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Wikidata:Status updates/2026 03 30

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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

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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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

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