Discussions

• Open request for adminship: ZI Jony (2) - RfP scheduled to end after 17 April 2026 13:09 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Nirmos Bot 3 - Task(s): Turn one or more consecutive hard (non-breaking) spaces into one regular space in Swedish descriptions.
  • Alex NB OT - Task(s): Correction of incorrectly specified links to population data sources containing wikitext artifacts with categories, which leads to incorrect categorization of articles.
  • Alex NB OT 2 - Task(s): Extract KCI article ID from P953 and add it to P14184.
  • ReNeuralAgent - Task(s): (1) add descriptions, (2) Latvian labels/descriptions, (3) 'retrieved from' and 'source URL' to unreferenced Statements, (4) missing aliases from external Identifier sources, (5) Geo coordinates, (6) external identifiers, (7) Population numbers, (8) remove 'dead sitelinks', (9) constraint violations.
• Open request for comment: Mass-editing policy is still open and requires your input.

Events

• Past: Missed the second quarter Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session transcript here: 2026-04-08 (Q2 2026)
• Current: (Spanish) Public Domain in Latin America 2026 - 1st edition of the campaign to improve public domain data for Latin America is running until 15 June.
• Upcoming events:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 14 April, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). QuickStatements is one of the most widely used tools in Wikidata, enabling users to upload and edit large volumes of structured data efficiently. Originally developed by Magnus Manske, the tool has become essential for institutions, researchers, and volunteers working with open data. The new QuickStatements 3.0, developed by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, introduces a modernized interface, improved performance, and new features shaped by community input, making it easier than ever to contribute high-quality data to the Wikimedia ecosystem. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/QuickStatements3
  • Art+Feminism is hosting a Community Hours session on April 17 to introduce their new Wikidata modules — don’t miss it!
  • digiS Workshop „Wikidata für die Sammlungserschließung“ am 20.04. - (German), registration closes 16.04, takes place online (10:00 – 11:30 CEST), room link after registration.
  • Open Scholarly Profiles with Wikidata - Wednesday, April 22, 2026 1300 - 1430 EDT (1700 - 1830 UTC). This is an onsite event at University of Central Florida.
  • Visibility of Communities in Nigeria 2.0: 17.04 - 25.04, (please register on the link). Help enrich Wikidata with cultural preservation, tourism and inclusive development data for items on South Nigerian communities.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (Spanish) Connecting: Basque documentary heritage on Wikipedia and Wikidata - a program to make Basque heritage data more visible, with events scheduled through April - June.
• Videos:
  • Live Wikidata Editing #120 with Jan Ainali and Abbe98
  • Can AI Replace Wikipedia? Jonathan Fraine & Raja Amelung Explain Why It Cannot - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan and Raja discuss why human knowledge and contribution to Wikipedia and Wikidata will always be important.
  • Interfacing with Wikidata for fun and profit - Yaron Koren
  • Introduction to Lexicographical data - By Chinonso Chidi
  • WMUK Wikidata Training (1/2) - Why & how to add data to Wikidata - a beginner-friendly introduction to Wikidata editing hosted by Dr. Martin Poulter.
  • WMUK Wikidata training (2/2) - Make your first Wikidata query using SPARQL - How to query Wikidata's vast store of knowledge using SPARQL.
  • Wikidata and personal pronouns (P6553) by Clair Kronk and Crystal Yragui - part of the Queering Wikipedia Conference (2025)
  • (Spanish) Queering the public domain using Wikidata and Wikipedia - with User:Hiperterminal.
  • (Spanish) Taller de OpenRefine por David Ramírez-Ordóñez (User:Hiperterminal) - a workshop on OpenRefine with a geder perspective.
  • Introducing lgbtDB: A Collaborative Queer Resource and Pilot Data Area by Clair Kronk.

Tool of the week

• HumansMap - a connection-visualiser and explorer app for 3 million notable humans, all data sourced from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for tool builders: EntitySchemas listening tour: The Wikidata team wants your feedback on EntitySchemas to improve data quality and discoverability. Share your experiences, pain points, and needs via the project talk page or this short Google form (including option for a 30-min video call).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ConLang Code Registry code (3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3)
  • ‎official roster page (URL of a team's official page about this player)
  • ‎value type of this mathematical property (type of the value of this mathematical property when applied to this object or this type of objects)
  • ‎Usenet newsgroup (Usenet newsgroup associated with the item)
  • hardware is incompatible with (significant elements with which a computer hardware or electronic device is incompatible and which indicates a significant property of this hardware.)
  • Peh-oe-ji (writing system for Taiwanese Hokkien (Q36778) or other Southern Min (Q36495) language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
  • ‎heir apparent (person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
  • thumbtime (time for video thumbnail in seconds)
• Newest External identifiers: Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), ‎BERON lexeme ID, ‎Brussels BeStAddress street ID, ‎Brussels BeStAddress address ID, ‎Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ID, Anarâš aavis topic ID, Wikiparfum perfume ingredient ID, TMDB award ID, Open Library Collection, ‎Ohio University ArchiveSpace subject ID, VAi Archiefhub agent ID, ‎PBA.com player ID, ‎IRIS UNIL author ID, IPRESS ID, GEMI Number, ‎StandardsMap ID, ‎Japanese Location Database ID, ‎IRDI, ‎Wendingen object ID, ‎Wendingen person ID, Oricon News ID, ‎JMRC person id (en), Rappels person ID, KCI journal ID, KCI publisher ID, BIORAB-Kaiserreich ID, BIORAB–WEIMAR ID, ‎Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection ID, Göteborgsalliansen player ID, ‎Fungal Names taxon ID, ‎Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID, ‎Brewver beer ID, Central Registration Number (Indonesian police), ‎UEA catalogue ID, ‎lit.link ID, kulturbase.no ID, KuLaDig-ID, Topplista artist ID, TV Drama Database program ID, ‎Thyssen-Bornemisza work ID, ‎Swedish National Archives ID, Perfumery Glossary ingredient ID, ‎PeeringDB facility ID, ‎Nişanyan Adlar ID, National Theatre in Prague performance ID, National Theatre in Prague artist ID, ‎JVID performer ID, CICAP Encyclopedia ID, ‎MJ character glyph name, member of the Azorean parliament ID, Master Ideographs Seeker character ID, ‎London Book Trades ID, ‎Kloekecode, ID Prix de Lausanne, ‎GDUNO ID, ‎fotbolltransfers.com ID, Foot Résultats player ID, ‎Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography ID, ‎DBNL country ID, ‎CROWCASS file number, ‎European Dictionary Portal ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType)
  • OpenType language system tag (identifier for a language (system) in OpenType)
  • tattoos (anatomical location of a tattoo that this person or character have)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: organization in cooperation with ISO ID, EDAM Ontology ID, FISH Evidence Thesaurus Identifier, FISH Thesaurus of Monument Types ID, ScriptSource script ID, ScriptSource language code, Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Max username, BE-monumen ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • List of sitelinked small items to a single Wiki (source) - example wiki: Maori Wikipedia
  • People who have herbarium specimens in Herbarium Dresdense (on a timeline) (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Collectors affiliated with the Herbarium Dresdense (DR)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/QuickStatements3 - don't forget to add yourself to the participants section if you plan to attend the 14.04 Zoom call.
  • Temples in Roman Britain/Data Model subpage was added.
  • Library and Information Science added subpages: Librarians dashboard, Indexers dashboard
• Newest database reports: Short Pages - A list of pages (mostly Items) that are very small, often appear completely blank. A review to judge whether they are suitable for deletion, victims of vandalism or require merging or expanding may be appropriate.
• Showcase Items: Baldur's gate II: Shadows of Amn - an isometric CRPG created with the Infinity engine, adapting the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition ruleset.
• Showcase Lexemes: spegnere (Italian verb) to turn off, switch off, extinguish.

Development

• The Wikibase Reuse Team is working on ensuring language fallback works on the GraphQL labels of linked entities functionality and improving the technical infrastructure behind wbsearchentities.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: is working on introducing metrics that help observe the impact of Recent Change related work. Work continues on improving the Diff (T419244, T419823)

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: United Nations
• 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!