*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in
theweek leading up to 2026-07-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #741
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.*
*Discussions*
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- AuntuBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/AuntuBot>
- *Task/s:* Per the approved bot request at
commons:Commons:Bots/Requests/AuntuBot, I am in the process of uploading
approximately 50,000 issues of the Bangladesh Gazette to
Wikimedia Commons.
We need to a parent Wikidata item for each specific issue/volume
to import
and organize these files on Bengali Wikisource. Note that AuntuBot has
already been granted a bot flag on Wikimedia Commons for the file uploads.
- Rebot 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Rebot_2>
- *Task/s:* We recently created the new property perspective
(P14345) (Wikidata:Property proposal/anatomical view). With Rebot, I plan
to move:
- About 570 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a
property
- About 1400 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a
qualifier of image (P18)
- Rebot 3
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Rebot_3>
- *Task/s:* Import 1389 instances of taxon author citation (P6507)
from this Catalan Wikipedia list, compiled by bot from the articles.
- Rebot 4
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Rebot_4>
- *Task/s:* The task consists in changing these 1072 items. It has
to change creator (P170) to the new property photographer (P14574). Also
there are 1000+ items in which the property should be used as a qualifier.
- Openpep
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Openpep>
- *Task/s:* Maintenance of Politically Exposed Person (PEP) data on
Wikidata for Thai government officials. Specifically:
- Creating new Wikidata items for Thai politicians not yet in the
database
- Adding P39 (position held) claims with proper qualifiers (P580 start
time, P582 end time, P2937 legislative term for legislators, P1365/P1366
replaces/replaced by, P1545 series ordinal)
- Adding P102 (member of political party) with date qualifiers
- Adding P569 (date of birth), P106 (occupation), P21 (sex or gender),
P19 (place of birth), P1559 (name in native language)
- Setting and correcting labels, descriptions, and aliases
- Removing incorrect claims and deduplicating
- Adding social media profiles (P2003 Instagram, P2013 Facebook, P11705
Facebook numeric ID)
- DutchFixer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/DutchFixer>
- *Task/s:* Reformat Dutch verb forms that are listed as past tense
(Q1994301) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1994301>, participle
(Q814722) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q814722> to simply use past
participle (Q12717679) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12717679>
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs:
- Vladimir Terentyev used the set of names for every dish from
Wikidata <https://vova.today/en/works/plofornot/> -- labels and
aliases in every language -- along with restaurant data from
OpenStreetMap
to develop a world map of dish names, attempting to answer the research
question: "Where does plov end and biryani begin, and who really draws
these borders?"
- Giving Open Source Hardware a Place on Wikidata
<https://oshwa.org/announcements/giving-open-source-hardware-a-place-on-wikidata/>
- Simplified entry of complex data into Wikibase
<https://blog.tib.eu/2026/07/27/simplified-entry-of-complex-data-into-wikibase/>
- Grateful and Growing: Reflecting on My Wiki Afrodemics Fellowship,
Pilot Cohort
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/07/24/grateful-and-growing-reflecting-on-my-wiki-afrodemics-fellowship-pilot-cohort/>
- Papers: DivinWD: Exploring the Diversity of Scientific Publications in
Wikidata <https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/42790> -
DivinWD is a large open-source dataset of over 23 million triples and 1.2
million scholarly articles (2010–2024), integrating Wikidata with five
bibliographic sources and gender data to enable transparent diversity
analyses in science while documenting biases and infrastructural
limitations. By Saletti et. al., (2026)
*Tool of the week*
- OWL Places <https://osm.wikidata.link/>, the Wikidata-OpenStreetMap
matching tool, can now add OpenStreetMap IDs to Wikidata
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.1.0 and other upgrades
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/4ODLBGNPJVVMLFCRJUMODQ3SQEPPOXCE/>
*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 properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes:
- dielectric strength
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14669> (electric field
strength that causes electrical breakdown of an insulating
material under
specified test conditions)
- still taken from the audiovisual work
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14672> (image comes from
the given audiovisual work)
- External identifiers: Operabook artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14670>, MPA certificate
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14671>, Deltarune
Wiki article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14673>, A
World Made by Travel person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14674>, UntitledDb person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14675>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
review:
- General datatypes:
- Fediverse app
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fediverse_app>
(Fediverse
platform of the instance or address)
- Fediverse instance URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fediverse_instance_URL>
(Ferdiverse
instance of/about the subject)
- reference amount
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/reference_amount>
(Amount
of the food that contains a particular quantity of a nutrient.)
- Qidian Book ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Qidian_Book_ID>
()
- External identifiers: Garance item ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Garance_item_ID>
, Kinorating
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinorating>
, IGN producer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IGN_producer>
, Fediverse address
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fediverse_address>
, Music & Opera artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Music_%26_Opera_artist_ID>
, LFL player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LFL_player_ID>
, Soccer365.net tournament ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Soccer365.net_tournament_ID>
, kicker.de coach ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/kicker.de_coach_ID>
, BeSoccer team ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BeSoccer_team_ID>
, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FootballFakts.ru_stadium_ID>
, SofaScore tournament ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SofaScore_tournament_ID>
, Foot Mercato club ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Foot_Mercato_club_ID>
, Lithuanian movie register ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lithuanian_movie_register_ID>
, Foot Mercato referee ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Foot_Mercato_referee_ID>
, BeSoccer referee ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BeSoccer_referee_ID>
, Kicker.de referee ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kicker.de_referee_ID>
, Soccer365.net referee ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Soccer365.net_referee_ID>
, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UNESCO_Observatory_of_Killed_Journalists_ID>
, Soccer365.net stadium ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Soccer365.net_stadium_ID>
, MFL player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MFL_player_ID>
, Okko movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Okko_movie_ID>
, RIA Novosti organization ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RIA_Novosti_organization_ID>
, OpenParliamentTV person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenParliamentTV_person_ID>
, OpenParliamentTV organization ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenParliamentTV_organization_ID>
, OpenParliamentTV term ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenParliamentTV_term_ID>
, Camping.se ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Camping.se_ID>
, classicalive artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/classicalive_artist_ID>
, Chess Games tournament ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chess_Games_tournament_ID>
, Chess.com tournament ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chess.com_tournament_ID>
, MusiciansPage artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MusiciansPage_artist_ID>
, Flemish educational institution number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flemish_educational_institution_number>
, Giovani Artisti italiani ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Giovani_Artisti_italiani_ID>
, 365chess.com tournament ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/365chess.com_tournament_ID>
, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Norwegian_Athletics_athlete_ID>
, LinkedIn numeric company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LinkedIn_numeric_company_ID>
, Lulu spotlight ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lulu_spotlight_ID>
, RPGnet Index ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RPGnet_Index_ID>
, EU Treaties and Agreements database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EU_Treaties_and_Agreements_database_ID>
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>!
*Development*
- The team were at Wikimania this past week so not much development
happened.
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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