*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in
theweek leading up to 2026-10-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #753
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.*
*Discussions*
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- OKA Bot 3
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/OKA_bot_3>
- *Task/s:* Reference works and registers, like Task 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:OKA_bot#Task_2:_facts_from_reference_works>
(Historical
Dictionary of Switzerland and Store norske leksikon). Each item-linked
entry, adds statements, references, sources where value is same
and missing
identifiers.
- UBZH Videothek Bot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/UBZH_Videothek_bot>
- *Task/s:* Add external identifiers of films and film
directors/people to existing items (from film catalogue of the University
Library of Zurich: UZH, Videothek database).
- EZBIDsBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/EZBIDsBot>
- *Task/s:* Adding EZB ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8089>, ZDB ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1042>, website URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P856>, Print ISSN
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P236>, and Online ISSN from EZB
dataset <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1327244> where they are
missing in Wikidata.
- Closed request for comments: Schema Virtual tour
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Schema_virtual_tour>
-
the RfC has been inactive since 2025, but discussion can continue on a
dedicated page: Schema Proposals/Virtual Tour
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Schema_proposals/virtual_tour>
*Events*
- Upcoming events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>:
- The Query Service Days
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Query_Service_Days_2026> is
currently ongoing! We still have many great sessions left so don't miss
out, especially if you use SPARQL, {{Wikidata List}} or the query service
(WDQS) in anyway...here's some helpful links:
- Register
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/4448> to
get access to the live-sessions
- See the full program
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Query_Service_Days_2026#Sessions>,
including links to the previous sessions and recordings.
- Wikidata's 14th Birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourteenth_Birthday> is
approaching soon...see what events are planned on the Calendar
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourteenth_Birthday#Events_calendar>
or
near you on the Map
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourteenth_Birthday#Events_map>
.
- Rutgers University is holding 2 Wikidata Edit-A-Thons, open to all
students, faculty, staff and community members. No Wikidata experience is
required.
- Newark Activists, Artists, Academics
<https://libcal.rutgers.edu/event/17361479> edit-a-thon, Oct 19,
12:00 - 14:00 EDT
- Black Bibliograohy
<https://libcal.rutgers.edu/event/17614499> edit-A-Thon,
Oct 21, 12:00 - 16:00 EDT
- Drop in and Wikidata (Oct)
<https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Drop_in_and_Wikidata_-_October_2026>,
a community call and live session will take place 29 Oct, 19:00
pm – 20:30
pm AEDT
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs:
- wdlite v26.10.18 <https://rtnf.substack.com/p/wdlite-v261018> by
rtnF
- Growing Active Technical Contributors in ESEAP
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/16/growing-active-technical-contributors-in-eseap/>
- Wiki Hour Initiative trains government agency on Wikipedia,
Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/16/wiki-hour-initiative-trains-government-agency-on-wikipedia/>
- Papers:
- Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a
Wikipedia biography?
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-10-13/By_the_numbers>,
The Signpost, October 13, 2026
- Using Wikidata to find duplicates in the Library of Congress Name
Authority File (LCNAF)
<https://repository.ifla.org/items/b028a2b0-b909-4a22-b32b-b4d8c3eb076a>
-
Librarians used Wikidata queries to identify and resolve
duplicate records
in the Library of Congress Name Authority File, improving 1,559 Wikidata
items and reporting 166 duplicate records for deletion over six
months. By
Muratsubaki, (2026).
- Videos:
- Africa Wiki Women’s Wikidata 14th birthday celebration
<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6xmELa8KZkU&pp=iggCQAE%3D&ra=m>
- Wikidata Editing - an introduction with Lepidoptera data
<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WMRILU3a-nI&pp=iggCQAE%3D&ra=m>
- Sandbox Session September 2026 - The Wikidata Toolbox
<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h_rJ4mG7eak&pp=iggCQAE%3D&ra=m>
- Sandbox Session August 2026 - The Wikidata reference Validator Tool
<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MQNfQKz3x98&pp=0gcJCY8Co7VqN5tDiggCQAE%3D&ra=m>
- Datasets: A dataset comparing Wikipedia biographies count to UN birth
estimates by country, gender, and language edition". Codeberg, 2026-07-12,
https://codeberg.org/pac2/biographies-vs-births
*Tool of the week*
- Script newentity.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:GZWDer/newentity.js> Generates new
items (including lexemes) from the given JSON object. The tool was created
by User:GZWDer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:GZWDer>
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- Upcoming changes to XML dumps
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/YQTPWNCTCIDO3SNDLIRNRFA2XTFFK5KR/>
- Mobile statement editing, now available to all editors
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/EOG5DIAYBCYMDIJDV4CDUCWR5S2YAGSJ/>
- Wikimania scholarships
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/3U5VHOU2SJ2Y72TITJZ7EUVUFDB6H6IA/>
*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:
- European Legislation Identifier (EU)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14967> (EU legislation
identifier for documents published by the EU, its member
states and other
(non-EU) countries)
- External identifiers: YouSaid person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14958>, StoryGraph book ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14959>, Scholastica scholar
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14960>, Ohio Entity Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14961>, Lrytas.lt topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14962>, ISDCF studio
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14963>, ISDCF
facility identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14964>, Calames
archives ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14965>, Hannah
Arendt edition person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14966>, Climate Policy
Radar Topics <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14968>, E-CRIS.SR
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14970>, Demko ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14971>, Delfi.lt topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14972>, Beeld & Geluid
program ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14973>, Baza osób
polskich ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14974>, BallotReady
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14975>, swissNAMES3D
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14976>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
review:
- General datatypes:
- National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan article
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Encyclopedia_of_Uzbekistan_article>
(A
reference to an article in the printed National Encyclopedia
of Uzbekistan,
identified by its volume and page number.)
- juvenile form of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/juvenile_form_of>
(taxon
(or taxa) of which instances of this item may be juveniles)
- development code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/development_code>
(code
assigned by a company or research organisation to a drug substance or
product during development, before or alongside its
nonproprietary name)
- part of the observance of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/part_of_the_observance_of>
(holiday
or observation on which this tradition is observed, this item
is used, or
with which this character is associated)
- External identifiers: ID závodiště podle českého Jockey Clubu
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ID_z%C3%A1vodi%C5%A1t%C4%9B_podle_%C4%8Desk%C3%A9ho_Jockey_Clubu>
, German War Memorial Website ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/German_War_Memorial_Website_ID>
, ERef Bayreuth ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ERef_Bayreuth_ID>
, EPub Bayreuth ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPub_Bayreuth_ID>
, Kansallinen Liiga player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kansallinen_Liiga_player_ID>
, SPL person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SPL_person_ID>
, Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Weilbachs_Kunstnerleksikon>
, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inscriptions_of_Aphrodisias_ID>
, The Session composer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Session_composer_ID>
, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inscriptions_of_Roman_Tripolitania_2021_ID>
, Filmoteket
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Filmoteket>
, Ecocard ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ecocard_ID>
, Kanalregister
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kanalregister>
, IBA cocktail ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IBA_cocktail_ID>
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples:
- Botched executions list <https://w.wiki/ZijK>
- Québec governments duration <https://w.wiki/dM6e>
- Schema examples: (E208) SPARQL endpoint
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E208> - entity schema of
entities with SPARQL endpoint.
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>
: Project Lukion taulukot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Lukion_taulukot> -
aims to develop a source-based, mul vocabulary of secondary-school science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) (uses Finnish
reference work *Lukion
taulukot* as its starting corpus).
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Project GovDirectory
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Estonia>
have
added an Estonian
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Estonia>
subpage.
- Project Library and Information Services
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Library_and_Information_Science/Statistics>
added
a Statistics subpage.
- Project Ethnomusicological descriptors
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ethnomusicological_descriptors_-_University_of_Turin/Instruments>
from
the University of Turin added an Instruments subpage.
- Newest database reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>: Wikidata
Query Help
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Wikidata_Query_Help>
-
with many database reports using the Query Service as a source, this will
be a helpful page for the planned migration.
*Development*
- Mobile editing of statements: We set the new mobile statement editing
UI live for all mobile users
- REST API: We are finishing the work on being able to add Senses to
existing Lexemes (phab:T432569
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T432569>)
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- Wikidata entities used in this page in the Page Information (example
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_Pole_Telescope&action=info#mw-pageinfo-header-properties>)
and Edit source views will now render with their local-language
labels (in
addition to their QID/PIDs) so it is easier to understand which Items,
Properties, etc are used in an article (phab:T440430
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T440430>)
- We are continuing to investigate the impacts of raising the entity
usage limit (phab:T441306 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T441306>)
- We are protyping wireframe versions of a new filter on Recent
changes and Watchlist for Language Links under "Wikidata Edits" in Active
Filters (phab:T441388 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T441388>)
- hCaptcha: We started implementation work for hCaptcha on Wikidata.org (
phab:T426089 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T426089>)
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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