Wikidata:Status updates/Next

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2026-10-12.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
• Closed request for adminship:
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
• New request for comments:
• Closed request for comments:

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 Days in Africa 2026
• https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2027:Scholarships are open
• Dates and location for next Wikimedia Hackathon has been announced and scholarship applications are open: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/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
• Papers
• Videos

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2026-09-25#The_mayor_of_Paris
• 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

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: none
• 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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• Schema examples:
• Newest WikiProjects:
• WikiProject Highlights:
• Newest database reports:
• Showcase Items:
• Showcase Lexemes:

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:
• 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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)