User talk:Papuass

On this page, old discussions are archived. An overview of all archives can be found at this page's archive index. The current archive is located at 2026.

Welcome to Wikidata, Papuass!

Wikidata is a free knowledge base that you can edit! It can be read and edited by humans and machines alike and you can go to any item page now and add to this ever-growing database!

Need some help getting started? Here are some pages you can familiarize yourself with:

• Introduction – An introduction to the project.
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If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask on Project chat. If you want to try out editing, you can use the sandbox to try. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and become an active editor for Wikidata.

Best regards! --Stryn (talk) 12:53, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #748

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #747.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • HsfBot - Task/s: Mostly add missing Indonesian Wikipedia sitelinks to Wikidata items for taxonomy templates created by HsfBot on idwiki.
  • CrossrefIDsBot - Task/s: Adding Crossref ID, DOI, Print ISSN, and Online ISSN from Crossref dataset where they are missing in Wikidata.
  • 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.
  • BenchfolkBot - Task/s: Add or correct sourced statements on existing items after explicit human approval.
• New request for comments:
  • Class Q1048835 as a not valid value-type constraint - To remove an incorrect value for value-type constraint (Q21510865) for P27 (country of citizenship)
  • Project chat: What images are appropriate for P18? - a lengthy discussion about quality control and what is acceptable for a P18 (image) value.

Events

• Upcoming events: Open Workshop: Connecting Basque heritage authors (Persons and entities) in Wikipedia and Wikidata - 22 September - 09:00 - 11:30 CEST.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: What Does a Wikidata-Powered Abstract Wikipedia Article Look Like? (Links: Substack and Medium)
• Papers: Bemme, J., & Winkler, A. (2026). Mehr Edits wagen? Virtuelle Ausstellungen erschließen mit Wikidata und Commons. LIBREAS. Library Ideas, (48). https://doi.org/10.18452/37905 / https://libreas.eu/ausgabe48/bemme/

Tool of the week

• Tabernacle is a tool by User: Magnus Manske it generates a table of Wikidata items and statements. Allows for quick addition of some types via WiDaR.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The 10th issue of the Wikidata Platform Newsletter is out. Also remember to join the next Blazegraph Migration Office Hour, that will take place Tuesday, 8th September 2026 at 16:00 UTC
• The Castle Map - every Castle, Fortress and Palace recorded on Wikidata, on a map.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: CREDDO author ID, ‎World Athletics competition ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture record identifier, T&F NCAAdb athlete ID, COMDT author ID, Clergy Memorial (1914-1918) ID, ‎Texas Legislators: Past & Present ID, Stiftungsarchive ID, Redalyc author ID, Kudos author ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Pokémon Ability (Pokémon Ability assigned to this Pokémon species or form in games of the Pokémon series)
    • Collective 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.)
    • encompasses (specific entity this placeholder item may represent when the exact one is unknown)
    • marionetteist (Person who manipulates a marionette in real time to create the illusion of life.)
    • has expression of concern ((article) has an expression of concern (expression of concern notice))
  • External identifiers: Common Core Ontologies concept ID, AbeBooks author ID, DEHIO digital Deutschland Bauwerk ID, VocaDB tag ID, CCLI song ID, LIDO concept ID, The Telegraph topic ID, BLL-Ontology concept ID, GOLD linguistic concept ID, ISBNdb author ID, BookWyrm author ID, BookWyrm book ID, China Railway station telegraph code, Darija.io ID, Vietnamese Administrative Unit Codes, Officials of Nazi Reich Ministries ID, Fandom.com universe page, KennisWest ID, identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du Centre Delavouët, Phenotype and Trait Ontology ID, National Governors’ Association ID, Numista engraver or designer ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID (new schema)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: UNESCO Heritage sites 100km or less from the centre of the Meditrranean Sea (source)
• Schema examples: spaceport (E213): schema for spaceport (Q194188) locations, used to launch and receive spacecraft.
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Medicine / Knee Arthroplasty - a comprehensive subpage to model the techniques and procedures for knee-related surgery.
• Newest database reports: Same Humans/List by Occupations - this report presents possible human duplicates by comparing name and birth/death dates. They can be reviewed and flagged for merging and/or deletion.

Development

• Sustainability:
  • We are looking into improvements to caching for Property labels (phab:T434204)
  • We are continuing to prepare the move of the entity_usage table to the extension database cluster. Moving the tables is tentatively scheduled to begin after 24. September. (phab:T427472)
• Newcomer homepage: We are working on making the Newcomer Homepage show labels for Items instead of just the ID (phab:T429345)
• Wikidata changes in Watchlist and Recent changes of Wikipedia and co: We are deciding how filtering will look for hiding language link changes on wikis where the sitelink has not changed (phab:T435904)
• REST API: We are continuing to expand the support for Lexemes in the API, specifically creating a Lexeme, adding a statement to a Lexeme and adding a Form to a Lexeme

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: Tunisia
• 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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #749

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #748.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Chrisahn
  • Amitie 10g

Both RfPs are scheduled to end after 17 September 2026 21:56 (UTC)

• New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 15 - Task/s: Automatically update Wikidata:Administrators by language, as requested at Wikidata:Bot requests#Request to automatically update Wikidata:Administrators by language (2026-08-04)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: CrossrefIDsBot - Closed as Approved
• New request for comments: Should class political territorial entity (Q1048835) as a valid value-type constraint (Q21510865) be removed from country of citizenship (P27) ?

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #93 Oct. 5 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Adélie Ranville demonstrates useful tools around bibliographic data and citations in Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiversity, including Zotero, Cita, and Tabernacle.::Event page: WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Project Series/Wikidata for literature review
• Wikidata's 14th Birthday is approaching! Join us October 29 for a Birthday call.
  • Register to receive updates and news
  • Run a local event or find events to join near you.
  • Join the Birthday Call and see what Presents and Messages will be shared.
• WikiCon (Regensburg) 2026 - the conference dedicated to the German-speaking Wikipedia and sister projects communities, is taking place from 18 - 20 September. The sessions involving Wikidata: Wikidata - 9 Years later, Enter sources in Wikidata, Easily explore Wikidata (UsefulQueries), and WikiProject Stolpersteine goes Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Medium: How I inferred the family relationships of nearly 1 million people, from Wikidata
  • (Deutsch) Wikidata in Museen, Archiven und Bibliotheken (PDF)
• Videos:
  • Live Wikidata Editing #126
  • (Español) Workshop: Digital Humanities Methodologies Applied to Research
  • Sep 2026 Community Call: International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) & Wikimedia - can IIIF be integrated with Wikimedia platforms, or as a Wikibase instance?
  • 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign Launch 2026 using Wikidata

Tool of the week

• 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, Türkiye, in collaboration with Üsküdar University.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • phonetic synthesis method (phonetic synthesis method used to process the recorded voice from a human source to build a voice bank)
    • ‎LPF rating (film and media rating in Malaysia by the Film Censorship Board)
    • ‎Collective 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 Pokémon Ability (Pokémon Ability assigned to this Pokémon species or form in games of the Pokémon series)
  • External identifiers: ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology function ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology process ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology quality ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology result ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology role ID, Arcinsys Hessen ID, Arcinsys Niedersachsen/Bremen ID, Archivportal Thüringen ID, Baden-Württemberg archives ID, BookWyrm author ID, BookWyrm book ID, VocaDB tag ID, Statistics Finland Concept Database ID, sgpbusiness.com ID, ‎LIDO concept ID, ‎Common Core Ontologies concept ID, GenWiki article ID, findbuch ID, Darija.io ID, ‎China Railway telegraph code, ‎Sharjah Dictionary word ID, CCLI song ID, ‎DEHIO digital Deutschland Bauwerk ID, Vietnamese administrative unit code, UkrBIN ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • stylized representation (stylized visual representation of the subject)
    • Former country (Historical country that was in force at the time of this event/object or in the past)
    • North Dakota Legislative Assembly biography ID (identifier for a biography at the North Dakota Legislative Assembly)
    • Wyoming Legislator Database ID (identifier for a biography in the Wyoming Legislator Database)
    • European Legislation Identifier (EU legislation identifier for documents published by the EU, its member states and other (non-EU) countries)
    • Visa requirement (Requirement for a non-citizen to enter a country)
  • External identifiers: FilmBaze people ID, EHRI Institution ID, Climate Policy Radar Topics, SEASLUG.WORLD taxon ID, Verenigingsloket vCode, StoryGraph book ID, China Railway Pinyin code, ZFIN person ID, BallotReady person ID, National Film Archive of Japan ID, Baza osób polskich ID, Mycelium entity ID, identifiant DDH, Alberta Legislative Assembly member ID, Homeostasis imbalance process ontology, Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga (DBBL) Spieler ID, Digital Momijiyama Bunko ID, Kunaicho Shoryobu Shuzo Kanseki Shuran ID, Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts ID, Siwar entry ID, ISDCF studio identifier, ISDCF facility identifier

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Tram stops per network map
• Schema examples: adminstrative district in Turkey (E133)
• 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.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • WikiProject LGBT / Duga
  • Project Victims of National Socialism / Data model

Development

• 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

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: Tunisia
• 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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:58, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #750

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #749.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Kvazimodo

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
• New request for comments: Add properties to the Deletion policy - following a Project Chat discussion, suggestions for an amendment to the policy are being discussed and your feedback is welcome.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Open Knowledge Wikimedia Research in the CEE Region, online participation to the Conference is still open, register here: 09 - 10 October.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers:
  • WiCleanData: Guaranteeing the Type Consistency of Wikidata by Taxonomy Refinement and Constraint Enforcement by Peng et al., (2026).
  • The Wikibase Ecosystem in Digital Humanities and GLAM by Lindemann et al., (2026).
• Videos: (Swedish) The SAT trail in OSM and Wikidata by Magnus Sälgö.

Tool of the week

• Concept cloud - Shows language labels for Wikipedia links from a Wikidata item, and allows label editing.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Job vacancy: Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • Wyoming Legislator Database ID (identifier for a biography in the Wyoming Legislator Database)
    • ‎has expression of concern ((article) has an expression of concern (expression of concern notice))
  • External identifiers: National Governors’ Association ID, Numista engraver or designer ID, ‎Phenotype and Trait Ontology ID, ‎ZFIN person ID, Association Service Desk vCode, Nazi Reich Ministries ID, ‎North Dakota Legislative Assembly biography ID, KennisWest ID, ‎GOLD linguistic concept ID, ‎Alberta Legislative Assembly member ID, EHRI Institution ID, ‎Encyclopedia of Alabama ID (new schema), National Film Archive of Japan ID, ‎Homeostasis imbalance process ontology, DDH ID, Economic Operators Registration and Identification number, wowKorea work ID, wowKorea Person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • illustrator (character) (artist who illustrated the character)
    • contribution URL (URL of a page explaining how to participate in or contribute to a project or organization)
    • Holy See cardinal biography ID (identifier for a cardinal's biography at the website of the Holy See)
    • Atomic radius, covalent radius and van der Waals radius (measured or calculated radius of an atom of a chemical element)
  • External identifiers: Register of British Slave Traders person ID, Tric Trac, PsychonautWiki article ID, Hitchwiki article ID, Raras disease ID, Heritage Overlay Number, Techniques de l'Ingénieur author ID, nbsearch, Indian Film History film ID, Indian Film History person ID, VideoGamesCritic game ID, identificador Eldoblatge d'actor original, identificador Eldoblatge d'actor de doblatge

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Schema examples: (E206) Stolperstein: Stumbling blocks, commemorative plaques set into the ground for victims of Nazism.
• Newest WikiProjects: (Traditional Chinese) Project Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Ontology: Course Offering 3
• Newest database reports: Categories (to merge) - this list generated by User:Ivan A. Krestinin suggests potential duplicate categories.

Development

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: Tunisia
• 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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:08, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #751

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 — population, male population, female population, and no. of households — to existing Iranian settlement items identified by Iran statistics ID (P1010), from the Statistical Center of Iran censuses of 1385 (2006) and 1395 (2016).

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • 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.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • From University Research to Free Knowledge: Academics Discover Wikimedia by User:Osps7
  • WM Enterprise: Wikidata Bulk snapshots
  • Wiki OTO 2026: Wiki Loves Women and Africa Wiki Women join forces!
  • Making African Restitution Efforts More Visible
• Papers: CodeGraph: Open-Taxonomy Knowledge Graph for Source Code with Wikidata Grounding by Pennino et al., (2026).
• Videos:
  • 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)
  • AI BRIDGES Open Forum meeting - September 2026

Tool of the week

• 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.
• 📚 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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts ID, ‎Siwar entry ID, Kunaicho Shoryobu Shuzo Kanseki Shuran ID, ‎Emulation General Wiki article ID, Digital Momijiyama Bunko ID, Raras disease ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Writers at Risk database ID (Identifier in the PEN America Writers at Risk database, cataloging writers threatened, imprisoned, and jailed worldwide)
  • External identifiers: Ohio Entity Number, NZPCN legacy ID, Žmonės.lt topic ID, Jersey HER Reference, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le Maitron, Google Search profile handle, Leipziger Biographie ID, LEO-BW person ID, Biopsa ID, Isle of Man Registered Building No., Waymark code, Identifiant dans OrthodoxWiki en français, WE League player ID, WE League manager ID, Delfi.lt topic ID, Lrytas.lt topic ID, Baidu Baike article

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Latin American Cinema / Films with an English or Portuguese Wikipedia page, but not Spanish
• Schema examples: (E422) 'Golden age of illustration' book from the Maastricht University Library collection.
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Schlaraffia - for enriching items about the German-language fraternity Schlaraffia (Q1305789) and its international and local associations.
  • Project Tamil Nadu dedicated to creating and improving Wikidata content related to Tamil Nadu (Q1445) and Tamil (Q5885).
• 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.

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: The Gambia
• 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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:37, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata Platform Newsletter - October 2026

This is the 11th issue of our monthly newsletter! The next issue will be published in November 2026.

• Query Service Days event: We are excited to announce that the program of the upcoming Wikidata Query Service Days (October 17-23, 2026), an online event focused on the migration of the Wikidata Query Service from Blazegraph to QLever, is now online. You can check the program on the event page.

The event is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikidata Platform team. It will be a space for the community to come together around this major transition. The program includes sessions on:

• • The migration to QLever, explaining what will happen and the timeline.
  • What is changing and how to adapt your queries.
  • Adapting queries together in workshop-style settings.

Live sessions are scheduled at different times over the course of the week to cover multiple time zones, and recordings will be available afterwards.

The event will be fully online. Register here to get the access link to the event: Event:Query Service Days 2026.

• Updating the Current Documentation for WDQS: As part of our work on moving away from Blazegraph and adopting QLever, we are reviewing the existing documentation about the Wikidata Query Service, consolidating what has accrued during the years and deprecating what will become obsolete once the migration is complete.

As of the end of September, published a revised and expanded Migration Guide with useful information about what is changing, the current timeline of events, how you can start to migrate your queries to QLever, and how to get more involved.

In addition to that, introductory content from the WDQS User Manual on mediawiki.org was removed when it was already covered in other places, and/or integrated into more appropriate pages, such as Wikidata:SPARQL tutorial. The remaining sections of the User Manual all relate to technical details of the current Blazegraph-based implementation. Some of these sections will become obsolete when Blazegraph will be fully deprecated, while some others will be replaced with v2 documentation, when ready.

• Clarity on service support in WDQS v2: In last month’s newsletter, a table featuring all known Blazegraph features and services was included that marked each as “supported in v2” or “not supported in v2.” Based on community feedback, we understand that this may have caused confusion about how each service will be supported.

To clarify: "supported" means that the functionality will be achievable through SPARQL 1.1 or QLever capabilities. Queries that use these features will still need to be rewritten. Guidance on the required rewrites is available in the WDQS Backend Migration Guide.

• Request Early Access to WDQS v2: As we continue to get our new service fully ready for production, we are happy to welcome users to test and begin migrating their use cases. The new endpoint is still under development and subsequently does not have any committed SLOs (yet). In addition to providing test traffic for your work flows, we welcome feedback on the experience and performance of the service.

Information for signing up and participating as an early adopter of WDQS v2 is available here.

• Outage Report - 21/09/2026: WDQS (query.wikidata.org) suffered sustained high replication lag (ElevatedMaxLagWDQS, >10min) across most of the eqiad/codfw fleet for roughly 48+ hours starting on September 21st. High lag also triggered Wikibase's edit-throttling protection mechanism, which began rate-limiting legitimate Wikidata bot writes as a side effect. Requests with low share of total request count but high share of total elapsed time and very few successful responses (e.g. few but extremely expensive queries) were found to be the main culprit of the incident. The queries were complex multi-join SPARQL (e.g., "monuments from the 20th century depicting a person with exactly two spouses and no children"), computationally expensive for Blazegraph well beyond their small LIMIT. We were able to resolve the issue with targeted blocks of the requestors sending the expensive queries and stabilize the system within 2 days of first alert. This event underscores the importance of our ongoing efforts to implement global rate limiting of WDQS (ETA: January, 2027).

• Reminder to Report Use Cases: We encourage all members of the community to continue helping us identify higher-risk areas, namely SPARQL queries that are highly complex, by reporting use cases on our high-impact use cases and tools page. As a reminder, any use case can be reported through this mechanism. The purpose of this page is to give the WDP team visibility into user-level migration needs.

• Blazegraph Migration Office Hour (October session): Our next Blazegraph Migration Office Hour will take place on Tuesday, 6th October 2026, at 16:00 UTC. This session is focused on supporting the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of WDQS. Whether you have questions, need clarification, or want to discuss how your use case may be affected. You can register for the session via the event page.

In preparation, we encourage you to add questions, feedback, or migration-related support needs to this etherpad. This helps us shape the agenda and focus on the most relevant topics during the session.

-- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:26, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #752

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.
• New request for comments: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Split needed from Q4167836: Split Wikimedia category (Q4167836) into two items, because one is for MediaWiki non-main namespace (Q35252665) and the other is for Wikimedia project page (Q14204246)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • On October 9 ends up the early-bird registration with its reduced fees for MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2026, November 11-13, at Jožef Stefan Institute (Q5918873). The program is already set up!
  • Wikidata's 14th birthday (Q139103554) in Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2026, 24 Oct 2026.
  • (Deutsch) Wikidata Writing Workshop, takes place Saturday, 31 October, 10:00 to 13:00 CEST at the Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, Obere Vorstadt 6, 5000 Aarau.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • (Deutsch) Domus – an open data project on the history of houses - Wikidata and FactGrid Wikibase combine to help build a map visualiser.
  • WikiNusantara 2026: a second chance in Makassar
  • N-RICH: a new Wikimedia Project to explore Wikidata as a connective layer for UK cultural heritage infrastructure
• Videos:
  • (Short) Schomburg Center’s 2026 Wikidata Edit-a-thon during the New York Black and African Literature Festival
  • 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.
  • Wikidata 14th Birthday Celebration stream with Africa Wiki Women.
  • AI BRIDGES Open Forum meeting, the September 2026 meeting, showcasing updates from the DARIAH’s DHWiki working group on Wikibase.
  • Exploring networks of artists and scientists with the Wikidata Query Service.
  • (Spanish) What does Wikidata contribute to open library data? with Elena Sánchez Nogales.
• LD4 Conference streams:
  • Sessions 1 / Building more complete and linked GLAM datasets: The Smithsonian’s (In)Visible Women’s Project
  • Sessions 2, incl.
    • EMCO: Entity management for everyone
    • Using Wikidata to identify duplicates in the Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF)
    • From Wikidata to Our Collection Management System: Automating GIS Import for Cultural Heritage Data
  • Sessions 4 including Finding where to contribute on Wikidata with Dustpan and Broomstick. Wikidata is mentioned throughout the stream.
  • Sessions 5 / Reduced Fuzziness in Semantic Kompakkt 3D Object Viewer through Extensive Data Modelling in Wikibase
  • Sessions 9 / Using Wikidata to Improve the Visibility of African Women in Open Knowledge
  • Sessions 10 / From Sounds to Solidarity: Jazz, Student Protests, and Wikidata
  • Wikidata Affinity Group: Working with Corporate Bodies for EMCO

Tool of the week

• 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.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • disjoint with (instances of this type cannot be simultaneously instances of that type)
    • ‎contribution URL (URL of a page explaining how to participate in or contribute to a project or organization)
    • atomic radius (measured or calculated radius of an atom of a chemical element)
    • covalent radius (radius of an atom of a chemical element when covalently bonded)
    • Van der Waals radius (radius of an imaginary hard sphere representing the distance of closest approach for a non-bonded atom)
  • External identifiers: Tric Trac game ID, Techniques de l'Ingénieur author ID, Stereo Ve Mono release ID, ‎Sky programme ID, ‎Sky series ID, Scent Base perfumes ID, ‎Register of British Slave Traders person ID, ‎Onderwijstermen Taalunie ID, ‎NZPCN legacy ID, Biopsa ID, ‎Writers at Risk database ID, LEO-BW person (GND) ID, Leipziger Biographie ID, Jersey HER Reference, Isle of Man Registered Building No., ‎Holy See cardinal biography ID, ‎Google Search profile handle, Filmbaze people ID, ‎China Railway Pinyin code, belarusenc.by ID, ‎BLL-Ontology concept ID, ‎IFWiki article, Brussels ‎Inventory of Movable Heritage designer ID, Eldoblatge original actor ID, Eldoblatge original dub actor ID, Drag France directory ID, OrthodoxWiki ID (French), Le Maitron author ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage glossary ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage material ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage object type ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Movable Heritage technique ID, ‎Brussels Inventory of Natural Heritage taxon ID, ‎WE League manager ID, ‎WE League player ID, ‎ArchaMap ID, Womens German Basketball Bundesliga Player ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • 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)
    • school of martial arts (school or style of martial arts this person studied)
  • External identifiers: YouSaid person ID, Demko ID, Niconico Pedia article ID, Scholastica scholar ID, Hannah Arendt edition person ID, AbeBooks author ID (2), Identifiant dans Calames, identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du Centre Delavouët

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Schema examples: ICH item(E379) - schema for a Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage item in the international lists or national inventories.
• Newest WikiProjects: EastEnders (TV series) - a project for the BBC soap opera.
• Newest database reports: The EntitySchema Directory

Development

• 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

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: Tanzania
• 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #753

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-10-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #752.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • DERDAKI ILIAS - RfP scheduled to end after 13 October 2026 11:19 (UTC)
  • Aue Nai - RfP scheduled to end after 15 October 2026 02:58 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • 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) 7 - Task/s: Import data from external sources in comply with the recently approved Wikidata:Mass-editing policy.
  • 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.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot, all closed as successful: MamouriBot, OKA bot, Rebot, Rebot 2, Rebot 3, Rebot 4
• New request for comments: Requests for comment/has part (P527) for european political alliances (Q127603408) - Q127603408 (European political alliance) was created as a subclass of Q60170135 (political alliance) for european parties. While Q60170135 allows using has part(s) (Property:P527), they were reverted, with "Members are not "parts".
• Closed request for comments:
  • Mass-editing Policy - Consensus reached, the policy will be implemented.
  • External Identifier sorting - No consensus

Events

• Upcoming events:
• Wikidata Query Service Days commences 17 October, until 23 October, make sure to register for access.
  • 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 Days in Africa 2026
• Dates, location and scholarships are open for: Wikimania 2027
• Dates and location for next Wikimedia Hackathon has been announced and scholarship applications are open: Wikimedia Hackathon 2027 * Previous event:
  • If you missed the quarterly Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour, you can find the transcript here.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: P101 - field of work by rtnF
• Videos:
  • Access to Memory (AtoM) with Wikidata links.
  • Lightning Talk Wikilokal Exploring Wikimedia Around You with Affandy Murad, it combines information from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, and Nominatim within a 3-kilometer radius.
  • RDA Wikibase Cloud Sandbox Demonstration: Creating an Account and Logging In - demonstrates account creation and login process for Crystal Yragui's Wikibase cloud instance: A sandbox for students at University of Washington information school as they learn Official RDA cataloging.

Tool of the week

• 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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata talk:Mass-editing policy has been accepted and is now in effect.
• Wikifunctions Status Update 2026-09-25 (The Mayor of Paris) and Wikidata's spread across Wikipedias.
• Editing Wikidata statements on mobile devices is officially launching soon!
  The beta is ending, from October 14, all editors will be able to edit all datatypes from mobile devices.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • disambiguated by (Links a Wikibase Lexeme to a general disambiguation page, such as a [[Q4167410|Wikipedia disambiguation page]].)
    • biome (biome in which a geographical area is wholly or partly located, according to a documented ecological classification)
  • External identifiers: Bibliothèque nationale de Tunisie ID, Mappola ID, On Think Tanks ID, Beeld & Geluid program ID, Le Random subject ID, RETE ID, identificativo Corago di un evento, AVN company ID, AVN person ID 2, swissNAMES3D ID, THB Wiki ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum-id

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Current collections of Astrolabes by the Lahore astrolabists (relevant English Wikipedia article)

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We fixed a few remaining issues before the full roll-out to everyone later this week.
• hCaptcha support: We planned how to integrate support for hCaptcha in the Wikibase-related pages.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are collecting feedback from the first wikis about removing the language link change entries from Recent changes and watchlists.
  • We are collecting data to determine how much we can increase the entity usage limit.
• REST API: We are continuing to add support for Lexeme editing to the REST API.

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!

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