*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in
the week leading up to 2025-12-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #708
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.*
*Discussions*
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Well, Well, Bot!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Well,_Well,_Bot!>
-
Task/s: Database imports, maintenance.
- RijksBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RijksBot>
-
Task/s: Adding Rijksmuseum IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13234> (P13234) to Wikidata
items based on a CSV mapping of QIDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43649390> to Rijksmuseum
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25861166> URIs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61694>.
- CostamiriBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/CostamiriBot>
-
Task/s: Chess <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q718> related tasks such
as monthly updates to the elo <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105955>
rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105955> of chess players
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10873124>.
- New draft: Wikidata:External identifiers/Obsolescence
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:External_identifiers/Obsolescence>
(opinions
are welcome in its talk page)
*Events*
- Upcoming events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>:
- How to view #25N with Wikidata?
<https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dikm7CrXSZ27EuPJA3r56w#/registration>
-
a community hour with Wikimedia Chile, 21:00 UTC+1 (Time zone
converter <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1765224000>)
- Fact-Checking with Wikidata Workshop <https://luma.com/7fs5v7os> -
January 20, 2026, 16:30 ~ 18:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1768930200>) - WMDE's Philippe Saadé
will show hands-on methods using the Wikidata MCP to retrieve, filter and
classify Wikidata statements with semantic search, reranker LLM and NLI
models, registration required.
- (Portuguese) Meeting Point Editatona II - Warm your hands modeling
festival on Wikidata
<https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ponto_de_Encontro_Wikimedia/II>:
December 10, 2025, 15:00 - 19:00 UTC+1, Porto, Portugal.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
session
9 December, 2025: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on
Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time
zone converter <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1765299600>).
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
previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. Sessions will be
held on October 14, November 25, and December 9, 2025 at our regular time
of 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/PersonalPronouns
- Past Events: Digital Humanities Hub: Documenting epigraphic data,
Wikidata ontology practice
<https://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities-research-hub/events/documenting-epigraphic-data-wikidata-ontology-practice>
-
December 2 & 3, 2025, both 14:00 ~ 15:30 UTC.
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs: Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Lafia
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/12/03/celebrating-wikidatas-13th-birthday-in-lafia-a-day-of-learning-community-and-open-knowledge-%F0%9F%8E%89/>
- Papers:
- Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge
Graphs with Large Language Models <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.00590> -
Chepurova *et al*., (2025)
- Victims of Posterity. Identifying Gaps on 19th-Century French Art
History with Wikidata
<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.399> -
first paper in the *Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets,
Methodologies, Reuse*
<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/wikidata_across_the_humanities>
collection
by the Journal of Open Humanities Data. Authored by Claire Dupin
de Beyssat.
- Videos: GB Claude Code AI Agent: Fully Autonomous Wikidata Query &
Visualization (Zero Human Intervention)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T6_l2aEKXM>
- (Taiwanese Mandarin) Wikidata Taiwan translation project on
"Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project
Passage" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iadJst1IN8> (as published
by the OCLC)
*Tool of the week*
- Wikiguessr Game <https://ranjithsiji.github.io/wikiguessr/> Is a
Wikidata game it guess the location from Image from anywhere around the
world by User: Ranjithsiji
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ranjithsiji>
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- Remembering Amos Bairoch, co-contributor to Swiss Institute of
Bioinformatics Semantic Web of data
<https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/52/D1/D44/7329473> and consulted
often for TiagoLubiana's CellosaurusBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:CellosaurusBot>.
*Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties> and property
proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
review*
- Newest General datatypes:
- GBFS feed URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13975> (URL
of a GBFS feed for the bicycle-sharing system)
- code of conduct URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13977> (URL
of a resource that contains the Code of Conduct of a project or
organization)
- Newest External identifiers: BFXC authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13965>, Out tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13967>, GayCities ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13968>, Fight.ru fighters ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13969>, Personality Database
group ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13970>, Codes for the
administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13971>, Macanese company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13972>, MovieID film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13973>, Teen Vogue tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13974>, CRT Database model ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13976>, PriceRunner product ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13978>, BWB number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13979>, Brandenburg School ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13980>
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- fragrance gender
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fragrance_gender>
(category
for which a fragrance is marketed)
- perfumer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/perfumer>
(person
who created a perfume)
- Discharge regime
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Discharge_regime>
(The
'''[[:en:Discharge regime|discharge regime]]''' can be Glacial, Nival or
Pluvial. It can be a combination of 2 : Nivo-pluvial, Pluvio-nival,
Nivo-glacial, etc. Be specific (e.g. pluvial tropical, meridional, etc.).
Or be complex)
- minimal pair of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/minimal_pair_of>
(lexeme
that differ from this one in only one phonological element)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Cookpad Recipe ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cookpad_Recipe_ID>
, Sector.sk game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sector.sk_game_ID>
, Card Player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Card_Player_ID>
, Fragrantica perfume ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fragrantica_perfume_ID>
, Fragrantica perfume brand ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fragrantica_perfume_brand_ID>
, My Abandonware theme ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/My_Abandonware_theme_ID>
, Identificador Banrep Cultural
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identificador_Banrep_Cultural>
, izoh.uz word ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/izoh.uz_word_ID>
, VGChartz game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VGChartz_game_ID>
, Metacritic video game genre ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Metacritic_video_game_genre_ID>
, Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Place_Names_and_Places_of_Nova_Scotia_ID>
, Taking Stock ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Taking_Stock_ID>
, Game Font Library ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_Font_Library_ID>
, Fragrantica perfume notes ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fragrantica_perfume_notes_ID>
, EAGER game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EAGER_game_ID>
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples:
- Birthplace of French Heads of State <https://w.wiki/AA7J>
- Films starring Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hughes, available on
YouTube <https://w.wiki/ACWE>
- WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Turkmenistan
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Turkmenistan>
- Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
: Goosebumps <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16994327> - 2015 film
directed by Rob Letterman
- Showcase Lexemes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: course (L3958)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L3958> - English noun (kɔːrs)
meaning "direction of movement", "program of study", or "part of a meal"
*Development*
- Mobile statement editing:
- It's now possible to edit existing references (phab:T405236
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405236>)
- We fixed a number of issues such as a problem when adding the first
statements to an item (phab:T409069
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409069>)
- We started work on showing constraint violation indicators (
phab:T400676 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400676>)
- We're working on showing errors in the edit form (phab:T408928
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408928>)
- We're improving the edit summaries (phab:T411247
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411247>)
- Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We continued working
on improvements to the Databox Lua module and template
- GraphQL: We continued working on the first version of GraphQL support
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you
want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority>
.
*Weekly Tasks*
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review>
.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?>
.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Togo
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Togo>
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?>
in
one or two sentences.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or
proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
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· JosefAnthony
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:JosefAnthony> talk
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:JosefAnthony> ·*
Idoko Joseph (JosefAnthony)
Wikimedia Volunteer | Open Knowledge Advocate
*View my contributions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JosefAnthony/Contributions>*
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