Wikidata:Status updates/Next

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2026-01-19.

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:

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • The London School of Economics and Political Science have employed a Wikimedian in Residence https://wikimedia.org.uk/2026/01/new-wikimedian-in-residence-at-lse/
  • Wikimedia Indonesia held Data and Technology Week 2025 in last December 2025, organized introductory workshops on Wikidata and Wikifunctions. Read key takeaways and participants' discussion at Diff.
• Papers
  • A new monographic number of JLIS.it has been published regarding the OPAC SBN (the biggest collective library catalogue in Italy, with more than 7 thousands of libraries participating; about its collaboration with Wikidata, see the Wikidata coordination page); it contains 3 papers focusing on the use of Wikidata for authority control (all in Italian, with abstract in English):
    • Wikidata and SBN: An Assessment of Two Years of Work (2023–2025): an overview Wikidata-SBN of the collaboration in 2023-2025, focusing on the methods of reconciliation
    • Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN: a description of the procedure to extract data from Wikidata items matches with SBN authority records and adapt these data to be copied into non-individualised SBN authority records
    • NaMo, utility for populating missing date fields in authority records: a description of an utility to keep an authority file up-to-date finding missing death dates through Wikidata
• Videos

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Parfinity notes ID, ‎Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID, Basenotes perfume brand ID, Basenotes perfume people ID, Basenotes perfume ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • location collected (geographic location where a specimen or sample was collected in the field)
  • External identifiers: Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID, CriticDB IDs, MPA certificate number, WorldFootball.net person ID (new), The Session tune ID, Parfumo fragrance note ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Timeline of elected germanic Roman emperors
• 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:
• 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! :)