*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in
the week leading up to 2026-03-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #722
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.*
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs:
- The African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA) project
<https://almedaresearch.org/> - The ALMEDA project’s key outcome is a
linked, open, and searchable metadata repository—built from extensive
cataloguing of previously uncatalogued materials and enriched through a
user-friendly interface launching in 2025, designed to support ongoing
growth beyond the project’s initial five-year funding.
-
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/13/structuring-dagbanli-on-wikidata-lexemes-senses-and-the-digraph-challenge/
- Papers: Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy
<https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11767> - This study develops a refined
taxonomy of Wikidata qualifiers—based on their semantics, frequency, and
diversity—to help contributors select appropriate qualifiers, improve
querying and inference, and enhance knowledge graph design, ultimately
offering a structured framework that covers the most important qualifiers
and supports better recommendation systems. By Falquet & Aljalbout (2026).
- Videos: LIVE Wikidata editing #118 at the Open Data Day
<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZQ67TzUJdM&pp=iggCQAE%3D> - Wikipedia
Weekly Network:
- Introduction to editing Wikidata on mobile
<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KI936x_IBT0&pp=iggCQAE%3D> - Art +
Feminism in Wikimedia Botswana
- Queer women in the Arts (English): A panel discussion and Wikidata
workshop <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f1XtOtLzYDM&pp=iggCQAE%3D>
- Podcasts: Wikipediapodden interviews Lydia Pintscher about the ongoing
Wikidata notability reform
<https://wikipediapodden.se/wikidata-notability-reform-356/> (also
available on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP356_-_Wikidata_notability_reform.mp3>
)
- Notebooks: Who gets a biography on French-language Wikipedia?
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/who-gets-a-biography-on-french-language-wikipedia>
A
country-by-country portrait of biographical coverage for people born
between 1950 and 2000.
*Tool of the week*
- Wdquery <https://github.com/altilunium/wdquery> : GraphQL-powered
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibase_GraphQL> Wikidata item
advanced search.
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- https://casier-politique.fr
- Fornland <https://www.fornland.com/>—aggregates over a million
cultural heritage sites from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, the
Faroe Islands and Greenland into one interface, combining Wikidata and
other sources .
- m:Coolest Tool Award
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award>
- The WMF Wikidata Platform team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Platform> has published its March
2026 newsletter
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Platform_team/Newsletter>.
To have new issues of the WDP *monthly* newsletter delivered to your
user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_message_delivery/Targets/WDP_team_updates>
- Reminder that the 4 week grace period for switching to the v1 route
for the Wikibase REST API search endpoints
<https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/js/rest-api/#/item%20search> will
end this week. The v0 route will be turned off and hence will no longer
function.
*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:
- river regime <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14182>
(predominant
pattern of annual changes to a stream's discharge at a particular period)
- seat occupied <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14186> (seat
held by a person within an academy or other society)
- Newest External identifiers: Génération Nintendo publisher ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14183>, KCI article ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14184>, LINCS ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14185>,
radeberger-stadtgeschichte.de
Object Identificator <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14187>, Flohic
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14188>, Vlaams Woordenboek
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14189>, Bach digital person
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14191>, Bach digital work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14192>, Identificativo Antenati
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14193>, Liiga.fi player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14194>, Pesistulokset.fi
player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14195>, Letterboxd
producer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14196>, Fragplace
brands ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14197>, Fragplace
fragrances ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14198>, Fragplace
notes ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14199>, Fragplace
perfumers ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14200>
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- population pyramid
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/population_pyramid>
(Age
pyramid image for demography articles)
- StatsF1 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/StatsF1_ID>
(Link
to a Formula 1 specific database)
- maximum vehicle height
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/maximum_vehicle_height>
(maximum
authorized height for vehicles (especially heavy goods vehicles) on a
bridge, tunnel or road segment (regulatory limit from signage))
- Bibliografi.dk
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bibliografi.dk>
(Bibliografi.dk)
- PeerTube instance URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PeerTube_instance_URL>
(the
PeerTube instance of/about the subject)
- Central Registration Number (Indonesia)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Central_Registration_Number_(Indonesia)>
(primary
service registration number assigned to a member of the Indonesian Armed
Forces or Indonesian National Police)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Digital Public
Good
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Digital_Public_Good>
, LUBW-RIPS-Wasserkraftanlage-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LUBW-RIPS-Wasserkraftanlage-ID>
, Identifiant QueenBallers.com d'une joueuse
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_QueenBallers.com_d%27une_joueuse>
, Foto Atlas taxonomy ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Foto_Atlas_taxonomy_ID>
, Brewver beer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Brewver_beer_ID>
, Göteborgsalliansen
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/G%C3%B6teborgsalliansen>
, Consumer Rights Wiki article ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Consumer_Rights_Wiki_article_ID>
, Royal Air Force service number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Royal_Air_Force_service_number>
, Identifiant d'une personne dans le Bianco
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_d%27une_personne_dans_le_Bianco>
, Tajik-Russian Dictionary word ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tajik-Russian_Dictionary_word_ID>
, AmericanAristocracy person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AmericanAristocracy_person_ID>
, AmericanAristocracy house ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AmericanAristocracy_house_ID>
, Shinmei database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shinmei_database_ID>
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>!
*Did you know?*
- Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
: Patrice Lumumba (Q161672) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q161672> -
Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)
*Development*
- Mobile statement editing:
- If you have not tried it yet, now is an excellent time to turn it
on in the beta features section of your preferences, test it and give
feedback.
- We have added support for editing globe coordinate statements
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are
continuing to work on the issue of too many Wikidata in recent changes and
watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We are currently prototyping a way to only
consider changes that actually have an impact on the article (
phab:T419823 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419823>). We also
finished the work on an emergency switch to turn off sending changes for
qualifiers and references to Wikipedia and co in case of major database
disruptions (phab:T412956 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T412956>).
- Ontology federation: We are working towards getting the code for
ontology federation (in its first version of using Wikidata Items as values
on other Wikibase instances) ready for wider testing.
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: Bangladesh
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Bangladesh>
- 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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<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:JosefAnthony> talk
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:JosefAnthony> ·*
Idoko Joseph (JosefAnthony)
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