User talk:Nthep

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • News2DataBot - Task(s): Check for new, unlinked articles on Polish Wikinews and create relevant Items.
  • WikidataLiteraryWorksMetaDataUpload - Task(s): Upload metadata for literary works from research project.
• New request for comments: The Exhibition Models RfC was split into 2 Schema proposals: Exhibition Concept and Exhibition Manifestation.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Upcoming LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session on 25 November 2025: Join the community-driven effort led by WikiProject Personal Pronouns to improve pronoun data modeling and ethics in Wikidata. This is part of a three-session series (Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9) focused on implementing new best practices. No prior Wikidata experience required. Join at 17:00 UTC. Event page.
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 - Hosted in Milan, Italy, scholarships are now open, apply on Pretix.
  • Art+Feminism & Whose Knowledge? - A conversation on building a feminist data future, Dec 5, 2025, 13:00 UTC (Time zone converter).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Impact of Wikipedia and Wikidata on ChatGPT search results
  • Wikidata as an authority data source for private collectors
  • (German) Environmental and climate reference in large knowledge databases. Wikipedia, Wikidata and environmental portals in comparison
• Presentations: Wikidata as a challenge for rule systems (Declarative AI 2025 Conf.) - Slides / Recording
• Papers: Snapshot of bibliographic metadata from Wikidata for all Arabic periodicals published worldwide before 1930 - Project Jarāʾid, by T. Grallert, (2025).
• Videos:
  • An introduction to Wikidata and its use for librarians and researchers; slides available on Commons
  • WikidataCon 2025 Session Playlists (YouTube):
    Day 1 (31.10) / Day 2 (01.11) / Day 3 (02.11)
  • Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature - By Dr Thneed
  • Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate
  • Towards Linked Data Fluency: Takeaways from a Wikidata Workflow Pilot Program
  • Enhancing authority files through SPARQL federated queries - Thomas Kerboul and the Bibliothèque de Genève improved person data by comparing Wikidata and IdRef, with manual checks preventing ID mix-ups.
  • (Spanish) Inspiring Women: Layla Michán - Wikidata and research - Dr. Aguirre (UNAM) discusses Wikidata as a collaborative research tool and shared experiences in the “Women Who Inspire” series.

Tool of the week

• Timetrail is a website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations.
• The redesigned WikiProvenance is now live, featuring a new front end and backend for exploring and comparing Wikidata provenance information. Try examples like Johann Sebastian Bach or Human vs. City and Paris vs. London. Explore it here: https://wikiprovenance.toolforge.org/

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• LDF endpoint retirement considered: The unstable and low-traffic LDF endpoint may be retired to reduce maintenance effort and unnecessary load on WDQS. If your workflow depends on it and you would hate to see it go, please let the Wikidata development team know at Wikidata talk:Data access.
• WDQS Legacy endpoint deprecation: The legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be fully decommissioned on 7 January 2026. Please migrate tools and workflows to the supported endpoints: query.wikidata.org (Main) or query-scholarly.wikidata.org (Scholarly). Assistance is available on the Data Access and Request a Query pages.
• Insights from Data Governance Research Process 2025: Results of the research to better understand how the communities currently think about which data and communities are best served by Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud or Wikibase Suite respectively.
• Abstract Wikipedia naming contest: Help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project which is provisionally known as Abstract Wikipedia. The second phase of voting is now open until December 1.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: CUIT, REGAFI id, Hong Kong company ID, California Entity Number, Mã số doanh nghiệp, ‎InfoconDB series ID, ‎InfoconDB conference ID, ‎Biography.com ID, Hudobné centrum person ID, Hudobné centrum group ID, FAIR Epigraphic Vocabularies ID, NVLI ID, SerBenfiquista.com players ID, ‎BG IISDA org ID, ‎BG NACID person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland ID, Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID, National cultural monument of Czechia ID, ‎Davis Cup player ID since 2025, ‎Eiga.com drama ID, Last Address ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • parliamentary group leader (the identity of the leader of a parliamentary group)
  • SignWriting transcription (representation in SignWriting)
  • free height (vertical distance from the floor level to the lowest obstruction in the ceiling of an indoor or outdoor space)
  • thumbtime (Time for video thumbnail in seconds)
  • Credibly accused of (entity (person or organization) that has been credibly accused of a crime or serious misconduct, but is not (yet) convicted)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:: CHZZK streamer ID, FC Barcelona players ID, Qalamos person ID, KISTI conference ID, KaraokeTexty.cz artist ID, KaraokeTexty.cz song ID, DLSite dōjin circle ID, DLSite person ID, DLSite work ID, Showlabs ID, DEUMM Online ID, Kvinnehistorie.no persons ID, Foot Résultats player ID, Manga-DB person ID, Manga-DB publisher ID, Manga-DB magazine ID, Slekt og Data cemetery ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Videogames in the wrong genre (source)
  • People buried in Italian (or subregion) cemeteries (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Bookbindings - share metadata and images from the currently offline Database of Bookbindings at the British Library
  • Irish Traditional Music:Projects - aims to systematically create and enhance Wikidata items for people profiled in the 2024 edition of Fintan Vallely's The Companion to Irish Traditional Music.
  • Basketball: Western Illinois Leathernecks Women's
• WikiProject Highlights: Lost Media/Subpages - aim to list all media lost to time in Wikidata
• Showcase Items: arXiv (Q118398) - online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
• Showcase Lexemes: Bogucin (L1405411) - Polish proper noun (bɔˈɡu.t͡ɕin) meaning "village in Greater Poland", "village in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship", or "village in Lublin Voivodeship"

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!

Discussions

• A Project Chat discussion (here) on mul / fallback language for Labels, Descriptions and Aliases has continued on Help Talk: Default values for labels and aliases

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Mark your calendars
    • Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map
      February 2 & April 20 (German) / June 2 (French), 2026. Workshops are on-site and online, registration mandatory (closes January 20).
    • Citizen Technology Community Gathering and Taiwan Translation Launch of Linked Open Data Documents December 7 Time: 13:30-16:50 UTC+8 at West District (Q707524) Xi Project
    • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #83 December 8 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Wikidata 13th celebration in the Philippines
  • Wikidata 13th Birthday: Taiwan special event recap (part 3)
  • WikidataCon 2025: A conversation with Danny Benjafield
  • Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group
  • Africa Wiki Women Celebrates Wikidata’s 13th Birthday
• Papers: Benchmarking SPARQL Engines on Wikidata Queries - Four open-source SPARQL engines were benchmarked on Wikidata, with QLever fastest, Blazegraph slower, and all showing SPARQL standard deviations. By Peter F. Patel-Schneider (2025).
• Videos:
  • Records in Contexts (RiC) Wikibase Working Session - Regine Heberlein of the (SAA) Description Section Steering Committee hosts a workshop on Wikibase implementation of the Records in Context Conceptual Model (RiC-CM).
  • Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate - Follow along as WMDE's Lukas Werkmeister expands Items of Berlin Stoelpersteine.
  • Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature - by Dr Thneed

Tool of the week

• Prix Littéraires lists French-speaking literary prizes and their recipients, also computing statistics (see also WikiProject)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Nov 27: The Wikibase Community User Group met for a Wikibase Live Session and to discuss the Federated Values demonstration.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: Federal Taxpayer Registry ID, WDSF athlete ID, TikTok numeric user ID, USGS Publication ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • concurring opinion by (judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court agreeing with the majority's final decision but providing different or additional reasons)
  • audio version of text (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).)
  • Hong Kong fire alarm level (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
  • overnight stays (number of tourists that stay overnight at a place)
  • specimen determiner (person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
  • collection date (the date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
  • position holder name string (name of person holding a position)
  • Crowdfunding target (target goal of this Crowdfunding campaign)
    • image sensor format (shape and size of a digital camera's image sensor)
  • random page URL (link to random page on website)
  • translates from (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Twitter broadcast ID, Petal Maps Place ID, MJ character glyph name, Mastercaller player ID, dartn.de player ID, darts1.de player ID, pdpa.co.uk player ID, Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID, Theaterencyclopedie-identificatiecode, Buy Me a Coffee username, GoFundMe ID, Identifiant Maitron d'une biographie (nouvelle version), Michaelis Portuguese-English properties, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name slug, FCC ID Database company ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Objects bearing the handwriting of Moses Maimonides (Source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Uzbekistan, Natural History Specimen Data Model
• Newest database reports: Popular Items without Claims - these are the most-connected or linked Items that do not have any Statements.
• Showcase Items: The Walt Disney Company (Q7414) - American multinational mass media company
• Showcase Lexemes: Showcase Lexemes: девочка (L103836) - Russian noun (dʲɪˈvot͡ɕkə) meaning "female child", "affectionate address to a woman", or "female organism"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements:
  • We have added editing support for more data types (entity IDs, geographical shapes and tabular data).
  • It is now available as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org. You can enable it here.
• Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are rolling out improvements to the Databox Lua module to a number of Wikipedias to make it easier to have out-of-the-box Wikidata-powered infoboxes
• Ontology federation: We are making progress with making it possible to use Wikidata Item's as statement values in other Wikibase instances
• GraphQL: We are continuing the work on the prototype, focusing on getting data from a batch of Items
• Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is working on benchmarking of different replacement options for Blazegraph, the software powering the Wikidata Query Service

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: Togo
• 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!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Well, Well, Bot! - Task/s: Database imports, maintenance.
  • RijksBot - Task/s: Adding Rijksmuseum IDs (P13234) to Wikidata items based on a CSV mapping of QIDs to Rijksmuseum URIs.
  • CostamiriBot - Task/s: Chess related tasks such as monthly updates to the elo rating of chess players.
• New draft: Wikidata:External identifiers/Obsolescence (opinions are welcome in its talk page)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • How to view #25N with Wikidata? - a community hour with Wikimedia Chile, 21:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter)
  • Fact-Checking with Wikidata Workshop - January 20, 2026, 16:30 ~ 18:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter) - WMDE's Philippe Saadé will show hands-on methods using the Wikidata MCP to retrieve, filter and classify Wikidata statements with semantic search, reranker LLM and NLI models, registration required.
  • (Portuguese) Meeting Point Editatona II - Warm your hands modeling festival on Wikidata: December 10, 2025, 15:00 - 19:00 UTC+1, Porto, Portugal.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 9 December, 2025: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. Sessions will be held on October 14, November 25, and December 9, 2025 at our regular time of 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page: https://www.wikidata.orghttps://wikious.com/en/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/PersonalPronouns
• Past Events: Digital Humanities Hub: Documenting epigraphic data, Wikidata ontology practice - December 2 & 3, 2025, both 14:00 ~ 15:30 UTC.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Lafia
• Papers:
  • Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models - Chepurova et al., (2025)
  • Victims of Posterity. Identifying Gaps on 19th-Century French Art History with Wikidata - first paper in the Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse collection by the Journal of Open Humanities Data. Authored by Claire Dupin de Beyssat.
• Videos: GB Claude Code AI Agent: Fully Autonomous Wikidata Query & Visualization (Zero Human Intervention)
  • (Taiwanese Mandarin) Wikidata Taiwan translation project on "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" (as published by the OCLC)

Tool of the week

• Wikiguessr Game Is a Wikidata game it guess the location from Image from anywhere around the world by User: Ranjithsiji

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Remembering Amos Bairoch, co-contributor to Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Semantic Web of data and consulted often for TiagoLubiana's CellosaurusBot.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎GBFS feed URL (URL of a GBFS feed for the bicycle-sharing system)
  • code of conduct URL (URL of a resource that contains the Code of Conduct of a project or organization)
• Newest External identifiers: BFXC authority ID, Out tag ID, GayCities ID, Fight.ru fighters ID, Personality Database group ID, ‎Codes for the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China, Macanese company ID, ‎MovieID film ID, Teen Vogue tag ID, ‎CRT Database model ID, PriceRunner product ID, BWB number, Brandenburg School ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • fragrance gender (category for which a fragrance is marketed)
  • perfumer (person who created a perfume)
  • Discharge regime (The ''']''' can be Glacial, Nival or Pluvial. It can be a combination of 2 : Nivo-pluvial, Pluvio-nival, Nivo-glacial, etc. Be specific (e.g. pluvial tropical, meridional, etc.). Or be complex)
  • minimal pair of (lexeme that differ from this one in only one phonological element)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Cookpad Recipe ID, Sector.sk game ID, Card Player ID, Fragrantica perfume ID, Fragrantica perfume brand ID, My Abandonware theme ID, Identificador Banrep Cultural, izoh.uz word ID, VGChartz game ID, Metacritic video game genre ID, Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID, Taking Stock ID, Game Font Library ID, Fragrantica perfume notes ID, EAGER game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Birthplace of French Heads of State
  • Films starring Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hughes, available on YouTube
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Turkmenistan
• Showcase Items: Goosebumps - 2015 film directed by Rob Letterman
• Showcase Lexemes: course (L3958) - English noun (kɔːrs) meaning "direction of movement", "program of study", or "part of a meal"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • It's now possible to edit existing references (phab:T405236)
  • We fixed a number of issues such as a problem when adding the first statements to an item (phab:T409069)
  • We started work on showing constraint violation indicators (phab:T400676)
  • We're working on showing errors in the edit form (phab:T408928)
  • We're improving the edit summaries (phab:T411247)
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We continued working on improvements to the Databox Lua module and template
• GraphQL: We continued working on the first version of GraphQL support

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: Togo
• 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!

Discussions

• The mass editing policy Request for Comments has a number of open questions looking for votes and comments to shape the mass-editing policy.

Events

• Upcoming events:
• A Scholia hackathon is ongoing this week, focused on completing the transition of Scholia to QLever as the SPARQL backend for its Wikidata queries.
• Data and Technology Week 2025 from 19th of December 2025 to 22 of December 2025, organized by Wikimedia Indonesia‎ (Q13098516). Consisted of a Wikidata Workshop, a Wikifunction Introductory Seminar and Geodatathon. This event is in Indonesian.
  • (English) WM Malaysia / 2025 SEA Games Datathon - 20.12.2025, 1200 ~ 1400 UTC. Register to contribute to items about athletes competing in South East Asian Games 2025 (Q25041680)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (French) Facebook post: ArkéoTopia: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (CTHS) to begin integrating Wikidata
• Papers:
  • Open Data Practices of Art Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment - second paper of the Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse collection. By Dişli et al., (2025).
  • VIAF Governance Concerns about the Refurbished VIAF Web and API Interfaces by Stefano Bargioni (2025): a detailed account of the technical and governance issues experienced by VIAF in 2025 and its impact on its many external reusers, including Wikidata
• Videos:
  • (Italian) Wikidata and Wikibase for research: Camillo Pellizzari gives an overview of Wikidata, the data model, potential as scientific research subject and tool, then a Wikibase intro and its uses beyond Wikidata, with example instance: Hypotheseis; slides on Commons
  • Feminist Structured data: A Conversation with Art+Feminism and Whose Knowledge?: How feminist values can reshape structured data on Wikidata to address gaps, representation, and opportunities for collaboration across communities.
  • Community Hours: Art+Feminism community in Armenia: Former regional A+F ambassador, Arminé Aghayan-Flisch, tells us of her experiences growing the A+F Armenian community through GLAM, Wikidata and Wikipedia.
  • (Spanish) PADEP 2025: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Dr. Luis Álvarez Azcárraga teaches the course: Using Wikidata in Sociocultural Research: Open Databases for Social, Artistic, and Cultural Studies
  • See something, change something Webinar: @58:10, a presentation on the Wikidata agent plug-in for ArchivesSpace is given.
  • Wikibase Live Session / November 27: First demo presented of federation of values from Wikidata to Wikibases.

Tool of the week

• Broomstick - Broomstick is a tool to uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Congratulations to Govdirectory, the winner of the FSF's Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
• wikibase-cli got support for claim reconciliation. This is typically useful to add a claim unless it already exists.
• The Wikimedia Research Fund is open for funding applications for research projects around the Wikimedia Projects, including Wikidata.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: has grammatical number (grammatical number used in this language)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Cabinet minutes of the German Government ID, neodb.social ID, Flemish Community Masterpieces List item ID, Medicin.dk medical condition ID, ‎Mapillary username, ‎Sector.sk game ID, ‎My Abandonware theme ID, ‎Encyclopedia of Shinto ID, ‎Blu-Ray.com film ID, ‎Japanese Law Translation ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID, Getty Collections Archival Component ID, CRA program account number, FC Barcelona player ID, Qalamos person ID, ‎KISTI conference ID
• New External identifier property proposals to review: survivalhorrors.com ID, Diccionari de la llengua catalana entry ID, GamesIndustry.biz game ID, WhatsOnStage Stage Names ID, Adventure Game Hotspot game ID, identifiant Netflix titre, 4gamer.net game ID, Fragrantica perfumer ID, PC Guru game ID, British Newspaper Archive publication ID, GOG tag ID, Open Food Facts brand ID, Games for Change directory ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • All ports in Wikidata, sorted by the total number of statements
  • Queer and LGBT Literature that have won Literary Awards (source)
  • Bubble chart with numbers shown in the bubbles: Memory of the World inscriptions from Arab states
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject P244 maintenance - For coordination and improvement of Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAP) via Library of Congress authority ID
  • WikiProject Museum of Glass (Q2894440) - improving the visibility of visiting artists to the University of Washington Information School
• WikiProject Highlights: Egezort's efforts in Mereology: removing/migrating part of statements in Recipe relationships
• Newest database reports: 34 Bots operating without a Bot flag
• Showcase Items: Fort George (Q1426707) - 18th-century fortress built in the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745
• Showcase Lexemes: mesa (L31222) - Spanish noun (ˈme.sa) meaning "table (furniture)", "mesa (flat-topped hill)", or "served table for dining"

Development

• Edit summaries: We made changes that will improve the automatic edit summaries of edits made using the wbeditentity API endpoint. Tools that use this endpoint to edit statements will, in some cases, now have more accurate edit summaries; this also affects how such edits are summarized in edit groups. (phab:T411247)
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are collecting feedback from the first wikis who got the new and improved Databox module.
• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are making remaining changes for the first roll-out as a beta-feature.
  • We are working on showing constraint violations. (phab:T411602, phab:T400676)
• GraphQL: We are working on making it possible to query for Items by Property/value pair (phab:T403576)
• REST API: We are improving error messages for requests that failed due to an IP block (phab:T404727)

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: Germany
• 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!