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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2025)
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An Antarctic fur seal biting another one while fighting
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Wikidata weekly summary #699
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week leading up to 2025-09-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #698.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Empat Tilda: RfP scheduled to end after 3 October 2025 18:30 (UTC)
Events
- Upcoming events:
- New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our first session of our WikiProject Personal Pronouns event series, which will provide a high-level overview of WikiProject Personal Pronouns' goals, past work, and implementation plans. The session will also serve as a practical orientation to the implementation work for this project, ending with a demonstration of the workflow to be used in subsequent sessions. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. This session will be recorded. Slides and recordings will be found on the project page after the session. Join us Tuesday, September 30th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
- Wikidata are hosting a webinar on the Embedding Project: AI/ML Project Manager Philippe Saadé (WMDE) will introduce the project, including early experiences, wins and pitfalls, and open up the floor to your questions.
- Takes place 1600 - 1700 UTC, October 9, 2025.
- Embedding Project? Read about it here
- Want to join the Webinar? Please register here with your Wiki account
- 🎁 Countdown to 13!🎁 Wikidata's 13th Birthday is fast approaching and this week marks the start of the first Birthday Events! For a full rundown of all Birthday Events, please see the Birthday Calendar.
Starting the month of celebrations this week include: Wali Wikimedians Community, Latin America in Wikidata 2025, Hausa Wikipedians User Group and the language communities of Zambia, Twi and Kinyarwanda and regional celebrations from the Northern Nigerian, Dagbani and Ghanaians Wikimedian communities!
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Enhanced Search for Wikibase
- Suggesting new relations in ROR from Wikidata By Charles Tapley Hoyt
- Papers:
- Protoknowledge Shapes Behaviour of LLMs: Text-to-SPARQL
- Wikidata Workflows: with ORCiD and OpenRefine - a Binghamton University Case Study By Sasha Frizzell - This lightning talk outlines Binghamton University Libraries’ pilot project to convert ORCID faculty data into Wikidata entries, showcasing linked data integration, data cleaning workflows, and strategies for enhancing institutional research visibility.
- Videos:
Tool of the week
- senseItemLabel is a UserScript by User:Jon Harald Søby The Script Lets you add the lemma for the current lexeme as a label to items added to the lexeme's senses as item for this sense (P5137) in one click.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you've noticed a performance issue with Magnus Manske's MixMatch gagdet, User:IagoQnsi has suggested a fix, the comment and code is available from Talk:Magnus Manske#MixMatch performance
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- Lemmy instance URL (the Lemmy instance of or about the subject)
- part number (identifier for a product or part designated by its manufacturer for inventory and ordering purposes)
- Newest External identifiers: Noormags ID, PnP device ID, PnP vendor ID, GENC 3-character code, Sancho el Sabio Foundation ID, British Authors author ID, VGA Legacy MKIII graphics card ID, qamus.inoor.ir entry ID, PortableApps ID, Chinese Engineers Relational Database ID, DisplaySpecifications.com model ID, Vix Vocal work id, Naturalis author ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- maximum supported display resolution (maximum pixel resolution that this computing hardware or technological standard supports)
- cookie policy (cookie policy of this website, software or digital product)
- yayasan ID (identifier for Indonesian foundation on vervalyayasan.data.kemdikbud.go.id)
- luminance (measured quantity of photometric brightness (luminous intensity per area))
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Filmarks ID, Medicin.dk disorder ID, Interaktionsdatabasen ID, A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition entry ID, OpenStreetMap role, TechPowerUp CPU Specs Database ID, GPUZoo ID, CPU-World ID, Adebiportal author, RIA Novosti person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion entry ID, Qalamger.kz author ID, Does the Dog Die? media ID, Sultanlar Ligi player ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Piano Rolls - has bee greatly expanded and subpages added.
- Open Topstukken Maastricht University and Radboud University - A user manual for contributing.
- Showcase Items: Because You Left (Q1059888) - episode of Lost (S5 E1)
- Showcase Lexemes:Knoten (L298686) - German noun (ˈknoːtn̩) meaning "tied fastening of ropes/strings", "speed unit in aviation/shipping", or "tangled clump of hair"
Development
- Mobile statement editing: We continue to make good progress, which you can check out on beta Wikidata. Specifically it is now possible to
- save changes to edits made to string Properties on statements (without losing qualifier / reference information) (phab:T401405)
- change the rank of statements (phab:T402436)
- Query Service UI: jhsoby submitted patches for two issues related to the example dialog. Thank you! (phab:T405747, phab:T405720)
- Lexicographical data: 1F616EMO submitted a patch to fix a localization issue on the Lexeme page. Thank you! (phab:T322526)
- Dumps: We fixed issues with the n-triples and truthy dumps generation and set up a dashboard for monitoring (phab:T403882)
- GraphQL: We are continuing to make labels of linked entities accessible in the GraphQL endpoint (phab:T404692)
- Wikidata in Wikipedia and co: We are continuing to work on improvements to how we technically track the use of Wikidata in the other Wikimedia projects in order to reduce the amount of changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
- Wikidata Query Service GUI: We deployed two fixes by User:Jon Harald Søby, thank you! (phab:T405720, phab:T405747)
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: Bulgaria
- 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: 2025-40
editLatest 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 major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more.
Updates for editors
- The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
- As announced on Diff blog, the production trial of the hCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
- The CampaignEvents extension has been deployed to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the event organizer right.
- Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can test the feature on testwiki or on betawiki as well. Please share your thoughts on using templates in sub-references or volunteer to become a pilot wiki.
- On wikis using the Mentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship.
- The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
- The rollout of multiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on Special:Contributions and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, messages prefixed with
sp-contributions-blocked-noticewill be removed and replaced with those prefixed withblocked-notice-logextractin a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed. - There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as
[ ] |after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed. - One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay (
q:ms:)
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks.
Updates for technical contributors
- Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the
mw.title.newBatchfunction to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function count once. - A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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The Signpost: 2 October 2025
edit- News and notes: Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"; WMF publishes transparency report
This time "not merely negative".
- In the media: Extraordinary eruption of "EVIL" explained
Wickedpedia wrangles post-truth politics.
- Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client
Unexpected news!
- Discussion report: Sourcing, conduct, policy and LLMs: another 1,339 threads analyzed
Fifty hot topics from fourteen noticeboards.
- Community view: The pressing questions of the modern WWW, as seen from the Village Pump
Policy, politics, icons, captchas, and LLMs.
- Recent research: Is Wikipedia a merchant of (non-)doubt for glyphosate?; eight projects awarded Wikimedia Research Fund grants
And other recent publications.
- Opinion: Some disputes aren't worth it
When to walk away.
- Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt
Rest in peace.
- Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name
Celebrities, deaths and software.
- Comix: A grand spectacle
All invited!
This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2025)
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The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks. A family contains one or more genera.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Biting • Firefighting Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 October 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #700
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week leading up to 2025-10-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #699.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- WikidataCon 2025 - The first version of the conference schedule has been released! See the Event page for links to the schedule (and to register if you haven't already).
- 13th Birthday Events - check the calendar to see which Birthday events are happening this week!
- Webinar: Embedding Project - join us this week, October 9 1600 ~ 1700 UTC, to hear a presentation and then pose your questions regarding the Embedding Project
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 15th October 2025 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Past events:
- Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 - Learning Day (September 25, at the Goethe Institut in Thessaloniki): the main topic was Wikidata and libraries; the program and the materials of the hands-on session are available in the Meta page, the slides of the presentations are available in the Commons category
- Convegno NILDE (October 2-3, University of Genoa; website): in the first session, regarding Il futuro dei cataloghi [The future of the catalogs], many presentations (in Italian) have mentioned the use of Wikidata in collective library catalogs; the proceedings of the conference (in Italian) will be published in open access in early 2026:
- Lianna D'Amato and Emanuela Secinaro, Cobis LOD: integrare e aumentare i cataloghi eterogenei delle biblioteche specialistiche [Cobis LOD: Integrating and Enhancing the Heterogeneous Catalogs of Specialized Libraries] (slides)
- Stefano Bargioni, La catalogazione per entità, esperienze pratiche della rete URBE con Parsifal [Entity cataloging: practical experiences of the URBE network with Parsifal] (slides; Wikidata project page)
- Elena Ravelli e Camillo Pellizzari, Authority file di SBN e Wikidata: un esempio di interoperabilità e riutilizzo dei dati [SBN Authority File and Wikidata: An Example of Data Interoperability and Reuse] (slides; Wikidata project page)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Diff: Building Wikidatacapacity in East Africa - Wikimedia Deutschland’s 2025 outreach initiative expanded Wikidata capacity in East Africa by training nearly 100 local Wikimedians across 13 countries, and fostering a new network of regional Wikidata champions
- Press: A milestone for open AI: The Wikidata Embedding Project goes live, read also in Deutsch / TheVerge and TechCrunch blogs.
- Videos:
- Africa Wiki Women - Wikidata Birthday Launch Celebration 2025
- SAT - Wikidata - OSM - länkade data By Magnus Sälgö
- Roman Provinces Project (RPP) WikiDataTraining (add WMC image)
- Wikidata and public domain - Clase 1 (Spanish) By Wikimedistas de Uruguay
- Open Tool Registries: Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata - Livestream (today!) Oct 6, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST. (Maybe in German but description is English)
Tool of the week
- Script newentity.js is a UserScript by GZWDer it helps to generates new items (including lexemes) from the given JSON object.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to talk to developers who use Wikidata’s data dumps, or have tried using them but ran into challenges. Your feedback will help us make data dumps easier and more reliable to use. If you’re open to chatting, we’ll schedule a 60-minute user interview. As a thank-you for your time, you’ll be eligible for compensation. Sign up here.
- For anyone interested in open and interoperable data, the DCMI 2025 Conference might be interesting. More information and registration here.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- calligraphy (calligraphy of this person)
- cookie policy URL (cookie policy of this website, software or digital product)
- Newest External identifiers: TechnoMusicWorld release ID, Biblioteca Digital de la Comunidad de Madrid ID, Trainspo model ID, AGORHA UUID, Biological Imaging Methods Ontology ID, Anne Frank House person ID, Maitron municipality ID, National Library Board Singapore ID, Euploos Project ID, SpaceReference.org celestial object ID, Hex package
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- formally denounced by (person or organization which has publicly issued or enacted a denunciation of this item)
- code of conduct (URL of a resource that contains the Code of Conduct of a project or organization)
- award judge (judges for an award)
- start and end work (work in which this statement begins to be valid)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Organ Index ID, BLGBL ID, American Kennel Club ID, CRT Database model ID, Jeune Afrique country ID, Vocabulary.com word ID, Newegg item ID, Catalogue of sundials ID, BeWeb historical or artistic asset ID, PriceRunner product ID, SofaScore sports team ID, FootballFakts.ru football match ID, Kicker sports match ID, BDFutbol match ID, Foot Mercato players ID, Meetup.com Event ID, Mapillary username, Soccerway player ID 2025
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Showcase Items: Kwame Nkrumah (Q8620) - Ghanaian pan-Africanist and the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana (1909-1972)
- Showcase Lexemes: delve (L22859) – English verb (/dɛlv/) meaning "to investigate thoroughly", "to dig physically", or "to discuss in detail
Development
- The
{{USERLANGUAGE}}magic word is now enabled on Wikidata and Test Wikidata. It can be used to display templates in the user interface language, replacing the previous{{int:lang}}hack. (phab:T405830)
GraphQL: We have continued working on the functionality that provides labels of linked entities
- Wikidata vector embedding and MCP: We have released the vector embedding and MCP
- Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
- We are continuing the rollout of improvements to ow we track Wikidata changes in Wikipedia's watchlist and recent changes in order to reduce the size of the database table and reduce the noise on editors' watchlists. (phab:T401288, phab:T401290)
- We are working on some improvements to the Databox module and template (phab:T400322)
- Mobile statement editing:
- We improved the display of qualifiers and made it possible to add qualifiers (editing will still come) as well as the value type (value/some value/no value) (phab:T404991, phab:T404956, phab:T402431, phab:T403246)
- We are working on adding editing support for more datatypes (tabular data and geoshape) (phab:T403973)
- We are working on making it possible to edit references (phab:T402433)
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: North Carolina
- 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: 2025-41
editLatest 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
- Paste Check is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October, 22 wikis will test Paste Check. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.
Updates for editors
- Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like
en.wikipedia.org), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (likeen.m.wikipedia.org). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available. Learn more. - New date filters,
creationdate:andlasteditdate:, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g.>2024) and relative dates (e.g.today-1d), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges. - Wikifunctions now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created a Latin declination table that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see an example output. If you need any help or have any feedback, please contact the Wikifunctions Team.
- An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog.
View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved.
Updates for technical contributors
- The field
rev_sha1in the revision database table is being removed in favor ofcontent_sha1in the content database table. See the announcement for more information. - The Reader Experience team will roll out Dark Mode user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged to learn how to make pages ready for Dark mode and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support on this talk page before the enablement.
- Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the
rest.phppath will be rerouted through a new internal API Gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2025
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2025).

- After a motion, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections at WP:AELOG/P. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g.
[[WP:CT/BLP]]), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.
This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2025)
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A woman in a crocheted cape
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Genus • Biting Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 October 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #701
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week leading up to 2025-10-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #700.
Discussions
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 7 - closed as approved.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- The next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session: Tuesday 14 Oct, 2025 from 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (click for your Time zone) WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No prior Wikidata experience required. More info on the Personal Pronouns event page.
- Upcoming LD4 Affinity Group sessions: Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9, at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 4pm UTC / 6pm CEST.
- Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour, join us in the Wikidata Telegram channel for our Quarterly roundup of what's been happening with Wikidata and Wikibase. If you can't make it, read the transcript later. Oct 15, 18:00 - 19:00 CEST (UTC 16:00 - 17:00).
- The Next Wikimedia Research Showcase is Wednesday, October 15, at 9:30 AM PT / 16:30 UTC. The theme is "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture". Watch via the YouTube stream.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Developing an enhanced dataset for the history of Photography - National Archives researchers used Wikidata during a hackathon to link people and places from 19th-century photographic copyright records, enriching the archive’s metadata through linked open data.
- Viusalisations of Philosophers Influence in history - Take a look if you're interested in the history of philosophy, temporal graphs, or Wikidata!
- Videos:
- (Spanish) How to identify and fill information gaps in Wikidata Tabernacle and Integrality - In preparation for Latin America month on Wikidata, this tutorial will introduce the Tabernacle and Intergraality tools.
- Curationist: 2024 Metadata Learning and Unlearning Summit - Curationist researches and debates on transitioning to a Wikidata/Wikibase style of schema for its images of digital open-access collections.
- Data Ethics and Open Science - At 19:00 of the video, Lambert Heller discusses using Wikidata, and later Wikibase for the NFDI4 Culture Proposal.
- Linked Open Data Location Identifiers for Pacific Archaeology - Hardy & Leclerc at the CAA Australia conference show how Wikidata identifiers enrich Kuden and Pacific island databses.
- Presentations: Slides for the Wikidata: Embedding Project Webinar presentation
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Useful is a UserScript by Magnus Manske that adds a box of quick "add statement" links to the right side of the page. Entity and phylogeny types, countries (location and citizenship). Also, tries to load and display a blurb from en or de Wikipedia.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The 2024 Wikidata Community Survey results are out! Read the full report on Commons: Wikidata Community Survey 2024 Report. If you have any thoughts or questions feel free to write on this discussion page: Wikidata talk:Usability and usefulness/2024-Community-Survey
- Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking feedback on the Mobile Editing Experience prototype, especially from contributors who edit right-to-left (RTL) languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, etc. We’ve already received helpful input from various editors, but feedback from RTL language communities is still missing. Your perspective is important to ensure the design works well for everyone. Please go to Beta Wikidata (in mobile view) to test the prototype with the instructions below and share your feedback on this talk page.
- Add "businessperson" as an occupation
- Add a start date to the relationship with A$AP Rocky and provide a reference
- Find the place of birth (Saint Michael) and open that page
- Add the coordinate location for Saint Michael
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- luminance (measured quantity of photometric brightness (luminous intensity per area))
- excluding work (work or narration for or in which this statement is false)
- intervener (name of a third-party group or person allowed to participate in a legal case)
- Newest External identifiers: NWO project ID, Vocabulary.com word ID, Fnac person ID, African Music Library band ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, Encyclopedia of Marxism ID, Kulturenvanteri place ID, Encyclopædia Universalis index ID, ISFDB award category ID, CCCA Canadian Art Database work ID, CCCA Canadian Art Database creator ID, CPU-World ID, AMNH entity ID
- New External identifier property proposals to review: NZ Charities Register Number, Memorial Book of Social Democracy-ID, Biographical Dictionary of Almería identifier, Operabase (additional) ID, NLAI ID, SIK-ISEA group ID, Wikimini article ID, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain entry ID, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts ID, Antique Chinese and Japanese Porcelain Dictionary and Glossary of Terms entry, Filmfriend Movie ID, Schulnummer Hessen, The Oxford Dictionary of Dance entry ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Showcase Items: Biodiversity Assessment of the Fishes of Saba Bank Atoll, Netherlands Antilles (Q15625490) - scholarly article by Williams, Jeffrey et al., 2010
- Showcase Lexemes: pukka (L339628) - English adjective (puh-kuh) that can mean "genuine", "highest class", or "complete"
Development
- Wikidata integration on Wikipedia and co:
- We finished work on adding an icon to changes coming from Wikidata in recent changes and watchlist (phab:T397258)
- We are finishing work on a new usage aspect for qualifiers and references so their use can be tracked separately. This will lead to less Wikidata changes showing up in recent changes and watchlist that don't actually affect the article (phab:T397258)
- We are continuing the work on improving Databox (phab:T400322)
- GraphQL: We are continuing to work on making labels of linked entities in the values of statements accessible (phab:T404692)
- Mobile statement editing: We have been working on showing the different value types (phab:T404684) and making references editable (phab:T405236)
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: 2025-42
editLatest 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
- Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for Special:AccountSecurity, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the Account Security project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.
Updates for editors
- Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage.
- This week, users at wikis where talk page Usability Improvements are already available by default (everywhere except the 12 wikis listed in T379264) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You can learn more about this change.
- Users who have not verified their email address will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account.
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see.
Updates for technical contributors
- The Unsupported Tools Working Group has chosen Video2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months. Learn more on Meta.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2025)
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A sign at an anti-monarchy protest in the United Kingdom
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Wikidata weekly summary #702
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week leading up to 2025-10-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #701.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Ternera - RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2025 16:10 (UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Rebot - Task: Make changes in w.wiki/Fed9, such as changing depicts (P180) = herbarium (Q181916) to herbarium specimen (Q61726742).
Events
- Upcoming:
- WikidataCon 2025: Have you seen the Program yet?
Available now on Pretalx, check now and plan your schedule. - 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit.
Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call. - The Dublin Core DCMI 2025 conference will take place in Barcelona, Oct 22-25.
- Presentation: Derivative Relationships and Bibliographic Families Among Creative Works: A Systematic Study of Their Application by the Wikidata Community from the FRBR and BIBFRAME Perspective
- Workshop by Jneubert on converting a complex web application into a large static site integrated with Wikidata
- Tutorial from Jelabra on shaping linked data and knowledge graphs.
- Wikidata Lab XLVII: Wiki Infographics, about a tool for data visualization. On October 21, 17 UTC.
- Wikimania 2026 Scholarships are open! Deadline is Friday, October 31st, 2025.
- Wikidata 13th birthday celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group on October 24 and 25, 2025
- WikidataCon 2025: Have you seen the Program yet?
- Past:
- Missed the Q4 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-10-15 (Q4 2025)
- Wikidata 13th birthday celebration in the WUGN Abuja Network
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: (Finnish) From Wikidata to GEO (AI) optimization? by Johanna Janhonen
- Videos:
- Genealogical tree creation with Wikidata - by Thimira Sahan
- (Chinese) Wikidata 13 週年聚會暨 OpenRefine 工作坊 - by Wikidata Taiwan
- (Spanish) Taller en línea: Introducción a Wikidata y Wikibase by bibliotecasUNAM
- Wikimedia Research Showcase: Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture
Tool of the week
- WikiLokal - The tool uses your device location to find Wikidata Items and Wikipedia articles within a 3 kilometre radius of your location. Created by User:Affandy Murad
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Project Chat:
- Help choose a name for the Abstract Wikipedia Project - combining WikiFunctions and Wikidata, a voting contest will run from Oct 20 - Nov 17, 2025.
- How can Wikidata be useful IRL if it has less data than Wikipedia? - an ongoing discussion touching on data scraping tools such as Harvest templates (github) and data consistency between Wikipedia and Wikidata in places such as Infoboxes.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes: organizational chart (image that displays the structure of this organization or government agency and the relationships and relative ranks of its parts and positions/jobs)
- Newest External identifiers: The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture entry ID, TechPowerUp CPU Specs Database ID, Catalogue of sundials ID, A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition entry ID, GPUZoo ID, NetEase Music album ID, Corporation Number in Canada, Biographical Dictionary of Almería identifier
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- image of outdoor seating (an image of the outdoor seating)
- Elo rating (rapid) (Current or historical Elo rating of a player in rapid time control chess games)
- ECHL profile ID (Id (number) used by ECHL on their website ehcl.com. URL takes a slug.)
- award category or rank ((qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank)
- public key (cryptographic public key (some ASCII encoding of it))
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Schulnummer Sachsen, Team Austria ID, IFES Election Guide ID, BNB agent ID, Arte de la Argentina ID, Democratic Memory Bank ID, Kicker competition ID, Soccer365.net team ID, LUDAP, Genbu.net ID, ztgd.com, ISTAMPIE entity, MIT Press edition id
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: List of Airports/Airstrips in Florida, USA
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject IDEA (translation tasks)
- WikiProject Highlights: Govdirectory South Korea was created.
- Showcase Items: Jagiellonian Library (Q24101) - library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków
- Showcase Lexemes: led (L762994) - Norwegian Nynorsk noun (leː) meaning "a joint between bones", "a movable body part", or "a generation"
Development
- Mobile statement editing: We made progress on support for more datatypes for editing.
- Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
- We are investigating an issue with infoboxes using data from Wikidata after some recent changes to usage tracking (phab:T407684)
- We are working on more improvements to the Databox module
- Ontology federation: We are starting to work on making it possible for other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as values in their statements. This expands on previous work around federated properties.
- Dumps: We have worked on fixing issues with the dumps that were failing recently. They should now be generated again and we continue to look into the cause.
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: Bahamas
- 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: 2025-43
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Updates for editors
- To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply.
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the
rest.phproute through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board. - Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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The Signpost: 20 October 2025
edit- News and notes: Board shuffles, LLM blocks increase, IPs are going away
And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.
- Special report: The election that isn't
Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.
- Interview: The BoT bump
Who was bumped and why?
- In the media: An incident at WikiConference North America; WMF reports AI-related traffic drop and explains Wikipedia to US conservatives
...while Musk prepares to launch "Grokipedia".
- Traffic report: One click after another
Serial-killer miniseries, deceased scientist, government shutdowns and Sandalwood hit "Kantara" crowd the tubes.
- Humour: Wikipedia pay rates
Don't get too excited before you read this.
This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2025)
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The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory, granting a 99-year lease on the New Territories
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Wikidata weekly summary #703
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week leading up to 2025-10-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #702.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Samoasambia - RfP scheduled to end after 27 October 2025 15:10 (UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Ternera - Closed as successful by Ymblanter (talk) 19:24, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
Events
- Upcoming events:
- 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
- WikidataCon 2025, October 31 - November 2, make sure to register at the event page.
- SPARQL workshop (in German): "From Zero to SPARQL. Eine Einführung in die Abfrage von Wissensgraphen (Schwerpunkt Wikidata)", 4 Nov 2025, 10-13, free and open to all, online via Zoom. more information and registration
- The scholarship deadline for Wikimania 2026 is approaching fast: 31st of October. Apply today if you want to attend on a scholarship.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos:
- (Spanish) Visualizaciones con el Servicio de Consultas de Wikidata
- (Spanish)¿Cómo identificar y completar vacíos de información en Wikidata? Tabernacle e integraality
- I Have 1000s of Items in Commons – What Do I Do Now?: Utilization Opportunities on Wikimedia Commons
- (Chinese [Trad]) 鏈結資料文獻翻譯賽德克語成果發表會 Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation
- Presentations: Will AI Erase Us Again? The Role of Wikimedia Communities. Talk by John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2025 (Slides)
Tool of the week
- Nemo is a new Wikidata query tool by User:Markus Krötzsch the tool can answer queries, extracts subsets, and perform analyses in ways that SPARQL alone can't. It also lets you combine Wikidata with other data sources.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- start work (work in which this statement about a fictional entity begins to be valid)
- end work (work in which this statement about a fictional entity ceases to be valid)
- image resolution (pixel resolution of images generated or captured by this item (camera, software, etc))
- display device resolution (physical pixel resolution of an electronic display)
- firmware (firmware installed on this hardware)
- Newest External identifiers: MultimediaWiki page ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, QCC Code, Jamaica company ID, SEC Number, Thailand company ID, gosfilmofond.ru ID, Cambodian company ID, English solicitors ID, Caixin company ID, Nebraska Authors author ID, Kick username, Archivio Storico Ricordi partiture ID, Fantacalcio ID, Plant Ontology ID, L'Équipe athlete ID, RSQV ID, NRK topic ID, OpenITI author ID, Mellopedia ID, Liste unique des décorés ID, Deník tag ID, Interaktionsdatabasen ID, Adebiportal author ID, Biographische Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder ID, ISLRN, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, RIA Novosti person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion entry ID, Qalamger.kz author ID, Does the Dog Die? media ID, Organ Index ID, American Kennel Club ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Responsable de departamento ()
- Lämningsnummer ({{Q|Q10498015}} is a database of archaeological monuments in Sweden, maintained by {{Q|Q631844}}. Each item in the database has an identifier containing the year of registration and a number, e.g. ''L1970:5203''.)
- number of comments per day ()
- Commonwealth Sport country code (Commonwealth Sport country code)
- operating humidity (humidity at which a device operates)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature Periodical ID, HarmonyOS NEXT APP ID, Rechtsinformationen des Bundes-ID, UNESCO Virtual Museum inventory ID, South Korean Business Registration Number, SetesdalWiki ID, Biography.com ID, Mackolik football manager ID, S1 No.1 Style actress ID, biserici.org church ID, RFC, Hudobné centrum IDs, FAIR Epigraphic Vocabularies ID, NVLI ID, SerBenfiquista.com players ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Map of pubs in Scotland (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kazakhstan
- Showcase Items:Lake Zanzibar (Q22530539) - lake in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada
Development
- Wikidata in Wikipedia and co:
- We worked on making Wikidata change summaries in recent changes and watchlist on the other Wikimedia projects more understandable by adding icons. This will be rolled out soon (phab:T397258)
- We continued the improvements to the Databox module (phab:T400322, phab:T400318)
- Mobile statement editing: We continued working on editing references (phab:T405236) and did clean-ups for the beta release (phab:T405743)
- GraphQL: We continued work on including labels of linked entities in responses
- Dumps: We are looking into why dump generation is slower than it should be recently
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: South Korea
- 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: 2025-44
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Updates for editors
- The Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
- Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
- The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the Special:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page.
- Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
- A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
- Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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The Bugle: Issue 234, October 2025
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