*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2025-12-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #709 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.*
*Discussions* - The mass editing policy Request for Comments <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Requests_for_comment/Mass-editing_policy> has a number of open questions looking for votes and comments to shape the mass-editing policy. *Events* - Upcoming events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>: - A Scholia hackathon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Scholia/Events/2025_12> is ongoing this week, focused on completing the transition of Scholia to QLever <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:QLever> as the SPARQL backend for its Wikidata queries. - Data and Technology Week 2025 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Pekan_Data_dan_Teknologi_2025> from 19th of December 2025 to 22 of December 2025, organized by Wikimedia Indonesia (Q13098516) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13098516>. Consisted of a Wikidata Workshop, a Wikifunction Introductory Seminar and Geodatathon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Indonesia/Kegiatan/Datathon>. This event is in Indonesian. - (English) WM Malaysia / 2025 SEA Games Datathon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:2025_SEA_Games_Datathon> - 20.12.2025, 1200 ~ 1400 UTC. Register <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/2677> to contribute to items about athletes competing in South East Asian Games 2025 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25041680>(Q25041680 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25041680>) *Press, articles, blog posts, videos* - Blogs: (French) Facebook post: ArkéoTopia <https://www.facebook.com/reel/2155010721972790/>: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (CTHS) to begin integrating Wikidata - Papers: - Open Data Practices of Art Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment <https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.438> - second paper of the *Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse* <https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/wikidata_across_the_humanities> collection. By Dişli et al., (2025). - VIAF Governance Concerns about the Refurbished VIAF Web and API Interfaces <https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17384> by Stefano Bargioni (2025): a detailed account of the technical and governance issues experienced by VIAF <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54919> in 2025 and its impact on its many external reusers, including Wikidata - Videos: - (Italian) Wikidata and Wikibase for research <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k3VZpTDOJTQ>: Camillo Pellizzari gives an overview of Wikidata, the data model, potential as scientific research subject and tool, then a Wikibase intro and its uses beyond Wikidata, with example instance: Hypotheseis <https://hypotheseis.wikibase.cloud/>; slides on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_e_Wikibase_per_la_ricerca_(Seminario_di_cultura_digitale).pdf> - Feminist Structured data: A Conversation with Art+Feminism and Whose Knowledge? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM4SJeJhcvg>: How feminist values can reshape structured data on Wikidata to address gaps, representation, and opportunities for collaboration across communities. - Community Hours: Art+Feminism community in Armenia <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwxdyWHEhpw>: Former regional A+F ambassador, Arminé Aghayan-Flisch, tells us of her experiences growing the A+F Armenian community through GLAM, Wikidata and Wikipedia. - (Spanish) PADEP 2025: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sD0G2Obfw>: Dr. Luis Álvarez Azcárraga teaches the course: *Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Open Databases for Social, Artistic, and Cultural Studies* - See something, change something Webinar <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3hM9hc2tyM>: @58:10 <https://www.youtube.com/?si=1fp2tMPLBvkNmrPJ>, a presentation on the Wikidata agent plug-in for ArchivesSpace is given. - Wikibase Live Session / November 27 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibase_Live_Session_November_2025_-_Federated_Values_Demo.webm>: First demo presented of federation of values from Wikidata to Wikibases. *Tool of the week* - Broomstick <https://broomstick.toolforge.org/> - Broomstick is a tool to uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata. *Other Noteworthy Stuff* - Congratulations to Govdirectory <https://www.govdirectory.org/>, the winner of the FSF's Award for Projects of Social Benefit <https://www.fsf.org/news/2024-free-software-awards-winners>. - wikibase-cli <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/WikibaseJS-cli> got support for claim reconciliation <https://github.com/maxlath/wikibase-cli/blob/main/docs/write_operations.md#add-claim-unless-it-already-exists%7Cimproved>. This is typically useful to add a claim unless it already exists. - The Wikimedia Research Fund <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund/Wikimedia_Research_Fund> is open for funding applications for research projects around the Wikimedia Projects, including Wikidata. *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: has grammatical number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13986> (grammatical number used in this language) - Newest External identifiers: NLI Newspaper Collection ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13982>, Cabinet minutes of the German Government ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13983>, neodb.social ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13984>, Flemish Community Masterpieces List item ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13985> , Medicin.dk medical condition ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13987>, Mapillary username <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13988>, Sector.sk game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13989>, My Abandonware theme ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13990>, Encyclopedia of Shinto ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13991>, Blu-Ray.com film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13992>, Japanese Law Translation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13993>, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13994>, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13995>, Getty Collections Archival Component ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13996>, CRA program account number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13997>, FC Barcelona player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13998>, Qalamos person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13999>, KISTI conference ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14000> - New External identifier property proposals to review: survivalhorrors.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/survivalhorrors.com_ID> , Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diccionari_de_la_llengua_catalana_entry_ID> , GamesIndustry.biz game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GamesIndustry.biz_game_ID> , WhatsOnStage Stage Names ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WhatsOnStage_Stage_Names_ID> , Adventure Game Hotspot game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Adventure_Game_Hotspot_game_ID> , identifiant Netflix titre <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Netflix_titre> , 4gamer.net game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/4gamer.net_game_ID> , Fragrantica perfumer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fragrantica_perfumer_ID> , PC Guru game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PC_Guru_game_ID> , British Newspaper Archive publication ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/British_Newspaper_Archive_publication_ID> , GOG tag ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GOG_tag_ID>, Open Food Facts brand ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Food_Facts_brand_ID> , Games for Change directory ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Games_for_Change_directory_ID> You can comment on all open property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>! *Did you know?* - Query examples: - All ports in Wikidata, sorted by the total number of statements <https://w.wiki/GbVa> - Queer and LGBT Literature that have won Literary Awards <https://w.wiki/Ghiv> (source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Improving_a_query> ) - Bubble chart with numbers shown in the bubbles: Memory of the World inscriptions from Arab states <https://w.wiki/GiaY> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: - WikiProject P244 maintenance <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_P244_maintenance> - For coordination and improvement of Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAP) via Library of Congress authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P244> - WikiProject Museum of Glass <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Museum_of_Glass> ( Q2894440 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2894440>) - improving the visibility of visiting artists to the University of Washington Information School <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7896574> - WikiProject Highlights: Egezort's efforts in Mereology: removing/migrating part of statements in Recipe relationships <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Mereology_Task_Force/Effort_0001:_Removing_or_migrating_part_of_statements_in_recipe_relationships> - Newest database reports <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>: 34 Bots operating without a Bot flag <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Unauthorized_bots> - Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> : Fort George (Q1426707) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1426707> - 18th-century fortress built in the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 - Showcase Lexemes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: mesa (L31222) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L31222> - Spanish noun (ˈme.sa) meaning "table (furniture)", "mesa (flat-topped hill)", or "served table for dining" *Development* - Edit summaries: We made changes that will improve the automatic edit summaries of edits made using the wbeditentity API endpoint. Tools that use this endpoint to edit statements will, in some cases, now have more accurate edit summaries; this also affects how such edits are summarized in edit groups <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_groups>. ( phab:T411247 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411247>) - Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are collecting feedback from the first wikis who got the new and improved Databox module. - Mobile statement editing: - We are making remaining changes for the first roll-out as a beta-feature. - We are working on showing constraint violations. (phab:T411602 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411602>, phab:T400676 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400676>) - GraphQL: We are working on making it possible to query for Items by Property/value pair (phab:T403576 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T403576>) - REST API: We are improving error messages for requests that failed due to an IP block (phab:T404727 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404727>) 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: Germany <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Germany> - 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> *· Previous issue <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous> · 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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