*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in
the week leading up to 2026-03-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #723
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.*
*Discussions*
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- AraBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/AraBot>
-
Tasks: Adding Aragonese sitelinks and updating articles on Aragonese
Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/an:> with Wikidata's data.
- InventaireBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/InventaireBot>
-
Task: Make automated edits generated by the inventaire.io (Q32193244)
server and manual edits on behalf of users without a Wikidata account.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: DelintBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/DelintBot>
-
Task: Fix lint errors <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Lint_errors> on
pages across all namespaces where Wikitext can be written (namespaces not
managed by Wikibase).
- New request for comments: archive.today
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/archive.today>
-
due to a RfC and policy on enwiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5>,
this discussion needs your input on whether Wikidata will continue listing
archive.today links.
- Ongoing request for comments: Notability policy reform
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Notability_policy_reform>
is
looking for input about remaining questions around marginalized knowledge
and external identifiers
*Events*
- Upcoming events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>:
(German) Art History Loves Wiki im Museum Schnütgen, YouTube livestream
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thXJ1XAbWJ0> – 28 March 2026 (UTC+1):
presentations by Lisa Dieckmann at 12.30 - 12.50 (“Bilder verknüpfen –
prometheus, Normdaten und Wikidata”), Lucy Patterson & Lukas Fuchsgruber at
16.30 - 16.45 (“Kritische Arbeit mit Sammlungsdaten auf Wikidata”), and Max
Kristen at 17.30 - 17.45 (“usefulQueries: Unkompliziert Kunstgeschichte in
Wikidata erkunden”).
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs:
- Structuring Dagbanli on Wikidata: Lexemes, Senses, and the Digraph
Challenge
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/13/structuring-dagbanli-on-wikidata-lexemes-senses-and-the-digraph-challenge>
by
Masssly and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
- Open Knowledge Graphs: A Search Engine for Ontologies, Controlled
Vocabularies, and Semantic Web Tools
<https://stevehedden.medium.com/open-knowledge-graphs-a-search-engine-for-ontologies-controlled-vocabularies-and-semantic-web-cfcf32a5babe>,
by Steve Hedden
- (German) Erinnerungskultur zum Mitmachen: eine digitale Landkarte
zum Gestapoterror in Niedersachsen
<https://blog.tib.eu/2026/03/16/erinnerungskultur-zum-mitmachen-eine-digitale-landkarte-zum-gestapoterror-in-niedersachsen/>
by
Gabriele Fahrenkrog
- Papers: Understanding Wikidata Qualifiers: An Analysis and Taxonomy
<https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11767> presents an analysis of Wikidata
qualifiers, focusing on semantics and usage, in order to develop a taxonomy
to help in selecting appropriate qualifiers, querying the knowledge graph,
and making logical inferences. By Gilles Falquet and Sahar Aljalbout (2026).
- Videos:
- Creating a Wikidata item for a Historic Building
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwzBfV2bg_g> - OpenStreetMap for
History Buffs gives a practical example of creating a Wikidata Item for a
historic Irish building, but you can adapt it for other historical or
archeological sites.
- Introduction to Wikidata (Creating items, Statements & References)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT27D-1JIUo&pp=ygUIV2lraWRhdGE%3D> -
Africa Wiki Women continue their introductory series with
trainer, Blessing
Timothy.
- (French) Introduction à Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu0C1gWIgFQ> is also provided by
Africa Wiki Women.
- Simple steps to edit Wikidata Episode 1(WAMP)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw5mfJRgFXk> - User:Dsp13
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Dsp13> of the Wiki Afrodemics
Project covers a variety of topics to help new editors make meaningful
contributions to Wikidata.
- (French) Introduction à la modification de Wikidata sur mobile
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZxnAI-PrK0> - Art+Feminism in
partnership with WM Botswana provide a training session for
mobile editing
(with a focus on women artists, feminist movements and underrepresented
cultural contributions).
- Queer Women in the Arts
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1XtOtLzYDM>: Art+Feminism teamed up
with WikiLGBT+ (Event page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Queer_Women_in_Arts>) for a
panel discussion and Wikidata training centering on Queer Women in the
Arts, in honour of International Women's Day. Also available in
Spanish <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcBCJzH9OUI> and Portuguese
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag5GyE7OtKI>.
- Wikidata tools: Pet Scan
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TXqT2ohfwE> - User:Epìdosis
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ep%C3%ACdosis> introduces this
handy tool that allows you to query and generate lists of Wikipedia pages
or Wikidata items based on defined criteria such as Categories,
Properties,
Templates, and others.
- Introduction to Wikidata & Property Dashboard
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hTQF3Mde30> - *Essential Wikidata
Tools: Automating Your Workflow* workshop given 13 March 2026. Hosted
by Alan Ang, Camillo Pellizari, Pru Mitchell, and Taufik Rosman for the
ESEAP community.
*Tool of the week*
- Wikidata Property Creation Helper
<https://property-helper.toolforge.org/> takes a property proposal page
and translates it into a QuickStatements batch (and then a second one for
the examples) that a property creator can use to quickly create a new
property. By ArthurPSmith
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:ArthurPSmith>
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- GraphQL API ongoing feedback: If you haven’t tried it yet, you can
still explore it as a developer-friendly alternative to select WDQS
features. Please Share your feedback on the project page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibase_GraphQL>, or sign up
<https://greatquestion.co/wikimediadeutschland/GraphQLAPI/apply> for
deeper usability testing.
*Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties> and property
proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
review*
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- mass number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/mass_number>
(total
number of baryons in an atomic nucleus)
- soil acidity preference
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/soil_acidity_preference>
(soil
acidity preference of a plant species or lichen)
- Diepkloof
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diepkloof>
(Place
in Johannesburg, South Africa)
- paid-up capital
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/paid-up_capital>
(portion
of a company’s issued share capital that has been paid by shareholders)
- New External identifier property proposals to review:: Shinmei
database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shinmei_database_ID>
, Kulturdenkmal-ID Baden-Württemberg
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kulturdenkmal-ID_Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg>
, Central Registration Number (Police)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Central_Registration_Number_(Police)>
, NIP 9-digit
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NIP_9-digit>,
MeetStadium
ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MeetStadium_ID>
, indexxx.com performer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/indexxx.com_performer_ID>
, BGAFD actress ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BGAFD_actress_ID>
, Shellers From the Past ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shellers_From_the_Past_ID>
, معرف منشور في قاعدة بيانات معرفة
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%81_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%81%D9%8A_%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%A9>
, London Book Trades ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/London_Book_Trades_ID>
, KCI journal ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KCI_journal_ID>
, KCI publisher ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KCI_publisher_ID>
, PeerJ person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PeerJ_person_ID>
, BIORAB–FRANKFURT ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BIORAB%E2%80%93FRANKFURT_ID>
, BIORAB–WEIMAR
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BIORAB%E2%80%93WEIMAR>
, BIORAB-KAISERREICH
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BIORAB-KAISERREICH>
, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikiparfum_perfume_ingredient_ID>
, Wikiparfum perfumer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikiparfum_perfumer_ID>
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>!
*Did you know?*
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>
: WikiProject LAGL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LAGL> (Linked
Ancient and Greek Latin) has been established to develop guidelines for
adding statements for ancient authors.
- WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject IDEA: Oral Histories
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_IDEA/Oral_Histories>
- *International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA)* added a subpage
for resources, guidelines and progress for adding oral history Items and
Statements.
- Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
: Ngondo (Q3339328) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3339328> - worship
of water oracles and associated cultural traditions among the Sawa
*Development*
- Infrastructure sustainability: We started working with a contractor to
look at Wikidata's data storage to find opportunities for improving it.
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are
continuing the work on a prototype to compare a wiki page before and after
it has been parsed to see if this is a feasible way to reduce the number of
Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist that do not affect the
article (phab:T419823 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419823>)
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>
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<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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