*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2026-08-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #745 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.*
*Events* - Upcoming events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>: Wikidata Lab XLVIII: Outreach Dashboard <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_Lab_XLVIII>, August 27, at 15:30 UTC. Come see and discuss new Wikidata functionalities of the Outreach Dashboard! *Press, articles, blog posts, videos* - Blogs: Finishing Outreachy with Wikidata support for Wikiscore <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/08/20/finishing-outreachy-with-wikidata-support-for-wikiscore/> by ACorrea WMB and AnaMRRuiz - Papers: Climate Knowledge Graph (ClimateKG) <https://zenodo.org/records/21032521> - A partnership project to make a knowledge graph of the 10,000 page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. *Tool of the week* - Lex-Olympia <https://lex-olympia.toolforge.org/> — A new tool for improving Wikidata Lexemes. Try it out and share your feedback with the developer and community. *Other Noteworthy Stuff* - Research study: AI tools for content verifiability on Wikidata. Researchers from King's College London are inviting Wikidata editors (especially those working on health or GLAM/cultural heritage content) to participate in a two-stage study (1-hour interview + 2-hour workshop) exploring how AI tools can support content verifiability. Participants receive compensation via Love2Shop vouchers. Sign up here <https://qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_brAn2DKOrDz0fum> (Qualtrics form). *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: none - External identifiers: BBFC release ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14801>, Silloria brands ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14802>, Silloria notes ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14804>, Silloria perfumer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14805>, Kinolights person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14806>, Kinolights work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14808>, BeerAdvocate beer style ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14809>, immaterieelerfgoed.be ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14810>, idw member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14811>, Geoshape Repository municipality ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14812>, Filmová databáze seriál ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14813>, FIBA.basketball event ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14814>, dbv member slug <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14815>, Silloria perfumes ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14816>, SEASLUG.WORLD species ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14817>, parliament.uk constituency ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14818>, Judoresults judoka ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14819>, Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14820>, IMCDB work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14821>, Norwegian polarhistory ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14822>, CREDD'O catalog ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14824> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - substance control status <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/substance_control_status> (control regime a substance is placed under in a jurisdiction or by an international treaty — schedule, class, or explicitly uncontrolled; qualify with "applies to jurisdiction" (P1001) and start/end time) - Bibcode access status <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bibcode_access_status> (Indicator of the access statement for a document on Bibcode) - External identifiers: wowKorea Parson ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/wowKorea_Parson_ID> , wowKorea Work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/wowKorea_Work_ID> , TOWER RECORDS ONLINE artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TOWER_RECORDS_ONLINE_artist_ID> , Antarctic Protected Areas database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Antarctic_Protected_Areas_database_ID> , WikiPepper pepper ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiPepper_pepper_ID> , Inventory Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inventory_Intangible_Cultural_Heritage_in_the_Netherlands_ID> , NAKED(X-DIABLO) actress ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NAKED(X-DIABLO)_actress_ID> , Weibo ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Weibo_ID>, Umamusume Wiki article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Umamusume_Wiki_article_ID> , Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du CREDD'O <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_d%27un(e)_auteurice_dans_le_catalogue_du_CREDD%27O> , Georgian NAPR identification number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Georgian_NAPR_identification_number> , Companyinfo.ge corporation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Companyinfo.ge_corporation_ID> , T&F NCAAdb athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/T%26F_NCAAdb_athlete_ID> , UkrBIN ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UkrBIN_ID>, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture record identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Platform_for_Taiwan_Religion_and_Folk_Culture_record_identifier> You can comment on all open property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>! *Did you know?* - Query examples:Railway stations map in the two Koreas <https://w.wiki/Tc4r> *Development* - REST API: We are continuing the work on making it possible to create a Lexeme and will then move on to adding statements to Lexemes. - GraphQL: We are working on moving the Item search from cirrussearch to mariadb to be able to add more functionality. - Newcomer homepage: We are updating the text to move it away from some Wikipedia-specific phrases (e.g. articles) - Mobile editing: We worked on not showing edit links on old revisions and diffs since those can not be edited. - Page load times: We continued looking into unnecessarily loaded modules related to the Wikidata Bridge to see if we can remove them and speed up page load times. 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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