Wikidata:Status updates/Next

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2025-04-21.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
• Closed request for adminship:
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
• New request for comments:
• Closed request for comments:

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Yunlin Liu Fang Tien Shang Sheng Mu OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Workshp April 27 Time: 09:30-17:00 UTC+8 at Tuku Township (Q708809) Red Altar (Hongtan).
• Past: Missed the Q2 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-04-16 (Q2 2025)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • qjson: Fetching all properties of a Wikidata item in a single API call By Santhosh Thottingal
  • A Wikibase call for action at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 By Ismael Olea
  • Putting UK collections on the map by the Museum Data Service
  • The April 2025 Scholia Hackathon by Egon Willighagen
• Papers
  • Talking Wikidata: Communication Patterns and Their Impact on Community Engagement in Collaborative Knowledge Graphs - Investigative study on Wikidata discussions, revealing that the community is generally inclusive and conflict is rare, but many controversial topics lack consensus, and valuable contributors disengage early. By Koutsiana et. al., (2025)
  • Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited - By Latham (2025)
• Videos
  • Wiki Workshop 2025 - Wikidata Inconsistencies with Language Models and Data Mining in a Pipeline by Houcemeddine Turki
  • (Italian) Cla-G, an instance of Wikibase as a tool to support game classification by Carlo Bianchini
• Other
  • Wikidata & Wikibase for Authority Control & Knowledge Organization Workshop By AfLIA
  • Mastodon bot that "highlights natural compounds found in plants, fungi, bacteria or animals — and includes Wikidata references and visual structure depictions."

Tool of the week

• User:Spinster/Wikidata references made easier: The script helps in adding references to statements, in order to provide context for our data, make the data more reliable, transparent and trustworthy for anyone who uses it .

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Registration is now open for the previously-announced course on the Wikidata ontology run by Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan. To register for the course send email to pfpschneider@gmail.com providing your Wikidata user name. Also include a sentence or two on what you want to get out of the course and what your interest in Wikidata is. Due to the number of people who have already expressed interest in the course it may be necessary to limit registration. If this is necessary we will select a group with varying expertise and interest in Wikidata and prefer those who have already expressed interest.
  The course will start on 1 May. Lectures will be every Thursday from 1pm to 3pm EDT (UTC-4), skipping 29 May and 12 June and ending on 19 June. Participants who cannot attend the first lecture will be able to view it afterwards.
  The goal of the course is to expand knowledge of the Wikidata ontology among the Wikidata community. Participants are expected to have a working knowledge of Wikidata and to attend the lectures, perform the exercises, and take part in a group project. Exercises are expected to take about one hour per week to complete. The amount of time taken for the project is up to the project participants.
  For more information see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Ontology_Course

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
  • External identifiers: Saarland Biografien ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • terminal speaker ()
    • organization code (the organization code of the organization item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}.)
    • organization unit code (the organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}.)
    • Picture composition (Description of a picture composition (design rules) analogous to the Commons category “[[:commons:Category:Picture composition]]”)
  • External identifiers: Moure's Catalog ID, MobyGames attribute ID, Número RPJ, Identificador de obra no Catálogo Mourisco, IPRESS ID, TeamUSA.com athlete ID, IEC document kind classification code, Europe PMC Preprint identifier, Snopes ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID, PyPI organization name, PlayStation Museum product ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID

You can comment on [[<tvar name="3ht5">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property proposal/Overview|all open property proposals]]!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• Schema examples:
• Newest WikiProjects:
• WikiProject Highlights:
• Newest database reports :
• Showcase Items :
• Showcase Lexemes:

Development

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: Chile
• 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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)