*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2026-04-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #728 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.*
*Discussions* - Closed request for adminship: *Yamato Shiya <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Yamato_Shiya>* - Congratulations to our newest Admin! - New requests for permissions/Bot: *Chamiln17@FineWiki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Chamiln17@FineWiki>* - *Task/s:* Read-only Wikidata entity cache build for an academic temporal language model dataset. *Events* - Upcoming events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>: Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group> session — 28 April 2026 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. This session covers QuickStatements 3.0, the updated batch-editing tool for Wikidata, redeveloped by Wikimedia Brasil with support from Wikimedia Deutschland, featuring a modern interface and improved performance. Watch the previous session recording: on youtube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkd_W_K2CEQ>. More details: QuickStatements3 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/QuickStatements3> *Press, articles, blog posts, videos* - Blogs: - The Gballi Browser: Designing for the Dagbanli Alphabet <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/04/10/the-gballi-browser-designing-for-the-dagbanli-alphabet/>, by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan - Building Visibility for African Women on Wikimedia: The EmpowerHer Fellowship <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/04/21/building-visibility-for-african-women-on-wikimedia-the-empowerher-fellowship> by Andikan Efiok Eduok. - Papers: - Call for Edits Nearby: Open Archives Metadata from Saxony <https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.430> by J. Bemme & M. Munke (2026), latest paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data series. - (Deutsch) [PDF] Art History Loves Wiki 2026 | digital/local.collection loves wiki <https://arthist.net/reviews/52225/view=pdf> - report from ArtHist.net on the recent 3rd edition of the conference, held at the Museum Schnütgen, Köln, from 27 – 29 March. - Videos: - Live Wikidata Editing, #121 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GAI0MXlYBE> with Jan Ainali and Abbe98. - (Español) Build with Wikimedia open data: APIs, SPARQL and visualization <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci-TFUyvnAU> with Carla Toro Fernández, Director Technology WM Chile. - Every Airport Ever Built (1909-2024) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mehivb26qI> - an animated map showing where and when airports were built. Powered by Wikidata and OurAirports. - (Catalan) Barcelona Free Software: How to use Wikidata to make public domain digital works visible? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xFbsSRMncs>, User:Hiperterminal <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Hiperterminal> presents Paulina, discusses the work done in digitising collections and how to make public domain works visible. - Notebooks: Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography? <https://observablehq.com/@pac02/does-the-country-of-birth-affect-the-likelihood-of> by User:PAC2 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2> *Tools of the week* - The Human History Atlas (WikiTime) <https://app.wikitime.live/>, a browser-based atlas that uses Wikidata and Wikipedia-sourced data to construct timelines and allows exploration of significant historical events. - Wikilympians <https://olympians.toolforge.org/athletes>, a real-time list of all 153,412 known Olympic competitors with Wikidata and Wikipedia coverage statistics *Other Noteworthy Stuff* - Wikibase Suite 7.0 and Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.0.0 have been launched! It brings Wikibase closer to feature parity with Wikidata. Here's what's in the latest release: - Echo Extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo>: User activity alerts and notifications. - Discussion Tools Extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DiscussionTools>: Set of tools to enhance discussion pages. - Temporary Accounts <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts>: The support for temporary accounts without IP address exposure has been added. It will, however, remain disabled by default, in line with Wikibase Cloud. - Grouped External Identifiers ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310898): External identifiers are now grouped on entity pages for better readability. - “Mul” (multi-language) support: Adds support for multi-language values. *Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties> and property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review* - Newest General datatypes: - perspective <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14345> (point of view for an image of an object, for example an anatomical structure (ventral, dorsal, frontal)) - Bavarian natural monuments ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14347> (identifier for natural monuments in Bavaria (Germany), issued by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt) - audio version of text <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14351> (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).) - motive <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14359> (verified reasoning behind an action) - award category or rank <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14360> ((qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank) - Newest External identifiers: BE-monumen ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14346>, Team Norway athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14348>, Kantonsspital St.Gallen author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14349>, Consumer Rights Wiki article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14350>, Central Registration Number (Indonesia Military) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14353>, Conlang Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14354>, EM-DAT disaster number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14355>, UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14356>, EDAM Ontology ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14357>, Turkey province ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14358>, Kvinnehistorie.no topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14361>, CNVD-ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14362>, GiveSendGo fundraising ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14363>, radiko person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14364>, Wikiparfum brand ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14365>, Turkey district ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14366>, OSDev article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14367> - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - different from property <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/different_from_property> (This property is to be distinguished from the other property) - SELL rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SELL_rating> (classification in the Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs rating system) - time expansion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/time_expansion> (factor by which a recording's duration has been extended or compressed relative to the original real-time event, without pitch correction; values greater than 1 indicate time expansion (e.g. 10 = ten times longer than real life, pitch lowered tenfold); values less than 1 indicate time compression (e.g. 0.1 = ten times shorter, pitch raised tenfold); 1 = real-time) - Parental Advisory System rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Parental_Advisory_System_rating> (content rating for coin-operated video games) - New External identifier property proposals to review: CINEFOX film ID (reproposal) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CINEFOX_film_ID_(reproposal)> , CINEFOX parson ID (reproposal) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CINEFOX_parson_ID_(reproposal)> , VK video ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VK_video_ID>, Brew TV <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Brew_TV>, CycleBase cyclist ID (new) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CycleBase_cyclist_ID_(new)> , Royal Australian Air Force service number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Royal_Australian_Air_Force_service_number> , Files of the Reich Chancellery ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Files_of_the_Reich_Chancellery_ID> You can comment on all open property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>! *Did you know?* - Query examples: List of treaties/truces in the time <https://w.wiki/MDpD> by User:Bouzinac <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bouzinac> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects> : WikiProject Occupations <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Occupations> for enriching items occupation *(P106)* <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P106>, occupation *(Q12737077)* <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12737077> with data verified from official national occupation classification systems. - Newest database reports <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>: Without Claims by Site <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/without_claims_by_site> - this report will list how many Wikidata Items have 0 Statements, with a linked Wiki Article/page. Click *reports/all items* for a per wiki list, and consider expanding. - Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> : Okazaki fragments <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q845661> - short DNA sequences synthesized discontinuously during DNA replication - Showcase Lexemes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: transfer (L29733) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L29733> - English noun/verb (ˈtræns.fɜːr) meaning "to move from one place to another", "a sports team member moving to another team", or "a ticket allowing continuation of a journey" *Development* - Query Service: It is now possible to download query results in Wikidata Query Service that include coordinates as KML & GPX (GeoJSON has been available since last year). Text from the first column in the results is used as the value for naming POIs. Thanks again to Atom.oil.2 for the patch. (phab:T414376 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414376>) - The Wikidata team continued working on a prototype to make WikiProjects more visible (phab:T420907 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T420907>) and made the new Wikidata mobile UI use auto-resizing text areas instead of single-line text inputs, in order to make longer values easier to edit (phab:T414420 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414420>) - The Wikidata Integrations team now has a working prototype of LilDiffCheck, injecting wikidata changes into recent changes only if there was a change on the wikipedia html (phab:T421390 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421390>) - Language fallback will be available this week on the labels of linked entities functionality in GraphQL (phab:T413655 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413655>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority> . *Weekly Tasks* - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review> . - Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?> . - Govdirectory weekly focus: field of work <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Main_dashboard> - Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?> in one or two sentences. - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> *· Previous issue <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous> · JosefAnthony <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:JosefAnthony> talk <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:JosefAnthony> ·* Idoko Joseph (JosefAnthony) Wikimedia Volunteer | Open Knowledge Advocate *View my contributions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JosefAnthony/Contributions>*
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