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Women in Red – April 2026

Women in Red | April 2026, Vol 12, Issue 4, Nos 358, 359, 367, 368, 369 Online events: New: Countries starting with D, E and F | Women's Works: Written works | Cascading Women Continuing (year-long initiatives): #1day1woman | Sports Announcements from other communities: CEE women Tip of the month: When creating a new article, take a moment to ensure any notable woman is redlinked. Someone might be inspired to create an article for her. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

--Chocmilk03 (talk) 20:13, 29 March 2026 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wikidata weekly summary #725

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #724.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Thetalentone - Tasks: Adding and updating references, qualifiers, publication dates, and provenance on my own personal and company items (Q138324775 and Q138324581) to improve entity confidence for Google Knowledge Graph. Small batches only, no edits to unrelated items.
  • Dušan Kreheľ - Task: Sitelinks existing and newly created municipality pages on hrwiki and Wikidata.
• New request for comments: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Mass-editing policy has a new proposal incorporating feedback and is awaiting votes.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 08th April 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit takes place until 20:00 CET, 30 May 2026.
  • "Wikidata in der Sammlungserschließung" (free online event in German on how GLAM institutions can use Wikidata, 20 April 2026, 10-11:30 CET, organized by Research and Competence Centre Digitalisation Berlin (Q51845259). More info and registration here.
  • Wikidata Ontology Course: The second offering of the Wikidata ontology course will be given in May and June 2026, with sessions 1-3 pm EDT (UTC-4) on Thursdays. The Wikidata ontology provides structure and organization for the rest of Wikidata and is thus fundamental to Wikidata. The course starts with the basic notions underlying the Wikidata ontology and goes on to cover querying using SPARQL, inference, constraints, advanced ontology notions, problems with the ontology, and other ontology-related aspects of Wikidata. Participants in the course are expected to complete weekly exercise sets and a project. More information on the course can be found at WikiProject Ontology/Ontology Course. To register for this offering fill in and submit the Google form.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wikidata contains many gaps in its political data. We’ve built a tool to change that (PoliLoom)
  • From a summer school idea to an ESWC paper: Teaching AI to “repair” Wikidata
• Papers:
  • Did AI Crawlers Kill SPARQL Federation?, including Wikidata examples
  • Gender and intersectional bias in featured biographies on the front page of the Italian edition of Wikipedia, 2014–2024 Open Access - Wikidata featured heavily in the design and methodology. By Rovira et al., (2026).
• Videos:
  • Adding architectural data to a Wikidata item for a Historic Building from OpenStreetMap for History Buffs.
  • Live Wikidata Editing #119 - Ainali and Abbe98 are back to edit Wikidata and explain their thinking along the way.
  • (Spanish) Wikidata and the public domain - Tools for bulk editing in Wikidata: Mix n Match and QuickStatements, last class of a 9-part series provided by Jorge Gemetto.
  • (German) Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen, day 2, digital/local collection loves wiki.
  • (German) Von OpenStreetMap zu semantisch vernetzten Wissensgraphen FOSSGIS 2026 Conference.
  • Using Wikibase as an Integration Platform with Matthew Ong. Originally given at the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin, 19 November 2024.

Tool of the week

• WikiVisage - Train a machine learning model to detect depicted subjects in Wikimedia Commons images and assist with adding the P180 (depicts) property.
• Yesterdays - A web platform for cataloging and georeferencing historical images of Richmond, Virginia. It uses Wikidata items to help organize the georeferenced images.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile editing user testing: join the participant panel: Wikimedia Deutschland is planning new user tests for the mobile editing experience (including more data types as a beta feature) in late April–early May. Participants of all experience levels are welcome, and users of right‑to‑left scripts are especially encouraged to sign up. Register here. Participants will be compensated for their time.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Digital Public Good ID (identifier of a digital public good in the Digital Public Goods Registry)
  • apportionment diagram (image that displays the representation of seats won by party in an election to an assembly)
  • peer-review process for scholarly journals or publications (''(without English description)'')
• Newest External identifiers: ‎X Games athlete ID (new), AIK soccer player ID, ‎Uitleenwoordenbank ID, abadis.ir word ID, ‎AmericanAristocracy house ID, ‎AmericanAristocracy person ID, British Newspaper Archive publication ID, ‎Buitenlandse aardrijkskundige namen in het Nederlands ID, Landskrona BoIS player ID, Library of the University of Santiago de Compostela authority ID, ‎DBNL place ID, Faulhaber edition ID, Foto Atlas taxonomy ID, ‎Integbio Database Catalog ID, ‎KCUE academy ID, ‎LibriVox reader ID, ‎Manga-DB person ID, ‎Manga-DB magazine ID, ‎Manga-DB publisher ID, Digital Public Goods Registry, NSK ID, Tribuna.com football players ID, Sport Express person ID, ‎Open Food Facts brand ID, ‎RITVA company ID, OldRacingCars.com drivers ID, ‎Spellingwijzer Onze Taal ID, ‎EpiMedDat ID, ‎Pinkhof ID, ‎Scheikunde ID, ‎Movist person ID, ‎ISSN-H, Names, Persons, and Groups of People of the Middle Ages ID, ‎Parlement.com object ID, wikiru.jp wiki ID, BGAFD actress ID, IFK Norrköping player, ‎LINE official account ID, Norwegian war prisoner histories ID, ‎indexxx.com performer ID, SetesdalWiki ID, ‎Shellers From the Past ID, ‎SocioMap ID, Publication ID in e-Marefa database
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • civil service position level (classification level of a civilian public service position within a government administrative hierarchy)
  • Usenet newsgroup (Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
  • predicted winning party (the party predicted to win an election, according to some source)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Numen ID, member of the Azorean assembly ID, identifiant Rappels d'une personne, Identifiant dans la base de noms France Archives, Anarâš aavis topic ID, Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID, MangaBaka manga ID, JVID performer ID, PlayStation Trophies achievement ID, BERON lexeme ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Hogback - Hogbacks are a type of gravestone marker used in 10th - 12th Century Northern England.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • University of Otago/Books of Mana
  • Schnütgen Museum Collection/Sum of all paintings
  • Govdirectory/United Nations
  • Nonprofit Organisations
• Newest database reports: Humans with the same date of birth year (P569) and date of death year (P570).
• Showcase Items: Australia (Q275180) - 2008 film by Baz Luhrmann
• Showcase Lexemes: viɛla - Dagbanli adjective (of quality that is pleasing to human senses).

Development

• Wikibase GraphQL: We added support for a number of additional datatypes and started working on the functionality for querying Items by the external ID statement values or site links.
• Mobile editing of statements: We spent time testing the current state and fixing remaining issues we found.

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: Mongolia
• 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: 2026-14

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 Beta version of Abstract Wikipedia a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was launched last week. The project allows communities to build Wikipedia articles in their native language, which can be readily accessed by other users in their own languages. The wiki is powered by instructions from Wikifunctions and also based on structured content from Wikidata. Read more.

Updates for editors

• The Growth team is running an A/B test to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. Currently when logged-out mobile users begin editing, they see a jarring warning message that can feel abrupt and discouraging. This also presents temporary account editing as the default rather than encouraging account creation. The test is running on ten Wikipedias, including Arabic, French, Spanish and German. Read more.
• The Wikimedia Apps team is inviting feedback on how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps. The discussion focuses on improving how users access editing tools when they tap "Edit". This is part of a broader effort to convert readers who develop an interest in editing, to access a more user-friendly pathway to start contributing.
• View all 45 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where citation fetching from the large newspaper archive Newspapers.com was no longer working, due to a block in Citoid requests, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:23, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 March 2026

• News and notes: Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down
  All languages to be shut down in May; first AI agent blocked; new name for AfD?

• In the media: AI ban, newspapers disrupt archiving; and antisemitism complaints
  Perennial challenges with AI, demographic representation, and attacks from people buying media influence.

• Community view: Videos from WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC
  In attendees' own words.

• Disinformation report: Cleaning up after Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Nygard, and Mohamed Al-Fayed
  Countering the edits of the rich and dangerous.

• WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC review
  About the conference series, and this conference particularly.

• Obituary: Dr. Subas Chandra Rout
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: Call in the dogs of war, soldier of fortune
  Though of course the picture needs to be Chuck Norris...

• Gallery: Canadian Rangers participate in Operation Enduring Encyclopedia
  Analogies between how Wikipedia works and how Canada works.

• Comix: n00bsitting
  ...!

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Apology

Hey Cassiopeia. I was a CVUA student of yours back in 2023, and I want to say that I'm sorry for taking a break from Wikipedia without notifying you and not completing the training. I was burnt out from editing, but it was disrespectful of me not to communicate about it. Nonetheless, I am still grateful that you were able to help me. Khrincan (talk | contribs) 22:38, 22 April 2026 (UTC)