Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • RupumpedBot - Task/s: When an Item on a Kenyan river has a Swahili label but no English version, this bot will derive an English label and description.
  • William Avery Bot 14 - Task/s: Change values of url properties in mainspace that link to http://web.archive.org/ to use the https protocol (requested at Bot requests#Make HTTPS for Wayback Machine recurrent)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimania is about to begin. Whether you're attending on-site or virtually, plan your sessions so you don't miss any.
    • Full program / Wikidata-only program
    • Get your virtual ticket
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #91 Aug 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Force11 webinar: Metadata for all with Wikidata will look at three novel applications, WikiCite, the Trans Music Achive and the Pratt Institute. Held online August 26, 13-14:00 UTC. Please register for the access link.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Calling Wikifunctions for der, die, das
  • How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata
  • Altilunium Panoply v26.7.19 : In this latest release, the external Wikidata connection logic has undergone a major architectural overhaul to improve internal trace mapping.
• Videos:
  • (Svenska) Strategic inclusion of library data on Wikidata - first recorded at Digikult 2019, with Alicia Fagerving.
  • (Français) I’ll explain how Wikidata works! (Livestream recording), User:Lyokoï will introduce Wikidata and its concepts and the fundamentals of editing.
  • (繁體中文/zh-TW) Wikivoyage Guidelines for editing Temple information
  • How to use Wikibase for Mixed Methods Research, with Francesco Bailo. Recorded at SICSS Melbourne 2026 (Summer Institute in Computational Social Science).
• Games: Webwoven - a new game has surfaced, powered by Wikidata. Race from start to finish in as few connections as possible. Already includes Leaderboards, daily challenges and multiplayer. Sure to be a hit at future Wikidata events.

Tool of the week

• wikivibes is a tool by Magnus Magnus that play public domain music from Commons, tracked by Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Jobs:
  • (Interim) Engineering Manager - Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects - Hybrid
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform - Remote
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform - Remote

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
    • ‎about page URL (URL to the official about page)
  • External identifiers: Western Orthodox Wiki ID, Steady publication ID, ‎Open Collective ID, ‎Guide du Rôliste Galactique ID, CNUC code, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, CNR-IRIS author ID, Anobii Book ID, Anobii author ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, TakaWiki numeric page ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal artist ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • autoptic examination (time of last direct examination of the inscribed object)
    • Tabular data series (A tabular data series in Commons that models the given concept)
    • data series (A data series about the given topic.)
    • incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
    • former operator (entity, company, military service, or organisation which is notable for previously operated the item, aircraft, vehicle, or other equipment)
    • número de la plaza (square number)
  • External identifiers: PISAI ID, Ko-fi page ID, Scent Base brand ID, Etsy shop name, Overcast podcast ID, Grillplatser.nu ID, Criticker Film ID, HAND ID, Open Language Archives Community language code, identifiant Ciel d'oc d'une publication, ODiD ID, Generic/Numero de Registre Tributari, UntitledDb People ID, MissEvan drama ID, MissEvan sound ID, MissEvan ID, MissEvan voice actor ID, Fmfenxiang FM ID, Fmfenxiang sound ID, Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

• Wikidata Query Service: We are working on adapting the Query Service UI to get it ready for the move to QLever
• Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing to fix small issues found in testing
• Lexemes: We are continuing the work on adding support for Lexemes to the REST API
• Sustainability:
  • We are preparing the migration of some database tables on the client wikis that track the usage of Wikidata's data in articles on Wikipedia and co
  • We are further investigating how many changes from Wikidata that currently get sent to Wikipedia and co don't actually lead to a change in the article to be able to reduce these cases further

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!