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Table oddities
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Cheshunt Lock and other notes
edit- Another Gorka source
- http://www.leeandstort.co.uk/Cheshunt_Lock.htm
- Dictionary of Kongo
- Faith hope and charity
- Colour list
- Queen's Hospital, Croydon see Fay Allen , Queen's Hospital (disambiguation)
- Chirurgeon
- Arnold Birkman ditto, insignia foxes shaking hands, ditto (heirs of, 1555, dubious) Also Collen = Cologne (Koln). booke-for-all-the-grefes-and-diseases-of-the-bodye/oclc/14317345 qv, ,
- COvid vit D (dubious?)
- RAC cites Pettigrew.
- Regulation, rent-seeking, and the Glorious Revolution in the English Atlantic economy
- A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester (iss 1-3?) Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Demy-Octavo (corrigenda P 214): bound in with Rutland Words 1891 Kegan Paul, Trubner & Co (Paternoster House, Charing Cross)
- Odiham Hundred
- County Magazine re twelfth cake, and Pompeii/Hereculaneum?
- Oppression in 19th century Britain
- Winter 1966]
- 420
- Coastal eutrophication & plastic density
- NHS funding
- Bennet and Kerr books
- Dr Johnsons's Dictionary
- Captivity of Mrs Rowlandson
- Sari Bear see also A Duty Clear Before Us : North Beach and the Sari Bair Range, Gallipoli Peninsula 25 April-20 December 1999., ,
- Cat and Bagpipean soc. see also Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue infra, See also: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
- Study of circs of TMWWBQ
- Catamaran
- F. Grose Classical Dic., catamaran, chuffy
- Ubuntu bash multi-terminal history
- Author's alliance fair use guidance
- Language speeds (sieve)
- Pesticide Properties Data Base (Glyphosate)
- Mandy Rice-Davies Seven Magnificent Gladiators
- Warlike Operations Area Committee
- Laser Activated Remote Phosphor (LARP)
- PASC
- There seems to be confusion between Spiraea arguta and Spiraea prunifolia, only the former I think is correctly dubbed "bridal wreath".
- Meadowsweet <- Meadow sweet Meadow-sweet
- Find out whether dry-point [A Catalogue of Manuscripts Known to Contain Old English Dry-Point Glosses] (de: Griffelglossen) includes/is metalpoint. DNC drypoint. Ans. Blackwell Ency.c Ag-Sax England, entry Glosses cited therein - 'with a stylus' 'scratched'
- Investigate Bald's Leechbook and Lacnunga.
- Wynde Monah 1845 see alsoBailey
- John Eversely https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58673/supplement/4/data.pdf https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-princess-royal-shakes-hands-with-mr-john-eversley-news-photo/834710966 https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2008/04/23/enterprising-individuals-get-queens-award https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/2211450.best-uk-business-recognised-awards/ https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Award+recognises+John%27s+contribution%3B+in+association+with+RBS.-a0178074996
- https://www.europeana.eu/en
- Broken symmetry https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/04/13/clinical-trial-should-probably-wont-close-book-ivermectin-16244
- Sort order, name https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Ann_Brock_Putnam&diff=prev&oldid=880695609
- Barret M82 an 11/12 round mag was made need a better ref if possible. perhaps or
- Hilary English
- https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-sanctions-family-syria-asma-assad-end-war
- probably WISEA J100115.86+555344.3 move to WISEA 1001+5553 (needs refs)
- 'Top 400' political scientists (US, Phd granting institutions only, tenure or tenure track, by citation count)
- Tha Si Sunthon Heroines Monument
- Isaac Wayne For his grandfather...
- St Mary Magdalene's, Longfield lnk Thomas Plume (Also spellings of Longflield.)
- Ejidal -> Ejido
2025
edit- Seacoal Sea coal
- PPLAAF
- Shooting Butts School
- Cassells Paten Pangram (Connoisseur Magazine vol 57)
- COMB breach
Things to unarchive
edit- Space discussion.
- Engvar discussion
Yo Ho Ho!
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Wikidata weekly summary #735
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-06-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #734.
week leading up to 2026-06-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #734.
Discussions
- RfC: Mass editing policy: The community is currently voting on a proposed policy to regulate mass edits on Wikidata. More input is needed to reach a broad consensus. Please review the proposal and join the discussion/vote on the RFC page.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- WikiProjects Days 2026 - see the first version of the program! The online event takes place during the weekend of June 19 - 21. Register for updates and access links.
- Mezi bajty 0 - meetup of the Czech Wikidata community in Prague and online, 10th June 17:00 - 19:00 CEST (in Czech, Slovak, English)
- GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei) SPARQL Workshop|, 17th July 17:00 - 19:30 CEST (in German) - workshop from the German National Library on use of their SPARQL-endpoint for the GND (Gemeinsamer Normdatei) national authority file for wikidata users and wikipedians.
- (Deutsch) Workshop: Make Research Software Findable using the Software Marketplace Wikidata - August 18, 14:00 – 16:00 Uhr (CEST), Zoom-link on registration.
- Blazegraph Migration Office Hour (June session) will take place on Tuesday, 9 June 2026 (Tomorrow) at 16:00 UTC. This office hour is focused on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of WDQS. Whether you have questions, need clarification, or want to discuss how your use case may be affected. You can register for the session via the event page. In preparation, add questions, feedback, or migration-related support needs to this etherpad.
- Ongoing: Wiki Loves Pride 2026 (Meta) is ongoing and now has a dedicated Wikidata subpage: Event: Wiki Loves Pride 2026.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- (日本語/Japanese) [Practice drill: SPARQL basics to make and learn - Let's master Wikidata Query Service by Shoku_pan_65. Page offers AI translations.
- Behind the <P812: academic major> Property by rtnf.
- Adding Visual Context to the Dagbanli Dictionary: How the University of Ghana HCI Lab Dataset Powered our Sentence Matching System. Diff post by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan.
- Papers:
- Volume 16, Issue 5 of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out! - includes 7 papers on Wikidata topics.
- Rosetta Statements: simplifying FAIR knowledge graph construction with a user-centred approach - Vogt et al., (2026)
- (Русский/Russian) Automated Analysis and Visualization of Geographic Data on Global Volcanoes Based on the Wikidata Semantic Graph - by Мария Паландер (2026).
- Speaker Mining: FAIR Data on Public Broadcasts for Question Answering by Wittenborg et al., (2026)
- Videos:
- (Español) Wikidata for Climate Change, Wikipedia for Sustainable Futures by Daniel Canedo, a workshop on using Wikidata to record linked open data from extreme weather events.
- (Svenska) Merge Wikidata samma som by Magnus Sälgö. What to do when you find duplicate Wikidata Items pointing at the same location on OpenStreetMap.
- (Español) EntreWikis - Hacerwiki: Progress of Free Knowledge Projects in Colombia - Colombian Art in Open Data: training and infrastructure on Wikidata
- (Français) Wikidata for research and teaching by Pascal Martinolli. Introduces Wikidata basics, SPARQL, practical examples of data visualisation, enriching research data and exploring the opportunities and limitations of linked open personal data.
- (Français) Literature review: FAIR data sharing | FAIR Data Spring 2026 - Presentation slides, given by Adélie Ranville on their experiences organizing and sharing data using Zenodo, DOI, Zotero, Wikidata, and OpenRefine.
- (Deutsch) Building a shared knowledge infrastructure: a federated wikibase for video and podcasts hosted by Tim @BorgNetzWerk.
Tool of the week
- AutoSuggestSitelink: New features available. See the update post on Project Chat
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The WMF Wikidata pltaform team monthly newsletter (June edition) is out
- Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's occupation articles
- Gender diversity in French Wikipedia's articles about fields of knowledge
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes::
- trailer of (works that this trailer video represents)
- EPBC conservation status (the conservation status from the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 assigned by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water)
- Newest External identifiers: Joysound artist ID, Joysound song ID, DUGA performer ID, Sri Lanka Company Registration Number, Wikimedia Phabricator project PHID, Indonesian government work unit ID (satker ID), DAM artist ID, British Library catalogue ID, OCHA Place Code, Philippines School ID, Swedish-Danish Dictionary ID, Filmmakers actor ID, Chilean Museums Registry ID, Sri Lanka NGO Secretariat Registration Number, Beeld & Geluid series ID, INAPROC instance ID (Indonesia), DUGA director ID, AV CHANNEL maker ID, AV CHANNEL director ID, AllMyLinks ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- applicable Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
- IAU member ID (new) (ID of members in the [https://www.iau.org/IAU/Default.aspx International Astronomical Union (IAU)].)
- height above ground level (a property intended to indicate the height of any objects from the ground)
- Storm intensity classification (category assigned to a meteorological system according to an intensity or classification scale; the scale should be indicated with a qualifier (P1013 and P585))
- service status (the operational status of something like ship or building)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: PTS News Network topic ID, OTOTOY ID, identifiant EU sanctions tracker, OpenParlData ID, Catholica.cz ID, KSW person ID, KSW organization ID, KSW place ID, Myludo ID, Identifiant dans La Basa, PurplePort ID, Sokmil idol ID, Hancinema company ID, LinkMe ID, Netmath Glossary ID, Sokmil director ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Schema examples: Nazareth Padilla Montero (Q139959656) has been added as a showcase example of human (E10)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Project Civic Tech - for anyone developing datasets about civic resources in cities, and discuss best practices for Wikidata collaboration in civic tech.
- Project AI Cleanup - for reporting, monitoring and combatting edits and contributions from LLM and AI sources.
- Project: Whos who in marine taxonomy? - inititated by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), this project will document and enrich entities of the persons who have described marine species.
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Project LGBT added an Abstract Wikipedia subpage.
- Project Roads added a subpage for Greece National roads with highly-visual tables.
- Wiki x K-Pop datathon 2.0 - there is still some work to do to reach the goal on modelling the album: BABYMONSTER.
- Newest database reports: Deleted Wikidata entities that are connected to Commons files structured data (SDC)
- Showcase Lexemes: kafuni - Dagbanli noun that translate to "fan" in English
Development
- The team was involved in workshops last week so there are no updates.
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: 2026-24
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
- Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content.
Updates for editors
- The refreshed Explore Feed, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: Community and For You. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the For You tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.
- The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements.
- Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips, which may require updates to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the cite-tracking-category-ref-details tracking category as a hidden category using
__HIDDENCAT__(or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848. - The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.
- The user interface icon library will be updated later this week or next week. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.
- The Universal Language Selector (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page.
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The function signature for
mw.util.addPortletLink()has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of:mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page');usemw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses ofaddPortletLink()and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement. - Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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"FIFIA 2006" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect FIFIA 2006 has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 June 12 § FIFIA 2006 until a consensus is reached. — Chevvin 22:45, 12 June 2026 (UTC)