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Wikidata weekly summary #742
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week leading up to 2026-07-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #741.
Discussions
- New 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 - 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 - Task/s: Import 1389 instances of taxon author citation (P6507) from this Catalan Wikipedia list, compiled by bot from the articles.
- 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 - 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 - Task/s: Reformat Dutch verb forms that are listed as past tense (Q1994301), participle (Q814722) to simply use past participle (Q12717679)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Vladimir Terentyev used the set of names for every dish from Wikidata -- 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
- Simplified entry of complex data into Wikibase
- Grateful and Growing: Reflecting on My Wiki Afrodemics Fellowship, Pilot Cohort
- Papers: DivinWD: Exploring the Diversity of Scientific Publications in Wikidata - 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, the Wikidata-OpenStreetMap matching tool, can now add OpenStreetMap IDs to Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- dielectric strength (electric field strength that causes electrical breakdown of an insulating material under specified test conditions)
- still taken from the audiovisual work (image comes from the given audiovisual work)
- External identifiers: Operabook artist ID, MPA certificate number, Deltarune Wiki article ID, A World Made by Travel person ID, UntitledDb person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Fediverse app (Fediverse platform of the instance or address)
- Fediverse instance URL (Ferdiverse instance of/about the subject)
- reference amount (Amount of the food that contains a particular quantity of a nutrient.)
- Qidian Book ID ()
- External identifiers: Garance item ID, Kinorating, IGN producer, Fediverse address, Music & Opera artist ID, LFL player ID, Soccer365.net tournament ID, kicker.de coach ID, BeSoccer team ID, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID, SofaScore tournament ID, Foot Mercato club ID, Lithuanian movie register ID, Foot Mercato referee ID, BeSoccer referee ID, Kicker.de referee ID, Soccer365.net referee ID, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID, Soccer365.net stadium ID, MFL player ID, Okko movie ID, RIA Novosti organization ID, OpenParliamentTV person ID, OpenParliamentTV organization ID, OpenParliamentTV term ID, Camping.se ID, classicalive artist ID, Chess Games tournament ID, Chess.com tournament ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, Flemish educational institution number, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, Lulu spotlight ID, RPGnet Index ID, EU Treaties and Agreements database ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Development
- The team were at Wikimania this past week so not much development happened.
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:
- 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!
Tech News: 2026-31
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
Content Translation now supports dark mode, fulfilling a Community Wishlist request. This brings the tool in line with the accessibility features available in the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins, helping reduce visual fatigue for users translating content. - DiscussionTools' source mode and the 2017 wikitext editor will now offer autocomplete for links (
[[), templates ({{), HTML and parser tags (<), and magic words (__), making it quicker and easier to insert links, templates, and other wiki markup while editing. - The Readers Growth team has concluded its experiment with mobile page previews and will not roll out the feature. Page Previews are a pop-up bottom sheet that appears when readers tap a blue link, showing a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and an option to open the article. The experiment showed flat retention and negative indicator metrics, suggesting that mobile web readers preferred navigating directly to linked articles rather than using page previews.
- The Reader Experience team has seen encouraging early results from the Reading Lists feature, with 93% of participating users reporting that it was useful. Reading Lists help active readers save articles for future reading and support their learning goals on Wikimedia projects. The team plans further improvements before expanding the feature to more users.
- The Explore Feed Refresh initiative was tested with new and casual Wikipedia app readers. The refreshed feed helps readers discover new and relevant content. After a 10.5% increase in engagement with the feed, Wikimedia Apps team has decided to scale the Home Feed redesign to iOS with the learnings from the Android release applied.
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where subject names in the Article Guidance feature were displayed with incorrect capitalization on French Wikipedia, has now been fixed. Subject names will now follow the correct capitalization rules for the language.
Updates for technical contributors
- After running several Account Creation Experiments to improve registration completion rates, a new version of the username field on Create Account has been rolled out. It includes a popover summarizing the username policy to provide clearer guidance during account creation. As part of this change, the messages
createacct-helpusernameandcreateacct-username-helpthat several communities have configured will no longer be used. If communities want to customize the guidance shown in the new popover, they can instead edit the following messages:createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet1,createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet2, andcreateacct-username-policy-popover-bullet3. - Later this week, the CodeMirror syntax highlighter will offer themes. The themes can be picked from a dropdown menu in the full CodeMirror preferences dialog. For wikitext, available themes are default, colorblind-friendly (previously the colorblind preference option on Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing) and no-highlighting. For code languages (i.e., CSS/JavaScript/JSON/Vue/Lua), there are several themes available. These same themes will eventually be available for wikitext, too.
- From now on, wikis can restrict editing in the "User" namespace to only the page owner and certain user groups. Read the configuration documentation to learn more.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #258: Abstract Wikipedia at Wikimania
[edit]In this issue, we discuss the presentations and workshops at Wikimania, including a features feedback request based on what we heard there, and highlight new features shipped this week including diffs for Wikifunctions.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! Quiddity (WMF) 19:05, 30 July 2026 (UTC)