
- The featured list prize, for 21 featured lists.
- The featured content reviewer prize, for 72 featured article reviews.
- Vestrian24Bio (submissions) wins the following prizes:
- The featured topic prize, for 8 pages in featured topics.
- The good topic prize, for 26 pages in good topics.
- The good article reviewer prize, for 84 good article reviews.
BabbaQ (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 9 ITN pages.- BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 47 DYK pages.
A special mention also goes to these users who scored the highest in a particular category in a single round:
- A.Cython (submissions), for 20 good-topic articles in round 5.
Olliefant (submissions), who withdrew during the competition but who had 38 featured-content reviews in round 2. Olliefant also had 43 good article reviews in round 1.
The Robot Parade (submissions), for 5 ITN pages in round 1.
Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate. We are also looking for an experienced editor to help write the bimonthly newsletter. If you would like to help write next year's newsletters, please contact Epicgenius at his talk page.
The WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2027 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!
On behalf of the judges, Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email):
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:13, 1 November 2026 (UTC)
WikiCup 2026 November newsletter (update)
[edit]In our November 2026 newsletter, there was a mistake in calculating the final tournament point rankings (which have been updated here). We regret the error.
- Generalissima (submissions) with 1461 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
- Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1302 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
- Vestrian24Bio (submissions) with 793 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
- MCE89 (submissions) with 762 tournament points
- A.Cython (submissions) with 606 tournament points
- BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 425 tournament points
- Reconrabbit (submissions) with 349 tournament points
- Arconning (submissions) with 183 tournament points
On behalf of the judges, Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email):
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:42, 1 November 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 November 2026
[edit]- News and notes: AELECT5 concludes, a Wikimedian arrested for treason, and updates to GANs and FARs
Nine new admins, three arrests, and a lot of GAN RFCs.
- Recent research: How Wikipedians use (or don't use) LLMs; experienced editors contribute more to "underproduced" articles than newbies
And other new research findings.
- Disinformation report: Better bots or bothersome baby borgs?
Have the Borg landed on Wikipedia?
- In the media: Stop the internet, I was deleted
Can toeing the line stop the apocalypse?
- News from Diff: Why Wikimedia Is Speaking Up in a Major AI Copyright Case
When AI companies use copyrighted information, does it qualify as fair use?
- By the numbers: Wikipedian Nobel Prize 2026
Which language versions of Wikipedia had biographies of laureates before Nobel announcements?
- On the bright side: Gone fishing
Touring Thailand, exploring iridescence, and translating prairie dog.
- Traffic report: October, and the articles are stripped bare
Lots of deaths, Indian movies, and monsters. Happy Halloween!
- In focus: Two Roles, One Wikimedia Education Ecosystem
What happens when different approaches to Wikimedia education connect?
- Comix: Inactivity
Zounds!
Administrators' newsletter – November 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2026).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, election to ArbCom now requires at least 60% support. Successful candidates normally serve two-year terms, with one-year terms retained for filling vacancies. Proposals to change the election rules may now be added throughout the year and discussed on the talk page; formal discussion remains in September.
- Following an RfC, first-time reviewers’ reviews require an experienced reviewer’s check, and GA requirements now include alt text and accessible tables. Featured articles may receive GA status during removal discussions if they meet GA criteria. Backlog drives will run every five months, with a points leaderboard and awards for the top five participants.
Miscellaneous
- Self-nominations for the Arbitration Committee are open until 11 November 2026.
- Ongoing backlog drives: Copy editing, Unreference articles
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #271: Errors and fallbacks in Abstract Wikipedia
[edit]There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we address some key questions about errors and fallbacks on Abstract Wikipedia, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:41, 2 November 2026 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #756
[edit]week leading up to 2026-11-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #755.
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Horcrux - Closed as successful
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- CampaignCommsBot - Task/s: Add missing factual, sourced statements (identifiers, official website, party, candidacy, offices held, verified social accounts, freely licensed image) to existing items about US political candidates who use CampaignComms. Paid editing disclosed below.
- Karlb42Bot - Task/s: Create a first sense with item for this sense (P5137) on lexemes that have no senses, when the item's label or alias in the lexeme's language equals the lemma.
- PeneBot 1 - Task/s: Add ِPersian Wikipedia sitelinks to existing Wikidata items for French communes
- AcervoFilmicoBot - Task/s: Create items for Mexican fiction television films (later also feature films), longer than 70 minutes, that have an IMDb ID but no Wikidata item.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Mezi bajty 1 - meetup of the Czech Wikidata community in Prague and online, 11th November 17:00 - 19:00 CET (in Czech, Slovak, English)
- Hands-on workshop: Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond for students and researchers. 19 November 14:15 - 15:45 CET at the DH Lab, Philturm (C2003), University of Hamburg.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- The intersection of OpenStreetMap and Wikidata by rtnF
- (Deutsch) Wikidata turns 14 and creates new ways for free knowledge
- My Two Favorite Holidays Collided: Halloween + Wikidata Day - The Stark Report and organising birthday celebrations at Wikidata NYC Day.
- Videos:
- Query Service Days 2026 (Playlist) - catch up on any missed sessions
- Wikidata. Wiki, data, or neither? by Marcin Cieślak, drawing on five years worth of observations of the Ionian Wikithon and LOD research to invite attendees to build a shared stance on teaching open data's value.
- Vandalism Detection Systems for Wikipedia and Wikidata by Mykola Trokhymovych. Presents two projects designed to aid patrolling and vandalism detection including Graph2Text designed for Wikidata.
- Epistemic Practices Behind Wikidata’s Ontology Evolution with Marcin Roszkowski. Wikidata's Ontology can and does change, who shapes and makes those decisions? This talk explores that.
- Data, Science, and Technology Talk Show 2026: Data Reuse: (AI) reusing Wikidata’s data - (this session is in English but has a Bahasa Indoesian introduction) Alan Ang (WMDE) discusses how Wikidata is being reused in the development of AI.
- Repertory of Colonial Plunder from the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab. Explores issues that arise from encoding looted cultural heritage items on digital data platforms, with three exemplary cases.
- RDA Wikibase Cloud Sandbox Demonstration 2: Creating "Stub" WEMI Entities with Access Points - create initial linked data entities for a work, expression, manifestation, and item associated with a single-part manifestation.
- RDA Wikibase Cloud Sandbox Demonstration 3: Describing Manifestations Pt. I - describe a single-part manifestation.
- Presentations: Query Service Days 2026 - slides for all presentations are on Commons
Tool of the week
- wd-provenance : A tool that analyzes Wikidata item provenance, historical edits, deleted facts, and active contributor rankings by parsing its revision history.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- part of the observance of (holiday or observance during which this tradition is observed, this item is used, or this story or story element is commemorated)
- accumulated cyclone energy (sum of the squared maximum sustained winds at 6-hour intervals of a tropical cyclone, a tropical cyclone season, or a time period, where the winds at that particular point in time are at least gale-force)
- External identifiers: IBA cocktail ID, IT History Forum Data Archive ID, BGA numeric ID, BGA ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology equipment ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Politicômetro (politician identifier on the Politicômetro website)
- Derived from language (language from which a lexeme is directly derived, when the source lexeme is unknown or not yet available on Wikidata)
- Yaayuwee ethnobotanical use (category of traditional use of a plant taxon by the Yaayuwee people of Garoua-Boulaï, Cameroon {{!}} fr=catégorie d'usage traditionnel d'une plante par le peuple Yaayuwee de Garoua-Boulaï)
- reuses footage from (audiovisual work from which this work incorporates pre-existing moving-image footage)
- name on ballot (name used on the ballot for an election)
- External identifiers: VSCO username, Docker Hub namespace, il Palio.Siena.it Palio ID, il Palio.Siena.it jockey ID, il Palio.Siena.it person ID, ilpalio.org jockey ID, ilpalio.org Palio ID, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Belarus) ID, VLKK given name ID, Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames ID, Austriasoccer.at football players ID, HKeL ID, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Library authority ID, Sraidainm ID, RNAL registration number, KEIBA.GO.JP horse ID, 2Day Chrono-Wiki ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Highlights: Project Epigraphy - new data model, workshop and taster session.
Development
- REST API:
- We added the ability to add Forms and Senses to a Lexeme when creating a Lexeme
- We are working on modifying an existing Lexeme
- hCaptcha: We are continuing to adapt the UI and APis for the upcoming rollout of hCaptcha
- Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are doing usability tests for a new filter option for Recent changes and Watchlist to filter out changes to sitelinks
- Mobile UI: We are addressing small issues that came up after the rollout for everyone
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!
