Wikidata:Status updates/2026 07 06
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #738.
week leading up to 2026-07-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #738.
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship:
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- gov-wikidata-match 1 - Task/s: Link existing GOV (historical gazetteer) building-like objects to existing Wikidata building-like objects.
- AgenticCommonsBot 1 - Task/s: Add Open Library ID (P648) (OpenLibrary author ID) to Wikidata items about people, only where the OpenLibrary author and the Wikidata person have been confirmed to be the same individual, with a source on every statement.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- JigildikBot - Approved
- SonalBot - Approved
- ias-kbase - Approved
Events
- Upcoming events:
- The Wikidata Platform (WDP) monthly office hour takes place tomorrow, . These office hours are focus on the Blazegraph migration work, and the team is inviting all community members to join the discussion. Register via the event page
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST (in your timezone), 08th July 2026 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Sandbox sessions: Wikidata Reference Validator Tool - improving Wikidata references - Aug 15, 17:00 - 18:00 UTC.
- Wiki Education + AASLH: Documenting America with Wikidata, a collaboration between Wiki Education and the American Association for State and Local History is offering six hour-long meetings held weekly to introduce attendees to Wikidata and improve content for Wikidata and Wikipedia on American history. Registration ends: July 17, 23:59 Pacific Time (PT)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: (fr) Le point sur la diversité de genre dans les articles in *Regards sur l'actualité du mouvement Wikimedia*
- Papers:
- Videos: (Español) Introduction to Wikidata - Dr. Claudia De Souza and Prof. Dinah Wilson Fraites introduce Wikidata with Spanish-slides.
Tool of the week
- Zelph: Offers powerful analysis capabilities for the complete Wikidata knowledge graph while remaining adaptable for any semantic domain.
- World Cup Heights: An interactive data‑viz app that shows the heights of FIFA World Cup players, arranged so you can quickly compare teams, positions, and overall height distributions.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for local partners: WikidataCon 2027: Planning is underway for the next hybrid WikidataCon, and Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking a local affiliate to co-organize the on-site event. Expressions of Interest are due by 13 July.
- The Wikidata Platform team has published the 8th issue of its monthly newsletter. This edition includes updates on the migration of WDQS backend away from Blazegraph, including a transition into the next phase Initial Implementation (pilot) phase following completion of the installation phase. This update also include some Documentation on Query Rewrites the team will like the Wikidata community and all WDQS users to help review and leave feedbacks. see WDP monthly newsletter for more details
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- prisoner number (number or identifier assigned to a prisoner, to be used as a qualifier for P2632 (place of detention))
- photographer (person who took this photograph)
- Gmedia rating (video games) (video game ratings of the Saudi Arabian rating system)
- visual style (the visual style used in a video game (or other creative work))
- garden (garden of this subject)
- objects (category theory) (the precise objects of the category (category theory))
- morphisms (the precise morphisms of the category (category theory))
- terminal object (the precise terminal object of the category (category theory))
- initial object (the precise initial object of the category (category theory))
- products (category theory) (the precise products of the category (category theory))
- coproducts (category theory) (the precise coproducts of the category (category theory))
- isomorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
- monomorphisms (the precise monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
- epimorphisms (the precise epimorphisms of the category (category theory))
- regular monomorphisms (the precise regular monomorphisms of the category (category theory))
- regular epimorphisms (the precise isomorphisms of the category (category theory))
- left adjoint (the left adjoint of the functor)
- enriched over (the base monoidal category, bicategory, etc. of the enriched category)
- monoidal category operation (the “tensor product” bifunctor of the monoidal category)
- 2-morphisms (the precise 2-morphisms of the 2-category)
- taxon footprint (image of a footprint of this taxon)
- Newest External identifiers: Sri Lankan Parliament member ID, Taiwan Central News Agency news tag ID, Model-Kartei.de ID, Wildenstein Plattner Institute ID, Web The Television work ID, Web The Television person ID, U-NEXT person ID, U-NEXT video ID, Sokmil director ID, Sokmil idol ID, socrealizm.com.ua person ID, Répertoire des films classés film ID, regjeringen.no ministry ID, regjeringen.no politician ID, Objectif plumes work ID, National Operator Code (UK), Extended Defence of Britain Database ID, Pacelli edition person ID, Myludo game ID, MyDirtyHobby ID, Maoyan film ID, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number, Letterboxd writer ID, KSW organization ID, KSW person ID, KSW place ID, 1SCREEN movie ID, 1SCREEN Person ID, Artistas Visuales Chilenos propertyvalue ID, Canadian Trademark Registration Number, occitanica.eu ID, Hancinema company ID, ZicTrad person ID, H-NEXT Person ID, FOD video ID, Farzonagon ID, d Hits artist ID, ABEMA video ID, 17LIVE ID, regjeringen.no government ID, Pure Adult actress ID, Pure Adult studio ID, GBIF taxon ID, Digital portrait index person (GND) ID, torial username, Pontifical Urbaniana University ID, CatDat category ID, CatDat functor ID, CatDat category property ID, CatDat functor property ID, Samtrafiken-vehicle ID, GIGA actress ID, Zen Pictures actress ID, Olyrix artist ID, AutorÒc 16-18 author ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review::
- dielectric strenght (maximum electric field a material can withstand before electrical breakdown occurs)
- about page URL (URL to the official about page)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Rakuten Books author ID, Rakuten TV adult Person ID, Identifiant sur le Western Orthodox Wiki, Le GRoG ID, NHK On Demand Program ID, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, GCD character ID, Identificador de agente econômico na ANCINE, 1SCREEN Program ID, Architectenregister-id, LUDAP ID, TakaWiki ID, Terceiro Tempo Que Fim Levou ID, BiDünyaFilm film ID, CNUC code, Steady username, NHK ONE Program ID, SongLyrics.com song ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, ClayArena shooter profile ID, Open Collective ID, Anobii author ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Development
- The development team are at an offsite retreat this week.
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: France
- 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!