Discussions

• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Mr Robot - No consensus reached.

Events

• Past events: Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
• Upcoming events:
  • Volunteer Supporters Network/Wikidata for beginners May 16, 2025
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects May 29 - June 1, 2025. register here
  • Wikidata and Research Conference June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence.
  • Call for Proposals:Wikidata Taiwan x OpenStreetMap Taiwam @ COSCUP 2025,Submission Deadline: May 10, 2025 (AoE).
  • WikidataCon 2025 Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2025. Register here

• Ongoing event: Coordinate Me 2025 May 1 - May 31, 2025

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • WikidataCon 2025 - programme track categories are ready - time to start thinking about session proposals!
  • checking OSM IDs between OSM and Wikidata By Michaël
  • WikiFlix, a new free streaming platform goes live
• Papers
  • How to Develop a Privacy-First Entity Recognition System By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
  • Detecting and Masking Personal Data in Text By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
  • EA2N: Evidence-Based AMR Attention Network for Fake News Detection By Gupta et. al., (2025)

Tool of the week

• OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap, is a project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. It was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways .

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Ever played Redactle? Lucas put together a Wikidata version of it. Can you guess the Item? Still needs a bit of work but you can try it out now.
• EditGroups has a new maintainer

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • organization unit code (organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item)
    • likes of fictional character (particular likes which applies to this fictional character as (usually) stated in their official profile or biography)
    • dislikes of fictional character (particular dislikes which applies to this fictional character as stated in their official profile or biography)
    • number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
    • RAM capacity (amount of volatile random-access memory (RAM) modules used by this device)
    • species protection status (Links species, habitat or biotope type with the regulation international or national that protects this species)
    • Nation Ranking (primary) (main/general ranking for a cycling tournament season)
    • Nation Ranking (secondary) (youth/U23 ranking for this cycling tournament season)
  • External identifiers: badmintoncn.com star ID, ‎Danskefilmstemmer.dk work or dubbing ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, ‎JSIC code, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, Dark Ride Database ride ID, Dark Ride Database park ID, Dark Ride Database manufacturer ID, ‎Databáze her platform ID, Mourisco Catalogue work ID, Radiomuseum vacuum tube/transistor ID, ‎CAMRA pub ID, MobyGames attribute ID, MetalTabs.com track ID, Moure's Catalog ID, PromoDJ track ID, Euronews topic ID, Audiomack artist ID, Audiomack album ID, Europe PMC preprint ID, ‎SMB-digital asset ID, Audiomack song ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (glossary and index of terms) ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, Itch.io tag ID, Corago singer ID, ‎MoNA spectrum ID, La Croix author ID, ‎Billie Jean King Cup player ID 2024, ‎TeamUSA.com athlete ID, ‎Snopes ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID, ‎PyPI organization name, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID, ‎PlayStation Museum product ID, Urban Dictionary ID, ‎GOG Dreamlist ID, RCI number, ‎Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID, Orthodox World ID, ‎Coasterpedia ID, Ethnologue language family ID, ‎factordb ID, SCImago Institutions Rankings ID, UniRank ID, Bibliometrics of Ukrainian science person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Context Window (The maximum length of an input token in the language model.)
    • contains nutrient (Food contains nutrient)
    • underlying data (this mathematical structure has these data as part)
    • échelle de Beaufort (empirical measure describing wind speed based on observed conditions)
  • External identifiers: vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Mobility Database ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, Substack username, Private Enterprise Number, ComputerLanguage.com definition, otzovik.com review ID, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Persoon)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know ?

• Newest WikiProjects :
  • Nonprofit Organisations: Ukraine
  • Stockholm Archilepago Trail
• Newest database reports : Descriptions with QID - These Item descriptions contain a QID or Item ID.
• Showcase Items: Hans van Mierlo (Q288771) - Dutch politician (1931–2010)
• Showcase Lexemes: Tribe (L28956) - English noun (trīb) that can mean "a social division in traditional society", "a political subdivision", or "a genre of Techno Music":

Development

• Wikidata Query Service: The search platform team finished the remaining work for the graph split and it is going live this week.
• We took part in the Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
• Wikipedia and co: We continued working on improving how Wikidata edits are shown on the watchlist on Wikipedia and co. We are focusing on showing labels instead of IDs for the entities (Items, Properties, ...) linked in the edit summaries (phab:T388685)
• UI: We continued doing small fixes for dark mode support in the UI (phab:T385039)
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the search endpoint (phab:T383126)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Philippines
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Kaxabu Wikidata Workshop May 17 at Puli DOC, Nantou
  • Seediq Wikidata Lexeme Workshop May 18 at Puli DOC, Nantou
• Past: Wikimedia Hackathon happened on May 4. Check out the closing showcase that included some Wikidata-related projects: Etherpad (Hackaton 2025)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • GLAM and Wikidata: The "GLAMorous Wikidata" Campaign: In March 2025, Wikimedia Serbia launched a local thematic campaign called GLAMurous Wikidata, focused on improving data about cultural and heritage institutions on Wikidata.
  • Project "Open Topstukken" ("Open Collection Highlights") - Maastricht University and Radboud University: The "Open Topstukken" project is a collaboration between Maastricht University and Radboud University to digitize and publish rare books and manuscripts, with metadata from their Omeka S systems automatically transferred to Wikidata by Wikidata specialists.
  • Wikidata and Research: The programme for the “Wikidata and Research” conference is now available online. Scheduled for 5–6 June 2025 at the University of Florence, this event is convened by a volunteer Scientific Committee in collaboration with Wikimedia Italia and the University of Florence.
• Papers
  • Capacitating Librarians with Wikidata Literacy for Managing Wikipedia Information Resources: Implications to Libraries By Oyighan et. al., (2025)
  • Social Biases in Knowledge Representations of Wikidata separates Global North from Global South By Das et. al., (2025)
  • Automatic Curriculum Cohesion Analysis Based on Knowledge Graphs By Gacek & Adrian (2025).
• Videos
  • African Wiki Women Wikidata training for the gender equality campaign
  • Using Listeria tool to create Wikidata lists from Wikidata
  • Using the Mix'n'match tool to match external datasets to Wikidata items.
  • Connecting the World’s Knowledge with Abstract Wikipedia By Denny Vrandečić

Tool of the week

• Wdactle game -- is a Wikidata version of Redactle! It's a game where you are shown a Wikidata Item with all labels and words redacted and have to figure out what it is. Guessing a word reveals all the places where it is used. Built by Luca Werkmeister during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• ⚠️ Wikidata Query Service graph split: As you know Wikidata Query Service was no longer able to handle the complete set of data Wikidata has. To address this the graph in Wikidata Query Service has now been split into a main graph (that continues to be at query.wikidata.org) and a scholarly graph (that is at query-scholarly.wikidata.org). For more details please see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS graph split.
• Join the Wikidata:Impact stories global campiagn. We're celebrating the amazing Wikidata community - editors, developers, librarians, and creators - and inviting you to share how Wikidata is used. Your story can inspire others and grow the community. Submit yours or nominate a cool project by June 6.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
• Newest External identifiers: Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID, vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, ‎Substack handle, Sport Express football match ID, R-Sport match ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • related video (less fitting video, used only because a better alternative is not available. If an appropriate video of the item is available, use P10 instead. Value should not be a generic placeholder.)
  • cosplay of (character(s) that are cosplayed in this image or video)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: RFI station ID (timetables), registration number of japanese invoice system, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Geographicus-cartographer, Harper's tag, Database of Czech Librarians ID, Open Location Code, CABR-identifier, Onsland-identifier, National Library of Spain Alma ID (BNE v2.0), PC98 Images game ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki-ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • All you want to know about The Blue Coats (Q1030833)
  • Birthplace of Colombians in the Public Domain
• Showcase Items: Soir d'été sur la plage de Skagen – l'artiste et sa femme (Q18386245) - painting by Peder Severin Krøyer from 1899
• Showcase Lexemes: Projektion (L494436) - German noun (pro-yek-tsi̯oːn) that can mean "projection", "image display", or "defence mechanism in Psychoanalysis"

Development

• mul language code: We are fixing an issue where Items can't be found by their mul language label or alias (phab:T392058)
• Wikibase REST API: We are working on phrase matching for the simple search (phab:T389011)
• Dark mode: We fixed a color contrast bug with the entity selector when making new statements (phab:T393641)
• Ontology: We’re working on an updated, more complete version of the wikibase.owl ontology file (phab:T371752)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Italy
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!