Are you attending the WM Hackathon in Tallinn, Estonia? I will be there, so please feel free to stop me and say hello, ask me about the Wikidata Integrations Team and see if I have any Wikidata swag to offer you.
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Dear Wikimedians, I will be out of office between 21.02 - 26.02.24. Please direct any queries to Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) for Wikidata-related queries, or drop me a message here and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Thank you, Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 14:17, 19 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
That's great! Would you kindly email me at: danny.benjafield@wikimedia.de
Then I will be able to add your current email address to our Interview tool and ensue you receive the invitation email correctly. (Please don't tell me on-wiki to ensure it remains private)
I am from Albania and I have a request. I have seen that you are native to German language. I think you may also understand Palatine German dialect. If yes, can you create two pages for Albania and Tirana, the capital city of Albania, in Palatine German Wiki, with short content? I would thank you so much. If you aren't native to this dialect, ask a person you may know, via the Wikipedia private message.
Hello @GeriKola93, thanks for reaching out. As an employee of Wikimedia, I don't add content to the Wiki Projects. This is a Staff policy.
Here is the community forum of the Palatine German Wikipedia, click this link to write a message there (in English) explaining what you would like done and someone from the Community may be able to help you.
We will be presenting a poster of our activities from the last 12 months and we welcome and encourage you to drop-by, ask us questions and learn about our team, project and goals.
Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project.
The Wikidata itemsitelink currently found under the General section of the Tools sidebar menu will move into the In Other Projects section.
We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change, which can take place October 4, circa 15:00 UTC+2. .
Dear Wikimedians, I will be out of office for much of October (October 09 - 23 (possibly longer). If you have any queries on the following topics, please contact the listed person, discussion page or email address:
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When a Commons file has descriptions in more than three languages, only the English description is displayed, while the remaining languages can be seen by using the drop-down menu, which is located right below the picture. Problem is that this is not obvious, as the menu and the descriptions are far apart. For the casual user it is very easy to miss completely that more language descriptions are available, when only the English is displayed. So I recommend: bring the language select menu and description box closer together in some way. The drop down menu must preferably be right inside the description box, in the pale purple area at the left, or even included in media viewers of all languages. Here is one such example, and note the Ndebele is still shown as "nr": 116320 jerusalem pater noster church PikiWiki Israel, isiNdebele and siSwati pair.jpg. The general layout of the area immediately below commons files can be looked at, as it is not well-designed or user-orientated. Thanks in advance. JMK (talk) 18:26, 26 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hello @JMK, thank you for your suggestion! I have transcribed your request to our project pages and this will get seen by a Product Manager and Engineering Manager for feasibility assessment.
Do you happen to know if there is an existing Phabricator ticket related to this issue?
I appreciate your reply! If "Phabricator ticket" means that the issue has been raised before, then I doubt it. Besides the latter, we are struggling on the Afrikaans wikipedia with some issues, and up to this point, did not know where to ask for help. It mostly concerns unavailable templates, or available templates that don't work. If you look at the cladograms on this page or this page for instance, you will notice that the black lines have disappeared, leaving us without the graphs. Some of these issues are simple, I think, but we did not have anyone to assist us. JMK (talk) 13:30, 29 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Dear Wikimedians, I will be out of office between November 12th till 18th.
If you have any queries on the following topics, please contact the listed person, discussion page or email address:
Wikidata: please contact my colleague Lydia Pintscher (WMDE).
Wikidata for Wikimedia projects: please either leave a message on the project Discussion page or send an email to: wikidata-for-wikimedia@lists.wikimedia.org. Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 08:02, 12 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Announcement: Wikidata's Strategic Direction for 2025
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(Apologies for posting in English)
Have you wondered what's next for Wikidata?
The Wikidata team is excited to share our priorities for 2025 and beyond.
Read about our four priorities, from supporting sustainable growth, strengthening the community, increasing data reuse and refining platform services.
Weâll keep you posted on progress throughout the year and as always, welcome your questions and feedback on the talk page. Thank you for your efforts to drive Wikidata forward.
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Hello everyone, here is an exciting update about the upcoming online WikidataCon 2025 conference:
The program tracks are here! We will soon be welcoming your ideas on the following topics:
The Future of Wikidata
(such as: how will AI fit into Wikidataâs plans? Changes in the Query Service, next steps for Wikidata development, reworking Notability Policy, how Abstract Wikipedia fits in)
Lexemes and Languages
Linked Open Data Ecosystem
Reuse and Data Partnerships
Providing the World with High Quality Data
Other (if it doesnât fit above, we still want to hear about it!)
So, itâs time to start thinking about a session to propose. Check the WikidataCon Talk page in the coming weeks for further updates, including on how to submit your Session Proposal idea or to ask any questions you may have.
Save the date: 31 Oct â 2 Nov 2025
Havenât registered yet? Sign-up here
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Hello everyone,
We are about to kick-off the Wikidata and Sister Projects online event, focusing on how Wikidata is used, supports and interacts with the sister (or sibling) Wikimedia Projects.
The event is starting tomorrow (29.05.2025) at 16:00 UTC!
How to attend: if you want to join the Jitsi room in order to interact with speakers and other participants, you can register on the event page in order to unlock access to the Jitsi link. You can also watch the livestream on Youtube, links will be published on the program table.
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to write on the Discussion page or to reach out to me directly. We hope you enjoy the event! Best, - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 08:22, 28 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Hello Danny Benjafield (WMDE),
My name is Joris Darlington Quarshie, and I am an Outreach Facilitator for the Capacity Exchange (CapX) â a platform for finding and connecting with peers to exchange knowledge and skills on a global level.
CapX is a community-built tool, designed by and for the Wikimedia Movement, to make it easier for Wikimedians across the world to find and connect, collaborate, and exchange skills and knowledge with peers.
If you don't know it yet, I invite you to access capx.toolforge.org and create your user profile with your Wikimedia account. But, if you already have a profile, I invite you to check out the new features and possibilities we just launched. I am sure you will be delighted.
CapX's new version incorporates valuable community feedback gathered over the past months, including the Organization Profile - a feature for Wikimedia affiliates, initiatives, or community groups to create their own CapX presence (see here how to create yours).
Click to log in using your Wikimedia unified account through authentication:
Please, let me know if you think your community would enjoy a presentation, workshop demonstration, or feedback session. I would be happy to support you on that. Just reach out, and we can schedule the best date and time together.
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Hello Danny Benjafield (WMDE),
Weâre excited to invite you to an inspiring global virtual gathering: the first Capacity Exchange Translat-a-thon.
Together with Language Diversity Hub, the Capacity Exchange (CapX) team will host its first Translation Marathon dedicated to ensuring linguistic equity in access to this amazing tool aimed to connect Wikimedians.
If you enjoy contributing to Wikimedia projects through translating and adapting content into different languages, this event is for you! Join us in the celebration of the multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia Movement at an event where communities that contribute in diverse languages will be able to share local knowledge and collaborate across borders.
Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages
Date: December 6, 2025
Time: 12 PM (UTC) - Check the event page for your local timezone
If you canât join the live event, you can still contribute to the translations! Edits will be counted for two weeks, until December 20th. And everyone who participates will receive a special badge to display on their CapX profiles.
We invite you and your community to join the Capacity Exchange (CapX), a Wikimedia community-built platform for connecting, collaborating, and exchanging skills with peers across the movement.
CapX helps Wikimedians and organizations find each other, share expertise, and build stronger, more connected communities.
Whether youâre an individual contributor, a user group, a community initiative or an affiliate, CapX helps you grow through knowledge exchange.
If your community, usergroup or affiliate would like to have a CapX organization profile, please reach out at capx@wmnobrasil.org, and weâd be delighted to support you.
Lex-Olympia is a tool by User: Luca.favorido it is an open, gamified challenge platform for exploring Wikidata lexemes, born as a successor to the now-unmaintained Lexeme Challenge tool. Players test their language knowledge by matching audio, hyphenations, and concepts to lexemes, competing via scores and a weekly leaderboard.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
WM Turkic languages user group (instagram post): official co-hosts of WikidataCon 2027; Istanbul, TĂźrkiye, in collaboration with ĂskĂźdar University.
phonetic synthesis method (phonetic synthesis method used to process the recorded voice from a human source to build a voice bank)
âLPF rating (film and media rating in Malaysia by the Film Censorship Board)
âCollective bargaining coverage (Percentage of workers covered by collective agreement coverage. This is distinct from union membership rate, because non-union members can also be covered, for example France has 7% union density but 98% collective bargaining coverage.)
has PokĂŠmon Ability (PokĂŠmon Ability assigned to this PokĂŠmon species or form in games of the PokĂŠmon series)
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Medicine/Knee Arthroplasty maintains structured data for knee replacement on Wikidata, covering the procedure tree and the taxonomy of surgical techniques, with a literature layer of referenced scholarly articles.
Query Service migration: We are adapting more of the example queries for QLever
Mobile editing: We are making minor adjustments in preparation for the rollout for everyone
Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
We are continuing to automate the connection of Wikidata to newly-created wikis, and replace the sites table with a Sitematrix lookup, which is more efficient (phab:T431093)
We are continuing the research into how best to handle changes for language link updates in Recent changes and Watchlist, which are mostly considered not relevant for editors
RfP is scheduled to end after 26 September 2026 08:42 (UTC)
Closed request for adminship: Chrisahn - voting has been closed.
New requests for permissions/Bot:
BenchfolkBot - Task/s: Add or correct sourced statements on existing items after explicit human approval.
CatmapperBot - Task/s: Add SocioMap ID statements for reviewed SocioMap category mappings, and provisionally add exact match URLs for reviewed ArchaMap category mappings until Wikidata approves an ArchaMap-specific identifier property.
Closed request for permissions/Bot: HsfBot - Closed as Approved
Currently, the names of of settlements entered into Wikidata are displayed incorrectly in Wikipedia and Wikisource. For example, a person was born in Leningrad in 1930. We enter the place of birth in Wikidata â Saint Petersburg. Through Wikidata, the place of birth is displayed as Saint Petersburg on the pages of the Wikipedia and Wikisource person pages. But this is incorrect, since from January 26, 1924, to September 6, 1991, the city had the official name Leningrad. Wlbw68 (talk) 12:56, 25 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! I wonder, if you tried adding Property: P1810 "subject named as" with a value of "Leningrad" as a qualifier to the Saint-Petersburg entry in Wikidata, if that might fix things?
I would love to do this, but my knowledge on this topic is limited. In the proposed version, you need to put the dates and also add the name Petrograd. --Wlbw68 (talk) 21:49, 26 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2026-09-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #750.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
MamouriBot, Task/s: Add census demographics â population, male population, female population, and no. of households â to existing Iranian settlement items identified by Iran statistics ID (P1010), from the Statistical Center of Iran censuses of 1385 (2006) and 1395 (2016).
The program for the Wikidata Query Service Days (October 17-23) is now published, covering the migration from Blazegraph to QLever with sessions for editors, reusers, and tool builders; see the event page for details and schedule.
When the Old Constraints Disappear: Work and Creativity in the Age of AI (Wikipedia->Wikidata->Wikifunctions->Abstract Wikipedia), John Samuel, Mindstone AI Meetup, September 22, 2026, Lyon, France (Video, Slides)
HumansMap Gallery - The site offers various type of visualizations, and offers the possibility to navigate through connections between people and organizations, based on your interests, powered by Wikidata.
đ Wikidata Book Itemizer It is a simple tool to catalog books on Wikidata! Creating work and edition items manually on Wikidata with proper metadata and multilingual labels can often be tedious and error-prone. Wikidata Book Itemizer automates this entire process with a simple form!
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikimedia Deutschland is researching how to improve interoperability between Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud, and Wikibase Suite. If you've worked with data imports or staging, or even if you haven't, your input would be valuable. The survey takes 5 to 10 minutes and is anonymous. More information on the background of the questions: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Mass-editing policy#Context
WikiProject Highlights: Project PCC EMCO Wikidata CoP added a subpage for listing Properties normally associated with Corporate bodies.
Development
Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with UX fixes. This is primarily visual polish and consistency as well as fixing bugs related to RTL display.
Wikibase REST API:
We are finishing the support for creating Lexemes and the statements on them.
We are continuing working on support for adding Forms to a Lexeme.
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
We are going to stop sending language link changes to the first few wikis. An initial deployment to group1 wikis is now planned for Monday, 05.10.2026. (Click group1 on this Toolforge page to see which Wikis are included.) This will help reduce noise in Watchlists and Recent changes and help reduce the size of the database table holding recent changes on these wikis.
Connecting a newly created Wiki to Wikidata is a manual task, we are automating that and optimising the SitesTable at the same time, making a 'single source of truth' that all wikis point to, rather than a table per Wiki that are all clones of each other.
We are experimenting with raising the entity usage limit on wikis. If this is feasible, we can reduce the amount of bundled changes. This would reduce the quantity of Wikidata-triggered Recent Changes rows being created.
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2026-10-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #751.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
SaadBot - Task/s: A read-only (no edits) entity lookups for an academic research project building a relation triplet extraction (RTE) dataset from web text.
OKA bot - Tasks: Improve Wikidata items using authoritative open datasets, e.g., national mapping data and reference works: add sources, fill gaps, create missing items and report conflicts from the Swisstopo dataset and its subsets.
FoxfindingBot - Task/s: Passively enrich existing Wikidata games with gog.com metadata
Wahl.de Bot - Task/s: Keep mandate data of German parliamentary members current. Edits to end date (P582), successor/replaced by (P1366), start time (P580), parliamentary term (P2937)retrieved and sourced from official sources.
(Deutsch) Wikidata Writing Workshop, takes place Saturday, 31 October, 10:00 to 13:00 CEST at the Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, Obere Vorstadt 6, 5000 Aarau.
RLUK DSF | Linked data and the research library - explores how libraries are engaging with linked data (including Wikidata) and what this means for metadata creation, management, and discovery.
Mergers & Acquisitions: A Wikidata Merge Assistant, a new web app that surfaces possible duplicate items from Wikidata and provides a simple interface for evaluating the candidate pairs and merging them together or marking them as different.
has language or spelling variant (the (multilingual) label of the linked item is a a language, spelling or etymological variation of the label of this item)
REST API: Continuing the work on adding support for lexicographical data, specifically creating a statement, Form and Sense on a Lexeme
Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into raising the entity usage limit. We are setting up monitoring to see how much it can reduce the amount of Recent Changes entries triggered from Wikidata.
Mobile editing of statements: We continued addressing the remaining UX issues, including RTL and Kartographer issues
hCaptcha: We are planning the support for it to Wikibase-specific pages like Special:New Item
OKA bot 2 - Tasks: Two additional datasets for the (already approved task of OKA bot). For each entry, the bot finds the matching item, adds the identifier if it is missing, and adds the facts the entry states, each referenced to the entry.
MisovalkoProfileBot - Task: A narrowly scoped source-verification and, only if approved, existing-item update process for Q97454550.
RegularBot 4 - Task/s: Create new items from Wikipedias.
GZWDer (flood) 8 - Task/s: Adding mul labels and aliases; cleanup existing labels in certain cases. No edits to other people's biographies, invented conference items, undocumented private engagements, unsupported future appearances, or promotional link dumps.
See the full program, sessions will repeat for different timezones
Wikidata's 14th Birthday is coming, 29 October. Join the Birthday call and see what presents have been prepared, and see what community events are happening near you.
Wikidata Reference Validator - A tool which helps validate external references of Wikidata items to check if their links are still accessible or now offline. This matters because we want to ensure that we have solid references for statements in Wikidata, so we can demonstrate how we know what we know
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2026-10-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #753.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
OKA Bot 3 - Task/s: Reference works and registers, like Task 2 (Historical Dictionary of Switzerland and Store norske leksikon). Each item-linked entry, adds statements, references, sources where value is same and missing identifiers.
UBZH Videothek Bot - Task/s: Add external identifiers of films and film directors/people to existing items (from film catalogue of the University Library of Zurich: UZH, Videothek database).
The Query Service Days is currently ongoing! We still have many great sessions left so don't miss out, especially if you use SPARQL, {{Wikidata List}} or the query service (WDQS) in anyway...here's some helpful links:
Datasets: A dataset comparing Wikipedia biographies count to UN birth estimates by country, gender, and language edition". Codeberg, 2026-07-12, https://codeberg.org/pac2/biographies-vs-births
Tool of the week
Script newentity.js Generates new items (including lexemes) from the given JSON object. The tool was created by User:GZWDer
juvenile form of (taxon (or taxa) of which instances of this item may be juveniles)
development code (code assigned by a company or research organisation to a drug substance or product during development, before or alongside its nonproprietary name)
part of the observance of (holiday or observation on which this tradition is observed, this item is used, or with which this character is associated)
Schema examples: (E208) SPARQL endpoint - entity schema of entities with SPARQL endpoint.
Newest WikiProjects: Project Lukion taulukot - aims to develop a source-based, mul vocabulary of secondary-school science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) (uses Finnish reference work Lukion taulukot as its starting corpus).
Newest database reports: Wikidata Query Help - with many database reports using the Query Service as a source, this will be a helpful page for the planned migration.
Development
Mobile editing of statements: We set the new mobile statement editing UI live for all mobile users
REST API: We are finishing the work on being able to add Senses to existing Lexemes (phab:T432569)
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
Wikidata entities used in this page in the Page Information (example) and Edit source views will now render with their local-language labels (in addition to their QID/PIDs) so it is easier to understand which Items, Properties, etc are used in an article (phab:T440430)
We are continuing to investigate the impacts of raising the entity usage limit (phab:T441306)
We are protyping wireframe versions of a new filter on Recent changes and Watchlist for Language Links under "Wikidata Edits" in Active Filters (phab:T441388)
hCaptcha: We started implementation work for hCaptcha on Wikidata.org (phab:T426089)
