*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2026-01-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #714 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.*
*Discussions* - Closed request for comments: Deprecate P642? <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Deprecate_P642> - Consensus to deprecate was reached. *Events* - Upcoming events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>: - Wikifying Te Tiriti <https://www.wikimedia.nz/wikifying-te-tiriti-based-futures/> 10-workshop series, attendees will learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and create Wikidata items, to increase the visibility of people and their projects working in Te Tiriti and anti-racism areas. Further information can be found on the WikiProject page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiProject:_Wikifying_Te_Tiriti-based_Futures> / Workshop timetable <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pakoire/WikiProject:_Wikifying_Te_Tiriti-based_Futures#Timetable> . Register to attend <https://learn-to-wikify-ttbf.lilregie.com/booking/attendees/new>. - Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 in Uganda <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2026_in_Uganda> - contribute to the project by expanding or creating Wikidata Items connected to the project categories, such as Ugandan folklore, food, music, dances, traditional clothing, and more. *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 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Pekan_Data_dan_Teknologi_2025> in last December 2025, organized introductory workshops on Wikidata and Wikifunctions. Read key takeaways and participants' discussion at Diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/01/16/introducing-data-and-functions-reflections-from-indonesian-data-and-technology-week-2025/> . - Wikidata Days 2025 Journey in Africa: Building Knowledge, Languages and Communities <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/01/14/wikidata-days-2025-journey-in-africa-building-knowledge-languages-and-communities/> - Wikidata Botswana 2025: Celebrating 13 Years (And We Really Showed Up!) <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/01/18/wikidata-botswana-2025-celebrating-13-years-and-we-really-showed-up-%F0%9F%8E%89/> - Papers: - A new monographic number of JLIS.it <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3805294> has been published regarding the OPAC SBN <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105086090> (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 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Gruppo_Wikidata_per_Musei,_Archivi_e_Biblioteche/SBN>); 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)* <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137786824>: 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* <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137787153>: 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* <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137787159>: a description of an utility to keep an authority file up-to-date finding missing death dates through Wikidata - Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN <https://jlis.fupress.net/index.php/jlis/article/view/677> - A collaboration between Wikimedia Italy and ICCU is enriching incomplete SBN authority records using Wikidata identifiers, enhancing catalogue accuracy and accessibility as entries continue to grow. By Ravelli, (2026). *Tool of the week* - Puzzles By Nathan <https://puzzles.madebynathan.com/chains> is a game that arrange words so each connects to the next *Other Noteworthy Stuff* - Mobile editing for RTL languages: The Wikimedia Deutschland team is seeking users of right-to-left (RTL) scripts, including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu, to help test and improve the mobile statement editing experience. If you edit in an RTL language and would like to join user interviews or deeper testing, sign up here <https://greatquestion.co/wikimediadeutschland/bo2e7e2a/direct>. - (French) Gendered place names in the public space of French-speaking Switzerland <https://observablehq.com/@workspace2138/odonymes-femmes> *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 External identifiers: Parfinity notes ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14086>, Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14087>, Basenotes perfume brand ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14088>, Basenotes perfume people ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14089>, Basenotes perfume ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14090>, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14091>, MAX username <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14092> - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - location collected <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/location_collected> (geographic location where a specimen or sample was collected in the field) - Category for music in this language <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Category_for_music_in_this_language> (link to category item that contains music in this language) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Thyssen-Bornemisza_work_ID> , CriticDB IDs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CriticDB_IDs>, MPA certificate number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MPA_certificate_number> , WorldFootball.net person ID (new) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WorldFootball.net_person_ID_(new)> , The Session tune ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Session_tune_ID> , Parfumo fragrance note ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Parfumo_fragrance_note_ID> You can comment on all open property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>! *Did you know?* - Query examples: - Timeline of elected germanic Roman emperors <https://w.wiki/HVed> - Universities without a P625 (coordinate location) <https://w.wiki/HXVa> - Source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#query_to_show_university_without_coordinate_location> - Schema examples: film director (E24) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E24> - WikiProject Highlights: - Rijksmonumenten Unmerge list <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Rijksmonumenten/Maintenance/Unmerge> - list of items with more than one P359 (Rijksmonumenten ID) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P359>. - Stanford Libraries <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Stanford_Libraries> added an event: Love Data Week 2026 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Stanford_Libraries/Events/LDW2026> - Newest database reports <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>: Entities without a Label <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel> - this list is dynamically created, search by language code and entity type: Item or Property. - Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> : FIFA (Q253414) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q253414> - international governing body of association football - Showcase Lexemes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: charge (L3922) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L3922> - English verb (tʃɑːrdʒ) meaning "to supply with energy", "to rush forward", or "to have responsibility for" *Development* - Mobile statement editing: - We continued work on supporting more datatypes for editing, specifically date, musical notation and monolingual text. - We worked on displaying constraint violation indicators. - You can try out the current state by enabling it in the beta features section of your preferences. - Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate options for further reducing the amount of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist on the other wikis to reduce the size of the database tables. - Dumps: We finished our research on dumps, especially looking into different ways to define subsets. We will publish the report with results by end of February. - Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is continuing the evaluation of potential replacements for Blazegraph. 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: - 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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